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'WE GO WHERE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES POINT THE WAY J WHEN THEY CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO FOLLOW,
BV JOHN G. GIVEN.
EBENSBURG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1850.
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MISOELLAN LOUS.
SAN FRANCISCO,
By Day and INiglit.
A better idea of San Francisco, in the
beginning-of September, 1S19, cannot be
given than by the description of a single
day. Supposing the visitor to have been
long enough in the place to sleep on a
hard plank and in spite of the attacks of
iunumerable fleas, he will be awakened at
daylight by the noises of building, with
which the hills are all alive. The air is
temperate, and the invariable morning fog
is just beginning to gather. By sunrise,
which gleams hazily over the Coast Moun
tains across the Bay, the whole populace
is up and at work. The wooden buildings
unlock their doors, the canvas houses and
tents throw back their front curtains; the
lighters on the water are warped out from
ship to ship; carts and porters are busy
along the beach; and only the gaming-tables,
thronged all night by the voteries of
chance, are idle and deserted. The tem
perature is so fresh as to inspire an active
habit of body, and even without the stim
ulus of trade and speculation there would
be few sluggards at this season.
As early as half past six the bells begin
to sound to breakfast, and for an hour
thenceforth, their incessant clang and the
braying of immense gongs drown all the
hammers that are busy on a hundred roofs.
The hotels, restaurants and refectories of
all kinds are already as numerous as gaming-table,
and equally various in kind.
The tables d'hote of the first class, (which
charge $2 and upwards the meal,) are
abundantly supplied. There are others,
with more simple and solid fare, frequent
ed by the large class who have their for
tunes yet to make.
By nine o'clock the town is in the full
flow of business. The streets running
down to the water, and Montgomery street
which fronts the Bay, are crowded with
people, all in hurried motion. The vari
ety of characters and costumes is remark
able. Our own coantryinen seem to lose
their local peculiarities in such a crowd,
and it is by the chance eptthets rather than
manner, that the New Yorker is distin
guished from the Kentucian, the Carolini
an from the Down-Easter, the Virginian
from the Texan. The German and French
man are more easily recognised. Peruvi
ans and Chilians go by in their brown
ponchos, and the sober Chinese, cool and
impassive in the midst of excitement, look
out of the oblique corners of their long
eyes at the bustle, but are never tempted
to venture from their own line of business.
The eastern side of the plaza, in front of
the Parker House .and canvas hell called
the Eldorado, are the general rendezvous
of business and amusement combining
'change, park, club-room and promenade
tll in one. There, everybody not con
stantly engaged in one spot, may be seen
at some time of the day. The character
of the groups scattered along the plaza is
ottenhmes very interesting. In one place
are three or four speculators bargaining
for lots, buying and selling "fifty varas
square" in towns, some of which are can
vas and some only paper; in another a
company of miners, brown as leather, and
as rugged in features as in dress; in a third
perhaps, three or four naval officers spec
ulating on next cruise, or a knot of gen
'eel gamblers, talking the over last night's
operations.
The day advances. The mist which
after sunrise hung low and heavy for an
hour or two, has risen above the hills, and
here will be two hours of pleasant sun
shine before the wind sets inlrom the sea.
The crowd in the streets is now wholly
alive. Men dart hither and thither, as if
possessed with an never resting spirit.
1 ou speak to an acquaintance a merchant
perhaps. lie utters a few hurried words
f greetiug, while his eyes send keen glan
ds on all sides of yon; suddenly he catch
e sight of somebody in a crowd; he is off",
and in the next five minutes has bought
uphalf a cargo, sold a town lot at treble
the sum he gave, and taken a share in
some new and imposing speculation. It
s impossible to witness this excess and
dissipation of business without feeling
something of its influence. The very air
ls pregnant with magnatism of bold spirit
ed, unwearied action, and he who ventures
into the outer circle of the whirlpool, is
spinning, ere he has time for thought, in
its dizy vortex.
