Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-09-14

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Tcxarlsanna, in the anglo of Texas
aud Arkansas, This river branch
of the main road is now under con.
tract, and l50 miles of tho main
stem arc also contracted Tor. Thc
iron will go up the Red river from
Now Orleans in largo steamers, and
thus the freight of this portion OF
the material will he reduced to II
minimum. AS soon as the road
from Memphis TO Little Rock is fin.
ishcd, II will be confined on to Tex.
arkanna through Fulton in Arkan-
sas leaving the Hot Springs little
TO the right By the time the main
stem reaches the Rio Glunde, or
oven betorc, The connections between
Gaincsyilleon tho Mississippi river
aud peXarkanna through Monroe in
Louisiana, and between Memphis
Tcxarkanna, through Little Rock, /,
and between Springfield in Missou-
ri, through Fort Gibson or Van Blu
reu in Arkansas, to intcrscct the
main stem, will all.lbc complete
When theimain stem reaches Sand
Hills Of Toxas, south Of the Staked
Plains, the route will diverge south
westward to the Rio Grande, which
will be crossed between El Paso and
El i. Presidio. From the point of
crossing tho Rio Grande, the dis
tanee TO Guaymas, through Chihua'
hua and Sonora, is only 400 miles.
The grants for building this part of
the line in Mexico, wo learn, have
been assured to Gen. Fremont by
the Phoenix Republic, so that the
silver regions will certainly be
pierced by q railroad, whose high
est gradient is only $500 feet, pass
ing over the snowlcss ranges of the
Sierra Madre, and through a'coun-
try whose Indian inhabitants are
peaceful citizens of our sistcrrepub-
lie, and not quasi-conquered tribes,
as in our country. What the fate OF
the northern States of Mexico is
to be no man can foretell, but what
ever it is, they will never be lost to
the first railroad that is to tap the
Gulf of California.
Great is the sympathy just now
amongst the humilitarian Republi-
cans and the Coppcrheads in Con
gress for the South. Weohope it
will expand its energies in granting
subsidy to the Texarkanna, El
Paso and Pacific railroad sufficient
to stimulate its rapid construction,
in addition to it's magnificent land
grants from the State Of Texas,
which are now attracting European
capital for investment in its con-
struction bonds. With q union OF
the interests of this road and the
35th, parallel line, and with direct
ing spirit, we shall soon SEQ the
| iron horse careering over the CONT
! nent by the very best and shortest
routes that can he opened. Thon
will the Eastern question, or the
trade Of the east OF Asia, wlIieh con
i'vnlscs European governments, be
| finally settled and directed in the
only natural channel that nature
affords. The wealth of eastern A sia
willbc pourcd into Guaymas, and
| thence be whirled by the locomo-
| tive to Norfolk, destined to become
q second New York, thence to be
steamed across the Atlantic to Eu-
rope. New York need not be ieal-
GUS Of Norfolk, nor San Francisco
of Guaymas. We are now one peo.
pie, with the same purposes and
aims, and the prosperity Of any one
city is the prosperity of the whole
We learn that Commissioner vii
son, Of the General Land Office has
in preparation a map of the world
on Mercator's projection, wit h
America in the centre, and the Wes'
tern and Eastern portions of the
old hemisphere on the right and
left; an excellent idea, and prefg'
uring the supremacy Of America N
the LIBERTY, commerce and ciylliza
ton of the globe. Upon this maj
will be traced in bold lines the route
of the railway that's to unite Quay
mas with Norfolk. If Mr.. Seward
could induce Mexico to code TO us
chihuahua and Sonora, instead o.
trying to get Great Britain to give
us British Columbia in exchange
for our claims upon her for rebc
spoliations of our commerce in tho
late war, he would do more to re
deem bis administration of the Gov
ernmont from contempt than th'
purchase of q thousand Russian
Americas would probably do. Thcr
would the Guaymas and Rio Gfand'
portion of the main stem become
fixed fact before the centennial o
the Declaration of Independence
But it will be so, whether Mexico
maintains her entirety or not
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