ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 30, 9 August 1864, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

■ ■■<& We do not hold ourselves responsible for tit? opinions expressed by our corresjwndents. (TO TH3 EDITOR OF THE SOFTIILA^D TIMES). Sir. — In a recent number of the Evening Bulletin. I perceive a letter bearing the signature, "An Original Sane Man," which, if not highflown, is certainly long-fetched ; however, it is not amiss, with the exception that the writer seems to have omitted the two letters "in" before the word sane. That this specimen of a postman (as the writer terms Willie) is original, no one did deny ; but as for having to rise early in the morning, ns far as I remember, such a thing was never mentioned in my letter ; but throughout, "An Original Sane Man " displays a remarkably inventive imagination, or a concern for the character of the " deserving and real gentlemen" which proclaims him at once to be one of them, who, afraid lest no one else would take it upon them to blow the gentlemen's trumpet, thought it best to give it a blast themselves. How the writer can bring a lecture on married bliss, or connubial felicity, in any way whatever to bear upon a subject concerning the civility, or incivility, of the post-office oflicials, is beyond my comprehension ; and whether the letter-carrier, or the sane man, is most competent to dispose of the lecture, I will not take upon me to judge ; but that the latter's conduct is manly, I deny, as I believe that, in the general course of correspondence, it is usual to reply in the same paper, unless the editor should refuse to publish it. I consider liia mode of proceeding most cowardly, in replying in an evening paper, which a person cannot get in the back streets of the town ; but I suppose he has grasped at the idea, that 1 might not see his letter, and thus it might; stand unchallenged, evidently showing that his cause is bad. I have only to repeat what I have before said, and that from the evidence of many, that the oflicials at the post-office are — some of them — most impertinent and uncivil. Hoping you will find a corner in your valuable paper for the insertion of this, I am, &c, NO SYCOPHANT.