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fcMj feraii tastiliiH & Boifc
BY JAMES GARDNER.
[From the Charlatan Mercury.\
Mail Transportation.
* Post Offick Dkfartxknt. Oct. 3,1854.
Gentlemen: I beg leave to submit herewith
•opies of a correspondence with John Caldwell,
Esq . President ot the South Carolina Railroad*
Company, which you will very much oblige me
by publishing in your paper.
The Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
Company, some lime since, assented to the terms
proposed by me, and if Mr. Caldwell, on behalf
ot his Company, had done likewise, Charleston,
Augusta, Atlanta, and the intermediate country,
would row be enj rying the advantages etForded
by double daily mails.
On the 2d ot September, ultimo. W. W. Harb
lee. President of Wilmington end Manchester
Railroad Company, wrote the Department as
fellows
** 1 have just received a message from Mr.
Caldwell, President South Carolina Railroad,'hat
he had agreed to take the doubie dally m<d,s, an..
1 suppose will make tiie connection with our
present day train."
On the 6tb ultima. Mr. Caldweii .eems to
Lae. eb 't.ged les vie as, as appears by his lettei
of that date, a copy of which is furnished here
with.
1 am, respectfully, &c., &c.
JAMES CAMPBELL.
Messrs. Heart and Tauer.
Post Ossies Blvartmext, June C 1854.
Changes have lately been ordered, which will
bring the mail from New Orleans to Augusta by
7P. ,M.; that is, Si hours in advance of the pre
sent time. Corresponding changes this side of
Augusta have been delayed solely on account of
the reluctance which you are supposed to enter
tain to running regular mail and passenger trains
on your roads by night. You will now readily
perceive that bv taking forward the mails from
Augusta— .W at 84 P. M —a business day will
be “ained to Charleston and all points this sue.
The Pos'mister Genera! therefore hopes that yon
will yield to the urgent necessity ot the case, and
assent to changing your schedules so as tode.iver
the mails at Kingsville, say by 3, or 34, A. M
Going South, the mail may be delivered at
Kingsville by 8 A. M. (from Wilmington)
Please to favor me with your early answer.
(Stoned) W. H. DUNDAS,
' 8 ' 2d Ass’t P. M. Gen l.
John Caldwell, Pres’t, &e., Charleston, S. C.
Office of South Carolina R. R. Co ,
Charleston, June 9th, 1854.
Dear Sir : Yours ot the 6th was duly received,
requesting this Company to change their mail
schedule. The matter is ot great importance to
the public, and great difficulty to this read. Un
der these circumstances, I have thought best to
visit the Department and confer more fully on
the matter. You may expect me about the 15th
instant.
Yours, very respectfully,
(Signed) JOHN CALDWELL,
President.
,W. H. Dundas, Esq., 2d Ass’t P. M. Gen’l.
Post Office Department, June 29, 1554.
You arg aware that the advantages expected
to result from the changes of schedules, not long
since made on a portion of the great Northern
and Southern mail line, are entirely lost this side
o' Augusta Ga , owing to the want of due con
nection between that place and Wilmington, N
C., and that if the mails left Augusta at 8 p. m.,
as proposed to you on the 6th inst., instead ot
being delayed until 64 o’clock next morning, as
now, they might readily be expedited at least
12 hours to Washington and New York, being a
gain of an entire business day. All the. Rad
road Companies interested, except yonr C ompa
ny and tbe Wilmington and Manchester, are
bow either running, or ready to run. so as to car
ry out this improvement, and the chief impedi
ment is on your road, where you decline making
the desired changes of hours of the present
trains, unless allowed $306 per mile for two dai
ly t.air s each way. The expedition in question,
of course, actually requires but_a change ol your
schedule vdthcut additional ecrecce. and such chan
ges are daily made throughout tbe country in
order to expedite mails, by keeping up due con
nexions, agreeably to express stipulation in all
Contracts, without additional pay. This Depart
ment h? 1 therefore just grounds to expect that,
liken to# r Railroad Compa lies, your Company
would adopt schedules, suited to those cm con
•ecttog routes, and not allow* the great mails to
be delayed, whatever other changes you might
consider necessary lor the accommodation ot lo
cal interests, and it is deeply regretted that your
xLcLion has been otherwise.
I appreciate the difficulties which yon Lave
represented as being peculiar to your roads, but
they are not •>.?-.-h as to justify me in yielding to
your demands fur additional pay. indeed theie
are no circumif-ances which could induce me to
allow S3OO per mile for twice du* y service on
uy Railroad, he -ause I believe tbe amount en
tirely too nigh. No contract or arrangement
this b—n. or Anil be, made by me at that rate.
The exis'icg cn<-s should l ot Lave been mad",
had I be»n m: office at the time, ai d I am 'd
determined if the question comes befoie rr.
not to rene w -rn in theseme rote
Deprived , f the right to change S' ’doles,
•ri’hout arfdrt > •t* ■ efficiency ot th De
partment woe d t> - most seriously impaired, as
improvements ol its service. ho.mer important,
■would coiietor/ly be liable so defeat, by of )• ■
tion- o’ .■ sin/.e point in a 1 >■ g eham o: Conner -
tioi.-. J. tbe: ' -e, expectoi! you to co operati
U; expo -r f mar! by limply leaving Au
gusto at Bp. rr . rr, "rad of 6) a rrr. Being,
bow. -r. i’ fbe ■nmr ‘ : me dei n,/ anxitlu
"fc, • -t', ol double daffy serviceextoi ’I-
ed 1 * '* N C., I l ave determin
off • r« reflection, to offer for the sarr;,
g - ■' ' t..-dis'.ii ce from King-viile -.
