Daily National Intelligencer

THE MAILS.

It is a duty which all the Printers of Newspapers in the United States owe to their own interest and that of their Patrons, to combine in general protestations against the method of transporting the newspaper mails during the winter months. The roads are so cut up by the heavy waggons—which literally infest the road so that it is impossible to get along for them—as to cripple the travelling of stages down to the snail's pace of four horse waggons. And in such vehicles, and at such a rate are the mails carried, conveying the newspapers on which the People mainly depend for all the political information, which, in this country at least, is the pabulum which sustains the government itself—whilst the letter mails, conveying particular and exclusive information to one man perhaps in every thousand, travel with a velocity as remarkable as the terrapin gait of the newspaper mails is vexatious. Already do we feel the symptoms of the evil which the winter will bring into full operation. In short, the evil must be remedied, or the mails, instead of being beneficial as they were intended to the People, will become a nuisance, by preventing the establishment, by individual means, of more rapid and regular means of transmission of Newspapers.

We mean no imputation of mismanagement to the General Post-Office, which we believe has upon the whole, been as well conducted as any political institution in the world ever was; nor do we impeach the good dispositions of the officers of that department; but we wish to impress upon the public, and through their medium on the General Post-Office, the necessity of making a change in the mode of conveying newspapers, which shall give them an equal rapidity of transmission with letters. And if it be desirable, which no one can doubt, what is to prevent it? If a letter mail can be carried on horse-back, why not a newspaper mail? If the latter be too heavy for one horse, divide the mail into different bags, employ ten if necessary. Ought a little, (and as we can demonstrate a comparatively trivial) expense to be any obstacle to so great a public accommodation? We believe, seriously, that the annual expense of A SINGLE GUN-BOAT in actual service or of A SINGLE COMPANY OF SOLDIERS, would effect this very important improvement along the whole main line from Boston to Charleston. But suppose it cost as much each winter as the annual cost of a frigate or of a regiment of soldiers—the question will be, IS THE OBJECT WORTH THE COST? Let the public voice decide.