The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-06-09

This showing from the actual official distances will
no doubt surprise great many people who have svsl
lowed without examination the report of the great NV
log In distance by the new route Now, to time the
old route il prepared, believe to submit schedule
by which mails and passengers certainly he carried
between New York and New Orleans In quite short
time that proposed by the over-mountain line If
not indeed in shorter time The mil lies over seven
hours at Montgomery of which it proposed to save at
least six hours An effort Is also in progress and Il Ger
tain to succeed by which six hours will be saved on the
route between Atlanta and Richmond. This added TO
six hours at Montgomery would make clear saving Of
twelve hours To the New Orleans mails aud passengers
II Is proper to remark that the completion Of the road
in course Of construction from Charlottesville Viz
ginia to Lynchburg, Virginia, will revsnty
miles, AND the road from Cleveland tho East Tennes
see and Virginia road over Chattanooga will cave some
40 more miles Little nothing in distance can be saved
over the nineyve miles of staging In Mississippi by the
Mississippi Central road These various connexions
which will lessen the distance the interior route
hundred and ten miles, cannot be completed under two
years.
On the other hand glance at the railroad map attached
to Dnsmore Railroad Guide for May shows that connex
ions in progress calculated to effect corresponding
reduction Of distance the Seab0ard route between the
great commercial capitals of the North and the South
Some fifty miles only wanting to complete the Della
ware road from Seaord the point It has now reached 10
Cherystone, point the Eastern shore nerly opposite
Norfolk. The line from Weldon to New York pia Nor
folk, Cherrystone and Philadelphia would be consde
city and Baltimore and would still BIO shorter the
air line already projected from Norfolk to New York
Cape Henry and Cape Charles crossing the Delaware bay
at Cape May, were only pushed TO completion.
We have compared the actual distances, and shown BY
the figures that the advantage claimed for the western
route has existence In fact Let turn TO anoh
route whose claims in point of time have had
sion to present once before.
BY railroad from New York to Wilmington Charles
ton thence by steamer to Fcrnandna, thence to Cedar
Keys by Florida railroad thence by steamer to New Or
leans will insure the transit of mails and passengers
from New Yorh to New Orleans New Orleans to New
York in under four days. This, we understand the
companies will guaranty. No inland or other line
through mountain gorges hope for tho certainty
in Its winter connexions indeed it may fairly be que
toned whether tho time proposed be averaged by
that line even In the summer.
BY the way, not.ce from some of our exchanges
that great mistake exists in regard to the great north
and southern malls Of the country the idea being
crtained, At least attempted to be conveyed that
thcse mails are hereafter to 60 by tho route across the
mountains Of Virginia and Tennessee. This we learn
from good authority, IL not the fact It IL true that
single daily mail Is to be sent by the mountain route a.
ter the first day of July but that docs not imply dis
continuance Of the mails along the great soabOazd line
Indeed, the importance of double daily mail to all the
important Atlantic cities and towns, to nay nothing Of
the whole southern Atlantic tier of States too great to
admit for moment the idea of the removal Of either Of
the mails from this line.