Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1840-01-18

~ the rate session OF the Legislature
an act was passed and commissioners ap-
pointed to designate and mark out a
public road from this place 10 the Saate
line on the nearest and best route to Tus-
caioosa, and authorized the commission
ers 10 employ a sufficient number of
hands TO cut out and improve the road
4 At the same session a resolution was
passed requesting an appropriation of
/ foaF thousand dollars out Of the two per
( cent. fund 10 Be paid into the State Trea-
sury, 70 deiray the expenses of the i'm
+ ProFement. The road has already been
iald of and des grated and the report Of
J the commissioners filed in the office Of
+ the Secretary OF State. No part of the
two pr cent fund has been placed at the
/ disposal Of the State by Congress. and no
provision made Tor the paw ment of the
commissioner or further prosecution of
/ tie work. There is a balance Of three
/ thousand nine hundred and filiy-eight
/ dollars and .hIT-v cents remaining in the
1 Planters Bank TO the credit of The three
/ per cent. fand. This sum would be sufH
cient 10 cut out the road and build the
necessary bridges and it would be we'll
to appropriate il TO that purpose. With
good line Of stages on that route,
Washington City could be reached in
nine days from this place Travel thro'
The State would BE- greatly increased
News from the Metropolis Of the Union
and the Eastern cities disseminated over
the whole state in half the time now re-
quired. Increased facilities would be al-
forded 10 the Legislature to watch the
conduct Of their agents at W ashington
City, and 10 transmit their commands f.
with certainty and rapidjty. The route
Eastward to the State line passes gene !
rally over Il ine country but little OBJ
structed with water courses. A good
Stage road could be made at small ex-
Pense.
| transmit herewith letter from the .
President Of the Commercial and Rail
Road Bank, of Vicksburg. showing The
total amount already expended on the
road, 10 be one million, eight hundred .
and ninely-two thousand. two hundred
and siXty-seveB dollars, aud seventy-iour
cents. The amount paid for the right
of way one hundred and two thousand,
eight hundred and forty-one dollars and
lorty-e!ght cents. Twenty eight miles
of the road is now finished. The
monthly expenses Of transportation are
five thousand five hundred dollars.
The receipts were,
10 September, S3,9l7 10
Ia October, 8,771 60 Il
In November, 1886 69
From the Isl TO the 18th Dec. 8,946 50
$50. 1872 80 +
Fourteen thousand bales Of cotton OIL
the last crop were taken into Nicksburg {
on theroad previous TO the 18th OF last
month. Two hundred thousand dollars
viii be required to finish the road to
this piace-erect the necessary ware {
houses, aud place a sufficient number Of =
locomotives and cars upon the road. - (
The receipts on the road and al the coun-
ter Of the bank, are chiefly in their own {
paper and cannot be used 10 finishing the /
road The large sum expended IN con- {
strncting the road has tended greatly to I
smbarrass the bank. c
also transmit letter of the Cashier I
Of the Grand Gulf Bail Road and Bank :
ing company, showing the amour! ex- !
pended in the construction of the road. c
and an estimate Of the probable sum re- J
Iuired 10 complete it. Tedious law suits
relative 10 the right Of way, have re-
arded the completion Of the work {
Jackson and Brandon Rail Road and ii
Bridge Company, IS submitted. The to- +
al cost of the work is estImated al three q
hundred and forty five thousand, three o
hundred and thirty-four dollars, and if d
cen thousand dollars Is required 10 I'm C
sh the work A proposition has been i
.poken of 10 surrender this road TO the c
slate IN payment Of the debt due by the 3
Brandon Bank am unable to say {
whether II would be ia the power of the {
,ank 10 relieve the road from the incum- S,
frances upon Il. The contractors have b
lot been fully paid. and judgment credi- c
ors no doubt wall eudeavor TO make the Il
DAD subject TO the payment OF their de- p
hands. [
The report Of the State Architect o
herewith transmitted, shews that the :.
,tate Prison can be made ready for the j
deception OF forty or fifty conyicts, in e
our or FIVE weeks. The prison IS con- b
tructed to keep conyicis in solitary con- v
Inement during the night, and at hard II
abor together during the day. i am sa- 2
Isfied that solitary confinement during u
he dav as we'll as at night al hard labor, a
would be preferable. Hardened Williams c,
you'd thus be deprived OF the means of ii
orrapting those less stepped IN crime
han themselves. 1t would be we'll toI D
i've both systems fair trial. and ] II
therefore, suggest the proPriety of haS-I c
ag the other wing of the penitentiary II
INSTRUCTED on the Pennsylvania Plan.--l :.
Ten thousand dollars were appropriated tC
* wears ago for the building of man Fl
ion for the Governor Of the State b
has lately been made ic
nd further appropriation viii be ne D
ecessary TO finish the house Personal V
. have no interest in its completion. ii
When / came into Office | made great
acrifice to obtain a residence, and am Il
Filling 10 remain in it until the exPira- r,
ion OF my term ! found il impossible c
D rent a suitable house on any terms r
rhe constitution requires the Executive Il
f the State TO reside al the seat OF Gov p
rnment II has been the practice OF our o