Arkansas intelligencer., 1858-07-02

uiguWdy oetWooo tno WStotU Oh tue MlSsiSslp-
pi river and the Pacific ocean. What is the
use, then, in men bewildsring themsslvss,
searching for long roundabout ways, at the
northern and southern extremes Of our re-
public, - Objectionable ~ sectional political
views, when we have one, in an almost
straight line, which will be to the commercial,
agricultural and manufacturing interests Of
all sections, what the constitution 10 to the
Union. Tho construction Of the railroad
along this route, will be Immediately bene-
fetal to Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Texas, New Mexico, and California; and indi-
rectly to Pennsylvania. Virginia, Ohio, Mary
land, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Iowa, Louisi-
ana, these being States which lilo on the
Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi rivers, and
their tributaries. In the item Of grading
alone, As the reports of Lieut.. A. w. Whip
pie and Lieut. L. +. Beale, will satisfy any
man Of unprejudiced mind, considerable
saving Of expense will be effected by adopt
ing this route. If prsponderaucs OF popula-
ton should have any influence in the selec-
ton of the route, as it undoubtedly should
the one from Memphis, via Van Buren, and
Albuquerque, ETC., has also that item greatly
i
dians, but they are altogether asuperior race
to those along the other routes. We kave,
near the eastern terminus, the Creeks, Choc-
taws, Chickasaws and Cherokees, who are
civilized, industrious, intelligent commercial,
agricultural, mechanical and wealthy people;
near the middle We have the Pueblo or Peo-
pie Indians Of New Mexico, who are as civil
lied and industrious as the Creeks and Cher
okees, although they may be their interiors
in wealth and education. The Navajo In
dians are semi-civilized, and many Of them
could be induced to work. In the Caifor-
Mas there are other tribes of Indians, from
among which laboren can be procured
Even If not an Indian can be induced 10 la
Dor, New Mexico from her own white popu-
lation, can furnish at least ten thousand able
bodied men. The population Of New Mexi-
CO has been enormously represented as a lazy
and tritling people; but such is not the fact,
though circumstances may have combined to
produce that impression on the minds of pas.
sers through the Territory. The fact is that
We have much greater supply of laborers
than there is demand for; they are frugal,
and do not need much to satisfy their wants;
they are industrious whenever they have any
well as German, and would, with little
practice, soon learn to use a pick as well as
an Irishman. The reason we have not
greater demand for labor will be apparent
from the fact that We have not adequate ia
cilities for transporting our surplus produce
to market, and we do not care, more than do
other people about working for works sake.
We have more and richer silver, copper and
gold mines. and places than any other Terri
tory or State of the Union of the Same size;
but we are not sufficiently protected against
hostile Indians to work them without great
risk. To be sure, we have population of
about 100000 whites, but our people have
too much respect for the laws Of the U. S.
to permit them to chastlse the Indians for
their robberies and other atrocities; hence
the tardiness in the development Of our re-
sources. Our present annual trade with the
States is estimated at 81 100000, without
taking into account our annual expectation
to California of upwards of g., 100000 worth
of live stock; and had We the facilities for
transportation which the proposed central
railroad to the Pacific would afford US, this
trade would soon be quadrupled.
Besides the inducements to emigration,
which her mines, rich in the useful aud pre-
cious metals, offer to those seeking home in
the west, Va may mention the healthy eli
mate and extensive and superior pasturage Of
New Mexico. There the grama grass, re-
nowned throughout the Union for its richness
and perpetual verdure, is to be found upon
all our highlands, and will enable stock breed
ers to compete with those of any other por-
ton of the world in raising at comparatively
little cost, equine and other animals, besides
to our wool growers the means of
vieing with the orientals in the 6rmness of
their products. To say nothing whatever of
the gold regions of New Mexico, which ex
tend from it's northern to its southern bound
ary, and from its eastern to the western; the
salubrity of It's climate, the fertility of the
soil in the valies of its numerous streams,
adapted to the cultivation of almost every
grain, fruit and vegetable. and its extensive
and nutritive pasturage, are alone sufficient
inducements for its speedy settlement; and
the only thing wanting for the realization of
the glory Of this, in every other way highly
favored Territory, is an expeditions and eco
nomical means OF transporting its products
to the other parts of the States.
From these few facts the reader may we'll
judge that another important inducsTnent for
the adoption of the central route, is the great
quantity of way freight which will be received
and given midway between the Mississippi
river and the Pacific ocean by the people Of
New Mexico Can the friends of either of
the other routes say as much!
have said before that this route "will be
to the commercial, agricultural and manu-
featuring interests of all sections, what the
constitution is to the Union" This will not
appear to be \ thoughtless or ve,y extrava-
giant assertion, but q true principle of politi-
economy, if the reader will glance At the map
of the United States, while psrusing these re-
marks. In the ir.t place promise that the
constitution of the u. g. is our bond of polit-
ical union; and tie facts which wish to set
forth 60 to show that central railroad will
be bond Of union to our commercial, agri-
cultural and manufacturing iutarests.