The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-14

opening of the Pacific Railway. Not that the
Pacific Railway really is 'Opened" "a vet
In the sense in which its directors use that
word, for q telegraph announcement that
specimen cargo Of teas from Japan will be sent
by rail to New York is not precisely identical
with general transfer OF the wealth Of Asia
to the marts of New York. We sneak onlv
of the celebration" Of the "openine'j afore-
said.
The establishment, no matter how imperfect
IL may be, OF continuous Communication nv
rail between the Atlantic and the PAoi6,
Oceans across the whole American continent.
is certainly grand and striking event. Caa.
not public man feel 1t so to be without
standing on his head and wigglinV his heels
idioticslly in the air Is 1t made more grand
and striking; are its grandeur and its limos
ing nature made palmer to the average mind
by saying Of it, as Mr.. Oakley Hall, sitting In
the Executive epartment''-whatever that
may be--of the New York "City Hail." saw
fit by telegraph to say of it to the Mayor of
San Francisco, that "apart from the relations
of this grand event with Christianity, politi.
cal economy, civilization, and patriotism. Il
iustifes the metropolis in the pardonablv self
ish expectation to soon become the CONNER
cial exchange of the world 2" or that t'in
Old Trinity, at the head of Wall street, a Te
Deum now imparts thankful harmonies to the
busy hum about her walls 2" Without paus-
ing to ask by what particular process a TIE
Deum in Old Trinity can 'impart thankful har-
monies to busy hum" we should like TO
know how the ''selfsh expectations of this
or any other metropolis can be "pardon-
able" If they are "apart FROM" and so at
variance with, christianity, civilization,
political economy, and patriotismH" We
could wish, for the sake both of ''the metro
polls" and Of its Mayor that Mr.. Hall had
rocked his own rede, and had really believed
as he pretends in his extraordinary despatch
to believe, that 1t was not necessary
to tender San Francisco by mere words
fuller magnetic sympathy" Mayors,
from the days of that dignitary of Folke-
''great fool" and bade 'get off that STOOL"
have had large license Of absurdity. But we
really think Mayor Hall abuses even his
official license. 1t does not mend matters for
us that there was general cracking and
sputtering of Stiffness and common place along
the whole line. That Promontory Point
should notify the land, eve have got done
praying; the spike is about to be presented"
was not very sublime way of putting things;
but, then, Promontory Point is an out-of-the-
way place on the frontiers, and may be par
doned for show wing less aesthetic culture, not
to say less common sense, than the "metro-
polls" AS much may be pleaded by way of
excuse for Tuttle, colleague, we believe, of
Nevada Nye, who sprang up somewhere
among the Rocky Mountains with ''spike Of
gold, silver and iron" in his hand, and pre-
sented the "ofering of Arizona to the enter
prise which has banded the continent and
dictated the pathway to commerce."
These things, however, all have common
origin. They crop out from the growing
desire of pigmies all the world over to perch
upon pyramids; from the prurient itching Of
insignificant and impatient little great men to
hear the echo of their own voices aud to see
kl~o,. ~, rfnt Ear Is
especially, should they be shown up in their
true light whenever, as now, a just occasion
providesthe rod. 1t is really disheartening
to be thus perpetually forced to feel how true
it is that
''It cannot conquer boodledom,
Time-and-space conquering steam;
And the light out-speeding telegraph
Bears bOsh upon its BEAM"