Au i;cnul allowance, but it v.illmak'
y,. ■ ,! ’o ib d- a other roads eonv. ymg
i , i■«, t trial!:, t»r -ria ly. or ot ner,and
ns 1* iin I oil ’fie r. wjoiit’, ol
♦he - i others. , -io, aof trie cot i
try I
y I, g.r-sr roii’. s so n Neu
for ’s’, v,i ■i, ami K,.iir gli.-bl o 80-toi,
nine .v-- > ii,o are rr. i'le encl way, ai
tl-li/.u -rdr'
I > . . ? ; I, . . .
JW23 i. -or the t.in.e number -it tiij -.
While it h bi' Ss'lJ on the conned in,. re • *■ .
Aorn Al> any to Buffalo, and th ‘ same fro ri N. '.v
T.rk to Du. UK , *2UO a mile is also ;;aei from
Philadelphia to Pittabu.-/. Pa , sr.d Irom Balt.
More to Harrisburg tor 12 daily mail#.
Sir.r e the transfer < f the gn at marl t» tl •
4Fiia..-;p,t<m an I M nc'.iaier Railroad. t» e jwy r u
trrir r uu’e between (> nrle-'oii an-i lir.-nrh':
:» r-.-i-. u'iriui lu’ I 'W 50 ptr milt .ihlroug'n
tin bigh-.-at rate e' .- a here n.r similar service i-,
bet 8160 |K‘r mile. Irnieed yt>u an- aware, that
the Georgia O trai Ra Iroad coiiveye rnurl,
twice daily at #175 per rode ar.d the Wesleru
mid Atlal * C'.‘an r a' 8100 er ir.ili—t n Istt -if
bev. a I-Ige r'r</U4;/t mall In o’l r-r #"<-110:1-
A ■ ,is • ill In t-r ;nsrm ms m-t. . 113 fj. r
JW|V tn-rr. B s'-o *O I'm r’, I-.- rwp dull, air)
£, v aol hi • i. ii- h. - vast beneli'e
4;.-u’» r.#9 '.'iijo )■'. r/ ■ . n.g ttA.s.l! t
! now made, I trust I shall leceive your favorable
answer at an early day.
Ja<. CAvti‘BKt.l., Postmaster Gen’l.
John Caldwkli., Pres’t S. C. R R. Co. Charles
ton, 8. C.
I Office S. C. R. R Co. Charleston, July, 3,1854.
, Dear Sir: Yours of the 29th is just at hand, I
• owing to my absence from t .e city—hence this |
i late reply
1 duly appreciate your desire to extend tbe j
I direct mail connection between Augusta arid!
■ Wilmington, and assure you that this company i
j is not wanting in a spirit of liberality towards |
j tbe public service. I
> Their obligations to their stockholders compel >
! the Directors to decline making a further sacri- :
; tice than will lie made by putting on the addi- j
t lienal train with the additional pay required— I
say 813 000. This you will see. from the state- j
rnent left with you. leavesa loss to the Company i
|of forty thousand dollais. The one-half ot this |
j cannot be made up by increase ot passage, as is j
! the case with the Northern Roads. Our popula- |
; tion is light, and our present train can carry three |
> times the number of irassengers that we can get i
j We have therefore little hopes of increasing our ’
I passage by an increased train.
The whole question with this Company 1S ,
wL>t extent they will sacrifice money tor the
public goo '. and they think their offer is as fair
a. the claims of the public could require.
I do assure you, sir. that tro wish on the put
of this Company to extort increased pay exists,
nor no spirit unworthy of the most liberal Com
pany having in charge the.private interest ot the
Stockholders, controls their action.
I therefore hone that you will not look on the
Company with an unfriendly feeling.
• Should you desire to do so. you may put on the
train, and avoid paying the three hundred dollars
per mile, by changingthe modeot computing the
distance on our road. Youean pay for the trains
Iro.-n Charleston to Columbia, aud from Charles
ton to Augusta, at such a price as will make the I
same amount. This is only a suggestion for
your reflection. Very respectfully, your obedient
servant (Signed) J no. Cai.tiwli.l.
President.
Hon. James Campbell, Postmaster General, ,
Washington, D. C.
Pose Office DseAR-ratsxT, July 17, 1854.
Sib : I have to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the sth instant, and to express my
profound regret that you decline accepting my
offer ol 8250 per mile, for conveying mails twice,
daily, between Augusta,Georgia, and Kingsville.
South Carolina.
I I had hopes that the reasons presented by me
lon the 29th ultimo, as being entirely conclusive
to my own mind, might gain your assent, and
lead to s speedy correction of the present unfor
tunate delay of tbe great mails from the South,
I which is to change the hour of departure from
i Augusta, Georgia.
i Wrthout resorting to a vain repetition of for
mer arguments, I beg leave to bring before you
| again, one consideration, which seems not to
'have duly arrested your attention. I allude to
I the transfer of the great mails from that portion
lof your route between Charleston and Branch
ville, without change of pay,
Since the Ist ot February, only a local mail
has been conveyed there, for which you were en
titled to SIOO per mile, per annum, at most; be
ing the rate of pay for similar service on the
Macon and Western, Muscogee and Western, and
Atlantic Railroads, in Georgia No reduction, ■
however, was made; aud you continue to re- .
ceive the foil pay of 8237 50 per mile for first |
class service—being a.clear departure in favor ol '
your Company, from a heretofore fixed and in- i
vol (able rule of this Department. You have
' thus been paid for one daily local mail, $62 50
I per mile more than the allowance for two daily
- mails of the same class, on the Georgia Central
I Road, and $137 50 per mile more than the pay
j t or a much larger mail on the Western and At
i antic Road.
