New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-28
OVERLAND TO THE PACIFIC.

This country urgently needs the most direct and
speedy INSTRUMENTATION between its Atlantic
and Gulf States, and those touching the Pacific
needs TO this end
/. A Daily Overland Mail from the Missouri by
the Rocky Mountain Gold Region through Utah to
the rich Mineral region of Carson Valley and over
the Sierra Nevada to Placeryine and San Fran
cisco.
2. A Magnetic Telegraph along or very near this
great central Mail. route. In fact, such a Tele-
graph can only be kept in working order by running
il directly along the Malroute; SO as to keep 1t
constantly under observation, protect it from saw
age depredatons and render it at all times &C.
cessible.
3. A Railroad from some point Oh The Mississippi
or Missouri to the Pacific Ocean.
OF all these enterprises we are the earnest I'M
compromising advocate. They cannot be under
taken too soon, nor prosecuted with too much
energy. Bu.
l. 1t is obe thing to urge the construction of a
public work, and another TO acquiesce in the con-
summation Of job. Andif the Senate Post Office
Committee shall report-as it ia said they villa
bill to pay certain specified parties out of the
Treasury $50, 900 per annum for ten years, under
the guse of compensation for giving the Govern
ment priority in the conveyance of messages over
line of Overland Magnetic Telegraph to be by
them constructed, then We trust their bill will be
defeated, at any rate so modified as to open the
service required to whoever will perform it on tho
most favorable terms.
Mind that we do not object to the undertaking,
for that we favor; nor TO the Governments aiding
it, for that is just and polite. The Government
prominently needs that Telegraph let it help pay
Il t. cost of is construction. Nor do we hold that
$4,000 per annum is too much; for We have no
knowledge on that point. But let the Government
advertise Tor proposals for connecting Missouri
through certain essential intermediate points with
California, and award its aid and custom to the
lowest responsible bidder and whether the cost be
$4,000, $4,000, or 100000 per annum, We say,
Let the most favorable bid be accepted and let its
conditions be fulfilled. But to give an outright
sum TO certain parties, without even inquiring
whether otlers are mol ready ~ perform the requi-
site service at a cheaper rate is the old Steamship
Mail jobbery over again. We protest against it.
II. Then, az to Mail Service. The House Post
Office Committee will, it is said, report a bill pro-
yiding for a Daily Mail in twenty days from any
point on the Mississippi Missouri that the lowest
bidders may prefer to San Francisco. So far, we'll
But it is added that Newspapers, aud all matter not
subject to Letter Postage, is to be carried over the
same route by the same contractors once week
and in thirty days. We protest against this unjust
aud mischeyous discrimination. We do not be-
ieye il will save sum worth naming to the Gov
erment, while it must prove utterly ruinous to the
Press. We who print newspapers that our Pacific
brethren choose 10 take must of course submit to
be anticipated some three weeks by the tidings
conveyed by Telegraph to our subscribers
That is our fortune, and We must take
il as we find IT, But to have the Mail so d.
vided and arranged that our own news, which
We have paid thousands to collect, and our
own articles, which million people desire 10 read,