Show southern vs ts central route houte the interest and anxiety created here by the report that the central route had roade made better time willi lie presidents Preci dents message than the southern route induced our friends Aless rs smith and lindsey to telegraph for correct information I 1 to whom we ive are indebted for the follow i ing reply P IL hosl S L TELEGRAPH C placerville erville 9 A A 1 M I jan J SMITH LINDSEY GENOA southern route 19 days das 11 II hours central route fram st joseph mo to salt lake city 11 days hom salt lake to placerville erville cat ca 6 days and il 14 hours F chorpenning the great contest between the central and southern n overland erland mail lines has terminated in a signal and glorious vic lie tory in favor of t the he central route what now will become of the prejudices and stupidity of the bline horde hoide who have haie wasted so much ink and paper in spreading before the public the superiority of the great G r e a t southern overland 0 erland mail route and where are those whose judgment wai ft as so good and whose opinions ere so w well ell founded that they felt called upon to lo back them up by an adi vance of a few hundreds or a few thousands we imagine that on being aroused from their stupidity by the undeniable I 1 proof of the superior advantage of the central over the southern route they shrunk back with amazement at the silly leaps eaps they had made while ahro shrouded shroud u ded pd in in the he cloak of prejudice the san francisco weekly herald of the 3 1 of dec says we believe the time made and the extraordinary feat accomplished will settle the question about the superiority of ol 01 the different routes wo we can well imagine it with nith what an of air air it triumphant hant certainty the editor of 0 the hei old ald penned the above dehope we hope however that the time made the extraordinary feat accomplished by the passage over 0 er the central route with the prebi dauta message in in 17 days and 14 hours will put an everlasting quieta on ahe croakers for the southern line and learn them to remain quiet with such ai a they have we have not a word to siy say against tle the southern line it has done that shih merits for it the highest praise and we must say that in making the trip in in 19 days and 11 hout hou is s our expectations were more than we congratulate the line on its success we acknowledge that the presidents massae sae arrived in in california first by the southern route but the time which was occupied in crossing the continent the two contested routes is the proper criterion by which to judge of the superiority of the one rouie rome over the other we regard the above dispatch as reliable we do not know the real cause of the difference in time in favor of the southern route we cannot can t think for a moment that the president could so far loose si sight ht of the dignity of his position as to have bove delivered his message to the southern route several days in of its delivered to the central route whatever may hive have been the difficulty it will willston soon lie be brought before the public territorial carson carso n valley enterprise |