AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE. Yo a 89 miles an hour including stops. Sol must look sharp, or steam will also beathim in the race. Wrst To THE Missour RrvER— We shall not attempt a minute description of the various railroad and steamboat routes, east of the Missouri River. Each “possesses its own peculiar attractions, afew of which will be briefly noted hereafter. Passengers from the Eastern Atlantic sea-board, contemplating a trip to the Pa- cific coast, or the trans-Missouri country bordering the great Pacific railroad, can have their choice of five through “Trunk Lines,’ four American and one Canadian, which find their way by different routes, to a connection with the Union Pacific rail- road, on the east bank of the Missouri BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF THE PLAINS, FROM LOUP FORK RIVER, = SS BONDE CHANDLER: SS BUDE CHANDLER. River, midway between Council Bluffs and Omaha, These five lines are the New York Cen- tral and Hudson River railroad, the Erie railway line, the Pennsylvania Central, the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and the Grand Trunk, of Canada. The railroad connections by these lines are almost innumerable, extending to al- most every city, town, and village in nearly every State and Territory in the United States and Dominion of Canada; the regular through trains of either line © make close and sure connections with the Pacific road, while the fares are the same. Sleeping cars are run on all through trains —most luxuriant palaces. The charges are extra, or about $3 per day—24 hours.