The true Democrat., 1857-04-14
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For the True DtHUCral' Batesvitle, Ark., April 6, 1857.


 
 For the True Democrat.
 Batesvi,le, Ak, April 6, 1857.
 MR. EDIroR-To the prosperity and growth of every interest which conduces to the wealth, intelligence, and power of the State, the Cairo and Fulton railroad is more than paramount and the controlling desideratum. None should view it with indifference who are identified, by residence, with the condition of things and human beings within her borders. Public inn provements of this nature are now so extended and are growing so fast in our sister States that it is idle longer to suppose that our bit lands will be the means of populating her territory with that sort of citizens required for the de- velopment of her rich natural elements of intelligence, power, and wealth. This class build up commerce. agriculture, and mechanics and open the door to the school house, and to knowledge, and to all the multifarious advan- tages which flow therefrom, and are readily perceived by every one capable of using the power of thought.
 It is certainly desirable that the people of the State should take in the road all the stock they will, and are able to pay, and think it will be, beyond all doubt, a paying business, should the road be finished in a reasonable time. But may not the golden moment be permitted to pass-may not the prosperity of the times eke out by degrees? And lightness ! i, ot ,arif, that there will be no inlet for the company of our road to the required amount of dollars?- Have not our people been importuned as long as reason would say they should be, to take advantages of the land grant? think they have. And 1 am driven to this conclusion | from observation elsewhere, and the unaltera- be nature and tendency of things. No man should take more stock in this road or any other, than he can certainly pay. It is conf- dently believed by some that the stock holders will never be required to pay more than a shilling or dollar of the stock they subscribe themselves burdens six times too large. Inse- curity is ruin to this enterprise, to all others Who is it most likely to be lured with this kind of hope of speculation? Plainly and certainly the adventurer, him who has eve " thing to win and nothing to loose. The man of dcllars and dollars must build the road will not join the fate of his money with those of mere goodwill, when he alone makes the | ali T Ill, of moon>hine, and failing, looses all because of the admixture of moonshine in the con. gIomerate mass. 1 know not what are the facts here of this particular company, and therefore do not reflect upon the character o any of its stock holders, but know it is reason able to look for su h state of things when SC many years are worn out in getting up the stock of the company.
 have heard it stated that the whole requr- ed amount of stock could be raised and secured in few weeks outside of the limits of the State. If this sso, for one, among thousand, of others, think th:s golden moment, the flood time which should by all means he seized al once-and let the road go on to competion.- lhis IS what the country requires, and this i. the consummaton which will brighten the hitherto darkened sky of the people of this State. If some of our people should be cu off from "gooi hjng' q do not like the quot ed name) 1t will be their own fault and the1 can blame none but themselves; and besides should the road be built. and the feasibility 0 such works and speculations be made manifest thereby, there will be numerous other work, of the kind in the State to call out, not onl, all our present ability, but all we may acqur, ad aterlnl to construct them, and neither tn, State nor her people will be the loosers by the result.
 Population and development usually gc before all these great works of internal i'm Provement, and nothing could in the instanc, of this road. change this great law of progrcs. but the peculiar intermediate situation whicl we occupy between the already developed re 5lons north and south of us-and hence. it i, a duty as we'll as the interest of our neigh tc grant us material aid, for in so doing, they en- nance their own interests as well as ours. an, are sure to reap the first rich fruits of their la bor-as remuneration in large part for all the, may do in this behelf; and we should not be grudge them whatever they may make fo themselves in the enterprise, which shall pu us upon the great highway of prosperity an, improvement, so advantageousy and hand somely enjoyed noU, by the people of many other States in the Union.
 Believe not that would not be reioced tc see every son of Arkansas make "qood Minq' of this road if it be possible and compatibl with its early success, but fear that delay ant the other dangers have alluded to may mak, It impossible to secure abroad that deficienc, of means which evidently exists now in th country; and for that reason, would be trul relolced to see the company avail itself of ever advantage which may be offered from all anc every quarter whatever. We want population of good and substantial kind-we want tha enterprise and means which shall cultivate. re claim and adorn our soil, work our minerals improve our roads and highways, rear up manu factories, charter and endow schools and edu cate and refine our vouth-all as a solid am substantial foundation for legitimate com merce, which, in turn, will shoot up fourishin towns and cities. IMPROVEMENT
 
 VT The most important criminal case tha has come before the circuit court, which is nov m session, m this county, was the case of th State vs. John w. Forbes for the killing c Stewart Grsham. The case was ably repre sented on both sides-E. w. Can't, prosecutin attorney, and Walter l.. Bragg, esq, appearin on the part of the State and Col. E. A. Ware and J. N. Daly esq, for the defence.
 The jury found the prisoner guilty of man slaughter, and he was sentenced to the peni tentlary for two years. A universal sympath for the prisoner appears to prevail among ou citizens, and strong effort is being made t obtain pardon from the Governor. It is tn, opinion of almost every one with whom W have conversed, that it Is a case that has stron cl lli ms th. cl l.