Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-01-08

that the city eharter should DC al
tered to read that no street rail
road ought to be constructed in the
cify limits on any street until said
street is regularly paved and gra-
ded." The recent attempt to lay
a railway down Mulberry street
established the wisdom of the
measure. As a speaker described
that road, 1T was simply a trap
to catch mules and it did catch
them too" Yet such an add.
ton 10 the city charter as CON
templated by this resolution could
be made exceedingly onerous. It
would efIectually bar the con
struction of roads upon certain
stseets where they might other
wise be.
The second resolution adopted
by the meeting declares that all
good citizens should unite in an
effort to pave Washington and
Mulberry streets. These streets
are specially designated we pre-
sumo, because they are the prin-
cipal business streets of the city.
The necessity which demands the
paving Of these streets is just as
imperative upon Levee street. In
fact, If anything, we do not see
but it should be given the prefer
ence. In the winter, Levee.is al
most impossible, and in cOnse.
quonce of it large shipments OF
freight are detained at the wharf
for a considerable time to
the great injury Of business.
Country merchants desire that
their goods shall be forwarded to
them with dispatch, and if it is not
done it causes more or less injury
TO the trade Of the city. Levec
Washington and Mulberry streets
ere the three most important bust
ness streets in the city, There
fore il il is possible to devise any
scheme by which they can be
paved let it he done at once. An.
other great injury TO the trade Of
Vicksburg is the miserable wharf
which we have. OF the countless
sums collected, as wharfage, from
the steamboats, We think a portion
of it at least should be expended
in the construction Of permanent
wharf.
The third and rejected resoIu.
ion is bad as it reads, but it is
evidently not the intention of the
gentleman who drew up the rcso
luton, that the construction which
can be put upon it should be. The
resolution declares that the city,
county, or some public body
which will act for the interest of
the public, ought to become the
owner Of the Marine Hospital, and
to carry out the original object WI
Congress in erecting said HOspi-
tai. The Hospital was erected for
the exclusive use Of the marine,
and these institutions are not sup.
ported by the general government,
but are supported by forced con
tributiOns from the marines. The
city could not afford TO accept the
Hospital as a gift if required to
carry out the original intention of
the government. The intention
Of the resolution is beyond doubt
that it shall be as an hospital, to
be controlled as the city or coun-
~ may decide. The substitute, as
adopted by the meeting however,
we think TO be better il il can be
accomplished. The government
should by all manner of means
continue il as n marine hospital.
If confined strictly to that class Of
people, it would relieve the city
of a heavy burden, which it now
has to carry in providing for the
INDECENT sick from the river, who
are daily sent to the city hospital.
In our humble opinion the most
important resolution offered at
that meeting, was the only one
laid upon the table. 1t is the res.
olution looking to the establish
ment of an Immigrant Home"
The more rapidly the country
can be filled with immigrants, the
more rapidly will the cities grow
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