The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-09-01

make cloth and paper, and Goversville,
where they manufacture buckskin mittens
They have grown faster than places of five
times the population, that have relied solely
on trade in agricultural products.
Agriculture, manufactures and commerce
are the three props that support state. TO
try to make two support it without the third,
is like building house on two-t thirds of a
foundation. 1t may look secure and well
balanced for while but, sooner or later, it
will topple over Albany Eve. Journal.
The PACIFIC CoUNTRY-We have now one
state and two territories on the Pacific, and
if Utah may be considered ours, by rights we
have three territories. Within five years
from this, California will be divided into two
if not into three states, and by that time two
states, at least, will be formed out of the
perhaps three. Utah and that part of New
Mexico joining California and the Mexican
state of Sonora, is large enough to make at
least two states. They, too, will have a pop
ulation in five years large enough to be Or
ganized into governments. This will give
us eight states on this side of the continent.
In the mean time Sonora and Lower Cal(or-
mia, now part of New Mexico, must nat
urally fall into our hands-thus giving US
sea coast Of over 2300 miles in length, with
some of the best harborS in the world, and
with landed possessions, for its extent, the
most productive in the world.
We are connected by steamers with the
Pacific ocean coast of this continent, from
Puget Sound, in Washington territory, to
Talcahuano, in Chilli. Within the next five
years we shall be connec. Ted with China, ia
pan. the Sandwich Islands and Australia. by
lines of steamers, and beyond all question
by the magnetic telegraph, with nearly every
quarter of the globe. We shall also have
under way q good distance, with or without
the aid Of congress, the great national con-
tinental railroad. .....
The past Of the Pacific we know of, but
the actual of the future is yet to be seen.-
Our triumphs over almost superhuman diff
cuties thus far, have been wonderful. If we
should advance with the same success for the
next five years as we have done for the five
just passed, we shall exhibit progress un-
paraleed in the worlds great history. Our
position, resources and progress are already
the subject of astonishment and wonder to
our countrymen on the other side of the con-
tinent, and indeed to the people Of all Eu-
rope. But what must we be to them in five
years from this, when we shall, as Mr.. Ben
ton has said, "rise to the dignity of an en-
pire?' The future, therefore, of the Pacific
must form one of the most brilliant, instruc-
tive and remarkable chapters in the history
ofhuman civiization.-[San Francisco Jour
KILLING AN ELEpHANT.-A large elephant
the property Of Wombwell, the menagerie
man said to have been one hundred and twen-
ty years old, having become, through diseased
feet, incapable of locomotion, was, by direc-
tion of his owner, killed at Birmingham,
England. Chloroform was administered, and
the animal became totally insensble prus-
sic acid in large doses and strychnine were
then given, but without effect. Chloroform
was again administered in the hope that the
animal would die under its influence, but in
an hour and half all effects of it died away
Chlnrnform was again given and while Under