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rVofn Fayetteville to I.oulfvillt*,
the prafpeft does not appear To
fl.ircciinp. The expences of
the t ftabli foment will beconfi
eicrably greater, and the prof-1
peel of paffengcrrds notjb good ;
hut the country is fafl rlfing in
to importance. In the courfo
of a few years it is probable the
pr fits of thecftablifhmenrwould
be equal to its fupport. Many
of the people of Sonth-CuroJina (
and Geo re i a v i fi c t he N e \v-E n g
v. s J
land Rates in the Cummer months
—a confidcrable proportion of
thefe travellers would make lift
oftheßages. Thcdifcanccfr m
Fayetteville toLouilvilleis com
puted at 304 miles. For tile
tranfportntion of a mail three
rimes a week from Fayetteville to
Augufta, and once a week from
Augufta to Louifville, there is
now paid to contractors 7,1 co
dollars. An ai range ment of the
mam mail through the United
V J
States is taking place, for which
an extra compenfation mnfr be
made to the contractors. The
capital required to ere 6l aline
from Portland to Louifville,
that fhall carry a mail fix days in
each week from Portland to Pe
te rfb Tg, and three days in a
week from Peteifburg toLouif
ville, is eftimatedae 95,309 dol
lars ; this includes the Rift coft
of horfes, carriages, harnefi, and j
one months forage. The ex
pence of placing the property
on various parts of the line,
may be computed at 3-,000 dol
lars, and is to be added to that
fum. To ere <sl a line from Pe
terfburg to Loudville, which
Hull carry a mail three days in
each week, will, on the fame
c ft i mate require a capital of
c. 5,547 dollars 16 ~ents; to
which may be added for plac
ing the property on the fine,
too dollars. To eftablifh a
line from Raleigh to Louifville
on the fame principles, and with
the ftuneeftimare, will require a
capital of 18,468 dollars 57
cents, excluding the expence of
placing the property on the line,
which may be eftimaced at 800
dollars,
i he foregoing eft 1 mates are
made from the ex pen ft actually
incurred in cftablilhing the line
between Philadelphia and Bal
timore. I believe they are 1 S
or 20 per cent, higher than the
acftual ex pen ft through New-
England, and probably as much
lower chan the expen ft would be
jn South-Carolina and Georgia.
It is generally computed, and
agreed, by perfons acquainted
with the bufmefs, that the fare
of ftven paftengers will fully
defn the expenft of two lines
of 11 ages. \ v herever we can
c.»uculate on four paffengers one
way and three back, daily, dai
Jy mails may be run without any
expenft to the government: I
win lever half that number of
jpalftngers may be relied on,
that mails m a week may be
run on the fame principles. To
Fupport the eftabJifhment be
tween Petcrfburg and Louifviile,
would require lomething more
than ten pafiengers a week, pai
ring each way. The mail has
become the channel of remit
tance for the commercial intereft
of the country, and in feme
rncalure for the government.
■ Tts contents catir.ot be too well ’
| feenred and guarded : while car
! lied on horfeback or in fulkies,
{ it is expofed to robberies, both
4 bv the carriers and others. It
I has been once robbed in Georgia,
| and once in South-Carolinajince *
| the fir ft 01 December laid. — '
Whentrr.nl portedin mail-coach
' ec. c , the paflengers guard the car
rier from attack, and the public
from the evils of the carrier’s |
| dlfhoneftj. The tranfportation j
j of the mail, in ftage-coachces, |
is confide; ed, at this office, of ;
1 ich importance as to jollify i
an extra allowance of at lead ;
20 per cent, to aid an in- I
fant eftablifoment. Fo furnifti, '
j for your ufe, all the information i
! in my power to communicate, I J
I herewith tran fruit a flare meat of !
the prefent and probable future
expenfe of tranfporting the pub
lie mail on the whole route from |
Portland to Louifville, marked
(A); a ftacemcnt of the dura
non of cxlßing contracts, for
the tranfportation of that mail,
marked (B); aftatementof tne
expenfe of tllabbfiling mail
coachees, and diftinguifliing the
expenfe between the different
principal towns, marked (C) j
a lift of queftions pr-npofed to
fundry gentlemen of Nortfi-
Carolina, South-Carohna and
Georgia (with necefiary changes
to adapt the enquiries to the
roads in each Race) inarked ( D) •
together with feveral anfwers to
the fame, marked (E): fuch
further anfwers as may be re
ceived fhall be tranfmitted.
