Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-02-05

his practice Of the DSparm ent which is believed to be
almost universal lest it might produce al effect dctri
mental 10 the Department making its contracts, by
a'scouragng bidders in making their proposals from the
fear that the Department Id encourage opposition TO
them upon the routes.
Route No col, from New York 10 Philadelphia was
let to James iccsde the then contractor on that route,
in the fall of lSi the Transportation 20 b daily in four
the %a oI o be SssS
Ia, 'a .ss1 s be , %s
hours and that scfOnd daily mali should be
from city to city, aAsteambSats and stages, if
CURED by the Postmaster G,cneralJ for which, and
tor furnishing armed guards 'hen 3equired, the
tractor was TO receive $4,000 IA yca; and to keep up
the second daily malta in the season of the year when
steamboats, did not run, further compensation
provided of 81 800 During the sessions of Congress
was deemed cxpcdicnt by the Department 60 run
additional mail line from Baltim Ph!lSdcphia by
the way of Lancaster carry aporon fthe mail mat
ter too heavy for orc line and TO sqe to Philadelphia
This at1 line was extel,ded, to the City of New
city ellieeYe aya9 nee q i &, ordinary
vice, the Of $3.50 dollars II is stated, that the orr
sinai contract for $4,000 per onnam and the mail
was daily aud all tie Post Offices the route
TO be supplied by it. This service was evidently less
tan the interest of the community rcqpred In 1893
IN March the Postmaster general deternned to expe-
ate the mail between Washington City and New York
and between that place and DC Eastern cities, with
view TO put down private mails an to do away the
cessity OF employing public xprcs for that purpose as
had been done in the preceding winter Ii found ne
cessary to the mail front Philadelphia to New York
in ~ hours in bad roads as yell l!oo1 in order to
effect the above object Tls iyhpraccablc, if The
mail had to stop Mt the numerous Post Offices the
route; and therefore an additional mill was esa.
ollshed for the purpos2of supplying them. This
before spoken of Tht additional mail cost the
Department So, l25, whif is 81 975 more than the cx-
press mail, which consequence ordered be dis
continued. BY this Aer arrangement the mail was
despatched from Waslb gton to New York in Is hours
less time, on the wntt arrangement, than before and
day gained in Interpretation of the Southern mail
to Albany, Boston, aA the numerous points beyond 1t
should be here noticed, that four daily mails between
Philadelphia and NV York spoken of by the wit
nesses. Three onlywere ordered and paid for by the
Department. The forth carried for The contractors
own convenience aid made up of mail matter pro.
perly belonging ne of the others.
In the beginning IF the year 1888 such was the excl
ted and interesting tate of public aars that the Editor
OF the Journal of Commerce, newspaper printed i'm the
City of New YORK. established at lis own expcnse. a
private express from the City Of PHILADELPHIA TO
New York, and bythis means obtained intelligence ear
er than by the REGULAR course of the mail This pro.
duced dissatisfaction, that Individual could obtain in
teligence for hinef and patrons before the Govern
mcnt furnishes the citizens generally In this state
81 49, stmaster- General employed an express
gence as rapidly as il could be furnished
NO . cree. For this