New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-17

The Memphis Appeal in an appeal for
more railroad enterprises in that section,
sayR:
So far as her railroad interests are con
cerned, Memphis is standing still, while the
great and growing cities she antagonizes
are cirCumyenting her by iron girdles,
Louisville has grasped all the country be-
tween her and Montgomery, Alabama; Gin
cinnati is looking southwark. to Savannah
Georgia; and St. Louis, by an energy that
challenges our admiration, has built an
iron highway by which she finds her way to
the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston. Yester-
day a circular reached us from Sedalia,
Missouri, dated September %, informing us
that in few days trains of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railway will cross
the great Red river bridge, and enter
the State Of Texas. Characterized by no
little of the bombast that is INSOFAR
|. able from the commencement or com
pletion of great undertakings in
the West, this circular zig none the less a
very serious document to us. 1t reminds
us that Texas is State capable of contain
ing population greater than that Of the
entire Union without being more thickly
settled than Massachusetts, the most popu-
lQus State in the Union; that it would hold
The entire population Of the French repub-
lic and then have margin Of sixty miles
all round it. 1t reminds us that to this
vast territory immigration is pouring in a
majestic stream that will find its course by
the Missouri Pacific from ST. Louis to Sc
dalia: from Sedalia to Dennison, Texas by
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and from
DeDnison to Austin or Houston, Texas,
by the Houston and Texas Central, and
from Houston to Galveston by the Calves
ton, Houston and Henderson railroad, and
all by rail, except short gap between
ha pf ma
Houston and Texas Central, which it is
positively announced will be completed in
a few weeks, but which meantime is filed
MP by aline of stages that are managed in
d way to give entire satisfaction to the fast
moving railroad people. Every man in
Texas will, by this information, be inspired
to renewed exertions and a fresh pledge of
love for the Lone Star State. They already
realize. in the heavily hardened trains that
run northward over the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas road every day, that it is
to he to the State what the great arteries
are to the human body. 1t is opening up a
nuiet passage for the sturdy emigranta
from Europe and the older States, which
4hey will not be slow to avail themselves
of, and will do more toward building up st.
T,ouis than all the rest of her lines put to-
Srsthar. She will now become the great
Sarniorant depot of the Southwest, Just as
Chicago is eff tfe Northwest, to profit not
alone by purchases made by immigrants
passing through, but by future and grow
in t.ade, the result of impressions, such as
ali growing, thriving and large cities al
WAYS make on those passing through and
beyond, and who are destined to become
the traders and merchants in new villages,
towns and cities. As indicating the extent
81 profits that are flowing into the lap of
ST, Louis from exertions of this sort, we are
Informed that beginning with a cotton
trade of only 4OO0 bales in 1869, she is able
10 announces IL Al, 500 in 1871 and that this
wear il will reach 75, 600, and perhaps l00,
boo. There is a wide difference between
Al 500 and 100000 bales, but with the Mis-
souri. Kansas and Texas railway completed
there will not be any trouble in making up
that difference and increasing the 100000 to
100000. With sneh connections as il will
tbo ,Tay of all-rail tariffs to New York that
viii be- much cheaper Tor cotton producers
Than ANYTHING Texas now can furnish or
will be able to in years TO come