Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-04
Our Mails.
Our contemporary, the Baltimore Gazett
in speaking of this subject, SAYS:

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The Port Tobacco Times of last week joins in
the general complaint of the papers in the
southern counties of this State relative to the
inefficient service Of the mails throughout tina,
section. 1t wants fire opened and kept up a.
long the whole line upon 1.-The imposition prac-
ticed on US through partisan influences a,
Washington and has but one hope of relief
namely .'by change of administration" The
Times should be of better heart We think
| that if the matter is pushed promptly and en-
ergeticaly. as it should be, redress can be had
a good while before the time of the prospective
Democratic victory in 1876.
When the Gazette read the letter which
| we publish below it must have felt satisfi
ed that we were without hope, except in
change Of administration, either in the
Road or the Nation. The Sun says that,
when it first called attention of the Post
office Department to this wrong, it was
promised that it should be redressed But
mark the result. In the meantime the
sinister,partisan influence of Pennsylvania
politicians intervenes and the Sun receives
the puerile answer that the Government
cannot regulate the running of the trains
of railroad. 1t does not require the &C
cumulated wisdom of an Assistant Post
master General to know that. Any boy
who has sense enough to read and under
stand the Constitution of his country could
have told that. Nobody ever asked the
Department to do this absurd thing, but
the Sun, we suppose, and all Of US, ask that
the Department shall regulate the carrying
and delivery Of our mails, and say when
they shall be delivered. This is done every
where else. The contractor is required to
deliver the mails on schedule time and that
time is a reasonable time. We venture
the assertion that nowhere else is such time
allowed a carrier Of the mails as is now
allowed this Pennsylvania corporation.
If this company cannot change thehours
Of departure and arrival of trains so as to
suit the reasonable demands of the public,
then let the Department put US back where
we have been for the last thirty years
Send our mail by the Southern mail boat
and we will receive it between ten and
eleven A. NJ, as we have been doing these
long years. The people never asked for a
change, but the Railroad Company,
through its influence, brought it about
without saying word to US. Then too
the cars brought the mail down in the
morning and returned in the evening, but
after obtaining the contract, the present
hours were adopted. Wesay it is shame
if the Department is helpless in this mat
ter, but we do not believe it is. On the
contrary, we believe the matter can be re-
medied in twenty -four hours. In this con-
nection we would say that we are willing
to join our friends in any reasonable effort
to bring about change, and will endeavor
to join delegation to Washington on
Monday next for that purpose, if it is un-
derstood one is to go-though we think
the day selected an inopportune one, and
we fear in the face of the letter to the Sun
the attempt will be futile. Whatever may
be the result, our thanks and those Of
Southern Maryland are due to the pro-
prietors of the Sun for their efforts in our
behalf Nowhere is the Sun more highly
appreciated than by our people, and we
are glad to see that its proprietors are SO
prompt to endeavor to redress our wrongs
Here follows the letter to the Sun:
/ Posto6fce Department, Office of the Second
Assistant Postmaster General, Washington,
D. c., November 81, 1874. Sir: In reply to
your letter of November II, 1874, you are in
formed that the delays and irregularities in the
mail service on routes leading from Upper
Marlborough, and other points on the Balti-
more and Potomac Railroad, are entirely due