The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1863-12-05

Tbe F.psars Of Coaaesl zsAF
n. EDssss
The Ail-abeorbdng and e. ssn@ toe
Iwhic he. engrossed he nhlId mind,
swaying this way and that and keeping
MI in state OF unoertAinty. anxiety and
painful suspense. has It last reached n
focus. Theuncertainty hasbcen removed,
the anxiety allaYed and the suspense
relieved but the excitement has i'm.
messurably, increased. AL omahs snd
Council Bluff are reveline lin il. Why
not2 The location of the sterling point
OF the central branch OF tho Pasitss.cs isaaai
road. has decided the future oAthsse tsvc
cities: With the inauetsratoty eereshossies
and breaking Of ground, yesterday, work y
on that roa,i may be said 10 have coz
menced. In few months hence, thou
sands Of men win be employed on its
line. stretching westward, and the shrieks
of the locomotives whistle viii rever--
brate over hill and plain. The location
of the starring point of the Pacific Rail
road, secures to Council Bluffs the ternni-
nus Of tho Mississippi and Missouri River
Railroad. as also that of the Platte Valley
road from St. Joseph, No, II not also,
thst of the Cedar Rapids and Missouri
River road. The Burlington and Nilsson.
ri River road is built TO 0ttumwa at which
place it connects with the Keokuk and
Des Moines road, which is already CON
strncted to point northwest of Ottur1-
va, and is progressing towards Des Moines
to connect there with the NJ. 4 N. road
to this city. 1t my confidently be ex-
pected, that with the coming spring
work will Be commenced at this point
or the NJ. { II. road and carried east
ward. To hold the trade OF the Upper
Missouri Valley, which Chicago is ma
king such strenuous efforts to obtain. 1t
is of vital importance to S.. Louis to COM
rlete the Platte Valley read from St, Jo-
scph, No, to this point The river can
no longer be depended upon. Ii can
hardly Ee 9th sr wise, than that Council
Bluss will be the point of concentration
On the Missouri, of s,"veral great roeds,
But few years hence, and prooao'y
much sooner than most perSt rus "h'i0'-
pate, we shall have a railroad aSS'"S
possibly hro1gh Mud Ho1loc north 10
Sioux City. These views are not imag1
nary. Who can doubt that Council
Bluffs is to become the great commercial
mart on the Missouri, above st. Louis.
and second only to that city in imI'or'
lance q? Will it he deemed extraVagant
if I predict that in FIVE years Council
Bluffs will contain a population of TWEEN,
ty thousand? l mske the prediction
mark it, you who have doubts. In the
West there 10
Gold Gold Gold Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
Molten, craven, Hammered and roll'd;
Heavy to get, and light to hold;
Ho.rded, barter'd, bought and sold,
Stolen. borrow'd sCuander'd, doled 49,;
Spurn by the young but hug'd by the %
To the very verge Of the church yard mt
Price of many o crime untold;
Gold Gold Gold Cold"
The golden mountains and valleys OF the
western Territories are rapidly being pop
ulated; cities and tswns are springIns
into existence as if by magic, and soon
these Territories, but few years since
barren wilderness, will be knocking at
the drore of'Congress for admission as
as States. The emigration of any year
that has passed will appear small in CON-
parison with that Of the next, and as but
a struggling few when compared with the
masses which will be moving in 1865.
IOWA.
ARA Thu Cincinnati EnOuirer kAYE