The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-09-24

The city Of St Louis, with
wisdom which looks beyond the
present, has largely controlled oireum-
stances so as to make them miaister
to her prosperity. Instead Of waiting
for chance and insufficient natural ave
nues of trade to bring commerce to
her doors, she lays down artificial
channels, and by this means, makes large
and distant areas Of country tributary to
ner. The wealth of other lands fiji her
warehouses and leave prosperity within
her walls, and largely overbaIaDce the
comparatively small amount she expends
to secure the rich productions of distant
lands.
St Louis Is destined to become the
Great City of the West, If she Is not so
already. Not satisfied with reaching
most of the great Mississippi valley by
her unrivalled water communication,
she stretches her iron arms abroad and
embraces the territory Of an empire, and
had almost said q continent She dis
putes with Chicago and Cincinnati the
trade Of the States northwest Of the Ohio
river, whilst she holds securely in her
possession thas Of the Pacific coast She
is pushing her iron arms to the com
merce of Arkansas, Texas, and Louisi-
ana and is now looking for. o proper out
let to the sea better than the present US
ual routes, to the money centers of the
world. She has fixed her attention upon
a near point upon the Gulf Of Mexico,
where a suitable harboT, to accommodate
all the demands of a commerce commen-
surate with the immense productions of
the Great West, awaits her appropria-
ton. This is to be found at Ship Island,
Already che has, with a na-ro w-gauge
road, which can carry freighss cheaply,
reaching as far as Columbus or Cairo.
Upon the same line Is the road fcom
Brownsville, in the State of Tennessee,
| Changed after being graded 20 miles
to narrow gauge), as future link in
this great trunk line. The narrow gauge
from Middleton to Ripley, under the en-
ergetic management of Col. Faulkner, Is
being extended along this line. a large
meeting ofthe people Of Mississippi last
week at New Albany, hare taken the
subject in hand, and intend extending
the Middleton linz to that place and to
wards Pontotoo. The road from Middle
ton to BoIi7ar,ia the direction Of Browns
vile upon this line, has had prelimiua
~ survey, and 1t Is now known to ruy
over most favorable ground for construe
ton; and the people on this link are anz-
ious to aid in building it.
Silently and surely the great city Q
| St. Louis extends her control over tht
rich commerce of the West, which Ia.
heretofore been divided among many diff
ferent points, and surely and irrevocablJ
she fixes and DEGREES both her destiny
and theirs.
There are other points upon the Mis-
sippi river with natural advantages supe
rior to ST Louis, AID yet her enterPris
and capital are surely diyertiug taei
trade and prosp Gritty to herself
The city of Memphis, the pride G
Tennessee, situated at the head Of win
? ter navigation; below the impossible bar
: riers erected by the ioe-king at rh
point of intersection of the production
Of the North and South; where corn az
wheat meet the cotton and sugar on tn
halfway ground; possessing superior a.
vantages, yet sees The very domestic trad
emphatically her own, spirited away b
{ far of enterprises. And ike Venic
once the bride of the Sea" may lear
g too late that channels Of trade can be BIZ
g kemp and diverted, and that the destinie
D of cities, and even rural populations, ar
unolterably fixed by opportunities oEers,
2 to the demands Of commerce, more tina
: by natural Advantages. May our beau
tifuI and cherished Tennessee commal
cial metropolis, awake from the fata
confidence il which she nov
rusts and struggles for the trad
which IS naturally her own, b
extending her arms to these who ar
, anxious to send her the productions
, which bring prosperity.
, The Memphis & Knoxville narrow
gauge road, passing through tue heart c
a the finest agricultural AID mineral r
j gion of the U nited States, opening up {
= Norfolk, the shortest and quioSs5s rout
to the mon ey eenteFs in Europe is th
true road to prosperity for any city Q
4 the Mississippi river between the 35-6t
degrees of north latitude. Think sober
q of this N after.
q The Memphis Ledger says:
"a gsntl eman from Horn Lake, Miss
o owing to the registration, Gays trouble
atpEehended in Tunica county, as tha nC
groes IN that locality and in DsSo5
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