The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-12-16
Looking Ahead.

Looking Ahead. ~.
The St. Louis folks seem to be alarmed at the
prospect which the Northwest trade presents in the
distance, and they seem determined shape their
course as to bring that trade down through Iowa and
Missouri by means of a railroad from St. Luis to
St. Paul.
There will undoubtedly be som, gas about this pro-
jcct, but when that has been dissolved or cvapora:d
(Which is the tcrm.) something will have been left
II the crucibe. The St. Louis folks are in real car
INST, the fact is they be So 6 they want t. have
any connection nth the trade Of the Northwest
That trade Is b-n, sought by scver; eastern cand-
dates, and they all trying earnest to possess it
mprc than that they are adopting the proper meas
nres to secure it, the St. Lou. folks admit. The
Ihtclgenccr Of late date shows what is now beinp
done by Chicago in the way of Railroad improve.
ment. We copy Il for the information Of our read
crs, aithou IN we presume that many Of them are al
ready familiar with tho information:
"Chicag,, which in the last ~ wears has GROWN
from town Of 100 inhabitants, to city of 10000
"A ratio OF increase nearly two-thirds greater than
that OF 81. Louis in the same tine-s pushing with
sicNampled energy system ofrailroads, east, south
west, and northwest, destined 10 connect it, Nv Fort
Wayne anl Chicago, and the Ohio and Indiana roads
With New York. Boston, Philadelphia and Balti-
more, as well As Cia 'inn ,ti-by the Cent.al road
with Cairo-and thcncc by tac Mobile and Ohio
river road with the cxtrcm, south i;scl:-by another
rad with Galena, and by another with Rock Island
with Dubuque by way of Jamsvi,e, Wis.,-and
thu Rock River Valley Union road, with the Like
Superior country, thus securing the whole trade
of the Mississippi and north of Iowa. We mig Int in-
cllic in the whole system the Alton and SlngamOn
road, to be carried through Bloomington To Chicago,
aud the connection with the Mississippi at Quincy
by the ncrs cotton of the Northern Cross railroad
Springfield. We of ST. Louis have ,artr Joined
d conventions to remove the Des Moines Rapids
distractions. They run railroad TO G,lena, aal
another to Rock Island, above the Rapids the latter
Ii npvn I'm he'd nd tn J,iia Is.
finished in January to Peru, and by next fall To the
Mississippi at Rock Island. They ex.ect also by
connections with the Peoria and O,uawka road now
building, To tap the Mississippi at this fifth point
besides Galena, Rock Island Alton and Quincy, viz:
Oiawka. just above the bend Of the Rapids, during
1858. They will connect 10y the Lake Shore road
with Milwaukee, and thence by roads now talked Of
IN, doubtless, to be made with the immense coun-
try north and northwest Of it, bordering the upper
Mississippi, and grasping Minnesota. So much,
briefly told, or rather limited at, by WAY Of tappn.
the Mississippi lis eastern side But correspond
ing roads planned to shoot of west and southwest
from points the Mississippi feeders To this system
hctcals to these iron arteries One is to run,
told, from the Iowa shore to Council Bluffs
through the valley Of the Platte-ycs, to Calfor-
mia, and nowhere st. Louis! Others are talked
OF, all parts OF the same system, and sure, If carried
out to make the future railroads of the great north
wet, yet scarcely known il is 10 civilization,
feeders of the extreme northern lines to New York
and to draw of from the trade of Iowa, and of
Nebraska too, without much sight of that
still farther north
We Of Dubuque are included in some Of these pro-
jects The Illinois Central terminates here so will
the southern Wisconsin, both radiating from the
same termini, both vieing with each other to secure
the trade Of Iowa through this dcbourhmc.--[Du.
Her.
TELEGRAPH Between ENGLAND AND
AMERIcA.-Thc London correspondent of the Ma
toaal Intelyencer gives the following description of
a new project for submarine telegraph between
Great Britai, and America. The writer consider.
this plan by far the most feasible yet proposcd
We stated a few weeks ago that Il project had been
formed for constructing submar telegraph be-
tween Great Britain and the United States, bv n
route not before thought of, which would very mate
rally shorten the line of transit render the
transmission of intelligence much less liable to inter.
ription, and most materially diminish the cost of
construction and repairs. We have now the map of
tho proposed submarine lines before They COM
mence at the most nOrthwardly point of Scotland,
run thence to the Orkney Islands, and thence by
short lines, to the Shetland and Ferroe Islands
From the latter water line of POO to 800 miles con-
ducts the telegraph to Iceland; from the western
coast oil Iceland another sub marine line CONVEYS it
to kiO5c bay OF the eastern coast of Greenland: ii
then crosses Greenland to Juliana's Hope, on the
western coast of that continent in latitude go d.
AZ minutes. and is conducted thence bv n water line
of about 500 miles, Davis Straits to Byrons
Bay, the coast Of Labrador. From this point the
line is to be extended Quebec The entire length
Of The line APP OH natingy estimated $500 miles
The peculiar advantage of the line being divided
INTO several sub marine portions is, that if fracture
should at any time occur, the defective part could be
very readily discovered and repaired promptly and at
comparatively trfng expense From the Shetland
Islands it is Proposed to carry branch to Bergen,
in Norway, connecting il there with line Chris
TINA. Stockholm, Gottenburg and Copenhagen; from
Sio,kholm line may easily cross the Gulf of Both
MIA to St. Petersburg. The whole expense Of this
great international work is estimated considerably
below $500 ,0o0, but to contingencies it is pro-
posed to raise that sum by $4,000 shares of ego
each.
ADAMS ExPREss.-The following notice from
Northern paper Of this entcrprisny Express Agency,