The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-10


ers and sailing vessels plouehing tue Atiscs.c,
they will he engaged ia the coast trade, coa
veying freight to and from these great i-sia-
thans of the deep. That may build 10 Galsas
and Portland. at the expeose Of fiverpon and
New York. But who can stay she course Of des-
,inys If such events he written in the book Of
the future, let them come.
Ts~ Frazer River G I'D psis,.s -rtss O~-.sanS
Rvute frvm MlnnesOt~ through tas Bsi,i.a
Pos<sssissS.
We publish this morning the proceedings of
the "eecond adjourned meeting 10 .hs Hail Of
the House OF Repre- at St Paul. Mo
nesota" on the subject OF the Frazer river gold
mines and the overland communication from
Minnesota through the British possessions to
the said mines and the Pacific Ocean, IL ciudiug |
q variety of interesting facts, statements and
opinions, geographical, geological, COMMERCIAL
and political, touching the vast intervening
countries and their wonderful resources, all of
which will be studied with interest by all
classes OF our readers
According to the testimony ard opinions thus
presented. from intelligent explorers the gloomy
description given by the London Times of the
repulsive barrenness, desolatiOn aud Siberian
frieidi.y Of the great valley of the Saskatchewan
is false and imaginary. Instead of blank add
bowling wilderness, as the Times has described
it, this vast and hitherto generally unknown re
gion, according to the evidence "of one Of the
earliest travellers, Gan experienced royqgeur and
practical man, is an exceedingly beautiful, at.
tr. opd daSirahle courtrv This Ueyperi-
enced pVyase,v and practical man" says that the
Saskatchewan, except that its waters are "tur-
bid and wbitish," sis one OF the gcaudest rivers
in the world that ''the banks are perfectly
charming, and offer in many places scene
the fairest. the most smiling and the best di-
versifed that can be bebeld or imasined-Val-
legs sgreeaby empowered and embrowned at
evening and at morning by the prolonged sha-
dows Of the hills aud of the woods which adorn
them''-in word, picture of beauty. purity
and salubrity which "pours contentment and
JOY into the roul of the enchanted spectator"
Then, again, Ex-Governor Ramsay, of Mime
sofa, testifies that the immense area west Of The
Red river (of the North) and south of the AHA
basca, with climate not inferior to our own
mate of Lord Selkirk, founded on persoaal
observation, "of supporting a population of
thirty millions, and will furnish the world with
trade not much inferior to that which nov
passes between the Atlantic States aud
the valley of tn Mississippi The dfie-
renee, too, between the fertility of this re.
gion and the unconquerable sterility of the
90. ,.,a;ps lvinu 1,atx the
degree of longitude within the limits Of the
United States, is satisfactorily accounted for in
the simple fact that the more northerly situa.
ton OF this Saskatchewan district and the couu-
try wet of it, between the same degrees Of
latitude, secures to them frequent and copious
rains" The vast inland expanse of Hudsons
Bay and the contiguous seas, doubtless furnish
these supplies from their corporations; whereas,
from the width of the continent between New
York and San Francisco, and from the interpos-
ing chains of mountains, the corporations from
the Atlantic and the Pacific are about ex-
hausted before reaching the great interior arid
wastes Of Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, Utah
Texas and New Mexico.
The statement of Col. John II. Stevens
touching the overland line of water communi
cation from Minnesota to the Rocky Mountains,
il scarcely less important, If practically cor
rect. than the information of the natural beau
ties and resources of the Saskatchewan valley.
Col. Stevens Gays that 90 steamer can depart
from the mouth Of the Sioux Wood river,
"a tributary Of the Red river OF the
North,) ut about the central point
of the western boundary of Minnesota, descend
distance of five hundred miles 10 Lake Winn-
peg, then pass three hundred miles through
that mighty inland sea, and ascend the Sas-
katchewan to the base Of the Rocky Mountains,
at least three thousand miles of inland naviga.
ton. including the north and south branches"
of the said river.
But, after establishing the agricultural capa.
cities Of the intervening country, aud, with a
theory supporting the opinion that the Frazer
river gold mines will prove to be exceedingly
rich, the spcake at this st. Paul meeting pro-
coed to the question Of Pacific railroad.
Upon this subject they have evidently made up
their minds--frst, that Congress shall no longer
overlook the general advantages of an extreme
northern route; and secondly, that in the event
Vi tnt COniluutu utpictt VI SonRtter, huiiicSO'
ia will fall back upon English capital aud EGG
lisk cooperation for Pacific railroad through
the British dominions, connecting with St. Paul
by the way Of the Red river Of the North.
In this connection, Including the Atlantic
telegraph), from the resolutions adopted by the
meeting under review, we may anticipate a
most extraordinary ventilation Of this subject
| of Pacific railroad between our Northern and
Southern politicians at the next session Of Con-
press. The probabilities are, that in the con-
fict between The extreme southern route, CEN
trail route and a northern route, the whole mat
ter, AZ at the late session, will be again and
again postponed, and that while thus our sec
tional politicians shall still remain at dead