Litchfield enquirer., 1857-09-17
C9e Gittb6eh Gnquuu,
Litchfeld, Conn, Thursday, Sept T., 1e57
Our Post CEce Facilities,

Vu4 UoC-CACS ! dCliiLlGS.
 Some twenty years ago, before there W as rail road in all New England, and wien the '' Nim- rod' and the " Fa.f,ld'' Were considered fas, boats on the Sound, it required from fifteen to seventeen hours to make the trip between this place aud New York, and some forty hours to make the trip there and back. Thls Included however, ten to twelve hours spent in the ely All things considered, the community were at the time well satisfied with the arrangement. It was IS expeditions as the facilities of travel would then admit, and of course, there was no gronnd for complaint
 But with the improvement of the age, came the rail road and locomotive, and private enterprise at once availed itself of them ln consequences, now requires but six hours to reach New \ Iork; and our citizens can take their breakfast here, spend three or four hou.s in the City, and reach their homes the same evening This IS all the result of private enterprise, unasssred by private aid
 A quarter of century ago, when 1t required only about forty hours for passengers 10 make the trip 10 New York and back, it required eighty hours to send letter there ard to receive reply has built the rail road, and afforded us oppo:- tunity to transmit letters to ,le City, and to re- ceive answers thereto within sixteen hours. At this juncture comes the great governmental mo- nopoy-the Post Office Estabi,hrnen,-lays an embargo on the rail road, prohibits the transmits sion of letters under heavy penalties, and com- pels us 10 use it's mail bags at its own prlce And witt, what result! Why, q, the expeditions raie of fifty hours heEce 10 New York and back. This to besure is gain of thirty hours in abont ma to deal with, we suppose that We ought 10 be grateful, and to hopefully trust, ttat by the end of the next quarter ot a century, the mails may at tain Tate of speed equal 10 cur passenger iacll- people should, before that time, wres, this over shadowing monopoly from the hands of poIitl- clans, and leave the transmission of letters, like the transmission of news by telegraph, open to free trade and to private enterprise.
 1; would seem to the ordinary observer, almost simple thing send bag of letters over the rail road, as tu send load of trunks, or of barrels of honr; and, in fact, It is equally sim pie. Our letters are conveyed over the road dai- iy, with the same despatch our trunks, or our barrels of flour. Both arrive at :hnr destination at the same lime. But when they reach New York, the one goes to the great circnm!ocu,ion of Goa ,ho al int tL b,n of t.rprise And this it is which occasions the great difference. Passengers on their arrival. deliver ing their checks to Stud!ey's Express, and with out further care on Their part, soon find their trunks at their hote office, or residence, as they respectively may have designated.
 Our letters, however, having been sent to the great clrcumucutlon office, are, instead of being delivered as they should be, the same evening" detained there twelve hours, and until after the morning mail has left. They cannot in sequence, be answered till thir,y-six hours after their arrival. This is tie reason why it requires fifty hours to receive answers to our letters sent 10 New York.
 Now we should like to be informed of !he ne-
 
 delivers trunks through all parts of New York and of Brooklyn, the same evening they ar rive. If they did not, their occupation would soon be gone. Now if this can be done with cumbrous baggage, (and We have daily evidence that it is !one.l why, we ask, might not our let ters be asserted the same evening they arrive, and why might not the New York Post. Office be kept open so that applicants might receive their letters :n season to answer them by the return mail ],
 There are residing in this County, especially during the summer months, the families of many who aEe engaged in business in New York. To them at least, if not to most of the citizens along the line of the Naugatuck Rail Road, it would be great convenience to be able to interchange let ters with their friends or correspondents in the City, in less than three days-W hch. virtually, is the time now required. This. however, is impos- sihle W i,h our cunhrous governmental machinery as it is at present managed. The reply to let ter mailed here Monday, cannot be received until after w ednesday's mail has left: ard re- ply to second letter cannot be received until Saturday. Thus is whole week consumed in accomplishing that which private enterprise would accomplish in forty hours. Why should these things be! Why should they nosbe remedrd
 When our Pos,-Ofice authorities take into con- sdera'Ion the fact, tha, Connection, is one of the four States which pays the Post-OlIice Depart. ment upwards of Sl0O, GOO per annum, over the cost of transporting the mails and especially when they bear in mind that one half of her ConoreS sional delegation is Democratic, they will. We trust' remed, this unnecessary delay. and pu, us on par with the more favored portions cf the country.
 A gentleman just from Texas has conrn,nicat- ea to us facts bearing the recent melancholy death Of Senator Rusk, which throw more light on '''"t Sad event than all else concerning it We had pie'ioosly known. It seems that he was suffering