The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-11-02
GROSS ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

engine on The road Now, as the Postmaste
General has employed no less than seventeen
steamboat and rail companies, with nobod,
hnows how many engineers and locomotives
between Boston and New Orleans, is it no
passing strange that, with all this power in hi
service. single failure should ever happen
True they result from great variety Of acct
dents, both by |" food and 6eld;" but might b,
not stipplate against cows lying on the track
and against breaking axles and stove pipes
But what Is A6 10 do with the scifds ant
storms Forever the Astronomer In Rasse
las was forced to admit that he could not con
troll them? Hecould regulate the weather ant
uis'rioute the seasons. Inc sun itself listened
20 MS dictates anQ Passed from troplc to tropit
Oy MS dlrection' nave restrained" said ne
Inc raging o. the cog star, ana m1tigated TIT
lervors OF the crap. Inc Utnds alone, OF 81
nc e'e'ncn'a. Po"els' "avc A''ner'o felused ny
su'holl'y' anu "uHisuaes nave Pefisneo ny equl
noclial tempests, wnicn FOUND myself unable
70 prohibit or restrain" II has been suggested
thatthe P0stAAe6l1i General should appoint Mr.
EsDy - one U{aEH "A ssistants,: {snt his 3iscove
ri4s extend onIG t0s De mower of ,,roonosf;cn
.:o..--,,,, ". go - ..o-,r,
x va.4-,~.r ScFSHia,. .ud cI..,o,. ,;,,
"a o;n !. y. ,.o,,,t 81 o.,oh. ~ $50.
N'oA e'o'' '""' - u
o"e iou'e wv u s''cn'een on Tue nne. INV
easy 10 blame me Dep0r1meM LOT all thes'
failures. ny dong so at once, all trouble OF IL
G m tu q
INDUCED, which leads us to abuse somebody
when we feel aggrieved and know not how it
has happened. In the meantime the causes of
c;l. 49, ho, ,;,.;, i,
.a'ue nav oeen e''o'ony po'eu " he
department 70 nave oeeh causeu Dy h'sh
WINDS" and "steamooats running aground"
The following list, obtained at the Depart
ment, gives a view of the causes of The last
failure on each of the routes where thev have
occnrred On the main line between Ro.ton and
NJ o-Ia.u :; ha.h, .ro.,ahar
we" D""sD'e" 20 f""aaetp"'0'-i man 'a''eo "
$4,000 =, h.,.,.;.r 49,. 81 -. -. r.,.,.
y.sn,on and p,;n,.,on
.Ns,c York 10 St0nineton Conn.-The mail failed to
connect at New York with the Southern mail on the
18th October, l843 cause, strong ,cesterlu gale /. the
Sound
Baltimore to Philadelphia, Pa.-The mail failei to
connect at Philadelphia with route 1901, on the 9th
OCTOBER 1913 cause serere Storm
same rou'e lahea at bal'lmore on Inc sun octo-
O'i e0uS'' a'''as'" % ."e engine o.. A'e ra''0aa
8, 80 " ~ MAJ 'A''' :,
~ ~. ORR o.,ohar TO-,
WELDON " r - cho,,,..on n The Iii can
ed to connect at Charleston 8 q with tho So,tbern
mail on the 9th of October ls43 cause s,ong south
eastern gale.
o0'""0"S' ua 20 montgomery ND ne man iai'-
~ ~ ooN"' a. Montgomery, n'aoa'"'' WIN '''
80 "o
49,. A.. OIL,
Of N.v OrI..,. on tho 10Th ootoh.r 1sA, r,u,e
..sa.so.. aground.
The mail coming North failed at Mobile, Alaba-
ma, on the Goth October, ls43; cause, steamboat
aground
Now, it is very easy to reason, that the Post
master General ought to cut all connexion with
these companies, because they let cows lie on
the road. and the fogs rise and the winds blow
He might say to the Weldon and Charleston
Company-why don't you get Capt. Stockton
to build you boat like the Princeton-proo
against wind, tide, shot and shells-one that
1oiH go ahead all the time ? and they might an
swer-1st. Because Erickson himself could not
propel large sea boat over Cape Fear riper
6dr-and, secondly, the travel and all your mail
pay would not indemnify the cost of building
and navigating such boat. 1t cannot be de-
IN take the mail from the rail roads and steam