Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-03-09
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The annszed, paragraph appeared il the Banner,
Of last ssiurday:
THH NEW 0ELRAEs MAns-The Postmaster Gen.
eral having changed the New Orleans nail from the
route By which was regularly received in between
three and four dsys TO rome other route it is Dow
iapariably seven to eight days coming through The
object Of the change may be of the same charseier
which seems 20 have Influenced the whole batch Of
corrupt spoil hunting, President seeking, blood-
sucking political hueksters who hsve possession OF
the government ct Washington, from the President
down 70 the door keeper Of the House We should
dislike 70 say that the motive was airy better The
result the people are realizing. Commercial men,
paricularly, must be delighted With change WhIen
doubles the distance between themselves and their
markeS for buying and selling.
tits not necessary 70 answer this paragraph 20
the business men Of Nashville, who know that its
statements, both as to the time the New Orleans
mAls were received by the old route and that which
occupied in their delivery by the new FOute are NOT
facts. It is known to all. that, by The old route,
the mail was conveyed about $50 miles, frO'a Mont
gOmery to Mobile, by stages; that this stage road,
in winter, was occasionally very bad; and that The
mails from Mobile and New Orleans we're always
irregular and sometimes two weeks in their dellV-
cry here By the new route when il was let last
spring. there were 80 miles Of stagipgn Mississippi
to be encountered This staging hss since been re-
duced 70 20 miles, and viii be entirely superseded
by railroad during the coming summer. Blu this
stage road has been very bad this winter, and the
connection has failed frequently sdlL it is better
even at the worst than the old route, are able
to prove.
At our request, Gen. ANDERSON, the Postmaster at
this place, hsscaused statement Of the arrivals of
mails at his Office from New orlsansto be prepared
from the 5th February to the Ash March, for each
Of the years of 1858 and 1859. From this authen-
tic and Official statement, we find that, in 1858. by
the old route, by which the BanSsr declares that
the mails we're regularly received here in between
three and four days." they were never. on any
single OCCASION received in less than sr days. and
in the same month Of 1859, when the Banner de-
ciares that "they are inparq5ly from seven eight
days coming through" they have never been eight
days out; only twice as much as six day and half
four arrivals we're in five days and half; twelve
in four days and half; and ten in three dsys AID
half; the longest tins by the new route being
shorter than the shortest time. BY the old route.
Now, in view Of this statement of facts. what be
comes of the Banners dsnunciatiOns and COM
msnis It is because the staple Of the "0ppesi
ton papers in their abuse and denunciation Of the
administration, is made of such facts these, that
we seldom notice them prefefing rather to trust to
the plain common sense of the people for their refu
tatiOn 1t is only because we consider the BaHasrs
articles as calculated to injure great Southwestern
enterprise that we refer to the matter at all