There is another point, which I must now sub
mit for the first time, in order fully to meet your
statements as to the additional cost ol double
’ daily lines on your Road.
’■! The contract between your Company and this
' Department unconditionally provides tor two daily
: I mails from Charleston to Augusta and back, at
the present rate ot pay. It must be well known
to you that such service was actually performed,
■ and that the second or Express 1 rain, was fie
■ quently required to make extraordinary speed, in
order to preserve connections aLAugusta, accord-,
ing to the terms of the contract. What was the
actual expense thus involved to your Company,
th s Department has no means of ascertaining;
but it is understood to have been greater than
that of tbe ordinary m ill train, which is put
down at $26371 25 per annum, in the caicula-
■ tions submitted ttom your General Superintend
’ ent. This sum, then, at least, is saved by with
drawing the great mail from the»route between
Charleston and Branchville, and permitting the
' discontinuance of the Express Train, and should
be deducted from your estimate- ol the additional
* expense of doubie service.
I invite your paiticular attention to this eub
-1 ject, in order to sh»w that it has been my aim to
* treat with you on the most liberal terms.
’ Yoar Company (by H. W. Conner, late P |es >'
1 dent) specially recommended the double dally
service, without additional pay. upon tbe ground
' llmtthe mails would he ex;>edited, and that it
• would be speedily followed by the running of two
• trains a dav by nil the Railroads North and South
of Charleston, and contracts were executed ae
coidingly. You ..avediscontinued an expensive
pm lion of the service, without the sm.ction ol
■ if,- Department, probably < -d- r r.h - mi-l.ikio
impression that I* wa- es’a'drshed solely wi>h a
vie* to obvia’-e the iriegm.rWies *d the boa'.#
and a redacti-m of pay sLooid .oflow.as a matter
ot course.
These "rahont, it *■; ’o trie, shouhi
iidlwnct? you to accept tny oli—r but i! not, I
rr-.mt ask you to say dis'ir ■ ~’y « >*tt.er you will
or not agree Io rim one m*. icj lu.e b- - -.vecu Au
’ gus»a and Ki .gsville, in due connec'Kin at Au
■ gtrMa. so as to prevent the jiresent delay of minis
at that point
I'he Wilmington and Manchestei Company,
• .i; all other cuntiactois, arc feutly and anxious
f i this improvement.
l s js jmpeiHttvely demand'd by the .ateres’a
>f the country, and every ♦Hurt on my pait has
!>een used to efc'Ct it. 1 trust you will not be
To persist in your oty ettons. but contn
bur«- your part towards a piofwr expedition ol
mail‘l, instead ot taking tbe sole renpcusibill
yot leUrding them, ite great advantage ol
iLnhodd over oV.*er modes ol cou-
si-’h j i the increased expedition nil outed to the
rr..ul , t but in theea■*»•<•: your Koat-s. this i.fh an
l* ennndy lus\ and quite equal H n<»t t'leafer
ex(*e>iition obtained by an inlurior mode 1
ot tiauHportation.
JA M IIS C A *ll ’UE•, L, P M. Genei d.
Juun Calowlll, Pies’t, kt'.. Charleston, fj. C.
Orries # C. R R Co. July 2<s‘b, IftJi
L>icar Sir- Tours of the 17 h bns been duly
considered That portion ol ibis road Irom
Charleston to Branchville, is The most exp» nyi v»*
pm'». of our road, us we ar*- compelled to mn two
f r iins to»in Charleston io Br undiville, io enubl
tia to carry a until ou the two road# abovu hi’
Ai re.’rtp’a th<* u i f 4< v » - n hr I h»- I)--partme:?,
iu si, n'»hi filin’ the oi tht Expn • li.on unless
when Th • bou’s 'Ud no' .i> 1 1. • ( n .in . ioi he H
o’clock trmn I'hi. ny «!u!) 4
ui.<l at' no* !»'d.” • in ’ ■ i-'i. ».,k
cnat tfiih Ct Vlp»ny Js » . .. f. (1 .
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
tion from the Department for carrying the even-'
ing mail from this place to and from Augusta and j
Columbia, for the last two years, without charge- :
Under all circumstances the Company have
concluded to propose to put bn tbe extra train,
and run it at two bundled and seventy-five ($275)
dollars per mile; this arrangement to continue till j
tbe end ot our present contract, when it is hoped j
: that we may each be enabled by the experience
lof that time to more easily agree on fair rates, j
I We shall expect this schedule to be such, that
i our trains from Columbia to Augusta will meet I
l at Branchville. Very resoectfully, I
JNO. CALDWELL. Presid’t S. C. R. R Co.
