Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-05-25

time, perhaps SOW the seed of sforeign en- tanglement' in war about it, and brino down deadly weight of "rast national debt," of perpetual vassalage and tribute of taxation to Spain, which would be worse and far more dishonorable and durable upop the people and liberty of the country than war
 Change the channel of commerce. travel and the California mails entirely from pass ing through the Gulf of Mexico. to q sub- stantlal commercial thoroughfare across the isthmus of Florida to the mouth of the Ar kansas, which would be entirely beyond the power, danger and annoyance of Cuba. and u will soon be filled up with intersections on both sides along the line. and become q smile commercial rival of the river Missis- Slppl, and a far greater and fir more lucra- tive stock to the owners, than the contem- plated ship-canal or railroad across the isthmus of Suez. And, as iiis impossible but the general government must, and will be emlnently benefited by sucl direct. prac- tlcable international connexien of the At lantlc and Pacific, in various ways in peace and war, 1t seems just ant reasonable that Congress should put forth it's strong arm in the right direction, and assist in car rying the grand object into practical opera ton.
 It would supercede the Panama and Gen. tral American routes; and, also, the Tehuan- tepec and other Mexican routes-alwavs exposed to wind and storms and heavy ex- pense and danger through the Gulf of Mexi- co, to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
 And besides: There is another halfway national, and therefore, not national at ali Pacific railroad, sprung up through the southern and western part of Texas. headed by three or four noted visionary speculators. with charter from the legislature ofTexas. expressing an immense quantity of Texas lands, on each side of that high sounding Southern Pacific railroad,' which inn mense quantity of lands would, no doubt, make garing map, with railroad in the center, to get up "large land sales,' at auction, in the broker markets of the north ern cities of Europe, among greedy specu- lators at a great distance, unacouainted, personally, with the quality of those lands, in which they might be led to make vast investments of money.
 And besides That route would not re- lieve the general government and that coun- try at all, ln peace or war, t,om the present mode and danger and extra freight, insu- rance, gales, storms, etc. of passing around the Cape and Keys of Floida and under the guns and annoyance ,f Cuba, and through the Gulf Of Mexico some port in Texas. And as soon as tie preliminary conditions of the road were omplied with these land spectators mightget control of the title in the broker narktss of the north of Europe, and get the malev into their pockets and leave Congress aad the country to wh5stLe their way to the hcifc the best they could.
 But if Congress will pandq to visionary spectators and money shark of all those exterior routes, and also, b Cuba and Spain; and the impracticable raltes through the northern regions and inlospitable eli mate of the Rocky Mountains with no ba SIS on the Atlantic, the peole, of either the northern or southern Statq, will never have a safe, quick and cheap aAlable route to California
 And, besides, a railroad trough the northern region of the Rocky Mountains. would cost more than double the money and means that will be requiredto cross the lsthmus of Florida (part of tn, line now Tn operation ready for extensin) to the mouth of the Arkansas, and froa its west ern head of steam navigation, to Ae Pacific. in a hospitable latitude. and le,eI, cheap and direct line from Ocean toOcean.- Whilst the northern route, withelt a ba- sis on the Atlantic, would be likethe man in the fable, who '' commenced to ,uld his chimney at top;" and it would hate no in fluence at all to reduce the extrDrlinarv price of Spain for Cuba.
 The late advices at WashngtonCit Citv are that, '' there is no prospect of relif to the commerce of New Orleans. Tat there were then eighty ships and vesses on the bar at the mouth of the Mississippi river, that could not get to sea- win cargoes amounting to twenty million bllars be- longing to citizens all over he United States"
 This shows the fact Gas klfw before) of the great importance to the nrthwaStern and southwestern States, of chnging the channel of their commerce acres the 18th mus of Florida direct to the Mantle and leave the mouth of the Missssippi" and the Gulf of Mexico and Cuba t themselves, and of less imaginary value tf Spain
 As the vast country up the Mississippi, and its numerous tributaries become more and more cleared and ploughed, he vast mud shoals of silt and sediment, when it gets down to slack water tide way will continue to accumulate "at the mouh of the Mis- sissippi," and Congress has, in time past, expended upwards of million dollars to remove mud shoals, but tlpy won't stay removed. The vast and increasing quan- tity of silt, sediment and mud continually rolling down the majestic Mississippi, by force of the supreme law of mud, is supe- rior to the power of man.
 The object of railroad, therefore. across the lsthmus of Florida to the mouth of the Arkansas, is not only national in every sense and bearing of the subject, but it is important that the public mind and the en- suing legislatures of Georgia, Florida, Ala bama, Mississippi and Congress, should cor rectly understand the geographical, marine and commercial merits of the subject And, also, that the members of Congress from the southwestern and northwestern States, who are all deeply interested in their respective constituencies, should bring this question before the next session for delib- crate consideration in all its bearings, and void of all party and political feeling, for in truth and public virtue, it is not party question at all; because 1t is equally impor- tant to all parties alike.
 It is also necessary that Congress may, if possible, settle down upobthe most safe, economical, and practicable, level and cheapest and quickest international route of transportation, direct between the Atlantic and Pacific, and at the same time promote the best interests "and general welfare" of the northwestern and southwestern half of the United States, and with an equal At lantic participation of the northern States And at the same time embrace another inn portant item, to keep Congress out of cen tanglenent with any foreign alliance" by way of Panama and Tehuantepec
 Let them make general rendezvous for the northwestern and southwestern States .I. .f IL t,1- I 1o.+ +l