Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-05-13

NsBaooxs, who has been travelling through
the Southern country, was al New.OrIeans on inc
Cad ult. In one Of his letters he gives tue 'o'-
lowing account Of the progress OF the u o'a'e'
Mail through the Creek Nation.
The Travels ofthe NeU Orleans (Dauy) -ha';
by AS EYEWITNESS.
Az If has become fashionable to chronicle the
movements Of important personages. propose 10
olive YOU brief sketch of the travels OF the New
orleans daifu mail. from which it will be seeD,t Is
nat 40 much remarkable that it fails, as that u
ers, arrives. As passenger in the mail stage
coach. / lief, Augusta, Geo Friday night, April
5,h. | say nothing here Of drunken driver care
l.s.ly driving the coach into swamp ana mere
=, hiring" his horses so as to be delayed three
hours. nothing of, swimming creek, win
the Great letter mail exposed to the water,
when il msh, have been easily Put where 1t
could have been kept dry. nothing OF the
miserable stage coach in which passenger
shielded himself and the newspaper bags with an
umbrella inside, with curtains drawn and WIN
dows shut. as it nothing OF all this, tor
this mail was only ten hours too late when It
reached Columbus (Geo) and 1t was carried
superlatively we'll comparatively speaking. =,
Tuesday, the Oh of .HprH. 8o'ciock, a. NJ.
left Columbus, Geo. in the mail cartln when are
transported mail and passengers to Fort Mitch
ell, in the Creek Agency. At H., A. NJ: we
were there, distance ten or twelve miles. tues
day evening at 7 o'clock, driver named oher'
ril or the like. arrived with no mail from New
Orleans. 1t was the duty of the drl'erto take
on the mails as soon as possible, but he prefer
red good nights sleepto driving IN o'e hish''
as all careful men would
Wednesday the 10Th, Sheriff. rose after sun
rise. The stage agent requested hin to leave
Fl. Mitchell BY day light, but 1t IA suspected,
that ShrrriI and the tavern keeper made an a
sreement to delav the passengers till after break
fast, SO as to get tilty cents piece for his hog,
ham. shoat and bacon. After the driver had
carefully stuffed himself for nothing. as he told
us he gnt under way, but first he threw out one
of the newspaper bags, because as he said the
load was too heavy. and vet two horses might
have taken with considerable ease, the whole
load and the two passengers Sheriff. drove to
his stand distant about 25 miles. on Wednesday
and arrived there by o'clock p. NJ and there
the daily mail stopped for that day! Wednes
day night the newspaper bags lie in the barn.
Thnrsday The nh, At Sherrii's stand there
were tlrce drivers and twelve or fourteen horses
Sheriff. on Wednesday and Thursday, eat and
slept and PLAYED the fldie for his horses beneht
Rowland. the other driver, lectured Rrdvine the
third driver, for spending his leisure time IN VI
olatng the graves Of the poor Greeks, and re'dig-
oing up Indan's teeth to sell to the denIIsts.
mention this to show what sort OF wretch Is IN.
trusted with the United States mail. Rowland
did nothing but take care of his horses TILL o.
clock on Thursday Red,ine slept and snored,
and shaved and eat. Thursday vas beautiful
day. The reads in that quarter we're as good as
usual. Thursday at 4, p. NJ. after being still
twentv-six hours, the daily mail was IN motion.
Greenwood, good driver. came IN after It. took
/, as soon as he arrived, drove twelve miles to
the end of his stand, and thus did his dnty -
Thursday night the daily mail stopped. During
the night there was shower, with loud thunder
and vivid lightning There was no moon, and
thick darkness was in the wilderness. Ii this
is an excuse to delay the daily mail ten hours, be
II So
Friday, the l2th. the daily mail was in motion
by day light. the passengers waking the driver
1t was then carried IL miles. and here taken by
a shaggy headed fellow called Landrum. who vas
not oply too lazy too keep himself clean, but too
lazy to jump into his mail cart, and to say "get
up to his horses. lie confessed that his horses
had not been fed for Q hours. As il was alto
gether out of the question for such driver to
drum left the whole newspaper mail that bad ar
rived sometime previous, and crept on without II.
At Landrum's stand the great Northern daily
mail for Washington, New York, and New-Ens-
land, had been slowed away in q log house over
twelve hours. Landrum took Us about o'clock,
A. NJ. when he had not eaten his breakfast. At
10 Landrum became hungry and stopped to have
his breakfast cooked, for there was none in pre-
paralion. The passengers demonstrated. Ian
drum was suIkey aud persisted. One hour was
lost in preparing and eating the breakfast, to ob
tain which for driver, the great New Orleans
dtnly mail was stopped the DAILY mail, pray re
member that.
Landrum at last crept along to the end of his
stand. where he grunted aud lifted his two legs
out of the mail cart. 1t was now dinner time.
The duly mail was stopped threefourlhs OF an
hour for tie driver to eat dinner, and then an &C.
tive intelligent fellow took US to Montgomery.
The last saw of the mail was when bound for
Mobile 10 an open go-cart to which, were harness.
ed four horses 50 poor that the crows would not
eat them without stumbllng.