Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-07-13
TO THE PuBLIc..


The Post Master General says, - For more than
eight years the Schedule on the Raleigh and Castor
ROAD involved night service. and no change was APP
piled for until December 1851" 1T so, why did not
the Department allow the Road $l25 per mile under
sec. ~, act of 1S45l Iun1erstand no such allow
ance was ever made until January last. II is oh
servable that the Schedule set forth involved night
service except leaving CASTOR at 3 A. M. But
existed then for the Department require it,
and the Road TO submit TO it, which does not exist
now. There was but one train on the New Orleans
route, which passed w edon in the night, and though
the Company undoubtedly felt il seri ,us draw
back their prosperity, there alternative 1t
was obliged to in the night to get mail pass
engers. The double daily trains first commenced
running on LIST March, 1852, and We find the Com
paDy making immediate application (iu May) tc be
permitted 10 run in connection with the Express,
which is the day train. The Department made no
objection then, and trains going North continued
with the Express until 29h January, 1853.
1t IS true that during most of that time the trains
coming South connected with the Mail proper. But
If the organization of the Express line admits OF
conneXion in direction what conceivable reason
can be given why il should not in the otherl
IteTae the assertion that since there has been day
and night train the New Orleans route there
has not been time at which this Company did not
connect In one direction the otheT-Sometimes in
both drections-with the day train, until January
last. respectfully submit that when the attempts
made to throw dscredit upon my iniimation of that
fact in my statement Of god June, the Post Master
General ought to have produced from the Fl les of his
Department the Schedule that dispr0ved it. ! have
made dligent inquiry and cannot learn that my
ment is in any respect incorrect.
1t is alleged that by connecting with the Express
the mail is delayed a certain number Of hours. An
assertion from such quarter is entitled 10 and will
be allowed great weight. 1t ought therefore, have
been explained how and where any delay posi-
bly, occur. The Express is continuous line from
New York to w eldon. Ii leaves New York II hours
after the Mail, and reaches Weldon about ID hours
after it, which proves it be faster line 1t may
be assumed then that delay occurs after it starts
N0FE oil
leaving New York after the Mail proper. If it can,
with any correctness, be said that the Mail which
left Raleigh this morning has been DELAYED because
CID not leave yesterday morning, or because it will
not reach its destination, that which left
yesterday morning. then may with precisely the
same correctness, and more, say that the mail is
delayed by our connecting with the Express. If it
reaches Raleigh later, it brings mail later bv the
same number of hours
MIR. Branch is much mistaken in the statement
that " the road from Savannah Macon and that from
Macon TO Atlanta, in Georgia, CARRYING NOTHING
BUT WAY MAIL and number of other roads, - gets
$l75 per mile.
That is the pay the Savannah and Macon road,
for two daily trains, but they convey mails for five
connecting R0iroads, viz: Waynesboro,' Milledge-
vile, Macon, Western, Muscouee, and Sonth Wes-
tern Road, supplying Southern Georgia, and parts
OF Florida and Alabama. Also for daily line of steam.
ers between Savannah and Charleston.''
My statement was made t he authority Of an Of
fetal Document. the Report of the Post Master Gen
fore me and quote from table headed, Rail Road
Service, Isl October, 1851:
" Savannah to Macon, 1872 miles, ii trips
per week, $33 600
week, $780,"
From the same report ind that not one of the five
Railroads was then carrying any mail. Il believe
they were not then in operaton.l The fact Of car
ryIng mails tor five connecting Railroads may be
and think is good ground for allowing larger nav
sufficiently PynIaInS ic oil
n0IO but why was $l75 allowed them in 1851, before
either of the five connecting Railroads in exist
ence! we have four connecting Railroads in full
operation and bringing US and receiving from us
large mails. and will soon have the Central and
Charlotte besides. If four connecting Railroads are
recognized as sufficient reason for allowing SITS in
Georgia, we ought to be entitled to il also.
Il is said "what other roads Mr.. Branch refers 10
cannot be coniectnred." BY reference to the same
table in The Post Master Generals Report to Congress
find eighteen Railroad Companies receiving more
than $40 and less than 1921 per mile The list is
too long to be given here. but il may be found in
g Annual Message and accompanying Documents
1872 Part2," PIP. Observation-Disclosures quote
from the Report OF that Year because have not copy
OF any later report. The law has not been changed
since then.
In paying the Seaboard and Roanoke Road 500
per mile, because Portsmouth and n orfok are de-
pendent on that road for the Southern mails, and it
Is also road which in of any difficulty on the
present great route between Washington and TEL
don, may be used as has been dcne heretofore for
carrying the great Northern and Southern MALL the
Department undoubtedly acts with commendabie pru-
dence and foresight. What want is that they shall
keep us in good condition, well paid and well treat
ed, to be used in like in case of Difficult.
ty" with our friends OF the Wilmington and Central
Roads, fr carrying the great Northern and South
ern mails" Having been lawyer once, am partial
to retailers. But seriously, il that the South
mail for Norfolk and Portsmouth is regarded as
very important mall as 800 per mile is paid for
carrying it, Is the Post Master General prepared to
admit that he is permitting mail of so much i'm
portance to be delayed? OF course not. 1t the Sea-
board company can get SO important mail from the
Express at Weldon, why cannot we do the same
miDgton and Charlesto make the connection at Will
ton from A. M. or P. NJ, to wait for the mail
train, though in the main time the Express has left
them. When it reaches Goldsborough it stops again
to wait for the sage, which runs in connexon with
the Express. / state this the authority of an
article which lately appeared in GoIdsboro' paper
cannot vouch for the of il. But if il is
true, it is obvious that can, by connecting with
the Express, deliver that mail in Raleigh "a hours
earlier than it reaches here now.
sit has not been supposed that the stages for the
West could he made to leave Raleigh before the ar
rival of the cars" Then why take the mail from
US? When the cars do arrive, they could if the De-
partment would permit it, bring mail which left
New York seventeen hours after the mail which the
stage brought; and if their mail which left New
ork seventeen hours ahead of US, cannot leave Ra.
leigh until arrive, it is clear that instead ofbein0
expedited, the mail is retarded hours by
the stage arrangement Our local mail would not as
understand il, be in different situation excent