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VOL. V.
AUGUSTA —printed by DANIEL STARNFFX a? r ~ 1 ' ' " " ' " DBr —
A b ® Co - vrEST T - iio 0F broad-street. SATURDAY Night, May i 5, ,6, 3 .
Frcm the National Ltteiligeneer.
The unmerited attacks
lately made in a Charleston
and Lexingtcn paper upon
the Podmader General, in
duce the publication of rhe
following datement of fa£ts
By the arrangements of
the General Pod Office, a
daily mail departs from this
city and arrives at Charles-;
ton in hve day* and three
fourths—A correfpondingj
return mail arrives here dai
ly. There is no podmader
cn the line of doubtful cha
racter, and the contractors,
paricularly between Peters
burg and charleston, where
mod of the delays have ta
ken place, were highly re
commended to the members
of Congress from Virginia
ami the two Carolinas—
Though In the coarse of the
h)ad winter a number of ve-
Vry serious interruptions of
the mail took place, none
of them can be a fen bed to
the neglett of the General
Pod Office. They arose
partly from the loss of the
bridge over Crabtree creek,
and from the cxcetfive biti
nefs or the roads which are
nearly impassableon account
of the peculiarity of the fca
fon, and the increased tra
vel and trarifportation occa
sioned by war,'and paitly
from an injudicious sub-di
vision of a route by one com
pany of contractors* What
are the proofs of the negli
gence of the Pcdtnader Ge
neral in relation to this
route ? That he cannot
fend a heavy news-paper
mail, of from four to five
hundred weight, one hun
dred miles in a day, over
roads where neither of the
complainants could cn the
bed horfc trhvel thirty—For
the real irritation arises from
not fending the news-papers
and pamphlets with the fame
expedition as is given to the
deipatches of the officers of
government, and the letters
of the eitizens.
The proofs of the Pod
matter Genersl’s vigilance
are:
id. That his podmaders
are approved officers, either
in the difciiarge of the du
ties anterior to his appoint
ment, or appointed by him
the recommendation of
their neighboring members
of Congress.
2d; That he has employ
ed and contracted with men
MIRROR OF THE TIMES
of known reputation and of
energy, and e.iterprife, re
commended to him in like
manner and paid by him
liberally.
3d. That through the'
wmter he has invariably irn-;
*po(edevery penalty the law l
authorised, and not one
cent has been remitted
4th. That on the 1 3th
November lad, he iffiied a
(circular to every podmader
as the end of every route,
commanding him to 1
the mail by express at the ;
expencc of the General P ft
Office whenever the con
jtrador failed : of which or
der each contractor had no
tiee, and the fame has been
whCn it appeared
neccflary.
1
j sth. That he has luely
.increased the number of
.mails from Petersburg to
fCharletton, from thiee to
. seven in each week. But
,even this arrangement, this
evidence of 0 disposition to
, extend to that portion of the
.country the highest benefits
of the edabhlh merit, has
been a subject of deriiion ;
;becaufe in all our town and
.cities the citizens did not
indantly embrace it, and
bccaufc aidant podmaders
did not put it in practice as
, those at the point* of de
parture,
It has also been infinua”
:trd that the Podmader-Ge
ncral had for 12 years ne
glected to grant this mail to
Charledon, evincing a par
tiality to the Eadern feCtion
of the country. It is true,
: that from Petersburg to
Portland fix mails a week
has been run for 12 years
It is ns true, that the whole
:of this line is productive,
not only supporting itfelt
1 but yielding the principal
funds to fuoport the unpro
ductive routes, and bad the
complainant looked to the
’pelt-office law, he would
have found thai one of the
firtt duties assigned to the
Podmader-General was, in;
deciding on the number of
mails, to have regard to th.
produCtivenefs of the roadr
—Now let us fee whethe
the intereds of the South
have been negleCted.
Ia 1801, when Col. ITa
berfham was Podmader Ge
neral, the pod office at
Charledon, and ail the in
. termediate offices to Peterl
i burg, produced lei* tham
I
“ HOLD THE MiBRoRUFjTO MATURE —Shakespeare.
-9,400 dollars, and the ex
penccs of transporting tfu
mail were 11,400 dollars.
Since that period, mail da
jges have been adopted un-t
der fpeciai aCts of Congress, 1
aiuhonli ig the Podmader !
General to increal? the ex- 1
penditure, and while the«
whole product of Charlcf- I
ton and the other offices a
foreinentiontd is less than
16,900 dollars, there is now j
paid out to accommodate j
the citizens on that line,
and the city of Charledon
more than 26,300 dollars..
The mail was then ten days,
and an half j.i winter, and
■nine and an half in summer
lin patting from here to
Charledon. Nov/ the mail
palles in five days and three
■fourth 1 , and the newspapers
with the Line fpced in the
(dimmer months and when
ever the roads vvdl admit of
travelling in the night and
of fad driving, and at all
times the newlpapers and
pamphlets, are lent with as
much speed as the mail car
riages can p»fs—The fame
; fyflem is adopted Irom here
|to the Eastward. The cx
;tended benefits of the indi-
I tution throughout the cen
tre of the Southern dates
mud be felt by all, even to
Millcdgevilie, and will be
acknowledged by those dii
poied to do juttice.
