The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-03
DUFF GREEN. BEN. f. GREEN,

.TffOl7leUS al Lao, ~ GShtnEtOn Cuy, H. T..
nRACTlCE in the Supreme Court of
u United States, ana in the Courts of the Dis
trct of Coumbin; anu attend promptly to all
claims against the United States, or Foreign Gov
ernments.
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 Rail Road statistics and
such other information as will enable them to serve
persons desiring to invest in Rail Road 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, to au-
thorize the Post Office Department to COMPACT foI
the perpetual use of Rail Roads, and inhtrad e
paying, as now, quarterly on contracts for foul
wears, to advance IN five per cent. bonds of the
United States, chargeable upon the revenues Of
the Post Office Departmental amount, the int
rest upon which ut 6 per cent. would equal tt ;
payments now made
The government now pays $500 per mile for
carrying the mail on first class Rall-Roads. This
is 6 per cent on $4,000. The undersigned would
urge that, instead of paying $500 mile, per
mum, the Department should deliver, ON acontract
perpetuity, five III 900 bonds, bearing an int
rest Of five per centum. At this rate the charge
upon the Department would be reduced from $500
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 electing vast saving on the present annual
expenditures of the Pc 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 n contract would give to the Bati-
more and Ohio Railroad Company more than
AZ, 600 900, which would enable that complete its
road at early day, and greatly increase It's bust
ness and profits.
But to meet objections and impress the public
mind with a 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
pensaton, 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 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 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-
venience, we are, respectfully, your obi servts.
DUFF GREEN,
BEN f.. GREEN,