Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-12

Human agencies and instrumentallties are
essential. Cairo possesses an aggregation
of advantages, but she needs to stretch
out iron hands and lay tribute
upon commerce, to become a power
in the commercial world. Rival towns,
people and newspapers refer to it as a MAS
matte swamp, where death holds high carni-
val in the summer months. He referred to
Dickens Notes on America in which he
spoke sarcastically of Cairo, and even stigma
tised the giant river which washed its banks,
as o stream which flows with liquid mud at the
rate of six miles per hour. Cairo does not
merit abuse, and it is Il SANDER to denominate
it a grave yard. Miasma will not cross con-
siderable bodies ofwater, so that the lowlands
of Kentucky and Missouri, opposite, let them
generate as much miasma as they will, can
not effect the health of Cairo. That Cairo will
be u great city is conceded by sagacious and
intelligent men all over the land. The coun-
try through which this road will pass will be-
como tributary to Cairo, and the sun never
fruc,ihed with its rays a richer country. There
is enough coal scanning it to last the Nation
for century-sufficent iron shadowine
the Roads route to feed the FORCES ofthe world
for a generaton-and mineral, rock, marble
and timber sufficient to invite capitalists who
wish to invest their means remuneratvely. 1t
is also great .ruit and agricultural country
with a mild and genial cline, more inviting to
settlers than the northern portion of the State,
wnlcn owes It's prosperity to its network
of railroads alone. Look at Chicago. 1t never
received the impetus VIII ich made it what it IS
until it became u railroad centre. If there
were not railroads centering there it would not
now be larger than Cairo. But &c proposed
telling his hearers the status of the road.
About three years since, after the civil war
had broken OUT he went as President of the l.
S. r. R. to Cincinnati, and there met with
some of the principal railroad men of the
Union, and eudeavored to induce them to
build the road He then made contra ct with
Mr.. Larned, the President of the O.. & NJ. R.
r. In pursuance with that arrangement, Mr..
l.. in single day, secured subscriptions to the
amount of million and half of dollars. But
the war assumed such gigantic proportions, it
was not possible then to build the Road.
Neither sufficient labor nor provisi ons could be
procured, and the enterprise was ab andoned
until the close of the war. The Messrs Stan
tons at one time held contract to build tho
Road, aud from them Mr. Jared purchased
some of the bonds held by them-Mr. Larned
has Il pecuniary interest in the Road of $780,
coo. He is a shrewd business man and an
able tinancier He will not sink his interest
in the Road, and the ouly way he get it
back is through the Road being built. The
bonds now lying out have no particular value,
and II small amount Of money would redeem
them. / do not think the people on the line
of the Road could build it-they are too poor,
if the people from Vilcennes to Cairo were to
be sold out enough money could not
be realized to build it. | have talked with
some of the men who subscribed through Mr..