It is proper to pay some
attention to the remarks of
the printer at Lexington.
They are :
j
id. That by the arrange
ments of the general Pott
Offire, a flow tardy mail is
tdablifhed between Lexing
ton, Charledon, Auguda,
&c. whereby the quickefi
transportation of the intel
ligence between the formei
and latter towns is by thi
place. This may be true.
And it is certain that the
mail complained of is a slow
one—The reason is, the
business transacted on the
road admits of no other.—
The great point of corr«-
fpondtnce from Kentuck)
to thele dates is Lexington,
and the whole correfpon
dencc of that town with.
North Carolina, South Caro
lina, and Georgia, as ap
ears by the didributinp
.ffite at Affiville, doc* not
roduce pottage to the a
inount of fix hundred dol
lars per annum. The pro
ducts of the intermediate
•fficcs arc icarcely worth (
:omputing ; while the ex-c
pcnces of such an cftablilh-t
nent would annually ex-r
eted live years produce ofi
the poit office at Lexington ]
to accommodate which i
place their is already paid<
out a large lum annually,
beyond the pruuudts of
that fodion. ,
2d. That the Mails are
l rregular. This when the'
roads are bad is
ably true, and without fault 1
m any person. There is
allowed fora trip from here
to Lexington near ten days
lels than was allowed in'
1801, and in cases of ob
ldru&ion by water, or in the
world ol the road*, it is not
in the power ol the contrac
tors at all times to perform.
; lt is wo 1 thy of remark, that
1 the paper which contain the
complaint alio aferibis the
* delay of hollilities to the
1 impracticability of palling
on the roads.
1
Another complainft is,
that expreiles arc run into
’ Ohio but not into Kentucky
'j —I he answer is, that they
are to and from the army,
lor the accomodation of go
vernment—Thc-ir courses
’are to the lake —But the laid
'and greaterobjeftion is, like
the one at Charleston, the
delay ot Newfpapcrs. It is
believed, that a faithful dif
;charge of duty, on the part
of the Poll naller-General
requires of him at all times,
acd particularly when the
nation is at war or in dan
ger, to expedite the orders
,of the government, and the
• intelligence of citizens as
, much as poflible, and it will
follow as a consequence,
hat when the roads are'tiad
the burden mull be lighten
ed.-Hence originated express
mails upon the occasion ofi
the port of New-Orleans,
and afterwards a line ofex-
P relies to New Orleans, 1
which bore no news-papers, 1
and fubftquently there has
been eftablilhed, with the 1
general afiert of the public «
men and alme Id entire ap- 1
probation of the citizens, in
the winter months two mails 1
—one by exprcls, and the'
others in carriages convey
mg the newspapers and,
pamphlets—The latter tra- 1
vcls with as much speed
dS the ltatc of the road will
idrnir, and diffules among
die people at large the gen-
—b——■■in iiw mmmtmtmm ■■■ ihu it
cral intelligence—The f« r
mer enables the govern**
ment and the citizens to he
apprised of interefhnc events
in the tea it time poflible.—
It aids government and ad
vances the interest of all
occupations in focieiy, ex«
cepting news paper prin
ters alone, and even tluc
class es citizens, if in com*
mon with the rcit of theic
countrymen, thev are wil
ling to pay poltage: T j
move the tons of news-pa
pers with rapidity through
winter is impoiiible, and it
is left to the people to de
cide whether the P iimas
ter General ought to hold
back the circulation of go 4
vernmenral defpatches and
private letters, in order to
have them accompanied by
news papers $ or in other
words whether the interest
of the government fc every
man in bufnefs, lhall bend
to the interest of forty or
fifty prefles: At the lame
time, the printcis ought to
be allured, that they will not
fuffer from any unnccefTaiy
delay or tardiness in the
transmiflion of their intelli
gence.
VERITAS.
Louisville, K. April 7,
By ihc PMLrider from Vina
'cennes, we learn a keel boat
'conveying provisions from that
plate to fort Har.'ifon was at.
tacked by a pan of Indians who
killed two of the crew and
wounded 7 the fird fie, one
whom has lijice died. The sur
viving part pufiled off the boat
and rowed to the oppofiie fliore
1 and by the r«jpidny of die Wa
b«tfh, occaboncd by the late
ains, luckily made their escape,
and ar.ived fafe at Vincennes.
Urbana, April 7,
PafTed through this place ot»
Monday last Major Bali’s Iqia,
Jdron of light dragoons on rneir
way to the rapids. Gen. Har-
Irifon palled through Piqua on
1 Thursday la(t and is expelled
jto join them to morrow at Fin -
ley's Block hou*e.
We understand 1500 Ken*
tuckians left Dayton yesterday
and will be here to-morrow or
next day.
Forty men arc emnloved at
building boa a or the trampor*
<ation of provisions from Find*
lay’s Blockhouse to the Rapids.
I wo boa a carrying do barrels
each, will be Itarud for that,
Jace on Sunday next*
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