The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-15

not be subjected to the same drawbacks
as tho Central and Union Pacific Rail-
roads. It will be exempt from the SHOWS
that SO much embarrass the upper roads.
It runs through country of perpetual
summer, and will have no need of snow
sheds. The amount of money absorbed
in the construction of snow sheds on the
Central and Union Pacific will be suf1i.
cient. it is confidently stated, to pay for
all the bridging and trestle-work on the
Texas Pacific Road. Tho rice, tobacco.
lumber, cotton and sugar of the South
and Southwest, will be exchanged, with
great mutunl advantage, for the wine,
fruits. minerals, grain and manufactured
fabrics of the Pacific slope.
The harbor of San Diego is represent.
ed as excellent. Tho situation of the
town is fine, with good foundation for
building. The climate is equable.
Frosts come only at intervals of many
years. and are light. A traveller states
that he ete tomatoes gathered from
bushes that had yielded fruit freely every
week in the year for three years past
This great highway is to be completed in
five years. 1t is an undertaking which
startles by its boldness. It is no less
prolific of the most promising results
than dazzling by its grandeur. From
the speech OF Col. Williamson, at San
Francisco, we take an extract in which
the high destiny of that city is portrayed; !;
when, by its connection with this great
line of trade, it shall become the gate
through which the products of the East
shall pass to the markets Of this country
and Europe:
"We look forward to the time when
San Francisco will emerege from its
present proportions, though fair and
handsome. into magnificent CITY,
larger than New York, as large as Lon.
don, and perhaps larger. With the
geographical position of this great city
upon the Pacific seaboard, commanding.
as she does, or Us she ought to do, the
trade OF the great East, she must ne
cessarily increase in wealth and popula-
ton; and if that wealth does not enor-
vate you by the lu1uries which it will
Introduce, there is no bound to tho
greatness Of the empire which you may
yet WELD. Human Imagination falters
in trying to conceive Of tho grandeur of
any city that commands tho Eastern
trade. Fellow-citizens, that trade has
enriched every country into whose lap it
has been poured, or that has energy aud
skill and pluck enough to get it. It was
that trade, if you will bear with me,
which built up the great cities of the
plalns-Babylon, Palmyra and Da-
mascus. 1t was tho trade Of that coun-
try, with its dense population, where
labor is cheap, and where the products
OF human hands have value very little
above the products of machines in this
made Sidon and Tyre, Memphis and
Cairo, Alexandria and Carthage, the
great cities of their day. It was thnt
trade which enriched the Grecian and
Macedonian Empire. It was that trade
which made Rome the grandest and
richest of all the cities of ancient times.
And when. afteF the discovery of the
mariners compass, that trade was taken
from tho Mediterranean and the cara
vans ceased-when they were able to
double the Cape of Good Hope-it was
that trade which built up Spanish
power. It was that trade which built up
the immense powef of the Hanse Towns;
and it is that trade to-day which makes
England the mistress OF the world.
Now, it is this trade which naturally be-
longs to San Francisco"
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