The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-09
From the Anderson Is. C) Southern Rights Democrat
THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT AND SOUTH CAR
OLINA RAILROAD COMPANY

OLINA RAILROAD COMPANY.
The probability is that be Off from all com
munication with the North by the refusal the part of
the South Carolina Railroad Company transport the
mails for the price that is being paid to other rail-
roads for the service with whom the present Posma
General has made We believe from our un
derstandng of the dispute between the company and de-
partment that the department is right and the company
wrong The revenue it will be remembered accruing from
mail matter in the United States fell far short at the end
OF the last fiscal year. of meeting the expenses of the de-
partment II behooves Mr. Campbell, the Postmaster Cen
era therefore have this service performed at as low
rates possible He has offered the South Carolina Com
pany fourteen dollars per mile than he is paying
other roads of the class and for the service
As compensation for carrying the mails from Kings
vile to Augusta In other words, he has refused to
give other roads than S2s7 mile but quiet the
s. G. R. II. Company, and to keep down difficulty he is
offering them $3.50 mile from Kingsyile to Augusta for
scm-daiy service, and S00 mile from Branchyille to
Charleston All the roads south of Augusta are receiving
for the service which is required of the Carolina COM
pany only 237 so mile is true that the roads north of
Wilmington, North Carolina being paid $500 mile but
then will be remembered that these contracts were made
by the predecessor of Mr. Campbell who expresses his de-
termination pay only S237 80 mile the expiration of
the present contract The Postmaster General is right in
the quarrel with the S G. r. r. Company and If the cou
try should suffer from the suspension of the nails all the
blame will lie at The door of that monopoly Committees
have been appointed by Columbia and Charleston who will
be expected to visit Washington interccde with the Post
master General, and bring him to terms. We hope Mr.
Campbell will them with frmness and decision and
will suffer himself TO be swerved from what is right
and is plainly his duty in the premises He ought re-
fuse to comply with the exacpns Of this company, and
at advertise that proposals win be received for carry
ing the great southern mail by another route and then If
the country is to suffer- let the blame lie where properly
beongs--at the door of the $. @. r. r. Company
From the ~ o. Courier LIST instant
For time past the Postmaster General has been en-
deavorng arrange the schedules the route between
New York and New Orleans in such manner that there
should be gain of twelve hours commercial day,
over the time occupied in the transmission of the
mails between the two cities.
With commendabe disposition meet the wishes of the
Post Office Department and the interests of the cormer
cial world every railroad company, with one exception
between Washington city and Montgomery has met the
proposals of the Postmaster General in spirit Of ready
acquescencc and bcality On his part ample compensa-
ton has been rendered to all Of them for the proposed
vice The solitary exception is the part of the South
Carolina Railroad Company. who having cunnngIy pro-
raced negotiations up to the moment wnen they nad pea
completed the part of all The other parties interested
upon various prcexs and representations many of which
appear to frivolous and puerile, have at length
nounced that unless their demand for much larger
pensaon than that received by the companies the
ward and westward of their road for similar service
corded Them they Will on this day and hereafter refuse TO
carry the ieaiis At All
We have read the correspondence between the head OF
the Post Office Department and the president Of this
moran corporation and must candidy say, that TO
mind the company is wholly without justice or occasion
in its demands and that they engaged in scandaous
attempt to exor from the department unjust and most
exorbitan compensation for service which is performed
by others ut o much lower rate They evidently think
that their line Is the only link in the cham OF commun
cation necessary carry the views Of the department
they exact whatever exravagant charge they choose
to make Hitherto the Postmaster General has resisted
this outrageous demand and, although the public will
suffer very great inconvenience 10y his persistence in this
course, still we could hope he would remain firm.
The prospect of the stoppage of the daily mail has
ated much excitement in Charleston and Savannah as il
we'll might do. The effect of the SUSPENSION win be gn
more severely felt in this city Al Charleston It pro!
posed at last dates 10 depute committee from the
chants to wait the respective authorities and thus
try the threatened refusal the company to trans
port the mail Such will not probably be pro-
iuctive Of much good All will remember the obstinacy
with which certain other railroad gentlemen tried
tort from Mr.. Kendall, during the period he the
head of the General Post Office enormous and most ur
reasonable compensation for transporting the mails north
ward from Washington city we look for just such am
other game on the part OF the South Carona Railroad
Company. They confident that extravagant and out
rageous their demands may be- the department WILL
der the weight of the camor which will rise up from all
classes in short time after their mail facilities are
much curtaed be forced give what leeches demand
1t would be much better for the merchants Charleston