Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-06
1lailp 9lattonal Qemotrat.

A., ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS MEssAGE-The
g, Louis correspondent Of the Bulletin thus
.neoks of the manner in which the Presi-
I.nfs Message happened to be sent over the
Sontberp. instead of the Central Route:
porore this reaches San Francisco, You will
"a received the Presidents Message. y
rs, ~ management of the Washington part of
L'o Lnsiness of sending it overland was in
.",sted TO A. r. Corbin, lobby agent in that
~, whose services were called into requisi
,,S1 .'y during the process Of engineering the
.''.nrlond mail bill through Congress. lie was
S'otod TO for the work of procuring the ne
'D,sorv copies, while Mr.. Butterfeld, who
'.os eHending a few weeks at his old home in
Nv York busted himself in hunting up Mr.
pordee an old and experienced eXpresSman,
Ianowned for energy and hardhood for the
Jntv of conveying the message and reports
ooreyand in the shortest possible time-4t-
.e,r 1d6s, If it could be accomplished in So
I5ef a neriod. TO st. Louis, therefore, Par
Jae was seat, TO put himself in preparation
for the Journey, but being detained on the
vav bv some railroad mschance, he came
%h6cr only a few hours before the time set
for commencing the trip.
4 small leathern pouch, with strap to fit
oyer the carriers shoulders, was improyised,
Ond almost before the last stitch was fasten-
~J Corbn was in the city for the fulfllment
ofbis share of the enterprise. Half dozen
oonies of the Message, and official papers to
ocrompany it. composed his budget and they
,rere mt on their way westward at the ear
q;o.t moment. addressed to B. f. Washington
tbe head of the Custom House in your city.
This learned after closing my own commu-
nicotion and after Pardee and the nail were
wbirling away at a fearful speed over the
pacific railroad to Upton His instructions
were to take the mail bags, if they did not
;mnede his progress; if they were burden
some he was to abandon them at any con
ven;ent station, and transfer himself and his
,oucb from the mail coach to the back of the
hest conditioned mule or horse to be found in
tho Companvs stables My Bulletin envel-
one cot place in the mail bag, and hope
kent mace with the Express Mercury and his
loatbern caiuceus. If not, it was left to "est
with the balance of the mail matter, accord
ing to Instructions.
You NAV be said, in this matter, TO have
had the advantage of us in st. Louis, since we
are now Thursday morning, 9th Dec.) with
out onv knowledge of the Message, except
the little conveyed to the newspapers here,
in A brief telegraphic dispatch.
HockadOy d Co, the Salt Lake mail con
tractors, are heavy sufferers by some piece of
iugglerv. These gentlemen long ago made
application for package Of the Message and
and documents, to be forwarded by SINH
lar Express through Utah to San Francisco,
desiring to make test of speed TO the Pacific
with the Butterlield Express. Additional
horses were purchased, sent out on the road
and disposed along at the stations, so as to
form perfect and regular relays. A promise
was obtained from Washington that the doc
uments would be forthcoming, and messen-
ger came down from st, Joseph to st. Louis
to await their coming, as promised, to "care
of Republican Office but, strange to say, the
President refused them a copy of his mes
sage $50 learn from Washington), and
HOekadays' agent, instead of getting a fair
start with Pardee, is still in this city, with
no prospect of obtaining the document until
It appears in the columns of our city papers.
The enterprise will necessarily be abandoned
although the mail contractors incurred an eX-
pense of IS, S,009 to consummate it in proper
style As Mr.. Corbin is in the interest of the
Southern route, he may explain why and
how the Northern mail line was deprived of
its design of making trial of speed with the
other.