Litchfield enquirer., 1841-12-30

for them to do, the carrying of the mall Ns secondary to the transportation of PasSen-
 An anxious desire to effect some perma- ment arrangement with the railroad compa- nleS for the transportation of the mail, upon basis which shall be both just and uniform, considering the nature of the service perform ed by each, induced me to invite a meeting of the Presidents of the different companies, in the city of Washington, on the lst of Jan'y next and am gratIied at the prompt man. ner in which all who have been heard from have consented to attend, and hope is cher- ished that some arrangement, satisfactory to all parties and beneficial to the public, may yet be effected.
 The improved state of fin:ercommunicatiOn by railroad and steam, operating under char tered rights, over w.:ich it Is not pretended that the general government, much less the Post Office Department, can exercise any control, imposes upon Congress, in my opin- only be cancelled by the adoption of some measure whereby the Post Office Depart ment may, upon adequate consideration, secure by compact the right to transport the mail in the cars of the railroad companies, and at the same time give to the Department the power to control the departure and arri- val of the same.
 There are now paid to the different railroad companies, annually, ever S4OO,OOO for the service, without power in the Department to regulate the travel, arrival and departure of the mail and constant and frequent difti- cullies both tn entering into and the execu- tion of contracts, are presented.
 h has occurred to me, that the present was most favorable period for the adopting of some measures by Congress, whereby to Nhr,T TnsA nh<nr Srrhf hHaVO port the mail upon these roads, in all time to come, free of charge upon the Post Office De- partment, by the advancement of sum in gross, which may be agreed upon, to each of these companies, or such of them as may be willing to contract. Many of the railroad companies, and some of them constituting most important links in the great chain of in tercommunication between Boston and Charleston, owing to the great derangment of the monetary concerns of the world, and the depression of all State and Company Stocks, find themselves laboring under en- barrassments and difficulties which the aid of the General government, applied in the way proposed, would effectuallv remove, and at the same time secure to the United States the advantage and the ample equivalent of transporting the mail upon these roads. The credit of the United States to an a. mount not greater than the sum necessary 10 produce, at five per cent interest, the amount paid by the Post Office Department to these companies annually, would, have no doubt,
 be sufficient to accomplish this desirable end. The prompt and favorable action of Congress upon this subject at the present time, would effectually secure the Government against the danger of being called upon for occasion al and large appropriations to meet the bal ances due by the Department.
 Do ask the United States to do more for the Post Office Department than justice would seem to demand, especially when it is remembered that the whole expense of the official correspondence of the Government and the public, and the private correspond ence of those entitled by law to the franking privilege, is sustained by tax upon the cor respondence of the community! If by this arrangement the department is relieved from the heavy annual charge as now rated, (and 1t has neither the power to lessen it nor to prevent it's increase,) it may be hoped that the object so much demanded by considera- tons of public justice Chat of reducing the tax upon the friendly and business correspon- dence of individually will be attained, and, at the same time, the usefulness of the public mail be enlarged and extended to those por- tions ofthe Union hitherto measurably deni. ed the necessary mail facilities.
 If the government was required to pay postage upon official correspondence, and if the franking privilege was abolished or redu- ced to proper limits, the revenue of the De. partment would be increased to an amount sufficient of itselt to pay the interest upon the debt to be incurred by the proposed ar- rangement, and liquida:e the principal in less than thirty years"
 Yankee Enterprise.-We find the following facts in the " Cabotville Chronicle" publish- ed at the location, in old Massachusetts, de. scribed below. It reminds one of the origin and rapid growth of Lowell. Such are the true mines of wealth. The productive in- dustry of the country must be relied on as the source of it's permanent prosperity:
 "Ten years since, this was a wild spot, the habitatlon of frogs, quails, snipcs, rabbits, &c. Now it has six cotton mills, built of blick, four stories high. l6O feet by 50 feet wide. Near the mills are IS large story brick boarding houses for the operatives, and several smaller ones for the overseers. A forge and two machine shops, where all the machinery for the several mills has been made, and some for a foreign market. Just above these is the sword and cutlery manu. factory, and bell and cannon foundry of N. P. Ames & Go. Also, shuttle and bobbin shop, sash ana blind factory, saw mill, grist mill and paper mill. There are in the vil- lage six religious societies, Univcrsalist, Congregationalist, Baptist, Methodist. Unita- rian and Roman Catholic, and five neat md spacious houses of worship. The Unitarian society has been lately organized, and will probably erect a church next summer.- There are seven schools, and large school house ot the most approved construction is now being erected for schools of the highest order; thirty seven stores and shops, print ing office. and weekly newspaper. Six clergymel'. six physicians, and one lawyer, form the nrOfaSSi SinOnl corpS nvall;r<. Lo,,