The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-20
New Orleans. 50 I.ouis ana ChEca.
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From the n. Y. Word.

from the n. Y. World.
The notification, which il given in anoth
er column of this journal, that the August
coupons of the second mortgage bonds Of
the Mississippi Central Railroad Company
viii be paid today at the Office here o.
the New Orleans, ST. Louis and Chicago
Railroad, invites the attention to the fact
that by the consolidation just effected OF
the Mississippi Central with the New
Orleans, jackson and Great Northern
Railway, new railway company has been
called into being which controls clear
longitudinal trunk line of railways GOA
miles in length, and connects the Ohio
and the Great Lakes tor the first time
directly by railway with New Orleans and
the Gulf This company has taken the
name of the New Orleans, St. Louis and
| Chicago Railway, and this name suffi-
| GENTLY indicates the present and the
prospective importance of the part it is
destined to play, not only in the CONNER
cial and social development, bu; in the
political reconstruction OF the great
Southwest. 1t has been a little too much
| the fashion Of late years to look for the
great expansion Of our empire and our
interests Westward only and along the
parallels of latitude There can be no
doubt, of course, of the great future which
must attend the Westward movement of
the American population. But the diff
ferent zones of the worlds temperature
belt it not along the parallels, but along
the meridians, and, as the lie of commerce
consists mainly in the exchange of the
productions of one of these zones against
those of the others, it is clear that we
should make tremendous mistake if We
underestimate the forces which must
inevitably and steadily operate to defect
our progress Southwark in exact propor-
ton as it is pushed westward. Great,
therefore, as the lines Of communication
which stretch from East to West across
our continent may be destined to become,
the lines which are to bind our Northern
with our Southern realm will not be less
important. The road which has now
taken its place among the leading corpo- |
rations of the country, may be fairly de-
scribed as the pioneer of series OF lines
which must eventually link the great |
Northwest; and through the Northwest |
all the rest of the North, not only with |
the Gulf States of our own Republic, but /
with Mexico, Central America and the |
West Indies, and contribute, with the /
help of the commercial marine of the |
Union, to convert our Western Mediter-
ranean truly and practically into an /
American lake. This is of the future, it /
is true, and its coming to pass will depend |
upon many contingencies into which we
need not Just now enter But it is of the
present that the opening must be taken
to be of direct through line Of railway
from Chicago and St. Louis down the
line of the great valley to the capital of
the Gulf, traversing in its course the
richest cotton lands of the Mississippi.
From every point of view such an event
is of real moment and Of good augury to
the best interests of all sections OF the
And it is but just, therefore, to
say that the successful completion of this
is due, more than to any other
single cause, to the resolution and the
executive capacity of the President of the
newly consolidated road, Mr.. II, S. Nc
Comb. The name of this gentleman is
not wholly new to the country at
large 1t is not held in much af
fection, we fear, by the blandly smiling
Colfax and his fellows of the Credit Mo
bilier, for it was Mr.. McComb, as our
readers will remember, who made the
daylight shine through that occult ring"
It is satisfactory to know that such a man
is at the head Of a new railway enterprise
so important as that of which we now
chronicle the organization.