Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-12-05

RalroGd connection Je,rsen The Mississippi.
i'e Lnkss, and The Pacific Deem The
Wisconsin papers announce the execution of
a contract by the ST Crolx and Lake Supe-
rlor Railroad Company with Dillon Jack-
man, Jarret & CO., of this State. for the
construction aud equipment of their entire
line of road, from Hudson 10 SUPERIOR
The work Is 10 be completed and 10 running
order by the 4th of July, 1859. The con-
tractors are men OF experience, and Of first
class credit and responsibility. The road is
about lao miles IN length, and connecting
os it does the Mississippi and the Lakes, Is
of vast importance. II will open up 10 the
spirit of enterprise, settlement and develope-
moni, large region Of valuable and pro
ductlve country Il will secure to Putsburg
"a continuous railroad To the Western termIu-
alton OF Lake Superior, where a new en-
porum of commerce. Is fast growing up on
the beautiful and capacious Bay OF Superior,
formed by junction of the waters of the
ST. Louis and Nemadii rivers with the Lake.
It ~ the gate through which the wealth and
produce of Northern Wisconsin. Minnesota
Nebraska Oregon aud Washington Terrific
res, AS well MS the British Territory must
find us way 70 the great Lake A world Of
beautiful, rich and valuable, yet al,aost un-
settled country. extends beyond this great
inland sea 10 the headwaters of the Yellow
stone and Missouri, distance ct more than
one thousand miles
II Is through this vast region, which is in
torspersed with fertile plains. extensive tor
rests,-penetrated by beautiful rivers, run
ming north as well as south, and dotted with
a thousand lakes, that Governor Stevens re-
ports the most favorable location for the Pa
chic Railroad, an enterprise worthy of the
mighty energies Of this restless nineteenth
century. Its completion will be alike a tri-
umph and a monument. We hesitate not in
saying that the man of mature years Is now
living who will pass over a continuous line Of
railroad from the Atlantic TO the Pacific
Ocean, aud witness the new direction that
will teen be given to the great commercial
current Of the world. The trade of the In
dies will then find highway 10 European
markets over the American Continent 10 al.
most a direct line from San Francisco and
Puget Sound to New York and Philadelphia
and thence to Liverpool aud London. 1t Is
a trade, the value OF which can scarcely be
estimated. In past centuries, us well as the
present time, II has enriched every part of
Europe where It has touched, and built up in
the line Of its march the commercial cities
which decorated the shores of the Medter-
ranean and the Adratic. Every pulsation
Of the American heart is alive TO the i'm
portance aud magnitude of this undertaking
It's work required for military defence
to extend social intercourse, and pcrpotuate
political attachment as well as for the great
avenue of supply to the millions of the
Chinese and Japan Empires, of our vast
Agricultural production, IN exchange for the
Injuries of lndn, and the silks and cash
neros OF China and ThiLet The consiruc-
hoH Of his road from Hudson 10 Superior
completes The tne Of RaiirOad from Boston 10
The Uesiern termination Of the luke iohich Is
more thin haJ The distance 10 he Paeifc.-
Pittsburgh Post.