The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-10-28
N -. Xxx V
rhe Oycrlnna Cnligornin rrnii.

! The Overland California Mali.
theie were great rjocngs in ST. Louis on
Saturday last, on the auiVal of the list mail
from San FrdGCsCO, overland, under care of Mr.
Buttcrteld one of the contractors and MIR. Bal.
ley, mail agent. The mail was but twenty-four
days from Son Francisco; shortening therefore
our mail facilities withlhc Pacific Coast some
ten days OtCogrsG this time will bc improyed
When arrangements ore perfected. so as TO re-
uuce the time 10 perhaps twenty duys. This
mail Is to be- a aS'm-wcctly uac The St. Louis
Rspu5Iican oi Monday, III says:
Nine y'ars ago, when the discovery Uf gold
M Nal''ornm let 10 the immense cmigration ia
thot STATE, II was regarded as an expeditions
tp It made from he Mississippi TO the Pacific
III eighty to one hundred days. Thousands
were occupied mach longer Time and hun.
drcdS persisted ON the waysde The establish
mcnt ot Ibis mail route, und of the rout f,om
81. Jostph 10 Utah, and thence to Sacramento,
has chanGcd the whole currcnt OF things aul il
Is now demonstrated on first trial aud under
adverse circumstances, that it is practicable 10
carry mail aud passengers from St. Louis to Sau
francisco IN twenty four days; and this will
DO reduced II necessary below twenty days.
! We rejoice over this result because we have nll
along predicted it could be done not precisely
on the line over which the travel has been made,
ana because II must soon become the great mail
route between the Eastern and Western oceans
| Ourclti1ens will not wait for semi-month.
! ly communication across the lsthmus, whcu
they can avail themselves of u Semi-werkly
mail by the overland route, thereby ginning
time aud additional facilities, Very soon, too,
the stages will be crowded with passcngers,
called by business or pleasure TO travel East or
west, aud not year will have passed away be-
fore this route will be made perfectly secure by
the establishment of stations at short distances.
where settlements will grow up, and the nccom-
modatlons Will be as good as they were thirty
; La; al .I.l.. Ia.
Mr.. Bailey: an agent of the Post Office De-
par'ment, we believe was the ouly passenger
who came through last night the Others having
stopped at Springfield from fatigue Mr. Bal
ley being called out by gentlemen who had as.
sembcd at the Planters House, on the occa-
sion, gave brief but interesting history of his
tup. The great difficulty in the way was the
want ot watcr in some of the deserts but this
! was rcmedied To II very considerable extent, BY
! the foresight OF the company. in sending water
forward for the use of the animals The COM
pany has more chan two hundred stations on the
road. Mr. Bailey believes that all the dilicul
ties which attended this trip will bc overcome
IN short time, and he ptocIaims the whole en-.
tcrlrisc "a perfect success The Iuliuns gave
them no uuhIc
MIR. bailey stated that at least -four DAYS time
wc'e lost ON the trip from causes which will not
/ likely occur again. The first d62 miles from
San francisco to Los Augclos were Travelled in
Ieiehty hours the next 2S2 miles from Los An
gelos to Fort Yuma i'll seventy-two honrs and
! twenty mnuets; the next $50 miles from Fort
Yuma to Tucson in seventy-o one hours forty-ivo
mInntesi the next $50 miles from Tucson 10
! Lrdnklin in ciShty-two hours; the next 1923
miles from Franklin to Fort Chadbourne in one
hundred tweHty-six hours thirty minutes; tho
next 2S2 miles from Fort Chadbourne to Col.
bert's Ferry (Red River) in sixty-fxe hours
twenty-five minutes; the next 1872 miles from
a &,,lifb d n;,rb,
hours; The next 3lS miles from Fort Smith TO
tlpIon IN iorly-eight hours and fifty five min
uies; the next 100 miles from Upton TO St.
Loni' eleven hours and forty minutes CIere-
lund Hrald
Coon WEATHCR-Mr Everett delivered an
address the other dhy,in New York. and showery
morning caused considerable grumbing among
Il largo number of people who wished to hear ,ha
great orator. Speaking on the subject MIR. Ever
EFT said;
81 heard from one and another the remark that
he was sorry that we had not a good day. II was,
1t is true, raining in the morning The weather is
good; all weather is good; sunshine is good ruin
! Is good. Not good weather. sir? Ask the farm
or, into whose grains and roots there yet rtnnius
some OF its moisture, to be driven by to-morrows
sun. Ask the boatman, who is waiting for his
raft to so over the rapids. Ask the dairy-mau
and grazicr il the rain even at this time of the
l = III
Is not good weather when it rains Sir one may
see in Europo artificial water works Cascades con-
structed by the skill Of man at enormous expense;
at Chntworlh, at HcsScCassel, and the remains OF
ihe magnificent water works NJ Marley where
LOUIS XIV lavshed uncOunlcd millions OF roll and
hus, according 10 some writers, lud the (ouiida-
ton to those dcplctons Of the treasury Which
brought on the French Revolution. The traveller
thinks 1t @great thing to see these artificial water
works where little wafer is pumped up by
crcakInE machinery, or a painting steam eugnetO
be scattered in trothy spray, and do we talk ofis
not beng good day when Gods great engine iJ
exhibiting 10 us His imperial wafer works send.
ing up the nists and yaporS to the clouds. to be
ralned down ag0in in comfort and beauty and plen-
ty upon gtatoful and thirsty man2 Sir. as n mere
grallicat"n OF the taste know nothing in 6a-
tute more sublime. more beautiful than these
rains descending IN abundance aud saIubrty from
the 81 les.
IRaYER'--Ihrre Is one thing which is in the
power of every one to bcslow, aud which must
prove an Offering of value for cvNry one to re-
ceire--P Prayer, To rquire aims, one must be
poor; To require assistance, one must be ia need;
10 require comfort or sympathy, one must be In
dl,tesS; but Of Prayer, the richest and hapuest
stand in need, aud he poorest aud most miseI-
able can hestuw. How might we not use this
important privilege III tie S,rvices of our fellow
creatures
A woman, formerly oi Newark, n. J., but
who Tor he past wear, had been living in Chi
cago' few days since started. with sick child
IN her arms, 10 return 10 Newark When near
Cleveland, Ohio, the child died in her arms
The mother diSconsoair and far from friends,
and with scarcely money ennugh % reach home,
rather than leave her babe among strsngers.
continued on her journey and rpachcd Newark,
hop'ng carrisd the dad infant il her arms the
'nljre distance.
CouLDH'r HELP iT--Alt.r a marriage cpre
mony had been performed in one oi he churches
N Adnln, Mlchigan, lhe bride. when receiving