The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-17
DUFF GREEN. BEN. E. GREEN,

Attorneys al La,c. Washington City, d. C.
DRACTICE in the Supreme Court of
II United States, ana in the Courts ofthe Dis
trict of Columbia anu attend promptly to al
| claims against the United States, or Foreign Gov
! ernments.
Sir ;-After consulting many persons interested il
the principal Railroads in the United States, tn.
undersigned propose to establish agencies in this
city and in New York, for the purpose of collect
| ing full and authentic Rail Road statistics and
such other information will enable them to serve
persons desiring to invest in Railroad securities
or to procure information ofany matters connected
with the construction and administration of Rail
Roads. They also propose, especially, to urge
upon Congress a modification of the laws relat.
ing to contracts for carrying the mail, so as to au
thorze the Post Office Department to contract 70,
the perpetual use Of Rail. Roads, and, instead q
paying, as now, quarterly on contracts for fou,
years, to advance in FIVE per cent. bonds of the
United States, chargeable upon the revenues Of
the Post Office Department, AN amount, the int.
rest upon which at per cent. would equal tt
payments now made.
The government now pays $500 per mile fer
carrying the mail on first class RAIL Roads. This
is 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
n perpetuity five 1000 bonds, bearing an inte
rest of five per centum. At this rate the charge
upon the Department would be reduced from $500
to $3.50 mile, per annurn, and the $50 per mile
saved would create sinking fund which will, in a
ewyears, pay ofthe Bonds, and give the use of such
roads forever thereafter free of all charge there
by effecting a vast saving on the present annual
expenditures of The Pc Office Department, and
consequent reduction of the rates OF postage
The effect will be no less advantageous to Rail
Road Companies than to the government. For
instance, such a contract would give to the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company more than
$4,000, 900, which would enable that complete its
road at early day, and greatly increase its BUSH
ness and pro6ts.
But to meet objections and impress the public
mind with proper sense of the benefits to result
from this measure will require concert Of action
and continued active effort, through the press and
otherwise. The undersigned tender their services
to your Company, expecting reasonable COM
pensation, partly contingent upon the success OF
the measure and respectfully suggest the pro-
priety of your sending one or more delegates to
this city, on the hrst Wednesday in December
next, to confer with delegates from other Rail-
Road Companies, to the details Of the propos-
ed arrangement and the best mode ofbringins the
subject before Congress.
Should it bs 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
venience, we are, respectfully, your obi serv't
DUFF GREEN.
BEN Z. GREEN