True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1846-02-18
Flom the y. O Commercial Timcs
GROWTH OF THE COUNTRY.


We received yesterday the first number
of a weekly paper Just started in Corpus
Christi, bearing the title the Gazelte-of
fair proportions, abuudanty filled with
Interesting reading matter, and exhibiting
very crcdtabIe amount of industry and
Intelligence IN lis editorial columns.
Three months ago Corpus Christi was
not even a village. 1t was a mere station,
stopping place, consisting of some half a
dozen wrctched hamletS, and surrounded
by extensive prarIcS, upon which were
scattered, at remove intervals, the humble
log house OF the settler, and the naked
rancho of the thrllcsS Mexican farmer.
Now, II has become town, with a busy,
and thriving population numbering, we I'M
derstaad, several thousands 1t haSltS stores
lis hotel, aye, even lis theatre, with stock
company paSSable enough 10 attract
crowds, and though last, uotleast, its organ
It's newspaper, IFS daily chroniclcr Of acct
dents aud incidents. Is counsellor TO the
honest burgherS and ciiz rs.
Tins lSa transition almost as rapid and
beautiful as that from the Slumbcring aud
unSeemiy chrysaIS, 10 the lively aud many
hued butterfly. We select il as an illus
tratIon, iorcabIe and lelIclous Of the nau-
ence OF those circumstances the prophetic
eye of Berkeley bcheld years since, aud
which he incorporated IN his famous quat.
rain:
"Ncs'@ard the course Of Empire takes its way,
The iour first acts already past
The fifth shall close the DANA with the day
Times noblcst offspring is the last"
Truly tits a wonderful spectacle to wit
ness the growth and development of our
country, not merely as evidenced in the
suddenEess with which, as in the case of
Corpus Christi, a petty asScmbluge of huts
and novels IS converted, within n lapse of
time almost inappreciable into lopulous
town, with all the accessories Of municinal
but as demonstrated i'm The
formation OF new Territories, their accre-
lion TO the original nucleus Of the thirteen
colonies their final aggrepa-
ION into an empire Of of nearly boundess
extent and lncalculablc resources. The
apldlly with which the change is effected
5 startling aud marvellous. Far away, for
Instances, IN the dim and distant West, lies
tract OF waste territory over whose broad
'ralncS the Indian ToamS sole monalc h of
he soil, and whose dense forests are fast
lcsseS for beasts ofprey. By-and-by, some
dvenlurouS and hardy settler, or fearless
luuier striving like Leather Stocking TO
II beyond the confines Of civilization
nd social institutions oTccis his log cabin
n the wilderness, and makes his axe ring
pon the forest oak for the first time in
bat unbroken wild. Scarcely has he lei
nre TO congratulate hinlsclfupOn escaping
rom tho outskirts Of society, ere he is fol-
owed by party Of wanderers, Winchester
lgelher, building upa temporary station
where they may project themselves from
be enmlty Of the ierocious Indian. Tho
ltant settlement hardly calls forth mo-
leniary notice, before, by the constant
ream. Of emigration. and by that impulse
'hich drives people On :hIs country 10 pro
eed deeper aud deeper in their explOra-
ons into ihe heart Of tic continent, we
ear Of a Territory with teemiug popula-
ou. claiming the maternal care ol the
euefaI government. and in n few bnef
ears, thIs territory becomes q State. and
lotlcr star Is addedio The bright galaxy
tic Union.