New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-12
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The washington I. States i out II favor Of the
rernandinS routs nj tho great Northern and South
"a MALI 1hs following paragraph = from an arti,
Oh b thas paper
~ people 81 New 3rieans are getting up an i'm.
$500 retiion 10 The PustmasterG General against the
project % ssnd ths Unitsd states mails North and
lhoaeht The 4 FsrnsndinA" route would be any
Or evsu o. had - the present ronte we would
pau1ss Aaainat 4 loo hut We are satisfied that the
Eefnndina route will turn out TO be . decided i'm
psoyennent.
W woader what was the cash value Of the argu.
1ents Used u ntisfy the conductor Of the states
that Tie Fernandlna route win turn out to be de-
cided improvement y on that via the jackson Rail.
road. This conviction could not have been arrived
= On the merits OF the case and hence we presume
that some outside influence was exercised in satisfy
ing him Of the superiority of the Fernandina route
Hon. Mr.. Yulee, the great man Of the Fernandina
Railroad, has been on to Washington, and perhaps
~ 20 incsutious in his talk in favor Of the route
that the editor Of the States happened to oyerhear
what fell from bis senatorial lips and therefore con
ceived Tie prejudice which be ventates % above.
We think that something 81 the kind must have
happened, fof certainly tho editor Of the States
| could never Have come unsided to the remarkable
conclusion that the Fernandina route will turn out
TO b decided Improvement Z BY any amount Of
profound investigation We do not re how be could
Is ssatisded 4 that ronte which contemplates
Of the mails BY continual process Of
anser from nil 70 steamer, and By % roundabout
course d could BE- selected, can turn out 70 be
decided improvement = on shorter and compara-
lively direct through route BY rail every mile Of the
way, = that W the jackson Railroad will be 80
= the narrow gap vi incomplete y closed as Y is 70
b 10 faw months. We don't zee how he could be
satisfied Of this unless there was some transmitting
agency ii work to dort to his mental vision things
seen Otherwise and properly BY other men. The
decided improvement " route is by railroad to
Charleston thence BY steamer to Fernandina thence
BY rail TO Cedar Keys, and thence by steamer to New
Orleans with seven hundred miles Of uncertain sea
navigation, and bad harbors on the Florida coast.
The New York Express takes q more sensible view
Of the matter and thinks that public sentiment at
this end Of the route is 30 strong that the "Postmas
ter General will hardly venture to give the new route
encouragement and that "the present route gives
reasonable promise Of carrying the mail between New
Orleans and New York in three days and half
The Express speaks Of the earnest effort understood
% be making at Washington 70 induce the Post Office
Department to authorize the change to which Mr..
Holt promises to give decided answer for the 18th
Of this month. There Is consolation in knowing that
il the wishes 81 citizens and the dictates Of common
sense are regarded, and the mails given to the Fer
nandina route it will not be long, In all human prob
ability before they are returned to the old channel
trial having demonstrated it to be beyond any such
| competition as the Fernandina route can exert