Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-04-11
BORDER CORRESPONDENTS.
ST. Josrrn. Mo-. April 4. 1860.

o.. JoskPHs NO. ApIil a. loOVs
EDITOR EXPRESS doubtless many of
your readers would be glad to hear what
is going on out here upon the "borders Of
and as have few hours
leisure to-day, propose to give ysu few
OF the leading items of news.
The latest excitement which our people
have experienced was the starting of the
great Poney Express. which left the U. s.
Express Office, in this city, at precisely
"a o'clock last evening. amid the loud and
prolonged shouts and huzzas of the mul-
titude, who had assembled TO witness the
Inauguration of this great enterprise
Speeches appropriate TO the occasion were
made by his honor, Mayor Thompson. and
Mr.. Majors. Esq, OF the firm Of Russell 4
Majors, proprietors of the Poney Express.
Telegraphic dispatches were received from
all parts of the Atlantic States, up TO the
very hour of starting, aud ere this letter
reaches you the citizens Of San francisco
will have read their contents 1t is pro.
posed TO make the trip in from seven to ten
days, or five or six days earlier than th,
same news can be transmitted by tn,
steamship line. II is rumored here that {
wager of $40 900 was made in New Yorl
that the steamer which left that port 70
San Francisco the same day the messen
ger Of the express lett that city, woul,
beat the Poney Express through, but ever,
one who Is at all acquainted with the rout
and the facilities of the company, are con
fident Of the success of the enterprise.
After the packet had been made up, an,
The rider mounted, the Mayor invoked
blessing on him and babe him go, whe
he was followed by the multitude TO tn
ferry landing, each and every one in hi
heart wishing him God speed.
The starting of the Express from thi
point establishes beyond all controversy
that st. Joseph is The starting point I
Fixes Peak and Utah, and that the centr,
route is the nearest and most practie;
one for the great Pacific Railroad, whic
must, sooner or later, span the desert b.
tween here and the Pacific coast.
: Our city is already jdmmed with Grove
of gold hunters, and still they come. r.
, ports continue to reach US that the min,
y are increasing in their yield daily, thong
of their reliability you know as much
. We do here. would not advise any oil
) who has anything to lose to make tri
t of it, for have seen enough 10 conyin
? me that where there is one that max
there are fifty that come back "dei
broke"
Doubles you have learned, through Il
5 papers, of the little joke perpetrated
i the Governor of this State-commoh
yclepted drunken Bob"-upon ST. Lou
| refer to the veto of the railroad aid bi
T: A bill granting State aid to the Pacii
4 railroad was passed by the late Geuer
4 Assembly, and al the news spread throug
3 out the country, bonfires were kindled al
8 speeches made in St. Lo uis, and along Il
{ line of said road; but, alas for the whir
2 of mortal man, the embers of the bonfir
y had scarce gone out when the telegraI
o announced that drunken Bob" had veto
the bill, and curses loud and deeD we
heaped upon his devoted head. The no
4 orable Governor resides in this CITY, al
! now, enthusiastically, pays us a Wis
!, but there "are none so poor as to do hi
n reverence" No one seems TO have al
!. confidence in him, and when he is he
f you will always findl him in the lowe
c Irish deggeries in the city. Last whit
n he was here two or three weeks, aud &
whole time SO drunk that he was oblivio
to everything passing about him. It
'' truth is, the people of Missouri feel, al
that keenly, too, the disgrace broug
q upon them by.this man, and are anxious
awaiting the time for the regular CUBE
: Material election, when they will thrc
l him "higher'n kite
l should like to give you few items
J. local news, but space and time will n
admit at this writing. More anon.
HoosIER.