Delaware State journal, advertiser and star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-1833, 1833-05-17

of the United States Mail through the
c rcck Nation. That it may not escape i.
the eye of the Postmaster General, we in =
tend to send him copy of our paper con- i
tanning it.-NniionM Mteuigencer. g
THE TRAVELS OF THE NEW ORLEANS 4
DAILY MAIL.
BY AN EYE WITNESS.
Asst has become fashionable to chroni-
Gle the movements of important person
ages, propose to give you a sketch OF the
tr avels of the New Orleans daily mail,
from which it will be seen, it is not SO
much remarkable that it fails, as that it
EVER arrives. AS a passenger in the
mail stage coach, left Augusta, GEO.
Friday night, April 5th. say nothing
here Of drunken driver carelessly driv-
ing the coach into swamp and there
'miring" his horses SO as to be delayed
three hours, nothing of swimming a
creek, with the great letter mail expos
ed to the water, when it might have been
easily put where it could have been kept
dry, nothing Of the miserable stage coach
i'll v hich a passenger shielded himself
and the newspaper bags with an umbrcl-
cows shut, as it were-nething of all this
when it reached Columbus (Geo.) and
it was carried superlatively well COM
parativcly speaking.
| Tuesday the, 9th Of April, O'Clock; A.
M. left Columbia, Georgia in the mail
cart, in which are transported mail and
passengers tn Fort Mitchell, in the Creek
Agency. At IL, A. M. we were there,
distance 10 or IL miles. Tuesday even.
ing at o'clock, driver named Sheriff.
or the like arrived with no mail from
New Orleans. 1t was the duty of the
driver to take on the mails as soon as
G possible, but he preferred good nights
. sleep to driving in the night, as all
, careful men would.
: Wednesday, The 10Th, Sheriff. rose af-
J. ter sunrise. The stage agent requested
S him to leave fort Mitchell by day light.
r but it is suspected, that Sheriff. and the
IS tavern keeper made an agreement to de
n lay the passengers till after breakfast, sc
# as to get fifty cents piece for his hog
G ham, shoat and bacon After the driver
j. had carefully stuffed himself for nothing
n as he told us, he got under way, but frs
/, he threw out one Of the newspaper bags
" because, as he said, 'sthe load was to,
% heavy;" and yet too hersos might have
he taken with considerable e ase, the who'll
load and the two passengers. Sheriff.
&c drove to his stand, distant 25 miles oil
ID Wednesday, and arrived there by O.
IN clock ?. M. and there the, daily mai
v stopped FOR that day! Wednesday nigh
n, the newspaper bags lie in the barn.
nj Thursday the llM, At Sherrill's stan,
til there were three drivers and twelve o
fourteen horses. Sheril on Wednesda
IN and Thursday, ate and slept and playe,
st the fiddle for his horses, benefit. Row
an land, the other driver, lectured Red
k vine the third driver for spending hi
rs leisure time in violating the graves @
lg the poor Creeks, and redigging up In
to dams teeth to sell to the dentists.
If mention this to show what sort of
wretch is entrusted in the United State
mail. Rowland did nothing but take car
of his horses till o'clock on Thurstla
Redvine slept and snored, and shave
and ate. Thursday was beautiful da'
The roads in that quarter were as goo
as usual. Thursday at P. M. after b,
ing still twenty six hours,the daily ma
was in motion. Greenwood, a good dr.
yer came in after it, took it as soon
he arrived, drove twelve miles to the er
of his stand, and thus did his duty
Thursday night the daily mail stoppe
:. During the night there was heavy sho
a a.. err, with loud thunder and vivid lightnin
-, 80 There was no moon, and thick darkne
81 III was in the wilderness. Ifthis is an e
' ~ cuse to delay the duly mail ten hours,
~ it so.
a Iu' Friday, The 18th the daily mail was in m
AZ tion by daylight, the passengers waking t
ne driver Ii was then carried 70 ,n;les a
and here taken by shaggy headed fellow call
Landrum, who was not only too lazy TO Ike
himself clean, but too lazy to Jump into
vas mail cart and say 'get up'' to his horses.
the confessed that his horses had not been fed
for 10 hours. As it was altogether out of t
D question for such driver to lift newspaI
~ ~ bags into low mail cart, Landrum left t
'ei whole newspaper mail that had arrived son
aia time previous, and crept on without it.
Ter Landrum's stand the great Northern ola
und mail for Washington, New York and N
Ter England, had been slowed away in
he house over twelve hours Landrum took
one about 8 O'Clock, A. M. when he had not ca
~, his breakfast. Az 10 Landrum became h,
,;m cry and stopped to have his break fast cook
80 tor there was none in preparation. p
a!s' sergers demonstrated. Landrum was sui
at and persisted. One hour was lost in prep
the ing and eating the break fast, to obtain VIII
Sc. for a driver the great New Orleans do
and mail was stopped-the DAILY mail, pr
ord remember that. Landrum at last crept al
,Ho,t to the end of his stand, where he grunted
- ;, lifted his two legs out of the mail cart. 1t
.. - now diDnertime. The daily mail was Stop
Dose th,ee fourths nf an hour for tho driver r.
not dinner, and then an active and intelligent
low took us to Montgomery. The last I.