Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-06-25

the local mails, involving reduction Of The pay 10
$50 per mile. Please to state whether or not you
would assent TO such an arrangement
This letter was Immediately laid before The Board /
of Directors, and it was unanimously Ordered. s
That from and after 18th June. the passenger train
be run in connection with the Express train, at We
don and tie night train discontinued that the Pres
ident notify the Postmaster General acc ordngly."
On the 3lst May; wrote to the Department. as
follows: Yours OF Oath May was duly received, !
and has been placed before the Boar of Directors
of the Company. enclose certified copy of their ,
action on the subject. am also instructed by the
Board of Directors 10 say, that are still willing,
have always been, to take the entire mail, in
connection with the Express, for 500 per rnIe but
not willing to have the responsibility and
trouble OF any portion of it for less than that
also advised by the BoaTdto withdraw The 7ropo-
sal contained in mine Of 18th instant-to run two
trains per day for SSI75-w hich hereby do. In co-
sing connection with the Department, may be
perm tied ~ express The pleasure it has given the
Board to learn, they do from yours of 10Th, that
by the of Stages the Department can deliver to
the citizens of this community their letters and pa
peTs l6 perhaps II, hours earlier than by bringing
the mail over this Railroad As the public conVe-
nience will be promoted by ii, feel The less hesi
tation in pursuing the course which own interest
clearly demands of US.
To this letter no reply has been received. but the
Postmaster of this city has advertised for Proposals
for conveying the mail in stages, from Wilson 10
10 Raleigh, and from CASTOR to Raleigh.
1t will be observed that we are not demanding any
unreasonable compensation. We offer to relinqdsh
accept
lowest paid to any railroad company for carrying
la through mail. On the first class routes, $237
per mile is paid for single daily mail, though the
inferior class furnsh-we required to do so-a
car for the exclusive of the Department, which
makes the expense great to them the first cass
companies and yet the pay is limited to 800 per
mile. Why such large difference in pay for so
nearly equal and similar services! l never heard
any other reason for it except that the companies
of the inferior classes not expected TO sacrifice
SO much to. the hours of running. have heard
it said that the real motive for putting two trains
the New Orleans route to accommodate those
companies whom it devolved to run in the hight.
If they, with the advantage of the joint line OF
| through travel, and $237 per mile mail pay, could
afford 20 exclusively in the night, nor TO put
the extra train at her own expense, how can 1t be
expected of us, who dependent on our home bus
mess, 10 run from P. Nj. 10 a. NJ, Tor 1925 per
mile |, Of course, speak by no good authority as
: TO the motive for putting the Express. But GER
tain it is that it is of value toENorih Carolina,
aud ought 10 be paid for of the common treas
ury, il North Carolina is 10 be entirely excluded from
lhfr ask 9h1y orrrer, arz rrrarru.
have already stated that the Georgia Roads get 81 IS
for carylng nothing but local mails whilst the same
pay is refused 10 US for carrying Of the greateat
ot-sh cots of the New Orleans line. But nv limited
ledge of these affairs furnish another still
more in point. The Seaboa!d and Roanoke company
carries nothing but a tc0y mail That Company
1ects nriih tie Erpress precisely in tie .Uay and
at the same point (IPeLdOn) that zoe Oish 10 connect
| with ii.
with the Express, why is it not equally admissible
for US II our ceasing TO be servceabIe except
carry local mails, involves reduction of our pay to
$50 per -e, why does it not have the same unhap-
Ply effect on that company Is it because in
North Carroll ma and they not! Or is il because
they have the spirit to resist and it supposed
had not?
The reason, at one time given, for not permitting
US TO connect with the Express was, that il did
run on Sunday. The objection has no validity, and
believe, has been abandoned by the Department,
though some persons may yet suppose ii good one.
The the Seaboard road every day in the
week, and Sunday trip, we would get the
mail brought by that road and ais the mail brought
to Weldon by the mail trains from Peterburg and
Wilmington, Saturday night. AS the Bay boats do
not run Sunday night, we would get nothing north
of Norfolk, in our trip of Monday, but we would get
from Petersburg and Whining On the other hand
If we run in connection with the mail train, bring
blank mail Monday night, il being the mail which
left New York at O'Clock Sunday evening, day
on which letters and papers not prepared for the
mail.
Another objection is that it DELAYS the mail. Our
people never made that discovery, and it does not
seem to have been suspected until last November.
The discovery was made in the West, and the first
inimatlon received in this region, that dissatisfaction
existed ywheTe was the order from the DEPARTMENT
10 change schedule. would not Inconvenience
our westernn friends, many of whom patronize our
road, (and all ofthem ought to do SOY nor would
presume to Judge hat is convenient for them. They
know best Let the mail that is 90 west of Raj
eigh be brought in stages from Wilson, by which
the Department says it can be expedited i6 or II
hours If that should unfortunately prove be mis-
take, they shall not suffer much. l will occasionally
send them the late papers in gig boxes, and the
pockets of travellers provided they will engage to
save me from the clutches of the Marshall and Dis
trct Attorney
Leave only way mail between Weldon and
Raleigh The people here and all along the road say
they wish onr to run in the day time, delay or
no delay. | have yet the first man who does
not say SO. We will, then, carry the same kind of l.
mail that the Seaboard company does; only much I
of it, and all ask is the pay of the Seaboerd
company.
The alleged delay consists in this that the Ex-
press leaves at A. M, the mail proper at P. NJ
If admit that all the letters of importance are writ
ten and deposited in the Post. Offs before P. NJ,
it may be true, with reference The New York mail,
that to connect with the Express, by which let
tiers could not leave until next morning, would delay
there arrival here twelve hours. But, as we proceed
South, the order is reversed. For instance, the Ex-
press leaves Baltimore at P. NJ, and Washington
at P NJ, whilst the mail proper passes those cities
between midnight and day break so that, in refer
ence to the Northern Mail, the stands thus If
the reasoning of the PostOice Department is worth
any thing, with reference the New York city letter
mail, the mail would be the better connection but,
with reference to all the balance of the mall incud-
ing that from Baltimore, to whose papers we look
for current news, and that from Washington ci-
ty, for which ninetenths of citizens look with
most eagerness, the Express is the better connection.
So much for the Northern mail. How is is with the
Southern mail! Our people have large amount of
Pita invested in cotton growing, the South, and