The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-08-02
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New York Mail from the south.

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Tue SOUTHERN MArL-There is great, and, it seems
u.s. very Just complaint among merchants that the
pha, we believe, at o'elock any rate, is long
before the train by he Camden and Amboy railroad
continues by the other line through Newark which
is managed now than usual and It's whole manage.
poor enough. The letters arriving here at a busy
hour not assorted in thct until or O'Clock in the al
temoon OF course, letters cannot be answered by the
mail, acted upon for the northern and eastern mail.
If the letters came by Camden and Amboy they might be
delivered IL O'Clock, which would be Just the time they
wanted IL is reported from the Post Office Depart
that the Camden and Amboy line refuse TO bring the
mails If that is true nothing should be left undone 10
carry the mails Tor fair compensation, ought to be ami
hlaed We cannot think it is But either the road on
hope 10 know whelN. Y. Jour Com, J'ay TO-
see in the Journal of Commerce, and other papers in
New York, complaints of the delay in the arrival OF the
southern mail at New York which induced me to in
quire at the department whether there any tounda
on for these complaints, and the causes OF them The
following Is statement OF the facts as they exist In
lSii when the contracts were let for that section the
New Jersey companies refused to execute contracts
upon the terms proposed by the Postmaster General but
they continued TO carry the mails under the former
rangements and paid at the maximum price allowed
by awto wit: three hundred dollars per mile per
num- BY this arrangement, the companies were 10 run
their morning trains between and o'clock, m, al
their discretion, and the evening train between and
o'clock, p at the discretion of the department AS the
law directs contracts to be made In each section In
four years, the present Postmaster General permitted the
service adjusted by Mr. Wchde to continue, he did
There has been heretofore little complaint of the service
though the great southern mail arrived at Philadelphia by
in the morning, and lay in the city post office until the
morning departure of the trains, which has been, until
lately, at O'Clock, a. m
Recently it seems, the New Jersey companies have
started train in the morning at o'clock, by the Cam
den and Amboy railroad and have postponed the depar-
ure of the mail train until O'clock a. IN. by which
means the travellers from the south go New York
at o'clock and the mail IS delayed for the O'Clock train
When the Postmaster General learned this state OF
things he urged upon the contractors, they received
the maximum allowed by law for some more daily
mails on their road that the morning departure of the
mail train shoIlld be at o'clock, and the Camden and
Amboy line at o'clock, or that the morning mail should
be forwarded by the Camden and Amboy line and as
they bound to take the whole of the mails between
Philadelphia and New York, and received the maximum
pay which the law allowed this should be done without
additional compensation. 1t is evident, if they receive
the full pay for all the mails, that they perform only the
required service, whether it be one, two three or
more trips daily and this division of the mall and taking
only third fourth al time is generally considered
convenience TO contractors, especially when acconpa
MED by mail agents, and adds not one dollar additional
expense to the contractors their own business requiring
them to run three daily trains between those cities,
Il they take third OF the mail on each train no ad
dhonal expense is incurred Hence the law settled the
maximum pay at $500 per mile for 'one or more daily
mails The New Jersey companies refuse TO run the
mail train at o'clock, and refuse to take the mails on
the Camden and Amboy railroad, unless the Postmaster
General will pay them additional $500 per mile for it.
They paid for taking the w'dole mail between
Philadelphia and New York at $500 per mile and de-
mand additional $500 per mile for taking about
third of the same mail the Camden and Amboy line.
Upon the refusal OF the New Jersey companies to ac-
cede the alteration suggested by the Postmaster Gene
rail- he issued an order directing the mail train leave
Philadelphia 5 O'clock m hour after the arri-
val of the southern mail 1t understood that the
panies have refused to comply with the order of the de-
parment
1t is not likely that the present Postmaster General will
suffer himself to be driven to pay $500 per mile for taking
the New York mail on the right bank of the Delaware,
and then $500 per mile for taking it the left
bank, especially the law prohibits him from paying
more than $500 per mile for some more daily mails
If the Postmaster General should yield to this unjust
demand these companies would have nothing to do but
rearange the departure of the mail trains, and put up
steamboat line the Delaware, take passengers in
advance of the mail, and claim third $500 per mile for
the additional daily line on the river.
ANTI-MONOPOLY