The weekly Butte record., 1858-10-16
Postmaster General Brown and the N. Y,
Herald

The people Of San Francisco have had giorifi-
cation over the arrival. in schedule time, OF the
overland mail by the Southern route Resolutions
were passed laudatory of Postmaster 0enerai
/ Brown an, of the New York Herald. The former
we suppose for compelling the contractor to carry
the mail overland on a cutoff, extending from the
thirtvnintb parael of latitude down to the thirty
second. and thence up to the thirty-eighth parallel
at San Francisco. We suppose the government
and old Gwin. will consider such resolution as an
endorsement of their sectional policy in appropria
ting donbe the amount for the southern route that
they did for the route by Salt Lake. The Southern
route is peopled with rowing bands of Apaches and
Comanches, while the yallies of the great basin
through which the Central route passes, is teemng
with hundred thousand inhabitants Mormous
though they be. 1t tappear- to US that wise poll
yweuh have demanded the expenditure OF the
greater the direct route along the thirty
ninth parallel, already settled by the MOrmons, in
preference to one overrun by sayages upon the con
fines of grease: dom. Itappears further to our un-
sophisticated Judgment, that descent respect for
California, the interests of her populltion and her
principal cities-and above all the interest OF our
vast mining region, with its thousands OF indastri-
Gus laborers who send their three millions per
month into the channels of trade and ec7nalerce
throughout the L Uaion-shoud have induced wi
and snsectionazed administration to consider
their wants In 50 important a matter The south
ern route must eventually terminate on the Cult of
California or at best at San Diego, or at San Pedro,
where rvl to San Francisco viii ultimately arise.
Ar present. the mail is graciously permitted to ar
rive at and depart from San Francisco. Let them
rejoice for small fayors, and glorify Postmaster
General Brown who might have made Guymas the
terminus instead of San Francisco. The railroad
once completed on the southern route, and the cit
les and mining regions of California will realize
thei dependent position, and curse the sectional
policy that thrust it upon them.
The resolution relative to the New York Herald's
enterprise in despatching reporter over the ronte
is certainly strange for the sober and intelli
gent people of the Bay City to adopt. The route
needed blower, to give it prominence equal 70 the
onehorse route through Salt Lake, and the virtu-
Gus Herald was pitched upon. Instead of exhibit
ing enterprise in the matter, the Herald, doubtless
received a large bonus to despatch correspondent
the route to set forth its beauties and besobber
with fulsome adulations its projectors. Whatever
have been endorsed beforehand by the people of
San Francisco. The sectional policy which pre-
ferred that route to that really benefits the vital
interests of California has been endorsed by this
commendatory resolution, and they have even
whtewashed in doing so, the-New York Herald.
The Sacramento Union has an article upon this I
subject, showing the Sala Lake route to be the
shortest by nearly seven hundred miles, and had
government extended equal encouragement to both
routes, California would now have a sem-weekly
overland mail traversng her mineral regions and
terminating at her capitol. But this would not
have accomplished the objects of her sectional mas
ters and her interests were sacrificed to build up a
southern route. This may be wise and patriotic
policy on the part of the government but it is one
that in opinion will ultimately tax California to
bull up the territories south of We had rested
on the belief that an impartial administration would /
have taken California into consideration, ard pre-
ferred the shortest and most central route. This
they have not only failed to do, but have also re-
fused to provide for delivering the mail by the CEN
tral route, in the same time required and paid for /
on the central route. However much we might /
have reoiced to Lave seen California interests thus
acknowledged, grumbling aboutit will not mend the
matter now. We however, do not agree with the .
San Francisco resolutions in honoring Post
master General Brown and the New York erald
for their sectional and interested efforts in the mat
ter
1t is very pretty fight between the two rontes,
and the Sacramento Union appears to be waking
up to sense of its true position. A few more in
terested Federal officials upon both of them, and
a sensible, seltrehant emigration will adopt the
natural route by Honey Lake.