The true Democrat., 1857-01-20
Cairo md FuitOu Railroad.

A notice of the appointment of local and travelling agents by the Cairo and Fulton rail- road company to receive subscriptions to its capital stock, will be found in our advertising columns We invite the earnest attention of our citizens to this subject. The books of the conn any are TOW opened, and all who desire it, will have an opportunity of participating in the enterprise That the stock will be a produc- 1 tive and safe investment, NC have never enter tained doubt nor have we ever doubted as to the success of the road. Constituting as it does the shortest possible route between great producing sections of country, situated in diife- rent attitudes, and connecting favorably with the railroad system sf the United States both north and south, it must be regarded as re- uuirement of trade-indeed, a commercial ns- cessity.
 To the interior or upland portion of Arkan- .as, inclusive of the whole Red river district, comprising two-thirds of the State the Cairo and Fulton railroad is an improvement of no ordinary importance; as without it or some other reliable means of reaching a market, the coun- try will, to no inconsdsrable extent, be aban- doned. The producing classes, or those engag- ed in agriculture, are forced to rely for their supplies of salt, sugar, coffee, iron, etc, and as means of sending their productions to market upon the tedious, uncertain and expensive na- vigaton of our rivers, flowing into the Missis- sippi. This rests upon them as an incubus, and so long as it continues they cannot prosper.- Give them perpetual, certain and cheap inter- course with the markets of the world, relieve them of the delays and heavy cost of trans portation which they now suffer, and no coun- try will progress more rapidly than ours in the attainment of wealth and prosperity.
 1 On Tuesday evening last, a meeting was held in the Hall of the House of Representative, which was, considering the inclemency of the weather, very respectfully attended by the members of the legislature and our citizens. Judge Bevens addressed the meeting on the subject of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad in a speech characterized by good sense and patri- otism, and demonstrated not only the great utility, but the entire practicability of the road through means accorded by Congress. After wards, Judge Cross, the President of the Com pany was called upon and responded in few remarks, in which he congratulated the country upon the bright prospects of the enterprise, and stated the grounds upon which he considered its success absolutely certain. About ten thou- sand dollars of stock was taken upon the spur of the occasion. and the prospect for much larger amount in the city and county, ultimate ly, is very lattering. Confidence very generally seems to prevail, and to the liberal and just ac- ton of the General Assembly, in transferring the lands granted by Congress, are we indebted in great measure for this feeling. Let us per- severe-let our citizens themselves take all the stock necessary to be taken and let them do so at once and with prudence we can build the road and meet its cost through the lands apper- taning to 1t.