NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 175, 21 February 1868, Page 3

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

In giving publicity to any communication having reference to a matter of public interest, we do not necessarily endorse the opinions contained therein. Jill letters must be accompanied by the writer's name and address as a guarantee of their authenticity, and to ensure their insertion, must be sent in two days prior to vublication. (To the Editor of the Westport Tunes and Charleston Argus.) Sir, —In perusing your paper of today's issue, being a -constant reader of the same, I noticed a paragraph headed " Mr Cowen's Complaint," and signed Wm. Davis. Now, Sir, with regard to my complaint, I trust I may always be afflicted with the same complaint, viz., truth telling, which I am sorry to find is not a complaint that Mr ~W. Davis is> suffering under. If Mr Davis must need stand up as the defender of insolence and neglect of duty to the public, let him adhere to the truth. Mr Davis affirms that the Postmaster civilly enough told me to wait a few minutes as he was engaged in business, this Mr Davis knows to be wrong, unless calling a man an insolent fellow and using threatening language is civility, I give into Mr Davis. Now, Sir, I fancy Mr "Wm. Davis's would-be exculpation of the Postmaster is rather a confirmation of my accusation of the same person.

Mr Davis says that the Postmaster was occupied on Post Office business connected with an inquiry Mr Davis was making. If such was the case, — why was not Mr Davis at the wicket, the proper place for such inquiries, instead of being inside of the Post Office, which, if I mistake not, is a prohibited place for all not connected with the establishment. I would advise the Postmaster that should he in future require a champion to espouse

his cause, to obtain one who would adhere to the truth and not to make mis-statements for the sake of gaining favor and admittance into the Postmaster's sanctuary during the hours' that should be devoted to public duties instead of private audiences. Again I crave your indulgence for trespassing on your space, but knowing your love of justice without partiality to either side, I offer my apology for taking up so much of your paper. I atn, Sir, Tour obedient servant, Joseph Cowen. Charleston, Feb. 18.