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New-York and Erie RaiIroad-The Region
of the Delaware.
We took hasty trip late last week into the re-
gion of the Delaware, passing over the Erie Rail-
road to its temporary Western terminus at Mid
dletown. Every where we noticed gratifying ev
licences that the business and travel Of this Road
are steadily increasing even under the present un-
favorable auspices. The Delaware raftsmen were
almost all returning from Trenton and Phladel-
phia via New.York and Middletown; the down
freights of Milk sc. are also increasing, and the
concentration of Mercantile travel and transpor
tation on the Railroad is palpably greater than
last year. Such are the present aspects, although
the business season is but just commencing.
great misapprehension is general with regard
to the region lying North and West of Orange
County, through which the Eric Railroad is next
to be carried. Most Of our people imagine this
region Of rock, ravne and cliff, almost imPenetra-
bic and utterly worthless. But the truth IS far
otherwise The obstacles presented by Nature 10
the construction of Railroad are not compare.
bic to those overcome by Massachusetts in the
construction of tho Western Railroad, while the
Counties of Sullivan and Delaware, with the ad-
Joining ones of Pike and Wayne in Pennsylvania,
are far better adapted to become productive than
the Berkshire region of Massachusetts.
This Country has too long been cursed with
supcrabundance of Pine, Oak and Hcmlock TIM
Der, which has greatly retarded its improvement
and impoverished its People They have been en-
gagged in numbering and single -making when they
would have been much better employed in subdu-
ing and cultivating the earth. But numbering was
more invitng-its fluctuuting returns gavcit some
thing Of the allurement OF gamlng-thcy were
quicker than those Of farming, and grain or goods
could be had for load of shingles made in week,
instead of waiting the slow process of subduing
rugged soil and patiently winning harvest from
1t. Hence shihlessness and lack of steadiness
in Industry, except under the spur of immediate
necessity. The effects of this policy on new q
counry-indeed, on any couutry--uecd hardly
be stated. General poverty, lack of education,
i7eligion, love of liquor, Loco-Focoism, &c. are
the natural results; and any man of decent OBJ.
servation who should be carried bhndfold to the
heart of the Delaware region and there, his sight
being restored, required to look around him and
tell the politics ofthe section, would have hest.
tation in pronouncng 1t from two to one TO ten 10
one Loco, according to the particular locality.
On the hills of Pike County, he would guess the
larger proportion, and would be right To live
half a century in the handt mouth shinglc-ma-
king way, would seem enough to sour the milk
of human kindness in the breast of any man.
Yet all this region has vast capacities, which
the completion of the Erie Railroad will inevitably
call forth. 1t is stony and rugged. though less
go than the most of New England, while the soil
IS strong and good, and the clearing from timber
easy. For the Dairy and for Sheep, there is no
better country, while it produces all the coarse
Grains readily, and Wheat with proper culture.
1t touches the Great Coal region on the West;
It's production OF Butter, Cheese, &C. ION the
New York side of the Delawarc) is already great.
and rapidly increasing. a very large area will
be added, by clearing and breaking up, to the cul.
al ,r al ell
year. Such is the Delaware region to be penc-
trated by the Erie Railroad.
Beyond this stretches lovely and fertile coun-
try, for hundred miles or more-level, product
i've and fast increasing in wealth. Farther, the
Road interlocks with the head-waters of the AL
legheny, opening new and cheap route to Pitts
burgh and the Great Valley, as ii has previously
done with the Valleys OF the Delaware and the
Susquehanna and the rich mineral and agricul-
Iural stores Of the latter. Bitunenous as well as
Anthracite Coal is to be found here, while the
great Iron region is not far distant. Finally, the
Railroad desends TO and interlocks with Lake
Enc at Dunkirk, having probably branch to
to Buffalo, and will thus sweep the trade and ira.
vel of the Great West, pouring constantly aug
menting stream of business and wealth into the
heart of our City. Such is the Eric Railroad.
Tonight, the capitalists, business men aud
citizens generally of New York are called to as
ssmble at the Tabernacle and determine whether
the Road shall be completed or left to perish,
and the vast trade which belongs 10 our city be
compelled to seek the seaboard by other channels
This is the naked question. For month past
Philadelphia has been filing the West with goods
through the Pennsylvania canals, while their
moro Northern rivals in this State remain closed
This must go on, for it is founded in the nature
of things. But give US the Erie Railroad, and
New York will cover the Ohio and the Lakes
with her goods before the Pennsylvania canals are
open.
sasH the Erie Railroad BE- built Do not
say yes, and do nothing. Six millions of dollars
viii complete it and it viii pay good interest on
the investment, for the States three millions 6 Q