Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-11-25
Another Mail Failure.

That bungling, ill-concerted, monopolising,
inefficient, snail gated concern called the United
States Mail, again failed on Tuesday, bringing
through but few struggling country exchanges
which had been left behind on previous occa-
sion, by the carelesness of assistant Post Masters
containing important intelligence s'r soeeks old!
No other class Of community are more seriously
Inconvenience by the Irregularities Of the mail
service than editors-more especially country
editors, whose dependence is almost solely placed
on the scissors. It is task of no ordinary
nature to get upa good paper when we have
but two or three exchanges from which to make
selections especially, If an editor is at all fast
idious in his selections and wishes to please or
cater to the taste of his readers. Our. embar-
rassment during the present week can better be
imagined than told; an if our paper is void Of
its usual variety and interest our readers will
have the charity to make due allowance under
the circumstances.
Z "Penny wise and pound foolish" has been
the governing axiom, that has Influenced the Post
Office Department, almost from its organization
down to the present time. In the bestowal of
its patronage it has ever acted from view to
economist dollars and cents, and not for the
accommodation of the public, invariably giving
preference to cheapness, without rule, to speed
and ularity-making it imperative on the
business portion Of community to patronize al
most exclusively private carriers and express
agencies to the detriment of the Department
saving at the spiles and losing at the bung. The
present mail route to Thibodaux from New Or
leans and all the Atlantic, Northern and Eastern
States, is via the Mississippi, Denaldsonville,
Paincourtyille, and Napoleonville one hundred
and fifteen miles, trii44weekly, occupying two
days to perform the route.a In foggy weather
we have as many failures as regular mails; and
frequently, during the epidemic Of ''53, we were
from eight to ten days without receiving mail
at all. sta,! ton, .a.3 s,'.3s= -j9 ssatr 'c :
It is o very natural conclusion to be arrived
Iat, then, that the community cannot place much
reliance on the mail service, and are compelled
to avail themselves of other and more certain
means Of conveyance. Since the opening Of the
Opelousas Railroad our citizens as well as the
inhabitants Of this whole section of the State,
have availed themselves of it's advantages for
communicating with their merchants and friends,
thereby directly Withdrawing considerably from
the revenue which would be derived by govern
ment were mail route established on the line
of the railroad, which could be effected at
trifing expense over and above the receipts that
would ensue to the department from increase
in postage. This route might and should be
made the principal mail route for the Attakapas
and Red River country, asst would be far better
and more expeditions than the present one via
the Mississippi, to Donaldsonville and Napoleon
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This subject well merits the attention of our
Senators and Representatives in Congress; and
we trust that so soon as that body shall have
assembled to see some steps taken in its regard;
for, certainly, in no manner could they, 1.-THE
Louisiana delegation better occupy their time
for the interest Of their constituents than in
establishing q. s. Mail Route, via the New Or
leans .Opelousas and Great Western Railroad.
Will not the able representative from this. dis
trict, Hon. T. G. HuNr, give this subject his
earliest attention ta