New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-11
THE NAILS.


when daily laborpg under violent attacks Of pro-
vocation, consequent upon The maladminisEal Of
mail services which % seriously injure and derange
onr business o. they do that Of everybody u proper
ton to the extent d correspondence Involved We
arc almost inclined to take new ground and sturiy
and persstently, with what Of eloquence and argu-
| ment NJ may, preach crusade against both the
plan and he net Of the present system, and urge
that Government Be NO longer allowed to have any.
| thing to do With the transmission of the mails
any more than with the transportation Of other
freight in which he interests OF individuals are alone
concerned bat 10 leave TO corporate private enter
prise ths discharge Of those important duties which
lie puisant Government Of this nation has assumed
and falls IL 40 lamentaby that the subject is never
msnticned but q one Of ridcule and reproach.
That is orr ultra humor when some special cause
o. grievance exces to peculiar bitterness the state
Of chronic aggravation in which the mails keep us
from New Years day to New Years day and such
cause We have At this present, Of which anon.
But ia calmer seasons we attempt dispassonate reec
tcn and it brings us to the conclusion that is use
less to hope that affairs will ever be better under the
present system OF administration. The area under
the direction of central department is too extended
for its supervision With operations extending over
such vast extent of country, it is impossible but
that things will go wrong at many points careless
employees will continue to neglect their duties and
criminal employees 70 carry their peculations or
nict the malicious mischief which is always in their
power, be the department in the hands Of never 30
wise, energetic and conscientious directors.
II abuses must inevitably continue while the mail
service Is under the present system Of administration
BY Central Department, it is certainly high time
to resolve ways and means Of organizing it under
new system which will ensure it's proper management
There Is no use Of complaining, We are aware,
from long experience. Yet the evil is unbearable,
and We viii spare line or two Of space to charge
therein the abominabe Encouragement Of the river
and railroad mail service. Communication with the
principal points in Arkansas and Mississippi is toer-
ably regular but the smaller routes which are fed by
the great river and railroad trunk routes are almost
worthless letter or paper committed to their ten.
der care is consigned to total loss or to weeks and
months Of travel before it reaches Its destination
Up in Arkansas, subscribers are continually writing
Us to stop their papers because they are 50 often
stopped for them by mail carriers and way postmas-
tiers that copy IN half dozen issues reaches
them, and that generally nearly worn out by the &C.
cidents Of feld and Hood which have beset it on its
long and roundabout journey over routes through
which it was missent by the carelessness or stu
pidity 81 post masters and clerks.
In some instances error is traced directly home,
and fixed On the Office in this city, BY the fact that
there were no intermediate Offices between it and
letter papers destination to have diverted one or
the other from its true routes There are signs that
indicate that little tiCrescent sentiment operates
among some employees Of the postofice, for sub
scribers at offices but few hours distant from New
Orleans inform US that the Crescent does not reach