The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-03 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin —Toe operation ot my plan tor constructing a
railway to connect with the Atlantic and l'ecitic Menus,
would be this: first, the Bill, which will no doubt be
passed into a law at the next session of Congress, will
set apart and sell to me, 60 miles in width or the
public domain, from Lake Michigan to the Pacific
Ocean, in all 78,000,000 of acres, and the pro-
posed road is to be made through its centre, so as
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divided into sections of 10 miles eacn; and as each section
of 10 miles of road for this 800 miles is completed, I
shall be allowed to sell the one-halt of the lands-5 miles
by 60-192,000 acres, and the other halt to remain unsold
as a fund to be used beyond this 800 miles of good
lands, where the section of 10 miles may not be as toed,
and not sell to produce means for the necessary outlay
for the 10 miles of rdad through it. Thus the 800 miles
of good land at the first end is made to produce the
means for 1,600 miles of the road; and for the otter
400 miles of road, the good land on the Pacific side as
well as the intermediate 1,100 miles of land, some of
which are good, would no doubt produce sufficient
means.
When the road shall be completed and in successful
operation, and when I shall have paid into the Treasury
of the United States 10 cents per acre for the 78,000,000
of acres, then all the surplus lands, or money for lends
sold, after paying fur the cost of the road, its machi-
nery, &c., will be my reward for the work, and the
title to the road will vest in myself and assigns, to
be kept in operation and repairs at a rate of
tolls or charges for transport to be regulated
and fixed by Congress, and to yield no more in-
come than would be necessary to meet the expenses
for operation and repairs; but should the traffic require
more than the one lice, the Bill gmes power to lay such
other lines, and also power to charge for transport to
meet the interest on their cost. Now, the practical
working of the plan will be this, after the Bill becomes
a law, the route will be located from Lake Michigan to
the Mississippi, and to the Missouri, where those streams
can be bridged, and so on to the pass in the moun-
tains, and to the Pacific ; a contract will be made for
grading the first part of about 200 miles, and per-
haps for the second. Another contract will be made
for the iron rails, for the locomotives, &c., &c., and
so fast as each section of 10 miles is completed, the
sale of the lands (the 5 miles by 60) will commence,
the avails of which will be subject to the capital fur-
nished for this 10 miles of road, so that the capital
would not look to the road at all for interest or for
its return, but to the lands; and the ieducements to
invest would be, first, in the certainty that the sale ot
the lands would, under any circumstances, far more'
than meet the annual interest, and the unsold lands
would be enhanced in value daily, by the operation and
extension of the road, as well as from the tff cts
of the settlements which would daily take place. Second,
the inducement to invest, after a large per tentage f
interest would be, in a portion of the profits to arise from
the sale of the lands, over and above the cost for the 10
miles of road. And, third, because the land is perma-
nent, always of value, and in tnie case subject to no
charge for taxes or otherwise, until actually sold,
and the plan can be subject to no fluctuations or changes
from State legislaticn or embarrassments. And, b, sides,
the titles would be indisputable, as in all cases the Go-
vernment woull give the titles to the actual purchaser.
The object of this is to allow the lands to be open freely
to tale and settlement, under my direction and at my
option, so that each settler may own 40 to 160 acres, with
a clear title directly from the Government, besides this
would relieve the operation from an immense labour and
expense in giving titles.
Thus, though the milking of the road is dependent on
the sale and settlement of the lands on its line for both
means and facilities, without which it could not be made,
and the sale and settlement of the lands consequent up,m
the bui ding of the roads, and the families it would
render to settlement, as well as a cheap means for the
transport of products to market. Stilt the actual
business operation of the two are to be distinct and se-
parate, nor is it necessary that the progress of the work
should be entirely dependent up as, and limited to,
the actual amount of lands sold, because the lands being
the fixed basis ot; nod adequate security for, any neces-
sary amount of means for the rapid progress of the
work, the longer they remain unsold the longer would
be the return for the investment. The powers of the
Federal Government of the United States as well as
of its legislature being restricted by a written Constitu-
Wm, which inhibits the granting of corporate
powers to be carried into effect in any of the states,
renders it necessary that the act which I require
should be but a simple sale of the lands -to me,
and as an individual enterprise, I undertake to make and
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One of my great obj,cts in this plan is to
establish a new system of settlement for
the emigrants where they shall not be tenants but
owners of the soil which they may occupy; and the
demand for labour to make the road, the concentration of
population on its line causing a demand fur the products
ot the soil, with the road to take any surplus to market,
would very soon •On one year) give the means to each
family to pay for 40 acres of the very best land. which
they would for ever after own, and would cultivate and
improve to their own taste and for their own advantage,
where every effort and every toil would receive a full
reward. Comforts and plenty would smile upon and
around them, and how changed their condition of body,
mind, and morals.

These emigrants may be aided by societies to get di-
rectly on to the line of the road, to select their land,
get up a cabin or house, get in a first crop, with food
until it is grown; but they must own the lands they may
occupy, and, as soon as possible, thrown free upon their
own efforts, where a just reward is sure to► follow, and
they will ft-el their own strength, their own p •war.
London, June 27, ISM. ASA WHIrNEY.

RPCHDALI6.—A NEW METHOD OF GETTING A
Sun or CLOTHES.—On Wednesday last, Martin G-ady, Wm.
Wainer, anti John Ilaughton were taken betore the K chdale
berchmf magistrates for disorderly conduct, at the police-
station, on Tuesday last. These men were cha,ge t with
begging of the police, and when refu.ed relief, used threaten-
ing language to them. The tragistrates conniniit d them
for one month to the Howe of Correction, when the police
put them in the lock-up till the following morning, in
order to take them to Manchester: they tore all their clothes
from their backs. and pulled them into rags, so that they
were completely naked. In the morning they were fur-
nished with each a pair of trousers, and taken up to the
railway, with Door her article of clothing to cover their na-
lc( ditesi, but the idficers at the station refused to take them
in such a couch:ion. A little mote clothing was conaequeutly
provided them, and they were feat off to Salford by the
coacle—Ueda Mercury.