New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-04
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
Lake Michigan and Oregon Railroad-Atlan-
tic and Pacific Canal, south Of Vera CRUZ

Ny Whitaey's Leawe-Hs Chart Railroad, and tie
Bdys ana Means-VioalG increase Comaeroe- Wat
ny ard ne Nafiopdls- Polks Beter Co0se-SAip ca
-ai across he fsfhnHs Of TeAHantspsc-Nen York 70
Caaton IN ~ days - onrertns ory MonKuleYs into
CanaLDissos.
Correspondence Of The Tribune.
Mr.. Whitney, Of whom everybody has heard
so much 10 connection with the project Of Railroad
across this Continent. lectured at the Capitol be-
fore the Legislature and the public, last night. bis
discourse was brief but interesting and fall Of
striking and remarkable facts, and he received as
he deserved, the greatest possible attention, and
vote Of thanks at the close.
On the wall behind him was sort OF chart, ex-
hibitng this world Of from the British Isles TO
China, and his road commencing somewhere near
Milwaukee in Wisconsin, crossing the Rocky
Mountains then branching of 10 the splendid hsrbor Of
San Francsco In California southery andto the mouth
Of the Columbia westerly
Mr. Whitney is a dark complexioned stout. and good
looking man very little the Of the wesr-his Ian
gusge Is plain pointed unsdorued and business like
and be sticks his text the 400 mile Railroad the cost
Of which after having travelled through the Western
wilderness he estimates at 10 millions Of dolsrs-the
rosdaking alone At 20 900 dollars per mile &eaud for
the ways and be- would take the country 80 mes
equal 10 than % millions Of and 10 be made
worth, perhaps. slOO0O0OO0. including town elites
water power. mines. metals. minerals, &c
He thought that the road could be built by the sale
and settlement of the land it's course, much Of
which he described As excslent-there was abundance
Of coal all the way 10 the Rocky Mountains snd be
yondno scarcity Of wster-snd that route In bis
view the most direct for securing the commerce OF
Asia The Railroad and commerce would also aid the
cause Of religion and lumine The loenghted path Of
tn hestben world
He ed snocfal romrnitfee az COnQfpes where
thsy say that road Ike this would bind. ndis.oluoy
together under one government America beyond with
America on this side of the Rocky NORTHUMBERLAND
without they might hereafter become distinct nations
and dangerous rivals.
The National Reformers. at the Tabernacle, Gid moi
like his idea Of monopolizog the land do not thus
understand hrn-he way 10 carry out the work
but by selling land be- the farms disposed OF ever %
small, aud his mind seems 10 be entirely enFossed
with the magnitude and feasibility OF the undertaking
IL appears 10 me that had Mr. Polk invested the capital
he IL wasting In Mexico on Mr.. Whitneys road, his
memory would have had sweeter SAVIOR. Mr.. w
would. no doubt, be 1T sgent but should dislike TO
land equs twice the sire Of this state vested 10
any private company. II done at all the Railroad Is
national undertaking. for national purposes and as a
Of connecting the pacific with the Atlantic As
Chn,ons Canal has united the latter with the great
Lakes
On looking at Mr.. whitDey's chart plan tho line
from London to Australia ria the lsthmus OF Tehusnte
pee l5outh Of Vera Cruz seemed 10 me TO be quite
saght-and II has been often asserted that tha IS th
most favorable for ship canal to take by which
~ unite the Pacific and Atlantic bring Boston
within le days Of the mouth of the Columbia In Oregon.
by steam. and Ne Orleans l3 perhaps 10
With such Canal IL lie asserted that Canton In China
would be reached from New York Philadelphia Ia 40
days the doubling OF Cape Horn dispensed with and the
usc Of the East deprived OF half its peril while the
distance would be diminished oDe-hslt
Euglsnd executed the Weland Canal and the U 3.
frontier shipping reap the advantage thereof; the like
may happen beyond Vera Cruz Perhaps some happy
arrangements will be msds, whereby our soldiers In
Mexico may be speedily dispensed with In the capacity OF
man killers II So trust that the balance of their
vices will be taken out in CsnsldiggDg the cleverest
fellows acting oremen. The whole thing looks squs
BY ust now respects Europe but the weather In that
quarter may possibly clear up.
Albany May ], lo47 ROGER SHERMAN