The evening Argus., 1865-07-21

rennessee. away down into Alabama-navi-
zabls for steamers. and the latter, TOO, nav
|ar tributaries that are, or may De, easiiy
medenavigable. And yet this main stream
pf = vast system of rivers 10 but tributary
70 the. Mississippi. This vast and rich area
IL but portion of the grsat MisslsaP-
pi Valley. What. then, must be tne whole
co1ntry drained by it, when We can repeat
the story Of the Arkansas. and heo rivers,
and the Missouri. ETC., and al of it the 6n-
eat land the sun ever shone uponf When
travelled. said the honorable speaker, over its
vaters. and thought of the vastness of the
valley. its attractiveness as home for emf
grants, its iuconceivable future, its fast grow |
ing population, wealth and power, have ex- |
claimed-"H tell me what it will not |
be, under American greatness and industry
one hundred years hence 7" (Applause.)
have watched it's growth quarter of CEN
tuary, and you may suppose me fanatical
when say that am still young enough, and
expect to see one hundred million Inhabitants
in this valley. tApplause.)
ITS PRODUCTS AND RESOURCES.
This river--what has it mott IL embraces
everything in its 1000 miles of extent. At
its mouth you have q tropical climate and
products; higher up, the great cereal belt;
and 80 on through. every degree Of ascent
We have it all here we need 60 to a foreign
soil for nothing desirable or necessary. All
parts OF our country have genial climate,
and the immigrant can choose tropical or
a northern home. ast he prefers. 1t has
| every resource for industry to use, to elevate
man in the scale of being We have the
| baser and more useful metals--iron. copper,
| lead, &c.,-and the precious metals in such
abundance that were Lycurgus' iron curren-
cy to be adopted and made of gold, we have
enough of that, Forests and the mines con.
tain AL we need; and, If we cannot produce
silks and such articles that we are now bring
ing from Europe, we can do without them
which is just as well.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR INDUsTY.
Such are the facts. Eraything necessary
for naan-for the development of his intellect
and employment of his strength and genius.
But we require a great deal to develop our
manufacturing interests. Our industsy
should be so directed, and so watched and
fostered by every proper appliance, as to en-
courage it. and tend to producing the great
est gains and the greatest mineral wealth.
This should be the aim and policy of states
manshIp-to do everything to encourage ant
protect and increase industry, and thus. b,
affordng success and gain to the producer
benefit the whole people by the aocumu lstioI
y
by want of wise policy of this kind, is dol
lar lost to the whole community.
THE NECESSITY FOR CHEAP TRANsPoRrATIoN.
Hence, my idea-the one which / wis
particularly to impress upon you-is the val
ue and necessity of cheap transportation.
, The first question the person proposing t
cmigrate will ask you, is what amount Q
products he can raise in your region-an
? | =. L. -
, told that he can raise twenty bushels O
wheat to every acre, but that the cost of send
ing it 90 market over a railroad will almos
equal the price received for it, he will con
clude to settle In some more favored place
' not so productive, but where transpOrtatio
g can be got cheaper. This is a question tha
interests all classes.
The Cheapest Transportation is by Wdter-
over the lines nature has so plentifully prov
ded.
THE POLICY ST. LOUIS HAS ADOPTED REsPECTIN
TnIs.
Mr.. Hogan then spoke, by way of illustra
ting HE proposition, of the efforts st. Loui
was making TO secure trade and to take &C
vantage of ohoap water transportation. Fl
passant-he paid a high tribute to the energ
and commercial activity of her merchant
and manufacturers, and TO their reputatio
for honorable dealing and integrity.
St. Louis, he said, considered that she ha
natural inalisnable right to the trade an
products of that region, for she pays as muc
tor them any one, and offers as chea
transportation--"Yo furnish us no facilite
: to get to your market" He would reply -
Nature has given you a highway, and one O
the best and cheapest.
THE ATLANTIC MISSISSIPPI TRANsPoRrATIol
He then spoke of the transportation be
tween St. Louis and New Orleans. Tw
, large steamers left daily for New OIleaus an,
every day since spring opened, at least 3 .00t
tons Of merchandise had been sent below
This was a distance of l,300 miles, and trans
portation that distance costs only 25 cent
per hundred. From St. Louis TO Boston by
line of propellers from New Orleans il wa
only about 40 cents freight, insurance ant
handling altogether.
He had seen 1000 tons of freight leave il
one steamer from St. Louis to New Orleans
and some days five or six such steamer
would depart. What railroad could carr,
freights? The trip only consumes six Of
seven days. The river is open all the year
excepting a very few days, may be, in mid
winter.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
Such Id one of the water TRANSFORMATION
lines operated by St. Louis. She has Others
up the Missouri, clear 90 Montana and
elsewhere All this is for the purpose of
opening up and developing the Mississippi
Valley. St. Louis looks to this region also.
Its great wheat exports can be marketed to
great advantage through her system. By
those enormous elevators, now building, il
can be taken from the barges on which, at
! little expense, it Is hoated down, aad taken