Queftion sth. Whether it be
neceffary at the prefent fcfTi >n 1
to provide any further means by 1
law for the lafe carriage of the
mall, and to regulate contrails
made in relation to the fame, by
penalties, orotherwife?
Anfwer ift. 1 he mam mad
of the United States, a Per the
I sth day of next montn, is to '
be transported with in ere a fed ex- !
pediiion. It would much faci- j
litate its progrefs if ail other
carriages for the tranfprtation of
pajfengers were compelled to give
the road to the mail-coachees,
2d. Cafes exift where a mall
contractor is wholly negligent
of his duty, and the benefits of
the inßiturion nearly loft. The
poft-mafter general has no cx
prefs authority to declare the
contraft violated, and place the
mail in other hands j Rich autho
rity would be ufeful if it was |
fairly excrcifed.
3d. The revenue of the de
partment would receive a ronfi
derable increate by preventing
the travellers in the mail car
riages from carrying letters, by
compelling them to call at the
firft poll-office on the road and
deliver the letter to the poll
| mailer, to be forwarded in the 1
mail, or pay to that office the j
poftage of fuch letter, from the
pl‘ice where received to the |
place of deftination.
4th. The law ought, in my i
opinion, to prohibit contractors
1 Item entrufting the mail to ne
gioes or people of color. By
tne laws ov ieveral of the Rates
1 t .cy are hot allowed as witnelies,
except again ft perfons of their
( | °' r 1 • . -'Topic ditpofed to rob
tne mail will not be equally pre
vented by l.v icar of conviction.
There are, alfo, political con-!
fiderations which,, at this hme, j
1 will evince the propriety of Rich j
redrhdion.
I am, Sir,
With, See.
GIDEON GRANGER, j
( Honorable ] Ames Jack
son, Elq. Chairman of
the Committee of the
Senate on the Pod-Of-
I fice Eftabli foment.
| (Document) &c. clludtd ts > hi
cur next.)
CONOR ESS.
| House of Represent at ives, i
Saturday, April 3, 1802.
! An engmfled bill declaring
I the a Tent of Cong refs to an aft
■ of the genera] aulmbly of Vir
ginia, therein mentioned, was
read a third time, and palled.
A petition of James Joh.nfon,
and others was read and referred.
A memorial of certain con
llabics in the didrift of Co
lumbia was referred.
A memorial of the mayor '
and commonalty of the town of |
Alexandri 1, dating the incon- i
veniences and injury fudamed j
by the poorer elides of citizens 1
by the operation of the exift- j
ing laws for the government of I
Co o
Columbia, in the cafe of fees
allowed to be taxed upon fuitors i
to the lawyers, marshal, attor
ncy for the ciTftriTt, and for the i
attendance of witncllcsj in the i
circuit court of the United j
States ; and praying relief there
in, was read and referred.
The petition of John Mitch- I
ell, Elifha O. Williams, George i
B. Magruder, and Leonard i
O 9
Mar kali wa pre fen ted and re
ferred.
Mr. John C. Smith, from
the committee of claim--, re
ported on the petitions of Ed
ward Barnes, James Bell, Lau
rence Brooke, J. Dcnniften,
R. Gilmer and C. W. Mare, j.
Hall, Mary Hav, C. Hvde, G. |
Mafon, W. Meetkerk, W. Mil- j
ton, Giver Pollock, W. Ray,
I. J. Folwell, Miles, Riley, &c, j
F. Shefcall, Mr. Shroyer, and I. 1
S. Sloufi
Whereupon refolved that the
further confederations of laid i
petitions be podponed till the I
4th Monday of November next.
