Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-07-24
COMM u NICATION
For the Times.

Mr.. EDITOR Not long since memorial
signed by many Of our most respectable
citizens, and influential men of both polii-
cal parties, praying that mail route be es-
'ablished between Glymont, or Marbury's
Wharf, and Port Tobacco, was filed in the
Post Office Department at Washington
This proposition having failed, my object
is To learn the cause Of its failure. The pc
tition was signed by large number, and
the plan proposed, perfectly reasonable.
Tha. such route is much desired by the
people Of Charles county is evident from
The signatures found on that memorial
That such a route would be Of great advan-
isge TO us, few are willing to doubt. TITS
needed for various reasons. Take for ex-
ample an individual in Port Tobacco who
wishes to communicate with another in ely
mont. According to the present arrangement
his letter must pass by stage to Washington,
and thence by steamboat to Glymont, route
Of sixty miles, requiring two days for its
conveyance, while the actual distance from
Port Tobacco is only ten or twelve miles,
and should require bu, 1-2 or 2 hours. A.
gain, by the establishment Of this ronte our
letter mail from Washington to Port Tobac-
co would reach US in four hours from Wash
ingion. BY the present arrangement letter
20 arrive at Port Tobacco on Monday even
ing, mus. be placed in the Washington Post
Office on Sunday night. Whereas, by the
Glymont route, letter mailed in Washing
ton by O'Clock, A. NJ, or Baltimore at 5,
M, would arrive at Port Tobacco by or
9, P. NJ, of the same day. The morning
papers Of Baltimore, Washington and Alex
andria, would arrive at Port Tobacco by l
or 9. P. NJ, so also the evening before papers
of Philadelphia and New York. Thus
throwing usin such close connection with
those cities that nothing save the telegraph
wires would be needed to complete The con-
nexion. These, sir, are plain facts, and every
man, the farmer, the mechanic, the merchant,
indeed alImus see at glance,h importance
of such route to their own business. And
yet, Mr. Editor, we learn that this motion
meets with opposition in Old Charles, not
wilhstandng the glaring inducements which
it holds on, for its establishment. And
upon wha. grounds this opposition We
canno, tell. Can it be that they fear to
risk their mails upon the waters lest the
boats fail to connect? If so, might we not
with equal propriety objec, to any route
lest the means fail This then cannot be
the reason, for some Of our larges, mails are
carried by water conveyance, and that with
safety and regularity. 1t may be tina, they
object on account Of the ice during winter
In this we must refer them TO wharves at
every point where the mails are carried by
water. Is our mail any more liable to fail
on account Of the ice al Glymont, than the
great Southern mail, on accoun, of the same
impeachment at Washington, Alexandra or
WIha. ba,aslt4l. il ), " asarng,dk and
Alexandra. And might no, the same OBJ
jec,ions be raised against the land route from
Washington TO Port Tobacco {? Nigh, not
the ice and snow on this route prevent the
passage Of the stage. This then cannot be
the reason. Where then shall we look for
the reason In point Of safety and regu-
lari.y the Glymont route stands on equal
footing with the land route, and in poin,
ofspeed it is far superior. Where then the
reason Of i!s failure We see none, but per-
haps some Of your many readers can give
us the desired information, which would
greatly obige US, as to gain information on
this point is the sole object Of
Your obedienl servant, F.
July 4, 1850.