Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-05
From the Memphis Avalanch Overland Mail Route.
NEWS FOR MEMPHIS.

ObohiOoo NENo rOh MEMPHIS.
 J. T. Chldester, the universally known mail contractor in the south, with his associates, has taken contract to carry the mail six times per week from Madison, the terminus of our Ar kansas railroad to Little Rock, and tri-weekly from Little Rock to Fort Smith Chdester & Co.,. have now in Arkansas about four hundred head of horses and a full supply of stage coaches. Every one Is satisfied now that pas. sengers and mails to and from Memphis and Fort Smith will hereafter be taken through in less time than Butterfcld & Co. will be enabled to come through from St. Louis. In one month from to-day all southern and northwestern travel to California by the overland route, will be confined to Chidester's line The road is infinitely better than that from St. Louis, and more than 90 miles shorter, if brauch route were established from Des Arc to Little Rock, by which 40 miles of the distance to Fort Smith would be saved. The distance from Memphis to Fort Smith, on direct line, is only about 26O miles; from St. Louis it is not less than 35U miles. We Lave never believed it possible that Butterfield & Co. could have carried the mails to St. Louis in the time re- presented by the telegraph eports-Butterfeld x Co. are St. Louis men, and there is no one | Tn that city who does not desire the suppres sIon of the Memphis branch route, which, from the necessity and nature of things, must finally break down the more northern line. or at least materially injure its business. It will soon be- come fixed universally conceded fact, that the great highway to the Pacific cannot be north of the thirty fifth parallel of latitude, and even Sl. Louis and Butterfeld & Co. must come down | to this.
 To show our readers what is thought of Chi destcr by those who know him best we clir the following from the Washington correspon- dence of the Tuscumbia Enquirer:
 Your townsman, John T. Chdester, esq, seems to possess more of the Mc ct ubiQue char acteristics than falls to the common lot of men in Alabama to-day, away in Arkansas to- morrow; In d few days more in the federal me tropolis busy in the P. 0. D., where, for the last lew days, he might have been seen, at one moment Tn earnest conversation with some M C., al another waiting an audience with the Postmaster General, with whom, I learn, he has contracted to carry the U. $. mails on the route from Memphis to Little Rock, connecting with the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad at Madison. Arkansas. "Chit' is certaihly some | m the transaction of business-be that in the post-office department or in connection with the super vision of the Bazaar, in your town.",,4--
 The editors of the Enquirer, after endorsing the above, say of Mir. Chi lester:
 To-day he is rich-independent in means of the worlds gear, and possessed of mature energy which is better than the mines of Cali fornia. Go it Chidester! Open up the far west by your stage coaches. Bring California 10 our doors. If not the projector, you will be recor, dei as the agent in unfolding new fields Of civilization, of agriculture and commerce. Gov Brown has done well in accepting you as one of the pioneers to open the great Pacific route
 In this connection we may instance. as al evidence of 'sChits" energy and resolve, but yesterday he arrived here from visit to Wash ington, and already has he on the way to Mem. phls the necessary stock of horses for the yves tern lines of mail and stage coaches. Tuscum bla may well be proud of her citizen.