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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.”*
