Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-09

with our assumption Of State
we find ourselves on the threshold
# events-in the presence of movements con-.
mental in importance-which assure to the =
now throned on the great Parting
If Waters in the Interior of North America,
. Future Prosperity fully equal to that Of the
most favored American State.
XIII.
rHF EXTERNAL RELATIONS OF THE MINNESOTA
RAILROAD SYSTEM.
These relations, or in more familiar Ian
guage, the Connections, Of the Railroad sys-
tenn of this State, will be best illustrated by
a Map, to which invite attention. Tt is a
map of 1.-THE W ord, between Latitudes 800
and 6Oe of the Northern Hemisphere" and
under this title, and as explanatory thereof, |
have caused to be engrossed q resolution !
adopted July 10, 1858, at meeting of citizens
of St. Paul, THAT the great physical fact
well vindicate itself, namely, that the COM
merce and power of the Globe lies north of
the fortieth degree of north latitude, and
that four-fifths of Europe, with correspond
ing area of the Pacific coast of North Amer
lea, is north of the centre of Minnesota"
Except few Observation-Disclosures on this
continent and Eastern Siberia-Commander
MAURY, of the Washington Observatory, has
o<o1 in lott 70
RosHRrsoN Of St. Paul, that the foregoing areas
of America, Europe and Asia, Gpcluding the
southern shore Of the Mediterranean in Africa)
constitute the Northern Temperate zone, ex
tending around the Globe between the mean
annual temperatures Of $50 and 7Oe. Having
determined these Isotherms, Com. MAuRY
then traces the mean between them, or the
Isotherm Of 52a, through Salt Lake, St. Louis
and Baltimore on this continent, and through
Southern Ireland and England, Belgium. Zu-
rich, Olmutz, and Varna in Europe, and thro'
Derhart, Kokan and Pekin in Asia. This line
divides the belt FIRST delineated (or nearly the
surface of the map into two bands of about
the same size. In MAURy's language, "they
include the garden spots of the earth; in them
man laid his first hearthstone, and from them
the lights of civilization and christianity have
shed their first and brightest lays"
The Northern band, between the Tsotherms
of $50 and 52@, is much broader toward the
western coast of North America, than the
lower band. In Europe it includes most of
Great Britain, Germany, and all Of Russia.
Among other characteristics this Northern
band seems destined to furnish the cereals,
while the Lower band IS more favorable to
fruits-bread from the North, wine from the
South. -
Most of the Railways, both in Europe and
America, are III the upper band. In it, are
the great commercial centres of the world, as
New York, Liverpool, London, and the g.,
man ports Of Europes and it is to IT,. cite
of this hand, as Leipsic, Nigni, Novogorod
Kiachta, &C., that the peor,.e both of Enron
and Asia annually resort to hold their erea
fairs. This is also "the shp-building an
sea-iarine region, the home of the fisherman
the sailors father-land, and the place for ia,
tors, factories and operatives"
Through this favored belt of the Globe, {
which st. Paul is the geographical centre o
, the continent Of North America, have trace
, the Connections, east and west, of the Raj
road System of Minnesota.
Observe the lines, which will pursue in a
, order reversed from their natural progress
hither. At La Crosse, we communicate wit
the American netway Of rails; thence b
rail and telegraph along the Great Lakes /
Philadelphia, New York, Boston and IIalifa
then the Atlantic Cable to the coast of Ire
land. At Galway, destined to be the grca
maritime centre Of Great Britain, the Railwa
| system of Northern Europe commences an
; links Dublin, Liverpool, London, Brussels
Berlin, Koningsburgh, Saint Petersburgh ant
Moscow.
2 From this ancient Muscovite capital, mari
} these lines extended through the passes of tn
Ural Mountains, through the southern pre-
, vinces of Siberia to Irkoutsk and thence t
I the Pacific coast at Pekin, in one direction
, and to the mouth Of the Amoor, in more direc
line. 1t is the Russian Overland Mail Rout
soon to be traversed by telegraph. Nor ar
: We bafaed by the broad expanse of the Grea
. Ocean.
Again, we resume the Submarine Gable
Z Japan takes it from Russia and China, extend
it through the Kurile Islam is to Kamschath a
where Russia will resume the electric agency
, and from island to island along the Aleutia
f chain, Gifted providentially as telegraph posts
will complete the union of the Northern Hem
isphere.
But one interval remains to consumrnat
q our girdle of the Globe from Puget Scum
, to st, Paul! There is no event of the futur
more assured, than Railroad communicable
within the life of a generation.
We may wait twelve years for the transi
9 of the Locomotive through the Rocky Noun
tains, but twelve months will witness overlan
mails, and for three iourths of the distance
steamboat navigation. have confidenc
that the steamer "Anson Northrup' will reacl
point on the North Saskatchewan river I'D
monton) not five days distant from the riches
Gold Fields Of British Columbia.
Let any one dispassionately review tn
events, which have succeeded in rapid sue
cession the siege of Sevastopol, and their rela
tons to the great Continental and Oceanic
connections, in which Minnesota, from he
eminent geographical position, is vitality inter
! ested. ...
, I'VE will summon Asmodeus From Sain