The true Democrat., 1855-03-28

These constitute the facts upon which the judgment of the country will be demanded iii regard to the location Of the Pacific railroad.- rEyeutually railroad connecting the waters of the Mississippi with the Pacific ocean must be constructed. This we put down as a fixed fact, both because the interests of the United States require it, and they possess the ability to build it. The only obstacle in the way now is the selection of the route, and when this shall be determined upon, the work will be carried ra- pidly through.
 In view of the facts presented no one can doubt but that the favored route will be the extreme southern one, commencing at Fulton on Red river. All of the others are encom- passed with obstacles and difficulties almost in- surmountable While they possess all the dis advantages to be found on tic Fl Paso route, they encounter others ten fold greater and more serious. The distance of the Fl PaSo route is considerably less and instead of going over the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, it avoids them and passes along high level plain requiring but little grading.
 This is undoubtedly the superior route and the purchase and possession of the Mesilla Valley places t entirely within the power of the government to control and complete the road Its cost is estimated to be not much more than half the cost of the cheapest one of the others, while it's location through southern climate protects it from the wintry storms and snows to which the more northern will be an nually exposed.
 y The position of Arkansas, in relation to this great and important scheme, is peculiarly favo fable. Her system Of railroads, to aid in the construction of which, she poss .sscs magn- fcent grant of lands, has been wisely located Running from her northern to her southern boundary and from the eastern to the western, it is system that is practicable in construction and subServeS every section of the State, while it is enhanced in importance by the certainty of being incorporated in the chain of railroads that will eventually connect the great commercial cities upon the Atlantic with those of the Pa cifc.
 Independence of this thought, the Cairo and Fulton railroad possesses advantages that, with in our knowledge, is possessed by no other rail- road ever projected. Gigantic as is the scheme, in its conception and construction, it controls the means of sustaining itself Closely allied with tand commercially interested in it, are St. Louis and the vast and wealthy country upon the H. inois Central railroad now completed and in operation from Cair0 to the Lakes. It will form the connecting link between that region of coun- try watered by the Ohio, upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their hundred tributaries the concentrating point of which is Caj,o and the country upon the south west of Arkansas now rapidly filling up with wealthy popula- ton and soon to be the wealthiest and fairest portion of the Union
 By reference to the map of the United States, the importance and grandeur of the scheme, and the influence it is destined to wield. will become apparent to the greatest skeptic. It is no local projectit is not 10 be the work or pro- perty of one State, but many States and thou sands of busy, thriving and prosperous commu- mites will, ere the ten years elapse to which the grant is limited possess an active and effective interest in it. twill draw to it capital from a thousand sources, and will form another tie, all powerful in its operation, to bind the sympathes of the great northwest with those of the South. The Cairo and Fulton railroad and its branches will be in operation before eight years roll around, and the State, happy in the develop ment of her vast riches, and in her easy com munication with the rest of the Union, will