Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-12-16

TINS 10 luIiui n1 al iaifieat4ng lcttcl
ii0m New Oncahs 10 tbs ST. l.0ula Ropnb
liem. We have taid considerable on these
sabicc's lately, enl shall rcJar to thea
fyqurally horeai,ew
NOyrursTa T0wARnsTEx,g.
The movement which commands most 10.
toiesi Rt the present time IN tho Southwest,
j. that toward yeSns Not only hRsStc re.
opening RADIO with that State increased 10
sileh volume - u employ ten large slfam-
ships between THE Vytl ana Galveston bat
ihsrc sa large movement Of capital and
labor IN TINT direction. Galveston, llcus-
tnn aud other Interior towns are filled TO
their utmost capacity with heavy trades,
Hnd planters rc venting ther way west OF
the Aisslssipgi to settle upca these rich
lands. Thirty cotton. growers recently len
ihc vdley of tho Pearl river hr the Lone
&'ar STATE, whittier they Ind been preceded
by many othcra FROM tho Piuey Woodsland,
II is the general Impression that the work.
inx Of these lands without slave labor will
not prove profitable, and even II this were
not true, there would he natural move
mont 30 Texas. The State is believed TO
have Escaped most Of the serious disasters
OF the war aud 10 have returned 10 The I'M
ion In \ happcs manner. There have been
jswer Provost Marsi.a,s, fewer Frcedmcns
Commissioners, aad labor has been lees dis
tnrbed, Curious enough, too, AMI very
cFsditable TO the people OF n frontier Stale,
there is as little disorde" tlcre, growing
al; Of tho wnr, as in any other portion Of
tho late Confoderacy. The people have gone
10 work with viii, and ave not only bring
ing forward thcir Oil crops to market, but
are preparing to put in much larger new
oncs. Thc quantity Of agricultural implc-
IaeEts now going forward from here to
salg stoa il perfectly amazing. Immense
quantities OF machinery also are daily be-
Jag shipped FOR the same port. Every day
the Texas steamship whAryes are blocked
ZIP W.! siea ri-englaes, coiton-gins, plows,
hoes, shovcla, rash-tubl and every con-
eeivthc article for agricultural mechani-
cal and iIorsehold, for the departing
atcRmor. Tea Of thosc are now plying be-
tween here and Galveston alone, TO say
nothing of tie largo trade of Matagorda
and Brnzos' Santiago, where, in addition to
the resident population, y large body OF
troops have to be supplied. And large
joint stock company, for the purpose of
building still another line Of steamers out
uf the capital Of New Orleans proper, is
now being formed here with every prospect
Of success In all probability We shall
have ut least twenty steamships plying be-
tween this and Texas ports during the csul-
ing year, and tiese.will be insufficient to
do the busine As Yet largo amount of
wool, most Of the last three years clips in
fact, is TO be shipped when the people mako
up their minds to accept already unparal-
locd prices. at present however, the gen.
crai opinion is that wool will coon go up
far higher and holders will not part with it
FIR "love or moncyn--noteyen specie, which
freely offered at prices which were never
known before, but not accepted So COM
pletely elevated arc The people and so higi,
arc their pref nsons, that practical news
paper manlike &c. ". X, OF Tie epic,
writes hat the wool-growing business of
Texas isspeedily to attain an Importance
''nevor dreamed Of before tho war;. That
is soaring pretty high in view Of &c WI
Ks glowing pastoral letters heretofore
ST. LOUIS AND TEXAS RAILROAD.
But these are old and well known rca-
sons for the natural American cry of "West-
ward ho.' A new one is the proposed rail
road orrsilroads down through tho Trans
Mississippi country to,Texas and the Gulf
coast. A large number Of the people Of the
Southwest have, by their numerous marches |
and counter-marches during tho war, be-
came personally acquainted with the rich
lands Of Arkansas, Northern Louisiana,
Texes and TIE territories vest and south I
west Of the Missouri border. "l'he pro-
posed railroads. say they, ''will soon bring
ell these lands under cultivation, will make |
iheir speedy settlement easy and therein
an agricultural industry and interior trade
will grow up that will ultimately mako it
QUO of the richest portions Of the American
continent" A part OF this programme is
the building up ON the Texan Gulf coast Of
commercial cities which will rival not only
ancient Tyre and Sidon, hpt even modern
New Orleans. So far rs cll understand
the glowing "talk' Of nSlississippi emil
grant, yesterday St. Louis is to be tho
Head of this new interior route of trans
Mississippi trade, and Galveston tho Gulf
terminus, while modern Aleppos, Damas-
cuses and Jerusalcms are TO be built up
speedily along tho interiorrouic between
SO far as the Crescent City is concerned,
we nre rotjcelous, for VIC know nell llal I
the settlement of the Trans Mississippi
country will add vastly to our own COM
rnorce and wealth. No onecver yet lost by
the prosperity of his neighhor, whether
that neghbor be an individual or COM
in,iniiy. No people therefore, will have
more reason to rejoice at tho realization of
this Hespcrian Empire than ours Ives. We
have already, in fact, two great lines of
railroad well under way thitheT the one
through the Red River country anl the 9TH
or across the lower valley Of the Sabine,
which viii be done by the time the new
commercial route is opened, 'But St. Louis
ndds my enlhus astic informant, who has
by the way no little interest in your city,
"who can estimate her future greatness
The head of deep water navigation on tho
Mississippi, where the Great Father of Wa
ters, receives the great tributaries of the
Northwest, what wealth win not the open
lug of this new -Missippi Railroad
cause 10 flow Into our already opening cof-
fers. BY the river she has already maj
esiic trade with the Gulf by way of New
Orleans, but low Immensely will it be in
creased by inland communication with Gal
weston, through the rich Statcs west Of the
Mississippi"