The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY FROM

THE MISSIS-

SIPPI TO THE ATLANTIC.
(From the Railway Herald.)
The citizens of the Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
and South Carolina, are making great efforts to complete
the Great Southern Railroad to connect the Mississippi
river with the Atlantic. The line is to connect Jackson,
in Mississippi, with Montgomery, Alabama ; the distance
is 103 miles in Mississippi, and 124 miles in Alabama, or
about 240 miles on theprobable course to be taken. From
Jackson, by the railroad now in use, to the Mis-
sissippi river at Vicksburg, and a branch to Natchez,
and eventually westward to Texas. At Mont-
gomery, this railroad is to connect with the
Montgomery and Westpoint Railroad, of, which
about forty-five miles are completed, and the remaining
forty-five miles in 'progress, and mostly graded to be
finally completed next year to Westpoint ; from thence
to the Macon and_Western Railroad is fifty-three miles.
The rights to make all these connexions are granted.
This re:hoed will bind the Charleston and Savannah
lines of railroad already made or in instruction, con-
necting all the points with the Mississippi river,
the ocean, and the interior. The estimated cost is
3,000,000 dollars, towards which the Company has
granted 500,000 dollars of the two per cent. fund
of Alabama, set apart for this route, but loaned
out to the Montgomery and Westpoint Railroad Com-
pany ; and also the two per cent. fend of Mississippi,
amounting to some 300,000 dollars more ; these two
sums are gifts granted to encourage foreign subscrip-
tions for the Company's stock. iind there is a Bill
before Congress, and now in the Senate, for giving the
sale price of the alternate sections of United States lands
along the line for a certain distance from the railroad ;
so that it is estimated that a sub,ctiption of 150,000
dollars only in hard money, every four months, will be
sufficient to commence the works, or 450,000 dol-
lars yearly ; and it is observed that the climate
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The t üb,cription is for a capital of 3,000,00 a
pediments.
dollars, in shares ofioneigelhotllamrsonetachs, 5 dollars h, 5 ddoollliarssinten
in x
months, 5 dollars in
months, and the remainder as called for, not closer than
ten dollars every sixty days, and the company to
signed for. The Cwohmepnanysoo,ooo dollars shall be
go into activity
is perpetual, and has
power to purchase any railroad that shall be directly
or indirectly connected or in communication with
their railroad. The Government funds granted are
only to be issued when a like sum of subscription-
money has been expended on the works. When this
railroad is completed the time of travel will be lessened
on the whole line to two days at least ; between Charles.
town and St. Louis, six days ' • New Orleans, three
• days; Galveston, five days; and between Vicksburg and
Washington city, a little over four days ; and New
York, five days ; and on the completion of the Chatta-
nooga and Nashville Railroad, this will be the ordinary
route of travel from Nashville to Vicksburg, in forty-
eight hours. The distance to Vicksburg from Savannah
is set down at 670 miles, and from Charlestown at 790
miles.

ARTESIAN WELLS.---The artesian well commence
on the Southampton Common in 1838, with the intention o
obtaining from it a bountiful supply of water for the town
and which has been carried to the depth of 1,300 feet, !at an
expense to the town of 12,8861., and to the contractors of
11,1761, above that sum, eras, on Thursday, transferred to
the commissioners of waterworks in its unfinished state, the
contractors having refused to go on with the work unless
guaranteed their expenses and fair profits by the conifoi;
stoners. The work was commenced in 1838' "e 31714.37 feet of soil was found to be alluvium, the succeeding 304
suc-
ceeding chalk, in which the boribobsg.iva
London clay, the forowing 97 feet plastic clay, a
:za;ried do
judgment can be
haas total of near 1,300
the great depth of about 821 feet,
feet, and giving no indicatirbyhwe
which -t chalk may yet extend;
found as to the dept
the thoa
great
etahte
streamchalk
and experience
water required, and that
theb chalk basin. The well, in its
present state, N pumping, from 7,500 to 10,000
cubic feet of water p but that is but a fourth of
ba required for the rapidly
the quantity
sing demands of the town.
s
increasing be obtained; from
.twill
calculated
shownhel underdt a
willn
A aCHILD SUFFOCATED BY HIS BROTHER.—Monday
n inquesti.3 lrd
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.3 hwealidk,bueefothrenaNil.rg.
green,
Bak
er, n.. at
ejuhodyofthwe
illiam
Clgark, aged seven weeks. It appeared from the evidence of
the mother, that on Saturday evening last she left the de-
ceased and his brother, a little boy about two years of a
in be-1 together. On her return shortly afterwards, she dis-
ge,
covered her son Henry lying on the chest and face of the
deceased, apparently asleep. She endeavoured to awake the
deceased, but could not do so. She became alarmed, and
conveeyd him to Mr. Wallace, a surgeon in Hackney, who
pronounced the deceased to have been dead some time. The
jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."
DEATH OF M. DOIIPLA.ND.--ACCOunts have just
arrived in England of the decease of this celebrated naturalist
and companion of the great Humboldt, with whom he tra-
velled over a great part of the world.
STORM AT GRAVESEND.---011 Saturday, bright as the
sun shone in the metropolis, there was a heavy fall of rain.,
accompanied with thunder And lightning, in the neighbour.
hood of Northfleet t•nd Gravesend. Towards the middle 0!
the day the :Diu fell in torrents.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JUNE 23.
THERMOXETE IV, Lowest, 38; Highest. 83; Noon, 70,

BAROKETER, 29.65.—W1ND W., showery.

HI,;?. WATER AT LONDON-M:1101;r THIS DA
Morning -. 11 minutes arcr 2. I Evening, .. 32 minutes after 2.