The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-01-06


his neglect Nor the Postmaster General be held &C
countable for the mud, storms and floods which
obstruct contractors the performance of their aduous
duties Certificates to the department to these
obstacles are generally OF the ampes nature. II these
certificates be contradced by responsible and respec
table authority and an eiectual and suitable remedy sug
gested, do doubt its immediate application by the
Postmaster General.
We have been furnished by the Post Office Department
with a comparative statement of the schedule time OF
running the great northern and southern mails by the
Chesapeake bay and James river route and by the
Potomac steamboat and Richmond railroad prior to the
10th December last
Up to the 10th December last, the mail from north
to south went as follows: It left New York at Al, D.
m.-we will say on Monday, for instance--reached
Washington by 81 Tuesday morning, Richmond in the
ng and Charleston by ia Thursday forenoon. 1t
then went over the Richmond railroad.
Now it leaves New York at o in the mornng-say
Monday Baltimore same night, Petersburg
Tuesday night, Weldon Wednesday morning and
Charleston Thursday forenoon at liz O'Clock. The
time is the same, excepting the mail has to leave New
York in the morning instead OF the afternoon But OBJ
serve it cannot start otherwise in the wnter-and never
more Railroad Company to train from Philadelphia
at 10 o'clock at night during the winter months
The difference respect to the great mail going north
is, that by the Richmond route the mail reached Ba-
more at night and went through to New York the next
day by about O'Clock in the afternoon By the Ches-
apeake bay route reaches Baltimore till next
ing o'clock, and gets through to New York by 10
o'clock, p. m, instead Of o'clock of same day.
Tho mail M longer uono IN Charleston than
last winter excepting that practically it may be few
hours later in getting Charleston and in going north,
it is about nine hours later in reaching New York.
This statement does not, of course embrace the mail
to and from Richmond, which has one to blame for
the great disadvantage which it is put by the
rangement, but its Railroad Company; that refuses
in any form to furnish it with mail facilities, but upon
terms that the officers of the government charged with
that business conscentiousy believe to be in violation of
law Is it not rational and just that the company
should abate its price, than that the officer to main
tain the law should violate it,
We have omitted to state that on the 22d instant the
whig members of the legislature of Virginia met in eau
GUS and brought forward Gen. Taylor their candidate
for the presidency But the game will not do. Virginia
stands, like "Mount Atlas, unmoved" The object of
the wings is clearly this they calculate upon carrying
all the wings for Gen Taylor and catching demo-
cratic votes besides-'spreading their nets Gas they
formerly did, and rebuked by Mr.. Willoughby
Newton) for birds Of every feather" But the Richmond
Wing (who is much 10th to abandon Mr.. Clay than
some of his frens) tells them fatty that this game will
not do in Virginia tells them boldly, and it tells them
truth. 1t says:
'The strength of the administration party will not be
terally diminished except in few small localities by
Gen. Tayors nomination and they who upon large
ranks of his supporters from that party
nanifesly reckon without their host Let each man ask
himself chere is the ocooco upon whose for Gen.
Taylor certainly relyp Here and there, such
lpis may be found but it is deluson suppose that
look for the transfer of of votes, all
any the States, from the ocooco the wing poll, by
the magic of Gen. Taylor's name"
Are the calculating wings yet to know of what stern
stuff the Spartan democracy Of the Old Dominion is made
One thing we can undertake saytha however highly
they may estimate and respect any citizen, they will go
for no man who is not known to them to be democrat
in his principles.
The raising of ten regular regiments earnestly
pressed by the Secretary of War We happy to state
that the bill was up in the Senate Wednesday and, af
ter an unavang attempt the part of Mr. Crttenden to
substitute 10000 volunteers instead Of the ten regiments
Secretary it was ordered to be engrossed An idea
thrown out the opposition side of the Senate, that
they wished to debate it. And accordingly the debate
ran on it to-day The new senator from New Hamp-
shire (NIr John p Hae) took the field against the
and the administration, and the country Mr.. Reverdy
Ichneo, he tho Aoor for Mondav. and xybiy he