The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-30
DUFF GREEN, Rem. Il. GREEN,

.HffOT1ifgS al I-d1C, " dsHinSLOn Cuy, ~. T..
nRACTlCE in the Supreme Court of
United States, ana in the Courts of thSlDa
trct of Columbia ana attend promptly to all
claims against the United States, or Foreign Gov
ernments
Sir :-Afler 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 Railroad statistics and
such other information as 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
Ronds. They also propose, especially, to urge
upon Congress modihcatIon OF the laws relat-
ing to contracts for carrying the mail, so to
thorze the Post Office Department to contract fo'
the perpetual use of Rail. Roads, and instead e
paying, as now, quarterly on contracts for fOul
years, to advance in five per cent. bonds Of the
United States, chargeabIe upon the revenues Of
the Post Office Departmental amount, the int
rest upon which ut q per cent would equal II 2
payments now made.
The government now pays $500 per mile fer
carving the mail on first class Rail Roads. This
is 6 per cent. on $1,000. The undersg ned would
urge that instead of paying $500 a mile, per an
nun, the Department should deliver, on acontract
perpetuity five 81 900 bonds, bearing an inte
rest Of five per centum At this rate the charge
upon the Department would he reduced from $500
to $3.50 n mile, per nnnum, and the $50 per mile
saved would create sinking fund which will, in u
fewyears pay oiithe Bonds, and give the use ofnuch
roads forever thereafter free of all charge there
by edecing n vast saving the present annual
expenditures of the Pc Office Department, and
a consequent reduction of the rates of postage.
The elect will be no less advantageous to Rail
Road Companies than to the government. For
instance, such a contract would give to the Balu-
more and Ohio Railroad Company more than
81, 600 900, which would enable that complete its
road at an early day, and greatly increase its bust
mes, 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 "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 ofbringing the
subject before Congress.
Should it be your pleasure to accept OF our
services in this matter, will promptly attend
to all other business, which you, or your Com
pany, NAV 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 obi serv is.
DUFF GREEN,
REM T. GREEN,