Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-19
Mail Routes TO the Pacific,

We find the following paragraph in the Washington
correspondence Of the Richmond South under the date
the 9TH instant
A prodigious effort is again being made by the La
Sere and Benjamin Tchuanepcc Company to induce the
administration to make contract with them for carry
ing the California mail the Isthmus of Tchuantc
pee The Postmaster General has twice before decided
against Them
At present. the prominent routes between the Allan
tic States and cities and points the Gulf Of Mexico
and the Caribbean Sea, at least those which most di
rectly interest the people of the South and the stock
holders OF the railroads of the Southern Atlantic States
concentrate at Fcnandna passing the peninsula of
Florida by means of the railroad nearly completed
from Fernandina on the Atlantic to Cedar Keys the
Gulf The Postmaster General, in his annual report pro
poses to connect New York with Fcrnandna by steam
ships carrying the o. S. mall which is to be taken by rail
road to Cedar Keys and thence by steamers to New
Orleans-to Aspnwall-to San JUAN Or to any other
point where the crossing of the isthmus is to be made
by the California mails and passengers.
In view of the construction of the road crossing Flor
la at the point indicated direct coast line of railroads
is projected, and mainly under construction making
nearly an airline between New York and Fernandna.
With the revival of trade which cannot be long deferred
these works will be rapidly pushed forward to construc
ton. In the meantime instead of the steamships going
direct from New York to Fernandna it is proposed to
carry the u S. mails and the passengers for New Or
leans California, etc. by the direct line of railroad
completed to Charleston, and thence to Fernandna in
steamers until such time the completion of the whole
series of projected works shall enable them to be carried
directly to Fernandna by railroad 1t has been proved
10 demonstration that this route, being the natural
one between the North and the South be raversed
less time than any interior route showing saving of
from two to three days over any other.
So far as the point at whigh the continent is to be
crossed from to ocean, whether that point be at
Tehuantcpec, at Nicaragua, by the Isthmus of Pan
anna, the route is the same and lies through the South
ern Atlantic States across florida and from Cedar
Keys the Gulf Coast of this latter State by steamer
direct to the point of crossing. This direct route is
much shorter than that via New Orleans and interior
routes from that point and trust that the very able
Postmaster General will continue to refuse his acques
in the scheme Of the Louisiana Teuantepec Com
pany far the carriage of the mails between the
Atlantic States and California is concerned
Tehuantepec itself must eventually supercede either
Panama Nicaragua the point for crossing from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and New Orleans must be a
great point for mails and passengers between most Of
the Gulf States and California but for all mails and
passengers in the Atlantic States from Fernandina to
Boston the route must be across Florida and direct from
Cedar Keys to the point of crossing the continent
B5g~ We beg our contemporaries of the Godsboro
Tribune and the Warrenton Nclr to bear in mind that
while feared the spirit Of partzanshp springng W
with respect to the candidates for the Democratic noL
nation might result in squabbling and ill-feeing we
never referred to individual cases. until such eelng
manifested itself We cared not that the Western Sen
tnd teemed with communications and editorials in IA
If one of the gentlemen named-that the Warren
ton NewS did the same-that the Godsboro Tribune did
the same. To that, we had no objection to make save
on the ground of what it might run into But when we
found this communication of one gentleman running
into controversy with the friends of another then we
expressed our regrets at the things were TAX
ing. Had we seen similar attacks upon the friends
Of Mr.. Holden by those of Judge Ellis, we would
have expressed the same regrets. That did not
express such, is simply due to the fact that the at
tacks did not happen to be that way Show attacks
of the same character from any quarter, and we will
equally repudiate them.