The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-11-11
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER IL.

Gun readers are already aware that an " over
land MALI from Saint Louis In Missouri, and
Memphis in Tennessee, to San Francisco has been
established by the United States government.
These mails are to be carried through in twenty
four days, and leave each end of the route once .
week. Two mails had already arrived, each of
them bringing advices from all parts of the
Union and Europe some days later than the ocean
mails.
The establishment of this overland mail service
is justly regarded as of great importance to the
interests of the Pacific coast, and will have a ten
dency to bring the two sections of the country
into closer union. But it will have a more i'm
portant influence than this. 1t will break up the
wilderness that intervenes, and tend to people it.
scattering settlements along the line of the mail
routes and pave the way for that great undertak-
ing which cannot now be very distant-a conti-
mental railway.
Although we at these islands viii not feel these
changes to such an extent as those residing on the
Pacific coast, yet we are notbeyond their influence.
We are wholly dependent on San Francisco for
our American and European news, which is
received, as it has also been heretofore at San
Francisco, in semi-monthly instalments. In this
respect there will be a great change. just as
soon a the overland mail becomes so regulated as
to be certain in its movements, and gains public
confidence, large quantities of letters and newspa-
pers will be sent and received by it. Instead then
of our news coming only semi-monthly, we shall
receive our American and European news by
nearly every arrival from San Francisco.
This change in the long established mode of re-
ceiving and announcing eastern news in San
Francisco viii result soon in a change in the con-
duct of the newspapers of that city, and have
a tendency to give to the leading city papers more
of a metropolitan cast. Indeed it would appear
that the time has nearly arrived when the intro
duction into San Francisco of a {. fast press and
a consolidation of several of the leading daily pa
pers, accompanied with a reduction in the sub
s~cription price, would Immediately make such a
paper, by increased facilities for speedy issue to
city and country subscribers, and by the general
comprehensiveness of its news, as well as by are
duced subscription price, almost the sole medium
of eastern news, instead of dividing Gas at pres
ent) with the 100, 900 New York and Boston pa
pers now distributed through California by each
steamer mail. Such a paper will soon be called
for by the wants of the Pacific coast public, and
if ably managed and edited would be literally
sustained.
San Francisco daily and weekly papers will
then be sought for throughout the Pacific, as the
New York weeklies now are, and will be the
medium of all news interesting to residents in
this part of the world. There is no installing
one great fact, that San Francisco is destined to
become the great center of trade and general news
for this ocean, and we rejoice in every new move
ment that places her nearer to the commercial
centers of the Old World, for the same opening
brings us nearer to them also. These islands
have their sphere, which is to build up and serve
the whaling interests of this ocean, and the nearer
we are placed in communication with Atlantic
cities, the more will our prosperity and CONNER
cial interests become enhanced.