The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-28

ranroad--wh,eh presc.ed-no do.ht this Is ans
De nais and W Judgment n many tAere are pone
cal commercial considerations which wouu jufofy
SsDs owning The night u way 70 esnsucs road
Should this be tbs Wow Of Congress- men sach appropr
Non should be frankly made from me paunG
pay for needed, anu Wnch unprodus
i've and unavailable ~ tho department
San ANTONIO AND San DIEGO HAHs
mis- SEM, monthly was, on the 29lh day OF October,
lass improved 70 weekly service between San Antoae
ane II Paso ana n psso' and Fort Yuma aud the osmpen
during the past year, already shswn was but s6O
Noes department. at the rate OF 1926 800 per apnnm
Wiah conclusive Indication OF ils Of importance
value for postal PURPOSES drecsd that the service
should ths LIST Of July last, be put its Original foot
M Of semi monthly mail and reduced the allowance 70
fs contractors 10 s2o 900 Whatever osiecss political
- other wise, may have been contemplated BY the 60
ysTDmsnt IA establishing this route through almost
unbToken wilderness aud desert IL 70 clear that ts
nuanse at the present rats Of compensation injus
tos " the department 1t may DO convenient for the
Diego but recommendation il III NOT required In
the direction Of tho Pacific since the people Of Texas have
wiab that coast through New rlcsus and also BY the
great overland mail But IL would be better thai this
nan-one Of the lghtess known 70 the department
should be sent even ~ the way OF New York 70 Oahfor
Aa than that the correspondence Of the whole country
should be oppressed By this enormous exAcoa for the
GREAT OVERLAND MAN.
Tho service upon this extended route has been per-
hsAed with great regularity, and generally within sche
burdens which the department. has ever been subjected
With an expenditures a. the rate Of $8O00o0 per annum,
more than S27 s o. 90 that atsr making allowance Tor
such increase may DO anticipated the department Ut
ne expiration Of the sx years for which The contract was
entered INTO, viii have lost from this alone
han three millions Of dollars Feeling anxious TO relieve
= he D0,s % e, iron a
weekly service, which would have resulted In an
annual saving, as compared with the present outlay,
10 Me Attorney General, he determined that In
consequences Of the customary clause giving the Postmas
been omitted In this the desired curtament could not be
kgally made The whole matter being thus placed be-
ycnd the osnro q the department. the acton Of Congress
alone capable Of furnishing the remedy DESIRED
eanAet tho earnestly recommend s early and decided in
tsrpss'on. II no compromise can be- effected with the
parties upon terms deemed reasonable, then ] would
urge act Of simple JUSTICE that this gigantic
vice, which established a. the instance u Congress-
charged upon the public treasury Until railroad
shall have been constructed the continent the
Farasd As wholly impractcabis These mails as dos
patchrd semi monthly average ten tons In weight which,
divided into SENT weekly departures, would g,vc two
and q half tons for each-thus requiring, in Of
the ccnoon Of the road ten coaches instead OF the
gle employed and costing, tho present Of
Dsr,ation alone, with product Of SSH 400 es
The route has now been opened, and s availability for
. hight mail demonstrated 80 that should with
any maritime power threatening embarrassment 70 our
mats for the Pacific the service could without
hay, be re- established on va present basis We're other
wise that contingency "a deemed remote usy
continuance OF 30 enormous tax upon the correspon
dence OF the country suoh morbid caution and appre
nature the folly OF that policy which WOULD keep army
and navy perpeually on war footing, merely bee ause
republic with ether nations liable 70 be disturbed
THE KANSAS AND STOCKTON MAIL.
This route, put 10 operation at annual expense Of
n hQfu
unnecessary for postal purposes II was on the 3oth Of
June last discontinued The proceeds Of 81 55 credited
city and Neosho and Albuquerque During the period Of
nine months that It In operation, there but
Stockton The whole mail matter received at Kansas
from Stockton consisted OF two letters twenty six
newspapers, while appears from the returns that but
single letter reached Stockton from Kansas Another Pc
euary Of this service that extended for S25 miles
between Westport ana Santa Fe directly along tho line OF
another route the contractor for which carried
posd, for some triang compensation, this exceedingly
light and unimportant mail, for the transportation Of
rata Of some $50, 900 per annum.
EDkPzSDExcz, GAIT IAKE CITY AND prAcxRvuuE MAILS
lbs connection with the Pacific vas formerly month
Service but in consequence Of the threatened rebellion
Of the Mormon population, 1t improved to weekly
mall At an annual compensation Of $50 000the product
being but $5Al2 o3. The object Of this improvement
was 70 enable the government to communicate regularly
and rapidly with the troops engaged in scve military
operations in Utah. Tranquility having beon restored 70
y me spS as & s been No
needed for the purposes Of the government reduction
10 semi monthly nervice ordered TO take place
The 80h June last which, after making the most liberal
allowances he contractors will save to the Department
II win BE- thus seen that In consequence Of the
action which has taken place in reference 10 these
hss been dimuishsd SoOs. ss7 The 81 ,27e,o 900 still
required for their support this improved basis is very
A< beyond whist an enlightened and just administration
Il the hnanoes Of the department would warrant.
EAKEI SERVICE
For the last five years. the mails between Havana and
Charleston and Savannah have been conveyed in steam
ship-the sabeperorming semi monthly trips at an an
Hual compensation Of $4,000, authorized By Cong ess,
psagss received from these mas during the past year
amounted to but 3057 o. The contract involving thus
loss Of nearly 600 per annnm was In s operation Of
most oppressive character and upon IT'S expiration
the Goth Of june its declined Fortunately
for the pubic interests tho approaching completion Of
the Florida Railroad enabled the department TO send
these mails peninsula Fernandna TO Cedar
Keys, where they connect with the Gulf mail steamers
New Orleans and proceed directly via Key West
% Havana The service out and returning regular
ly periormed ana costs the department only the inland
ana posages This results from the fact that the route
from and Savannah via Fernandna and Cedar
Keys Key West being already in operation for the local
malls the outlay for the service in nothing increased by
Ton therefore, Of this route for that Of Isabel
saving to the department Of $49,o42 81 per annum.
economy but because supplies many Post offices,
the for which 1t Is substituted supplied but
o single intermediate oflce-that Of Key West The de-
panent was urged by citizens Of Charleston extend
Abe contract with the owner o the Label, from COM
Inercial CONSIDERATIONS, but DID not feel Jused in
giving to such considerations the weight claimed for
them. This large subsidy would certainly enable the
owner Of the label to carry freight and passengers
reduced rates. but there be any constitutional
rant for the governments bestowng this advantage
the inhabitants of single city, while s denied TO those
OF other cities, such advantage should be sought from the
puoic treasury aad most ssauredy not At the hands Of
this department With tho endorsements pressing
spon IT, and with the knowledge that there are many
COMMUNITIES now having weekly, which desire and de-
semi and tri weekly mails and many others with
tr weekly which entitled to daily SERVICE 1t
possible devote $780, 600 per annum Of its
facilitate and cheaper the transportation Of passengers
md merchandise between Charleston and Havana with
out fragrant and cipable derelction Of duty. No
perceived why the policy indicated by the act Of
1865, which fixes the compensation for foreign mali
Woe performed by American vessels at the inland and
pos ages should not DO applicable TO this other
foreign mails If It be Insisted that the steamers
touching at Key West determines domestic the por
ton Of the route between thnt point aud Cnaros- |
con- then we have $l0067 &C, the inland and sea pos
tages for the anspo taton OF tho mails between Havana
aud Key West and $40 $40 81 tor their conveyance be