The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-04-04
MAIL DELAYS.

Most unfortunately for our neighbor Hol-
comb, the ungenerous projectors OF the Iele-
.,snb turned a cold shoulder on Brandon, for
Teasons best known to themselves. Since that
period, to speak of nothing previous, we have
t,npled the country with the latest adviceS,
s,r DAYS earlier than the Voice. This moving
circumstance seems TO have shaken up the
sn;een of our editor down 10 the lowest stra-
tum. But as he hardly knows upon whom to
vent his bile he strikes with an insane fury at
the mail proprietors, of the route through
Brandon, who expedited the news quite too
,ardily for his convenience.
We would be the last to Justify any avoida-
lie delay in the prompt transportation Of the
mails. But we know Of no class of men more
entitled to public sympathy for few weeks
rsst. than our mail contractors in this region.
Seldom, if ever has the mud been so deep or
the weather more unfayorable for travelling,
All seem to think that the very foundations Of
mud and mire are now more completely STIR
red up than for twenty years past. The stage
business has seldom, if ever, been better done
~, on the route from Rutland to Burlington,
,banunder the administration of Messrs. Cook,
Field & Co. Mr. Field is among the most
prompt and energetic business men in the coun-
try. He employs none as drivers but men of
approved characters and industrious and per-
covering habits. From what we have learned,
the proprietors, for three or four weeks past,
lave labored necessarily, night and day, TO
forward the mails seasonably. They have had
very few passengers, and although they have
never missed a trip, they have found it impos
sible to keep up regular hours.
But" says Mr.. Holcomb, - it would rather
% seem that the Post Master General should re-
:. nuire that the mails on as important route as
" that from Boston to Burlington, should be sent
on ,riio,a rafting FIR passengers, through deep
3. mud. and sirtccn miles to each trip Such
an insinuation rs this, to be honest, must have
come from a real John Donkey as to the stage
iar business. Every intelligent man well
knows thai Inc sum aliO"cU ny tic s-ohciH
nent FOR CARRYING the mail, is scarcely ade-
quste 70 one-tenth part Of the expense, if dis
connected with passengers. It IS not very
probable that the proprie;Ors obtain over six
or seven dollars trip for transporting the
l.;l from Bellows Falls to Burlington, while,
IS nearly as VIC can learn, from IS TO 100 hor-
rs are necessarily employed in doing the
l-:-ncss. The unmanly intimation Of Mir
Ilo,roinb that "die prop51eforS arc thus adu-
sag the p,sjlic because they trish to make their
..o,I tsons last til lie cars run from Bello,cs
Ii,1s to Burlington" is quite in keeping with
Tie rest of this maIignant attack which he has
made upon them.
We hope the time Is coming when orr neigh |
lor lTolcorlb in going in and out among his
f.lI5w citizens viii walk more uprightly ard |
mora r.-arltu! Of fairrcss than Lis unjust and |
unreasonable assaults upon the conduct and
nq.iyes Of The Stage owners Let~een Rutland
AMI Burlington would seem to imply.
~ John Jacob Aelor, ofNew York, died |
10 lat city on Tuesday last.