The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-02-20

Il
ful as itsbefore seemed, now appears much
more surprising. That city, with popu-
laiion OF $4,000. supports seven daily pa
pers; while New York, with half a mill
ion OF inhabitants, can only keep double
that number alive. But a few months ago
there was nothing of San Francisco but
"cotton houses now there are one han
,dred and seven miles of streets laid out,
one quarter of which IS built npon and oc-
cuped, and over seven miles OF il subs,an-
TALLY planked. Sixty brick houses have
been built, and one marine Insurance COM
pany has just been started with capital
of half a million OF dollars. There are
forty-seven steamers employed in the river
trade, while eleven ocean steamers-the
California, Panama, Tennessee, Unicorn,
Oregon, Northerner, Sarah Sands, Caro-
lima, Columbus, isthmus. and Antelope.
(the first eight belong to the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, and the last three to
Laws lne)-traverse the waters of the
Pacific. arriving and departing with the
regularity of u train Of cars on the Erie
Railroad. Besides these belonging 20 the
regular lines, are the steamers New Or
leans and Ecuador, and Constitution,
which have been engaged in the Panama
trade, and also the Gold Hunter and the
Sea Gull, which have recently been upon
the route between San Francisco and Ore
gon. This number of steamers, running
( between San Francisco and Panama, IS
greater than the number employed in the
trade between New \ ork and Liverpool
and New York and Havre combined
Truly, after reading these facts, we cannot
but say, with the Pacific News, The
germ ofa mighty people on the shores of
the Pacific has been planted; il has grown
into 4 stately. proud position already, and,
although the past has Witnessed much that
appears like dream, the future is develo
ped by time and energy, will give birth to
yet many fold more astonishing results
within the GOLDEN GATE of San Fran
CISCO
One great fact hardly yet considered in
connection with this almost magical result
is the comparatively imperfect means of
transportation to California, and the rapid
ity with which those that were employed,
were called into requi5ition, being more or
less imperfect insufficient, and temporary.
what trlumphs may not be looked tor
when the railway over the lsthmus OF
Panama is completed-whenM Mazatlan Is
connected by good road through Mexico
to Vera Cruz, uniting the two oceans at
! another point-when the Nicaragua ship
canal is completed, bringing them together
at another, thus tapping other regions,
swarming with people-and when, hnal-
! ", from our Atlantic seaboard, we reach
] the Pacific by one unbroken chain OF rail
roads, that by one track pour in upon Cal
1 ilornia the products of thirty states, and by
/ the other receive the coveted wealth of the
! New Tyres, and Venices, and LiverPools,
/ that Will spring Minerva like unto vigor-
Gus maturity, from the trade of those dis
tant lands heretofore locked against us by
apparently insurmountabie barriers, but
opened upon US with the hidden treasures
of unnumbered ages! When these are COM
plete, there will be other glories to arouse
the admiration and excite the cupldlty OF
the world. California, under this new
order of things, will be the scene OF still
more extraordinary transformations. Her
palmer, but more substantial sister, Ore
gon, viii tower into more mighty man
hood. The whole Pacific Coast will be
stirred by the energy and the successes OF
these herculean rivals. Asia will move
from her lethargy and lasslude, and
whether she groans under British, or
Turkish, or Chinese oppression, the voice
of Young Freedom will reach her ears
and fill her with aspirations heretofore un'
known. Mexico will hear it, and find an
escape from her weak tyrants, in the road
that leads to her political and commercial
indie e2endence. From the lsthmus OF Da'
rien on the one extreme, to behrlng
Strait on the other, the victory Will DC
alike Overwhelming and complete; alike
irresistible and enduring. These the con
sequences; and for what cause' he
that takes up the map and runs ms eye
along the vast range of territory aifeady
CONQUERED to civilization, and observes
how conterminous countries must al las
be affected by the neighborhood OF sub
stantial freedom and resistless commerce
who that does this, can fail to be recall
ed bv the sudden rise and rapid progress
of the whole marvel, to The great naiion
which pointed and prepared the way iof
this Exodus of the masses OF the world,
to new retreat in the new possessions OF
the United States. Two years ago the
experiment was made. Its success is al
ready assured, and we now only ask wher
will its wonders cease to astonlsh man
kind'-Pennsytudnian.