, 1859-01-11
Overland Mail Route to Puget Sound.

overland Mail Route TO Puget Sound.
We learn from the st. Paul 3Iinnesotian that d
Large and enthusiastic meeting was held at that
place, to take measures to obtain semi-weekly
mil service from the Northwestern States to the
valley Ct the Columbia an1 the shores OF Puget
Sound. Several addresses were made, and . nc
mortal TO Congress was read and approved. The
distance from S. Paul to Puget Sound is about
l,s00 miles. The usmoril! contains number of
urgent reasons for establishing this route, but for
want Of space We en- only give the following cx-
tracts from from it.:
The southern boundary ct Minnesota is in Eai.
tude 43 deg. 80 min. Extend that parallel 10 the
Pacjfc, and tue belt Of territory invlosed ly the
British boundary on tile nor:h would be t1ayctBed
by the mai! ruute under consideration. The river
systems revealed by the mp within thes. limits,
a13rd the best evidence that the entire area las
iaiI Of water nm 1e Tor all the purposes OF agtieQl-
tuse. With this important fact fully considered,
tue basins Of the Columbia, tile upper Missouri.
the Yellow Stone, The Ja1nes, the sheyenue Hnd
other t1ituarie: Of The Red River Of The NTH,
are unqucstio1aby adcqulte ior tue organization
Of eight tlr-t class States. While the great pt1irs
between Minnesota and tie Fails OF the Missouri.
and also the interior valleys Of tile Columbia will
constitute vast grazine rauscs. The Rocky Noun.
tains themselves are destined to witness more AMI
mated combinations OF industry. Tue valleys are
fertile, the winters are mill-usef and precious
minerals abGuud-the bills are clothed With Yalu1
bic nools-watsr.power i, abundant, and there,
upon the crest OF the continent, population N ~
be expected to concentrate more than upon the
great plains. Lct Government secure to the enli-
| grant wagon road anu regular mails TO this most
beautiful aud salublious region, and the next ten
years will witness at the Falls Of the Missouri :he
| famc transformation which an equal period just
past has wrought at tue Falls Of tue st. Anthony.
| The discovery Of the extensive gold fields upon
| Fraser and Thompson RiycE-the organization Of
| British Columbia withdrawal Of tue Hudson
| Bay Company 10 the districts oI British America
| north Ut latitude 55 deg-tae abundant eviutnce
that there is an uhahita4]e district northwest Of
| Minnesota aud beyond the international fr utter,
fertile, rlcl in cosl aud minerals, and which. i'll
| c1udiDg Vancouver Island aud British Columbia,
has all area Of five hundred thousand square miles
--tlc late treaties with Japan and China, opening
to our commerce and manufactures {esen to tie
lumter Of Oreson) IN ill1miaLlc 1narkvt-tfe
| r:slns poner Of Kus>i1 III Asia, with the we'll
known friendly disposition to tile people OF the
United St2tes-the annexation by Russia of the
nayi.ab'c Am0or River, with its tributary valley 5
full three hundred thousand sqtllre miles ia ex-
| tent, and constituting most attrac!rt field 0:
adventure and speculation-thc arrangements
made aud making by Russia aud England 10 cover
he Nurth Pacific With war and postal steamets--
tue B1iti.h sch. NE Of plciic Naval Station at
| Victoria On Vancouver l.l1nl--a similar scheme
Of Russian ACCOMPLISHMENT upon the Sea Of japan
II project believed cmlnently practicable fol
telrs1aIhc and perhaps railway. extension from
Moscow 10 Japan, asd telegraph thsnce hy the
AIcntan Is:aAd, acr'ss tut Nurl1 P4ciiic to Sit.
ka, in Russian America tlese, nnd other csent>
ii no less Significance. have tlanSpIred within The
half Year just c'o-cI a|mos. within tile Cclrres
siouai rccess. Certainly Senators aud Represen
tltlyes c.iunot b. inscAslbl. 10 the importance
u,rect connection between the Ieldiug Atlantic
cities aud The scenes Of such ling events.