The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-06-18
THE POSTMASTER GENERAL AND
HIS IMPROVED INTERNAL MAIL
FACILITIES.

THE POSTMASTER GENERAL AND
HIS IMPROVED INTERNAL MAIL
FACILITIES.
Postmaster General Brown is evidently q
practical business man in his department,
and is working earnestly TO bring up its ex-
tensivO and complicated machinery to the de-
mands of the day. For example, it appears
that while our Southern Bobadis and Bonn
bastes Furiosos were discharging their sur
plus gas and gasconade at their late mis-called
Southern Commercial Convention in Ala
barla, another convention ofa totally differ
ent character was in session at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, Mt which the following matter-of-
fact and practical resolutions were adopted
to wit -
Resolved, That, in the opinion of this con-
vention, the great central line of railroad
from New York via Washington City, Rich
mond, Lynchburg, Knoxville, Chattanooga,
Tenn, and Memphis and Charleston Railroad,
to Grand Junction, and thence by the Mis-
sissipp Central, and New Orleans, Jackson,
and great Northern railroads, is the shortest
and most practicable route for the connection
of the great Southern mail with the line TO
California via Tehuantcpec; and we most
respectfully ask that the Postmaster Gener.
al to give this line his consideration in deter
mining the practicabiIity of the scheme.
Resolved further That we pledge ourselves
to co operate with the Post Office Department
TO affect an object so greatly TO the interest
of the South and West, and so desirable to
the whole people of the United States.
1t further appears, that acting upon these
practical suggestions, the Postmaster Gener-
al promptly took the matter in hand, having
the evidence placed before him that by the
route indicated mail bag had been brought
from New Orleans TO Washington sin the
incredible time Of four days" And to show
that this was not fancy performance, the
company concerned offered to carry The mail
between the points mentioned, within the
time stated, for whole year, under contract;
and with the expiration o: the year to put on
a double daily mail TO be carried between
New York and New Orleans in seventy-fve
hours.
Four days between New York and New
Orleans will be a clear saving of three days
as compared with the old jog trot slow coach
system lief! to his successor by Postmaster
General Campbell. OF course, this is very
much due to the completion of connecting
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promptitude with which Gen. Brown has np-
proprintrd to the service of the department
those increased facilities. In this connection,
also, n contract has been entered into with
Emile Lasere, Louisiana, for the transporta'
ton of the mails twice month, via Tehuan-
tepec, to San Francisco, within fourteen days
from New Orleans. This arrangement, how
ever, is slouty resisted by the Sloo party;
but we care very little whether this or that
company of spectators shall secure the job,
so that the great object of the Postmaster
General be attained-which is the shortening
of the mail time between New York and San
Francisco some FIVE or six days.
In behalf of the public, and especially Of
the great commercial community Of this me
tropolis, we cordially approve and commend
these movements Of General Brown for this
great proposed reduction of the mail time
between the commercial centre of the CONT
nent and the commercial centre of our Pacific
coast.-N. Y. Herald.