Show further testimony the arrival of the h eO overland hoverland mail by b y the el 1 paso route has added to the testimony ahat a copy of the T message TIes sage was refused to the agent of the salt sal t lake route while every facility was furni furnished sli to the el paso route including copies of the message under date of december ath the st louis correspondent of the bulletin writes of the preparations for expressing the message Hes sage as follows the management manan ement of the washington part of the business of sending it overland was in trusted to A R corbin a bolby agent in that city whose services were called into requisition during the process of engineering the overland uail mail bill through congress ile he was looked to for the work of procuring the a necessary copies while butterfield who was spending a few weeks at his old home in new york busied himself in hunting up pardee an old and experienced f renowned for energy and ana hardihood for the d duty a ty of conveying the message and reports overland in t aa he bho shortest artest possible time fifteen days if it could be accomplished in so briet a period 1411 afi is s instructions were to tak taka the mail 1 lags bags if they did not impede his progress i if they were burdensome he was to abandon them at any convenient station and transfer himself and his pouch from the mail coach to the back of the best conditioned mule or horse to be found in the companas Comp anys stables hockaday co the salt lake mail C contractors 11 tractors are heavy sufferers by some fa piece 1 ece of jugglery these gentlemen long ong ago made made application for a package of f the message and documents to be forwarded by a similar express through utah atah to san francisco desiring to make a 4 test of speed to the paci pacific fie with tho the atterfield utter field express additional horses were ere purchased sent out on the road bild disposed along at the stations so as to form perfect and regular relays A promise was obtained from washington baat hat the documents would bo be a 1 and a messenger came down from at t joseph to st louis to await their coni coin ln 1 as promised to care of republic ran call office but strange to say the pre aident refused them a copy of his message so I 1 learn fearn from washington agton and Hock agent instead of getting a fair start with pardee is is still in in this city with no prospect prope ct of obtaining the document until it appears in in the columns of our city papers the enterprise will necessarily be abandoned although the mail contractors incurred an exiase expense of to consummate it in m proper style As corbin is is in in the interest of the southern route he may explain why and how the northern mail line was deprived of its design of making a trial of speed edwith with the die other I 1 should have extended my introductory paragraph to say that in in regard to the president refusing a copy of his message to hockaday co a prominent gentleman in in washington threatens to publish a card exposing q the matter and denouncing the administration admi for attempting to foster the southern to the detri detriment meni of the northern route the st louis letter of the same date says sas the Al message essae of the president has not been received in m this city and no news of it other than it was as read in in congress on the meeting of thit that body it was said that three copies had been transmitted from washington one for foi new orleans to be sent by the delivan tebea tepec route another bythe by tha southern overland route and one via via salt lake the latter was not received however ho ever by the agent here and I 1 am informed he is is still waiting for it with a special messenger to go out with it A large number of extra horses had been placed on the route by hockaday 8 co for relays the copies for the southern route were not received until a much later hour than was anticipated after examining the above we ie think the reader will agree with us that the T message alessa ge was withheld from the ag agent nt of the central route with the intention intent of giving the other line such an addao advantage n as would w insure insure to it the prestige of having first delivered the message in in california it was a very small business and the people of california will express their astonishment that the president should have permitted sudi a shameful act of partiality to be perpetrated in in his name but it will ill react in in favor of the central route on the ath of december the agent of hockaday co was still in in st louis waiting for his copy of the message this was os six six days after it was delivered to the agent of the butterfield line and three days after it started by express to san francisco the intention was to send it through in in fifteen days if ble but over nineteen were consumed in in the trip yet hocka hockaday d ay co nothing ing daunted by the adae adverse arse circumstances n ee s which had bad presented themselves and notwithstanding all chance for being first in in california had been destroyed by some unfair management in in washier washington determined to send through the message from st joseph as originally contemplated and with the efficient aid of the contractor on this side of salt bait lake it was accomplished in in seventeen days das in in mid midwinter winter this feat has never before been performed the message was ten days from st joseph to salt lake and seven days from that city to placerville erville it seems to us that this trip of seventeen days ought to go far towards convincing men in in washington who are not wilfully blind that the central route can be traveled at all seasons of the year in less time than any other the transmission 1111 of the message across the continent in in tho the time was il al the circumstances taken into consideration a triumph to the central route the result shows pretty conel that had the die message been delivered to the agenal of the tw two 0 routes on the same day it would have been first delivered in in california ly by the salt lake line it is is stated that the postmaster general has issued orders to have the schedule time on the central route reduced from thirty eight days the present time though reported at thirty four to thirty some time next april but this reduction would not prove beneficial for the reason that the schedule time by the el paso line is is twenty five an fn e days and the steamers usually make thair trips within that time to place the central route upon anything I 1 like ike equal terms the time ought to be red reduced ced to twenty five days axed and we believe it might be reduced with safety to twenty one days A weekly mail ought to run over each line instead of a semiweekly semi weekly one at an extra expense of to the department by leaving on alternate days the two lines lilies would form a sum simi weekly such an arrangement too would test the advantages of the two routes fairly aswell as well as the capacity of the cori contractors trac |