Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-11-07
From the Greenviiie Mountaineer.
GREENVILLE G.. H., Der. 90.
RAIL ROAD MEETING

From the Greenviiie MountaIneer
GREENVILLE G. H., Der. 90.
RAIL ROAD MEETING.
On motion of Col. Brockman, V. M'Bee,
ESQ, was called to the Chair, and DR.. Irvine
to act as Secretary.
Mr.. Poinsett next proceeded to read the Re-
port of the Committee which was appointed
at the last meeting. ~
On motion of Major Perry, it was moved
that the Report and Resolutions be adopted,
which was done unanimously. -
Moved by Mr.. Poinsett that thesChair APP
point a Committee Of thirty to correspond with
such other Committees as may be appointed
in other sections of the State.
Also moved that the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the Mountaineer, and
that the Charleston, Hamburg, and Columbia
papers be also requested to publish.
Moved by Col. Walker that the papers OF
Western North Carolina and East Tennes-
see be requested to publish these proceedings.
Committee Of Thirty appointed by the Chair
MANI. R. Poinsett, +. D. Earle, V. M'Bee.
7. Walker, B. F. Perry, S. M. Earle. W.
Thompson, NJ. B. Earle. B. Durham, A. B.
Crook, G. F. TONNES, f. F. Beattie. E. p.
Jones, w. Choice, J. II. Coleman, P. E. Dun
can, ]. II. Joyce, Il. E. Ware, Henry Smith,
II. P. Brockman, Josiah Kiigore, Robert Cox.
II. Cleveland, w. Butler, NJ. T. Hudson, T.
B. Williams, Wilson Barton, Silas r. Whit
ten, and David Blythe.
The Committee appointed to examine and
report on the practicability and expadiency of
constructing railway from this place to pass
through the centre of the State to one of the
upper ter,nnl Of the Charleston Rail Road,
aud to collect such information as may be ne
cessary to enable their fellow citizens to de-
eide thereon, respectfully report, that
They have considered the subject submitted
to them, with the care and circumspecton its
importance claims; and have collected In Teia-
ton to it all the information the very limited
time allowed. From patient investigation
of the facts, to be hereafter submitted, and al
ter the maturest reflection. your committee
have come TO the conclusion, that Railway
extending from Greenville Court House and
passing through the centre Of the State, in as
direct a line as the nature of the country will
permit, to unite with one of the upper termlni
Of the Charleston Rail Road. would combine
all the advantages which have originated and
rendered successful similar undertakings in
this and other States.
1t appears to them that the actual traffic in
passengers, produce and goods along the di-
rect line, added to the transportation from the
Districts through which it will pass, as we'll
as from those situated on either side ofsit, with
the. trade of Eastern Tennessee and North
Carolina, which would flow along this chan.
mel, fully warrant them in Recommending this
W ork to the enterprise of ttie8state.
All who are acquainted with the defective
condition of the communications between the
upper Districts of South CaloIina, and their
markets on the sea coast, will acquiesce in
the necessity Of commencing some work TO
ameliorate them while the concurrent testi-
mony of the whole civilized world proves the
superiority of Railways over all reads or 9TH
er modes of transportation for the purpose of
connecting distant points of CO r:,try having
Intimate relations of trade with each other !:
And your Committee are Of opinion that the
traffic likely to pass over the line recommen-
ded, cannot be accommodated by any other
description Of road; and that to adopt any such
would lead to great expenditure of money,
producing only partial benefit to very linz
tied extent of country.
ATurnpike Road. however extensively and
we'll made, accommodates only the direct traf-
ic of the country through which it passes,
whereas 1t is susceptible of mathematical! de-
monstration. thata Railway will facilitate the
traffic in passengers, produce and goods of all
that portion of country situated withinsihe an
giles embraced by base lines one-half the length
OF the Railway, extended from either side of
one terminus, and lines drawn from the ex-
tremltes Of these base lines to the opposite
terminus. 1t being much moe expeditions,
as we'll as cheaper, to travel from any point
Situated within these angles to the Railway,
and to proceed on it to the place of destination,
than to travel by the common roads of the
country along the hypothenuse of the angle to
the same point.
BY the action of this principle, the propos-
ed Railway from CreenviIe to the Charleston
TOAD will not only accommodate all the direct
trade OF the country along its route, bat will
afford faculties to all that portion of the State
included by lines drawn from this place to
the frontier Of Georgia on the one side, and TO
that OF North Carolina on the other, and from
them to the lower terminus, embracing large
space, and comprising some Of the most fertile
and productive lands in the State.
We do not recommend this undertaking as
oferlng prospect Of sudden profit to the
specIiatlng Stakeholder; but for the great
benefit to be derived from it by the people at
large, by the certain increase of all property
to be reached by its influence, the greatly
augmented prosperity of the country, the i'm.
proved condition of our agriculture and manu-.
factures, and for the incalculable ADVANTAGES
social, moral and political to be derived from
an easy and frequent communication with our
fellow citizens of the lowe, country, who
might thereby be tndnced to seek health and
amusement In the mountain regions of their
native State during the Summer months; and
II ever war shoutd unfortunately visit ouy