The Nevada journal., 1858-06-11


Sound, and is not Pacific railway ter
minaling on cur great ann of the sea
thing TO be talked Of, but never real
ized. The grounds for fears are numer-
Gus. Lieut. Maury tells us the great
telegraphic plateau on which the Allan
tic cable is to he laid between Ireland
and Nova Scotia. extends around the
world. II is the high ground that sep
arates the water shed of the Arctic riv-
ers from that of the Mississippi and its
tributaries. Crossing the Pacific at the
Aleutian Islands, it follows the elevated
county dividing the Siberian rivers from
those whose waters fall into the South
ern seas. This plateau, finds the monn-
tain ranges on the Pacific depressed at
its intersection, and offering no insuper-
able barrier to the construction Of line
of rail road to the L" Father of Oceans"
The whole country between the Pacific
and Lake Superior presents not that
rugged aspect which is encountered on
any route farther south. There are
no sharp mountain ranges or barren and
extensive deserts to cross, but the coun-
try is favorable and fertile. Immense
beds Of coal have long been known to
ahund in the great valley of the Sas-
katchawan-a country that Lord Selkirk
said fifty years ago was capable of sup
porting thirty millions of souls. Coal
exists in abundance about Puget Sound
and timber of the choicest quality for
ship building.
The British government has already
established a corps ofengineers to survey
n rail way route from the Pacific to CAN
ada. Stimulated by the gold j ust dis
covered in her north western possessions,
it is not safe to suppose she will act I'M
mindful Of her great interests, but it is
fair to presume that people who are
not wranging and divided as to the con-
stitu'ionality of works of internal i'm
provement by the grovernmeut will take
advantage of the continental plateau of
Lieut. Maury, on which nature has done
so much and man needs do so little, and
extend the Grand Trunk road of Canada
over it to the Pacific. 1t is useless to
talk Of the SHOWS of that northern lati-
tude. BY elcvating the track above the
suface Of the earth it can easily be
cleared, and in fact it is demonstrated
that The climate west of Canada is not
! as humid and does not dcposite as much
Snow as that of Canada itself, where
rail ways property constructed are not
materially impeded from such causes,
many indications now point to the coul-
try about Puget Sound, Belingham Bay
and ncighboring waters as tie probable
seat Of great commercial and marine
station that viii one day eclipse San
Francisco. It's resources are superior
for building OF equipping vessels, sail or
sseam. Ifthe march Of empire is wes-
tard political strength has tended north
wcrd. The weakness Of the nations
now occupying the country once swayed
by Imperial Rome, contrastcd with Rus
sia, England and the powers upon Bal
tic-regions by the mans Of Albion, Scy-
thia and Sarmatia, once looked upon by
the proud Roman in the height of power
with contempt-is proof fthe position,
and the superior progress of the north
ern States Of the Union in every thing
which goes to makeupa nations strength
is not impertinent evidence to the
same point With less genial soil and
sun the northern States have wrcnched
from the stubborn earth product to
partially make up for the defects of
nature, whose worth in the market is
greater than the five staple articles Of
he south almost spontaneously PRODUCED
The hay crop Of the cold north exceeds
in value. the productions of the rice,
cotton, sugar, tobacco and hemp fields
If the sunny South, as is shown by the
census returns Of 1856. And nearly all
these productions go to the north in q
raw State to be manufactured.
Florida produces her folests Of live
oak, which seek northern ship yards to
be put into the merchantmen of snowy
sail or the "arbiter Of war"
San Francisco has no timber or coal,
and it would he contrary to the order of
things to transport these essential pro-
| ductions, from rival harbor equal in
every respect and superior in the most
important resom ces, and lying on the
line of political strength farther to the
north. =