Mobile register and journal., 1845-02-19

TIE VALLEY or THE MissIssIrPI.-The fel- lowing eloquent extract descriptive of the and resources of the gr-a, American Valhy, and the dif- cues and loss of life attendant upon the neglect of Congress remove the obstructIoDs in it's rivers portion of an address recently made by the Hon. J w. TIBBATTs, of Kentucky. The occasion winch induced it lhe.presentaton to Mir. T by the mercial and river men of Cincinnati of splendid silver pitcher, testimonial of their appreciation of his efforts in Congress 10 procure appropriations for the purchase by the Government of the Townsville and Portland Canal. and for the improvement of the navIgabe waters of the West.
 "Fhe vast extent and boundess resources of the great valley of the Mississippi have been but litile known abroad. and scarcely estimated realized among ourselves. Extending from the 26lh to the 47th degree of north latitude, and extending to the Aleganies to the Rocky mountains, it embraces an area of than 400 000 square miles of land, un surpassed in fertility. and unequalled in its produce tions; a country intersected in every direction by magnificent and beautiful rivers, afording more thnn l2 900 miles of navig.ble waters. Here we possess everything which man can ask for his comfort and independence--mines of wealth untod-mllions of ches in copper, and ron und lead. in the bowels of the earth, and the surface rich pastures gladden. the eye of the herdsman, we'll adapted the raising of cattle and sheep and the growth of woo and lands fertile in the productions of hemp and flour, of cotton and sugar, corn and maize and all the necessarieE and of the luxures of life; and this country is inhabited by more than six millions of people, unsur-
 
 zed world for ncustry and enterprise for talent, fur honor, for courage, and for all the qualities which el evate and adorn human nature, and render peror being. H Y p tf
 Our resources are thus unbounded, and our peo- pie capable of putting them the greatest advantage. Yet are not conent--our difficulties the r. suit of the very abundance which is yielded to our abors; our productions are vastly more than consume, and must find markets for then l,hroad; indeiatigable merchans and taders do psh this, let their difficulties be what they may your enterprising State has already connected the waters of the Ono with those of the lakes, by the means of navigable canals; and Indiana and Illinois will effect the same object-and your citizens by in divdual enterprise are doing the same by means of a railroad Bountiiul us nature has been to us, something still is left to contend with and sur mount. Constructions exist in our navigation which cannot be by individual State enterprise and must look to the national government for the means. Such the Falls of the Ohio, and the rafis and snsgs, and sawvers of the Missippi and its tributaries; these moi only constitute obstructions to commerce.. but our enlerprsing river men are in danger ofheir lives al every stroke of the piston or 'he oar Millions oCproperty have been lost and hundreds olives have been sacrificed, by the neg ect of the general government to make adequate ap. propraIons for the removal of these obstructions and the construction of hahors the lakes, during the last session of Congless, whilst the west ern appropriations wei under discussion, 1t seem. ed that hardly mail arrived which did not bring the of some sad and melancholy disaster upon our lakes our rivers--ihe very breezes which came over the Alleg,anies seemed wait upon their bo- soms the death shreks of our hardy and enterprisng navigators, as they sunk and were buried in the wa ters of of the lakes or of the Mississ!pp-and the vail of the widowed wives and orphan children seemed to accuse the rulers of the nation Of being the murderers of their husbands and fathers, by negecting to make the necessary appropriations. !"