The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-10-16


on the 10th inst, to "put the ball in motion" for
their route. The people Of the Lower Mississippi
are also to hold National Convention on the I'D
inst, for a similar purpose, at Memphis. Both
routes have their peculiar advantages and draw
backs. The lower route, by the Gili, would give
five hundred miles Of more formidable work than
that of the Hudson River road through the ii gh-
lands The central route would be more desirable;
but after crossing the Great Basin from the Salt
Lake the tremendous barrier Of the Sierra Neva-
Ia would have 20 be surmounted. We see no way
in which the Pacific could be reached from the
Mississippi westward, short OF fifteen hundred miles
The route, NJ any dire elton, lies uninhabi,ed
mountains and deserts. for hundreds of miles,
without tislber or facilities of any kind, except
rocks and sand IL would take a hundred millions
20 build the read, and az the rate of one hundred
miles a5ear il would require haeen years to COM
pete It. The work will be done but the spare
capital Of the whole country, and the labor OF
100 0eJ, men could scarcely fsash il in les Than
tiiteen years.
What, then, is our policyiR the interval! Let
The government establish, or encourage the estab
'ishment of lines of camels overland, by the
South Pass and the Salt Lake, and by Santa Fe
and the ella. II rs the very country FOX the camel;
and with few relays and stations tie way, the
tourney from the Mississippi across I, the Sacra-
menio could be made in twenty days Nor
could any thing be more useful in the building
of the railroad ihan canes, for the transportation
oi supplies. Tie commerce between the two
oceans. meantime, demands that the three isihnus
passages should be put into operation. The multi
| nlic line uf al
and increase OF our Pacific trade, she resources Of
our county, and the enterprise Of our people, de-
mand them all. Give US the csmels, the ste am.
ships, the sthmus passages, and thus, while the
continental railroad Is progressing, We shall secure
the nade # the world. When completed, with
the New jerusalem as the halfway station, its re-
suits can not stop short Of the millennium.
The RECENT CuBA ExPEDrroN--The late RI
diculous organizations in New Orleans and New
! York for the invasion and conquest Of the island
of Cuba, nave collapsed the funds are squandered
or rocket,d the fnancers dispersed Round Is
| land is evacuated the war steamers sent down to
watch 1t are Withdrawn; and the panic of the cab-
net, like the Poussin panic, has turned out farce
All this was to be expected, from the character,
objects, and materials of the enterprise The
whole thing was a Plainfield shave. The Plain.
field fnanciers, after, in 1886 or l3i7, exhausting
the public creduny m their spurious shinp istsrs,
shut up their rascaly shaving SHOPS for still more
magnificent speculation. deputation of the con.
GEN. in a sort Of equivocal, semi-ofIical capacity,
set out during the Mexican war, ostensibly on a
pleasure excursion TO the city of Mexico but
really with the view of commencing their plot in
the island Of Cuba. Going and coming, they
stopped at Havana and on their return to New
York, paper in Spanish WAS started, to push the
scheme Of annexation. The scheme, dark az il
was, extended its feelers, and was gradually
IipeniDg The first information of the fact was
communicated TO us from correspondent at New
Orleans, and il is supposed that with this reveal.
ton, the Planfeld managers, to escape detection,
turned States evidence, and peached to the State
Department At all events, this appears to be a
satisfactory solution Of the mystery and the dis
covery OF The plot The rest is well known.
1t was sheer speculation aud nothing else and
but for the miserable bungng of the fnancers
and managers, they might have made something
out Of Il. The object was somehow TO make a
haul perhaps after the fashion of the buccaneers;
the Liberation Of Cuba was but the sheepskin over
the wolf The honest sympaiaizers in the expert
ment were humbugg,d, Rey was abducted, and
the flair wound up with panic and a collapse.
The great national object Of che acquisition Of
Cuba not affected at all. AT the proper time the
island must come in, and in The proper way The
equilibrium Of power between the North and South
is Of the first Importance. When Canada is ready
for admission, the acquisition Of Cuba accomps-
MES it Of necessity. The time Is approaching the
movements in one quarter already suggest the ne
cesslty Of action in the other The work is deli
cate in both. Patience aud prudence will do the
business
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