Democratic banner., 1848-01-10
Mail Facilities to Louisiana.

W2AA 4 hCI11t1cS 10 ALOtN1S1thAAOS
It Is known to our citizens that Louisiana
la6ors under great disadvantage, from
Want of mail facilities, especially in the
winter season. Having to depend upon the
st. Louis mail via St. Charles, which i.
generally near a week in reaching us,-and
very ,rregular,-for Eastern news, or up.
on the Jacksonville route across Illinois
which is generally, in the winter, three oil
four days earlier. The latter is a tri-week.
ly line already TO this place; and is a direc'
route across Illinois and Missouri, from
Springfield through Jacksonville, Pittsfeld.
Louisiana, Bowling Green, Middletown and
Danviiie, to jefferson C C; Our citizen;
will readily see the advantages they would
reap if this tri-weekly line was extended
on to Jefferson City. 1t would be nearly g
direct Eastern route from Jefferson City.
over which a heavy mail would necessarily
turn, accommodating more towns-chiefy
county sebastian any other route of the
same length across the Upper Mississippi
1t is extended already more than half the
distance.
We make these remarks, hoping our citi-
xens who know our need of such improve
ment, will take hold of the matter and push
It, as its necessity and importance demands.
Put the ball once in motion, and our neigh
bouring towns on the line,-seeing its adj
vsntages,-will at once, roll it on to a
speedy success. But shall we tell the citi-
zens upon this line, that while they are con.
tented to waitfor some unforeseen event, to
improve their present miserable mail facili-
ties, that our neighbors up the river are
e~ndeavoring to strip the almost DULY con-
v~enince we have from us? An effort is be-
ing made, in Hannibal, to have the present
tri-veekly line, from Jacksonville to this
place, changed to their magnificent city as
q terminus.
They don't propose to rob Louisiana and
Pitts6eld entirely, but in Their charity are
willing to give them a weekly horse mail
from Jacksonville or some intermediate
point; leaving out of tie question the re-
mainder Of the route over which the tri-
weekly mail ought to be extended. Their
next e~ffort,-ifthey could succeed,-would
be, of course, to extend it westward, max
ing almost an acute angle at Hannibal, and
lengthening the line to a considerable ex-
tent; all, to accommodate the city Of Han
nibai, at the expense of her ~neighbors.-
Are the good people upon this line prepar-
ed to sacrifice their rights to all conven-
fence, for the accommodation Of Hannibal,
that has already nearly double the advanta-
ges Of any town upon this line?-if SO, let
them fold their arms, or petition with Han
nibal for all their mails to be carried their
if not, let them see to their interests at
once, before they are left entirely destitute
Of intercourse with their neighboIs.
IL, The last number of the Mo. Demo
erat published at Fayette, Howard Co., con-
tsins an address to the Democracy of the
State, published over the signature of the
members Of the committee that drafted the
resolutions for their recent county meeting;L,
which we would publish this week but for
want of space. In their address, they hurl
back the Islander upon its perpetrators, that
had gone abroad, that the Democracy Of
I'D Howard had repudiated the National
and State administrations, together with
he Hon. C. F. Jackson of their county,.
These reports were circulated in the alb
'ence of a long string of resolutions ap-
the. administrations and our lead
ng men. As n of our contemporaries
avs, with the same reasoning, they repudi-
ted the sun and moon by not passing reso-
ution ~aPPlsuding them for the light they
i've US. III
TEMPERANCE ONWARD. Ii