The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-22

they sailed up tho Mississippi, and settle any
quarrel with her by the capture Of Cuba.
summarily and with scarcely . ripple
on the surface Of international comfy.
Our relations with France and England, how
ever, demand careful consideration. France
must either retreat from, or be driven out OF,
Mexico; and as for England, there is . most
bitter and implacable hostility against her in
the minds of the people Of both tho North and
the South. We may be abused for creating. be-
cause we refer to, this feeling; but it undenia-
bly, exists, and 1t 10 not without cause in either
section of the country. It will require the
greatest efforts Of our leading men to prevent
this hostility displaying itself overtly; and Eu-
rope may yet find its dread Of the leaven Of
free, democratic institutions justified by most
unexpected results. During the Crimean war
Prince Albert declared that constitutional
monarchy was upon its trial" England may
find, however, as we have, that foreign war
il no fair test Of government; but, unlike
this country, whom tried by civil war. aided
by foreign sympathy and aid, she may be found
wanting.
The Pacific RailroaA Bill Passed-A Great
National Measure. 1
The Pacific Railroad bill, on Friday last,
passed the Senate, by the decisive vote OF
thirty-ave to fve-a majority which indicates
the popularity and national Importance Of the
measure. 1t is the House bill; but, as it goes
back to that body with various secondary
amendments, it is to be hoped that the friends
Of the measure will lose no time in effecting
final agreement between the two houses, so that
this continental enterprise Of peace may be
speedily inaugurated, as one of the great conf
pensating results of this terrible domestic war;
When this important subject began first to
be agitated in Congress, as far as then known
there was nothing but bowling wilderness Of
desert plains and barren mountains between
the frontiers Of Arkansas and Missouri and Cali
fornia, with here and there patch of arabic
SOIL Since that day the Mormons have estab
lished populous community, and many profit
able sources of wealth and trade in and around
the basin of the Great Salt Lake; while several
hundred miles to the eastward the Pixies Peak
gold region, and some five hundred miles to the
west from Great Salt Lake the Sierra Nevada
gold and silver country, have each attracted
population which in another year or two will
be sufficient for the nucleus Of q new and
powerful State. This continental road will
connect all these settlements and mines with
the Mississippi river and the Atlantic coast on
and will contribute immensely, too, in settling
the great agricultural regions of the State Of
Oregon and Washington Territory, and in de-
veloping the gold mines lately discovered in
that remote section of the great Northwest.
Some idea of the passenger traffic of the Pa
ci6c Railroad, when completed even half way,
may be formed from the immense emigration
which by the route of this road has gone out to
California, Oregon, &C., within the last twelve
years, by the dangerous, difficult and costly
transportation of wagons, horses, mules, oxen
and handcarts, in a journey Of three, four or
| five months. The whole route from the great
Plains TO the Pacific is lined with The bones 9!
iamished ani1..si the graves Of exhausted emf i
grants and heaps of abandoned property And
yet ii appears that, following the government
| escort which left Omaha, Nebraska, the other
day, six thousand emigrant wagons crossed the
river at that point alone. At this rate, with a
railroad even to the Rocky Mountains, its pas
sengcr traffic will perhaps amount to ten thou
sand tickets day during the summer months
and when completed to the Pacific the road will
be more profitable than that Of Panama. But,
best of all, it will fill up our vast Pacific slope
with populous and wealthy States, and bind
the Atlantic and Pacific sections together as
firmly as the Mississippi binds the Gulf of
Mexico to st. Louis and Pittsburg
We care nothing for trifing side issues. The
government is secured by the bill, and the
country will be vastly strengthened and en-
riched by the work. Let the amendments of
the bill, then, be settled between the two
houses, and let us have this great national
road
Our Naval Triumphs and Power.
Notwithstanding the jokes and jeers Of the