( But see! the groups in the plaza sudden
ly scatter; the city surveyor jerks his pole
out of the ground and leaps on a pile of
hoards; the venders of cakes and sweet
meats follow his example, and the place
s cleared just as the wild bulf which has
heen racing down Kearney street makes
his appearance. Two vanqueros, shout
ing and swinging their lariats, follow at a
hot gallop; the dust flies as they dash
acfoss the plaza. One of them, in mid
arper, hurls his lariat in the air. Mark
how deftly the coil unwinds in its flying
curve, and with what precision the noose
falls over the bull's horns! The horse
wheels as if on a pivot, and shoots oft' in
an opposite line. He knows the length of
the lariat to a hair' and the instant it is
drawn taunt, plants his feet firmly for the
shock and throws his body forward. The
bull is "brought up" with such force as to
throw him oil" his legs. lie lies stunned
a moment, and then, rising heavily, makes
another charge. But by this time the
second vanquero has thrown a lariat a
round one of his hind legs, and thus
checked on both sides, he is dragged off to
slaughter. The plaza is refilled as quick
ly as it was emptied, and the course of
business is resumed. About twelve o'clock
a wind begins to blow from the northwest
sweeping with most violence through a
gap between the hills, opening towards the
Golden Gate. The bells and gongs begin
to sound for dinner, and these two causes
tend to lessen the crowd in the streets for
an hour or two. Two o'clock is the usu
al dinner-time for business men, but some
of the old and successful merchants have
adopted the fashionable hour of five.
Where shall we dine to-day? the restau
rants display their signs invitngly on all
sides; we have choice of the United States
Tontoni's, the Alhambra, and many other
equally classic resorts, but Delmonic's,
like its distinguished original in New York
has the highest prices aril the greatest va
riety of dishes. We go down li .irir-,
street to a two story wooden house ;h
corner of Jackson. The lower stoi is j.
market; the walls arc garnished v ith quar
ters of beef and mutten; a huge pile of
Sandwich Island squashes fills one corner
and snveral cabcage-heads, valued at $2
each, show thcmelvcs in the window.
We enter a little door at the end of he
building, ascend a dark narrow flight of
steps and find ourselves in a long low
room, with ceiling and walls of whitem us
lin and a floor covered with oil cloth.
With but moderate appetite, the dinner
will cost one $5. if he is at allepicurian in
his tastes. There are cries of "steward!"
from all parts ot the room the word
"waiter" is not considered sufficiently re
spectful, seeing that the waiter may have
been a lawyer or merchant's clerk a few
months before. The dishes look very
sm?ll as they are placed on the table, but
they are skilfully cooked and very palata
ble to men that have ridden in from the
diggings. The appetite one acquires in
California is something rcmarkrble. For
two months after my arrival, my sensa
tions, were like those of a lamished wolf.
In the matter of dining the tastes of all
nations can be gratified here. There are
French restaurauts on the plaza and on
Dupont street; an extensive German es
tablishment on Pacific street; the Fonda
Peruana; the Italian Confectionary; and
three Chinese houses, denoted by their
long three-cornered flags of ellow silk.
The latter are much frequented by Ameri
cans on account of theii excellent cooker''
and the fact that meals arc !?1 each, with
out regard to quantity. Kong-Sung's
house is near the water; Whang -Tung's in
Sacramento street, and Tong-Ling's in
Jackson street. There the grave Celes
tials servo up their chow-chow and curry
besides many genuine English dishes;
their tea and coffee cannot be surpassed.
The afternoon is less noisy and active
than the forenoon. Merchants keep with
in doors, and the gambling rooms are
crowded with persons who step in to es
cape the wind and fust. The sky lakes
a cold grey cast, and the hills over the
bay are barely visible in the dense, dusty
air. Now and then a watcher, who has
been stationed on the hill above Fort
Montgomery, comes down and reports an
inward bound vessel, which occasions a
little excitement among
the boatmen and
the merchants who are awaiting
fon5ifri.
ments. Towards sunset, the plaza is
nearly deserted; the wind is merciless in
its force, and a heavy overcoat is not found
unpleasantly warm. As it grows dark,
there is a lull, though occasional gusts blow
down the hill and carry the dust of the
city over among the shipping.
The appearance of San Francisco at
uight, from the water is unlike anything I
ever beheld. The houses are mostly of
canvas, which is made transparent by the
lamps within, and transforms them in the
darkness, to dwellings of solid light.
Seated on the slopes of its three hills, the
tents pitched among the chaparal to the
very summits, it gleams like an ampithe
atre of fire. Here and there shine out
brilliant points, from the decoy-lamps of
the gaming houses; and through the indis
tinct murmur of the streets comes by fits,
the sound of music from their hot and
crowded precincts. The picture has some
thing in it unreal and fantastic; it impress
es one like the cities of the magic lantern,
which a motion of the hand can build or
annihilate.
