New-York tribune., 1841-09-13
= He RI B U n E
yGSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER ID.
80 NnprHrRS Axp sourHrRy MALI


Tar GREAT NoRrHERS AND soUTHrRS MAIL
re.c-es, Atlantic Mail, which leaves New-Orean
y, rnorping of Monday, now reaches Baliimor
-.,r IN the evening of the following Sunday, or i
~ 5uys and fifteen hours for distance of som
I'm miles. This is just fast as it can be urged
.a,,4crably faster than it ever was till recently O
...h;ny Baltimore-say at 8 P. M.-the Mail Ell
.ooo,er, delay, which the Postmaster Genera
..,,ot overcome. The Railroad Company will no
.,.r4 train North in the evening without larg
extra compensation. They say they cannot aiior'
T., few people want to travel at tina, hour, and Il
min train for the Mail only involves heavy ex
Dsnse But law Of Congress, passed TO protec
he Government against extortion from Raliroad
Companies, Corbids the payment OF over s3os PEI
.1s per nnnnn for carrying the Mails over any
r,u,e in the Union under any circumstances. nat
,n the Company now receive for carrying two daily
Malls each way over their route, about l9 cents
r,r mile every mile run--a very liberal comPensa-
N, ard as much as tho service can afford. The
,o1e now costs $50 600 per annnm the Company
I'll not run train out Of Baltimore ~ 7. NJ un-
le.s they are paid sl2 900 per anaum more, which
Nr, Granger is by law forbidden TO pay What
-, he do? We know that his cxertions have been
rripg to get the Mail on without the fifteen hours
DELAY at Baltimore, but it is morally impossible.
If,here were any power in the Government to COM
oel State Corporation or an individual to work for
sha,eyer sum and AT whatever hour, the employer
might choose, its exercise would be of very ques-
dsnnble propriety But there is no such power, and
We must make the best ofit Ifthe Federal Govern
men! had aided as it ought the construction Of Rail
roads on the Great Mail Routes, it might justly ask
lyors of them in return; but it has not and
lsmand but Justice. 1t can now have the use Of
Railroads on terms mutually agreed on, or it can
1t them alone. In this case, it is not practicable
20 push the Mail through sooner otherwise than by
awaiting the regslar train of the Baltimore and
Philadelphia Railroad at o'clock the next morn.
ing. Probably when another hundred miles or so
q Railroad shall be completed at the South, the
Mail can be brought to Baltimore by 8 o'clock, p NJ.
in season to take the afternoon line to Philadelphia
and arrive here at . o'clock the next day. Now it
is not possible.
This simple statement of facts ought to still the
murmurs of those who blame the Postmaster Gen
eal because the Mail arrives here at an unseason-
able hour of the night. remedy is not in his
power. So with the line Eastward. 1t is not his
fault tina, passengers, and of course Steamboats,,
choose TO leave for Boston at 5 p. Al. instead of
A. Man hour which would fur better suit the
Steamboat and Railroad proprietors if they con-
suited their own convenience simply. But they con-
suit the wishes of the travelling community; and the
Mail must defer to them pay for boats and trains
Of its own Shall the lVtter be attempted Let
the gr,imbling ut Mr. Granger for asking loan
ium the Treasury to pay of the unsatished debts
left by Kendall and Niles, make answer.
There are TWO respects in which the inconven-
ience now suffered is susceptible OF some alevia-
lion We think the Railroad trains from Phila-
dephia to this City, and 0ice rersa, ought to start
half an hour earlier if more, and be ran through
in I'VE and half hours at tarthest, allowing the
half hour for crossing the two rivers 1t then our
Postmaster would see that the Editors Mail is dis
irbu,ed in half an hour after it touches the wharf
a. it might and should be, instead of being withheld
from an hour 10 an hour and half, the news might
appear well digss,ed in the next morning papers,
and the travelling public he far better accommoda-
ted than at pre.ent. Measrs. Directors OF the
Nsw.Jcrsey Railroad can you not make an effort
for the public good and your ownf