New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-24
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.

We copy below an interesting view of the Pacific
Railroad measures before Congress, taken by the
Washington correspondent of the New York Elk
press 1t III in accordance with the facts as they
have been presented repeatedly in the Crescent
and other Southern journals The convictions ex-
pressed IN this letter are but those of every man
| who examines the question without prejudice or
partiality.
We are pleased to learn by private letters lately
received from Washington that confidence in the
| passage OF the Wigfall Bill or some bill embodyng
It's features, independently, or an amendment to
the bill reported by the Committee OF Fifteen Is
daily growing, and that the friends Of the Southern
Pacific Railroad are very sanguine Of success:
K Correspondence of the Express,f
WAsRNfToN, April 6.--The bill for d railroad to
the Pacific which. by a vote of nine to SEVEN has
been agreed to be reported by the select Commit
tee of the House. of which the Hon. Mr. Curtis, of
/ Iowa. is Chairman ---singularly enough provides
1 that road shall commence on the west of Iowa
and another on the west Of Missouri, and that the
two, as they proceed westward shall SO converge
as to unite two hundred miles west of the Missouri
river, and thence form grand trunk road by the
nearest and best route to the napigable waters of
the Saera .meuto, or the Bay of San Francisco.
The division in the Committee was created by
the advocacy on the part of some of two routes.
There was no pal 'ticular opposition to the route
proposed by Mfr. Gun It's and his friends; but there
vas strong desire thu = the Tonte Of the southern
Pacific Railroad Company should % De adopted, to
that proposed by Mr.. Curt for the North and
rest. The refusal OF Congre Is 10 regard me IN
teresfs Of the Southwest will be ne prenasle pre-
cursor OF another great national ag atioh, IN winch
Republicans may be found to ha se feekoned
without their host. The interests of new YORK,
fhliadelpha, Baltimore, ard the indust. IA inter
ests OF Tue Atlantic slope, are more clos. v con
nected with those touched by the Southern acme
hoaa than they possibly can be by any which Will
pc developed by Mr.. Curtis road Commerce {. e
p , upon an exchange of productions The
route which connects different ATTITUDES offers a
heaser exchange of productions than that which
runs through one latitude, where productions are
constantly homogeneous. The distance is shorter
from New York BY the Southern route, to the Pa.
cine, man py route upon the parallel of latitude
Of New York to the Pacific. The climate. ton. IN |
Yites in the one case while in the other Il repcls
When the Southern Pacific Railroad shall have
reached El Paso, IL will have attained the great
focal point from which all the valleys Of Mexico
diverge. An one who will consult his map will
see OF once by the course of the streams and m0uf
tains in Sonora and chihuahua that the valleys lead
to I'll Pase, like roads to country town. Is this
opening for trade. this interconnection with the
richest mining districts in that country, an adyan
tage to be overlooked by New York or the indus
trial interests OF New Englandg
In a military point Of view, the Southern Pacific
Railroad may be regarded as an important branch
of National Defense 1t passes the posts of onr
frontier, and would Afford means for the transport
war, which the Railroad by the Platte could not
possibly afford. And nine.tenths Of the time re-
quired for water transportation around the Horn
would be saved by Railroad transportation across
the continent.
The Southern Pacific Railroad will debouche on