Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1869 — How Letters are Sometimes' Lost. [ARTICLE]

How Letters are Sometimes' Lost.

In clearing uji a Uflitfed States postal car that is mtn over the 6 route to New York, a few days hgo; tWoof the employees of the I’ostoflfcc Department, who have 1 exclusive charge of it found a large number of letters beneath and kt* the sides of a drawer that had prebaWyinot been entirely removed from tfa chest suice the car was built. The* envelopes were postmarked with various dates, covering several months. Instead ,pf turning the letters into the mail, as they should have done, fearing a charge of carelessness that might be made agamst-them; they Consulted together, am) Concluded to bush .the matter by destroying them, which they did by burning. Unfortunately tor the agents, one of the pair proved to be a “leaky vessel,’’ and let the secret out to a friend, who in a confidential way told ; an other person, and the affair finally reached the ear of a detective, at whose instance the guiltv parties were ’tasphnded from office until an investigationisbajltake place. Doubtless many valuable letters that .are missed from the mails from tithe. to time could be accounted for tor sinitlar jwiys. The matter has been kept very quiet, but one or two firms who pave lost letters of consequence are detertmued to probe it to the bottom.— BMbh Herald.