Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-03-12

ulm rum participation puDlAC GuAlT63 lOE WHICH
he is eminently fitted.
For reason then given, We felt it necessary, in
our daily paper of Wednesday LAST, to correct an
error into which the Banner had fallen in q notice
Of the New Orleans mails. We well understand.
and have long partaken of, the vexsticns conse-
quent upon irregular mails Those from New Or
leans have always in the winter, been mo irreg
lar than mails from any other quarter for the rea
that the stage part of the route from Mobile to
Montgomery was frequently, in winter, almost, and
sometimes entirely, impossible.
Every previous winter as the editor of the Banner
no doubt remembers we often received our latest
dates from New Orleans by the steamboats, By
the new route the schedule time is two days less
than by the DID, and from the record kept at the
post Office here find that the letter mail has been
received as contract time by the new route as
by the old OF the receipt of newspaper mails no
record is kept We well remember, however, the
constant Irregularities of the newspaper mails by
the old route from Mobile and New Orleans we re-
member, on one occasion, receiving fourteen dates
from Mobile, and we declare from positive recollec-
tiOD that the improvement in the newspaper mail by
the new route over the old is infinite Yexatious as
have been the delays, and we make no attempt to
excuse them, the editor of the Banner no longer
hurries to the steamboat landing the arrival of
New Orleans boat, TO get late New Orleans paper:
the almost exclusive reliance, until this winter for
the latest news, as he no doubt well remembers
The practice Of stagedrivers Of leaving the uewsps-
per sacks along the road when THEN load is heavy
and the roads bad, exists, doubt the new route
as it existed on the old, when 8 carlsbad of such
sacks could be found at every stage stand between
Montgomery and Mobile. The letter mail goes
through with the first coach which is able to work
its passage through the mud.
The Banner, of yesterday, gives a long notice of
previous article on tb subject; only or TWO
points of which require any notice.
IL con'roverts our statement relative TO the time
occupied in the delivery of the mails by the old
route and says that it published in February, 1858,
on two occasions, news only flee dogs out from New
Orleans, and once news only four days out; while
it has once this year received New Orleans Plea
yUne which seven days out. We do not dispute
the dates printed in the Banner; we remark sim
ply that this last date at least if correctly prinu~
ed, was not received by mail, for the mail never
came through in that time by the old route. 1t was
impossible that it should. But s1pposing the dates
correct they would not sustain the original declar-
alton of the Banner that by the old route the mails
were "Teguldrly received here in between three and
four day." while by the new "they are inUariably
from seven to eight days coming through" The ed
itOr has not yet given one instance Of as rapid
mail by the old route as be had pronounced its
Irregular time; nor slow a mail by the new
route as he had declared d" invariable" YET as the
Banner asks US to accept its dates proof, and as
we can afford to be liberal, suggest that it might
have made by looking over its files more close
ly Taking this close glance ourselves, we fud that
the Bonner of the ID February, 1858, published an
article which it credited as " From the Cincinnati
COmmercaIOf yesterday" and on the llth Februaryit
copied an article which it credited /" From the New
Orleans Picayuns Of the 10Th" 1t is singular that
the Banner should have overlooked this last date;
for it would have made such very strong case:
showing that year ago, far better than the Banner
had clsimed, the mail was only one day out from
New Orleans!
We are writing too long an article, we see, and
we will conclude by remarking that the late Posts
master General believed he had effected improves
ment in the mails from New Orleans to New York
by which two days time would be saved; that the
same saving Of time, by the contract, would have
been gained by the mail from New Orleans to Nash
willie; that the saving made up to the time of the
incessant rains which have fallen since January
chat since then the stage road in Mississippi has been
almost impossible but worse than has been the
old road by Montgomery; that the attack upon the
late Postmaster General by the Banner was there
fore unjust and that that paper has failed to sustain
its original declaration either to the old route
the new.
A word more The Banner wonders why we se-
lsct the month of February for comparison. Be-
cause it was the last preceding month, and the
Of which we supposed tie Banner was speaking.
To make tho matter clear, however, we will add,
that up to the 10Th January, the mail was regular
" received in contract time-within three days. and
that any month since June would have made q much
stronger case in favor of the new route than the
month Of February.
Another word What is said by the B0Ener about
che Postmaster here coming TO our assistance was
certainly uncallsd for. That gentleman civilly an.
sWered civil question and We needed no other
Resistance" than the facts he gave us.
The Banner will please accsPt our thanks for its
personal compliment