Nevada national., 1859-01-29
Tchunntepcc Route.
A friend writes as follows:

ter-oceanic route, via Tehuantepec, an'
knowing the disadvantages incident upon al
new undertakings. your correspondent deem
IL a duty to those who have been engage
in the enterprise, and TO the public to whose
benefit is must so greatly rebound, that hi
testimony 10 its advantages over all othei
routes be added to that Of all who have ye
passed over it.
Five trips, each made within seventeen
days, ought TO confirm its success and C7er
come that want of confidence which is keep
ing the patronage Of capital and travel
by this new route there is a reduction o.
seven days made on the passage time Of ti
rival via Panama. The mail for Califor
| uia. by this route. leaving New Orleans a
week later than that via Panama, overtakes
the later at Acapulco and both enter San
Francisco togetber-much 20 the disadvan.
tage of the stale news ria Panama Such
a gain of lime, strengthened by that Of the
delightful and salubrious climate through
which the traveller passes, in which he ncurs
no risk of contracting disease, are considera
tions which must break down all opposition.
Even the heavy capital Of the Panama mo.
nopoly cannot compete with such advanta-
ges. And We are glad that the time has now
come when that unbridled and unconsciona-
bic monopoly is to be checked. and its days
numbered. A freer emigration, hitherto i'm
peded by their emo rmous taxation. will set
itself towards the Golden Gate, and, devel-
oping the manifest resources of this wonder
will hasten the coming of that time when the
envable position, which she holds on the
map Of the world will no longer be a mock
cry, and when it will no longer be in vain
that her unrivalled harbor opens its gates to
so wealthy portion Of the globe.
When capital shall have sought this new
highway for il investment, as it inevitably
must do-going always where the greatest
profit is to be realized-and shall have con-
structed its railroad between the two oceans
which is but a small undertaking, and when,
by placing its steamers upon the Pacific, it
shall make the company independent of the
Panama slow craft. then will the Crescent
City and Golden Gate be but twelve days
travel apart; and your California mail, car
rying the news of The lst from Washington,
New York. and other Atlantic cities. will on
the morning Of the 18th furnish subjects for
discussion and basis for combination among
the politicians md merchants Of your golden
State.
The recent movements Of the British for
mail communication with the Pacific. render
our own demands for greater facilities more
pressing and positive; consequently this new
route opens for us at on auspieiouS hOnr.---
Capital need hardly fear that the construc-
tion of the Great Pacific Railroad would
crowd upon and ruin its investment in the
Tehuantepec Route; for long before that hap.
py time, it would have increased ten fold. aud
be prepared for ten per cent sale Of stock.
aid the time could he reduced within
twelve days; for the assertion here are the
facts. They now run between New Orleans
and Minatillan-distant from the mouth OF
the Coaizacoaleos twenty miles--in seventy
hours The distance from that place to San
ia Cruz (which will eventually be their Pa.
cific harbor) is about two hundred miles: at
railroad speed of thirty miles per hour. al
lowing three hours for stoppages, the transit
will he made in ten hours. Immediate con.
nection will be secured 10y their own line OF
steamers on the Pacific, and allowing that
they will make the time now made by their
Atlantic steamer. avoiding the delay OF TWEEN
ty-four and often thirty nours at Acapulco,
now occAsioned by their dependence on the
Panama steamers. then the run between San.
ia Cruz and San Francisco will be made in
eight days Thus the passage between the
teFmin of this new route will be have been
accomplished in two hundred and seventy
two hours--which is within twelve days
being equivalent to eleven days and eight
hours