The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-05-31

and Italy, good many matchmaking man
mas have been regularly In the habit OF
taking over their daughters to the great matri-
moniaI mart, In which dukes, counts and mar
cuises are a. thick - blaekbsrries. The latter,
generally speaking, are nothing 10th to be an
nexed to the bright eyes and fabulous wealth
Of our American bellies The pressing claims
Of their bootmakers and their washerwomen
blind them to the degradation of qusrtsring
with the bar sinister Of centuries back the
three cloves g,les or the cotton beg argent Of
our American aristooracy.
Az general thing there are no tourists
80 welcome to foreign hotel keepers and
tradespeople a. the Americans. They are OK
travagant at home, and are doubly exrsvagant
abroad, and latterly they have completely
eclipsed In Continental estimation the English
miors and the Russian princes. The incense
Of the toadyism with which wealth Is worshipped
on the Continent has naturally turned the heads
Of our would-be fashionables, and hence it il
that we find each season the number Of wealthy
Walters to Europe 20 rapidly on the increase.
THE QUESTION OF THE PACIFIC RAnwAY-Tn
SPECTATORS CANE BLOCKED FOR THE PRzsENr.-
The report Of the select committee Of the House
having been recommitted, the whole matter Of
the Pacific Railway, 90 far a. the government
is concerned, must 60 over to the next Con-
gress, when the friends Of the different routes
will recommence the warfare which has been
going on In the Hobbies Of the Capitol during
the last five or six years. So much has been
said and written upon the subject Of railway
to the Pacific, that the masses Of the people are,
like ne Irishman, bothered entirely on the sub
ject. Between the politicians who elbow" In
the most vigorous way in favor Of the measure,
as means of making little capital In the
border and Pacific States, and the speculators
who hope to get from the government the
money wherewith to build the road, the guam
tity Of dust thrown in the eyes of the people
Ii quite sufficient to blind everybody.
OF course We are all In favor Of railroad
to the Pacific. That matter was settled long
ago. The question then arises are we in favor
of the construction of such q road by the
government? Are we willing to enter upon
90 magnificent jobs Is 1t seriously purposed
by any considerable number Of sensible per-
sons to throw seventy-Hve or hundred mil
lions of dollars into the hands of politicians
as notoriously corrupt as those Of both the
great parties in this country We believe not.
At least we trust that the day when Congress
will countenance such scheme il far off.
I The real object Of the persons who are most
active In urging the government to assist,
either with money or lands, or both, in the
construction of the railway, Il to extend the
business Of Camden and Amboy, New York
Central and similar great corporations, over
the remainder of the Union, and place the
ruling power In the country In the hands Of
spectators a. unprincipled - those who have
bought up the Legislatures of New York and
New Jersey many time. The greatest power
in New Jersey to-day u the Camden and Am
boy Railway. The Gar Of Russia b not
moro absolute monarch than the direction Of
that corporation. We read great deal In the
papers, Ut home and abroad, about the slavish,
ness Of the French Corps Legiastif; but
Mr.. Dean Richmond Il a. potent at Al
bany as ID Louis Napoleon among his
Legislators. II IL more than probable that,
should the general government 60 into the
railway business on it. own account, the specu-
lators would reduce the whole country TO the
contemplate position held to-day BY New
York and New jersey. We believe II to be
the duty of Congress TO make liberal appropria-
lions in aid Of surveys for new roads 10 the
Pacific that the army might he probably en-
ployed In constructing such roads that Mr..
Jefferson Davis suggestion In favor Of enlist
ing corps Of young, vigorous, active mocha
mics to construct telegrsphs, multiply military
posts, and act - police to protect emigranb
from depredaHons, either at the hands Of hos
tile Indians or rsscally whites, Il IN excellent
one that the pony express ought To be en-
couraged IN ever horse deserved the treatment
given by Caligula TO bis famous steed, the
pony that made the FIRST overland trip was the
identical animal); that . daily overland route
should be establishsd, and that every
feasible means should be used 10 Lessen
the time required for communication,
overland, between New York and San
Francisco. As ell these matters progress stea-
Oily, the country win keep on increasing In
wealth and population, and when the time
comes for . railway, private enterprise viii put
down the capital for the operation, and Il will
be very soon ascertained which Is the best
route. The road Is 70 be built for the country;
the country cannot be made by the road.
We are opposed TO the extension of railway
rule over the country, and believe that Con-
gress viii do well TO let the Pacific Railroad
question alone. We are Of the opinion, how.
ever, that the quarrels among the rival cliques,
al lohhxino for ma ficular rouia xrill