I Hon J. Campbell P. M. Gen. Washington, D.C. I
I
Post Office Department, July 29, 1854. |
I Sir : Your letter of 26th inst. is received, and I
! I have to say in answer, that your proposal to !
i perform twice daily mail service between K’r.gs-
I ville and Augusta, at $275 per mile, cannot be I
I accepted. I
This subject lias heretofore received my most
I mature consideration My views have been I
I fully communicated to yo.i. and it is my fixed |
i determination not to exceed the offr*r which has
i been made you of $250 per mile. I have reasons \
in general for such decision, and moreover pre- ;
rented tpecial reasons applicable alone to your j
roads. 1 showed that you were receiving be- ;
tween Charleston and Branchville a much high- j
er rate of pay than is allowed on any other route j
in the country for similar service, and that you .
are really now bound, by contract, to perform j
double service on the whole route between i
Charleston and Augusta, at $273 50 per mile. In ;
addition, I must remind you, that double daily I
service is now in operation at that rate between '
Augusta and Atlanta, —an important fact, which, ;
of itself, demands your particular notice, and l
which, with the other considerations adverted to,
should, it seem, to me, speedily influence your 1
action. I must be permitted to hope, that no j
further delay will take place, but that my offer I
| will be immediately accepted. I am, respect- I
I fully, your obt. serv’t.
JAMES CAMPBELL, P. M. General. .
j John Caldwell. Presid’t, &c.,Charleston, S. C.
I Office of S. C. R. R. Co.. July 31, 1853.
I Dear Sir : Yours of the 29th was duly re- 1
‘ ceived. I regret you did not accept my offer ol j
! two hundred and seventy-five dollars per mile,
on the Road from Charleston to Augusta, and
i from Branchville to Columbia, and not from I
| Kingsville to Augusta, as you understood me to
I sa y- !
I apprehend that you have not examined the
I condition of our contracts with refenence to the ;
Express train. You will see from the enclosed
copy that the Express train was modified, by
suspending it when it was not necessary to make
the connect on on failure of the arrival ot the
boats, a id the use of the 5 o’clock train adopted
lin placed it to Augusta. We have also conveyed
a mail to Columbia by the evening train from this
place without pay.
You cannot doubt rny great desire to agree ,
with the Department, as you have many evi- ,
deuces of that disposition. I visited Washing- j
ton twice to offer a service not called by the '
! interests of this Company, but to meet the pub- '
lie wishes. I hope you will not consider that I j
am trying to press the Department to give ad- '
ditional pay for a service that we are willing to j
perform. My obligations to the Stockholders of >
tfiis Company is my first duty, and I should not
be worthy of their trust if I should make a I
J greater saciifice than I have proposed to make. '
| I do hope when you have duly considered, |
I that to do more than I have offered to do, would 1
i be to sacrifice private pronerty for public gDC.f,
which lam certain you would not require I j
hope that you will accept my offer as 1 said in
my last, as an experiment for the balance of our
contract ; and when the time conies for letting
the contracts next year from Washington to this
place, if we find that we can perform the ser
vice without loss at a lower piice we will do so,
but without some test 1 cannot agree to do bet
ter than I have offered. ,
Vei v respectfully, your ob’t servant.
JNO. CALD WELL. Pres’t S. C. R. R. Co.
Hon James Campbell, P. M. General, Wash
ington.
Post Office Department.
Contract Office, May 17, 1852.
Sir: Tbe following is the schedule for Route
No. 3131, recently ordered by the Postmaster
“ General :
Leave Charleston daily at Ba. tn., and ll*a.
m. (Express)
! Arrive at Augusta same day by 3 p. m., and
! p. m.
I Ist June to Ist Nov.—Arrive at Charleston
by 14 p. m,
Ist Nov. to Ist June —Leave Augusta daily
at 7 a. rn. mid 10*a. m. (Express.)
Ist Nov. to Ist June.—Arrive at Charleston
by 2 p. tn. and 2 p. m. (Express.)
to be omitted when unnecessary
for connection ol great mail, and to leave at 5
p. m.
Fines will be imposed for all failures to con
' vey the -mail in time above prescribed, unless sat
isfactorily explained with proper proof. Copies of
this schedule are furnished to the Postmasters at
the ends of the Routesfwbo are required to repoit
every failure. Respectfully, your
rvant.
1 (Signed) FITZHENRY WARREN,
Second Assistant Postmaster General.
To If: nut W. Conner, Presidept S. C. R. R.
Co., Charleston, S. C.
l
i Pcsr Office Department, Aug. 23, 1834.
Ssa : Your letter ol the 31st ult. is received.
1 fully understand the conditions of your contract
with ieterence to the Expre.s Train. The modi-
I lication to which you refer, was simply a change
of hours, and a diminution of the speed; Two
• tally mails each w ay were sl ill rr q’lired, an'! no
leil.; lion of the service has been authorised.
The additional mail on the Columbia branch
, was considered of too little importance to notice.
It is my most anxious wish to extend the dcu
hie service South of Wilmington, and I deeply
. regret that you haw declined my offer of $250
per mile for .-’ll improvement, which would re
i rkntnd so largely to the advantage of Charleston
and ether Southern cities.
Having now exhausted all tbe means within
my power, and failed in my purpose, owing to
your refusal to perform service, as I have clearly
shown, unless at a higher rate of compensation
than is allowed elsewhere in the country, (con
sideling -the terms ot your contract) there re
mains nothing for me to do, except to insist that
von make proper connect ion with the mail now
conveyed Irom the South. I therefore expect
that you will arrange at the earliest day, for
changing your schedule, s i ns to leave Augusta
at 8 p. m. ar d thus expedite the mails a whole
bn.iriess day to Charleston and all point* this
aide. I am. respectfully, vour obt. serv’t,
JAMES CAMPBELL. P. M. General.
Julia CaLDWici.l. Esq. President S C. R R. Co.,
Charleston, S. C.
