Arkansas intelligencer., 1858-08-13
From the Little RocE True Deysoc,of

While congress and the interested Sec
tons Of the country have been debating on
the route Of Sailroad to the Pacific, our neigh
bon in Canada have marked out still more
northern route running through the British
possessions,' and have actually $50 miles of
the road built. When the Hud.on's Bay
Company, whose term of lease will expire in
May, 1859, shall have surrendered the coun
try now held by them, to the British crown,
no doubt the whole Of the British possessions
including Canada, will be placed under n
vicsroy, or as has been suggested in England,
under the control of British prince. The
newly discovered gold mines in British Ore
gon will induce migration to that portion of
the continent the building up the road.
The recent failure of laying the telegraphic
cable across the Atlantic, has suggested other
means of fulfilling this great purpose. 1t is
proposed to establish a line across the Pacific,
thence to Behring's straits and across to Asia.
The suggestors Of this plan contend that the
British Americans, through whose territory
this line would pass, will second this move
ment and that the new gold discoveries will
people that region with an entsrprising, busi-
ness population whose wants will demand it.
The Emperor Of Russia too, will second the
project, as it will enable him to Lold tele
graphic communication with his extreme east
ern territories. The great objections to this
scheme are the vast distance and the charac-
ter of the country to be traversed. A break
in the line could not be remedied; a storm
that would derange the wires, or any acci-
dent to them might occur hundreds of miles
from any post or settlement, and require
weeks to mend it.
Another project is to unite America and
Europe by line by way of Greenland, Ice
land and the Farce Islands. This route
would require six hundred miles of subma-
rine cable.
Should either of these lines, railroad or
telegraphic, be adopted. they would certainly
affect the proposed route from some point on
the Mississippi to the Pacific. Two parallel
routes in the extreme north would not pay.
1t is evident that if the British road is built,
the American road would be a southern one,
at least as south as the 35th parallel. Every
step taken to build road from Canada to
the Pacific, would be an argument against
the northern route of our contemplated rail-
road. Two routes, SO near together, would
not be supported while it would not material
ly interfere with a moro southern route
The establishment Of telegraphline from
Memphis to California is, every day becom-
ing more and more, a matter Of necessity
A line from Memphis to Van Buren, and Fort
Smith via Little Rock will pay. In fact when
We take into account the trade of the Arkan-
sas river above this point, amounts to millions
of dollars, that over million Of dollars worth
of goods ars carried up every year, and the
products Of the up country carried down, that
the present means of communication are slow
and uncertain; it is evident that a line could
be supported by the mercantile interests alone.
In addition to this the newspaper press could
well afford to pay handsome sum toward
its erection. Both here, and at Van Buren,
and Fort Smith, with telegraph line in OPP
GRAFTON, a daily, or at least a tri-weeklv news
paper, would become a necessity. It has
been supposed that in view of the establish
ment Of the overland mail route, the con-
structiOn of the wagon road to the Pacific
and the government interests along the route,
that one would be built by the government,
but this is uncertain, and if it would pay gov
ernment, it will pay individual enterprise
We would be G lad to see this subject agita-
becoming one of necessity
An Incident IN the Cars.-A correspond
ent of the Pittsburgh Post, writing from the
Mountain House, Cresson, relates the follow
ing incident in the cars, after leaving Pitts
burgh:
"As we left the city we observed small
hon al
poorly clad, but very intelligent. having with
him an infant of ten months old, the child of
his sister, who died few weeks ago. The
lad had brought the infant from Iowa CITY,
where the mother died, and wa. on his way
to Harrisburg. The young uncle had cared
for it and nursed it all the way-a weighty
charge for one so young. 1t would not, per
haps, have been so much remarked had
young girl been the custodian of the orphan,
ed babe, but here was mere boy putting
away childish things and assuming all the
cares and responsibilities of parent, during
journey of thousand miles at least. The
passengers manifested the greatest interest in
the little wayfarer and bis charge, the ladies
especially IN turn relieving the lad of his bur
den, as he appeared to be almost exhausted
with bis long Journey. Such constancy and
manliness in one SO young is not often exhib-
tied, and certainly well deserves the name of
herosm"
pern,in Riddance-Halfa an ounce of SOAP.
boiled in pint Of water, and put on with
brush while boiling hot, infallibly destroys
the bugs and their eggs
Flies are driven out Of room by hanging
up bunch Of plantain or fsswort plant, after
it has been dipped in milk.
Rats and mice speedily disappear, by mix
ing equal quantities of strong cheese and
powdered aquills. They devour this mixture
with great gresdiness, while it is innocuous
70 man.
When it is remembered how many persons
have lost their lives BY swallowing, by mis-
take, mixtures of strychnine, ratsbane, corro-
slve sublmate, which are commonly employ
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