Wilmington journal., 1876-07-21

All SuoTt IL noluS mdOo 10 cStaOllsA
fast mail arrangement between the
North and the South, and to that end
the following petition to the Postmas'
ter General is being signed in Colum.
bia, g.. c.. and will most likely be
passed around for signatures il
Charleston and Wilmington:
The, undersigned, bankers, mer.
chants and others residing in Colum
bia, 8. c.. having observed the sue
cessful results of your efforts since
you have taken charge of the Post
Office Department to secure rapid
transmission of mail throughout the
country, whereby the business COM
munity has been so largely benefited,
and in which efforts you have been SO
promptly seconded by the great line
Of railroads in the North and West,
beg to call your attention most re.
spectfullY to the fact that the cities
south of Washington receive .thei,
daily mails from New York later than
Western cities, nearly twice as fa1
from that city, as the following figures
will show: @s~,r p - q.
From New York to- . .r.r,-...-.
Richmond, Va, 343 miles, II hours
+ and 5 minutes. -
Rochester, N. Y, 370 miles, 7 hours
add As minutes. i}-..4-+t -.' -.l...
Wilmington, n. G., 5a6 miles, "a hours
and 25 minutes. .,....
Paynesville, Ohio, 600 miles, IA hours
aud 25 minutes.
Charleston, s. c., 804 miles, 46 hours
and 20 minutes.
Waterloo. Mich, 8O4 miles, 81 hours
and 36 minutes.
Columbia, s. c., 735 miles via S:55 P.
M. train, 43 hours and minutes.
Columbia, s. c., via 2:55 P. M. Al
hours and 5 minutes.
Loveland, Ohio, 73O miles, 25 hours
and 10 minutes.
New York morning papers do not
reach Columbia till the second dsy
after publication, and business letters
witten in Columbia, say on Monday
afternoon, reach New York so late in
the day that corr espondents do not re-
ceive them till Thursday morning.
1t will thus be seen tnat the business
communities of Richmond, Va, Will
mington, N. c., and Charleston and
Columbia, s. c., suffer, aud are ma
terialIy lmpeded. in their commercial
transactions, net from the want of
railroads, but because of the jealousy
and rivalry of lines south of Washing
ton and Baltimore. For instance, one
railroad company largely interested in
line of steamers on the Potomac
river, and at the same time owners of
line of steamers on the Chesapeake
hay, and also of railroads. leading from
Portsmouth to Weldon, and from
the Potomac to Richmond--con.
Meeting with the said two lines
of steamers-so arrange their sched-
ules south of Washington and Balti-
more. that neither line shall competk
with the other, thus retarding the
transmission of the mails, and inf,cting
injury to our business to such an ex
tent, that for all practical purposes we
might as we'll be nearly twice as far
from the centres of trade. ..
Attracted by the success you have
met with IL other quarters, in your
efforts to secure the rapid transmits
sion of mails and believing that by
taking the mails off the lines that Sc
obstruct their transmission, you can
cofrect the evil of which we complain,
we respectfully pray that you will
order an investigation OF this matter,
and apply the proper remedy. and thus
SECURE. to US the benefits you have
secured to the business communities
of the North and West.
And your petitioners will ever pray.