Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03

their governments displayed, family at all known the
general reader Such pamphlet real and priceless pro-
sounty II is with the people Of that country
avail themselves of their local advantages On former
sion made and had published remarks the wheel and
its peculiar value combination Of mechanic power and un-
reachabe date of its invention need not say in regard
the wheel than observe that is the most ancient and
far the simple indispensable, and powerful instrument
invented by We justly admire combination OF
wheel work. but seldom reflect that every separate wheel is
itself a combination of mechanic powers.
Applying the preceding the subject before US, and
Meeting it with the iron railroad the slupendous pros
poets open on the domain of the United States before
spread before human vision. In the order of nature the
writer of these words within few days Of closing seventy
five years of life hope their consummation but
the observations forced upon him by seventy years Of pilgrim
ago immense space of North America since. as
child of between six and years. he led by his
into the central and then wilderness regions Of the
nent emboden him dare the prediction that the close
Of the current century the Of North America occupied
by the AngoSaxon United States, will already observed
and may be repeated become the transit commercial ground
between the Atlantic and Pacific The and
safety, and in portions Of time certainty Of and arrival
will effect and perpeuae this change. Long, tedious and
dangerous voyages round the Southern Capes of Africa and
America in order pass from the other Of the great
Of the northern temperate zone will become rare,
not altogether.
This revolution already in progress, and it ought be
atenvey observed than it is in fact that railroads
supersedng rivers of ntercommunicaon
and mercantile transit in the United States The system ad
mts Of indefinite extension, and at the time attends and
facilitates the spread of population. The results Of six de-
cenna enumeraons of the population Of the United States
gives ratio Of 343lOOO,hs for fifty years the aggre
gate Of the for 1850 % Millions by the
above ratio will, in A. D. 1900, exceed 95 mions and
in 1885, century hence, HUNDRED MILLIONS.
Such results appear enormous but fully sustained By
all the data afforded by past enumeraons and three mil
lions of square miles yields only density of the square
mile The combined application Of steam and the wheel
iron railroads. it is safe say, yet only successful expe
en and need extend views further than the
close of the century anticipate Improvements the
railroad system and in the rail by which vehicles with all
the accommodations afforded by ships sea, will pass
over North America from to ocean, We speak
of great roads Of than twenty de-
grees of latitude in BREADTH whilst have the authority of
the experience Of the last half century sustain the assump
that innumerabe roads and countless will be-
fore the completion Of another like period time, exist from
the shores of the Atlantic those Of the Pacific
compare the of things they at the
of this century with what they the present.
paravey speaking the real changes of the last fifty years
exceed our anticipations for the like coming period.
Leaving the Ango-Saxons sustain their PROMISE let
Africa Asia, and Oceanca, and with that
survey take faint glance part of the region brought
to notice by Mr. PALMER:
General Tabular Ve,c of Distances of Sea-shoe from the
Cape Of Good Hope to Behring's Straits.