The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-05-18

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Correspondence of the New York Herald
| WASHINGTON, May 8, 1s5s-1he overland mail from
st Louis and Memphis TO San Francisco Is ixed fact
II will be eoollected by you that the Overland mail
| established by law the Sd Of March, 1851 lmme
dately after the accession Of Governor Brown to h,
Post Office Department he took up the subject and after
most pains taking examination Of devised the meen
for executing the law and submitted his plans to tho
y.instaed President Of the United States The Pres
dent Laid the measure, important did he esteem it, be
fore full cabinet council After numerous conslilta
tons, it unanimously resolved to commit the
ton OF tho contract 1t thought hest to make to John
Butterteld and eight or nine other experienced, en-
crgetic and public spirited stage contractors and ex
prcssren Of known means They were not only known
to be possessed of ample means but also of pesever
ance that would not quail when they to grapple
with the gigantic dicultes that existed the routes
bstwesn ths Mi<nappi river and Ban Francisco Bia
The route selected BY the Ppsaaster General under
tho advice Vt the President and hs cabinet has since been
carefully examined BY the contsxctors and With few
slight changes has been found not only praccabls but
far, very far better than they expected to find it,
The contractors were allowed by law and contract
year within which TO prepare for the execution Of the
great trust confded to them. They to commenced
running fourhorse coaches from both ends of the route
semi weekly the 18th of September next and make
the trip In twenty days After completing their ex-
animation well pleased they with their prospects
that they have made application it is understood to be
allowed to run mail from San Francisco quite down to
Fort Yuma the first of July next, and from St. Louis
iuciApnlb DtikNAp hC inc same IhlH
application in whole in part will probably be granted
AS this is the first great practical step taken by the
government of the United States open up an easy and
direct line Of communication between San Francisco and
the Mississippi river for the conveyance of passengers
and for the purpose of building up continuous line OF
settlements, will describe the route. a. s8
The route begins at San Francisco up the river to
and through the Tulare valley through the Twas pass
through the settlements in the fertile valley of San Ber
nardino, to Fort Yumaths is air line nearly From
Fort Yuma the route proceeds through Arizona directly
to Fort Fillmore, on the Rio Grande few miles above
n Paso. From thence the route east and crosses
the Rio Pecos about three miles below the mouth of Del
aware creek thence to and along Macys trail to the
Springs in the "Sand Hills - thence northeast to Mus
tang springs thence to the Big springs of tho Colorado
Of Texas thence crossing the Clear fork Of Bazos
the mouth of Paint creek, to Fort Belknap thence,
through Preston to Fort Smith, the Arkansas river
Here the route branches branch down the river
by Little Rock, to Memphis and the other branch from
Fort Smith runs through Springfield To- st Louis From
ST. Louis to San Francisco the route il about 1850 miles
long and stages be easily driven it, after the
ganization has been perfected in twenty days The
country being high, dry and remarkably healthy, and
never subject to deep SHOWS it is believed the stages will
always be filed with as many passengers be accom-
modated for thousands will prefer passage overland
IN comfortable stages to passage by sea and across the
sckly isthmus.
To confirm this preference but one thing is wanting
thorough military protection. ssg 5.B "a SIS iass
This want, with the eye of practiscd statesman the
cautious Postmaster General has only apprehend
ed but sought provide against It understood that
this sagacous officer has made formal application to tho
President of the United States for thorough protection
Of route important and along which 30 much life
and property will passa route which Congress has
ss,sa e y 0psasd Wss G. S9t s. Eh
resolved of course the ninitiated cannot know but
1t is believed that the President himself has bestowed
thought upon the subject and has given 1t in charge
to the Secretary Of War with instructions to render the
operations of the Postmaster General secure If this has
been done, the security Will certainly be afforded for
Gov. Floyd Is apt to do what ho undertakes With
Lieutenant General Scott to devise military plans, and
competent subonates to execute schemes of defencc
the Secretary able to consummatc his with
rare satisfaction to the President and the country
Security being afforded to the Postmaster General $
great overland mail route of 1850 miles, what will fol-
low! What must follow Settlements at each stage
station and in every fertile valley every stage sta
ton will have tavern, store blacksmith's shop a
telegraph Office, an express Office An immense mmgra-
on will follow the stages Security and stages
be far separated from the emigants they bound
go together and when found together they will build
settlements along their path ts,s $50 ~ " i
Hence the Postmaster General, in The first eighteen
months of his service will have the happiness of instit
ting aineasure which will build up the g waste places "
of his country and thus connect together the distant
and dis,nted parts thereof What many statesmen
BY other means of more imposing and costly character
have in vain sought to do he will have by
the of the old English stage coach He will have
connected and consolidated the settlements and created
new ones of the utmost Importance. He will have
given employment to TROOPS it s true; but the rush of
settlers into the protected valleys will quickly transfer
the necessity Of protection from the white to the red
His line of stages from FL Paso to the Red river
will almost at line of settlements to spring
into existence, which Indians cannot 60 1t will
at open Texas from its northeastern flank and pour
into it wondrous tide of throbbing humanity So with
Arkansas with southwest Missouri eminently with
Arizona and southeast California ~ f''
Ten years hence this great Of Postmaster Gen.
eral Brown is likely to be considered the wsest and the
most benefcent which will signalze the administration
of President Buchanan 1t connects the remote portions
of vast empire, and is therefore statcsmanke; il in
the building and maintenance of telegraph for tho
convenience of trade and upon the most dis
tant and greatest ocean, and is therefore wise and bcne
cent. "a go adf H YgF tN9 5V3 M c@
As tho ball set in motion amid many jeers and
taunts the Postmaster General may well fecitate him
self upon his brilliant prospects of achieving successful
result To conduct to successful issue important
underta king will be haaor alike to those who plan
and those who execute 10 h win DO tho event of his e
and of the administration. esH8H - o rl ~ iiEQW I
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