The Nevada journal., 1853-10-28


road proceeds. The road viii carry popu-
lation with it almost as fast as it will carry
passengers. Build the road, and it viii be
found that the population accompanies or
precedes it. With the great resources Of
this government, backed by the still greater
energies Of the American people, such a
work would be constructed in seven years.
Behind the surplus monies in the treasury
lies the untold wealth of the public lands,
and whichever route is fixed upon, the road
must be built to bind together the two ex-
tremes of the republic.
The Philadelphia North 44mericar says
the statements respecting the instructions
to Gen. 'Gadsden. our new Minister to
Mexico, to negotiate for right of way
through Mexico for the road about the
parallel of thirty-two degrees Of latitude,
prove to be substantially correct. The
line is described accurately in letter from
Secretary Davis to the Governor Of Ar
kansas.
II, however, the people of the south
western States of Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas have moved with the vigor and
success which is stated in an article from
the Charleston Mercury, it will settle the
question, aud the route through Texas will
be first built and perhaps the only one in
this generation. We have been aware that
the New York capitalists and wealthy
southern planters. have oeer canvassing
Inc road through Texas. aud it is by ro
nee impossible that they IL .35s'' s35s'' .gst
tors ia .in lo build the first half Of tbe
road through .dississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, encouraged by the large amount of
fertile Cotton lands which this route will
bring into market. The enquiry, however
naturally suggests itself, where is the force
TO work these immense tracts of new cot.
ton lands to be found? Draining all the
more northerly tiers Of slave states Of their
slaves will not suffice to do IL. Perhaps
in portion Of their territory may be made
the experiment of producing cotton by free
labor An exchange paper says -
"a RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC We
learn from the Charleston Mercury that
company has for some time been organized
to construct a railroad from Yicksburg, on
the Mississipp ppl river to the Texas State
line. 4 company Of northern capitalists
offered 10 build the entire road of 207 miles,
and place upon it all the necessary en-
gines, cars, station houses, etc, within
three years, and all for the sum of $4,000
per mile. Ofthis sum they require $4,000
in cash as the work progresses $1,000
they take in stock, and the remaining $4,000
payable in bonds of the company, having
thirty years to run. There is strong
probability that this offer will be accepted.
The Texas Legislature has chartered a
company to construct Railroad in contin-
uation of the above, from the Louisiana
! line to FL Paso, seven hundred and fifty
miles, and granted it $50 900 acres OF
~ "
President, and the company are taking
steps to give the gigantic enterprise a start.
These two railroads will accomplish more
than half the distance between the Miss
issippi river and San Diego, on the Pacific.
The ~ Y. Journal of Commerce, says,
"it is very probable that the military
road which has found favor Of late in high
Quarters, means the El Paso road, and that
the power is to be invoked as furnishing
the constitutional authority for tie con-
struction of the road, wholly or in part, at
the public expense. But it is also propos-
ed by some, that Congress should be asked
merely to grant railroad contract for fifty
years in aid of the construction Of the road,
and perhaps to advance a portion Of the
sum, besides liberal grant of public lands .
The Company have already had offers
for a supply Of American rails, at fifty y-five
dollars ton. An eminent engineer has
also furnished the Company with very fa-
vorable estimates as to the cost and profits
Of the Pacific Railroad. He estimates the
whole cost of roads, fully stocked, from st.
Louis, by FL Paso, to San Diego, at hun
dred million dollars, meaning probably, this
sum, besides the land, &c. granted to these
roads, and calculates that two hundred
passengers daily, each way, at sixty dol
| lars fare, will pay the expense Of keeping
up the road, and the interest on the cost
aforesaid, to say nothing of freight, mails,
&c.
Ro65ery.-The room of Mr.. Y. Y.
Ralston in Placerville, was entered on
Mnndau eueninr Last and rnhhad of SD