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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,