The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-05

eighth per pound better with sales OF about 900
coo bids. and 500 boxes Cuba at rates given in
another column. Coffee quiet but steady. Frogh,s
We're Offering to fair amount for Liverpool, while
gsgemens moderate and rates somewhat irregular,
though in the main steady.
Routes 10 our Pacific Emplre-The Dawn of
New State OF Things.
good deal of activity is being displayed in
opening new and re-openng old routes to Cali
fornia and the Pacific shore which promises at
no distant day to be productive of fruitful re-
suits
The Tehuantepec company is earnestly at work
sending down coaches and a river steamer from
here, and cattle and materials from New Orleans
to Minatitlan, and confidently expect to carry
mail through Oh the first of November. The
steamship Quaker City, Captain Shufeldt, will
leave here for New Orleans on the 9th, and that
port on the 9th instant for Mnatitlan, from
whence the mail will be carried across to Ventosa
distance of about $50 miles, in Concord stages,
and there it will connect with the Pacific mail
steamers for San Francisco. BY this arrange
ment the company anticipate being able to run
the mail through from New Orleans to California
in fifteen days, arriving on the same steamer with
the Panama mail, but with one weeks later
news. The return trip will be made in the same
way, leaving San Francisco at the same time with
the Panama mail, and reaching New Orleans
by way Of Tehuantepec one week sooner than
the mails that go to Panama. We understand
that the Tehuantepec Company intends to make
liberal arrangements for the conveyance of pas
sengers and treasure, and are confident that they
can keep the route permanently open, and up to
time from the start
While these preparations bare been going on
for opening the Tehuantepec route, similar labors
have been actively prosecuted for opening the
Nicaragua route under the auspices Of Col Joe
White and the WhiteStebbins grant. This COM
pany has despatched the steamship Hermann
round Cape Horn for the purpose Of performing
the service ON the Pacific, and have sent out
Two river steamers TO San Juan del Norte for the
river and lake portion of the line. There is some
difficulty as regards the validity of the grant by
Nicaragua that government maintaining that il
has lapsed, and no announcement Of the time OF
opening this line has yet been made. The COM
pany no doubt awaits the Intelligence of the
Of the Cass- Yrisarfi and her companion river
steamer at san Juan del Norte, before CON-
hitting itself 10 The public. The arrange
ments for this line have been made without
much publicity, the first announcement Of the
proceedings being the report given in the
HERALD few weeks since, of the sailing Of some
of the steamers. We hope there will be none Of
shn sa a..
marked The past history of the Nicaragua route
Coincident with these sea aud isthlnus routes
is the opening Of the wagon road overland route,
Of which We gave full description in the H.
RALD OF the 26th ultino This enterprise has
been undertaken by contract with the Post or
fee Department by company styled the Over
land Mail Company. The route runs from 81.
Louis to Fort Smith. on the western border Of
Arkansas; thence 10 Franklin on the western
border Of Texas, near III Psso: thence through
Arizona TO Fort Yuma on the Colorado, near the
head Of the Gulf of California. and from there
by land 10 San Francisco. The distance ira
versed by this line is 2,65l miles, Of which
6G4 are from Fort Yuma to San francisco, and
the schedule time il twenty-five days This line,
besides taking the mails from cur Western States
to California, will open facilities for regular cor
rcspondcncc with large tracts Of territory which
have hitherto had few and uncertain means
Of communication, and arc comparatively I'M
known TO the great mass Of the peo-
pie. The popular idea Is that il il vast
sandy waste, bounded on the west by almost i'm
pcnetrablc mountain ranges; but there are large
tracts well adapted TO the support Of man, and
at no very distant day they will become favorite
resorts for emigrants and the universal Yankee
land spcculator.
From present appearances. therefore, we shall
soon have four routes to California permanently
opened to correspondence and travel We pre-
sen, them here In tabular form. with their re-
spective distances and time Of transit 10 san
Francisco from New York
Ala Days.