New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-04-16
4sh Orleans 4ailp Crescent.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
w.saIseros. AprIl 5. ]

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WASHINGTON, April s, 1858. :
Editors Crescent Hon. Mr. McKibhen, from the
House COMMITTEES On Post0hiees and Post Roads,
uili ere long report favorably upon bill in which,
fauhiess the readers Of the Crescent largely in
s<reztea. The Louisiana Tehuantepec Company pro-
zx,s a undertake weekly mail service between the
r,srts respectively. Of New Orleans and San Fran
~ssco and New York and San francisco. For per-
aauniug this service from the ports last mentioned
fNew York and San Franciscol they ask 100000
per annum. For the service between New Orleans
aad San Francisco they ask $s5opoO; making an
3Egregate Of ss5o,O0o.
This will be vast improvement upon the existing
service. The Pacific Panama Company, as believe
e Is called perform only semi-monthy mail ser
vice. at q cost 70 the Government Of S73s 900 per
nanum. Their average term is twentyfour days, and
1aey run Gully between New York and San Francisco.
Thus it win le seen that for the sum of 100000
morc, the Louisiana Tehuantepec Company propose
% do quadrnple the amount Of work done by the
Panama Company They will run double line of
ste&mers from New York and New Orleans to San
Ffxnesco, the mail will be weekly instead of semi
nxaathiy, as now, and the average time of trips
wiu be, from New York 70 San Francisco eighteen
days, and from New Orleans to San Francisco four
teen days.
This contract is not to take effect until October,
1859. Meantime, the Louisiana Company proposes
% rum from the present date to October 1859 from
New Orleans to San Francisco, semi-monthly, alter
axdng with the Pacific Panama Company, which
wfi continue me usual service 70 and rom New
York. The time from New Orleans to San Fran
CISCO will be fourteen days, and for transporting the
mails ETC.. the Louisiana Company propose the mod
exaEe charge to the Government OF szSosooV per
snnan.
Z learn that this PToia, 10 part and IN whole, mas
tie appreciation Of the Administration and viii IN
Al ikeiAood go into effect at the earliest practlcai
monent. The opponents Of the nili contend WIN
Mare than a show of plausbility that the Pacific
maii service Is already an enormous charge upon the
Federal Treasury. In addition to the Panama SER
vice already mentioned. costing s7ssOoO per annum,
there are three overland routes, BY which trips are
uxsde on an average OF thirty days and the cost OF
which y stated as follows by the Memphis route,
4s5e0oo the San Antonio and San Pedro route,
Si5oooo the Salt Lake route, $500, ooo-msking
NE grand total, including the Panama route, OF
Sts1ssove. lhisi indeed, an enormous charge but
~ mus. De remembered tnat tne overland routes are
properly spenk'sg not postal routes but avenues for
ehe transportation Of Government supplies Tor iacil
ttznng emigrauon' and TOT opening up and develop
zag new and fertile countries. IN view Of the pro-
sective value OF these new Territories, the present
nominaily postal expenditures are abundantly JUS
ela, aud as 10 no great time the Louisiana Tehuan-
aeDec Company Is destined to supersede much more
eesty company, and much slower service, il Is all
safortant that the company should be put in work
ing trim By compensation sufficient to induce and
Sustain them in undertaking the alternating trips
before mentioned. As the existing service is a mo-
aapoy, and the charges for passengers if not for
anais, are exorbitant. cogeut argument might be
based upon that head but apart from this, the Lou
isiana Company holds out ACHIEVEMENTS to OBJ
tain the support and encouragement it asks at the
hands of Congress.
Minnesota scnffed through the Senate yesterday |
BY large vote, every Senator but Clay, Kennedy |
aad Yalee voting for it, Heaven knows there are
features in the Minnesota Consultation infinitely more
ahominabIe and more in conflict with the spirit if not
he letter Of the Consultation Of the United States
than slavery but suppose slavery had been in her
Consultation. what precious hubbub we should |
have had But the readers OF the Crescent need not
be told that disguise it as they may the secret and
the whole secret Of the opposition to Kansas is the
faaatica anti slavery spirit which impregnates the
eatre North |
The Crittenden-M Montgomery amendment, disagreed
20 BY the Senate, and unnecessarily detained there,
goes down to the House to-day, and the vote on it
viii be taken at o'clock. have but little idea that
the House VAL recede. The New York Herald has
esaie out il favor Of Crittendens amendment, and
Che Black Republican successes at all the Northern
elections which have been held within the past few
days, added to the significant weight OF the Herads
position, viii nix the opposition beyond chance of
change. OF the majority Of eight who voted against
Lecompton as Il came from the Senate, have heard
q bat one man who has receded-Wall, Of Ohio.
The Administration has stu seven men 70 purchase,
aad nothing 70 purchase them with The result OF
zee vote VIII reach you long before this letter;
ahereiore dismiss the subject
Yesterday the Deficiency bill was virtually de-
ieafed in the House. II was referred back to the
Committee on Ways and Means, who we're instructed
g report y again In sections Our Democratic econo-
insists, smitten with sudden conscientousness,
desermned to vote no longer for things in the lump
each item must undergo rigid scrutiny before the /
good men will permit it to pass. Heaven bless their
srtuous souls why didn't this excellent idea strike
feni In time to save the treasury from bankruptcy
U we ever do get rid OF Kansas, the next thing on
'dacket will be the Pacific Railroad learn that no
and dried for livery MANY OF them nv Northern