The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-01-12
sIwARDIN THE CABINET.

permanent gratitude and applause Of the
great body of the United States.
sIwARDIN THE CABINET.
The Albany Journal Of the 9th, the tele-
graph informs Us, announces officially Mr.
SEwAkDs acceptance rs Secretary Of State
under LINcoLs's administration.
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.
TIE House has passed bill fer the con-
straction OF two railroads to the Paclnc,
Northern and Southern road,-the for
mers starting from two points on the Wes-
tern borders of Iowa and Missouri. by two
lines converging TO point 100 miles west
of the Missouri River, and proceeding thence
ria Salt Lake to San Francisco the latter
starting at two points from the western
borders of Arkansas and Louisiana, by two
lines converging until they meet the line
of the road chartered by the State OF
~sxss.
The bill was PASSED BY ;h. combined votes
of the Republicans and the Conservatives
of the South. 1t is the best sort OF Union
measures. Ii affords the strongest possible
pledge of the disposition of the Federal
Government to render equal and exact JUS
,ice to both sections Of the country. For
very many obvious reasons it would have
been better to provide for only one read in
stead Of two but two are necessary, not
only for the accommodation of each section,
bat to preclude the sectional advantages
which would result from the construction
of either one alone. A central route, or
one heated little north of the centre, is
that in which the Northern and Middle
States are interested and which at the same
time would be OF most Importance to the
Pacific States. There will be no great dit
tieul,ies to encounter in the work of recon-
Cling the interests of ttose who demand an
extreme Northern route, and these who insist
upon a middle route. A route following
the sortiesh parallel will not be to far north
for st. Louis, Cincinnati, and Baltimore,
nor too far south for Boston, Detroit,
Chicago, and St. Paul while it will DE al
most on the latitude Of this City and Phila-
delphia.
But the great body of the Southern people
derive no direct advantages of trade from
the Northern route. 1t would be all that
Baltimore, Wheeling, St. Louis, and even
Louisville could ask but for the middle and
Southern Slave States, there would be no
fairness and reciprocity, in compelling them
to traved six or eight degrees north in order
20 reach point Immediately west of them.
Texas. Louisiana and Arkansas are now
wavering in their allegiance to the Union.
They are calculating its value their people
will not fail to perceive that their only hope
Of a connection with the Pacific is depend
ent upon the preservation Of the union.-
California, Free State, which is strongly
attached to the Union, extends to the Next
can frontier, so that if the above-named
States were out of the Union, they would be
forever cut off from the Pacific, except by
the COT sent of the Northern Confederacy, or
NJ, xico, which will probably be intimately
alllcd to the former by a league of mutual
protection and reciprocal free trade.
Tennessee and Mississippi would also be
deeply interested in this Road, and. indeed,
all the States South aud East of her. Its
construction, therefore, becomes matter
of first rate Importance in the present dis
affected state Of the Southern mind. As a
measure of policy simply, it is worthy of
the maturest thought of all Northern men.
1t is a measure of Cancellation which calls
for no sacrifice of principle, and may be
voted for by men of all parties and sections
without scruple. Fortunately the Southern
Road will pass through regions where the
expensive institutions Of Slavery can never
take root; it will traverse high arid plains,
in which none of the valuable staples Of the
South can yegctate. The opponents of
Slavery, therefore, will run no risk in aiding
the extension Of the institution in voting for
the Southern Pacific Railroad.
IL is an important consideration, no. to be
io.t sight of in this connection, that the
construction Of two railroads to the Pacific
at the preset time would exercise very
wholesome influence upon the financial aud
industrial interests Of The country. By
their tendency to cement the bonds of the
Union they ould restore commence TO pub
lie and private credit; and by givins en-
ployment to labor on grand scale,
thousands and tens Of thousands Of men,
with their families, who now hang idly
abou. the cities ard towns, constantly ex-
posed to the temptations Of vice and beg
gary, would be carried tie the western wilds,
there, after constructing the roads, to find
permanent homes, and become the founders
Of States. These highways would at the
same time facilitate the settlement Of the
public lands, and 1t US promote another per-
manent policy Of the Government. The
tide of the Western emigration would flow
with renewed and unwonted vigor, new re-
sources Of production would be opened, and
new markets for the manufactures and COM
merce Of the Eastern cities would be created.
THE VALUE OF THE NEWSPAPER
Yesterday DO morning newspaper accom-
panied the morning meal. The void created
by the cessation of the click Of type has been
felt as much by those who deprecute the in
fiuences OF the press, az by the class who
rank it highest among the agencies that con-
tribute to make up that sum of individual
judgments and sentiment which we call pub
lie opinion. Consciously or nneonsciously,
We confess that not only much of our hap
riness, but no little of our material interests
depends upon the printer and should any
calamity cut short for a week or two, the
supply OF this customary food for the I'M
Outstanding and curiosity. there would be
murmurings enough, not taking at oil into
account the effect upon business which
would result.
Nmrod, the mighty hunter, might scour
the plains of Babylon, without craving the
latest news from all points of the compass,
or discussions Of the exciting questions of
the times and the Roman triremes might
split the treacherous waves of the Mediter.
rauean, while the voyagers manifested no
anxiety to learn, at the various points where
they touched. what new victories the i'm
psrial legions had achieved on the banks OF
the Danube, or in savage Britain but trav.
elers doomed to twenty-four hours impris-
onment 10 railroad car. would have a
dismal time Of it without their bundle of
periodicals, and q voyage hence to New
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fort. IT at Memphis or Vicksburg there were
no vehicles Of intelligence to inform them of
What had occurred . day or two before in
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