Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-01-19

ton with company OF U. >. Troops to aid the
Floridians against the Seminole Indians.
James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, recently
died in Scotland.
We hear loud complaints from every quarter
of extraordinary irregularity in the mails. The
extreme confusion into which this very important
department Of the National Government was
thrown BY the Reform at the commencement OF
the present administration is, We fear, not likely
to be rcmcdied soon. The public want accom-.
modation in this department, as well as retrencil-
ment of expenses. We give a single instance of
irrcgularity. The mail from Louisville to Gin
cnnati is carried by steam boats and passes thro'
no intervening Post Office. Yet we learn from
the Cincinnati Wing that lately two successive
weeks had passed during which not single
number Of the Louisville Journal had been re-
ceived at the Office of that paper, although tho
journal, which is daily paper, had been regu-
larly deposited in the Louisville Post Office The
Editor Of the Journal is pretty angry on the sub.
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but that he uses harsher language than we arc
accustomed to admit into columns. He
af1irms that his annual loss "consequent upon
their the Van Burcn PostmastersD' rascality,
cannot be one farthing less than six or seven
thousand dollars" Enough, this to make man
angry.
We recollect seeing it stated in tho n. y. Cour-
ier & Enquirer lately, that moro than twenty
subscribers discontinued that paper at single
| Office, on account of tho nrcguiarity with which
they received it.
We do not see complaints on this subject in
the administration papers. If they have cause
they ought to complain in justice to the depart
ment. For then honest men would not be SO
apt to suspect dishonesty in its management.
We say dishonesty. For as all parties pay equally
to the support of the Post Office department, it
would surely be dishonest to distribute its bcne-
fits unequally.
The Post Master General has fined the
contractor for carrying the mail from Nor
cantown to Ashcville, N. c. twefre dollars
for failing three times to deliver the mail when
due.
| Mail Ro66eries.-Some weeks ago, it
was discovered that 4 depreciation had been
committed on the great mail between Mays
vile, Kentucky, and GAINESVILLE, Ohio. A
prompt investigation was made, which, We
learn with pleasure, has resulted success
fully.
4 driver of the name of Reynolds and
his confederate, Wickersham, storekeeper,
it is said, at Sinking Spring, Ohio, have
been arrested. Rayuolds has confessed,
and delivered up money and drafts. They
were Immediately taken to Colnmbus,w where,
the Court of the United States being in ses.
sion, they have been indicted.
At the same court, Smith, a mail robber,
heretofore indicted, was convicted.
Globe.
The Cincinnati Wing says that this is the eev-
enth time the mail has been robbed within l2
wears between Bainbridge and Maysville.
We have been informed by gentleman,
recently from Mobile, that the mail bag con.
tanning newspapers, was broken or torn op.
en, by accident between Macon and Angus.
ia, and that packages Of New Orleans pa.
pers were occasionally falling out, to which
/ no attention was paid by the driver. This
will account for the occasional failure of the
newspaper mails.-Char. Conrier.
Cincinnati and Charleston Rail Road
Col. Blanding, the efficient agent Of the cit.
izcns of South Carolina, in this great enter.
prize, arrived in this city yesterday. He
has effected more in three or four weeks
than any individual or body Of men ever
did in the same period he has got the bill
which we published on the 9th inst, passed
into law in the States Ct South Carolina
North Carolina and Tennessee, without es
sential variation, and we have no doubt he
will succeed equally well with Kentucky
and for this plain reason: he will show hel
Legislature that it is for their interest to pass
it. No man in the United States unoc.r
stands this subject better than Col. Blanding,
} he having been for eight years superin.cn-
dent of public works for the State of South
Carolina, and his being employed on This
most arduous and delicate mission, Is de-
cisive proof Of the manner in which he cx-
ecuted his former trusts.-Cincinnati Post.
! Turpentine commands (per barely 81 at
Wilmington, and % 25 at Newbern, N. G.