The true Democrat., 1856-03-11
Letter from Hon. A. Rust.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 20, 1856.


 EDITOR TRUE DEMOCRAT
 Your favor of the 1st inst, calling my attention to the reduction of the mail ser vice between Napoleon and Little Rock, via Pine Bluff, contemplated, perhaps threatened, by the post master general, was received yes terday. Remonstrances from various neighbor- hoods, interested in this matter, against the proposed change in the grade of service on this route, have been received by me, which I have submitted to the consideration of Mir. Camp bell, with such comments and arguments as l thought calculated to arrest this gross injustice meditated against the people of the counties of Desha, Arkansas, Jefferson and Pulaski, through which this route passes, and the cit zens of the adjacent counties of Drew Brad- ley, Dallas and Saline, who are almost as much interested in it.
 My colleague in the Senate, the Hon. R. w. Johnson has united with me, with his charac- teristic earnestness in stubborn resistance to this wrong, and also in an appeal to the sense of justice, to say nothing of the generosity of the post master general, for an increase of com pensation to the contractors to carry the mails between Little Rock and Washington, in Hemp. stead county. With what success remains to be seen.
 | It is crying shame that, while millions of dollars, paid into the public treasury almost ex- clusvely by the agricultural States of the south and west are lavishy appropriated to the pay l # tho >fo naily for the transportation of mails between the great commercial cities of the north, Gone of which, New York, like Paris, u France, is rapidly becoming the government itself of this great confederacy,) and places upon the globe, between which and the people of this Union, there is very little, if any, commerce or inter- course, but really to add more to the colosal fortunes of their owners, already ample enough to Juy votes, or the already overshadowing and absorbing commercial greatness and political influence of the cities in which they reside the least paltry sum is refused to the people of these sections, (the south and west) and they have no mail facilities at al or only en- joy them by means of the personal sacrifices of | luclr nelSnUOrS ana lcllOW CIulZcnS, WHO unuer- take for inadequate compensation, to supply them.
 1 found, when 1 came here, that number of new post offices had been refused to populous neighborhoods in my district, recently become so by immigration from other States, because to establish them involved an expense of from SIP, to $44 each, to the government and that the department was ready promptly to refuse others that had to propose, for the same req son. 1 could treat such objections with but little patience, and I believe the department has become ashamed of such a rule of action, and at this time, every new post office which has been applied for under these circumstances, from my district has been granted.
 Yesterday, introduced bill granting lands to the Mississippi, Ouachita and Red River railroad company, or to the State, in trust for the bene- fit of the road, got it read the requisite number of times, and had it referred to the committee upon roads and canals, of which am mem- Der. It will encounter strong and seu8eless op- position from southern members-abstracton strict constructions. 1 hope to be able to overcome it. Respectfully, etc., A. RUST