Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-10-31
About the n1alls-our sufrsr,nss.

EVEN UNDER the most favorable circumstances the
existing pressure is felt very severely by the papers
in this State, our own among the number and it is
about as much as they can do to bear up under this
pressure without being called upon to labor under other
difficulties and impedimens created by the changing
schedules On Our mail lines, by which, do as we will, we
are virtually excluded from any benefit while the Vir-
ginia papers are accommodated at expense A let
ter from Clinton, Sampson county, says "Now, we re-
ceve your paper the third day after its ISSUE while
we receive the Virginia papers the day of their is
sue" This will apply to the whole line Supplied by the
Fayetteville and Warsaw stage Such a discrimination
amounts virtually to exclusion. 1t cuts US of.
We have dona our very best to accommodate the pub
lie with the earliest news sparpg trouble or expense
in procuring it. When the present schedule went into
operation, we determined to keep form open until
hapast five o'clock in the afternoon to insert the
very latest news received by telegraph up to that time
for the benefit Of subscribers supplied by the North
Crn and Southern mails The Southern mail closes here
at hafpast six O'Clock, the Northern at nine o'clock,
2. NJ. This Northern mail leaves by the train which
starts from Wilmington at 230 A. NJ, and reaches
Warsaw at $3.50 A. NJ. The stage from Warsaw to
Fayetteville does not connect with this train but with
the evening train from the North which reaches War
saw at Sol p NJ so that all letters and papers from
Richmond or Petersburg go rig on, while those from
Wilmington are kept over until their freshness has
eyaporatcd We will venture to say that there is more
intercourse between Wilmington and the section of
country from Warsaw to Fayetteville inclusive than
there is between Richmond Petersburg and those
sections. There is even now trade and more cor
rcspondence and think there is real interest
felt in the news. 1t is certainly hard that with all our
efforts paper cannot reach the county seat of an ad
joining county until the third day after its issue, while
papers published in another State pushed the
~ Gay of their issue. At 81 miles from Wilmington
our stage lines are made subsrvent to Richmond l9l
miles North Of Warsaw.
But even at that we why papers should
be detained until the third day. There is reason
that we can appreciate for any detention there is Ger
tany no excuse for such detention as this comes to-
If the citizens along the line from Warsaw to Fay
ettevIe and in and beyond the latter place. approve
the existing arrangements and prefer their continuance
of course they will not complain of the detention
their mail matter from Wilmington, though must
still regard grievance bearing down hard upon US
and rendering nugatory, to certain extent, best
efforts to sustain ourselves and accommodate the public
IT, however, the citizens Immediately interested do
prefer this state of things it will doubt be ALTERED
upon their recommendation The writer of the annex
ed letter evidently does not prefer this kind of onesidet
business -
Clinton, N c., Oct. 24th, 1861.
My DEAR EIR8 Il am not one of those who apt tc
complain Of others, bat great dissatisfaction pre-
or