Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1860-06-12


A crazy GoSsFHef and aMeaiaoal e~overnmsnt
The Governor Of Missouri, one Stewart, who
IS said to be a H~eai5-"hre sater," and who oc-
easloaally II not o~fterher, absorbs a torch light
proeessiop, which Is supposed to excite bis
nervous systsm and 10 affect BIS official arts
vetoed not many months since . bill passed By
the Missouri legislature grsnung aid % he
Memphis and ST Louis (lron Mountain) rail-
road. We have never been Of that number who
believed that the construction Of ne Mobile a
Ohio, and the Mississippi Central roads Voaid
iniariously affect he prosperity Of Memphis,
yet We cohesive that Governor Stewart has
done more to iniars this city than any one msn.
living or dad. Nothing would more certainly
add to cur wealth and population than direct
railway communication with the ~inexhausdble
iron mines q southern Missouri, where there
are five great maintains Of the Pursst ore, va
rying from two hundred to six hundred feet In
height, and covering an area Of many thonsend
acres and extending downward 70 unknown
depths. s.. Gensvisvei il the point whence The
products Of these mines is shipped north and
south. To that place It Is transported in va
CONS from forty to hHy miles. There would
be twenty thousand people among these in
sxhaustibls mountains Of iron in two yssrs ar
ter q road reached them from Memphis, and
this would eventually become the greatest
manufacturing city on the continent and ne
depot for iron az well as eotton-tWo articles
Of without which America and In
gland would, IN one or Two generations, RELAPSE
into barbsrism. Memphis would furnish a
depot and market for iron preferable to s.
Louis, for the simple reason that iron could
At al seasons Of The year reach the ocean By
cheaper mode Of transportation Than from St.
Louls. A railway connection with the iron
Of Missouri would prove almost as ad-
.rantsgeoust to Memphis, BY forcing the sxtsn-
ion Of all manufacturing establishments, BY
our population, by developing the
rade andresources OF a most productive soun
~, now useless to Us, BY connecting US with
st. Louis and Kansas, and with all the rapidly
region Of the North-west. We have
.verv reason to believe that some man ht-
ed for the Office will be substituted FOR
his man Stewart that Arkansas VIII aid Us;
md that Memphis having now, BY unhssTd Of
expenditures for q city 50 small in area, secured
be completion Of a road to Little Rock, to
CHARLESTON and New Orleans, will. for the fu-
ure, be governed By wiser legislators than be
mo rslgns in Missouri. We have advertsi
former occasions to the effects Of the rail-
Dads converging at Columbus and Cairo, from
Mobile and Esw Orleans. We have tapred
lsse roads at points north, east and south Of
g. So FAR as their effects being injurious to
Esmphis, they will develop the RESOURCES Of
be interior country penetrate and enrich its
earest and bss naIket-the city Of Memphis
have only to elect a board Of aldermen
no have the capacity to comprehend the true
ltsrssts OF the eity-men who viii not make
more ado about nothing" and dodge and
lnirm over a hreman's riot or a mud-hole
no will refer questions to the people in
to which they are unprOvided to act
scauss they fear TO take the responsibility
heightened gentlemen who can reason from
e history Of the past and penetrate The
-turs. should control our municipal govern
en, whose legislation involves more than all
az has been intHnstsd Cor years to the gsns-
d assembly OF Tennessee.