The only objects left for us to visit are
the gaming-tables, whose day has just
fairly dawned. Wc need not wander far
in search of one. Denison's Exchange,
the Parker House, and Eldorado, stand
side by side; across the way are the Ver
andah and Aguha de Oro; higher up the
plaza the St. Charles and Bella Union;
while dozens of second rate establishments
are scattered through the less frequented
streets. The greatest crowd is about the
Eldorado; we find it difficult to effect an
entrance There- uro nlxmfr eight tables in
the room, all of which are thronged; cop
per hued Kanakas Mexicans rolled in their
sarapes and Peruvians thrust through their
ponchos, stand shonlder to shoulder with
the brown and beardred American miners.
The stakes are generally small, though
when the bettor gets into 'a streak of luck'
as it is called, they are allowed to double
until all is lost or the bank breaks. Along
the end of the room is a spacious bar, sup
plied with bad liquors, and in a sort of gal
lery suspended under the ceiling a female
violinist tasks her talent and strength of
muscle to minister to the excitement of the
play.
The Verandah, opposite, is smaller,
but boasts an equal attraction in a musi
cian who has a set of Pandean pipes fas
tened at his chin, a drum on his back,
which he beats with sticks at his elbows,
and cymbals. Thepilesof coin on the
monte tables clink merrily to his playing,
and the throng of spectators, jammed to
gather in a sweltering mass, walk up to
the bar between the tunes and drink out
of sympathy with his dry and breathless
threat. At the Aguila de Oro there is a
full band cf Ethiopian serenaders, and at
the other hells violins, guitars or wheezy
accordeons, as the case may be. The
atmosphere of these places is rank whh
tobacco-smoke, and filled with a feverish,
stifling heat, which comunicates an un
healthy glow to the faces of the players.
We shall not be deterred from entering
by the !seat or smoke, or themotley char
acters into whose company we shall be
thrown. There are rare chances here
for seeing human nature in one of its
dark and exciting places. Note ihe variety
of expression in the faces gathered around
this table! They are playing monte, the
favorite game in California, since the
chances are considored more equal and
the opportunity of false play very slight.
The dealer throws out his cards with a
cool, nonchalant sir; indeed, the gradual
increase of the hollow square of dollars
at his left hand is not cal culated to disturb
his equanimaity. The two Mexicans in
front, muffled in their sarapes, put down
their half-dolIars"and dollars and see"lhem
lost without changing a muscle. Gam
bhng is a born habit with them, and they
would lose thousands with the same indif
ference. Very different is the demeanor
of the Americans who are playing; their
good or ill luck is betrayed at once by in
voluntary exclamations and changes of
countenance, unless the stake should be
very large and absorbing, when their
anxiety, though silent, ma- bs read with
no loss certinty. They have no power
to reisst the fascination of the game.
Now counting their winings by thousands,
now dependant on the kindness of a friend
for a few dallars to commence auew, they
pass hour after hour in those hot, un
wholesome dens. There is nd appcarnce
of arms, but let one of the players, im
patient with his losses, and maddened by
the poisonous fluids he has,drank, threat
en one of the profession, and there will
be no scarcity of knives and revolvers.
There are other places, where gaming
is carried on privately and to a more ru
inous extent rooms in the rear of the
Parker House, in the City Hotel and other
places, frequented only by the initiated.
Here the stakes are almost unlimited, the
piayers being men of wealth and apparent
respectability. Frequently, in the ab
sorbing interest of some desperate game,
the night goes by unheeded and morning
breaks upon haggard faces and reckless
hearts. Here are lost in a few turns of
a card or rolls of a ball, the product of
fortunate ventures by sea or months of
racking labor on land. How many men,
maddened by continual losses, might ex
claim in their blind vehemence of passion.
on leaving mese neils:
"Out, out, ll.ou Etnimpcl Fortune! All you
gods.
In genera synod, take away her power;
Break all tlio shakes and fellies from her wheel
And bowl the round nave down the hill of
heaven,
As low as to the fiends!"
Bayard Taylor.
ISTWe iiud in the Springfield Portfolio
a touch of weather trancendentalism
which, obviates the necessity of our say
ing anything further on the subject. It
suits this season remarkably well.
