Morning Star

Sunday Mail.—The mail has been discontinued in a great portion of the West on Sunday. The reason assigned, is, we believe, the financial condition of the Post Office Department. The New York Commercial makes the following pertinent remarks on the subject:

Indeed we doubt whether the coach proprietors or railroad companies are at this day particularly anxious to continue the practice of Sunday travelling. The truth is that Sunday travelling is, and has been for years on the decline. It is not only not fashionable to travel on the Sabbath, even among people who are not professors of religion, but it is getting to be considered vulgar. A well-bred gentleman will no more travel on the Sabbath, than he will swear. Hence, the post-coach mail contractors admit, that there has been a gradual falling off of Sunday travelling for several years past. It is moreover an ascertained fact, that even on the greatest railroad thoroughfares, the Sunday travelling is greatly less than on the other days of the week. Surely, then the directors and stockholders of these roads will rejoice to be relieved from the losing operation of facilitating Sunday travelling.—And how stands the case with the government? Suppose the new Post Master General, in making his contracts, should relieve the contractors from the transportation of the mails generally on the Sabbath, and thereby save to the public treasury one-seventh of the expense? Would not the saving be convenient without detriment to the public weal?