The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-11-24
IND.
DIR MAILS.

Through the active excrtions Of our Post
master, Mr.. RuDD, and the desire of Mr.. IN
OLE to do all in his power by change in the
departures of the Railroad trains, to accom-
modate the public, we are likely to have an
important improvement in our mail facili-
ties. By receiving our Eastern mails through
indianapolis and Terre Ilaute, they have
been generally two days behind the receipts
by Adams e Co.'s Express. BY sending our
Western mails to the Vincennes Post-office for
distribution, our mails from Cairo and the
South. and from st. Louis and the great
Northwest, have been unnecessarily delayed
one whole day. A letter from st. Louis,
goes to Cincinnati and comes back to this
city in the same time it would arrive via Vim
cennes. Mr.. RuDD has been endeayoring to
avoid these definitions. A bag will be made
up at St. Louis, and by the route agent on the
o. e. NJ. r. r. West Of Vircennes, expressly
for this city, which will contain all the mail
matter from st. Louis and Cairo for Evans
Vile. By the change in the time Of depar-
ture of the cars on the +. d G. r. X. from
Vinccnnes, these mails can be transferred to
our road without going to the Vincennes
Post office, and reach here the same even
ing. The mails from Indianapolis for this
city, arc to be taken from the wagon con-
veyanee between Indianapolis and Terrc
Haute, and sent down the Jacksonville Rail-
road to Seymour, where they will be trans
ferred to the Ohio and Mississippi train, and
arrive here the same evening.
II all these arrangements work well, they
will be great Improvements, for which oul
citizens will give due credit to Mr.. RUDD
who has been very active in accomplishing
them. The only objections to the arrange
ment for the receipt Of the Eastern mail,
via indianapolis, is the connection at Sey
mour, which may often, like all such chang
es from road to road, get out of joint, ant
cause frequent disappointments. There il
apparently no good reason why all the mai
matter for the lower region of the Ohi'
should not be sent directly to Cincinnati
thence by railroad to this point, where j
would arrive in twelve or fifteen hours
The carrying it to Indianapolis, and bring
ing it by a crcuitous route over two or tire
independent railroads, which are liable t
miss connections, serves no other purpos
than to give the Postmaster ut Indianapolis
the commissions on the distributing matter
which ought rot to be tolerated to the incon
venience of the pubic here. 1t is not onl
our own community that are interested il
the subject, but the wide section Of countr
below US, who would receive their mails b
the river packet from this point. Our citizen
should make these interests known to tn
Department. The Postmaster General ha
shown himself ready to grant every increase
facility asked for, and we have an active an
attentive Representative in Congress vii
promises to attend to the requests of hi
constituents and enforce them upon the al
tention Of the Department. Our mails fror
Baltimore and Washington. which al
among the most important during the win
ter, can certainly be brought to us in short
er time through Cincinnati than by the wa
of Indiana polls; and they should come b
that route. We need daily mail 10 Rock
port and CanneltOn, and tri-weekly ma
to Green River; both which can pc obtaine
by making the proper representations to Il
Department; aud now ut the beginning
the active business season, is the ii C to mo'
in the matter. st. Louis and Memphis-wl
like ourselves, have heretofore been neglec
ed by the POst-ofiice Department-are a
pealing to the new Western Postmaster
give the West fair share in the benefits
the Post Office service. Unless we make o.
wants known, We cannot expect to have the
supplied. One OF the best means to extel
our commercial intercourse, is to increase {
facilities of INSTRUMENTATION by mail.