Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
the Dispatch in South Carolina--Queries for the Postal Department.
Kingston, S. C., June 18th, 1861.
Your paper's popularity as well as its circulation is on the increase in this region. --Many here have friends and relatives assisting Virginia in this her second war of Independence, as well as our own, and naturally feel an intense anxiety to have the latest news from the scene of active military operations in the most expeditious manner.
Many an exclamation, both loud and deep, yet not intended for ears polite, escapes from anxious expectants upon learning that the morning's mail is not the hearer of Dispatches for the subscribers of this place.
The mail agents, the various postmasters along the line, and all in any way connected with the mail arrangements, by whom we are deprived of the Richmond papers, come in for a fair proportion of the indignation caused by the disappointment.
We cannot learn who is to be blamed for our not receiving your paper in due time — the morning after the day upon which it is published in your city.
It comes to us about three times a week, on the mornings after its publication, and this fact gives us some reason for believing that if there were not some delinquency somewhere, which has not yet been discovered, but which it is hoped will yet be corrected, we could receive your paper every morning with regularity.
If we could only ascertain where the fault lies we would lay our complaints, respectfully, before the proper authority, in such terms as would ensure a redless for our grievance.
At present we can only complain to you, and ask your assistance in endeavoring to ascertain why the Dispatch is not dispatched to your subscribers in this vicinity with the utmost dispatch.
We would much rather see the difficulty removed without our intervention.
We are not accustomed to complain without solid reason.
We admit that patience is a virtue, but there is a point beyond which you cannot safety bend the most pliant bow, and forbearance will sometimes cease to be a virtue.
Your paper can reach us in twenty-four hours after its appearance in Richmond, with the proper co-operation of those engaged in the transmission of mails, and all we ask is that they shall do their duty.
A Subscriber. 