New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-06-22
The River and H.rbor Convention.

The Convention at Chicago on the 9Th July next
will be attended by large delegations composed Of
the influential men, without distinction Of par
ty, from the cities and towns Of the Eastern well
as the Western States The objects Of this Con
vention are not Of sectional interest but concern
alike the people Of all the States and we are glad
to the interest manifested here and at the east
ward in the selection OF suitable Delegates
travelling cores pendent Of the Boston Atlas, writ
ing from St. Louis, makes the subjoined reference
to the distractions TO navigation in the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers, with some interesting specula
tons on the causes Of prosperity Of some western
towns:
The city is filed with strangers. Steamer lndepend
euce from New Orleans brought up Yesterday 240 Ger.
man immigrants, who bound 10 Iowa. This city
though Increasing in wealth and population. will
be what she might be long sue IL compelled 10 bear
that burden OF burdens Slavery. Slavery sUhes her
enterprise and blghts her hopes. Wherever slavery
exists there to certain extent labor Is considered
reputable. am no AbOliuonist even look upon Aooi.
uonsm elopgsiion Of Loco Focoisrn-sn whether
the present caused BY Loco or Loco
Focoism aud AboiiOnism combined. - not difi-ult
question TO decide II any are TO bo pted, II 10 the
shareholders. for 10 them II is the gresiest curse
The ides Of paying freights. commissions. sc. upon
hemp from this place 10 New England 70 get il manu-.
featured into rope may be agreeable Missouri men
put 70 new Eng ano men Il 10 difcut 70 the phi
losophy Of H. Few New England will imuigrsie to
this city, or any ssvehsding city therefore, the New.
England enterprise viii never. 70 great extent be felt
a. This polntthough the most advantageous point save
Cairo in the West-it hsf Of he capital had been *.
pended as science and judgment Dictated al Csiro that
AG' been expended Il would have laid the foundation
Tor the ages en- In the United States IL Is In non
savehodins Ststesnd in fsct has ery advantage that
could exist IN its favor but That one dsadyantAge
could De easily surmounted BY few Boston g0-aAead
sieR-
rhsi disadvantage is 1t is subject 70 tnundstions
lev Boston sPiedrivers with their engines would Ia
oa- season. II prosecuted IN Boston syk commence
ths foundation OF city that woad la thirty years con
tain more than two hundred thousand inhabitants. Yea
IN ten years II the foundation was commenced as il
snoad ee II would contain hfty thousand inhabitants
and Heaven only knows what railroads would terminate
there, or how many English steamships would make
their regular trips Csiro-ior 10 Cairo when the vs.
ter 10 IN rs 0Ves sage there Is danger of snags lex
eept 81 Cypress Bead and when Polk Is removed We
shall probably have lew Of these snags removed sso)
ABOVE Cairo, there are four dangerous D1ces Aod large
boats cannot In the summer. run above Cairo
The above Information have obtained from the mas
ter OF tbs steamer John Hancock know not a person
IN Cairo or any that real estate Ia is vicinity
and AN not preudicsd These remarks are the resutof
my own observation and believe II Boston capitalist.
would WAX and do what tASy 90 that Cairo Ia few
years would be us city Of the West Its 70 De greatly
suiented that Missouri with SOL rich 70 rsnkness and
soonnding In minerals Of silver iron copper lead and
coal should, like Virginia rise but - fall In progress
not changed Why "a Ohio growing up in wealth honor
and glory, while her sister Kentucky IL barely holding
Der own Has Nature been more munihceut In her
Sifta Let TIE thlnkers and psilosophers dsoide