New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-22
gEiu 0rIeatts 2epublieatr.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CITY Of NEW ORLEANS
LETTER FROM WARRINGTON.

Railroads to New Orleans and the
MaiIs-SubstltutiOn Of Expression Ae-
eOmmOdatlOn Trains, and the Gain ia
Time-General HaneOek'a Peril-The
Supreme Court BIll-GeaeraI Meade n
Radical.
Especial Correspondence Of the Republican,
WASHINGTON, January Ia, 1868.
The New Orleans, Jackson, and Great
Northern railroad has informed the post
Office department that they are compelled
to suspend one Of the daily trains, for the
reason that the business is insufficient to
sustain TIVE. The various railroad man
ayers on the route from New Orleans via
Chattanooga and Lynchburg to Washington
demonstrate their insufficiency by not
arranging a schedule for one daily express
train. On the whole route only accommo-
dation trains are run, which stop on an
average every ten miles. The New Orleans
and Jackson trains average seventeen miles
an hour; the Mississippi Central, from Can
ton to Grand Junction, averages thirteen
miles an hour; the Memphis and Charleston
and Nashville and Chattanooga, from Grand
Junction to Chattanooga, averages fifteen
miles an hour; the East Tennessee and
Georgia, from Chattanooga to Knoxville,
averages seventeen miles an hour; the East
Tennessee and Virginia, from Knoxville to
Bristol, averages fraction less than
eighteen miles an hour; the Virginia and
Tennessee railroad, from Bristol to Lynch
burg, averages fifteen miles an hour; the
Orange and Alexandria, frsm Lynchburg to
Washington, averages nearly eighteen miles
an hour. The time, according to the
present schedule, is three days and ten
hours from New Orleans to Washington.
Distance, 1871 miles.
Judicious management, by running ex-
press instead of accommodation trains,
would increase the average rate Of speed to
twenty-five miles an hour, reducing the
time between New Orleans and Washington
to fity-one hours, instead Of eighty-twC
| hours. To show that this is no wild idea il
is only necessary to remark that Boston ant
New York are but nine hours and ten min
utea apart, distance of 236 miles, ovel
three distinct lines of railroad, or an aver
age of twenty-six miles aR hour.
1t needs but little argument to prove tina
line of railroad connecting New Orleau
and Washington, which would shorten tht
time between the two cities thirty-on,
hours, would take monopoly Of the through
travel If the attention of the postoffic
department is properly directed to this sub
ieet it may be that the railroad corporation
can be induced to shorten their time, ant
infase more rapidity into Southern travel
1t is practicable, and would prove remu
nerative.
A reform in the arrangement of the Nev
Orleans and jackson railroad would leaI
to the desirable result, or certainly COZ
tribute to it. For want Of sufficient bus
ness, the Orange and Alexandria railroa
to Lynchburg propose to take off the even
ing train from Washington. This might b
avoided by an express train.
The passage of the bill from the senate
with an amendment, relating to the 81
preme court and the proportion Of its men
bers required to declare any act of col
gress unconstitutional, excited peculiar il
terest.
General Meade, before he went to Geo
gia, declared himself as radical as an
other military commander. He has prove
himself SO much to the Ghagrin of the pres
dent and his friends.