The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-04
THE PACIFIC MAILS.

steamship
Companies-Which Line Will Carry the
mailss-Lettcr from q Central Amori-.
can-The New Line.
Three steamships leave this port 10 morrow with pas
sengers for the Pacific The Baltic and Northern Light 90
70 Aspinwall, and the St. louis to San Juan del Norte
Stccraec passengers are carried San Francisco dis
lance OF nve thousand miles for forty five dollars head
less tnan one cent mic and found But which OF the
three steamers win carry the malss That is the question
One special reporter sends in the following sutemeut
The foreign mails, to Aspnwal Panama &c are to be-
sent by the Vanderbilt steamer Northern Light which
leaves tomorrow at two O'Clock.
The other mails, California; Oregon, &C., win sent
forward under tho johnson contract by the North A.
iantic and Pacific Mail Companics this however, has not
been decided but win be in the course Of to day
understood that these companies will guarantee To-
carry the mail both sideshat is, the service
but vii! responsible for ts transit across the 18TH
mus in time to connect with the at Jan Juan del
sur, on It's way up from Panama.
Commodore Johnston satisfy Mr. King that he
can get the malls across in time and will give satisfactory
security to that effect, then the mails will be sent via
Nicaragua, but unless he do they will DO sent by
the Northern Light
Another reporter rays
we nave intelligence from perfectly reliable source
that the Postmaster General has decided that all the TO-
are to be sent by the Vanderbilt steamship Northern
Light which leaves here the 5th inst from the foot Of
Warren street The Of the California mails "a sl
undecided.
CONDITION OF THE NICARAGUA TRANSIT ROUTE
TO TIE EprTcR or TIE NEW YoRK HERALD
] noticed in come Of the journals Of this city yes
terdsy advertisement announcing that the United
States and Central American Company win send tho
steamer s. Louis from this port the 5th with pas
sengers for San Francisco via Nicaragua, by which a
short and cheap passage offered and representing that
all the necessary arrangements have been made
Isthmus for the opening OF the route
Paving the reliable information about the state OF
the route Of Nicaragua think to be my duty lay be-
fore the public few remarks to which request you to
give room in your respectable columns.
In the first place can state from the authority
that the above mentioned company have any right
whatever 20 establish any transit through the terri
tory OF Nicaragua. They have not made any special
contract with the government Of that republic
nor can they pretend to 20 under the
permission tpateec) that is required according 10 the
decree Of the Of Nicaragua of the Goth Of May
last
The statement that have been made on the
Ishmns for The convey ancc Of passengers &C. have
Nicaragua route require boats on the lake boats on
the San Juan river and good road the land route
with sufficient number OF suitable carriages mules
There several eye witnesses in this CITY, net
come from Mica, aqua who that there not such
boats on the lake or river; any preparations
being made On the land part Of the route The boats
inc american 'anai Company sent many months ago
in r,inouE condition
have the reliable information too that the par
Ms pretending 10 send passengers on the 6th
applied short time ago the government Nicaragua
for permission to send up the river a small boat
and that such permission refused account OF ad
vices that had been received from this other cities to
the effect that said parties were in connection with viii
liam Walker and his companions some readers OF the
HfRsID will perhaps remember that this application and
refusal was predicted in communication Of mine pub
lished IN this Journal on the l.th Of July last.
is quite sure then that the persons who may be in
duced to take passage via Nicaragua will be subjected
all casses Of anpoy arces and troubles, Of the
want az preparations the route Of the scarcity Of all
the necessares of life in the wild country they have to
traverse and perhaps Of the orders that
the government OF Nicaragua has given to the officers
command Of the forces On the river and lake.
It true that the Nicaraguan government very de-
sirors that the United States mail should mass through,
the lsmus; but has declared that no company or in
dvi1ual shall be allowed to transport passengers &C.
without special permission to do The common law
OF EafioDs gives to Nicaragua the right 10 make
and enforce such declarations, and the same,
Acknowledged by the treaty just made between that
republic and the United States, which, its 18th article
while gives to the latter the privilege Of sending their
mails declares that this privilege shall never be extend
ca 70 the transportation OF passengers &c
The above is an impartial statement of the facts You
will fnd enclosed my card.
OCT. 8, 1859. A CENTRAL AMERICAN
TIE NEW LINE TO THE PACIFIC
There large attendance the corner OF Warren
and West streets o DESTROYS Of subscribing to the
stock Of the new California Steamship Company which
call Of meeting Of the stockholders for the election of
directors is 10 day advertised in columns The ful
amount OF the capital subscribed before three o'clock
in cash. There were present the meeting Commodore
Vanderbilt, Noses Taylor. Charles Morgan Marshal. O.
Roberts and many others. The subscriptions from
fifty thousand TO three hundred thousand dollars each