Maryville Republican. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1867-187?, 1867-11-02
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many generations. The improvements
in the arts and industries during the
last thirty years have given to this trade
life and stability, and so great is it
about to become that nations, sections,
and individuals through the whole
world will feel its influence. We have
already reached a transition period
A future Of new, of imperative and
unknown wants is before us. Frivo-
lous and weak systems of education
and of thinking must give way before
actual science and facts relating to
commerce and mechanics; and our
Legislators and young men, seeking
for pathway, must awake to the new
conditions if they would become ac
tors in the Immediately approaching
scenes. In connection with this for
eign trade is the trade across our con-
tinent, which, Of itself, already excels
the trade Of the whole world in the
most prosperous days of the Roman
Empire Some have supposed that
railroads. have inflicted q deadly blow
upon the commerce Of the Likes. So
far from this being the case, the tun-
mage of Chicago exceeds the tunnage
of the City Of New-York. When we
add'to this the traffic of our railroads,
and of our Western rivers, navigable
through an extent of at least 10000
miles, we must see that we are in new
age, and we shall realize that the weak
Past is incapable Of guiding the vigor-
Gus Present
A commercial centre always reaches
out toward the fountain of supply
Situated at the head of deep, beauti- !
full bay, and looked by islands, green
hills, and many shores, with scenery
and soil unsurpassed, and in a climate |
which gives vigor and health. New
York can have no superior. Only one
other city on the globe has similar ma
jtural advantages; this is Constantine
pie, the grave Of buried Empire
There, on the East, is mountain re-
gion similar to New England; beyond
is one similar to Pennsylvania, New
York, and Ohio; on the West is a
varied country not lose valuable than
Virginia and Tennessee; and on the
North are wide districts which even
to-day rival in productions Illinois and
the great North-W Vest The City of
Brooklyn originated when New Y ork
began to reach hand to the home
trade of New-England, of Europe, and
the Islands of the Ocean. While there
was no West, the East River side was
the center of activity. Until the Erie |
Canal was opened, the North River
side had no more consequence than
what the trade of Newt Jersey and the
river counties created. When Wes-
tern New York and Ohio could be
reached, the trade gravitated toward
,the Western piers. When the Erie,
Hudson River, and Harlem Railroads
were built, Courtlandt become a rival
of Pearl-st. Next thc..IWest finds
entrance by the Pennsylvania and the
New-Jersey Central, and in these very
days New-York is going forth on this
line building villas and towns. Thus,
in giving a hand to the West, the trade
of this city has moved like the hands,
on dial, and. having nearly made a
circuit, it stops, facing toward the West
Cicago now builds five houses west
ward where she builds one in any 9th
or direction. The attempt has often
been made to build commercial cities
on the eastern banks of our Western
rivers. Alton has a better location
than st. Louis, and it has the advan-
tage Of being nearly opposite the
mouth of the Missouri, and just below
the mouth of the Illinois, When the
Michigan Central Railroad was build
ing, St. Joseph, on the eastern shore
of Lake Michigan, expected to be the
terminus everybody suddenly became
rich, and lots were immensely valua-
BILE. The plan was to have a ferry of
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