The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-03-28
THE MAILS FROM DETROIT TO WASH
INGTON

hAll4o FROM NOll ~ WfNoIi-
INGTON.
BY all the agents of the Department the
roads are represented as being almost impassa-
Bile, so that with every eXertlon on the part OF
the vgant and spirited contractors, Messrs. Neil,
Moore & Co. and others, has been impossible
TO maintain the connection unbroken. vi the
difficulties in the way Of executing at this sea-
SON. and such a season, contract throughout
that line, in less than seven days, any one may
be convinced who will run his eye along the
map, beginning at Detroit and following the
routes around the head of Lake Erie, through
dusky 10 Cleveland, in Ohio, on the opposite
margin of the Lake two hundred miles from
Detroit, thence across the State of Ohio to
Beaver, in Pennsy lvsna, and thence to Pitts
burgh, more thln three hundred miles; all
through a deep rich clay soil apithout turnpike
roads!
Aware of the importance Of this route, and
anticipating delays the Postmaster General had
directed to it the attention of vigilant agent
who advised the Department from Toledo, that
with the utmost eXertlon on the part OF the con
tractors, the mails must be from twenty to
twenty -four hours behind and these circum-
stances account for all the delays which have
occurred, except recent continuous one for
more Than a peek Turning his attention 10
this, the Head of the Department has discov
cred and promptly removed the cause Of it,
leaving nothing in the way, it is believed, but
obstacles, for the time, insurmountable in their
nature; but which, with the advance of the
season, must soon disappear, and such as IN
the mean time canno cause serious detention.
The officer referred TO in the following letter
has been superseded. Their letters on file
evince, as we understand, on the part Of Messrs.
Neil, Moore & Co., their woned vigilance 1t
Is doubtless the wish, a, well as the policy Of
the Postmaster General to give credit, rather
than TO censure, when he can.
WAsulNoroN, ID. c. March 3d. 1912.
Sin: | have yours of this morning, informing me
of the complaints of Members of Congress and others
relative the detention and irregularty with hch
the Detroit mail has been received in this city,
| wrote you sometime since from Toledo, Ohio,rela-
tive the very bad condition OF the roads, ana ad-
yiscd you there would be failures and deentions in Me
arrival Of the Northwestern mails but from lettu
received from Andrew Palmer, p. NJ at Toledo,
Ohio, which you will find enclosed, and the post
script yours Of this morning, am satisfied that the
Detroit matter was detained at that office for the pur
pose Of transmitting it in steamboats,.
You are aware that Detroit is distributing office
during the summer months that portion of the year
when the Lakes are navigable, but when navigation
is INSTRUCTED by ice and before it is resumed To
ledo Ohio is the distributing office for that section o.
country North and w est. On the 9th instant, the
steamer General Scott, left Detroit for Buffalo, and
the late Postmaster at Detroit being anxious to OBJ
tain the commission fees for some other cause,
made up Lake or steamboat mail for this boat and
presume, from the expectancy Of anothers arrival,
withheld the mails from the 9th TO the 18th or 18th
instant The General Scott is the only boat that has
left Detroit for Buffalo up to the 10Th instant. Yon
viii perceive from Mr. Pamer's letter, that mat
ter from Detroit, or points North and West of that
place received at his Office for distribution the
week preceding the 10th instant, From the above
wholly to blame for the irregularities and detentions
complained Of
(Signedl c. G. NOTATION,
Spt. Agt. u. q. Opt.
This accounts for the delay OF the Detroit
newspaper mail at New York, complained of in
the Commercial Advertiser of the 18th instant
PROFESSORS OF MATHEMATICS IN TIE
NAVY.