| From the Cotton States (Gainesville, Fl.) |
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| May 21, 1864 |
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| The Mails |
| Gainesville, May 10, 1864 |
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| 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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