The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-10-30

had been located, had already been effected
to the following extent, to-wit:
In Kemper county $4,000
e Sumter do (donation) 140OOl
Noxubee do 28I .00OI
do do prop. forwork to
be paid in stock $4,000
Lowndes do 100000
Oktibbeha do $4,000
Monroe do in work 120,50OI
do do in cash 10000
Chickasaw do in work 100000
do do in cash $4,000
Total subscribed to25th Aug. north -
of Lauderdale county $848, 500
Leaving deficit of little over $500, 600
according to the estimates necessary for the
construction of the road as far as located. Tt
is confdently believed that sum will be raised
in the counties above mentioned, and the
greater portion off in the county Of Lowndes
which by her hitherto meagre subscription
for stock has failed to manifest that practical
illustration Of her interest in this enterprise
which is so desirable. The location of the
road will be made through Pontotoc, Itawam-
ba and Tishamingo counties to the Tennessee
line, so soon as the necessary surveys, &C.,
can be made, thereby giving those counties
and others contiguous both in this State and
Alabama an interest in the contemplated con-
vention to be held in Columbus on the oath
of next month
No Railroad of any considerable extent in
the southern States or Owe might add the
North either, so far as we are informed and
we have paid some attention to this subject,
has been constructed, even upon the most
expensive scale, without yielding full remu-
neration by way of dividends upon stock, to
every stakeholder, to say nothing of the great
and almost incalculable benefits to the coun-
try through which they pass, by increasing
the value of real estate economising time
in transportation and travel, and furnishing a
market for all surplus productions from the
least even to the most important article.
By way of illustrating the utility of this
road we would ask, what would be the value
of labor and real estate in this section with
out the advantages derived, from the very pre-
carious navigation of the Tombigbee and
Warrior rivers, and taLinginto consideration
the fertility of our soil, the salubriousncss OF
our climate and the character of our produc
tons, We may ask, what wouldit be worth
with such stream as the Mississippi river
passing centrally through it. Nature ha'
denied US this advantage, but our own enter
prise may supply us with better substitute
E The old States manifest their preference TO
Railroads, by constructing them along tn
banks of some of their best navigable water
and experience proves them profitable Eli
f teen years ago the State of Georgia com
!, menced the construction Of Railroads bot
fEby individual and State enterprise, and sue
was found to bcthe public and private bene
E fit derived from them, that no obstacle seem
!. ed to impede their progress mountains wer
!, cut through, many parts of them Of soil
! granite-yalleys were filed up-dificul
@ streams bridged, at the most enormous e.
i penditures, and up to this time that State ha
a completed about one thousand miles of Raj
d road. If then, roads could be built undo
4 such disadvantages and found to be so prof
lie able to the stockholders as they have prove
h to be, how much greater must be the prof.
q Of the stockholders of the Mobile and OH
A. road. Here we have no mountains toeros
,e on the contrary We have almost level coul
a try the whole route In addition to thi
o the Congress of the United States has don
h. ted to the States of Alabama and Nississi
Or pi, as trustees for the company, and to
e used alone for the construction Of said roa
10 quantity of the public lands, which at t
ii enhanced price twill bring after the compl
oe ton of the road, viii nearly pay half the e
Il pense of its construction. That land has 8
~ ready been located and amounts to one. mi
p ion two hundred thousand acres, which h
g pothecated at the low prieeof s. z50per aer
Of would enable the company to raise thr
IN millions of dollars to purchase the iron al
ne machinery Of the road, and when complete
to the enhanced value of The. land would up
n sale, do doubt realise the price per acre,
i'd hypothecation, thereby leaving the stookhol
ers in the possession Of one of the most Y
ed liable and productive Railroads in the Unit
m States, constructed SO far as they are concer
r ed, at half the usual cost.
lie In the meeting Of the citizens Of this cou
We ty on the 10th inst, there were two objet
m specially contemplated the call Of . Ra
er road convention:
60 First 1t was believed, that BY an int
GO change of feeling and sentiment between
Of citizens of the various counties interested
q the Road, more vigorous efforts may be y
" duced toward the speedy construction Of
~ And Secondly, e was deemed important
Dy tins particular juncture, 70 give IS far as r
ne sible, proper direction to public opinion, as
die character Of legislation which vii be-
az cessary il the opposition Of the land donai
lat BY Congress to aid "a the const uetion Of
dy road.