Year: 1872

The Panama ROute.-The two Coasts Compared--Califor and Its Busi- ness Mrn.-The Railroad War--PO- Iitical PredictiOns--Grant Second Term Assured--Its Probable Re- suits.

 SAN FRANCISCO, September 9.-I was so absorbed in the steamer trip from New York to this city, that l for got to tell anybody else about it at the time. After six weeks jostling about here on land, look back on the soli- tudes of the seas with more comfort than was experienced when there was no help for it. The chief objection to the Panama route since the overland railroad opposition, is the greatly heightened trips; instead of smashing it through ill twenty to twenty-two days as of old, thirty-three days is about the average time now. It IS dragging affair, besides the accom- modations are gradually letting down. Freight is the objective point with the company-passengers a secondary con- sideration, except that the increased number of stoppages enables them to see more of the tropics than formerly. We took in Kingston (Jamaica) and Mazatlan (Mexico) in addition to the former calling places and so have now "done" the Panama route all l ever care to in this world-or any other.

 After one comes from the green fields and great cities of the east and looks round over the dried up hills and valleys of California, "this coast '" seems rather small potatoes and few in hill; but have not forgotten the six months of snow and ice on the other side either, and altogether Cali fornia has some advantages to brag of. Besides 1t has no sun-strokes to speak of and is seldom if ever struck by lightning. If its people are not so violent in their love of the Lord, they are perhaps in some favor with the Old Man on the score of being less Pharisaical. Altogether l think it will be about stand-oH when Ga- briel toots his horn.

 To-day the Governor and his militia are celebrating the 22d anniversary Of the States existence. Looking back over the history thereof, all in all there is little to feel ashamed of, con- sidering the natural weakness of human nature. The trouble lies in the latter direction and not in the soil and climate; and there will be little more marked prosperity for as many more years to come. The great mass of its capitalists made their money easily and have little experience, after the better part of their lives is spent, in enterprises that go to make coun- try truly great; and now when they find themselves suddenly contending against the matured business world, they seem as childish as so many sailors set on shore after a long voyage. refer to the contest raging here be- tween different interests in the rail road way. The whole thing is a farce of serious sort, and will require as many years to play it to conclusion as a Chinese drama. The burning oi stink-pots, babble of tongues, and the ground and lofty tumbling, are i'm mense, and that is all one can say o1 it. The Central Pacific people have the "nine points of the law" as yet the man who sells as we'll as the one who takes the tickets-and the out siders who try to effect an entrance or any other terms, remind one of the boys who try to crawl under the can- vas at circus. The mountain walls of California render the game of op- position roads to San Francisco, harG one. The Texas and Pacific will only benefit this city in a general way

 while the route to St. Louis is none too near the proper line. Politicians of all parties are implicated in SC many ways in this fight, that 1t par takes altogether very much of the on' reported at Kilkenny, and so let len