Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-10

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butfelcea, shall sweep the long, kissing
train of cara, crowded with passengers
aud daep-rumbling with heavy freighl
from the whole habitable globe 1reas.
ures from the East and the West will
there sweep an trdnsitu. The North
shall give up, and the South keep not
back. The very realms of chaos and
old night shall be invaded; and IN
Il place of the roar of wild beasts, and
4 howl of wilder Indians, shall be heard
the lowing of herds and the bieaung OF
focks; and the peaceful pillow snaii
cleaye the sods Of many rich valley
Il and fruitful hill.
I. Observe that this was written before
the precious metals were discovered in
California; before God had said, Let
the Gold Missionary bel'' before the fash
| had fed from the Golden Gate and San
Francisco Bay, vexed by the innumera-
Bile keelsl
Step into the great Milwaukee brick
building opposite Lower DelmUnieo's, !"
in William street; pay your respects to
! the renowned General Dix Cor DIR. Du-
rant and ask him to direct you to the
upper chamber of my old friend and
.neighhor, Colonel Silas Seymour, the
consulting engineered the Union Pa
cific Railroad" and let him show you
the charts Of two surveys CT the great
road which line the great apartments
from top to bottom They are mere
maps, TO be sure; but when you think
what they represent they are in them
selves sublime. When / make a trip to
Omaha--which Dec UoleRte, it ia my
purpose one of these days to dol shall
have something more to say to you
touching this matter" of which, truth
to say, was reminded by the eloquent
rermarks of our excellent friend James
Linon, at the recent dinner given in his
honor at the Aston House. These are
the "iron bands" which are to unite US
forever
And speaking of railroads: we muss
have the. underground railroad through
our great metropolis. And five have
one we shall have two; and | make the
prediction here, that in less than ten
years both will be accomplished.
Stick pin, here good reader.
If we don't, you'll find new railroads
all about us in the country, on each side |
of our island, which will accommodate
our city people. Every day Of my life |
Sundays exeepted) 60 TO and come |
from town, on the Northern Railroad of |
New Jersey; and am sooner at my desk |
than the residents of the higher wards
of the city are at their places of business
don't come by rail as they do no the |
other side, to the nasty "out-squirts" of |
the metropolis; and then take my oft-ob.
structed way, through series of twelve |
or fifteen we'll divided malodors, in dirty |
and over.crouded city cars, dragging |
their slow length along; but l go and |
come in cars on a straight, level, and |
wide-gauge track, in which, notwith-
standing the tens of thousands of pas
sengers who have been conveyed in them.
not single ono has ever been injured |
Pretty soon il will be extended to beauii- |
fol Nyack, then to Haverstraw; and my
own impression is that it won't be great
while before it will be connected with the
road which is to terminate at Athens,
opposite the city of HUDSON, where here
after the great steamer Dean Richmond
and its compeers are to disgorge their
human "fraughtage" for the Almighty
West"
People don't see the Northern Rail-
road of New Jersey running on its new
track through the beautiful country back
of the Palisades, creatidg pleasant vii
lagos along its route, and in the short
space of six years increasing the value
of property more than FIVE fold-people
don't see this with Indifference. New
York people don't, at any rate; and all
around us the country is emulous of the
city Ten years from now (mark my
wordsi1 the whole line of the Northern
Railroad of New Jersey will be almost a
continuous village from the Erie Rrilway
junction to the shores of the Tappaan-
Zee at Piermont Beautiful English
Neighborhood will join hands with
charming Englewood; Tenahy Tor North
will meet the latter half
way; and the next "city" onward will be
Closter, and closter to old Tappaan
Town with every relolvieg year:
$50 mote it be" says l.. G. G.