Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-06-25

brilliant This ball is now used as bowling
saloon and iSH place of great resort
lammanY Hall. is situated in Chatham street
% The SorOer of Frankfort street opposite the Park
u hHs long been the head quarters of the Demo
cratic party. and known as the ''old Wigwam"
T14 chapt. XXI.
The American Museum, was founded 10 1910
BY the late John Scudder. The Museum Is situa.
ted on Broadway, corner Of Ann street, opposite
81. Paul Church, is built Of Marble and is 6 sto-
ries high few years since it came into the pos
session of Phineas 7. Barnum under whose man
Sgement it has arisen to its present state of popu
larity. The collection of curioses is the largest
in the United States. Peales Museum founded in
1895, and for many years an object of interest in
this city, and also the celebrated Chinese Museum
have been purchased by Mr. Barnum and added
to the American. There is a beautiful Lecture
room connected with the Museum, fitted up after
the style of Theatre. 1t was at this Museum
that Chas. Stratton, better known as Tom Thumb
court suit which he wore when presented to Queene
Victoria are preserved in the Museum as curosites
Southern and Western Commercial Convention.
The following resolutions were adopted as the
action Of the above Convention
PACIFIC RAILROAD.
RESOLVED, That railroad from the Mississippi
Valley to the Pacific Ocean is demanded, not on
II by commercial and individual interests, but bv
our national necessities
Resolved That as soon as the surveys recently
ly ordered by Congress are completed the Gen
eral Government should adopt such steps as will
insure the completion of the main trunk of said
road at the earliest possible period
ReS0[ped, That as the General Government
could be expected to construct only one main trunk
it should be located on that route which scientific
explorations shall show combines, in the greatest
degree, the advantages of genial and temperate
climate fertility Of SOIL cheapness of construction
and accessibility at all seasons, from all portions of
the Union
RESOLVED That in the opinion of the Convention
1t Is right, expedent and proper, that the Gener-
al Government should make lar.e donations of
public lands to the different States bordering on
either side of the Mississippi to enable all sections
OF the Union, however remote, TO connect them
selves with the main trunk
TEHUANTEPEc.
WHEREAS, The project Of opening a communi-
cation between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans BY
railroad across the sthmus of Tehuantepec recon-
nends itself to the warm support of the whole
Union. and particularly to that Of the Western
and South western States, by its great practicable
ity, the facility and cheapness Of its construction,
as well as the short time required for its compile
ton, thus afordng to the commerce and travel of
not only the United States, but the world cheap
and easy access to the Pacific coast
Resolved, therefore, That our Representatives
in Congress be requested to press upon the Gov
eminent the necessity of bringing to favorable
termination, as soon possible, the negotiations
pending in regard to the right of way across said
1sthmus, and that they be instructed to maintain,
by all legitimate, constitutional means, the rights
Of American citizens in the grants b. the Mex ,an
Government.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
WHEREAS, The investigation Of the laws of
which regulate the rises and falls of the MisSssp-
pi river and its tributaries, and the adoption of
some system, by which the great Valley of the
Mississippi may be protected from nundatson, and
the navigation of the Western waters be best per-
fected and secured are subjects of the deepest in
terest and Importance to the whole Western and
Southern country. Therefore,
ResolVea, That this Convention respectfully re-
calculated to advance the above objects and facil-
tate the scheme already undertaken, it deems it
highly important that the General Government
should appoint corps of special engineers to in
vestigate the laws which govern the Mississippi
river and its tributaries to devise the best system
of improving the navigation of these rivers, and
of protecting their lands from overflow, if neces-
sary, to send abroad similar corps of scientific
engineers, to examine the system of improve
ments adopted in other countries, and to report
upon all matters connected with these subjects.
ResoIVed, That in furtherance of the objects
sought, we deem it highly important that sys-
tenn of hydrometric guages should be established
by the General Government at several points along
the Mississippi and It's tributaries at the principal
towns and cities, by which the actual stages OIL
their waters may be ascertaned from day to dayi
the depths of their channels regularly sounded
and the changes going on upon their banks be
marked and recorded all which shall be reported
to the proper department at Washington from time
10 time.
RAW COTTON.
WHEREAS, The Southern States Of this Unior
now have, and for long period must have vir
tUal monopoly in the production of raw cotton fol
commerce; and whereas tits of vast importance tc
these States that their great sBpie should be san
abroad in its most valuable form; and whereas i
is believed that this saple be wrought up with
extraordinary cheapnsss on and near the fields o
its growth; therefore,
RESOLVED, That the President of this Conyen
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