Sale Of The Union Pacific

Tbe sale of the Union Pacific in Omaha on Monday by Special Master in Chancery W. D Cornisb, has bronght out the faot that the idea of a railroad frorn the Atlantic to the Pacifio was started in the city, then village, of Ann Arbor by Jndge Samuel W. Dexter, the publisher and one of the editois of the Emigrant, in the yeai 1829. In ontlining the route, the writer snggested a line, which foretold in a remarkable maoner the transoontiuental route made np of tbe New York Central to Bnffalo, the Jjake Shore and Michigan Southern to Chicago, one of the Chicago-Omaha roads to Omaha and the Union Pacific and Oregon short line to Oregon and Portland. Other papers took up the project, butit reinained for Asa Whitney, a wealthy New York merchant, to begin a oarupaign of agitation and ednoation, wbich subseouently resulted in the charter given to the Union Paoific by aongress.