Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-06-26
RAILROAD FROM SAVANNAH TO NArcHEz.

| The State of GEORGIA has granted charter to
certain influential parties in Brussels and Antwerp
to construct line of railway from Savannah 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 this proposed connexion Of the Atlantic
with the Mississippi (says the Richmond Times) is
to facilitate emigration. Steam navigation can
complish the journey from Southampton, Liverpool,
or Antwerp in fifteen days but the passage thence
to the Mississippi through the Gulf of Mexico is
difficult, dangerous, and frequently consumes
month. By means Of the railway the journey from
Savannah to Natchez will be effected in twenty-f -four
hours A London paper speaks Of the project
follows:
The line has been surveyed and the ground is said to
be very favorable for the rail- It will commence Mt Sa
vannah in the State Of Georgia. and proceed to Natchez
distance Of hundred miles. Large portions Of the
line viii traverse valleys and prairies and the engineer
viii not be startled by Boxh Klsby tunnels Timber
be had each side Of the line, which be used
particularly for the wooden rail common in America
sleepers and every kind of woodwork and, above ALL
the price of the land which has heavily incumbered
lines, will be next to nothing The great valley of
the Mississippi drains surface not inferior certainly
that OF any other river in the world from its central
source, including its main 1.-THE Mssour it up
wards of three thousand miles from the ocean, taking
the windings Of the river This valley rich
resources calcuated become the
populous communities is comparatively isolated by the
want of INSTRUMENTATION with the States of Alabama
and Georgia and by its distance from the Atlantc
and it is scarcely possible to estimate the benefits that
must result to the three States by linking them together
and opening the great water lines of the Atlantic and
Mississippi.
''What return the shareholders may expect from the
completion Of this national work sufficiently
skilled in railway statistics to form opinion
An emigration scheme is associated with the railway pan
and inducemen to the shareholders they are with
out pecuniary risk to participate in the development of
this scheme. Georgia is recommended as possessing
salubrious climate and well adapted to the European
constitution with fertile soil In various districts Of
the State cotton mills have been located said TO
have coal beds and immense deposites Of iron 1t is
tavorably distinguished for its punctua payments Of all
its obligations and is the only State in the Union that
allows aliens to hold sell, and mortgage property
privilege of inestmable value emgratng population
1t viii be from the above particulars that the project
offers many inducements to English capitalists, and in
the present state of the money market will be to
command attention The subscription list is filling to
enormous number Of applicants, and the shares, be-
lieve, already command premium Of three-eighths."