Offuji: S. C. R. R. Co., Aug 9. 1854,.
Deas Sir ; You is of the Ist inst. drily received,
in which you older this Company t« change
their tehetlule, so as to leave Augusta at 8 p. rn.
instead ot 6),ii. m. You do riot say at whst
time we must arrive at Kingsville, or at wi.ot
time we shall leave Kingsville and arrive at Au
gust a,
Please give n," the toll schedule yon wi»h u
to ruu Yon ,!u ■>»»• say what compensation you
prop s- ioi Hi - ctrongo I service, tvhicli is a
night service for a day service. Very respectful- I
ly, your ob’t. serv’t,
(Signed) JNO. CALDWELL, President. |
Hon. James Campbell, P. M.Washington, D.C.
Post Office Department, Aug. 11,1854. •
Sih: After my several letters to you, and!
which 1 must be allowed to say, have not been ;
felly answered, I am much astonished by the
tenor of your last, dated 9’h inst., which is just I
received.
The idea of additional compensation for night
service, now suggested by you, in view of all
that I have said to yon on the subject of compen
sation generally, strikes me with unmitigated
svrprise ; and I have to say, that unless you per
form double daily service on tbe terms proposed
to you, I shall be compelled to reduce the pay
between Charleston an I Branchville to the rate
allowed elsewhere for similar service. It will
alsa become matter fur serious consideration
whether the paj- should not be reduced between
Augusta and Branchville, as you are now bound
to perform double daily service.
Without tbe latter reduction, vour pay for a
sirigle daily mail will be $237 50 from Kingsville
to Ajigusta, and SIOO per mile between Charles
te Branchville, and Columbia and Kiflgs
vifie Leaving Augusta at Bp. m. the mails
should reach Kingsville by 34 a. m. Going
South no change of schedule, (for a single daily
mail) is now contemplated. The favor of your
•arly answer is requested.
I am, respectfully, your ob’t. serv’t,
(Signed) JAMES CAMPBELL.
John Caldwell, President, S. C. R. R. Com.,
Charleston, S. C.
Office South Carolina R. R. Co.,
Charleston, August 19th, 1854.
Sir: The additional compensation asked is
founded upon the additional service proposed to
ibe performed. The present trains cannot be
discontinued, and to conform to the requirements
1 of the Department, an additional and extra train
must be run for the special service. And the right
' to ask it, is found in that clause of the contract
which provides that “The Postmaster General
! may increase” the service, or change the sched
' tile, he allowing a pro rata increase or compen
sation within the restrictions “imposed bylaw
i for the additional service required.”
j The right of the Departmeu to reduce tbe
. present compensation of the Company, while !
the service originally stipulated for is regularly |
I and faithfully performed by the Company can
j not be admitted. We now receive $237 50 per
! mile for this service, from Charleston to Augus-
• ta, and from Branchville to Columbia, including
! the double daily service, which, I would again
| repeat, has always been, and still continues to
1 be, regulaily performed. This compensation
I we aie satisfied with, and we respectfully pru-
I pose that the contract should be allowed to re-
I main on the present terms, both as to service and
I compensation.
• It this is not agreeable to the Department,
; then we now beg leave to give notice, that we
r will relinquish the contract, and discontinue our
(service, 32 th? first day of October next, in pur-
suance of the provision that,
i “The Contractor may, in case of increased
(service, or change of schedule, relinguish the
j contract,” on timely notice, if they prefer it to
I the change.
R- spectfully, yours, &c.
! JOHN CALDWELL. Prest S. C. R. R. Co.
[ Hon James Campbell, Postmaster General,
• Washington, D. C.
j Post Office Department, Aug. 21, 1834.
1 Sir : I have concluded the arrangement with
1 (ieners.! Ha#!!--, for -'aub!-.- mail sei vice, bs-
I tween Wilmington, N. C., and Kingsville, S. C:,
: at 8250 per mile.
j Similar service on your roads is thus rendered
I more important than heretofore, and I hope you
I will not any longer hesitate accepting my pro
| position.
I I am, respectfully, your obt. serv’t.
■ (Signed) JAMES CAMPBELL.
John Caldwell, Esq , Prest S. C. R. R. Co..
; Cuarleston. S. C.
!
( .Charleston, So. C. Sept. 6th.. 1854.
, Dear Sir: On my return from Washington,
i I applied to the W. and M. R. R. Co. to see if
- they could give us time enough to allow us ten
i hours between Kingsville and Augusta, and they
; say they cannot, until their bridge is done, and
■ then only one hour of time more.
; The time of leaving Kingsville now is 2} a.
jm. allowing only 64 hours from Augusta to
' Kingsville, 7.J hours is the proper time for the
| running of a passenger Train, and our night
j trains aie freight trains, making only ten miles
per hour. Therefore you will see that tbe con
nection cannot be made without creating addi
tional expense, and the necessity for the Addi
tional pay.
1 dislike to press on you the consideration of
this matter of increased pay, caused by the in
creased expense, but this company cannot be
i governed by any other rule than that the pay for
mail service should depend upon the expense to
the company in carrying the mails, and the pro
position to cuiry them forms a just [ art of the
expense at this point. 1 must again refer you
to the report of the Engineer of this company,
W. M. Stockton, on the 4th inst., of the expense,
a copy of which I left with you
j There is another view of this matter that I
' would invite your attention to; all of the roads
referred to by you, to show that our mails p y
was sufficient, are paid for service on all tbe
length of the ditfeieut roads, and Trains engaged
in their regular business Now you not only re
quire us to put on the road a train not required
tor the business of the road, but you do not pay
us forth.? use of those trains on all parts of our
road, orc;, all the running of the trains.