"May coquettish, sometimes pettish,
smiling often through her tears; in rota
tion yields her station, and the welcome
June appears. Gentle, smiling, care-beguiling,
with a rose bud in her hair April
loolish, May is coo!l$h, June warm
hearted is and fair."
Mr. Sampson's House;
on
THE MISTAKE OF A TRAVELLER.
"Once upon a time," a queer old fellow
named Smith started from a Southern city
upon a pedestrian excursion of about one
hundred miles. He was not such a very
old fellow, either; he was about forty
years older jhan whenJbe .was born. This
.Mr. Smith (he-was not connected with the
John Smith family in the most remote
degree,) was a man of many peculiarities.
If absolute stupidity did not form a prom
inent trait in his character, it was a quality
which very much resembled stupidity,
and might very easily be mistaken for It,
by at least one half the world. He had
manifested a singlar abstraction, generally
described as absence of mind, and would
frequently roam about the streets an entire
day without recognizing one of his nu
merous friends apparently without being
aware of the nature of his movements.
This was Mr. Smith.
We were saying that Mr. Smith started
upon a journey on the "ten toed machine"
spoken of in John Bull. After travelling
a few miles our pedestrian felt somewhat
thirsty, and called at a small establishment
which looked as though it was about hall
a tavern, for a drink.
A good natured young fellow waited
upon him brought him brandy and wa
ter and in addition, furnished him with
a bit of bread and cheese. All this w as
decidedly welcome and refreshing. When
Mr. Smith had quenched his thirst and
satisfied the slight craving of appetite, he
re-commenced his travels, and, as he left
the city tolerably early in the morning, he
thought he might walk two or three Hours
longer, before he stopped foi dinner.
His road seemed to be very level, and
was skirled on one side by an uncom
monly high fence. On he footed it for
about three hours longer, until a glance at
the position of the sun satisfied him he
had better procure his noon-day meal. He
called at a small dwelling by the road
side, and the following dialogue ensued
between him and a boy standing in the
door-way:
"Who lives here, my son?"
"Mr. Sampson, sir."
"Do you keep a tavern?"
"Why, sorter, and sorter not wc ac
commodate people sometimes."
"Can I get dinner here?"
"Yes, sir walk in."
Our traveller walked in, and in the
course of half an hour a nice comfortable
dinner, smoking hot, was set before him.
He ate, drank, paid his moderate bill,
put on his hat, took his walking stick and
proceeded upon his journey.
Before he renewed his labor, however
he took the precaution to fill his pipe
carefully and then lit it. Fresh and vig
orous as ever, he then pushed ahead; but
as the sun crept down the horizon, Mr.
Smith began to feel some degree of wea
rmess stealing over him; still he persevered
until it was quite dark. Finding himself
opposite to a small house by the road side,
he enquired of the youth seated upon the
threshold:
"Who lives here, my son?"
"Mr. Sampson, sir."
"Can I get supper and lodging here to
night by paying for it?"
"Certainly, sir walk in."
Mr. Smith crossed the threshold, laid
aside his hat and cane, drank a cup of tea,
and ate two or three slices of toast, read
four chapter's in "Fox's Book of Mar
tyrs," which he found upon the rriftitle
piecc, and went to bed. When he awoke
in the morning, the sun was just showing
its broad red disc above the tree tops. He
found the breakfast upon the table waiting
for him. He finished the morning meal,
and commenced his travels the second
day. One thing simply attracted his at
tention the road was exceedingly uni
form but the fact excited no surprise. At
noon he called at a snug little house, and
asked the lad who was gazing out of a
window:
"Who lives here, my son?"
"Mr. Sampson, sir."
Our traveller paused a moment, reflect
ed, and seemed to be conning over some
name or circumstance in his mind at last
he said:
"Arc there many of the name of Samp
son on this road, my son?"
"A good mauy," said the boy.
"I thought so. Can you give me din
ner here, my son?"
"Certainly, sir walk In."
Mr. SmitlijteppeJ in, swallowed his
dinner, and once more took the road.
When night came on, he of course stopped
at the first house on his way. A youth
sat upon a wheelbarrow at the door whit
tling. "Who lives here, my son?"
