The New York herald., 1869-05-24
NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY MAY a. H69-TRPLE SHEET.

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the striking Inconsistency between its alleged con
'enIs ana the senator's recent speech
TwELvE-Midnight
Dion Boucicault's new play. 'Presumptive Evi-
dence" was produced tonight at the Princess and
was quite success. The piece Is little gem two
acts very dramatic in its situations and for so short
play, one Of the most pleasing that has been
acting was good ana with the exception
: Of a trining dragging In the first act winch
kept up all through Boucicault himself predicted
failure for the byoa as did 0verwise critics
disappoint both the author and the oracies The
piece really excellent and will no doubt be quickly
exported TO New YORK, although being oniy In two
acs il Will not be OF equal value to the one pay,i
theatres as would more pretentious production
enVaoie reputation as successful dramatst.
What the English Press Think OF the Pacific
Railroad.
The London Neoos OF the 11th concludes long
! article as follows:-
or the POLITICAL commercial and social results OF
.Iis new communication between the two great
oceans which encircle the world 1t is, perhaps as
set, premature TO say much. The Americans expect
na great things things from their great undertaking,
already marked out their city as the centre
OF the worlds commerce and its future me-
tropolis. Their reckoning is that good part
OF the traic TO the East Will now 60 westward and
| that the way from Europe to Australia China and
Japan will lie across the Continent OF America what
Is lar more certain Is however that the Pacific viii
now be opened to commerce it has never been
ps opened YET, and that the development OF the won
American Continent must be wonderfully acceerated
NOT WIZ tne e1ect be less upon the central plains
ness lies open now to be occupied and subdued
In that immense region lie vast mineral treasures
whch VIII alone be enough to attract population,
and It has been found that under the arid and
barren surface are abundant supplies OF water.
on the most arid part OF the route is said to
nave struck an Underground river, the water OF
soon as the tube had reached it, There ia. there.
lore, very little doubt that this vast area Is not
onsosa ong pfacmcny i added to cultivation but
icai consequences viii simply be the greater con-
solidatlon OF the federal Union and the increasing
influence OF the West in Union politics. The
Mormons, who Rave made the valley OF the Salt
Lake cultivated garden and held it as an out
post OF civilization, will now be brought INTO con-
tact with the outer world and must either give up
polygamy or make another exodus to Mexico They
VIII probably decide In favor of removal, but they
VIII leave the groundwork OF great state behind
them thus the whole OF this formless wilderness
Instead OF dying like dead mass IN the bosom of
the republic, 1t VIII become instinct with lfe the
IRON nerves OF civilization will grow all through 1t
from the great central backbone now formed, and
the vast resources of the republic will not only be
made more available by concentration and commu-
nication but will undergo indefinite increase.
The London Times or the day previous has the fol.
lowing comment
II we inquire into the probable results OF this |
a.noei acnevement we we shall De iei into many curious
out the whole Union. California, as our readers |
know. Is state OF exceptional character ana i'm
try which supplies the Americans with tho precious
metal General Grant, In his inaugural speech,
referred TO 1t as the national "sLrong box"-
tle safe in which those treasures were boarded |
which would one day enable the Union pay or its
public debt and he spoke OF the opening OF this
i'acilc Halfway as an event tending TO accelerate
the conSummatiOn in view. Then, it cannot be |
doubted that the Pacific States wnl receive an i'm
pulse from the new line and be rapIdIy deye oped
In political as well as commercial Importance
All the territory too now traversed, viii be |
brought more within the reach and under the do |
minlOn Of man; settlements will be facllItated
and new states more quickly formed. AT the same
tune the Indians viii be more severely pushed,
and the Mormons Will be brought INTO "a con.
tact with their fellow-cltizens which may not i'm
possibly end IN collision. Probably nothing but
the remoteness and ISOLATION OF their settlements has
hitherto preserved them and their institutions from
interie ence, and now that isolation is lost in
work, We must recognize II not only as a monument
OF national enterprise, but as proof OF pubic
suoyentons was well bestowed. 1t was worth many
q vote OF money and many grant OF land 10 con-
meet by an easy internal communication the Two
great sections OF the republic, ana TO bring terrific.
ries as larye as those OF all the settled States
gether within reach or the government and the |
people. If the present year should also witness the
competition OF the Suez Canal II Will indeed be o
Istnnus is a less wonderful exploit than thus
Pacific Railroad NJ. de Lesseps Will deserve In
nnlte credt 1Or perseverance and success, but
the American engineers who DridgeJ with iron rails
"A desert as Oroad as the Atlantic the rale of six
miles day may certainly advance their own claims
TO the surprise aud admiration Of mankind.
The London Standard speaks in these terms on
the success OF the Pacific Pailroad:-
The telegraph announces that the last rail con.
Meeting the Union Pacific with the Central Pacific
Railway, and thus completing the line between |
Sacramento, the capital OF California, and New |
YORK. Is about TO be laid probably with some cere.
monies IN appropriate giori1cation OF the event. |
Ii Is not many years since Co lionel Fremont earned
perpetual renown In America traveller aud |
explorer by accomplishing that tremendous journey
rom shore TO shore OF the mighty Continent; and
now the longest line OF unDroKen railway in the
world Will show the way through passes OF tho |
Rocky Mountains aud across the "boundless
perarer" to locomotives and 'Pullmnn's Palace
sleeping carsn Ladies aud children by thousands
every year will perform journey which but twelve |
months back was trying adventure for strong men,
and the grim solitude OF the far Western "plains'
Will grow as familiar to the nomadc race which |
nhabits the United states the green hills on the
banks OF the Hudson or tho bD0ws OF foam which |
rush down the rapids past the windows Of huge ho-
cheer therefore, for the Pacific Railroad. Per- i
haps IL Is not quite the greatest achievement the
world has ever seen, which Its promoters con-
slider II. Certain II Is that along Its course, yet
the rough camps Ia which tie laborers 1t work
upon the line have congregated have been centres
OF vice and awiessness, rowdylsm and crime, at
which stray passers-Dy have been appalled,. Border
ruilianism has stalked forward triumphantly In ad
vance o. the railway as II grew, and all hope
Is. that now the two enus have been united. the
larger trafhc OF working railway will establish
something like pu0lic orjer In the permanent settle
meuts which Will De established along its course.