The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-07-24
Orr NEW ORLEANS MAIL.

OUR NEW OkLEhNO MhAh' /
It is we'll known that our most I'M
portant mail route is the Red River
Landing one, connecting from New
Orleans at that point, by the three =
finest steamboats, in the world, the :
r, E. Lee. the Pargoud and the Nat a
chez. and that the most useful to US u
Of these three mails, comingby these P
packets, is the one leaving New or' l
| leans on Saturdays by the Natchez. Q
We mention this as a. preface TO an
other outrage in mail failures for at
least 60 days that we are to endure
and which actually had good be-
ginning on Monday. We had to en-
dure last season for over two MONTHS
whilst the Natchez was laid up for
repairs, and placed on her day as
substitute (3) the Yazoo Valley,
stern. wheeler, and she failed every
single trip to reach the Mouth Of Red
River inside of "a hours, which Is
, very slow time, and consequently our
New Orleans mail which We should
receive regularly on Mondays inside
! of 4s hours, never reached us till
g Thursdays. over y hours behind
). That mail outrage, though gone and
d passed, which weendured with chris
g tian me,eekness, we had almost forgot
e ten and half forgiven, but as it has
NJ been revived, and was inaugurated on
q last Monday, We must put on record
e. our solemn protest against this "dam-
y nable deed"
'e The Natchez has again laid mp Tor
= repairs, and that same Yazoo Valley
or is again her substitute (2), and as 9
CD matter of course failed on her maiden
ng trim to reach the Mouth inside of q
d. hours, and as sequence we received
he no New Orleans mail on Monday, ant
is will only get it on Thursday, 9
nd behind time. Surely all sensibl
'ge men, particularly business men Q
1T common sense will admit the out
'he rage: as a next business and justlc
step must acknowledge that it ough
to be corrected, and corrected 9
OF once if possible. We battered on IN.
TALL last season, but in vain, but are nc
Of going now to pass it by iu silenc
In; and are determined to keep it befo'
n a the public and the powers that b
ing 9u and again suggest how it can be reu
~ = edied, and remedied easily, and
han even that remedy does inconvenien
ired DR.. B. H. Peterson, the .Contracto
n IN who now can't by law have sub-co
pay tractors directly or Indirectly,
anu M. should eagerly come to our reli
ere We know that the steamer Match
;hial and owners are the real ones to bla1
h 1am and who put us to this inconvenien'
~ .a" 49, but as they are entirely indisposed
citv do US Justice, and don't care d
rney for our mail facilities, we fall ba
from on the Contractor and ask him
,lary give US redress. and not to let us 81
shed fer for 60 days. That remedy
the plain and easy, and here it is:
q. ais. DR.. b. H. Peterson order his drl'
'"'0 at the Mouth not to leave on Snnd'
, :. TILL TIE ARRIVAL Of the Yazoo Y
81 IL lev. hut wait for her and bring
t the mail. Doing this his stage
Whole reach here nv 8 2. NJ, with our m
very instead of 2 r. NJ, as he eolnmen
900 on Monday, without mail, and Il
'o'' rests here % hours. This will
'n'rol the good remedy; the Contractor
lie of afford to do this for US, as the :
also chez crowd are so remiss OF d
ttor. and won't inconvenience things
....-. the least. This extra waiting of
lpore, g.. tho glow Yazoo VALLEY
'vern- all on the rest day and don't unh1
me is thingr here in the least. We ap
been, to DR.. Peterson, the contractor
ample DO us TINS simple a'' % '3''
to be "''o'a'a' ',o.....-,>,. ..~-~. 4
" for FREE CONCERT novel feae
with song and truly the "ponring o
trying mon the troubled waters! have
1T for peared id Alexandria, and we,
lature 10 our midst, for several days,