The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-03

.iiorneys al Lao, Washington City, ID. C..
DRACIlCE IN the Supreme Court of the
II United States, and IN the Courts of the Dis
trict OF Columbia and attend promptly to all
clalmE against the United States, or Foreign Gov
ernments.
WAsHiNoroK, August /, 1851.
SIR AFTER consulting many persons interested in
the principal Railroads in the United States, the
undersigned propose to establish agencies in this
city and In New York, for the purpose of collect
ing full and authentic Railroad statistics aud
such other information will enable them TO serve
persons desiring to invest in Rail Road securities,
or TO procure information ofany matters connected
win the construction and administration of Rail-
ROADS. Ihey also PROPOSE especially, to urge
upon Congress modification of the laws relat-
ing to contracts for carrying the mail so as TO au-
thorize the Post Office Department to contract for
the perpetual use Of Rail Roads, and, instead Of
paying, as now, quarterly on contracts for four
years, to advance in FIVE per cent. bonds of the
United States, chargeable upon the revenues of
the rost oihce Department,an amount, the ipte-
rest upon which at per cent would equal the
payments now made.
The government now pays $500 per mile for
carrying the mail on first class Rail K Dads This
ID 6 per cent. on $4,000. The undersigned would
urge that, instead Of paying $500 mile, per an
mum, the Department should deliver, on acontract
IN perpetuity, five 81 900 bonds bearing an inte-
rest OF live per centum. AT this rate the charge
upon the Department would be reduced from 1900
to S25O mile, per annum, and the $50 per mile
saved would create sinking fund which will, in a
fewyears, pay oithe Bonds, and give the use fsuch
roads forever thereafter, free Of all charge there
ny effecting vast saving on the present annual
expenditures of the Pc Office Department, and
u consequent reduction of the rates Of postage
The effect will be no less advanta geous TO Rail
Road Companies than to the government For
instance such contract would give to the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company more than
81, 900 600, which would enable that complee it's
road at an early day, and greatly increase its bust
ness and profits.
But TO meet objections and impress the public
mind with proper sense of the benefits to result
from this measure will require concert CT action
and continued active effort through the press md
otherwise. The undersigned tender their services
to your Company, expecting a reasonable COM
pensalon, partly contingent upon the success OF
the measure and respectfully suggest the pro-
pretty of your sending or more delegates to
This city, on the first Wednesday in December
next, to confer with delegates from other Rail
Road Companies, as to the details of the propos-
ed arrangement and the best mode ofbrngng the
subject before Congress-
Should 1t DO your pleasure to accept Of our
services in this matter, we will promptly attend
to all other business, which you, or your Com
pany, may have with the Post Office Department,
or other branch Of the government.
Hoping to hear from you at your earliest con-
venlence, we are, respectfully, your obi serv It's.
DUFF GREEN,
BEN. E. GREEN,
Noy