The true Democrat., 1854-05-02
Caixo, Illinois.


 of encouragement and Earning-of encourage ment for Jealous and perseyering, under Ill chances and changes, till deep rooted prejudice and sco1fing misrer presentation have been silanc- ed for ever, and the extrayagaG5 prophecies of 1856 are more than realized; and of warning. to all head-sGrong adventures and presump- tuous Intermediates and schemers. f5 needs 70 be faithfully sketched for coming generations.
 Nothing in our day appears fuller of health tnl promise, or nearer an astonishing fulilmeut. All that has ever been ioretold of its adyaD.a- ges and probable growth, as the great comm IT. clal emporium of the west, seems likely to iall far short of the truth
 With q railway of seven hundred miles in length; six hundred and ,Wer5 5y-six Of which constitute an air liae, the longest and 5v far tae safest, iorswii5uess of transportation 70 oe found m this or any her country, and running Jhrou-A the centre of Illinois, to Chicago and G4lea.1; 2OO miles of which are to he completed next moath-and the whole within two wears, 1t farhest, what is to hinder Cairo from speedily becoming a store house, graaoty, and a sa.p- ping place for the whole Wea-
 With @ natural advan5a Ee Of positi0n ocou- pyng that very point where 51e Ohio and ! 5- olssippl come together, and where twenty thou- sano miles of river navigation must always pour .uto her lap the mineral and rcutural wealth ot reglon without parallel oh earth. perhaps, for extent and iruJiuncss, and for raUdity of increase, and accessible at all times and seasons. while the other great entre-Io5s of the Wcs. are closed in winter, and unapproaoha5ie in sum- meT-the most unreasonable expectations are likely to be nearest the truth.
 In the New York, Philadelphia and olher papers, we lind notices of Irra,e sales of lots III Cairo, which it were we'll r., the sober miad- ed m all parts of our country b have their es es upon. Already as we understand, buildinelot are taken up freely at their pIe nJ vauati0,- varying from S3O0 10 @2.5Oo: and the ones o- TO- Gazette acknoA led ccs the arrival of her H st locomotive into Southern Hi ois oil the 10th oi last monCA We learn too, that on the Ohio shore a freight house will be built by the rail- road company with lUOO feet frontage-and another of the same size oil the Mississippi shore, and from a third quarter we have the names oi the trustees q homas $. TayIor of Philadelphia and Charles Davis of New York; with reference to certain legal gentlemen of the highest character upon the question of ti5le This is as it should be- There must be n5 p2s- sible chance of litigation among the purchasers; and we are glad to see that all such things Ere provided against in the beginning. We have q wholesome horror of the law and so have uos5 enterprising business men, We believe
 Nor must We forget the five miles of e{n- bankment on the Ohio side, goodIy portion whereof is completed nor that, instead of being mud wall sloping to the river, t is to be con- tlnued stone tortiacation against the inroads and surprises of mighty rivers; being 10 feet above the common level, and five feet above he highest inundation eyer known at their confu. ence-and eighty feet broad on the the top. sur rounding the whole city.
 We hear of much of the one man power of which Napoleon the Great was, and the Auto- crat of Russia is, the acknowledged type among men; while that 'giant with one idea" the steam engine, Is the corresponding type among mans chlet mventlons fOrcOGcentrated energy. and singleness of purpose.
 But really we have seldom heard of case where one man with one idea, however mon- strous or headstrong, has achieved more by downright unchangeable steadtastness of pur- pose, through half a lifetime, than the gentle man who has had charge oi the dcstines of Caro, for the last seventeen years or thereabouts
 Most able coadjutors he has had of iate- men of mark, and earnestness, and strength, who have been building monuments to them selves, without knowing 1t, and who will be ranked hereafter, not among the visionary pro- lectors but foremost among the great national benefactors of their age; yet, for many weary day, and month and year. of darkness and peril, that man was altogether alone. Yet he held on hls way, like brave hipthrougha stormy sea, with a steadfastness and hopefulness that have continued unshal1en to the last.
 By the way do our people know that Cairo about which the papers are so full just now, instead of rising like an exhaltation,, within the last two or three years, was actuallv laid oil, or spotted as they would say of such 2 cold. field in California, full thirty-fve years aoo
 In 1873, charter was granted by the terri torial government of Illinois, to an association whose plans for making there great commer' cial emporium were both comprehensive and sagacious, and but for the prodigious amount of money needed and the death of one who was indeed the spiritof the whole enterprise Cairo would have been large city at this hour
 But nothing more was done till the proprie- torshlp came into the hands of Mr. D. B. iol. brook, for English account, in 1886 With abundant capital great patience, and more en-