The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-05-17
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GEO, ". TIfPETT,
Register, Pt. Pleasant.
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD CON-
PLETED.

. IcJiaeF, III. IhuSunt.
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD COM.
PLETED
q At ~ o'clock on the 10th inst. the las,
rail on the Pacific Railroad was laid at
Promou.ory Poiut, and as each stroke
Of the hammer drove in tue last spike, the
fact was announced by Simultaneous tcle-
grams to the principal cities Of the couu-
try.
The formal consummation Of SO grand
an enterprise deserves to be lieralded by
such an agent as electricity. Imperfect
rs the road is considered TO be by those
competent persons who have had a good
opportunity OF examining it, and unforlu-
nate as it was that the President was ar
rested BY his laborers for money alleged
to be due on the very day the work was
supposed to be finished, it may be rcgar-
dcd virtually as an accomplished fact, no
matter how large the amount that may yet
be required to make it what it processes
to be.
Such a work is not only more valuable,
tu. more truly glorious than all the
achievements ofwar. The commercial
and political consequences Of this extraor-
binary Achievements. are almost beyond
calculation. The region between the
Pacific slope and the Mississippi Valley
vii be filed with hardy and productive
settlers. the new Territories will be popu-
lated. the mining regions developed, the
Mississippi Valley will become grca.
seat Of manufactures, to say nothing Of
the'Asiatic trade which may fud its way
across this national highway. In addition
to all this, the Pacific States will be
bound by ties Of direct commercial and
social intercommunica.ion with the rest Of
the Union, identifying their inter.
est with our own. removing what Hum.
boldt calls 'ehc barrier which make men
strangers-whicll is generally only another
name for enemies; and nothing is.so eff
cacious in accomplishing this end, so dc.
voutly TO be wished, as promoting inter
course between man and man." II il in
deed great work, and not only of union.
bat Of civilization, and even humanity.
bringing into closer contact not only our
Atlantic and Pacific States, but the oldest
md the youngest empires Of the world
We quote on this subject from the Bal
timore Daily Sun. which says Of the bis
tory Of this great work that "any man
who had predicted fifty years ago that by
science, and the practical application oft,
the Atlantic would be brought nearer in
this year to the Pacific than New York
then was 70 Boston. would hav. exposed
himself TO strong doubts Of his sanity
Yet this seeming mnnincal fancy has beer
renlized. Deserts and mountains have in
vain interposcd. The line across tile con
tincnt is SO long that trains upon itarc rur
by eight or ten different times, and a co
temporary suggests that ultimately W,
shall have double set Of hands upon al
watches-one for local time, and one for
general time uniform all over the world.
At noon 10 New York it is 0 A. NJ. il
San Francisco. Hence we were at ff,
minutes past Two in Baltimore when, a
noon yesterday. as above stated, the tcle
graph "Shcd its lightnings" from Prom.
ontory Point to herald this grand victory
Of peace. The methods and principle.
now SO successfully applied may have beer
established ID former generations, but il
has been reserved for this generation tc
witness what may be styled Will, nluos,
literal accurucy, IN annihiluton Of boil
Time and Space.
1t is said that o Pacific road was fore.
Swallowed before the age Of railways, by
Jonathan Carver. III ITS. In 1885.
lsev. Samuel Parker recorded lis opinion
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