Washington telegraph., 1851-12-17

r,om WHOSE STILL stony eyes win no glance
or kindly sympathy-whose granite lips,
Fixed, rigid in everlasting smile.
Mock the deep anguish Of The orphans cry.
HIe me, my mother, meath the kindly gloom
Tb,, wraps the vale of shadows-oh! lift up
Tb;, wearinrss, which like svalanch,
And freezing as its adzmantine waves,
Seems crushing out the energies OF l'ie,
Aad filling up the dreary, aching void
With dioc madness-terrors vague,
Tb,t creep like reptiles through the ruined brain
And crumbling heart
Give me the anodyne,
Ere phantom madness seize me-let me sleep:
Come, come, my mother, save thy truant chuo,
Sweet mother, take me HOME!
O0~Oo-0.~0OO~OO
TO THE PEOPLE OF ARKANSAS.
We have been appointed by the late
Mass Meeting of our fellow'citizens. at
the capitol in this city. on the 9th inst,
e.. Permanent Central Committee to take
the preparatory steps for the location and
construction of Railroad from Little
Rock to the Mississippi River; and TO
address you upon the subject OF lNTERNAL
IMpRovEMENTs. i'll this State.
In our effort to perform this fesponsi-
HE duty. so tar as reliable materials are
within our reach, we find great difficulty
in achieving this object. Ill manner
th,, would, in ou1 opinlon. merit your
approtatou. Our attention has not been
heretofore, turned to the investigation OF
that subject, aud we mus. be considered
a. behind the times. la regard to those
important and interesting questions OF
the Internal improvement OF our country
which have never before ayltated the peo-
pie in this State.
We must, therefore. content ourselves
with very limited exposition OF such
information as would, if fuliY set forth III
this address, clearly illustrate aud open
to your view. the great advantages which
would accrue to you and TO the State, by
the early commencement, aud carrying
forward TO completion. such system vi
Internal Improvement as would properly
aid in developing the vast resources Of
our State.
We would, at the same time, ask yonr
indulgence, for whatever OF re,nlssness
you may tiud worthy of your attention.
as attributable to us.
The prosperity of Arkansas is based
upon the certain aud rapid developuisnt
Of her commercial agricultural. manutac
turing and mineral resources. The latter
exists, in extent aud variety, unequaled.
perhaps, by any State tributary 10 the
Mississippi river.
Blu, our remoteness from market OBJ
mruc,s, aud almost entirely prevents.
their successful development, and tends
TO paralize in a very great degree. the EN-
ergies of our people. We cannot, there
fore. ii. reason, look for any certain or
permanent change. until, by some great
united effort, we consolidate the mental
and physical power of the country, and
firmly resolve to open at once. central
line of roads through the heart OF our
State which shall serve as avenues tor
mail facilities, Of trade aud travel. con-
nectIg us with the commmerce OF the
Mississippi river. thence with the other
great ,horoughfares of the United States,
which radiate from that natural highway
converging to all the important comrner-
ciaI centres of the North. East, and West,
bringing US in close and speedy cohnex.
Ion with the Atlantic aud Gulf trade.
Nature has been SO bounteOus. that
the difficulty will not be SO great
10 discover a suitable location for
nam trunk line of roads, as 10 discrimi-
nate between the numerous excellent loca-
lions presented which form the individu.
Atty OF local Interests. II seems difficult
10 adopt any system of improvement. CAL
cuated to promote. satisfy, or obviate the
objections Of all. With the view Of ad.
!u'sng in some equitable way, conflicting
locations and rival interests on questions
ol trade, surprising i'll magnitude and
value, any particular loss apprehended by
NOSE who advocate their exclusive right
% influence the location of any such
road lest some rival route might in their
judgment vary the local direction of
'ome particular trade, we earnestly invoke
our telow-citizens to unite upon some
general plan for road, and to bring 10
Us aid all the means and influence a:
"eir command. that in its progress The
evils of an unsatiated rivalry, the bane
o' our public prosperity. may no longer
be feI;.
Tor more than half the year our rivers
10 not afford the requisite facilities of
"a"sportation aud travel, requiring the
greatest exertions of our business COM
muu''y to push our products to market.
"'ough these hazardous channels, at the
r!cular season of our spring floods; of:
,;as a''nes leaving no inconsiderable por-
0u locked up in our midst, until another
'on OF water At the same time