The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-26

Leipsic and Dresden to Berlin, and up the VI,
ley Of the Elbe to Bodenbach and Vienna, and o
to Pesth, in Hungary, and to Trieste and Venice
on the Adriatic, consists of continuous tracks
without one single break or vacancy in larg
or small town, or in crossing river, and owe
which passengers and mails are carried daily a
a speed of not less than forty miles an hour
With all the little and big States and Principal
ties of Germany and Central Europe-not ever
at the crossing of the great and navigable stream
Of the Rhine at Cologne-has any local interes
or selfshness attempted to make a chasm in
| great railroad route, in order to levy tax OF
the letter writing and travelling community
And yet these are distinct nationalities, wht
have full and absolute power and right, instead
of being States and cities of one common
country. Shall this great country be outdont
by the slow coaches of Central Europe?
| How long will Congress, by penny wise
and pound foolish policy, neglect to provide fol
one or two great highways to the national CAPT
tai? If q country ever needed such steam
| highway at any time, and over any line of con
| vcyance, il is now, between the beleagncred
capital of She country and the great agricultu-
raj regions AID the commercial centres, whence
the army, the capital and the civil servants Of
the nation draw their supplies Had such a
road with double track, been in existence,
running on the outskirts Of Philadelphia and
Baltimore, and crossing the Delaware and 3us-
queiianna by permanent iron bridges, double
the cost of it woul5' have been saved to the
Treasury in the prics of supplies, expense Of
transF ortaticn and the losses caused by delay
IN important army movements since January
last There is no use in talking Of the present
Gisjointcd arrangement, With it, rsseIess chasms
ard delays at Philadelphia and Baltimore, or
the circuiteas route by way Of Harrisburg, with
the same delay at Baltimore and extending the
distance TIL II Il between TIRES iIundreT'and four
hundred miles, as railway system between
New York ana Washington ans the Southwest
Those rsembersof Congress who first Yappe in
the matter wis make the coustry forcrer in
debtcd to'thAm. We will not nswsuggesE the
manner liz y'hich II should be dong; but where
there is wiz there' is way; and the country,
in war ana peace, wants a road, without iltsr-
ruptiou, thaEshail transport passengers, maasy
troops and rational supplies at least forty misss
an hour, or ir.six hours from here t12Washinr-
ton. We see i,et the Chamber of Commerce
has taken the sibject Hp with great yigor. and
agreed upon a. comprehensive and powerful
memorial to Co,gfess, praying the interference
eftije national lerislatsle ana asking taat '|ini
-;atsiate measure3I be taken .'for the coestruc-
tsyrp Of a double rack rairead for postal mill
turs and other purposes, from New Y XXX to
Washington This is u move in the right
direction, and mest appropriate and aegiti-
mats.issd for the action of body liks. the
Chamber of Commerce. and we hope the Boerls
OF Z t-uie and Chamss OF Commerce in Boston,
Iortiants, st. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, New
Orleans and other te,gns and cities, will at cnce
take similar action We shall expect to soc
utgr aity members in tie H9ase Of RepreSs attn
tiyys, and every Senator and representative
From lie Northern, E.lesegm and Western States
ppftapae. Probably The painful pers nal
.reMni SCIENCES Of eyerT member of Congress-
~lAo has had the discomfoits OF the journeys ever
he.present line of conveyance will add 81 me
hing 10 the patriotic wish 30 see sweeping re-
fcTm. If taken up at once the road could De
Ginishad in six or eight months, and great share
fits cost saved in the moving Of troops ard in
Military transportation We commend to the
peciaA attention of oug uity and State men a9rs
hamcmorial of the Chamber of Commerce.