New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-09

.uer,,own or Busseualo b selected e time 70 Be pro
III ..}yiee % ,v... and The P.sse cro.sns start from
TsnpA 81 Cedar Key, when he read 70 thai po
Tie Of The northern AID sou;sern mai,
b, the propesed rou: ~osd Obviously b. Tree o my
/. s,es The whole lin, would Be under c0asrs, "a single
p.r,y sch educ h.irs the period within which ine e
tip should he perform cd whereas bJ the present
sixteen different parties employed in the serves ris
.ey..e ,ehsdn each Of With mus. be sis{
time The unpinf time proposed also enc day s. asas
the All. by land than day less than the .e.ns
sverige The liability Of mails 10 degradation and 70
IN the proposed cement by cloug the matter in ers'es
OF in New York New orl-an' .nd trsn'porai ua
opened 10 its Destinations aud thus Alec the ABRASION OF Pc
sie'i MN IN ,py - mali yslu, in vie
OF the generally bad condition Of 'he document mall On u
rival South States and the too fequen; failure
The establishment Of the propO.ed service, while it would
interfere with the carriage the local mails on The insnd
easements under which /. has at time. been placed in
qusnce Of being dependent sing. line for he
departe mt and public Of naturally Arising
ION The competition ii would create. oor,mrr,,,
n.urs the due ,n|iion Of ,he, an5 n
revenue 70 the p.psen. and the
speed and certainty promises would have the enect Of
iIs the mail 'srvioe to some extent from the competition Of
By conveying the mails for California upon the proposed
,eS..s .ssmer to Apibw, Gsy.own or Hus1aloo and
by substituting the branch proposed from Cedar key hy
. %i .IS To-. p. Of Pr s md Key
tween Cedar Key and Key w.s'sy half The r9ue-sn an
saving deducted from the cost Of The proposed daily
service show the additional to the Department
Upon the question Of .ecepins the propo. o ~ I
portion Of the proposed line be completed hsve been
ale thus far to the Bidders any defnit. dete rmiu
alton But the subject Is referred here because deeneS
be Of public interest in view Of the promise wnsa
csins the uncation between the two sections and s
two great commercial capitals Of the country. =,
A. 10 mai. upon the Lower Mississippi the Postmaster
General looks forward 10 the day believed not TO b. distant
phs and other porap cities be transmitted
10 Orears in less than half the time required aud
with the regularity Of wecon'tructsd and wemansssd
THE OVERLAND MAIL.
The BIDS and contract for she Overland Mail service 70 Can
forps and the which led to the selection Of the FL Po
route sven in exenso. Advantage Of climate Pnc
py relied upon The difference distance between th. .pd
the thou, TO be ncnsderabe and The
scarcity Of water objection which might be urged against
ary of the proposed routes a.. n.,,.
did not feel at liberty in the exercise Of sound discretion 70
select any which considered .ics npo.
veysnce specified the The ,Ip WA. be within tween
yv days. in four horse coaches suitable the
Appyins requirements 10 the extreme northern route
proposed Louis by Fort Independence Fort Laramie
Salt Lake &c the Department bad the recorded OF
years against the praotcsbity Of procuring ne
regular aud cert.in service that route The United
returns in the Department the sqnci.y. .t:
against its selection The mails for November December aud
tea man,h. Of we're very The
Pmsste reported that they started in time bu. had 10 turn
back. The mails Of February, March and December Of 1875
were npeded by deep January February
1854 account Of deep did not arrive until III. month
November mail Of 1885, which le Independence the
Let of November and sccount Of deep snow wa. obliged to
Winter the mountains The caused almost entire
failure for four months Of the These ctua experiments
made from the 1850 to the pre.en. time without referring
70 the concurpg testimony OF explorers and sVees put tnb
route entirely out Of the question.