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The idea was long ago advanced that in all efforts, moral and phYsical, il was praisew or,hy to aim at q high mark even though the chances were that il would be missed. Our countrymen m an especial manner, 10 act upon this principle in every thing that tends to conquer the wilderness and annihila,e space, and consequence astonishing results have followed. Al no very distant day we may perhaps have another striking illustration of this principle We have heretofore mentioned the introduction into both branches pi tie National Legislature, of mora asking grant of land for the purpose of cons strucling a Railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pa cfc Ocean, distance of 2, 160 miles. Witfou, be- slowing much reflection upon the project. people have generally concluded that il is very silly and chi- laercal one, emanaing from the brain of some vis- ionary specuator. It appears however that the me- moriai ia from Asa Whitney, Esq, well known wealthy merchant of New York, who has recently returned from China. Itwas published m the Mad isonian of the 8h inst, and from it is derived the following notice of Mr Whitnsy's views of this pro- ject: .

 He estimates the cost of the road at sixty.fve mil. lions of dollars, and thinks Il could be constructed in twenty five years. He asks of the Government grant of sixty miles wide of the public land, from terminus of the road to the oiher for which full turn would be made in conveying the mails, transport

 ing ammunition, stores, soldiers, &c. free of cost. The memormlst contends that with such d rail-road ,he distance from New. York 10 the mouth of the Co., lunbia rver three thousand miles, could be accom- plished in eight days; from the Columbia river to the Sandwich Islands s TWO ti,usand one hundred miles

 to Japan is i've thousand six hundred miles, Annoy, in China the nearest port to the tea and silk provm ces, is six thousand two hundred miles--making from New-York to Annoy only nine thousand two hundred miles, which, iih raIlroad to the Pacific, and thence China by steamers, could be performed in thirty days being now sailing distance of nearly sep.nfeen ousand miles, and requiring from one hun dred to one hundred and fifty days for its performance

 Speaking of the nnunerable benefits which would from such a work 8s he proposes, the memo- rialist says:-- ssbf4fy tN'

 Then the drills and sheciing of Connecticut, Rhode Islaud, and Massachusetts,, and other manufactures of the United States, may be transported to China in thirty days; and he teas and rich silks of China in exchange come bnck lo New Orleans, Charles ton, to Washinglon, to Batimore, 10 Philadelphia, to New York, and to Boston, in thirty days more.

 Comment is unnecessary Your honorable body will readily see the revolution to be wrought by ihis

 in the entire connerce Of the world. and that this must inevitably he its greatest channel-when the rich eIghis from the waters of the Mississippi and the Hudson will f to tooverowing, with the products of all the earth, the store-houses of NewYork and New Orleans, the great marts dividing the commerce of the world; while each Stae and every town in