The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-09-30
Prophecies.

| Ihe pittsburgh Commercial, Drvine
into the unrevealed mysteries of tb,
hereafter, calls upon Mr.. Greeley. o
the New York Tribune, to explicate a.
to the political future, and cites hi.
success IN prophecy heretofore as yer,
remarkable +; he having predicted il
| Graham's Magazine, among Other
things, IN 1852, that railroad from the
Atlantic to the Pacific would be built
within the century; that there would
eventually be a submarine telegraph
across the Atlantic ocean, and that by
the same electric force we should by
domestic lines, know every morning al
ter reading the papers what was going
to be the weather that day and the next
in every part of this great and growing
country of onrS.
Now in the early part of 1888, four
teen years before, Mr. l.. Gaylord Clark,
in review, in his Knickerbocker Ma
gazine, of Rev. Samuel Parker's "Jour-
nal of an Expedition Tour Beyond the
Rocky Mountains" made the very first
prediction of the future building of the
Pacific railroad which we remember to
have seen. Indeed the Tribune itself,
in its long account OF the opening Of the
Union Pacific railroad at the time of its
occurrence, alludes to this fact and
gives due credit accordingly. These
were the words of the prediction
r There would seem to be no
insurmountable obstacles or barriers to
the construction of a railroad from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. No greater
elevations need to be overcome than
have been successfully encountered on
the Portage and Ohio railroad.
" And the work viii be accomplish
ed. Let the prediction be marked. =
This great chain of communication will
yet be made i'll links OF iron long drawn
out. The treasures of the earth In that
vide region are not destined to be lost.
The mountains of coal, the vast mea-
dow-seas, the fields of salt, the mighty
forests, with their trees 800 feet i'll
height, the store Of magnesia, the crys-
talized lakes Of valuable salts these
were not formed to be unemployed and
wasted.
The reader is now living who will
make a railroad trip across this vast
continent. The granite mountains will
melt before the hand OF enterprise :;
valleys viii be raised, and the unweary-
ing tire-stced will snort his hot white
breath where silence has reigned since
the morning hymn Of young creation
was pealed over mountain, flood and
field. The mammoth's bone and the
bison's horn, buried for centuries, and
long since turned to stone, Will vet be
barred to the day by toiling iaborers
upon the Atlantic and Pacific railroad
Rocks which stand now as when Noah s
deluge first dried, will heave beneath
the action of 'villanous saltpotrc, and
where the prairie stretches away like
the round ocean girdied with the sky,
with its wood fringed streams, its flow
er-enamelled turf, and its black. vanish
ing herds of startled buf1aloes, shall
sweep the long, kissing train of cars,
crowded with passengers for the Pacific
sea- board. The very realms Of Chaos
and old Night VIII be invaded in
place of the roar Of wild beasts, and
howl of wilder Indians, will be heard
the lowing Of herds and the bleating OF
fiocks and the plough will be clearing
the sod of many a rich valley and fruit
full hills
This was written more than a quart
er of century ago. The railroad which
it predicts has been in successful opera
ton for three OF four years.
The days are growing shorter, and it
is getting late. 'ECome TO teal" The
havorous herb is in good condition now;
growing better, and better, and getting
cheap, too. A steamer arrived at San
Francisco, on Saturday, with sixty four
thousand six ilundl ed and siXty-five
packages of choice teas: another is on
the way to the same port, and almost
due, with twelve hundred tons more
and other vessels, in addition to the
regular lines of steamers, are chartered
at Shanghai for the same destination.
A week or SO after their arrival in Cali
fornia, all these packages, chests, &c,
of the ''herb that cheers but not inc
briates viii have come over the Pacific
railway to New York Come to tea.