Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-22

w The State of Georgia has granted charter
to certain influential parties in Brussels and
Antwerp to construct line of railway from Sa-
vannah to the City of Natchez. The requisite
capital is to be supplied by citizens Of Georgia
and Belgium, and England, and the liability of
subscribers is limited to the amount of their shares
in the company. One of the leading objects of
Mississippi, is to facilitate emigration. Steam
navigation can accomplish the journey from South
ampton, Liverpool or Antwerp in fifteen days; but
the passage thence to the Mississippi through the
Gulf of Mexico is difficult, dangerous and fire.
quently consumes a month. By means of the
railway the journey from Savannah to Natchez
will be effected in twenty four hours. London
paper speaks of the project as follows:
The line has been surveyed and the ground is
said to be very favorable for the rail. 1t will COM
mence at Savannah, in the State of Georgia, and
proceed to Natchez a distance of some hundred
miles. Large portions of the line will traverse
valies and prairies, and the engineer will not be
startled by Raxhil or Kilsby tunnels. Timber
can be had on each side of the line, which can be
used particularly for the wooden rail so common
in America, sleepers and every kind of wood work;
and, above all, the price of the land, which has so
heavily encountered our lines, will be next to no.
thing" The great valley of the Mississippi
drains surface not inferior certainly, to that of
any other river in the world from its central
source including its main stream, (the Missouri
it is upwards of three thousand miles from the
ocean, taking into account the windings of the
river. This valley, rich, in natural resources
and calculated to become the seats of populous
communities is comparatively isolated by the
want Of intercommunication with the States of
Alabama and Georgia and by its sea distance
from the Atlantic; and it is scarcely possible to es
innate the benefits that must result to the three
States by linsing them together and opening the
great water lines of the Atlantic and Mississi pp
What return the shareholders may expect
from the completion of this national work, we
are not sufficiently skilled in railway statistics to
form an accurate opinion. An emigration scheme
is associated with the railway plan, and as an in
ducement to the shareholders, they are, without
pecuniary risk, to participate in the development
of this scheme. Georgia is recommended as
possessing salubrious climate, and one we'll
adapted to the European constitution, with fer
tile soil. In various districts of the STATE, cotton
mills have been located and it is said to have coal
beds, and immense deposits of iron ore. 1t is
fayorably distinguished for its punctual payments
OF all its obligations and it is the only State in
the Union that allows aliens to hold, sell, and
mortgage property-a privilege of inestimable
value to emigrating population. 1t will be
seen from the above particulars that the project
offers many inducements to English capital
lists, and in the present state of the money
market it will be sure to comm and attention.
The subscription list is filling to an enormous num-
Der of applicants and the shares, we believe, al
ready command a premium of three -eighths.