Hon. JAMES CAMPBELL, _Postmaster General United States_.
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[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!