The Nevada journal., 1855-08-03
immigration Societies.

seize with ayidity upon the impracticable |
and the visionary No sooner is one
scheme or enterprise demonstrated to be
nirv and delusiye, or that it caunot be
done in a hurry, than another follows it in
quick succession. Gold Lake is followed
oy Gold Bluff, to be succeeded by Kern
River The Pacific Railroad is the grand
theme for a time-eyeryb body advocates
It's construction imme ediately-no time is
to be lost. The accounts of men who
have driven OK teams over the various
routes are published.
- A lady represents through New York
press, that men die in California far from
friends and home, without mother or sis
.er TO smooth the bed OF death, and there
fore a railroad must be built, to bring fe-
n4ales among US. The description of the
routes over the plains, and their practica-
pility for railroad discussed by Pike
country teamster, and an appeal Ito the
sympathies Of Wall street capitalists by
adv are considered all that is necessary
Nothing farther need be done IF Wall
street Is not persuaded by such arguments
hat railroad ought to be built, and that
itwould pay, that street would not be per-
suaded though one rose from the dead.
To employ competent engineers to make
surveys, and give geographical and topo-
graphical descriptions of the routes, a
statement Of the resources of the country,
and a judicious estimate of the cost of con-
structing great national road connecting
the Two oceans, would require time, and
the work must be done in hurry. The
capitalists of the East have no reliable data
on which to base conclusion that the
Tork would be a.proftable investment, and
therefore manifest 3 perfect apathy on the
subject.
Instead of devoting time to the demon
stration that an Atlantic and Pacific Rail
road would be profitable enterprise-a
point upon which capitalists are desirous
Of being satisfied, our members of Con-
gress, "dabbling in the pool of politics"
Ieave the subject as old and threadbare,
and take up the scheme of establishing a
line of Government steamers, to run be-
tween San Francisco and Shanghae-a
project which may be carried out twenty
years hence, but to advocate it now, is a
wasteful expenditure of time and brains.
Let any one count the cost Of sending an
ocean steamer across the Pacific, and he
Will be satisfied that in the present state
Of our population the scheme is premature.
For want Of something Of the Gold Bluff
kind of excitement, or the instantaneous
construction of a railroad two thousand
miles long, or the establishing of Shang-
hae line of Mail Steamers, when the en-
tiresmail might be carried in carpet bag
for ten years to come, to agitate the pub
io.mind, the prominent journals Of the
State are full ofprojects for forming immi-
grafton societies, for tao purpose of re-
pfehishing our population which is said to
be on the decrease Scarcely a paper
comes to US from below, but contains one
article at least on immigration societies,
which are to cure hard times, prevent
Banking AMI Express firms from bursting,
and in short be the panacea for all the ills
under which we are suffering. Several
plans have been proposed, and more are
advertised for, to carry out the design oi
furnishing our State with a denser popu-
Iation. One proposes line of cmigran
steamers to carry passengers at reduced
rate from New York to San Francisco
Another suggests that the steamship COM
panies reduce the rates Of passage for fe'
males, so as to encourage that species o
immigration, that eventually we may rdts'
population "native and to the manor
born Another thinks Immigration from
China and other foreign countries, Should
be encouraged But the most sensible
means suggested for the settlement Of th'
State is to create demand for labor, tc
furnish employment for those who desire
to make home among US. Until larger
field is opened for the industry Of emf
grants, it is useless to talk about lines o
emigrant ships, low rates of fare, or th'
salubrity of our climate. The people il
the Atlantic States are not so infatuated
as to leave comfortable homes, and immi
CRATE to state where there is nothing tt
do We undertake to say, that our pop
ulation is already too large for the labo
dennnnded in the existing state of THINGS