Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-07-16
Improved Nail Facilities from the Atlantic
10 the Pacific.

Improved Nail Facilities from the Atlantic
10 the Pacific.
The following, as we learn from an article in the
National Iatslgsnce are the improved facilities in
the mail service between the Atlantic and the
Pacific:
FrsL-From New Orleans, Louisiana, by Indian
ola, to San Antonio, thence by Ell PasO and Fort
Yuma to San Diego on the Pacific, twice per month.
This was the Pioneer Line, demonstrating that an
overland mail route was practicable. 1t is now in
full and successful operation, the last trip from San
Antonio to San Diego having been performed in
twenty three and one-half days.
Second-The great overland mail route from Mem.
phis and st Louis formings junction at Fort Smith,
near the head of navigation the Arkansas river
thence in the direction Of Preston on the Red river;
thence to Fort Fillmore above FL Paso, on the Rio
Grande; thence to Fort Yuma, On the Colorado, and
thence by the Tehon Pass to San Francisco. The
contractors Messrs Butterfeld Co., have examined
the route fixed their stations, and will have
the service in operation. When the service COM
menees, it viii supersede the San Antonio line be-
tween the Rio Grande and the Colorado rivers, but
leave it in full operation the balance Of the route.
Third.-To give similar mail and travelling facili-
ties, the Hon. A. V. Brown, Postmaster General,
established another great overland route and to be
run weekly to accommodate the Northwestern States
and Territories above st Louis, from st. JOseph's
on the Missouri to Salt Lake, and from Salt Lake
through Carson Valley to Placeryille thus penetrat-
ing California in her most pOpulOus region, and
furnishing emigrant route of the highest impor.
lance. The contractors, Messrs. Hoekadsy on the
east, and Chorperning on the west give assurances
by their experience and ample means, that this
great route will be speedily and successfully carried
into effect. So soon as the roads can be improved
and actual experience shall show within what time
the service can be performed the time will doubt
be reduced to the very shortest that it be in.
Fourtk.-FrOm some point on this line west Of Salt
Lake four horse coach service will be put on t is
advertised fOr to the Dalles thus establishing
most important communication with the Territories
of Washington and Oregon. Both Gen. Lane and
Gov. Stevens, if elected to the next Congress- have
announced their intention to pass over this impOr-
tant route.
Fyth.-From Independence, on the Missouri, to
Santa Fe the capital of New Mexico, weekly in four
horse coaches
Sirth.-FrOm Santa Fe, By Albuquerque to Stock
ton, California falling into the Buttereld or Ell
PasO route, ct TehOn Pass, above Stockton. Con-
nected with this route is q monthly four>horss
coach service from NiOshO (Or Fort smith to Albu>
querque.
Serend.-The new Tehuantepec route from New
Orleans, Louisiana, to San Francisco, connecting
with the Panama line at or near Acapulco. This
route has been long desired by the people Of the
United States 1t is the one nearest our possessions
i
in time of war The Gulf Of Mexico is destined
hereafter to be emphsticsly an American sea, over
which, from necessity, the United States must have
prepOnderating and controlling power. Contracts
have already been made by the Postmaster General
whereby mails and passengers can be conveyed by |
railroad from New York TO New Orleans in three
days and ten hours this improvement, taken in con-
nexion with the route by Tehuantepec, must greatly
shorten and cheaper the communication between the
Atlantic and Pacific States.
Eighh-The coast service Of the Pacific has by no |
means been neglected. In August last much |
needed line Of mail steamers for the benefit of the
coast towns and settlements between San Francisco,
Astoria, and Olympia, was established, at cost of
Sl2l,5OO per annum, and soon after contract for
steamboat supply of the officers on Puget's Sound,
once each week, at cost of $50, 400 per annum.
The above routes, connecting the Atlantic with the
Pacific, have been established in the face of the most
appalling revulsion of trade and commerce. which
reduced the revenues Of the Government in a most
unprecedented degree. In the face of that revulsiOn
prOstratiDg the means ofthe Government as well as
Of individuals all over the world, Congress would
notvenure stpresent the construction ofarairoad
TO connect the two oceans. But, with iberality
hardly to have been expected under the circuu-
stances, the Administration, through the Post Office
Department, has opened up many overland routes
which must develop the riches of the immediate
country, and contribute largely and immediately to
the wealth, population, and general property of
California, Oregon, and Washington The establish
ment Of these six or eight great overland routes will
be well calculated to throw a food of light on the
great question over Whist particular route railrosd
shall hereafter be constructed, when the country
shall have recovered from its present pecunisry
5arresments.
THE WINE OF CAmFoRNIA.-Ca California, ike Mis-
souri,, viii rival Ohio in the product of native
wine. There is one firm in San Francisco which
produced last year two hundred thousand bottles Of
champagne from their own vineyard in Los Angeles.
This is but one of many instances Of California
erprise in wine growing. Almost every State in the
Union now adds its quota-sman in many cases, but
,lvsys increasiRg-to the annual product