Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-19

s,d saen comoatent means IS also 70 know
that me cnTnmisdlonsIs appqtnben 70 inspect
the WORK. as it prosrsssess Rserlq5s % 70 = issue
exami~ ed ID aud foundi IL quite salts factory.
-Tne- additional importance Mnleh las gteat
pathway % the iss we ~ = nav seld, tos oSf ea,aD
meree with China and eastern Asln, by the
d~svelopr1ent o. .enctlina p nanhos ahe s
tersfs0ries. by the urpsnt need OF some ma
tionai military authority eysr the hostile IN
mand for a speedier aud cheaper communica-
Eoa bstEssn re people o. TIE iar west sRd
most Important works which new engsges
pu Ole tnnon or private capital II Is the
one tbfk for 9hich three dfths OF alIthe pop
wsifinr - ne dispenseS on ali the @conTeni-
kencss belonging 70 civilized communities.
Whatever delays u delays the prospe ny ofthe
BY late accounts nom tie west We learn that
the Omaha Uuion Pacific reflroad, which had
romplated three hundred miles west Of the
ratioDs Tor 6 further advance OF two hundred
miles westward this year. shis viii bril- g it TO
| the ba eo9 the Rocky mountains, where heavy
woFK viii be e~pcounfered. Toe sou hern fork
o. the pnion Pac.hc,tK tusas-Misssurl branch,l
lt appaRrs, has advanced over q good Dafural
route Tor Jour hundred and my miles vest OF
81 Louis, and VIII also reaeu the Rocky moun-
talBs al o. near enver b. the close OF this
wa cross tbs Rocky lnoantains in one main
line aud cantinpe westward until met by the
] MsELCAI AAAA0A u NAN AAAAlAlat Mtlk uUAAE
bull rom the nayigabie waters OF california.
The Central Pacific road has been i'm
mensely favored by the liberal grants Of
Congress, amounting TO about 1900
acres OF land, and S4s, 1000 a mile on the
$50 miles Of the Nevada line. California
has given liberal aid an easy way across
the mountains has been found, and q lu-
erative traffic hrs sprung up and been de-
vsloped on the road as it has progressed.
II = road should ever be built by the
Southern route, terminating at Quay
mas, or one from Arkansas Bay to Mazat-
Ian, the value of the Central road would
be lessened fifty per cent. Either Of these
routes strikes the Pacific much nearer
the latitude Of the trade winds, down to
which sailing vessels must go southwark
from San Francisco, before turning to
the westward, and ON which line they
must return. Nineteen feet Of nov viii
keep the Central road closed some
months in the year snd the Southern
route will be several hundred miles
shorter than the Central or Northern.
Nevertheless, as the North now """"
sH1 SOuUuern states, by the title con-
ferred by conquest, and intends to stsrve
or force into exile its people, by means
of the bankrupt act, confiscstion and
~bayonets, itmay conclude to improve its
property by building q Southern road.
When they have fully invested the
negro with the dignity of citizenship and
the privilege Of suffrage, they will proba-
bly, conclude that the States 30 recon-
structed are as unfit and incapable to be
free as the Mexican States, exclude them
permanently from the Union, and hold
them as Provinces, or under a kind of
Proteetorate. 1t is quite evident that, as
States, they viii be the funniest of bur
lesques.