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EXPRESS PROM New ORLEANS We perceive that
the Post Office Department have announced the
establishment OF an express mail between this city
and New Orleans, which is to be attempted by run
ming horses from Covington, in Georgia, to Mont
gomery in Alabama. So at last the negligence
and imbecllty of the department have been SO ap-
parent, that the Post Office officials are compelled
TO stir themselves up and to attempt the establish
ment of this route, in consequence OF certain ar
raugements which we had made, IN connection
with newspaper in Mobile and another in New
Orleans, which was intended to give us a daily
mail from New Orleans through the winter, in ad-
vance of the United States mail


As soon as II was knewn in this quarter that we
had made such an arrangement, Mr.. Postmaster
Graham of this city, it seems, gave the information
to the editors here of the peculiarly of our ar
rangements, and on their being made acquainted
with that, they Immediately held meeting and
sent him on TO w ashington, to devise some
other under the authority of the Post Office Depart
ment, to defeat our enterprise, and thwar our ef-
forts to give the public early intelligence from the
south The Journal of Commerce, in particular,
made itself very busy in this matter, and asserted
that the news was to be used for speculative pur-
poses-a mere gratui,ous assertion, without ioun-
dation in facts. The express has been in spe-
ration for some time, and in every instance,
the news received by il was given TO the pubic
without any diminuton whatever, and in advance
of the mail and all our contemporaries. From
some inexplicabe cause, however, the express has
succeeded only in several instances and the failure
has, in all probability, been owing to under
hand efforts on the part of the Post Office officials.
The result, however, has been at all events to COM
pei the department to stir its sumps and establish
route But our enterprise is not exhausted. We
hope 10 be able to establish express on another
portion Of the route, still TO give our readers
Southern intelligence one or two days in advance
OF the mails.


In the meantime, we cannot help wishing that
President Polk was in pewer; for then we expect a
thorough revolution in the Post Office Department,
from top to bottom. OF all departments of the 90.
vernment, the Post Office has been conducted with
the grossest negligence, and an obstinate disregard
OF the public interest, as IS clearly shown in the
present case, when an effort to serve the commu
nifty has been met by every possible mean and
sneaking opposition. The fourth of March, how
ever, will soon be here, and then we look for ano
ther order OF things.