"Mr. Sampson! by Jupiter! 1 should
think they were all Sampson's on this
road. I got dinner at Mr. Sampson's
yesterday, slept at another Mr. Sampson's
las-t night, and here I am at Mr. Samp
son's again to-night. Besides the houses
1 have seen upon this road all look alike
it's very queer."
"Very queer," replied the boy with a
leer which seemed to say, "you cant fool
me old fellow."
"Can you give me supper and lodging?"
said the traveller.
"Certainly walk in."
"I'm darned if this isn't a queer coun
try," says the old man as he. went to bed;
"this looks exactly like the room I slept
in last night; but I suppose it is all right."
It was full two o'clock the next day,
when after travelling briskly at least six
hours, Mr. Smith stopped at a comforta
ble small dwelling with the intention of
securing his dinner. A boy stood in the
door. .
"How d'ye do?" said the boy.
"Nicely, my son. Who lives here?"
"Mr. Sampson. Ftc told you that half
a dozen limes already."
"The d 1 you have. I havift been
here before have I ?''
I "I reckon you have but ain't you tru
! veiling on a bet?"
"Travelling on a bet! no-what put that
in your head?"
"I Thy you've been walking round the
race course here fur two days and a half.
j and I didn't suppose you were doing it for
fun."
For the first time, now, Mr. Smith took
a survey of things, and to his astonish
ment discovered that ihe boy had been
telling the truth, lie drew his h-it over
j his forehead and started for home de-
' a : l .... i .
lermmeu never to enter upon a peuestrun
excursian again.
RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC.
The Keport of the Congressional Com-'
mittee, to whose province it has fallen to j
examine the separate plans proposed for '
linking more closely ihe Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean, will, no doubt, be perused
with interest by our readers. It will be
seen that Whitney's plan, previously
stamped by public approbation, and ac
quiesced in by State Legislatures, is, from
the very outset of this lleport, accorded
an unqualified preference. Whitney's
plan is here affirmed to be the only plan
completely matured, the only plan that
runs free from constitutional objections
and sectional difficulties, that escapes the
liability of compelling hereafter enormous
fiscal exactions, and that affords in its reg
ulations and control no special advantages
to anv Political nartv or stock corporation.
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When we add to this, th:U by one of the I
provisions ol the bill accompanying this :
project. Mr. Whitney and his successors
are placed under sufficient guaranties to
complete the work thus supplving the
main additional requirement, we may con-
sidcr its triumphant passage as almost j
certain; and, so, without charge of undue
anticipation, or useless enthusiasm, dwell
on certain advantages that must accrue, j
when the railroad, now no more than a
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confess that in realizing to ourselves the
; completed plan, we are most taken up
! with the Asiatic connection it will estab
lish for us. Wc omit not indeed, in our i
prospective calculations, the cities, the
villages, the tracts of cultured land ever
lengthening and widening, that are to
spring along that gigantic line of railroad;
neither the effect of this new chain of so
cial interest, in cementing everlastingly
the bond of national union. But as what
ever in these United States is to be
achieved, can, in the abstract only be an
extension of present prosperity and pres
ent power as on no one spot along the
projected line will the history of civiliza
tion have to begin anew, we may be par
doned for dwelling in language more ar
dent than other results can command, on
the Asiatic connection it will bring about.
From the moment this great artery of
commerce reaches to the Pacific, Asia will
have to date her grandest era. The con
tact this ready means of intercommunica
tion will afford, must excite in her people,
strange and diverse as they are, new and
insatiable desires that by their require
ments on unremitting energy and activity,
must effectually break up their present
slumbrous state'. A period comparatively
s?iort will effect this. The estimate of
future progress has little or nothing to do
with the lazy gait of the past. The dis
tance in lime and space hitherto separa
ting Asia from Europe the experienced
imbecility of the European Colonies that
hare held precarious tenure of her best
I maratmic portions ana unesi lmahure-
g'mns the few vessels that nave visited
her ports and pursued the windings of her
navigable rivers as compared with the
countless merchant fleets destined to set
forth from our Pacific boundary: all this,
added to the incomplete knowledge now
existing of her resources, her people, and
her languages, has not tended :o -inspirit
her with commercial enterprise, or to re
move from her iliose jealousies and suspi
cions, whiih, even li.nl tin--- r'! 'n
awakened, would be sufficient to dm?
