Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-06-11
ANYTHING'LL DO SOUTH.

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sippi Valley, who have no right to
complain of anything, were getting
along year after year in free and
easy way.
The Baton Rouge mail, transport
ed by the Bayou Sara and Vicksburg
packets, came up and down when
ever the fog, the weather, and the
convenience of the boat officers per-
mitted.
At last, about January of this year,
some one obtained q contract to carry
the mails to every Post Office situa-
ted between Donaldsonville and this
city. A staunch little propeller, the
Morning Star, steamed off every
morning at fifteen minutes of seven,
and at quarter of six, almost to the
minute, every evening, she arrived
at our wharf with the mails and New
Orleans morning papers.
Besides, the Morning Star convey
ed passen gers at reduced rates to and
fro from Post Office to Post Office, and
to the DonaidsonviIIe terminus of the
n. o. Pacific Railroad.
Our citizens were, every day, con-
graduating themselves and the de-
partment at Washington, that their
convenience had been looked to af-
ter lapse of sixteen years.
Alas, they had been made happy
by the Southern Postmaster General
Judge Key, who doubtless, felt a
kindly feeling towards the far South,
so long tabooed by the Republican
loyalists.
A man named James, appointed by
the liberal minded Garfield, was in
stalled at the head of the Post Office
Department.
The Star Routes fraud was dished
up and honest James began to econo-
mize the peoples money. He sup
pressed the Star Routes, very careful
ly however "to hum
Having done that, he turned his
eye Southwark, towards the steam
boat service, and discovered that the
Baton Rouge people and those Of the
Mississippi coast, were served better
through their daily carrier than they
had ever been.
His loyal feelings were aroused to
the right pitch of indignation and he
issued his mandate that the little pro-
peller should cease to carry mails
and accommodate the reDellious Lou
isianians, from and after the 1st of
July pro2imo.
And our people will have to bid
farewell to old Captain Surls, the
genial mail agent,,; Captain Penny
witt, the intrepid and experienced
master and also to the jaunty little
propeller, the only visible return that
the National Government has been
giving for the moneys levied
through the Revenue Department,
the Custom House at New Orleans,
and the protective tariff of the great
Republican party, whose Garfield
dispenses the Federal patronage at
Washington.
Withal, the South must be loyal
and feel cOmforted with what crumbs
her people receive. They must not
be solid against the generous Repub-
lican party, to whom they are indebt-
ed for so many (9) favors!
Have we not carpet-baggers and
scallawags for judges, postmasters,
revenue officers. etc?
What more are we entitled to
haveg
SO q mail is furnished us now and
then, the duty of Postmaster General
James will be fulfilled towards the
State. which Kellogg, the offspring
of the Joe Bradley Frand, claims to
represent.
Our friends at Port Hudson, Bayou
Sara, Clinton, WOodville, POinte COu-
pee and Red River Landing can shake
hands with us and cease to look for
ward to daily mail and travelling ac-
cOmmodations to the future Baton
Rouge terminus of the n. O. Pacific
Railroad.