Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-11-11
COMMUNICATIONS.
TRADE TO CHINA.

The Importance and value Of this trade has been skpgy
illustrated by the Hon. r. W. TnompsOs of Terre Hauie
Indiana, through the columns Of the National Integencer
in which be has represented that different nations for many
centuries have been competitors and have enjoyed the adj
yantases Of The products of Asia but they had object
view but wealth, which they obtained aud successfully
expelled from the the accession of succeeding
val Of whom have improved these nations in moi ais
but left them they found them-idoators. We have a
higher object in view than wealth. From peculiarly
voabe stustion with superior advantages it looks as
kind and everything Providence had placed before US the
means most eectuay and the least expense accomplish
more direct and certain ntecommunicaon and under the
complete control Of our countrypromisng
ton 10 every nteres-to enteprlsng, generally nte-
gent LIBERAL religious, and most happy nation Of people
the Globe-not governed by desposm but by free,
reign people.
Tho attentive reader, after having perused this much
this subject, viii begin to stretch his Imagination the Pa
cc, and wish 10 know something respecting the at
tainment of this important trade We will attempt, for
his information, the practicable and best
the most free from natural Instructions Ice and
will not interrupt in Beginning the
bank OF the Mississippi at Memphis, will have nearly
perfect level the anvia lands to the bank of the ST.
Francis In the construction of this part, may be best and
cheapest to place it piles five six feet above the annual
river will be lands firm and above overflow; likewise
from thence the Arkansas, Little Rock. II appears
that Memphis only about nine miles north of the 35th de-
gree Of north latitude, and Little Rock 24o south but by
pursuing the Of the 35h degree would the
Arkansas above the mouth and would utterly avoid the
Fourche de Fave pass to Dave, Jean creek and
in due west route parallel with this
10 its head the Porea river, small stream that empes
into the Arkansas. We will be thrown few miles south Of
direction, by short bend in the Canadian Fork of the
Arkansas. We are then the plain between the Arkansas
and Red river. We will not have stream to oLsuc
direct course until arrive at the False Washta by
ing this stream sixty miles north of where flows into Red
river will pass through the southern point of the great
American DESERT extending north three hundred miles, the
head Of the Platte river with in course until
reach the Rio Gande about twenty miles south Of Santa
Fe-where from its being its head nconsiderabe
stream And in the lands which the precious metals
in great abundance trade in wagons from
Missouri for many years. grading the road will develop many
of these mineral resources.
From this stream, he Rio Grande) pursuing our direct
course, pass the heads Of each d none of
which approach cross arrive the Colorado
which discharges its waters into the head Of the Gulf of Ca
fonia-passng again the southern extremity Of the
Great Sandy Desert hundred miles in length stretching
y placed Of way And in the further pursuit of our
direct course arrive the head Of Tue river which dis
charges its waters into the bay of San Francisco
ton of the Pacific road. Directly our left is the river
which flows TO Monterey. The road will probably be con-
sructed the plain between these rivers and may with
scarcely any variation touch Monterey its San
Francisco which is destined be Of the great cities
the United States Of America and only degree north
of the Of road
In the whole length Of this road from the Mississippi the
only angle that will probably he in the road will be the
head Of Tule river and that will an acute one
bly, TO the representations Of Mtchels maps Who will not
be struck with establishment when they see and are
that there few, and these MATERIAL distractions
making this great highway, sonportan the world which,
in It's direct for fifteen hundred miles, with
little 35th degree of lairude not IN angle
will appear necessary probably in whole length until has
reached Tue river within forty fifty miles of ermins-
ton San Francisco the Pacific When constructed
will be the only recorded in history Of straight rail-
road Of lis unparalleled length Arkansas will be the only ono
Of the States that will be aversed by our road passing be-
Forts Gibson and Towson and through the lands
signed to the Chociaw Indians.
When view the immense trade heretofore so valuable
to the many nations Of the Old World who expended 50
much wealth to encompass the advantages Of the trade
China, will conclude the road is a short one and will
soon be made-he expense Of which will be trihe TO The
great republic of North Amerca-and will place trade
and institutions in that conspicuous position be sough,
for and cherished by all the commercial nations Of Europe
The expansive minds Of countrymen cannot he con.
fined limits this tne with the long voyages
around Cape Horn There many Of people, with
much Of the wealth Of the nation pursuit OF the whale
in the Pacific under the white sails Of freedom relying
the stars and stripes for proectonhe embemS Of sovereign
that they deserve, and will have shorter and more d.
route to transport the proceeds Of their hard earnings
their friends and homes And BY these il will enable
Christian Government carry her humane designs
to feed the hungry, cOhe the Naked and minister the
This road will only be SIX hundred miles longer than rail-
roads made by Of the Northern States and only five hun
bred than what will be shortly completed by Of the
great Southern Staiehe home Of the protector Of the trade
10 China, which will be commenced and completed in the
nineteenth century, by the free republic Of North America
and during the term Of a republican President which ha,
been commended Cor by the Peans Mahoedsns, Romans
Portuguese, Bollanders, and English, with fleets
for then three hundred years. would be criminal
US hesitate at this period.
The author Of these series would wish il to be distinctly
understood that he has personal acquaintance with
the Hon. THoxAs BUrLrR Krso, Of Georgia. the protector
Of the the Pacific and trade China, Lieutenant
MAURT has been the anxious desire OF The
author than fourteen years of the value Of which he
received the first impression from respectable mercantile
establishment which being continued in Market Phi
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