Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-01-10

oil the most important improvements which
nave been made IN this section Of country
IN the mail arrangements
And, first, of the Richmond mail Eleven
years ago, this was our principal reliance
for news from all sections Of the country es
cept the great West, and ,ruelY IL moved
comparatively speaking. at a snail's pace.
The stage arrived and departed only twice
week. and frequently, particularly during
the winter, when, on account OF the Legisla
ture being IN session, il was more important
that we should receive early advlces, it did
not reach us until 10 and IL o'clock on the
night Of the third day A lew years 90.
however, we petitioned the Post Ollie De
partment for = tri weekly mail between the
Metropolis and LtynchDurg, which granted,
and ever since IT has reached US regularly al
about O'Clock p. NJ. on the day, after il
left Richmond. And within few days past
additional facilities have been granted W.
have DOW SIX mails week to and from Rich
mond; by which srrangemt nj, during the
winter especially, we {speaklng personally
are greatly benefited enabling us to receive
the proceedings Of the Legislature, and to
ay them before our readers, a day or two
later, each publication. than could possibly
have been done under the pre- existing ar
canGement, 1t may not be amss 10 add
here. that the worthy contractor on this route
has never, during the very long period tha,
he has been engaged IN the transportation #
he mail, failed IN single instance TO dUi.vc.
II at the office on the stipulated day. and sci
dom being beyond the prescribed hours
which is more than can be said we suspect.
If any other contractor, who has been engag
ed in the business 70, so long period
Corresponding alterations 10 those above
named have been made in the arrival and
departure 9: nc Hc7::ern s:sail. With IT, as-
ception of the change last mentioned: bat W.
nope the day is not far distant when the in
crease of intercourse will require and the
public interests justify The establishment OF
daily line on that rout also
But still greater improvements have been
made on other routs SIX years ago the
Northern mai which is now our main reliance
for nee0s, was mere bagateilc,- conveyed
once week, by a little Datchman on a flea
bitten poney, whose points were as promi
nently developed as those Of the celebrated
spanish knight Grant We rccollecj, about
that period, that. being IN our return irou,
Amherst court house, we net the Uail c&rrser
on the rJad tho horsc almost concealed %,
the trumpety with which he was laden, and
which, IN order to turn an honest penny, III
addition TO the salary allowed him ny The
Post Office Department. the contractor was
in the weekly habit of Supplying the people
on the road side from b md boxes To kegs
of gun. powder The horse seemed. too. to
be instructed IN his business. he moved On
without rcgrad 20 his rider Of rider he might
be ca'led,) who ~histii1g a solemn ditty
plated white oak w;he as he walked leisure
ly. Sometimes in front and sometimes in rear
OF his philosoph!c looking quadruped. Both
man and beast were the very pictures of
Innovations, which are sweeping away these
pfime, al fashions, were IT not tlrat we are
somewhat interested in the quicker despatch
of Uncle Sans mail bag, Thus al..siy
logged on our Northern mail, until the spirit
OF improvement began to creep into the VEINS
and arouse the blood of new contractor.
who had contrved TO espel the Ddtchman
and his poney from the road The mail then /
for q short time come ~, three times week |
in a two horse carriage; but it was new ex
pertinent passenger dropped IN slowly on an
unknown route. travelled by an ordinary car
rage, instead of stage. coaches, and which
still spur both in the head and heel ot the
contrctor TO bring it into notice and render
it profitable. II was. in short, altogether
recketty coacearn-lingring iew uronihs,
and then dying of inaniton But, this brief
experiment, inaus,icious, as had hsea its ter
Hination, Rad shown the Capacity OF this
route. by eXtendingit at either end. to sup |
port a line rivaing in excellence those be-
tween longer established points. A gentle
man Of holiness and enterprise, perceiving
its advantages, seized the reins, Ito speak
Technically and the wHolc affair assumed
new aspect. Extending the line, from Char
lottesviile. where il had before terminated,
northwardly 10 Washington city. whose It
united with long established lines TO the
great m,rts beyond the Metropolis the new
contractor soon began to reep the fruit OF bis
enterprise, in the daily increasing number OF
passengers which sought the Ptedulon. r.ILe,
Another Improvement, teo, was, speedily Ell
fected; the mail was changed from tri weekly
to daily; and, since that period; we have had
regularl, daily communication with the North |
interrupted only by high waters, againtt
which there has not been time to make the
necessary arrangements TO gnde. and the
deep SHOWS which, dnsiag the two preceding
waters, every where impeded. and. m many
place stopped the progress OF the stages.
Another improvement, however, was still
requisite, TO make this route all that IT shohrtt
be, and that it was capable oil being; and
that was ia Soutehrn ertensi0R. Up to this |
perioG, orr Southern facilities we're no great |
eF than. previously to the establishment OF
this line Of stages. they had been northwardy |
"a weekly one horse mali a petition was
sent to the Post Office Department, fepresen- |
ting this fact and the necessity Of a change, |
mt ~ ,Sa. avon nsyTerd nv the establishment |