You are aware that we are compelled to or
ganise tv. o trains in Charleston, one for Augusta,
and the other for Columbia; each of those trains
i must be prepared to peifolm the service equal in
axpe ise to carrying the mail over the whole line
of load, while only one of those trains receive
pav from Charleston to Branchville.
Now I admit this grows out of the peculiar lo
cation of our road; but before the road existed,
two .stages run from Charleston, one to Augusta
and the other to Columbia, and each received
pay under separate contracts. I cannot see why
we should not receive pay on each of the Trains,
as they are each necessary to can y thg mails to
Augusta and Columbia. Now this appears to
be a fair mode of estimating the length of the
service; and if you will allow us the $237.50 on
the 270 miles run by our trains, we will make
the connection required, and put an end to all
further difficulty attending this subject.
Very respectfully
JNO CALDWELL, Prest. S. C. R.R. Cor
lion. Jamiis Campbell, P. Master Gen. Wash
ington, D. C.
Detroit, Oct. 9.— Stumer Hurnt—Tu:enty~
three Pirithed by the I'laiues or Drowning — Tile
steamer E. K. Collins, which left here last night
with a large number of passengers irom Sault for
Cleveland, took file about midnight near Malden,
anti was soon completely enveloped in flames.
I'here was of course great consternation among
the passengers, most of whom were asleep, and
many plunged into the water. Twenty-three
perished by lire or drowning. Amongthe miss
n g are Mi . Dibble, of New York ; Samuel Pow
ell, Lawrence Whalon, and Thomas Cook, the
Pittsburg railroad agent, all of Cleveland; Mis.
McKeilley. Mrs. Watrous and child, of Ashta
bula, and fifteen of the ciew. The origin of the
flu- was"unknown. Among the saved is B. F
Dubois, of Philadelphia.
VOL. 33 -NEW SERIES- VOL. -9 NO. 35.
{Telegraphed for the Baltimore -American.]
HORRIBLE CATASTROPHE ’
THE ARCTIC
In COLLIS SION with an IRON Propeller.
New Y r oEK, Oct, 11.—The ship Lebanon ar
rived here at an early hour this morning, bringing
tidings of a horrible catastrophe to t..e steamer
uirrtic, and bringing about twenty of her passen
gers picked up at sea.
The survivors report that on the night of the
27th ult, during a dense fog, tbe Arctic came in
collision with a steam propeller, bark rigged, of
iron, with black hull,salmon colored bottom, and
lead colored boats. She is thought to have been
the s'samer Charity, from Montreal for Liver
pool. Upwards of 200 persons were seen on the
deck of the propeller immediately alter the colli
sion. The Arctic was going at the rate of tbir
'em knots an hour.
The Arctic commenced to render assistance
but soon discovered her own leak, which gained
fast, soon ex inguishing the fires. The discovery
ot this fact caused an indescribable panic among
the passengers end crew. Tbe boats were rapid
ly launched and filled with the cr. w and a few I
passengers, who succeeded iu lighting their way
on board, and drifted off on the open sea in a
dense fog, all crowded to excess, with but little
provisions or water.
Cept. Luce, with Mr. Dorian, his mate, re
mained on board to construct a raft, on which to
endeavor to save the great body of the passen
gers, including women and children who still re
mained on the ill-fated steamer.
As soon as the raft was launched, there was a
sudden panic on board and numbers got on the
raft and in the sixth boat iu the greatest haste
and consternation, and in three minutes the Arc
tic sunk. Ail in the sixth boat were saved, but
only one out of the seventy-two on the raft. It
having more on it than was possible forittosus
tain, they were all cast into the sea, in tbe pres
ence of the lew survivors in the boat.
At 5 P. M.,on the 28tb, the bark Huron, ot
St. Andrews, N. 8., Capt. Wad, bound for Que
bec, picked up the boat, the last of the six that
left steamer, and took them on board.
The Huron fired rockets, hung out lights, and
kept a horn blowing during the nightot the 28th,
but all hopes of falling iu with the remaining
j boats, proved fr "itle«».
t On the evening of the 29th the Huron spoke
the ship Lebanon, Capt. Story, bound to New
York, aud transferred 18 of her passengers, who
reached that city in the pilot boat, Christian
Bera.
The fate of the propelior, which was thought
to be greatly damaged, and the other five boats
are not certainly known. On the morning of
the 28th tbe Hhron saw a singular looking craft,
before falling in with the boat, which it is thought
might have been the propeller.
The list of saved taken to Quebec on the Union
are as follows:
Lnke McCarthy; Joseph Cornall, Richard
Makan; James Aty, the ship’s cook; Thomas
Conroy; James Connor; John Drury; Christian
Moran; James Ward, and Christopher Callaher,
all firemen, Thomas Wilson, assistant engineer;
Robert Bryan; David Barry, and Erastus Miller,
all waiters,
Those that arrived in this port on the Selanor
are Edward Mahon; Thomas Gariand; Patrick
Casey; Patrick Tobin; Dobbin, and
Carrigan, all filemen. Thomas Brenan, assistant
engineer; John Cannolly, engineers steward;
Thomas Stanson, office’s steward; James Cano
gan, porter; Michael McLauglin, and the boy
Peter McCabe, picked up in tbe water at the
time of the siuKing ot the 6tb boat.
