The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-03-26

either for veal or woe, upon your road. One
from the Blue Spring, on the line Of your
road, to Chattanooga another from Chatta-
nooga to intcrsect your road at any optional
point, am told, but ut all events at Charles
ton, in Bradley another from the Kentucky
line, wherever the Kentucky road may
strike it, to Knoxville, no doubt having in
view direct connection with Charleston and
Savannah, by the way of Anderson Court
house, in South Carolina. To this grand
project South Carolina has given hearty
and enthusiastic response, not expecting sup
pose, to use your road to any very great en-
tent in carrying out the project. There can
You are fully appraised, no doubt, of the
heavy charges that the Augusta Bridge I'M
poses upon all passage and tonnage over,
aside from the cost of drayage, and the vexa-
tious and insutlerabe delay produced by
loading and unloading, from Hamburg, in
South Carolina, to Augusta, in Georgia. You
are. too, possibly aware, that at Il recent
meeting Of the Legislature of Georgia appIi-
cation was made to it by an agent of the
Tennessee roads and on the part of the So.
Carolina roads, for some plan of adjustment
in relation to these Bridge distractions and
you, perhaps, too, are fully appraised of II
prompt and unhcsitating rejection of the
proposition on the part of Georgia. South
Carolina at once determined to avoid this an
noyng barrier by building road from An
dcrson Courthouse in South Carolina, pass
inc through a corner Of each of the States of
Georgia and North Carolina, from each Of
whom, am told, she has procured a charter,
and no doubt expects, with our consent, to
intcrsoct or cross our road mt some suitable
point, with Il view of securing some of the
Kentucky and Ohio trade, and having more
direct and shorter route to the two first points
designated Charleston and Savannah, and
thereby relieving us, too, of the grievances
before alluded to, as well rs reducing the dis
tlncc some one hundred and fifty to two hum
bred miles. am not now able to say whc-
Their our recent Legislature has given permits
sion to extend the road from Knoxville, 50 as
to meet the contemplated South Carolina
road at the North Carolina line, not having
seen the acts of the Legislature. Suppose,
then, the project of making road to Ander-
son Courthouse is fully carried out, and
Knoxville is point, how much of your road
will be travelled Suppose again that the
proposed road should take its direction down
the lliwassce or OcOee, SO rs to interSect the
proposed Chattanooga road, how much of
your road will be travelled in going to Char
lesion, Savannah, or the North. Is not the
saving of the immense difference of one hun
dred and fifty to two hundred miles, the cs-
cape from the annoyances before alluded to,
ample and irresistible causes for avoiding the
Georgia road, and ours. Suppose again. that
this South Carolina road shonld take from
Knoxville, the legitimate and natural way,
the way that nature has opened for it, up the
Little Tennessee river, the route that must
ultimately be adopted, if the road is made
how far would the tonnage and passengers
for the points designated, and North of them,
travel your road. Then, l again, in conclu-
sion, most earnestly repeat, have these OBJ
noxious DEGREES or orders of the Board re-
vokcd - either by their own act, or by order
of general meeting of the stockholders, or
by in junction, if nothing else will avail-and
WAIT until the contingencies spoken of in
my first communication are fully and unmis-
takeablv consummated-wAIT until you see
what policy the friends of the other contem-
plated roads intend to pursue: ind then if you
find all right, with a long pull, a strong pull,
and Il pull altogether, put your shoulders to
the wheel, and, Hercules-likc, make the eX-
tension in the twnkling of an eye.
"Much yet remains unsung." II.