her back into her ancient languor. Not
only inflicted by intestine wars'and by
thc rapine and cruelty of petty tyrants,
who, like the Moghiil Emperors, have
sought to reign rather than to govern, the
Christian merchants who have visited her
shores for trade, and drawn their riche3
from her bosom, hive lifted up the sword
against her, and made war with the frag
ments of her ancient governments, without
purposing to substitute, or in their desire
for military power, capable of substitu
ting, any possible benefits. Now, from
the moment this, our connection with
Asia, is consummated, European tyrannv
and domination, in whatever form there
exhibited, will receive a lasting check, an J
British power in India commence its swift
decay. That power, on which the com
merce with India, has so long depended,
is purely a military power: it possesses
nothing vital; 2nd the day when it is an
nihilated will be a happy one for the silk
en and nerveless people, over whom, with
great show and barbaric pomp, it ha
flourished and held sway.
But let not the future chronicler omit
to note, and to note distinctly, the condi
tion of Asia at the period she is first bro't
near to us; and to note also how little she.
has yet received, after her long connec
tion with other nations, of intelligence, or
enterprise, or power. It is to us and to
the spirit we shall awaken in herself, that
Asia is to owe all these; it is from our
shores that the genius of trade, who is to
make as one those severed countries, musl
go forth. Let Europe boast of its power
to civilize, to christianize, to vitalize; after
all its doings, Asia, with her regions of
unequalled beauty and lertility, spreading
out beneath every zone, lies prostrate: ac
cumulating no wealth, experiencing m
progress, while over Lucknor and Delhi ,
over the wide extent of Tartary, through
out Central Asia, and on to the feet of the
Caucasus, where our race had its being,
yet waves the green flag of the Prophet.
The destinies of Asia are to bz placed ii
our control; and in imbuing it with fresh
intelligence, and giving it the qusckningt;
of commercial life, we shall become im
measurably the gainers gainers rot by
military aggrandizement, or in political
influence, whereby to sweep away, or to
build up, already tottering dynasties, but
by the vigor of a sound commercial pnhcy
which shall encourage reciprocity to the
utmost. On the part of Asia, it will have
transferred to it, without violence, our
government and our laws, and have intro
duced into its almost paradisiacal regioiia,
tens of thousands of Americans, who shal!
teach it new wonders, and spur it on wiili
new alacrity. On our own part, we may
expect to receive
"Embassies fro;n
The Asian kings, and i'aithian amongst these.
From India, and the g-oldeu C.'ierdone&e ,
And utmost Indian Isles."
Most likely we shall discover that Britain
has by no means drained the gold of the
Indies only that her impolicy, by awake
ning suspicion has hid for a time the pla
ces of supply; and amongst the sterile
rocks and mountains of Thibet, we run a
chance of trapping more than wild fotvl
and musk antelopes. Hindoslan will cer
tainly yield us enlarged supplies of her
silks, aromatics, and spices. From the
gay, polite and hospitable Persian, we
shall learn to understand bctler the spirit
of the Orient, and to assimilate ourselves
to Eastern modes of thought and expres
sion. The nimble Arab will bestir him
self to forward to our mart, satins, carpets
and camlets. China shall place herself
unde r our proteciion, and her language
and her people be together better under
stood. Turkey, indolent Turkey where
once ttie arts with all their comforts
abounded, unable to resist the general im
pulse, shall out of her own fertile soil re
deem herself. And even those huge Kus
sian caravans that yearly wend their way
to China, called ouas they w ill be, for
supplies for shipment, must needs be mul
tiplied. The trade of Europe with Asia is esti
mated at $300,000,000; that of this coun
try with Asia at $13,000,000, pur annum.
The time now occupied in reaching a
Chinese port from Europe, is 137 days;
by Whitney's Railroad the 137 days are
curtailed to 37. When this Kailroad be
comes an actual verity, how miickly will
the relamc proportionate value of the
European and Amcriccn trade with Asia
be reversed; and yet, at the same time,
how largely will both be increased!
Then? with its ships crowding the In
dian Ocean, with Europe and Asia tnrct
iiif together in its embrace, with the com-,
merec of the world traversing its bosom,
with the mart of the world stationed in its
midst, this country, it is to be hoped, will
experience no need of "triumphal archo,"
and "monumental obcli&ks."
He modest; but be careful le di-tiii; uiii
U-tccn it and b.tihfuliicss.