The Clerk read as follows: "But the great reservoir from which man and all his necessary supplies are drawn is yet and for years tocomemustbe, theMississippi valley and the atlan tic const. The Territories of the Pacific coast are to be filled by emigration; they have. as yet, no great. manufacturies and no redundant population. The route neededfor the openingand improve mentalt“he country is the route from the East. “The grantsofland madeby Congressfor this object are iberal and are sullieient in time. probably. to construct the road. But men die; nations live: mencannot take theirca ital. the accumulated fruit of ycars ofindustry, and evotaitto the construction ofu great public improvemept, and wait forycars for the returns. They prefer c oying the presentuseof their fortunes to investingtheir meansin outer ises which will make large returnsonly after their oath. “The nation is lastin. The opening of every new route, the inclosure an cultivation ofevery acre of wild land, contribute immediately to the revenueand resourcesof the nation: and no meansof improving the great national domain, of increasing by its prod ucts the national revenue and prosperity. can comparp in cheapness pnd ellicacyWith the opening of rapid communication by railway With those distant. healthful and productive rezions. The country is onetltted to betholiomo of a hardy race, one in which the principles of liberty and the paint of enter rise and industry will live and bear eir natural ruits." f “A narantee of a fixed rate of interest upon the cost of construction.to be reaid in a term of years, is a mode of assistanceto their great enterprises. now common in the highly developed and heavily taxed countries of Europe. If those governments. burdenedwith the immense anniial expenditure of standing armies.almost as large in time of peaceas we have beencompelledto support in time of war find it in the interest of their revenues thus to aid free travel and trupsport through countries already provided with navigable rivers and excellent wagon roads.we may condently assumethat our country will find amp e reward for any such oxponditurein opening up a highway for fraternal intercourse between our older communities on the Atlantic and the rising settlementson the Pacific a highway too. to which the inevitable laws of commercewill attraotthe trade of the Exist the trade of China. Japan and India a trade along whose slow and painful track. when itwas. conducted by beastsof urden and by ours and smls. instead of y the iron horseand the ocean steamship.great cities sprung pp in the desertsandsofAsia and outbecoastsof the editerranean. Babylon, Nineveh. Palmyr Bag dad, Damase us.Constantine ple.Alexandria. ome venice. Genoa and London. are the outgrowth: of this trade in former centuries."