Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-07-07
Effects Ct Railroads and Talegraphz.

Effects cf Railroads and Taiegraphs.
About one hundred years ago, Franklin WIS
Postmaster General IN this city. and it was CON
ziderei a great achievement that - mail should
set off once fortnight for Boston. a journey
which occupied an almost fabulous length oil
time. Now. correspondence Is far more easy.
frequent and common with California than then
with New England. When Il telegraph is com
pleted to San Francisco, it will take far less
time 10 communicate with that city than il did
with Boston ut the time Of the Declaration OF
Independence. The most extreme points Of cur
enlarged Territories ut this moment. fer all
practical purposes, nearer together than Maine,
Georgia aud the Western settlements were ut
that time
Fifty years ago, Bradley who constructed
the celebrated Brideewater Canal declared be-
fore Committee Of tkc English House Of Conn
mons, that rivers would only be faund
useful to feel canals. Steamboats, have. how
ever, done more than cat of all the curves Of
the rivers aad the whole continent has abso-
lutely shriycled up before the whistle of the
locomotive The ei.ds Of the earth are being
drawn and bound together BY its bars Of IRON.
while the telegraph wires intricafely tie our
cities together by threads Of wonderful tenacity
Like that almost invisible thread of silk which
formed tae clue TO fsasamonds bower but
all the Passages into one harmonious whele, 50
does the telegraph draw the most distant Of our
cities together by network that annihlates
time and destroys space.
The effect OF all this upon commerce aud
general intercourse is already Immense but
must be inealcaiaby greater rendering the
most distant parts of tire Union far nearer than
when there were but thirteen States. Travel
enlarges the minds of all our citizens toadegree
unknown by any other nation The productions
Of all temperatures. frsm ice to oranges and
rine-arpIes. are brought to our doors. and the
dispositions. tastes aud languages of all nations
are familiar in streets. By railroads and
expresses the articles neost fraiI and difficult Of
transportation are conveyed ineaiealabIe dis
taaces. Fresh salmon, from Milne. ia eaten III
New Orleans. and oysters from Baltimore are
daily sent TO st. Louis, while the fruits of the
interior are brought with equal facility to the
Atlantic cities. The latest New York fashions
and fabrics find their way up Red River Thus
the productions OF every part af the Union are
multiplied, and M are nade richer, and sup
piled With more Of the means Of happiness.
But the prlcsieal effects of these modern i'm
provemeEsts hare not yet fully got into play
M one aouhts taat ultimately there must and
will be a line Of rsiiroasi connecting San Fran
cisco with Philadelplsia and New York By
of the ear, and firm. as it were, a balustrade
the cars thus runnag in groove npon wheels
of greatly Increased diameter. it is demon
strahle that v Ithoat any more friction, and with
less danger OF ruaning off the track, one
bundred miles aa hour could be easily accoal-
piished white engineers hare expressed a belief
that higher speed might be attained. In less
than 30 years. probably, San Francisco will
come within the compas IS Of days' Journey fer
the mails, and any number OF passengers with
thsir baggage--and without more fatigue than
is now caused by = soarney from here to Wash
ingtsn- The network sf teIegraphic ccmmu-
nicatian is. meantime, spreading rapidly over
the continent, till each town in the far west will
be within easy sfseakiag distance of the great
centres Of trade In England. it is esteemed
ta-day. wonderful feat that the death of
Nicholas hi 81 Petersburg. was known in
London IN four hours aud q fraIf. hnt this is
nothing to the mameutnry communication tI1at
takes place between New York and New Or
leans, greater distance, the arrival of every
steamer. When the telegraph shall be opened
70 San Francisco. 80 completely will the motion
Of intelligence beat that OF the earth in its /
durnal revolution. that all messages will seem
to arrirs three hours and twenty minufes By |
the time Of day before they are sent.
SEvEs FooLss--I The Eavioas Maa-who
seads AWAY his mutton, because the person next J,
to him Is eating yenSlon
z The Jealous Man-wha spreads his bed
With singing nettscs, and then sleeps in it.
y The Proud Maa--who gets wet through |
sooner than ride IN the carriage of an inferior |
= The Lisisaus sIan-wha goes 70 Law in
see hope Of running his opponent and gets ruined
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