The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-21
DUFF GREEN, BEN. Z. GREEN,
attorneys at Lao, Washington City, q


nRACTICE in the Supreme Court Of +,
IL United States, ana in the Courts of the Dis
trict Of Columbia anu attend promptly to all
claims against the United States, or Foreign Gov
ernments.
WARRINGTON, .4ugust !, 1851.
Sin latter consulting many persons interested in
the principal Rail Roads 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 Rail Road statistics and
such otherinformation as will enable them to
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 modification of the laws relat-
ing to contracts for carrying the mail, so to
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 Post Office Depurtment,nn amount, the inte-
rest upon which at per cent. would equal tt
payments now made
The government now pays $500 per mile for
carrying the mail on first class Railroads. This
is 6 per cent. on $5, 900. The undersigned would
urge that, instead Of paying $500 mile, per an
mum, the Department should deliver, on acontract
n perpetuity, five 81 600 bonds, bearing an inte
rest Of five per centum. At this rate the charge
upon the Department would be reduced from $500
to S25O mile, per annum, and the $50 per mile
saved would create sinking fund which will, in
fewyears pay ofthe Bonds and give the use ofsuch
roads forever thereafter, free Of all charge there
by efecting vast saving on the present annual
expenditures of the Pot Office Department and
a 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 contract would give to the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company more than
s., 900 900, which would enable that complete its
road a, early day, and greatly increase its BUSH
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 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 or
the measure and respectfully suggest the pro-
priety of your sending one or more delegates to
this CITY, on the first Wedensday in December
next, to confer with delegates from other Rail-
Road Companies, to the details Of the propos-
ed arrangement and the best mode ofbringing the
subject before Congress-.
Should it be 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-
venence, we are, respectfully, your ob't serv'ts.
DUFF GREEN,
BEN. f. GREEN,