Baltimore commercial journal, and Lyford's price-current. [volume] (Baltimore, Md) 1840-1849, 1847-08-21

Inpr0red Null Bag.-Wc examined few days
since al the establishment of Mcssrs. Gambr, Car
roll Co. of this city, Mail Bag OF improved mate
rial and construction for which these gentlemen have
patent. The material of which the bag construct
ed is thick cotton baggng, manufactured expressly
for the purpose, and totally impcrvous to water.
We shown one bag manufactured by these
gentlemen in 1910, which had been five years in use
in the Post Office service the interior of which did
present single stain from the leakage of water
into it, and looked almost clean and white as some
new specimens which had never been in
The U. States letter mail has heretofore and snow
to a great extent, carried in lcathcrn bags which,
while they are very expensive, are by no means i'm
pcrvious 10 water; and so convinced have the Post
Office Department become of the superior merit of
the bag manufactured by Mcssrs Gambrll, Carroll
& Co., that they fast substituting them for tn
eathcrn bag, the latter become useless from
These gentlemen now filling large government
contract.
But in addition to the improved material of which
these gentlemen have constructed their bags-which
while less expensive than leather is twice durable
they have also effected an improvement in the
manner of fastening the bags, which renders them
peculiarly adapted to the carrying Of the newspaper
mail. This mail is carried in bags made of thin
cotton bagging totally incapable OF turning off water,
Oor every mail that arrives from the South or West
during the rainy season. is generally well soaked,)
and are secured at the mouth merely by string,
like bag of meal, to which is attached wooden,
and very often nothing but paper label bearing the
OF the place to which the bag is destined Let
this label be lost, is sometimes the case, and the
bag is liable to be misplaced missent, and is often
detained from its true destination for day more.
This, we verify believe, is the true cause of more
than one half the mistakes which the souls and
try the patience of post office clerks, newspaper
publishers, and through them, the reading public
generally.
But such accident can happen to any of the bags
of Mcssrs. Gambrill, Carroll & Co. S make. At the
mouth of these bags two leathern flaps, short
and the other long. To the shorter there is at
tachcd a number of iron buckle frames, which pass
through corresponding holes the long flap; through
these buckle frames is broad lcathern strap
passing across the front of the bag and fastening be-
hind with any species of lock which may be thought
convenient. This strap is attached to the bag that
either side of il may be turned out; so that on bag
of this kind, which might be used in carrying the
mail between this city and Philadelphia, the name
Baltimore would be deeply impressed on one side of
the strap, and that of Philadelphia the other, and
the only change necessary in passing the bag from
one city to another would be the reversing of the
strap whilst thus labelled it would BIZ impossible for
them to be misplaced mssent, except through the
grossest negligence.
The first cost of providing these bags for both the
letter and newspaper mall would not we understand,
exceed the cost of the lcathern and common cotton
bags whilst in durability and every other necessary
requirement they are far preferable Their substi-
tuition for those at present in use, would we think be
a desirable step, and one which we understand at
present engages the serious attention oil the Posnas-
ter Characterization.