The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-23
which have cen made TO oil ones have en-
HANGED the value of real property in the city

Jar C numerical embarrassment, when nearly all
our specie has been drawn from rs to go abroad,
eoough money has been spent in building to
make the city worth thirty-fye millions more
than it was last July The First, Second and
Third wards alone ge increased in value &C
cording to his statement some ten millions and
a half.
New York is going ahead, PROFESSIONALLY
but the Ccmptrollers Imagination goes even
faster. Compare the statements Of the past
three years.
The ra,eabls property in 1882
Real. 2ss 1855 15s-sa5l, 100, 1916
Real. 294 ess 796-sala, S32 s32
Do. 1854, personal ......... lSl ~, gag
Real. $50 800, 3e6-Sso2, 02l 73i
Were this true. the rate of increase in pro.
perty here would be one-seventh per annum.
Those who believe that we are advancing at
these seven league stages will pay their taxes
cheerfully for our part, we are content to COM
mend Mr.. Flagg to the world as a skilfdl opera
tor, who deludes his patient into the belief the.
every fresh draught of blood he draws from his
veins is rendered imperative by his astonishing
vigor and plethora Of health.
THE PACIFIC MAIIs-THE SHORTEST RourE.-
We publish this morning Messrs Ramsay aud
Cormick's memorial, which has been presented
to Congress, for an appropriation to carry out
a conditional contract made by tue Post Onice
Department with them, on the 10Th February,
1853, for q semi-monthly mail between New
Orleans and San Francisco, via Vera Cruz and
Acapulco, in sixteen days. We have frequent
ly had occasion to speak in terms of common
dation of this route, and we are gratified in
believing that Notwithstanding the most extra
ordinary and unjust proceedings of the present
Postmaster General, Mr.. Campbell, Congress
win grant the very moderate appropriation
asked, and thus place California and the Allan
tic States within two weeks of each other.
1t is difficult to understand upon what pria-
cipie of justice and equity any opposition can
be offered to the carrying out of an enterprise
which, whilst it asks less compensation than is
now given for carrying the mails between the
Atlantic States and California, at the same
time contracts, under the most stringent penal
ties, that the service shall be accomplished in
at least one-third less time than by any other
route now in operation OF likely to be. The
contractors modestly ask simply for an appro-
priation for one quarters service, not dollar
Of which are they to touch unless the schedule
time-sixteen days-is strictly adhered to-
They ask nothing for past services, and they
bind themselves to the full extent of the for
fixture Of the whole compensation which they
ask If the contract is not fulfilled to the letter.
Under these circumstances, the public will be
surprised to learn that ever since the advent of
represent Postmaster General, the most bitter
hostility has been manifested on his part to the
route. conditional contract was made by
his predecessor, under the express provision of
law of Congress, for the performance OF the
service, subject to the sanction of Congress
Under this contract, Mcssrs. Ramsay and Cor.
mick proceeded to make the necessary arrange
ments by purchasing horses, DC, for the land
portion Of the route, and providing steamboats,
connect at Vera Cruz and Acapulco. With
out any notice, without even deigning to give
areason for such course, Judge Campbell had
hardly taken his scat in the Post Office Depart
ment before he peremptorily, and in defiance Of
the rights of the contractors, attempted to can
eel the whole contract. The Post Office Depart
ment having made the contract with the sole
stipulation that it should be subject to the
sanction of Congress, it was gross violation
of the rights ofMessrs. Ramsay and Cormick to
cancel that agreement, unless in the way point
Congress to sanction it.
Under these circumstances the contractors
have applied to Congress. Scarcely had they
done so, however, before the present model
Postmaster General, Judge Campbell again
attempted to interfere, most uniustifiably, in
The matter-not by presenting his views to
Congress-not in Ms Official capacity-but b.
sending for correspondents of certain newspa-
pers, and asking them, as personal favor to
him. to try aud write the route down as mprac-
ticable, and not to compare to the Tehuantepec
routc-that in the present unsettled condition
of Mexico, it was all folly TO think Of running
mail from Vera Cruz to Acapulco, and that
the whole project was moonshine.
Without stopping at this time to common.
upon the improperly of Postmaster General
adopting such means to interfere with the &C
tion of Congress, we wish to know, IL Judge
Campbell is opposed to the route, why he does
not officially make his objections known to
Congress So far, all that could be got out of
him was the naked assertion that the con-
tractors could not fulfil the contract
When asked his reasons for making snch an
assertion, in the face F the fact that they have
performed the distance between San Francisco
and New Orleans in twelve days and half,
instead Of sixteen, parrot-like, he but repeated
his words-'they cannot do it." Opposed to
this opinion Of the sapient Postmaster Is toe fact
which we have just mentioned, that Messrs.
Ramsey and Cormick have performed the SER
vice in less time than they agreed to do 1t in;
aud the very important consideration, also that