New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-12
FROM NEBRASKA.
DnSeEes Of The ". Y. Tre0Ie.


OMAHA, y. T., Dec. Is, 1856.
Tie 40 b parallel of north latitude constitutes the
southern limit Of Nebraska This line extended east,
passes through Central Illinois, Indiana and Ohio;
thrueh the City of Philadelphia, ard strikes the
Atlantic on the Jersey shore. The 49Ih parallel.
which bounds IT on the north, extended to the east,
passes ite north of Lake Superior, north of the
inhabited parts Of Canada, and touches the eastern
shores of the Continent az the Gulf of ST. Lawrence
Within these two lines are includ 81 all the New
England States, New.lOrk, PeDnsy wanna the north
half of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and the whole of
Michigan W scousin, Iowa and Minnesota. Dl-
rectly east of Nebraska we find our largest cities
and the most houri.hiDg agricultural and CONNER
cal interests of our cOuntry and as the stream of
emigration has hitherto kept pretty much upon the
same parallels a, those from whence it originated,
il is Reasonable TO suppose that it will continue to
do so for the future and that it will, 10 its western
progress, take the vast and fertile regions of Ne
braska directly in its way.
The prospect, too that the first great line of inter-
oceanic communication will pass directly through
Nebrasks, cannot but add intellectually to its future
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the Pacific Railroad, when ii is already half COM
p'eted. On the east We find the conhuen. branches
of at least one important line already completed.
These, sweeping on toward the West, take Blf-
falo, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit Chicago and Ro,k
Island in their onward progress. The same line,
continued will pass through Des Mones
and touch the Missouri River at Council
nj. h.
most important, by far, of any in our country,
will become still more "a as it is continued onward
TO the West. Upon it cur largest cities are des.
tined to rise, and around il will cluster for all time
to come the grsndest interests Of our country.
Ere long this great channel of communication will be
extended to the Pacific shore, and then, with
New.York and Boston at one extremity, and San
Francisco at the other, it will become the highway
of the world Its completion will be the grand
event which will transfer the metropolis of Christ
endom from the shores Of Europe TO those of
America. IL will place New-York in closer con-
lection with the East Indies than either London or
Paris now is; and will become the channel by
which the commerce Of those far distant regions
of the Orient will reach our own country as well as
Western Europe.
This great highway may be considered as having
already reached the Mssissippi; and it becomes an
important question, what will be the probable route
that il will take in ito further extension westward
1t pretty certain that it will not defect TO any
great extent from its present bearing, unless the
nature of the case cOmpels it 10 do so. But the
nature Of the ease has settled the question in an
ner iha. precludes a reasonable doubt. II points
to the Vall,y Of the Platte and il points no,chers
else. To suppose that any other route which will
ever be constructed across the continent will rival
this is an absurdty. To suppose that the influence
Of the Middle, Eastern or Western States will ever
be given to Pacific Railroad which starts from
the Gulf Of Mexico or from the western borders Of
Misiouri, is commercially ridiculous. In time
doubt esq., the two oc, ans will be connected by rail
from the Gulf, and also by way Of St. Louis aud
st. Palls. Bot none of these routes will ever be-
come the national horOugh)ars. They win be
more local in their influence, and will play second
airy part to the line which will monopoize the trade
of Boston, New-York and Chicago, and which will
thus draw to iiself the most important commercial
and mercantile interests Of the country. That this
route in ts future extension westward, will pass
Up the Platte Tauty is inevitable.
The Pacific Railway is the great enterprise
to which, for the next few year,, the genius and
energies of our country VIII address themselves.
Is will place a Growing glory TO the great material
enterprises of the nineteenth century. The ire
m. ndOus stimulus that i! will give to every depart
ment of trade and TO every grade Of society cannot
be estimated The nation needs it for its com
merce for its Manufactures for peace for war, for
social intercourse, for every purpose that can mako
US one great and united people; and It pM come.
In another letter will speak more particularly
Of the Platte Valley, destined ere long to play so
important part in the future, not only Of Nebraska,
but Of the whole country. H.