New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-22

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Edstors Cssscent, The last mail from California
reached this place on the morning Of the I'd OF Au.
gust and but for certain delays originating in cir
custances that were past control at that time, the
Hahana might have left this wharf at daylight. She
did not leave until but her delay in nowise attrib
utable to her Captain but was to BE- attributed to the
weather and the Custom House, two things in Mexico
which human prudence have nothing to do With.
That trip. therefore, ought to have been made be-
tween San Francisco and New Orleans in fifteen
days ct most reducing the time to at least ten days
from what il will be made in via Panama, and three
days less than the best time ever claimed to have
been made via Nicaragua. Taking everything into
consideration, therefore, one valid indisputable fact
has been demonstrated that against all disadvantages
the Tehuantepec route claims precedence Of time
above Al It's rivals and as time with us Is matter
of dollars and cents It Is clear that the public prefer
ece should be given to that route which offers to do
Tie work the cheapest Certain men, without taking
his view Of the case may say that the saving Of time
il not tie saving Of money but such persons are not
tie ones to read this letter-they are vegetables,
whose whole aim to get through life without refer
ence to how it is DONE Men who have to borrow
money a. they do in San Francisco at two per cent
per week, can much more easily understand me when
i tell them that II 1 save them week thereby save
them two per cent. on the amount they have to
borrow.
7 This arst great fact being demonstrated beyond
q doubt that the time can be made by way Of
this Iathmus In shorter time than by any other, we
come to the next considerations is to prevent
it from becoming the favorite? Passengers have
been transported across this route they have been
across all others, and they have had to submit to
some Inconvenience. By what route are they re-
lesed from these tronbes-n what condition Of life
are they exempt from them2 Travelling on steam
ships Is the same at all times, whether it be on the
Habana or the Vanderbt therefore, the evils Of this
route are the same as Others with the exception that
BY Tehuantepec there is one hundred and fifty miles
land travel, which must be done on stages At pres
emit this is very badly done. if done at ALL but who
doubts that it cannot be well done? Is there sane
man on the surface of the earth who will say that
good practicable road does not exist over the hundred
and fifty miles Of land travel across the Isthmus? If
there IT, be doubts in the first place the capacity Of
his kind and in the second place he doubts an actual
Jact, which hundreds Of men are willing to prove.
The road will not be so level across the plains
Of Illinois but it will be better than the one from
Vera Cruz to Mexico, or than was the old stage road
across the Alleghanies. consider this point settled
that good road already exists, and better one can
DO made.
In the next place, if fifty good mules are sent here
from the United States, put ntothe care Of capa
BILE hands, are fed and light stages provided
instead Of the cumbrous vehicles that line the road
now, three stages may be run across the route con-
Meeting each steamer with the other in two days
With bad mules, bad feed and miserable Spectator
for transportation agent, this has been done and
say that it be done just well with good mules
well fed, light stages and an honest agent Does any
one dispute these facts or these natural deductions?
II they do, cannot agree with them for the man
who disputes that natural cold doth condense the
mercury in thermometer is incapable Of argument.
The only route that approaches this one lin the time
has to pass through the same ordeal Of mountains,
only worse and more of them, cannot see what
argument will favor it at all. lit is dsagreeable to
travel one hundred and fifty miles in stages from
Suchil to ventosa in two days, when the mountain
travel will not exceed fifty miles, certainly it is disa-
greeable to travel fifteen hundred miles, at least in
stages, over three hundred miles Of mountains, and
when the wearisome trip requires eighteen days over
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form Of comparison and assert without fear Of contra
diction that the passage from suchil to yentosa can
be made quite as pleasantly, with very slight ontlay
as it is now made from Mobile to Montgomery, Ala
bama. The two routes are almost alike, except that
this one has more mountains, which afford finer
prospect, and have less accommodations, which is
drawback to one who likes good eating.
There is another aspect in which this route takes
precedence of the Overland or the Panama transts-
it ranks ahead Of both in point Of time It is superior
to the Overland in point Of convenience, rest and
comfort and it is safer Indians infest the Overland
route and the Panama fever ravages the passengers
by that transit. On the Isthmus Of Tehuantepec
sickness is almost unknown, except in the natural
course Of life, as peoples systems become deranged
everywhere and result in local maadies of no conse
quence, How many thousands have felt the effects
Of single trip by way OF Panama, and what white
man ever stopped at Aspinwal or about the Chagres
river but felt If his life was in danger every day he
remained? What scenery, what relief to the weari.
some monotony of q sea voyage does it offer What
pleasure can be extracted from trip to California by
way Of New Granada? Who can call his life or his
limbs his own who goes by way of the Rocky Mount
aims? What Insurance Company would take pre-
MUM for one who Travelled the Overland route?