Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-03-26
SGLEILIL A NIEUU8.
From the London Times.1

L roIn the London Times
he New World is fated 10 be The subject of ueorra
phcal rr bIems Firs there was the question. wherb
er there be such place and them how 10 get at it
Columbus solved both by of mistake, aud got to
The other side Of the globe by trying short cut 10 The
mines Of Gllconda and the realms Of Preser John.-
Three cennbs have passed. and great problem sur
wives nr the curiosity and the ingenuity or the perse
verance q competing nations How get across this
huge double continent, which Stretches as if were the
back bone o The earth from the north 10 the south p,e
For the pure pve Of geographical science are spndinr
expedition alter expedition find north west passage
The United States, animated at ibis moment with a more
earthly passion. considering whether is best 10 cut
across at the crow flies or 10 90 r,uud Cane
Horn, or cruss Central America at Panama or Lake
Nicaragua, or at Tehuaniepec, or at some other
place.
gltterng prize excites the enterprise of these dis
c"verlPs as the lden cup tempted the Sican diver to
the bottom of the Charybdis But another problem of
almus quail Importance, vexes American ingenuity II
IS how 10 get out Of North America The inferior Of that
comment Is region unsurpassed for va>tness Cor erti
IT, tor lis noble rivers, and lis inland seas How is the
increasing produce Of ihlS region be eXtricated and
launched the ocean Nature takes the wafer Of these
inland AMI the produce Of their shores ten degrees
to the morrill, through BRUSH colony, and DOWN Brit
sh stream Of difficult navgatiun fifteen hundred miles
Ong. Art hrS already achieved another solution Of he
Difficult y.by linking Lake Erie with New York There
sui, however, remains the question: which Canada and
The Ini'ed States are buSily discussing which is the
easier shnrer and the cheaper route the ST. Lawrence
or Lake Erie Canal
The case Of the United States is somewhat hard 81
besel are they with natural and political mppdiments
they cannot reach their own western sh res When they
look al the narrow neck of the lshmus which presents
50 inviting contrast 10 the dreary interval of rocky
m"unlanS and sandy plains which separate San F ran
cisco iron New York, they it the hands of other
Powers When they look athe natural Quite, Of their
mighty lakes there again they behold foreign FLAG
Brother J"nahanndeed can trump over nature as well
as any oIhr member ct The race To whom that dominion
is given. Halt man, half alligator he will dash on by
land or by water, as thew happen to cume laundering
through b'gs,s plashng through torrents cutting his way
through Forests, and following the stars through inter
mlnahle plans. tie will extend tie Mississippi with
railroad, Or Jun seas with canal suit his con
venence GIVE him three years. and lie will lease the
undt raklng to house in New York which will do H. Or
die, n the stipulated time. lie does not fret at that
which cannot be e ped but sits down and does what he
can Il the mountain would to Mahonet, Ma
honet must % TO the mountain
1t the citizens Of he nited States allowed
practical equality in The Of the ST, Lawrence they
'ad0 .. Lawrence Of their own, IS yards instead Of
~ GILES wide, but sufficient carry stout barges loaded
vi grain ard fur. Such a small but useful ST. Law
re- re there Is, in fact 1t expensive and tedious but
what OF that when 1t belongs 10 the Union and converts
Lakes SUPERIOR, Michigan, Huron and Erie into cana
docks; No. |, 2, 8, and 4, of New York 2
IL Is an lnoorlpuS sort OF tyranny to deny the free
bounlleS OF nature, and to monnpze great highway of
commerce. There regions Of the world where we
maintain different doctrine and claim for mans
Common use the arteria streams of great contnents-
But we practlca deny the river and the gulf Of the
s.. Lawrence to Republican neghbos while we re-
fuse INN share IN its primer pal commerce. 1t is sill
more hg"rlons 10 be beaten. and find that narrow
canal. with nelry hundred locks, and with banks 50
fragile as 70 allow greater speed than three miles an
hour alter all IS silver Of wealth. far more useful
and productive ihan one Of he nob rivers in the world
The IL q which hiws this crowded capital and 10 the.
am-ed hordes Of Ireland through Buffalo and Albany
and The tedious 10 Ks between and which is thrice tran
shipped before it reaches the Atlantic very far exceeds
tie quantity we receive through The Ontario the ST
Lawrence, and the gigantic ship canals, the Ridean and
The Nelland, with which we have Surmnunied the "a
rural difficulties Of The navigation. The vulgar Amer
canal has beaten the Brh river through the instru
mentality # our ow1 demands. England herself gives
the virtual preference to the canal by using more than
Its SNOWY rival.
The Canadian authorizes differing as they do on the
qnesir OF free trade, and slightly disageeng To the
MINOR Items Of the clcuaton agree in the opinion that
Quebec cannot pretend To vie with New York or the
Canadian nh the American settler unless by repealnr
The Navigation Laws and reducing the price Of frenht
Il Quebec. Whatever the comparative Gust Of transport