The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-06-11 00:00:00

PRESENT STATE OF PARTIES IN THE
AMERICAN STATER.

The correspondent of the Times, dating from
Montgomery, hi ay 6th, writes as follovoi:—I expreeaed •
belief in iuy Brat letter, written a few days after my
arrival, that the South would never go back into the
Union. Die North thinks that it van coerce the South,
and Tai, not preparel to say they are right or wrong ;
but I an convinced that the South can only be forced
back by such • conquest as that which hail Poland
prostrate at the feet of Russia. It may be that such a
conquest can be made by the North, but success must
destroy the Union as it has been constituted in times
past. A strong Government must be the logical conse-
quence of victory, and the triumph of the South will be
attended by a similar result, for which, iibleed, many
Southerner, are very well disposed. To the people of the
Confederate States there would be no terror in such an
is.sue, for it appears to me they are pining for a strong
Government exceedingly. The North must accept it,
whether they like it or not. Neither party, if such a
term can be applied to the rest of the United States
and to those States which disclaim the authority of the
Peteral Government, was prepared for the aggressive or
resisting power of the other. Already the Confederate
States peroeive that they cannot carry all before them
with • rush. while the North laave learnt that they
must put forth all their strength to anake good a tithe
of their lately uttered threats. But the Montgomery
Government are now, they say, anxious to gain time,
and to prepare a regular army. The North, distracted
by apprehensions of vast disturbance in its complicated
relations, is clsimionng for inatant action and speedy
oonsuluorition. The counsels, of the moderate men, as
they were called, have been utterly overruled.

A POSIT-OrrICZ AltagilDlTT.—Whether it is that the
Post-office system iv getting beyond the power of the
central authority to manage it we can't say, but it would
seem as if their resolution to centralize everything in
London is producing just such • results as might be ex-
pected. Not the smallest change can be made without
bern;" submitted to the Postmaeter-General," and he,
or his subordinates ie St. 1/adios's-le-Grand, having too
much to do, the delayaare endless and irritating in the
extreme. This district has over and over again re-
claimed and petitioned as to the unsati•friatory state of
its mail arrangements, to which the usual stereotyped
reply of " num.:hate attentive" was given—a reply
which means, and is really intended to mean, nothing.
One grievance involves a perfect absurdity, and only
needs to be stated to expose it. The wail which is
brought down from London by express train as far as
Aberdeen, and reaches that city at 3.33 a.m, rests com-
fortably in Aberdeen for four hours and a 'half. It is
conveyed under the care of the mail-guards as far as In-
verainsay, where it is taken charge of by one of the
Turriff Post-office officials, who travels every morning as
a third-class passenger between Turriff and Inveranney
and has-k. In charge of this person the mail bags
are conveyel as far as Titmlf. Here a new
agent comes into play. A mail gig driver, who
has driven • gig from Banff as far as Plaidy
Station, a distanose of seven miles, tloe same morn-
ing, and who has travelled as • third-clam passenger
in the railway carriage from Plaidy to Turriff, a distance
of other four miles, and paid his own fare, now takes
charge of the Banff dap, and returns per train to
Plaidy, again paying his own fare. At Plaidy Station
he changes his mode of travelling —whether for the
benefit of the contents of the bags or for his own, or to
give mercies to his horse, or to lighten the too burdened
railway, we can't say. But at Plaioly he leaves the rail,
amid betakes himself to his gig, and runs alongside of the
railway all the way to Batiff. The train gets into Banff
at 11 a.m., and the driver gets in at 12, noon—an hour
of the 10061 important part of the day be ng thus
sacrificed to a whole community in consequence of an
arrangement that is • disgrace to this age of railways
and telegrephs. We believe the driver, from getting a
lift on the rail from Turriff to Plaidy, might come in a
quarter of an hour wooer than that time • but, as to be
too soon is as tweet an error as to be Ism late, he is
sometimes to be seen 000lieg hie bonse's heels on the
south side of Banff-bridge—waiting till his time is up
If this is not the perfection of 'the seieuee of " how not
to do it," we know out what is. We venture to hope
there is not another ems in the kingdom in which his •
part of the eystern of tramonieskez of mails that their
, progress is to be retardal, and that, in order to advance
, accordbut to rule, it is neeseesty to stated still! We
ootonarad tho owe to the attention of the Poshoilat
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