Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-07-03

Alexandria for one quarter, ending the Soth
June, 1926: viz.
55744 barrels
1917 half dos
JAMES CLOUD, } Inspec-
ABIJAH JANNEY,S tors.
Jlly |, 1926.
Counting 9oS barrels in the place Of the 1917
halrbarrels, mentioned above, the number of bar
rels Inspected during the last quarter was 56652.
The number inspected the preceding was Co.
ooS, & the number inspected during the quarter
before that, or the quarter ending on the 5lst OF
December, 1925. was As, 52o-making for the
three last quarters o,l95. If therefore, the
present quarter ending on the 3oth of Sep
tembcr next, yield no more than 39,8o5,
which is low estimate, there will have been
100000 barrels Of Flour inspected in the
Town Of Alexandria, from the lsr of October
1925, 10 the same date of the present year.
This we learn will exceed the inspection of
Richmond, and consequently, entitle Alexandria,
TO rank as the tfjlh Flour Market in the Union
We are truly gratihed to find that the Post
Master General has been no less prompt in cor
recting the irregularities Of the Mails for this
place, than we believe he has hitherto been IN
every other instance Of lefaIcation that has
come TO his knowledge. 1t will be seen from
the following letter addressed to MIR. Bryan,
that our own attentive Officer lost no time in
tbp otts of he 70
outrageous conduct Of the contractors, one Of
whom, we presume, is the Capt Of the Mail
Boat
"PoSt Office DepGriment,(
SOth June, 1926.
"DANIEL BRYAN, Esq.
p. NJ Rierandria, COL
"SIR-I am sorry TO learn by your letter OF
YESTERDAY, that the mail was, from anv circum-
stance, DELAYED in its arrival at your Office. The
delay was purely accidental; but ii was the duty
of the contractor to have dispatched the mall
EXPRESS, by land to Your office, when he found
that he could not deliver it in due time by the
steamboat. have made such arrangements
as will ensure the regular delivery OF the mail
al vow Office in about an hour after its departure
from this Office. We cannot specify the exact
time Cor delivery at your Office, as there is no
positive certainty OF the malls regular arrival
al Baltimore, from the eastward. II is my
wish and determination to have the mail deli
vcred at your office with as much regularity
and expedition as circumstances will permit.
" Respectfully, your obed't
"JOHN MCLEAN"
II will be remarked that the Postmaster Gen
eraI promises 10 have the Northern Mail de-
livered here in about an hour after its leaving the
Office in Washington. This arrangement will
certainly better our condition materially,
but until we get our letters before speculation
from the upper part of the District can come
down and act upon information received by the
same Mail,the disadvantages under which we Ia
Dor will not be wholly removed. We could cite
instances where Alexandria merchants have
had their letters from New-York and Boston,
directed to the Washington Office; and have
for many days in succession, (when important
news was expected kept an express in Wash
ington who received the letters and brought
them 10 Alexandria an hour before the mail ar
rived
Schemes Of this kind can only be defeated, &
all put upon the same footing. by closing and
iespatching the Alexandria Mail. before letters
are delivered out in Washington, as is the case
here with regard to Fredericksburg. Such all
arrangement would be attended with an extra
expense, but we cannot help thinking that ii is
due to commercial town of 5000 inhabitants,
and where there are 100000 barrels of Flour
annually inspected The only way that our
merchants can guard against these speculations
is'to suspend all sales from u o'clock until two
or three. We feel confident that if the Post
Master General was correctly informed OR this
point, he would not hesitate minute in placing
US on the ground that we ought to stand, before
long, though it be at our own expense