Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-08-11
The Mail Agents.

Mr. Tenhet, one of The mail agents on the Will
mngton and Manchester Railroad informs us mat we
have unwittingly done the distributing agents on
that road some injustice in our remarks few days
since
The onlv bags made up for Columbia direct are al
New York and Washington. The Baltimore and
Richmond papers mailed at the distributing ONCE
in Richmond and put in the Charleston bags, which
the route mail agents do not open. 1t is astonishing
that the postmaster al Richmond should not know
thai the mails for the upper districts OF this state
should be put in mail bag for Columbia CharieS-
ton is now about the last post office served from the
South Carolina Railroad, and mail matter directed
there destined for the upcounty, IS detained OF lis
route twenty-four hours.
The only remedy for the matter that we can see IS
to make Wilmington distributing office. We com
mend the matter to the attention OF the department.
Columbia South CGrotanaan.
There are more complaints in South Carolina than
nerbans anv other State in the Union in regard to
the Mails From what can learn, this Is not with
out Just cause. When the line boats ran from this
place, Charleston the first office IN that ota'e
which received the Mails, and all letters &c could
be forwarded through that Office. Charleston IS now
about the last office furnished the line OF the great
Mail in South Carolina. Yet many of the Northern
Postmasters are ignorant of the geography OF the
Southern States that they continue to send their Mail
mington & Manchester Railroad are blamed for the
whole difficulty when it is entirely beyond their con-
troll The press in South Carolina have abused them
long enough and notwithstanding attention has been
called 10 the subject, they continue their abuse AS
an evidence of the difficulty under which the Mall
arrangements now rest, Marion c. H., which Is
about the first office in South Carolina reached by
the Wilmington & Manchester Railroad, receives the
bulk of the matter due it from the North by the way
of Charleston and yet it is about two hundred miles
North of Charleston here is detention OF about
48 hours Again: Columbia, which is but twenty
FIVE miles from the termination OF the Manchester
Road and receives Mail direct from the gents dali
w. is forced to wait for the larger portion of its Mail
until that Mail returns from Charleston, notwith-
standing Columbia furnishes at least thirty offices
where Charleston furnishes
GREAT FIRE IN New ORLEANs.-A fire broke out
about noon on the 5th inst, in Tchouptoulas street.
New Orleans and extended rapidly through Foucher,
Lafayette and Magazine streets Large quantities
of Naval Stores and Provisions were destroyed
Messrs Converse & Co, w. S. Wright and E. J.
Hart, the prime pal sufferers. These firms were
mostly insured The loss is estimated at one million
of dollars, doubtless an over-estimate.
gsz- Francis Burt of South Carolina, has been ap-
pointed Governor of Nebraska Territory, vice VIM.
O. Butler declined.
John H. Wheeler, of North Carolina, has been ap-
pointed Minister resident of the United States at Nj
caragua.
Mr. Whitaker has laid our table Our Honey
moon, and other comicalihes from Punch,' illustra
ted by Jno. McLenan, 1t makes handsome volume
of 572 pages, and is beyond doubt capital food fol-
| laughter.