Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1853-08-17

| Let US look around LOT O moment ana oUSer'e lie
condition of the different rail road enterprises in
section.
First there is the Greenville and Columbia Rail
Road just now fairly and fully in operation rs far up
as Anderson Court H0use-a road which has cost Its
friends years nt ,roubic AMI auI":yn hraa-eds Of
thousands OF dollars. !, was originated ny nicn u
intelligence and sagncy, and PAS been riste'i to
completion with ali "a. energy which f'"Si1an u
s,rnng will aat u.!a.ng purpose con.d Bring "a bear
nnnn t. ,.a ...4 L.niI 5.t:-t 'n.'"c 4Gi E!.e IL
rectors and siUcSu"l,Icrr f ,..a.arg N;'a nc,
nerve as exhibited hy any So. Of men SER
prospects at the outset daz."ngy bright, and
they have done all they could to realize them. But
how stands it with that company now Dislleartened
by the unforeseen difficulties they have had to contend
With, aud alarmed by the unexpected development OF
competition which ID entered their imagina-
tnns, they ready amit that their situation has
berome pr:cariols in the extreme. That they will
still put furth their whole energies to themselves
in some way we do not doubt. And We hope they may
be able do proper principles 1t is enough for
onr present purpose know that the brilliant visions
which once silded their future have become suddenly
overcast with cloud which mmnently threatens their
extinction. We regret it rs much as any one not di-
recly implicated. Still, if well considered it Should
'e"en ''''et' "''oieoi' 'e''o'' anu 'oi '' i'''o'i
alone here refer to it.
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course) ready go towards its consrruction-men Of
intelligence and spirit deeply interested in its esab-
lishmcnt and sangnine of its success. We hear of
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dreams oi "eath anu spenoor oy nght, all 10 come
10 pass rs necessary sequence OF lhls grand opera
ton And yet, the Route has never been surveyed
nor Is 1t known, certainly, within five thousand
dollars per mile ot what the road is to cost-nor can
1t be told with any precision where is to rum If we
are wrong IN any Of these statements, we will cheer.
iully admit the correction from whatever quarter II
may come We should not have made the las, one
had We not heard but the other day that some OF the
socNhouerS 'o"ght the load ought 10 cross the ea
'ahhah ri'er zen h'ies ABOVE Augusta ana terminate
IN that city while others believed Just as firmly that
would be Kept on the South Carolina side and ter
inmate in Hamburg. True, these may prove to be no
difficulties in the end. All may come right. An ac-
curate survey may show the ron,c TO be cheap one
and straight one. All may agree TO let the road go
down on one or the other side of the Savannah Ham.
burg may agree TO let it terminate in Augusta, Au-
gusa, which city designs bringing her whole weight
to bear in this matter, may agree let it terminate in
Hamburg. These Things, say, may all work smooth
y in the end. Or, they may not We think the pros
and this last point worthy the consideration of
all who may be Interested
But .'srs siill another -9rtr ~ rGata~:pIatjon o
decide more !mpn>ira t.,,.a.. .aa a:,a, nf
other "c 80 have giaaced a!.--wc near tie Jiatda
Gap Road The rnn'e u tins rr'd !, Dd-rsuai l.. be-
from !.,- o. - .N1U4n ',a'orI. .:Ha0, ,Hrong!
Edsehtlda h65.ri;'r '5erscn. !a 'cErr, Districts,
to the zap ~ ~ a'' Inc rs Iei'; rs g'sihic The
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tile City or Charleston, and the South Carolina Rail
Road Company, to say nothing of large support it
would receive all along its entire length. This, we
are Tree to say is considered by us The great under
taking of the day for South Carolina. Our opinion
is based upon several reasons, only one of which we
have room here to mention, and that very briefly.
We hold that the great object now to be attained
by u.s. in order to advance the prosperity not only of
our own State hut of the Sou,bern S,.,ss con.r,IIv
is the fostering and building up OF some Southern sen
port upon the Atlantic coast. which NAV becoms
great mart for our whole section with the obili,v m
offer equal facilities, in a commercial point Of view
with any city in the Union Charleston is unones. |
tionably that port, and the State of South Carolina
is, ought TO be, deeply interested in Fastening by
every prudential and polite measure the consumma
non OF her prosperity. One principal means OF doing
lnls Is Tue formation OF connecting INK between the
c's vi C"afieS'"n anu Inc hear oi 'he western Int.
TUT of 'e purpose oi ihunclhs as large an amount rs
oSs.oe u .e fch prounce Oh that aounoant country.
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