Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-04-21
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We understand thafnf the recent lettings
OF mail contracts, The Northern mail for
this place has been assigned to the Canal
route, instead oflhat TIA Charlottesville. In
tbs arrangement,the goodpeoplc ofLynch-
burg NH recognise the continued obscr-
vance OF that consistent and tender regard
Tor their interests and convenience. which
the Department has uniformly manifested
and which consists in an effort to cut of
Lynchburg from the nsual mail advantages,
and thus TO keep her citizens free from the
excitement resulting from suddenly dis
closed facts, by "brcakirg the news grad
ually." The Department adopts The pol
icy the old negro who broke his masters
cart and killed the oxen it will not en-
ter unto dc argumcn oh dc cart and oxuns
all at once" but gives us the news piece
meal. like the stones on Judith Dam very
naughtily left the place where the "dis-
tinguished Engineer" caused them to DO
deposited or it keeps back the news un-
I'll it becomes mcllowed By age and better
suited to digestion. Blythe Charlottesville
route we get the Richmond papers in &c.
hours after they are published and by
the present arrangement, in 36 hours by
the Canal route. This arrangement, how.
ever, will be improved after LIST July we.
shall then be able to keep OF the news IL
hours longer. as the Richmond papers will
then not be received here until as hours af
ter they are published. This is kind in the
Department and its contractors, and quite
eonsohng to our citizens.
The owners Of the Charlottesville linc
have been bringing us the mail for several
weeks past, free Of charge, simply to do.
monstratc the superiority Of their line over
the canal route; and for what reason tho
mail is to be taken of and kept back %
hours, we are utterly at a loss TO conjec.
ture. The Department, surely cannot IN
dcrstand the subject. We sometime ago
demonstrated the infinite superiority Of tho
Charlottesville route; but as the DEPART
ment has refused TO allow the mail to be-
brought that way, we respectfully suggest
to our merchants, business men and citi-
zcns generally that, efforts be made to con
clude an arrangement with the Charlottcs-
vile Company, BY which the mail matter
Tor Lynehburg may be brought that way.
at their own private cost, 1t is plain that
no mail accommodations can be expcc,cd
from the Post Office, SO far as Lynchburc
Is concerned, which has been prescribed
town ever since II was town; so that if we
arotohaveany mail advantage 1t all worthy
| TO be called such, we must look TO yyirate
ENTERPRISE to secure them. Wohopc our
citizens will look to the subject and sec if
some plan cannot be devised BY which our
mail accommodations may be increased.
Or at least prevented from becoming twice
as bad, even, as they now are.
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FLORIDA SrNAroR.--lt WINS SAID some.
'lmo ago by some Of the "agitatips Demo.
craft papers Of the South that, Mr.. Mallo.
ry' the newly elected Senator from Flori-
da, was so Simon Purish in his Dcmocra-
cy, 80 "agita'ing' in his Southernism, and
so snbhmaled IN political ethics and per-
sonol friendship for lis competitor, and 50
much opposed TO receiving "aid and com
Tort from wing votes that, he would NOT
accept the office to which be had boon
elected, over Mr. 1ulce. This was IN,
very height Of disintcrcstedness. the very
i'ncst specimen Of n generosity. at once
rare aud romantic. Before il was dcGni-
lively settled, however, what Mr.. Mallory
realty meant TO do, whether he nould suf.
fer his friend Mr.. Yulec, whose course tho
Southern Press said he fully endorsed, 10
be turned out Of the Senate, and that toobv
himself, Mr.. fulce presented petition 70
the Senate, claiming the acat to which il
was SAID Mr.. Mallory was elected. Staiph,-
way the love Of the friends began to wax
colder; Mr.. Msllory's romance, to give
place to the realities Of 50 per day and
mileage; until finally his conscientious
scruplcs about the propiicty Of accepting
an Office to which he had been elected bv
the aid of wing votes, yielded to sense Of
public duty; and he relieves an impatient
world BY announcing that he does accent.
but with many doubts as to his ability TO-
do justice to the exalted position. In these
doubts tho public heartily unite. Was
there ever more Disgusting case of pru.
dcryl
BEAUTIES OF THE HARMoNrrs.-It
seems that the nomination Of the Mr.. Be-
dingcr as the candidate Of the harmonious
Democracy IN the Jefferson District, gives
anything bnt satisfaction 10 those beauties.
The Winchester Virginian openly takes
ground against it and calls for another
Convention. Mr. Bcdinger, we believe is
both Senator-Masonic and CaIhounisI, in
his politics, with due share of "sullen &C.
quicsccncc, and considerable touch OF
the romantic; but this docs not suit the De-
mocracy Of lis District who appear to be
out and out "compromisers and submis-
sionists," and hence the call for another
convention. Soft is by no means certain
that, after all, Mr. Bedingcr's hopes may
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