New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-17
r1w ORLEANS AND THl MEXICAN TRADE

remarks on tie present facilities n
or completing railwey connection between t
he Rio Grande and the Mississippi river at 3
Jew Orleans. Its texts the significant ques-
ion 'sWill New Orleans strike for the Mex t
can trader The method of striking for that /
rade has iesag been obvious The only diff
,ulty in tie matter has been to combine the j
requisite public spirit and capital to make
that method available, To accomplish the
desirsd connection, it is only necessary to I'LL
10 tie gaps between segnents of road already
laid and operating in this State and Texas.
The fact that all these, no matter whence
tend towards the Rio Grande, is pro-
phetic. They are governed, SO to speak, BY
common polarity whose nearest source IS the
metal.iferous riches Of Mexico. But they are
also affected By a similar influence having its
orioyin in the far easb~-the sswealth Of Ormus
and Of Ind"--which has been iamemorially
the cynosura Of the worlds commercial am
hilton. Stjontaneous tendencies of this ma
ture, however visionary may sometimes seem
the goals, point 30 ultimate realities. An un-
broken Inc of railroad from New Orleans to
the Rio gSrande, and another thence to the
Pacific, are questions Of time. The protrac-
ton or abbreviahon of time in the case OF
either is a question Of intelligence, energy
ana pecuniary ability. But it is much less
dependent upon the last condition than many
persons suppose. tits, indeed, one of the
first lessons to be learned in relation to such
enterprises and this community, in the in
terestof their commercial future, cannot too
diligently study and apply it-that, given the
needful intelligence and energy, the peeuni-
AIRY ability, if not Immediately at hand, will
not be long absent. The slave knows and IN
stinetfvely obeys his predestined master; and
money is the slave of the strongest combina-
ton of knowledge and will.
The Brownsville Ranchero points to some
of the immediate facilities for connecting the
Rio Grande with New Orleans by rail, and to
some Of the immediate advantages that would
attend the process of completing the connec-
tion. Ittsays:
The people of New Orleans have been for years
pushing their railroad enterprises nthe direction Of
/ Texas. They are reaching for Houstonby the way
4 of Berwick S bay and Beaumont. Once in connec-
ton with the bayou city they can then make all the
lines now in operation in Texas available by max
| ing their production lucrative.
4 From Houston the way is open to Columbia.
4 From that point. it is understood, the road has
been graded to Victoria. From the latter place
to Br0wnsyilei is about hundred and eighty miles.
4 to the Salt Lake about q hundred and sixty miles,
H by air lines.
This line would traverse fertile country capa-
Bile of producing cotton sugar cane, rice, tobacco,
4 corn, and abounds in stock. Past0Faty it is not
! exeelled by any region in the United States.
These articles would give employmentt to the road,
/ business to merchants and energize the industry
4 of thousands who now labor SIMPLY for livei-
i hood.
/ The completion of the road would cause an in
! nux of population and make the development of
4 the immense resources of large extent of terri
i tory on both sides of it fixed fact 1t would
I place the Rio Grande in easy Communication with
the great West, and Openup to us the greasy treas
ures of all sRinedom and her capital porkop0lis.
/ 1t would give us market for our salt, which ia
Observation-Disclosures more than rivals the far-famed
mines of Poland. 1t would secure to us, and
through us to New Orleans, vast trade with
Mexico.
The same paper speaks of the remarkable
adaptabiity of Texas, by reason Of its topo-
graphical features to railway construction.
L more important fact than this, in favor of a
route through Texas, and across Mexico to the
Rio Grande, is its entire freedom from OBJ
structions of ice and snow. In higher lati-
tudes winter comes clothed with terrors for
every commercial interest concerned with
either railway or river transportation. The
northwest, which has been shipping its grain
by way OF the great lakes and the Eastern
railroads, is now appalled, as the period O
frost and snow approaches and large stock
remains unshipped, But there would be nc
such terrors for those interested in transporta-
tion by line extending from the lower Mis-.
sissippi Valley to the Rio Grande, and thence
across Mexico to the Pacific.
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CIVIL CORRECTIONS ARE INEVITABLE,
Its hardly rational to hope that the Ameri-
can people are destined to enjoy any greater
freedom from intestine disorders, revolutions
and civil war than have been experienced by
other nations and races The plowshare
and the pruning hook will continually alter.
nate with the sword and spear. War will
waste of war from age to age, until the mil
lenium. A monotony of repose is no more
possible than cloudless sky or a storm1ess
sea. Commissions and violent changes arr
necessary and inevitable phenomena which
the sagacity of the wisest cannot anticipate
! nor the strength of the most powerful regu
late or repress. The convulsions of society
are analogous to elemental storms, and as the
exhalations raised by genial heat are gathered
into storm-clouds that beleh electric flames
and devouring floods, SO is there in the pro
foundest seeming peace silent gathering OF
the material and incentives which result in
4 the flashing fires, and horrid clangor, and
1 fierce destruction of battle.
Yet while we may not hope for long
exemption from the common lot of nations
it is not reasonable to expect that the eonyul-
sion in store for us will have the same causes
or present the same peculiar characteristics
as that lately ended. The collision may be
between forces similar without being identi-
cal, It is in the highest degree improbable
that the parties to the contest or that the
motives tothe employment or resistance of
armed forces will be the same. New issues
will be referred BY new parties to the bloody
litigation Of battle on a new arena. The time
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