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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* - 11 - ■ - ■—— BLANK EXECUTIONS For sale at this Office* I No. 239.