New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-05

nat OUT DIt uItu On Tue dC'HC arc uluuiaUig
to he uL,ted to us by bouds of iron, we presume
10 intelligent man who bas considered the march
of internal Improvement duri the last half cen
turJ can doubt. TIE c'cutOus, tedious, upcom-
ioItoble expensive unhealthy journey by either or
by Any route acrOss the I-thmus Of Darlen cannot
be SLOWED 10 remain the Uost practicable aDd eI-
pee itious node of trAnsit frOm one side Of our
Union 10 the ether. To day, citizen Of Mime
sota, v hO may be ia PEELED TO remove his family 70
Oregon or Washington Territory, must traverse
more than four tlnrs tns actual distance which
separates bis preseut from his future home, in
order TO reach the latter. Half the white peO-
pie nov inhabi'ins our Pac tic empire would
gaoiy visit tn. homes OF their youth if the cost in
cODfort ZINE aid money Of the journey we're suffi-
crebtly ecoDOpizrd; Thousands Of the adCenturOus,
OF the dscontenteo amoIg us would look of on the
Pacific il ten days easy riding across diversified
country, through baunts not yet deserted BY the
Ind'an aud the Buffalo, would carry them thisher
at cost Of not more than hundred dollars Ii
good Railroad from st. Lsus to San Francisco
were 20 open next Aprl, We believe 1t would in
cIesse the National wealth by the full amount OF
Itt cot in every three years OF the next thirty.
wbi yielding, if We'll managed, magnificent in
c. me 10 it's stockholders.
That Rsilroad will yet be built; the only ques-
tier s-Shsll its cred aid its beuets to the
present generation or shall We doze aud leave
It be built by our more eDterp iring posteri'y
Stsp We hazard the alienation Of our brethren on
the Pocifc cacula'i' that We may win them back
afet they ,hall have been compelled by their leo
la,icn odd disad vantges to fail away from Us Is
Nai,n that Dust buy or beg the privilege of car
r,inp The MsIls between it, chief commercial cities
through rem ore and semi.barosrous foreign coun-
ties. a thousspd miles out Of the direct line be-
tween rhose ports, really and properly united'
We believe the PSc f. Road ought to be COM
mepced st once sd constructed 40 fast as means
CAL be obtained. We believe the Federal Gwen.
neDt ought to rettench Its absurd expenditures for
Aruy. Navy, &c aid devote at least Ten Millions
per annum 70 making track for the Iron Horse
ac,o.s the western balf Of the continent, through
the eorees of the Rocky Mountains, over the passes
OF the Sierra Nevada from the Mississippi to the
Sacramento THIS would be a practical job Of
Ution vire-uLlike most jobs unds rtaken 90 that
pr.ttx and one ev-D way bene6cent. Even if
it should be srre,ttd midway by war or some other
caauit,. il would still be worth at least its cJst,
and would still insure speedy and safe overland
trsD,i. for pr,sors at least.
We rejoice that the Peoples Convention at Phil
sdelpha 90 frankly and heartily declared-slike by
ia Platform and its Candidate-tor the Pacific
Railroad. Oder parties may DEAL in vapocous
gepeaties, or only tate a position one day to
o. sert it IN terror on the next but our support of
the tat enterprise Of the age was and is spontans
our. hearty, ubaDimous, unmistabable. With the
Pabfrter in the Presidential Ch,ir, the path itself
iii pioneering wh ch be has 50 persste nifty courted
peris, endured hardsnips and rejolced in sacrifices
-calnut fail to be made ploin.