NP, CS 5/21/1864

From the Cotton States (Gainesville, Fl.)
 
May 21, 1864
 
The Mails
Gainesville, May 10, 1864
 
Mr. Editor,
   Can you inform us how it is, that now, when passengers come through from Tallahassee to Gainesville in one day, that it takes the mail invariably three days? There must be bad management or negligence, perhaps both, somewhere; and as there are Mail Agents on the Railroad cars to Lake City and to Baldwin, one would suppose the mail would always come through in one day. There is no use in the Government paying Route agents to accompany the mail, sort and distribute it, that it may attain the greatest dispatch possible, if they allow the East Florida mail to stop one day in Lake City and another in Baldwin. If they are not the ones to blame, then it must be the Postmasters at Lake City and Baldwin. We hope that each party will clear his skirts in this matter, and by so doing, they will and only do their duty for which they are paid, but we will always get our mails in proper time.
   Mr. Editor, cannot you stir them up to their duty? This neglect on somebody's part, is very annoying, and some times injurious in these war-times, when, of all others the mails should attain the greatest possible speed.
Correspondent
{Tallahassee to Lake City was the Pensacola & Georgia RR; Lake City to Baldwin was the Florida, Atlantic & Gulf Central RR; Baldwin to Gainesville was the Florida RR} 

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