Show A STEAMSHIP LINE FOR FOB THE SOUTH tim THE mississippi valley it has been said is capable of raising sufficient food to sustain all the inhabitants of the earth and the people of the south are agitating the important question how to most economically and profitably convey the bread abreact raised in the valleys of the mississippi and its tributaries tributa ries to the needy inhabitants of the old world the southern people are not content to send their bread stuffs and other exports by the e expensive X overland route via new york and they are seriously coni si dering the feasibility of establishing a steamship line to run between new oilcans orleans and liverpool or other european port or ports it is proposed to organize a grand stock company with a capital of loom for the purpose of constructing a line of twenty ocean steamers of tons burt burthen nen not to draw more than twenty feet feefe fully loaded and specially adapted for carrying the grain I 1 cotton and tobacco of the new world to the old and bringing emigrants from the old world to the an new ew the proposition was to organize the company as speedily as possible and then to canvass the cities of the entire mississippi basin if need be for subscriptions not only the cities but the villages and towns and boldly solicit even the farmers granges for money it is stated that a line of barges nony now exists capable calab e of carrying down the mississippi and landing at new orleans bushels of grain per week at six cents a bushel an and with a few months notice could greatly exceed that capacity it is urged that the saving to the farmers by this route thus equipped would be fully 30 cents per bushel which would pay them about 20 per acre acro remore morg more on ou their corn fields every year than they now get and which would add from 10 to 20 per acre to the value of thousands upon thousands of farms in this valle valie valley vailey the produce raised upon chickis wh which ICKIs is now comparatively worthless it is also proposed that no call upon the subscribed stock of greater than thau five per cent shall ever be made each call cail being sufficient to build one steamer and that after the first steamer is built no call shall be made until she has made at least one round voyage and fully demonstrated her powers for money making 21 an enterprise of this kind would bo be far more conducive to the pros perly of the region immediately concerned than quarreling about elections and if the people of the south aou would set themselves to work in earne earnest A to developing the resources of the country after this fashion they would soon become more prosperous than ever they were before the war OLD SETTLERS in judicial districts where anything like a fair adminis administration tra tion of the law is had it is an established rule that the claims of the old settlers are to be respected in the matter of water supply in the regions which are dependent on irrigation this rule applies with equal force to new settlers up stream or down stream the old settlers have the superior claim to sufficient water and the proper control thereof TERM teru some of the papers in their early allusions to the next presidential election are already probably by way of a feeler putting forth the tho name of gen grant for a third term the most im important octant qualification in the president sida ent is 14 that he be the best man that the nation can eau furnish furni sll sli when the time of choice shall come if gen grant prove to be that individual the matter of a third term will be comparatively unimportant but the other particular ia Is all important it is essential to the best interests of the lanion |