Washington telegraph., 1851-08-27

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RAILROADS IN ARxANsAs.-We take
the following from "De Bows Review"
for August. We would recommend the
subject to the favorable consideration of
every good citizens of Arkansas:
This prosperous and thriving State,
with population Of bordering Oh 2l0, 900
and crop of 100000 bales of cotton, has
not within her limits single mile of rail,
| road. A citizen of Memphis has pro-
posed two roads for the people Of Arkan-
| sas. which we have understood meet
with grea: favor in that State. 1st.-A
| road from opposite Memphis to St. Fran
els. with two branches from that point,
| one into the heart of Missouri to Erie.
on the Usage River, and the other to Lit
tie Rock the capital Of the State ed
| A road from Little Rock TO Lagrange,
on the southwestern extremity of Ar
! kansas, to connect with road at that
point extending to Natchez. Miss
/ These roads form system for Arkansas,
which must exert an extraordinary inhu-
ence in developing her resources. and
| putting her far in advance of her present
posi- ion in this era of progress. The ar
| guments in their favor are thus strongly
summed up by Mr.. Hewson: aN
| "The road from Memphis 10 the Usage
must form the basis OF system Of roaGs.
Though only some two hundred and fifty
miles long, it suggests, indeed will force.
! functions, extentions, branches to an eX-
tent much greater than its own. The
| branch from st. Francis to Little Rock,
the first link in southern route to the
| Pacific, Will be 80 miles long. A branch
| road westward from Elizabet will open
I up the conntry to the head waters Of
| White River. A northeasterly branch
| from Jackson, or Canton III Arkansas,
/ will penetrate the great mineral district
of Missouri. A connection at Erie, or
some other point in the valley of the
Usage, will tap the St. Louis "Pacifc
| Railroad" on its route easierly. This
/ Usage road must, necessarily, be the pa
! rent of all these. 1t will, therefore, iden-
| tify New Orleans with the great future
lying within and without the State of
Missouri. TraversiEg country teeming
with industrial resources--coal, lead,
zinc, copper, iron-it will make New
, Orleans the market Of the greatest man.
ufacturng city il, the Mississippi valley
namely. the ciey of Memphis, when acted
on by this road may te said to be not so
much work Of development of crea-
| tion--the creation, however of an une-
! quailed, still more OF an unassailable,
| commercial greatness. But even low
| the farmers in the valleys of White Riv-
er and Of Arkansas are crying, like
Sterne's starting, / can't get out. =
! ~ of Nou, Orloonc nr,x- halp
/ those thrifty fellows TO bring grist to your
mill. 100000 will, most Likely, build a
railroad from Memphis to Little Rock.
| A land donation from the government
obtainabe for asking--mav be made to
yield land the sales should be made on
condition Of settlemenD at least $780,
| 600; Arkansas and Memphis will SUBJ
scribe 100000; and surely you gentle
men are sufficiently interested in this road
to subscribe the balance-$400,0 ,000-
| You will not trouble yourselves about the
malterf But better things are to be hop
! ed Of you. An untamed earthquake tore
those Arkansas and Missouri riches from
| the bowels of the earth for you; speak
the word, and tanned, harnessed earth
|. quake shall lay them at your feet.
| "A TdllIOdC lTOUl lNdtCllcL, ny way Vi
! Red River, to Little Rock, recommends
| itself TO the support of New Orleans, by
| the influence it must exert on the devel-
opment Of the whole of northern Lonisi-
| ana and southern Arkansas; and above
all, in the advancement of the present
incipient state, inha bited chiefly by that
interested people, the ChoctaWe, This
| road defines system Of roads that, under
its fostering influence, will spring up I'M
mediately on its completion: it bends
sufficiently westward to unlock the trade
Of northwestern Texas by branch road
! it runs far enough towards the borders of
Arkansas to ensure future extension to
the upper Arkansas. in the territory of
| the Cherokees and Creeks: and in con-
junction with Memphis and Little Rock
road, its upper bend runs sufficiently
westward to place the starting point of a
southern route to the Pacific on the bor-
| ders of Texas"
PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF GEN. WASH
INGToN.-At the celebration of the "glo-
rious fourth" in Monson, (Mass..) the
venerable Rev. DR.. Ely made brief
speech in reply to sentiment co,nmem.
ora.ive Of Washington, and narrated a
personal incident, which is thus reported
by correspondent of the Springfield Re-
publican:
"When a boy resided in West Spring
field and worked on farm. In the au-
tumn of the year 1889, l was engaged
with my employer in gathering load
of cornstalks from field not far distant
tc-
er had driven his loaded team from the
lot, and left me, as usual, 70 put up the
bars Whilst thus occupied, | noticed