The southern press., 1852-01-08
DUFF GREEN, BEN. E. GREEN,

attorneys at La,o, Washington City, ID. C..
nRACTICE in the Supreme Court of the
Il United States, and in the Courts Of the Dis
trlct of Columbia and attend promptly to all
claims against the United States, or Foreign Gov
ernments.
WAsHlNGToN, .4ugust |, 1851.
SIR AFTER 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 aud authentic Rail Road statistics and
such other information az will enable them to serve
peraons desiring to invest in Rail Road securities,
to procure information ofuny matters connected
with the construction and administration of Rail-
Roads. They also propose, especially, to urge
upon Congress modification Of the laws reIat-
ing to contracts for carrying the mall so as to au-
thorze the Post Office Department to contract for
the perpetual use of Rail. Roads, and instead of
paying, 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 Department,nn amount, the inte-
rest upon which at per cent. would equal the
payments now made.
The government now pays 5000 per mile for
carrying the mail on first class aIl-Roads. This
is 6 per cent. on $4,000. The undersigned would
urge that, instead of paying $500 mile, per
mum, the Department shOuId deliver, on acOntract
n perpetuty, five 900 bonds beuring 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 annum, and the $50 per mile
saved would create sinkingsfund which will in a
fewyears pay oiihe Bonds and give theuse ofsuch
roads forever thereafter, free Of all charge there
by etfectng vast saving on the present annual
expenditures of the Po Office Department, and
u 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 Bati-
more and Ohio Railroad Company more than
$1,000 900, which would enable that complete its
road at an early day, and greatly increase its bus
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 of
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 of Infringing the
subject before Congress.
Should it 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
venience, we are, respectfully, your obi is.
DUFF GREEN,
BEN E. GREEN,