The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-05-19
ohio River Mails.

ohio River Malls.
The withdrawal of the Ohio river Steam
boat mail service, by the P. N. General, and
Withholding the usual and requisite mail fac
ilites from large portion Of the business
community. which had been long enjoyed, 10
again creating quite accusation in the public
mind. At the time the river mail was dis
continud, (although our City was among the
smallest sufferers, having railroad commune
cation with principal Northern and Eastern
points, we protested against such starving
economy as long 40 we thought goose-qull
thunder would do any good. We were in.
formed upon good authority, that p. N. Gen.
eral Campbell, was peculiar individual,''
aud very much disposed to have his own
way about the arrangement Of the mail SER
vice, whether 1t suited any body else or not.
The fact that the mail facilities which had
been enjoyed for many years on the Ohio
and Upper Mississippi, and had become .
part Of every business mans every day life,
should be 90 suddenly and unexpectedly
Withdrawn, and no substitute supplied, 10 q
remarkable illustration OF Mr.. CsmpbaIr .
reckless economy and frigid disregard Of .
great public interest. We observe that the
press have again taken up the subject, with
q determination to sec if any thing can be
done in the premises: The st. Louis Intel.
ligencer speaks to the people In the follow.
ing language:
We are astonished at the silence that has
90 long existed along the valley Of the Ohio
on the subject of the suspension Of the river
mail between Louisville and st. Louis. The
Ohio river is q vast artery Of commerce. 1t
10 the highway Of . nations travel. Proba-
bly, no river in the United States, except the
Hudson, bears annually upon its bosom q
greater number Of moving population. For
hundred miles north and south OF il men
come to it to embark upon voyages, and in
returning from distant trips they land at the
towns on its banks to seek their homes in the
interior.
The commerce that flows up and down on
its waters has to be loo ed after-ordered to
be shipped or to be withheld from shipping
it has to be seen about, inquired about. writ
ten about. And yet, extraordinary to say
this highway of nations moving population
and stream floating nations commerce is
totally devoid of any postal privileges, and
men and commerce are left 10 chance to be
written 10, written about, or heard FROM
Such an anomaly cannot be found, we dare
say, in any other civilized country in the
world.
1t is said the route did not pay. Didn't
pay, indeed! Does il not pay to facilitate
commerce and popular intercommunicatio
on the Ohio river! We have just had it an.
nouuced that the Illinois Central Railroad
Co. have received . contract Of $50 900 q
year to carry river mail between Cairo and
New Orleans. Will that pay2 What south
ern man-what man on the lowerM Mississippi
wishes to write to Cairo or to Chicago!
Is not this great Cairo and New Orleans
mail contract only scheme to bolster ur
the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and
enable them to run a daily line Of steamboats
to New Orleans in connection with the
Southern terminus of their road! And what
portion of the country 10 to be benefited BY
this mammoth contract! Not Louisville
that has heretofore had Southern travel ant
Southern carriage through her borders. No
the Ohio river towns and cities, that have
heretofore enjoyed it. Not st. Louis, thai
would be preferred by most ofths South oveI
} . far Northern town. None of these regions
or cities are to be benefited, in any rea
way, by . mammoth mail contract, pro.
fessedly Southern in it's scope, but really
!, Northern in its bearing. Chieago-Chicagt
aione--a city that habitually ins0ltsS outherr
Institutions, and contemns the federal laws
Chicago is to reap the only profit of this vas
river mail contract; and the Ohio river am
its population are to be deprived of theil
necessary and previously enjoyed mail faci
, lities to enable the Post Office Department,
to have money to squander on q Northern
Abolition city. and an overgrown railroad
company Of Eastern men, who first got thu
federal government to give them the mean
! from the federal treasury to build their rail
road with! Who 10 the Post Master Gen
eral; and what are the river towns between
louisville and st. Louis doing in the pre-