Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-15
MAIL FACILITIES.

There is probably not a county in the
State of1llinois so deficient in mail facli-
ties as Alexander Outside of Cairo the
people of many precincts are nearly as des-
titute of mail matter as though an embargo
were laid on printing offices and letter-wri-
ting. A tri-weekly mail runs from Cape
Girardeau to Clear Creek, and then turns
off and runs to Jonesboro. Upon the Mis-
sissippi river the people of Dog Tooth,
Goose Island, Santa Fe and Thebes, are
rarely supplied by the boats. Sometimes
they get mail once week, but full as Of
ten fail getting one once a month. And the
people of Unity, Sandy Greek, Hazelwood,
Parotts and Caubles are, if possible, in a
worse condition, being compelled to travel
over almost impossible roads through a
swamp to reach points on the railroad, thus
rendering it next to impossible for them to
subscribe for and receive even weekly pa
pers. The people of those sections feel the
hardship under which they labor most gre
viOusly, ..and are endeavOring to reach the
ear of the "pOwers that be" in order to have
the trouble remedied. They now propose
to have the mail which leaves Cape Girar-
deau for Jonesboro changed, so that it may
run daily from the Cape to Dongola, which
place is situated but about eight miles from
JonesborO, and ON the line of l. c. r. r.
This would enable the people surrounding
Clear Creek, Woods and Caubles, to receive
regular mails at all seasons of the year
They also propose having a tri-weekly mail
leaving Cairo and running up to Dog Tooth,
Goose Island Santa Fe and Thebes, and
coming back via. PARROTS, Hazlewood,
Sandy Creek and Unity. All the points
named are large sized neighborhoods, set
tied by an intelligent class of people who
can see no good reason why they should be
kept from a week to month behind the age
in receiving intelligence of. the transpiring
events. ..r ..y-
We can imagine nothing of greater impor-
tance or interest to u people in this age of
stirring events, than to be in regular receipt
ofmail matter. When one feels positive
that letter from u friend or relative is on
it's journey to them and cannot tell within a
month when they will receive it, the emo
tions experienced by the party are anything
but pleasant Many ofthe citizens of Alex
ander county, living in or contiguous to
large settlements are anxious to subscribe
for their county papers, but cannot for the
reason that daily or weekly Journal would
be month old before they would receive it,
and the trouble incident to getting it would
more than compensate for the value of it
when received
Petitions arc now being circulated
throughout the county, making proper rep.
resentiOns to the Postmaster General, and
praying for the mail lines above spoken of
and it is to he hoped that the prayer of the
petitioners may be answered, and facilities
extended prOportionate to the wants and
necessities Of the people.
a VALUABLE EXCHANGE.-Wc are in re-
eeipt OF the Charleston (Mo. } Courier of the
10th inst, accompanied with supplement
In neither the paper proper nor the supple
ment is there q liue other than what pertains te
advertisements. We notify Whit that we ar,
in receipt of his bantling, and wish to know
what he intended we should do with it? 4:
nearly all the advertisements are of Sheriff:
,,lo, ,,, no inf hot MisSissinni county