The Nevada journal., 1852-07-10

expressed q wish to advocate in Con-
gress the great national road from st.
Louis to San Francisco, and says -
Extensive enquiries among the NOUN
tain men has satisfied me that this COM
mon road could be opened on nearly q
straight line between St. Louis and San
Francisco, crossing the Rocky mountains
near the head of the Arkansas or the
Del Norte, running all the way between
or near the parallels of 3S and 80 de-
shortening the distance seve-
vcral hundred miles finding ground for
cultivation, with wood, water and grass
passing the mountains near four de-
grees south of the South Pass, and ira
vable earlier in the spring and later in
the fall, and in sleighs all the winter.
The mountain men know this route, and
some three or four hundred laborers,
(axe and mattock men) directed by prac-
tical country road makers, guided by
learnt to follow Buffalo trails, could do
the work in a summer; and do it at a
fraction of the cost which is now lavish
ed upon ocean steamers, and the African
squadron for the protection of the coast
OF Guinea.
"The Indian title could be extinguish-
ed Mt the same time-donation to set
tiers granted-forts and stations estab-
lished, and the common road and the
wires be ready for use between the
spring budding and the fall dropping of
next summers leaves. AS soon as OPEN
ed, it should be established as a post
road by law, and the mails carried upon
it both in coaches and upon horseback
the latter for slips and letters the
coaches to make 100 miles a day, and
the horses 200, SO as to clear the dis
tance between St. Louis and San Fran.
cisco in twenty days, and in ten days
espectively. The enterprising O,Reily
now offers 10 carry letter mail on horse
back in ten days; it would be done in
eight when the straight road is opened.
"The mail stage now goes with regu-
lality and dispatch between Indepen-
pendence and Santa Fe; and has failed
but once, and that only for one day, in
the two years that it has been establish
ed The telegrapic wires could be put
up at the same time SO that. for a frac-
ton OF what we are now squandering
upon the ocean steamers, we could have
national road through our own terri
tories from the Mississippi to the Pacific,
and the populations of the two sides of
the continent put in communioation-in
ten days by letters, in twenty days by
persons, and momentarily by telegraph
ic dispatches. What shame that such
work cannot be accomplished that
our citizens should be driven in a cir
cuitous voyage through foreign domin-
ions, at enormous cost, or left to fight
their way through deserts and savages,
exposed 10 robbery, murder and starva-
tion, in three or four months journey,
instead of transit of as many weeks
without danger or hardship, and at small
expense. Never was a great national
measure so neglected by any govern
ment'
The schism in the Democratic ranks
in the St. Louis district is being Wild
dened and deepened by the whole pow
erful influence of the old veteran. If
the weapons with which he fights are
all as powerful as the following, the
embarrassment which he will cause to
the 'lmmac ulaten will not be slight:
sI cschew this new doctrine of inter-
fering in the affairs of Europe, mystified
as it is in the cautious phrase, where
caution itself betrays the danger of the
idea by yelling its nakedness in con-
fusion of words intervene to prevent
intervention stand upon the ancient
WAYS dntiqudis Uid', of our fathers; peace
and friendship with all nations, entan-
Cling alliances with none good wishes
to all people struggling for freedom /;
acknowledgement of their independence,
if successful, without inquiry into the
right or wrong Of the revolt; asylum to
the vanquished, from the moment he
touched the soil, or trod the deck of an
American vessel; and with the rights Of
person and property, from the instant of
his arrival among US with all political
rights in five years, if he chooses, cleo
tion to the Presidency excepted. This
is our ancient policy, and adhere to it.
And it surely is something worth thanks
and no doubt has them from the politi-
cal unfortunate Of all nations. 1t gives
them country in which they can make
their home, after having lost their own.
1t gives them spot on which they can
stop, and turn, and stand. 1t is some-
thing to have such refuge, and at o
time when continental Europe is verg-
ing to the condition of the Roman world
in the last days of the Republic, and
under the Empire, when the vanquished
fell upon his sword, and died or receiv-
the order to die, and did it; because
there was not spot on the earth on
on which he could be sheltered from the
pursuit of the conqueror or the master"
FAILURES IN BALTIMoRE.-- Messrs.
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