The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-09-17
THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.

THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
We have had frequent occasion to notice the
increased and increasing business and the high
prosperity that seemed certainly to wait on
the future of Charleston; and at no former Pc
riod have there been more striking evidences Of
this rapid and sure advance in trade and wealth
than at the present time; and what is subject
of graduation to us all, is the activity and ener.
gy with which this accumulation of business
is met by all classes of four community, and
amongst them we note with especial pleasure
the very efficient preparations that our Railroad
has made, and is making, to do its part in the
general progress.
We understand that the South Carolina Rail
Road Company, besides putting all their large
stock of motive and car power in complete or.
der, have added greatly to both, in anticipstios-
of the business of the approaching season.
OfI.ocomotives the Company hsye received,
and expect shortly to receive. five new engines,
VIZ: the IF. H. Etnore, now IN the engine
house; the "R. Y. Hayne," on board ship, both
from Norris and Brothers, Philadelphia; the
"Wm Lowndes" and "Wm. Cummings" from
Baldwin, Philadelphia;. and the "Lsngdon
Cheves," from Rodgers, Ketchum and Gros.
veneur, Patterson, New Jersey. Of these all
that have not arrived and on the way or ready
for shipment.
Of passenger cars the Company are 'seceiv'
ing, of the most approved model and construc.
ton, seven new ones-viz: the "Col. GLADDEN."
and Augusta" both now on the Road, and
the "Colu,nbia," "Camden," "Greenville,"
Charlotte" and Montgomery" which will be
on the road i'll fortnight Two Of these ara
in course of construction by Mr.. Hacker, OF
Charleston, are nearly finished.
OF freighting cars the Company have now
ready for service four hundred, and are receiv.
ing, under an existing contract for two hundred
box cars, at the rate of three week.
These preparations indicate the ability of
the Company to despatch promptly everything
that may come, either in the.way of freight or
passage; but we learn at the Charleston depot,
that their arrangements are such that the Com.
pany have, without exception up to this time,
and will continue in all timesto come, to dis.
patch every package of goods by the five o.
clock morning train, that was received at the
depot by dark the evening before, and in the
event of more passengers arriving than can be
accommodated in the Mail trains of ten and
half past ten o'clock, an extra train will be dis
patched half an hour after the regular trains,
which will arrive at Hamburg, Columbia and
Camden at or very nearly the same time as the
latter.
There are also, we learn, otherimpf mpfeyements
lin prugrrss- that viii add greatly ts The. alti.
mate efficiency ofthe Road. We sallude par.
ticularly to work now going on in cutting round
the inclined plane at Aiken, which the energetic
contractors, j. c. Sproulls and Co. are pressing
on to completion; to the new ironing Of the
Road with heavy Bridge and T rail, which we
learn will be finished by the lst of January,
and to the construction of new workshops, en-.
gine house, &c. which has been undertaken BY
]. P. and B. F. Earle, to be completed in part
by the lst fJanuary, another part by the lst
Of February, and the whole by the lst of April.
long and strong pull. and a pull altogether, is
all that is needed on the part OF the communi.
ty of Charleston to make our City all that its
warmest friends could desire.