The Lebanon also brings the following pas
sengers who were in the boat:
William-Nicholls, of Trescou, Sicily Islands.
Henry Jenkins, of do. do.
James Thompson, of New Orleans.
Capt. Paul F. Grann, of New York.
George H. Burns, of Philadelphia.
Francis Dorian of New York, third officer.
Passengers on the Boat.—The five boats,
which may have reached land or have been
picked up, are known to have contained,— —
Goniey first officer. Thomas Wilde, boatswain ;
Balam, second officer; Graham, fourth
officer; Moore, of New York, passenger;
Rogers, chief engineer; Drown, first en
gineer; Walker, second do.; ——.Willet, third
do.; Daniel Connolly, John Moigan, John Flan
agan and Patrick McCauley, fireman ; Messrs.
Dingeil. Kelley and Simpson, and a young men
named Robinson, under instructions in tbe en
gineer’s depHitment, besides the sailors and
quartermasters.
List of Known Victims —Among those
last seen on the deck of Tne Arctic a few mo
ments before she sunk were tbe following—
Capt. Luce and son.
Mrs. E. Collins, Master Cort. Collins, and
Miss Collins, of the family of thv owner of tbe
line. t
Mr. Brown and family, a connection of the
senior of the firm ot Biown, Shipley A Co.,
Li ver po<d.
Mr. Bowen, of Cincinnati; Charles Springer
of Cincinnati.
Janies Muiiihead, of Petersburg, Va.
Mr. Hewett, and Mrs Hewett and daughter,
of Frederickburg, Va.
A nephew of Mr. Bloodgood, of Philadelphia,
the hotel keeper residing in Albany.
Duke de Grammont, of the French Embass y
Stewart Hillen, of Washington, D. C.
J. Cook, ot Opelousas, La., and many more.
Mr. Comstock brother of the commander of
the Baltic, was drowned by the capsizing of one
of the boats whilst being [owered.
George H. Burns, of Adams’ Express, fur
nishes the above particulars, and says that the
Government despatches from France and Eng
land, given by him and Mr. Buchanan, he could
not save. - •
The propelior could not have beet) tbe Chari
ity, as she is being advertised to leave Que
beck on the 20tb inst. It may have brvn n
British propelior from Canada conveiing troi-p-
The number on board the Aide was as 'id
lows:
Passengers 235
Crew ; ....175
Total 439
But fifty seven oi the numbei uroi '• k’ •>
Io be saved.
The following is a list of the saved, for-' a 1 ■
to us from Halifax by Telegraph l lu-y <. •
only those saved in the boat with the 2d mate-
William Brahlam.
B C. Ward; W. Gihou, Ji . W. P. Rathbone, T
Hennssey. E. M. Guss, Dr. Maycer. D -
p-isner, 11. Moore, J. McGrath, J. Bogait, W.
A. Young. W. W. Gilbert, E. Mitchelcia, Gen.
Dowdt, C. Du Lueml.
List of Crew Saved.—John L. Crib, purssr;
Mark Graham, 4th mate; David Reed, bout
swain’s mate; Win. Biablam, 2d mate, John La
guer, Ist asa’t engineer.
Tbe following seamen were also saved:- - Allen
Weeks, Lynn, Davis, Humphreys,Tupper,P ge.
Jones, McGee, Mcßath, Bluke, Jeakins, Siniih
Thomas, Fleming, and Burley, carpenter. The
following firemen were also saved:—Dufin. Ca
non, Egan, Larkin, Mahin, Mercer, and Hard
wick, a bedroom servant,and Waddington, Raid,
and B ker, waiteia.
Tin: Steamer in Cohtaoi.—The secretary
of the Board ot Underwriters at New York lih»
received information that the steamer in eontae'
with the Arctic waa the Cleopatra, from Quebec,
for Liverpool, withalarge nutnberof passenge s.
all of whom are supposed to bay# perished.
The Howards at Savannah and Charles
ton.—The New Orleans Delta of the 7th inst.
says, the following extract from a letter of Judge
Livingston, to tbe Howard Association, lias been
kindly furnished to us by one of the Howards :
Charleston, Oct. 1, 1854.
We arrived here .yesterday. One physician
and four nurses were left at Savannah, and one
physician and six nurses at Augusta. The town
ot Augusta has stepped out—the stampede ir
general. To see the wagon-loads of furniture,
beds, cooking utensils, and every imaginable
fixing along all outlets from Augusta, one would
imagine that a victorious army was marching
upon the place, and that the inhabitants were
flying. 1 imagine it was somewhat so when
Troy was taken, for we read that Enceas and
other heroes fled, carrying on their shoulders their
household goods, their baggage, and their pots and
kettles. The latter articles being indispensable,
they did not stop Tintii they reached the Tiber.
1 have seen but few cases heie. We visited this
morning Roper's Hospital, a very handsome
building on Queen street, built in 1852, and en
dowed l>y Mr. Roper. There w ere some eighteen
l < •#*«. The Jtve> it mere mul'g.vint here than at
Saramiah — many of the eases accompanied with
hemmorrhage. I urn happy to say that but few
cases occur. The Mayor, Mr. Hutchinson, and
in fact everybody, was very polite and attentive
to us.
The Cotton Crop.
We make the following extracts from the
Circular of Messis. Talcott & Brother, ot New-
York, transmitted to Liverpool by the America.
