Daily American organ., 1856-05-09
WHOLE NO. 46S.
Irregularity Of the Nails.

Hregaiarity Of the Mails.
H appears, by the following article from the
New Orleans True Dalta that there are complain b
in other quarters than this OF the serious nconv :
nienees TO which the American people are su .
ected through the iregularity of the United Stat N
mails:
ielding to the earnest and urgent solicitations
OF our numerous friends in California, az well as Co
the appeals of our able contemporaries in that 9
gon, VIC once again devote some space to the diE-
fusion OF their complaints against the continued
disgracefnl management of the mails between Ne o
Orleans and San Francisco, Again we repeat what
we have in former numbers Of the True Delta
stated that 1t is utterly impossible to reconcile ts
inndsiity OF the Post Office Department in cor
nexion with this important service to any other
theory or supposition than that ii Is dciiberat %
purpose to intiict upon New Orleans every possible
/ indignity and wrong-hrst because she has no ons
resoute and independent enough to maintain her
rights; and, second, that the Northern cities mny
proht by the arrangements in the management IL
her business affairs an unfaithfully performed NAH
service must produce. ~
Were the public complaints in this connexioA
novel or recent less anxiety would be felt but TIA
evil has become chronic, and we see, during the
present administration of the department. no hopa
OF remedy no grounds for believing that If 1t were
the result OF Ignorance, experience might correct
or mitigate it.
The last arrival from San Francisco brought "a
the usual number of individual complaints TIA
regular stereotyped excamations of disappointment
OF the press, among which the following, from the
Daily Evening News, of San Francisco, will convey
to our readers full confirmation Of the charg,S
heretofore preferred against the Post Office Do
partment:
The NEW ORLEANS MAMs--Some time age
great complaints were made concerning the irrep.
ularity OF the New Orleans mails These com.
plants were SO oft repeated, that they at length
found access to the ear of the Federal officers.
ordinarily so deaf to the grievances of the people
OF California; aud letter was written by Postmas-
ter General Campbell, promising that in future this
wrong should be redressed. This letter stated that
the contractors Ind placed upon the route, be-
tween New Orleans and Havana sufficient steam
er, and that hereafter the mail between San Fra,,-
cisco and New Orleans would be regular and reli-
able.
For two or three successive months the PROM
ises OF Mr.. Campbell were redeemed-the maj
from New Orleans arrived with the same regularity
as that from New York; but latterly the same ir-
regularity that formerly prevailed has began to re.
appear. For two or three times during the past
two months, the steamer has arrived without tie
mails from the Southern States, and our people ro-
ceiving their correspondence from that section are
again suffering under the Inconvenience heretofors
suits in serious pecuniay loss and personal dsad-
vantage
This continued disregard Of the interests of
the people Of this State by the contractors for the
carriage Of the mails between New Orleans ana
this city has been borne long enough; it Is an
outrage which at once should be put stop to-
The contractors receive extravagant compensation
for the performance Of this duty, and should 10
compelled to perform it, If they cannot without
losing money, they should throw up the contract
and let others try it, And we hope the people will
so speak out AZ to place it out Of the power of
Postmaster General Campbell to misunderstood
our desires. s1
"We observe that one of our representatives 10
the Legislature, Mr.. Gray, has directed his atten-
ton to this subject On Friday he introduced the
following preamble and resolutions
Whereas there having constantly occurred
during the past year failures of the mails betv eep
the cities Of New Orleans and San Francisco; and
whereas the frequency Of these failures leads this
Legislature to believe that there must exist some
radical defect in the arrangement now existing for
conveying the mails, and that some change is alb
solutely nect ssary in order to secure the advan-
tages originally designed by tho establishment of
the mail route between the cities other named;
therefore &
" Resolved, BY the Assembly, (the Senate con-
curring,) That our Senator be instructed, and our
Representatives in Congress requested, TO urge
upon the postmaster General OF the United States
the necessity for making some change in the ar
rangement for the transmission of the mails be-
tween New Orleans and San Francisco, in order to
secure something like regularity and certainty in
the same. s sH Ua
"Resolred further, That his Excellency the.
Governor be requested to transmit a copy Of these
resolutions TO our Senator and each of our Repre-
scntatives in Congress"
The movement in the Legislature Of California
to operate by means of resolutions upon the Post
master General, Is about as likely to influence the
conduct Of that functionary as would moral ad-
dress on the blessings OF peace to the war parties
of Indians now devastating the frontiers of Oregon
and California The true remedy for the evils de.
signedly permitted to oppress the people Of the
Mississippi valley and their friends in California,
will not bo found in Legislative resolutions address
ed to Mr.. Postmaster Campbell, but would coon
present itself if any representative in Congress had
the manness to propose resolution calling upon
the President to remove the present incumbent
and place man over the department who is caps-
bic Of administering its affairs, and willing to act
with impartiaity and justice on all occasions 10
every section Of our extended Republic.
Daniel Webster on Americanism.
In November, 1914, af,er the defeat OF Mr.. Clay
for the Presidency, Daniel Webster made speech
in Faneuil Hall, Boston, in which the necessity for
tho merican organization of the present day WA