HARRIS & MORGAN.
Hon. James Campbell,
Postmaster General United States.
[For the Commercial Advertiser.]
Office of the Mexican Ocean Mail and Inland Co.,
New York, October 27, 1853.
In your issue of Wednesday evening, in the postscript of telegraphic news from Mexico, an important error occurred in relation to the transmission of San Francisco news by our route. Your correspondent says: “The news came over the New Mexico or Ramsey route, and occupied about twenty-four days in its transmission.” The facts are as follows: The news left San Francisco on the 1st of October by the Nicaragua steamer Pacific; it arrived at Acapulco on the 8th, crossed Mexico, and arrived at Vera Cruz on the 12th, where the news remained from the 12th until the 22d, the regular sailing day of the Texas, (the steamer that carried the news, instead of the Mexico, as stated in your article.) If our steamer had left Vera Cruz on the arrival of the news from Acapulco, our merchants would have had the market prices in fifteen days from San Francisco via New Orleans. If it should be asked why the Texas did not sail until the 22d, the only reply we have to offer is, that she was running on schedule time appointed by the Post Office Department, and until that schedule is altered the delay is likely to recur. With a proper connexion, our line can deliver mails from San Francisco, into New Orleans weekly, in less than sixteen days.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
ROBERT G. RANKIN, President.
Be pleased to observe, by extract from Commercial Advertiser, the transmission of California news from California, by our route, in fourteen days!
H. & M.