The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-03

Of the California mines will have the effect Of
closing Inferior m'nes In other countries They
provided their promise of yielding quicksilver
should be realized as to lower Its price, and 60
render 1t available for mines long excluded from
its use by It's enormous cost.
We have dwelt on this extraordinary event. be-
II may prove the prolific breeder of interest,"
Ing changes and events In com merce, intercouYse
and the arts, as well as in the apportioning Of
wealth and political power among distinct active
communities. This is critical fastidious age, IN
which genus Is nipped and enterprise res.rS,ned
or oastTucted tor tear OF ridlcue and failure Tho
little censors who wish to lead public opinion,
peer about here and there till they can pick out
place OF safety Tor themselves, whence they may
shoot their little arr.ws at boldness and in,repldity.
Ours ID different temper, apt TO admire Watt,
Huskisson, Peel, or Lloyd. We are attracted
to what men do, to ADVANCE their generation on
wa IN the high career of civilization not to tho
theories which Lmen dream In their closets, and
then egitate the public mind TO carry them out in
legislation, ali the time knowing no more about
the cOnse quences. than they know Of the sppli-
cation OF chem cal agencies in the moon We ad-
mlre prodlgiously the enterprise, prOmplude,
energy, and lndOmtable will OF our transatlantic
descendants. however much our moral sense may
be occasionally outraged by their INSCRIPTIONS
and Incorporate manifestations And W. rejoice
that II ID still the Ango-Saxon race that is des-
timed TO carry the laws, language and character OF
our ferefatheTs to vast countries unknO to them.
What, In progressive wealth and power, England
was at the commence ment OF the century, the
greAt Republic vii be at the competIos Of Its me-
dun stage. The weakened, sleepy old giant,
growlngly suffers the young giant to take from him
that which he could rightiully appropriate and was
necessary to his strength. What will be the end
The first stage towards that end will be very
soon accomplished. We have already seen that
It was no idle rumor put forth by the Ncw York
Herald concerning the grasp OF the possession Of
Cuba by the United States, but that il was de-
signed avowed (though in secreO and intended to
be carried into execution by its government.
What does this import? That England shall have
ought TO predomnate, according to the nterpreta:
ton OF her rulers. How long will the cry OF "All
Oregon or none" be allowed 10 slumb.r In the
traditions OF history! Just so long ae until tho
strong enough to grasp all that belongs TO England
in her vicinity and no longer. Then will England
BE- expelled from her North America possessions
IN the Pacific, whether with or without the assent
sing course OF time, demonstrate this to be the
ling passion OF the enterprslng hOrdes iocklng to
Califo MA, and such Its Inevitable direction.
There may be checks, hlndrances aud disappOint-
ments IN their career. We look strictly at the ma.
tnre and position of the country about be peopled
without allowing much weight to that discovery
on which no satisfactory calculation can be found
Cd, but which may nevertheless give accelerated
force to obvious and permanent causes, when we
say that England 3 ascendancy In the Pacific is
doomed to annihiianon. Under the negligent, OBJ
other result. The new Anglo-Saxon Republic
rising up, or to rise up, in California will be held
and controlled by fragile thread OF power at
Washington the bond will be instantly broken ON
that passion which led to the overrunning of Tex.
as, the conquest OF Mexico, the "grab'' at Cuba,
the possession Of California. Inetead Of checking
II, within five or ten years Washington may again
seek to ride IN its whlrlwind.
IL mote, by habits OF thought and action as well
as by distance. from the moral influence Of the
European word, which,, Notwithstanding all we
may say. ex. rclses wholesome restraint at WASH
ingtoD, what shall stay the course of the ruling
passion in the Republic of California! She will
possess within herself all the means OF wealth and
power and military strength. She can see no rival
on the vast shores of the Pacific, where all else Is
feeble ness and fragllity. What can. what dare,
England now say against the deliberate, though
RAPID, planting OF this formidable power, already
IN possession OF the most important highway Of
nations, with the command Of Its maritime extre-
mites Atless than one half of the distance, you
have with great difficulty and cost crushed the
Beers OF Southern Africa. They had No military
appliances, no land.locked bays, no ships and
steamers or means OF constructing them, no inn
pregnable mountain fortresses; and, compared
with active intelligent men of the Angle saxon
ace, entrenched by nature in favorable position,
shameiuly. lost the opportunity, England must SUBJ
NIT to her inevitable destiny. The simple state.
ment OF the question, what can England now do
N opposition to 1t involves the btierest, and to
.
on tine furnished honor OF England.
Alter all, an attempt to scan the inscrutabe ways
OF providence would be presumptuous; what we
ePlore and mourn oyer may. for aught that we
can see, be designed for the speedler extension of
me laws, language, physical and moral attributes
OF the Anglo-Saxon race throughout the regions Of
heathenism and ldoatry For such consumma-
tlon-cal 1t an abstraction il you p'ease-we must
continue to offer our humble bat fervent aspira.
tons.
TrruINUr
-Ihe boundary line between the United States and
Mexico, as established by the late treaty. will soon
be dctted BY military posts from the mouth OF the
mo Grande to the Pacific. On this line, and
perhaps starting from Austin, the capital of Texas
VIII be the great Southern thoroughfare betweenp
The Eastern and Western portions OF this vast re-
public. The distance from Austin to San Diego
on the Pacific Is not over 1900 miles, The journey
can be performed easily IN two months In no
season OF the year Is snow on any part OF the route
encountered 10 an extent that presents the least
lmredlment. 1t is, equally exerapt from deserts,
stagnant waters and swamps, which breed pesti-
leDce, and destroy 30 many OF the pioneers N new
countries. With few fertile Valleys and some
PLAINS OF passabe productveness, there is any de-
sIabie number OF mountains and broken, sterile
ridges, which are better calculated to interest the
geolceist than the farmer Having m Id and sa-
lnbrious climate, wherever perm anent settlements
Can DC made made, they will be planted by hardy emf
than all the world beside how to subdue forests.
wild beasts, and savage aborlgnes. On This
south western frontier, the Ell Passo del Norte il
ues.Ined 10 become very important poiat. The
shai own near the pass In the mountain is south
o. the boundary line, and Mr.. $. Lucas, o. Mis-
tourl, has been appointed Consul of the United
states to reside there On the ext Ddsd frontier
OF I.Xas, we learn from the Austin demo rat that
a line OF military stations will soon be established
rom "tort Washita, on Red River, to the Presi-
do del Ro,Grande. Ore squadron OF c lyalrv will
D. stationed at the Tow.e. ash village, on the upper
Brazos another on Hamllton's creek mar f he
Colorado; four companies OF infantry at Frede--
rick sburg; two companies OF infantry and one of
cavalry, on the Leona, where VOLTS road crosses
tnat stream; a! d at the Preside del Rio Grande,.
three companies OF Infantry San Antonio IL
made the interior depot, from which the above