For several months past, R. S. HARDY, Esq., one of our most worthy citizens, has been acting as the duly commissioned post master for this place, discharging the duties of the office faithfully and satisfactorily to all. Only two or three days since he was notified that his salary was fixed at $50 per quarter; a sum entirely too low for the services rendered, and the consequence is, that he refuses to hold the position. We are credibly informed that the office here clears over five hundred dollars per annum, and that formerly the salary of the post master was sixty dollars on the first hundred and fifty dollars on every additional hundred realized. Why this has been changed we are not able to state, but one thing is certain that our citizens generally, are loath to part with the services of R. S. Hardy, yet no one can complain of the course pursued by him in giving up the office, for its duties compelled him to devote much time and attention without fairly compensated. We do not believe that the salary allowed is sufficient and that it will be a hard matter to find any one who will permanently hold the position of post master at Bolivar for the paltry sum of two hundred dollars a year.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 29 Sept. 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.