The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

tnOuSn InaC eVll is yet vi us III lto
fourth week, still we have hopes
ahead for better, and believe we have
done our duty and some good in the
matter. As we do it pro bono publico
we cannot keep anything back from
that public, whose interests are ours
and whose veal or woe bind us here.
We therefore give the two following
letters, which we received in the mail
of the 18th inst:
NEW ORLEANS, La, !
Sept. s, 1901
EDITOR DEMocRAT:-
SIR am in receipt of a copy of the
Democrat containing an article on the
mail service from Red River Landing
to Alexandria, and have given the sub
ject immediate attention. The COM
plants can be remedied by a change of
schedule in the departure at Red River
Landing, and | have asked that the
same be made, after which you will I'M
doubtedly regularly receive the mail Oh
time.
In few days the Vicksburg Packet
Company will place the Lee, Natchez
and Pargoud in the line, and being
tirst-class boats will arrive earlier at
the Mouth of the river with the mail.
Respectfully, ETC.,
j. r. JOLLY,
Special Agt.
New ORLEANS, La, !
Sept. 6, 1875
MIR. EDIToR:-
In your papers of August 25th and
September 1st you hold the Contractor
of the mail route from Red River Land
ing responsible for the non-arrival of
the mails in time at Alexandria, when
you knew the cause of the failure is the
non-arrival of the boats at Red River
Landing by . p NJ, when the stage is
compelled to leave in its schedule time.
You should place the responsibility on
the boats, where it properly belongs,
and not insist that the Contractor shall
kill his stock to make up the time lost
by the boats. l have sent your articles
to the Post Office Department, and have
requested them to change the time of
leaving Red River Landing until 10
O'Clock P. NJ.
The mail never leaves Shreveport on
Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, and is
running. on time and not 1.-TWO days
ahead of time.'
Approaching the Importance of the
very limited mail facilities you have, /
have written to the Post Master at Red
River Landing to detain the stage until
the arrival of the boats, and will write
! to the Post Office Department. to send
their bill of deductions and fines for
failures to arrive and depart ON sche-
dule time on route from Red River
Landing to Shreveport to the Editor Of
Democrat for payment.
Yours truly,
B. II. PETERSON.
The first letter from tue Special
Agent Of the Post Office Department
is plain and to the point and means
business, whilst we are panied to say
the one of the Contractor is not so
felicitous and might have been in a
more pleasing mood, and can be re-
butted by plain facts, which have
transpired before that new order was
issued, and which has caused all the
unnecessary trouble. Before it was
issued the stage reached here, with
the mails in fair time, returned in
the same time, no stock was killed,
and above all the Contractor was SER
wing well people who can appreci-
ate such q service; i'll word all was
well. And surely DR.. Peterson must
admit that leaving without the mail
on Sundays, our most important one.
and reaching here early Monday
without it, knowing he had not to
leave till next day, after "a hours
rest here, is rather an unaccommo
dating turn, and must unchristianize
many others besides the Democrat.
1t was too bad thus to act even if the
boats were q few minutes after 5
O'Clock of the evening in reaching
the Mouth, and we all know no fines
were ever imposed for such a little
stretch towards helping an ill-cared
for people. AS regards the Shreve-
port mail, we still say that it does
run away from its connections and as
now changedis worse than a nuis-
ance. Two trips of the three it
brings us no daily Shreveport Times,
whereas on the third one we receive
five and six, and all so old and be-
hind time, that they are worthless to
us. To be brief and close the mat
ter for the present, we viii state that
DR.. Peterson, the Contractor, is re-
sponsible man, has made good and
efficient Contractor, has given us the
best and only mail service since the
war, and we have appreciated it
hence our surprise and chagrin when
he suddenly in a freak changed his
good ways, and acted as we thought
and still think, in any way but the
right way, and further we complain
ed of it and denounced it because we
believed it our duty to do it-this
course we shall always pursue, with
out fear or favor, and trust the bene-
fitted ones will give US due merit