Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-12-19

ntrsssS the Location would he made. The
Beard zs has been remarked, met al Hunts
x5lse On the ! 5th Of January 1851, 10 locate
The Rad. al Wl.sch meeting no Director at
a. froa Mississippi was present; but the
CounE5es - Marshall, TIppah and Tisha-
r.-nnza- Ehich were chiefly interested IN the
subject. seai a deputaiion to wait upon the
Board, and represent the interests of those
Coansses- These delegates endeavored to
.oozxlnoe the Beard Of the inaccurate and
insrserfect character Of the survey OF the
Mississippi route, AID THEY PROPOSED TO
suE EosED 10 HAVE IEE ROUTE RE-sURvEF-
EB AT 0xoE, b ASE CogPETEST ESGISEER
uHoz TETE BOARD NIGHT SELECT, FREE OF
ExFExsE TO TuE COMPANY, AND WITHOUT
1.ELzEESG THE OPERATIONS OF THE BOARD
4 oersisied list Of reliable stock subscrip-
zi0zs. amounting 10 upwards of $500, 600
from the County OF Marshall alone, was
te-Gere1 70 the Board, and the assurance
wzs gwen by the delegates that this amount
zoaIs re more than doubled IN sixty days,
+ he Board would locate he road in con-
fsTrastv with the terms Of our charter
These propositions, and others of a similar
chzrarseF, we're rejected, and the delegates
uzre officially informed By the Board that
here was Eo hope lhat .'AST NEW SURVEY
C0CLD CIANGE IFS ANNOUNCED DETERMTNA-
Trox-''
Disappointed and indignant at this disre-
gard % their interests and rejection of
tAcir cve-1ures- the citizens of North Mis-
sisslpFi held Convention at Ripley on the
81 of March, 1851, to consider of the
course proper for them to pursue under the
circumstances, which Convention was nu-
uerously attended by delegates from the
Counties Of Tishamingo, Tippah, Pontotoc,
and Marshall The proceedings of this
Convention were embodied in permanent
form, and spread before the public, and
measures will be adopted to submit them
- the consideration of your Hon. Bodies.
Among other resolutions adopted was one
recommending the immediate and complete
organization of the Holly Springs Rail
Road Co. =; re-survev of the Mississippi
route, and a location of the road upon that
route. Before this recommendation was
carried into practical effect, there was given
good ground for the hope and belief that
Z tie controversy with reference to the loca-
uoT Of the road would be amicably and
fUrig adjusted. Another meeting OF
The Board was convened at Florence, Ala
bama, IN Jaly last, when proposition was
zgain submitted, which there was good
reason to believe would be accepted, the
substance of which was, that the Board
shoald locate the road as required by the
law Of the charter on condition that the
charter of the Holly Springs r. r. Co.
containing amongst other peculiar advan-
gsres a perpetual exemption of the capital
sock from taxation) should be transferred
u the Memphis d Charleston Co, together
with the conditional stock already subscri-
bed. amounting then to about S400, 900,
and that the citizens of North Mississippi
should within short period, to be fixed by
the Board, increase this subscription to at
least $500, 600, making the entire Missis-
sippi subscription, including the uncondi-
Iional stock already subscribed, about
>7o0. COO Ii there should be failure on
I the part OF our citizens to raise the proposed
amount OF stock within the time limited by
The Board, then We were to forfeit all claim
% the location; withdraw all opposition
and permit the road to be built wherever
The Board might desire Liberal as thi:
proposition was, it was also rejected by tn,
Board who have taken an appeal from tht
terms of our charter to the supreme Legis
lative tribunal of the State, upon the hope
aH3 expectation, it is presumed, that they
weala there meet with that sympathy ant
consideration which they themselves know
% vel how to-Scithhot9.
The result of this controversy befor,
year Hon. BoJies, is undoubtedly of NOR
} importance 10 the local interests of the cit
izezs residing in the Northern Counties o
the State, than any other local question
which has ever been before them, affecting
ihern most vitally, not only for the present
{ bus permanently. Your Memorialists sub
alia whether in the Judgment of all candit
and inst men, these citizens have not man
ifes1eA a readiness to do all that could b
asked ofshera, consistent with any kind o
regard for their own interests, to effect:
settlement of this difficulty with the Board
/ and they ask now, if the Legislature Q
iheir State, whose province and preroga
i've Il Is TO foster and encourage the inter
ests Of the citizen. and thereby advance tn
! Interests of the State, viii lend It's powe
10 destroy what it should protect, by inter
: feT5nr IN this controversy, and deprivin
! year Mencrialists and others concerned, c
the legal advantage they now have, an
, which seems TO be the only argument tha
can bring their opponents to reason. BE
! fore exercising this act of interference, it
/, surely right that the effects and consequer
, oes Ol The act upon all the parties involved
, should be carefully and maturely considei
cd Firss, then, let the question be asked
E whzs neason IS urged why the Legislator
: shoald now interfere and grant the propose
: change in the charter, and what pTeludic
Eoald result to the Company prosecutin
; tAis enterprise. should you decline cndein
What preceding Legislature has done
the premises
For the reasons above assigned, but Iii
: 1e Importance can be attached to the Re
: pors of the Chief Engineer as to the res
E pecsive merits of the two conflicting routes
E The objections urged in that Report to til
: Mississippi route are frst, that it is 1
: niles longer than the Tennessee route, bt
this difference in distance, it is admitte
! By the Report, may be reducedto 10 mile.
| .Scoozsly, that on portien of the forme
. route the road viii run across the stream
and ridges, and the maximum grade {
. IS s-io feet In the mile would occur. Thes
) are aa the objections urged, and the Re
|. port, locking only to location upon tn
: lanr.Sza, rsoufss does not sfoy, ia. conSIde