The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-03-07
MAILS AND EDITORIAL COMPLAINTS.
We take the following from New York pa

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Mail ARRAsesMnNrs-A correspondent Of the
| Baltimore Patriot with good deal OF justice com
plains of the present miserable arrangement for
! ryng the mails between New York and Boston
The mail leaves here at in the afternoon, reaches
| Philadelphia at H. rests from the iatigues OF us
journey TIL the next morning, and then proceeds
| leisurely onward, arriving at Baltimore at IN the
| afternoon % hours from New York, Without the
DELAYS on the route the distance could
readily be travelled in less than one half Of the time
The Patriot states that the rail road company Is
willing TO enter into an arrangement to expedite the
mails whenever the Department at Washington shall
require it. If there is to be reform in the matter,
we trust that the Department will not conne itself
TO the Improvement in the transmission OF the mail
from New York To the South, but will aso do some
thing for New York in relation TO It's reception oil m
| telligence from the South. The mail which leaves
Washington IN the afternoon might just as well be IN
New York at ten o'clock in Il morning as at three
o'clock in the afternoon.
| and Baltimore there are two mails each day. II
the editor and the correspondent Of the Ball-
more Patriot did not know this TO be the fact,
they were not well enough Informed TO write
upon the subject.
One mail, called the "through mail" from
ng, Immediately upon its arival-reaches PHI
ladelphia by 81 P. M.-leaves Philadelphia at 4
reaches Baltimore at at highland arrives
at Washington city by 5 in the morning. and
leaves for the South at 6. This train Of cars does
| not bring he way mails Ii only supplies some
| of the larger points beside the cities.
The second mail leaves New York al in the
evening, reaches Philadelphia at about IL
o'clock, and leaves Philadelphia next morning
in time to reach Washington city by T. NJ,
| (26 hours) This train and mail is run for the
accommodation of the way travel between Phi
ladepha and Baltimore, aud brings the second
mail between those points supplying the inter
| mediate towns and post Offices.
1t is complained by this Baltimore cores
pendent and the papers above, that the Post
master General does not require the Phllade-
phia company 10 start It's train Il midnight, al
sacrifice of the interests Of the railroad, and the
comfort Of the travelling community, in order
that the New Y ork mail may reach Baltimore a
few hours sooner. 1t should be remembered
that this second mail is run for the supply OF in
lermedia,e points well as Other Offices at short
distances from the railroad and, for that cause,
if no other, il is most suitable that it be run in
the day, instead of the night, between Phlladel-
phia and Washington. Newspaper editors
should remember that there are others be-
side themselves interested in the uanspor-
ta,ion and arrival of the mails. The Pa
triot and Advertiser should not forget, that,
if the Postmaster General were 10 order
this second mail TO leave Philadelphia al
! / o'clock in the night, the Philadelphia editors
might have better cause to complain than them
selves, because the morning papers IN that city
would be left TO come South in the evening
mail.
1t is impossible for the Postmaster General in
the time Of departure Of mails to suit every body
and he does well to consult the convenience and
! interests Of the greater number
Ii is not true, as we are well informed, tina
the Philadelphia Railroad Company are willing
10 run South from Philadelphia at IL o'clock a
night. They refuse TO do so-and as a susst
tu,e continue their afternoon line, which take,
on the latest Boston aud New York mails dur
ing the winter as well as The other seasons O.
the year.
Will the papers OF New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore, be so good as to copy