Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-08-09
From the Washington Globe.


Express Mail.-tn this days Globe will
be observed an advertisement Of the Post
Office Department for the conveyance OF
an express mail from New York to Mobile,
Alabama, where it will fall into the great
mail, and be carried by steamboats to New
Orleans. The time proposed TO be occu-
pied in the conveyance between New York
and New.Orleans is about six days and
half; the regular time for the present mails
is little over thirteen days.
The provision of the late act Of Congress
under which this enterprise is put on foot,
reads as follows, viz.
"In case the Post Master General shall
deem it expedient TO establish an express
mail in addition to the ordinary mail, on any
of the post roads Of the United States, for
the purpose of conveying slips from news
papers in lieu of exchange papers, or letters
other than such as contain money, not ex-
ceeding half an ounce in weight marked
express mail and public dispatches, he
shall be authorized to charge all letters and
packets carried by such express mail with
triple rates of postage to which letters and
packets, not free, may be. by law subject
when carried by the ordinary mails"
Regulations to govern the ''express mail"
will be published before ii goes in opera
ton.
II is the desire of the Post Master Gene
raj to extend the benefits of this mail to 9TH
er sections of the country ; but nc thinks 1t
not safe to attempt it until he is more apprls.
ed of the means which he shall be able to
devote to the object. The Improvements
ordered since the first OF January last, and
the new mails put into operation, will cost
about 100000. Congress, at the last ses-
sion, established the unprecedented num-
Der of seuen hundred and thirty eight new
mail routes, which will probably cost more
than ssOo,oO0 annually. The express
mail, now advertised, viii probably cost
S25O,OO0 more, making an cXsent!on Ole
expenditure equal to $650,00O year. Al
though the Postmaster General believes he
can bear greater extension without en-
barrassment, yethe does not think it right
to hazard any thing by an attempt to place
expresses on other routes, and he refrains
from doing so until the expense ofthe new
routes and of the mail now advertised, shall
DO known. The day is not distant, how
ever, when he expects to run an express
to the west, starting probably from Balti.
more and running on the national road
through to ST.. Louis, throwing off branch
es or improving and expediting the exist
inp lines, to the right and left, so as to-
difuse its benefits to all the country upon
the upper rivers and lakes.
Anexpress cannot be run from New \ orh
10 Boston within the time now occupied by
the steam boat and rail road line through
Providence. 1t may, however, be useful TO
r,,n one east of Boston to Portland. ltmay
also be expedient to run one from Boston
through Albany to Buffalo, which would
operate, by connecting with the North
River steam boats, as an express mall De-
tween New.York and Buffalo.
From the Southern express, now adVer'
tised branches may be advantageously
thrown off through Alabama into Mississip-
pi and Tennessee. -
The great outline Of an express mail
system would be completed by line from
New. Orleans 70 Nashville, thence to Lou
isyille, Kentucky; ); and thence connecting
,,;.h .he EoS.ern and Western line.