It is dated October 9tb:
Since our last per Arabia, 3d inst., we are in
receipt of Liverpool advices cl 23d ult. per
Canada ot an unfavorable tenor. We have no
change to notice in this matket, which is still
bale of stock, and consequently sustained (by
tbe daily puichasesof spinners and the occa
sional operations ot exporteis) above the views
of shippers generally, and above the parity- of
foreign markets. The prices here paid within
tbe past live days would require an advance of
fully fl in Liverpool to cover. Prices at New-
Orleans also are sustained with an active de
mand, above the parity of Liverpool quotations,
and ol course above the limits of even the most
berai English orders.
We continue our quotations of 3d inst., noting
at same time the great scarcity of strict middling
descriptions.
- LASSIFIOATION 4SSIMILATISO Tn THAT OK LIVE STOOL.
Up. Sc Florida. Mobile. N. O. A Texas.
Ordin. to good. .7; aSJ 7?ab) 7) a Sj
Low Mki'liing.. .9 a«4 Vi Ilf-
Middling a0j......9f 9s
Str’t or even do. a 9j
Interior descriptions nominal.
Incoming Crof.—lt is almost heedless for us
to say, that we fully confirm our views as de
vised on this subject. The advices from every
section sustain our opinions, and expose the ab
usrdity of the extravagant estimates which our
coirespondents advise us were current in Liver
pool even at the last dates, per Canada.
With numerous letters before us, we shall con
fine our extracts to the following from a.totter
received from our correspondents, at Montgom
ery. Alabama:
Montgomery, Oct. 4.
We have nothing to say of the crops of this
section other than to confirm our previous state
ments, which are strengthened day by day with
developments of facts.
Our advices from New Orleans are decidedly
“short crojnth’': a great change for tbe worse is
said to have taken place within the past tour
weeks—much injury ha# been sustained liom
storms, but more particularly from wet weather;
and what we notice carefully is the acknowledg
ed damage to the Upland crop by drought and
hot weather; such has been our position all along
the period of big crop estimates.
Extremes meet—-3,4 a 3,500,000 was current
a short time since. Now some of the. New Or
leans. merchants are betting that tbe crop will
not exceed that of last year.
Herein is the fact set forth to which we called
your attention when we took our position on
this subject, namely, “the acknowledged damage
to the Upland crop by drought and hot weather.”
Those who made light ot this subject overlooked
the faetthat the proportion of Uplands to bottom
lands in the Cotton sections in the United States
is three to one. The heavy rains which have
fallen recently’ in some portions of Mississippi
and Texas, is the reason assigned by many for
reducing their estimates at this date, but these
rains have affected the quality rather than the
quantity, aud we are advised by our New Or
leans correspondents that “without an early frost,
they will probably increase the y ield over what
it would have been without them.’’ The highest
estimates now made on incline to
figures under 3,250,000 bales; the Majority be
lieve in a crop oi about three millions. Oirown
views remain as advised—3.luo,ooo bales, and
are consequently now above the general esti
mates.
Bloody Affray in Jackson—We learti
Irrtn reliable autbourity. that on last Monday
night, John M. Holliday,a teerns’er, well known
in this section, was killed in Jackson county, at
the bouse of Mrs. Ross, bis sister. A gentle
man who was present at the inquest, and heard
the ev ide nee. gives us the following tacts : Late
on Monday night, Mr. Holliday drove his teem
to the door of Mrs. Ross, and dismounting com
menced applying very abusive epithets to Isaac
Flannegau, who was in the house, and is a son
in-law cl Mrs. Ross. Mis. R. seeing that Hol
liday was under the influence of liquor, attempt
ed to pacify him, and get him away, telling him
that Flannegan was also drink'ng. Holliday,
however, persisted in hisabuse, until Flannegan
used some threats, and took down a*rifle gun,
telling him that if he did not hush he would
shoot him. Holliday seized the gun near the
muzzle, while Flannegan held the breech, and
after a scuffle wrested it from him. Stiff hold
ing it by the barrel, Holliday brought it down
with considerable force against the floor, the
■ simmer sinking first exploded the rap and dis)
charged the gun. The ball entered his thigh
just above tbe knee, and severing an artery’
•ie bled to death in a short tune. The bail, at
:er passing through Holliday’s leg, passed
hrough tbe pantaloons of another person who"
vis siundir g by. and struck a boy in the breast,
"us glancing, passed out at the shoulder. The
■•• y is in a very critical condition, but it is
bought he will recover. The verdict of the
i uy ot inquest was that Holliday came to his
loath by a ball Irom a gun in his own hands.
[vlz/uns Banner.
An Eagle Killed.—A bald Eagle was killed
one day last week, near the house of Mr. Bar
neslay. in this county, which was measured by
Mr. Gilmer and Dr. Bomar, of Adairsville, and
proved to be five feet and seven inches’from the
tip of one wing to the other —C««svi7/c Standard.
13th in»t
Deair of C-01. I'kkhune.—We sincerely re
gret to announce the death of Col. C. I). Ter
hune, which occurred at his residence, in this
county, on tbe 7th inst., after an illness of about
24 boms Col. Terhane was one of our oldest
and most respected citizens. He had been c
resident oi the county for more than twenty
years, and always enjoyed the confide dejof his
acquaintances to an unlimited extent. He lived
tor a number <>l years in our town, at i's early
Mitt lenient, and was lor a long time a Judge of
il>e Interior court ui this eoiinty. In all his in
icri 'Oirse with bi# fellow i. ei>, be shewed him,el!
io be an tome-t man and a Christian. May he
mt ID pence. U,