Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-18

words, a pig could not be distinguished from
horse or an OK, until it reached point
where the view was not totally obscured by
the rank growth of these unprofta BILE weeds.
Such is not the case to-day, nor will it
ever be again. The growth of gympson weeds
and cuckle burs is now nearly as great GU
r1osity as are our choicest garden flowers.
And for this advancement we are indebted to
our Railroad interests alone-one, perhaps,
more than all the rest because il is the only
one that has been completed, except those tenn
porarily laid upon our streets, which are liza
BILE to be taken up any day or night whenever
their Occupation is gone,' which will be
when solid earth takes the place where water
used to be supreme. These city tracks of
Railroad are but scattered, yet they are every
day performing a most wonderful work in i'm
proving, not only the appearance but the health
and prosperity of our growing city.
Water communication has existed here in
Divine perfection since the creation of the
world. But Cairo Is not indebted to water for
its present status as a commercial point. Be-
ore Railroads were built Cairo was but small
readers in our series of articles on the
future of Cairo az many of the inhabitants
of Cairo will undoubtedly remember. The
great grain mart known by the Indian
appellation Chicago" (of which village the
majority of our readers may have heard) has
its Lake Michigan and magnificent Lake it
is Besides it has its Chicago river, and we
wish we could call it magnificent too, but truth
and candor forbid any such SANDER. Then,
while Cairo has its two mighty rivers,
Chicago can boast of a lake and river. But
what was Chicago before Railroad enterprises
assisted and added to her water communica-
ton. 1t was not what Cairo was at the same
age. Chicago may have boasted, perhaps, Ill
days prior to the introduction an6 operation Of
Railroads, that within her limits she had more
mud and water mixed than Cairo, but she could
not show more than fort and all Indian ira
ding point. And even after floating palaces in
the shape Of magnificent steamers, foated up
and down the mighty rivers which wash the
boundaries of our city either side, almost
every hour, Chicago could Only attract one
single vessel to land IN its harbor semi-annu-
ally This fact is an evidence of the import
ance Of Railroads.
The natural advantages-if any difference
exists-are in favor of Cairo, yet, Chicago to-
day has a few more inhabitants than Cairo and
we think a little more capital, and perhaps, if
we stated the naked truth, we should say that
Chicago was amazingly ahead Of Cairo in both
population and wealth. We can account for
this difference in only one way, viz: that
Chicago has more Railroad outlets than
has Cairo. We have but one-a long one to
be sure, as we stated yesterday-but one will
not make us equal to Chicago, and we want
more Then why not build the Cairo
and St. Louis and Southern Hi
nois Railroads, and extend our Rail
road advantages. 1t will pay investing cap
italists and add to the wealth and prosperity
of our city. Chicago is almost in one extreme
of the State, while Cairo is neatly situated at
the other, and we are almost tempted to say
that in appearance one is the head and the
other the tail, 1--WE allow our readers to deter
min which city is entitled to the extreme apt
pellation) Railroads made one of those
cities the largest, and we believe that Chicago
takes the hat by few thousand, from the fact
ofhaving more railroad facilities than we have
Again, we say, as between Chicago and
Cairo. the natural advantages in commercial
point of view are decidedly IN favor ofour city,
yet Chicago has outgrown us, and the only rea-
son is that we have not Railroads enough, and
it may be that we have allowed the only one
now in operati on to be llbelled and sandered
too much by those who travel and trade over
and through it, without refuting Or investiga-
ting the charges made. As We said on yes
terday, we favor and maintain the 1. G. r. R.,
while we most heartily condemn some of the
acts of its representatives. But give us more
Railroads terminating here, and if we can get
no better than the l c. R. R, still we favor
having one or more of the same 8 ort.