On motion Mr. Milledge,
refolved that the fecrctary of
war be directed to caufe fuch |
documents as may remain in !
the war office, or fuch as he may
he able to procure, from the
files of the executive of Georgia,
for the years 1791, 1792, 1797,
1794, and 1705 ; alfo from the
agent of the war department for
the fouthern didrift for thofe
years, with every other ftate
ment and paper he may become
podelft 1 of, refpecting the mili
tia claims of that date again ft the
United States, together with his
opinion cf the propriety and
judice of allowing the fame; and ,
that he report fuch opinion and j
documents appertaining thereto,
on the firft day of the next fefii
on of congrefs.
1 he houfe went into commit
tee of the whole on the poft-of- 1
fice bill—Mr. Milledge in the
chair— feveral amendments were
reported, and agreed to by the
houfe*
j LOUISVI I. l
■
WEDNESDAY April ; g ,g oa .
! Extra ft of a letter from ere of
cur I\/[embers in C y to
the Editors—dated .
tcn y April 5, 1802.
u Gen lie men,
cc 1 inclofe you a report and
I fbcement of the PoH-MaHer
I General, refpeding a general
1 line of Mail Stages, or Mad
j Coaches, from Portland in
! Maine, to Louilvilie in Gear
| gia.—This object if eHabkfhed,
j will prove of great coniequcncc
j to the Union at large, and of
great convenience to the citi
zens of Georgia—whilft it will
add to the profperity of I oirf
ville.—The idea originated with
rnyfclf, and I never knew a
propofition more generally take.
Its utility is fully acknow
ledged, and that, if eftabliflied*
it will become a confiderable
fource of revenue in a few years,
is admitted.—l am dub ous d'it
will be authonled this frflion,
being fo near a clofe, but there
is little doubt, but that ir will
go through trie next fefllon.
“ The Courts of the United
States, heretofore held at An
-1 gufta, (the Difbruft Court ex-
I ceptecl, which as tne internal
taxes are repealed, will be held
i at Savannah only) will in future
Ibe held t I.ouifvilie. The
j bill amendatory to the judicial
I fyftem, which coi templates this
I change, has not yet paffed but
jit certainly will pafs. ihe
! change will be beneficially con
venient to our We Hern and
South Weflern Citizens, who
have to attend thofe Courts, as
jurors, parties, witneflrs, &c.
and muff benefit Louifville.
£C The intercourfe law has
! been renewed—but the time for
a federation of property taken
' by Indians from our citizens—*
i or payment for ir, is limited
to twelve, in Head of eighteen
months—as it Hood in the old
law. Such a defeription was
given of the frontier fettlers in
the North We Hern Terri tor'. —-
that there was not a poffihiiity
of preventing the pafiage T the
bill—a like trait was attempted
to be drawn of our frontier fee
ders, hut it was nipped in the
bud, and the obfervations con
fined to other quarters.
A Treaty is ordered for
Talaffee County and the Ok
mulgee Fork, which will be
obtained if pofiible, and no
means will be left untried, war
excepted, by the p-tfent admi
niflration, to obtain them, for
us.
fC I cannot be explicit at pre
fer] t on the folded of our We It
em negociation—it has pro
grefled flowly—and we have
met our ob Hades. We have
however every probability of
I clofmg with a condition for the
1 ratification of cur Legifhture,
on terms not unfavorable to
Georgia. Nothin? but this
.■ D .
imperious confide ration, the
intercH of my country fo cri
tically placed, detains me here
under the circumflance of the
continued ill health of an affec
tionate family fmee my leaving
them in November laH.”*