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Pearl. Boats carrying from SIX TO eight
hundred bales of cotton, min ordinary
stages Of water, get through this passage
with safety. In high stages of water, boats
will be enabled TO reach Jackson CITY.
the sent of government of the State of
Mississippi. This work is bu, commence.
rnent Tle navigation OF The East Pearl
must be improved. This beautiful stream
is sabjeci to being rendered navigable for
from tour to FIVE months in the year into
the very heart of the State of Mississippi.
When II Is remembered that this river
flows through one Of The rich cotton coun-
tries of the South, and through immense
forests Of The best and most valuable tim.
ber, il viii think be conceded that its
navigation is well worth the attention of the
States Of Mississippi and louisiana" He
speaks OF the immense advantages to the
city OF New Orleans as sef.evident, and
says that "ihe immediate advantages al
ready obtained from the work by tha, sec
ton of'be State of Louisiana, are the in>
creased facilities for rafting timber.''


Long has Eastern Mississippi been un-
der rated in her lands and in her location,
as regards her facilities for market. Let
itno longer be So Let the energies of a
sioewy people redeem her from the under
value which has been set upon her-let our
merchants encourage trade and business in
every legitimate shape-encourage the
trading from our surrounding counties
backload wagons as cheap as the Mlssis-
sppi river towns can do-purchase cotton
the great s'aple-ship and encourage ship
ping, and navigation by steam boats. LIE,
the citizens a, large encourage and advo.
cate the making Of good roads to induce
travelling 10 the place. Go on with the
great wolk Of improving the navigation
shake hands with our sister, Louisiana
over the waters OF the West Pearl ante
and draw the produce from interior Mlssis.
sipp, from beyond jackson, down the
Pearl by steam boats-trade out of Pear
in Lumber, by Rafts-encourage mechan,
les TO come and settle with us-encourage
building and repairing houses and tene
ments, and let us hear the sound of the
hammer and Unite-Peart rivel
can be made navigabIe, and when in such
state it will remain so, long after Raj
Roads will have decayed away and arc
forgotten. The river is natures road
is naturc's great artery Let us do all this
and Monticello, the little Queen of the
East, will grow up and become place o
business, and a city.