New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-09
TrHuANrEpEc CORRESPONDENTS.

f'r1cttc0euity o. q hoMte dcT0ss the Ash"us-
pdrison 10Th other Routes Necessity Of Kali
road to accommodate B.siness-1he Figures as
to Distance and Iime--.An old Ifufh corTo
borated, and an old Faisehood erpioded-An dp
peal to the South an Horoscope.
Special to the New Orleans Crescentl
MMAr1rLAN, Mexico, Sept. !, 1853.
1fessrs. Editors-In two former communications
attempted to draw the difference 10 avor o. tne
Tehuantepec transit over the Panama ana over'anu
routes. and to demonstrate the practicsbillsy OF
mal;nu /. oheap and available railroad connectlon
across this Isthmus In both Of these purposes was
,.ost fortunately seconded by the Company, for on
tha Ill ~ August the trip from San Francisco TO
N.v Or,eans Vas made in sixteen days, and on the
,sth !. vsa made il less time. By comparison,
aa th.t ri. Ia saving OF ten days over either Of
~ .or,ret;nu lines and no man in his senses will
env mi that this trip of sixteen days could have
been made quite as pleasantly If not more so, all
conveniences given, as it was made by Panama or
Ell paso. sincerely hope that my proposition is I'M.
derstood for il is excessively annoying to write for
narrow inteects that dispute positions outside Of the
argument 1t makes me nervous to have ideas put
into my mouth By illiterate dputauts, who have no
other way to reason than by contesting their alb
snrdities. My position, therefore, is this: that the
trip was made in less time and not that it was made
more comfortably. l think, however, that with a
railroad across this Isthmus, it might be made more
pleasantly.
In the second place, nature, facts, surveys, and
every other proof capable Of deciding point of phys
cal accomplishment, have demonstrated that rail
road can be made across this Isthmus for $50 900
per me at the outside calculation. II the reader is
not satisfied on this point then it is not my task
nor my inclination to convince him for detest an
argument with obstinacy or ignorance. Such 8
reader disputes with Hersehel and Arago because be
does not understand what he talks about.
i now come to another part,of the subject, which
brings the matter home to every man in the United
States, Europe and Asia, who has anything like let
ers or moneys to send from part Of the world
another. In republic where nothing less than rail
roads and telegraphs will suffice to acquaint the peo
pie with what is transpiring away from home, it is
not ridiculous to suppose that from two to eight days
economy Of time between Calcutta and London San
Francisco and London, or San Francisco and New
Orleans or New York. would be Immediately adopted
if it could be made available. man, be he however
stupid, can send dispatches just well and just as
safely Via Tehuantepec in eight days less time than be
could va Panama. is it incorrect to suppose that he
win adopt the former communication? Suppose, fol
the shipper there desired to send money to New York
and that he could save week four days by send
ing it by Tehuantepec in preference to Panama. woult
he not do 1t? And then suppose, again, as is alcay
the case in San Francisco, that he saved by thi
economy OF four or seven days three per cent inter
est on his money, what could prevail upon him t.
adopt the Panama route and lose his three per cent
interest? Money, in San Francisco, before the de
1 pasture of the steamer now for Panama, command
from two to seven per cent per week, and after thi
enormous interest it still loses five days to its owne
in New York. Just think of such losses, and imag
iue how quickly the merchant or banker Of San Fran
cisco or New York will avail himself Of any metho
which shall save him one week and three per cen,
besides Millions of treasure are interested in thi
matter; and thousands OF people stand ready +
patronize any enterprise phich actually ensthens on
their liyes By this absolute humiliation Of time!
Bat it is useless to assert all these advantages
time without the proper figures to demonstrate tn
proposition. A glance at the geography Of tn
world will give any man the desired information,
q general way but arithmetical' calculation an
actual measurement when they have been made, wi
save an immense deal of trouble to everybody els
than the compiler Of the statement. AS l have th
necessary figures at my command, l lay them befor
your readers with this remark, that they not CT
pable Of negation in the matter Of miles, howeve
much men may doubt about time. By comparison
then, when it is denied that the distance betwee
such and such places can be made in given tint
the negative proposition is just nimical to Panam
as to Tehuantepec. give the comparative distance
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