Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1853-07-29


PUBLIC SPIRIT IN SAVANNAH, AND IT'S RE
Suits. From official statements recently published W.
CLEAN The following interesting statistics, showing what ha
been done by ;.o city Of Savannah, in the way Of public
during the last few years and the elect
produced thereby ON It's own condition.:
thin, civ has subscribed and paid the various rail
companies Ia State Of Georgia, 81 VOO endorsed til,
bonds OF another company to me nn""ht OF s'oeoo an
has also recently subscribed 81 UQOUUO to the Savanna
Pensacola Rail oai making aggregate for rail road
alone 81 Si5 con Brsijs This shc has contributed S45UU
steamships 500 200 Tor canal SuUGU9 for ens-wo;ks
$3.50 0GO ur and very recently S60 600 Tn
improvement! I'll her hah, making en- entire aggregate fi
public Of S. y5 600. This for city only
twenty thousand inhabitants speaks loudly for their publ,
shirt the effects OF which follows When the Cen
trol Rail Road commcnccd the population OF Savan
sand In lhr years 94l and 1872 she ehpred $40
cotton IS 900 casks rice and ~ CUU 100 feet Of utcr
During 1851 and 1852 she shipped ca COO bales OF
cotton 5UU casks u rice and i3 UuO GOO eri Of lumbc
She hus II rail Nin with the rcancs
line distance 81 five hundred miles to which Two hun
bred miles will be added The completion cf thu
Nachy lilo and Chattanooga road. conneAion with Knox
VILE Tennessee, well rs with Memphis, will be q,
lected md another with Mexican gulf BY Girard
road when she viii be Tie terminus OF nearly TWO uuian
miles Of rail road.
The citizens Of Richmond will discover from the facts
Savunnuhs case, the true secret of prosperity and concr
cial growth Richmond has not committed error in sub.
scbing to internal improvements But she has commit led
error; and TINT not subscribing literally enough Her
aggregate Subscriptions Ia al classes .! internal improve
mcnts we believe do reach 81 25G0UO-onc million and
quarter of dollars Consequently her public works reach
bu, short distances the interior yet command
but limited region OF country II her subscriptions were
doubled or ,rped quadruplcd her rail roads would be
multiplied in The same degree in their length and reach and
the trade prosperity and wealth of the city consequent upon
their would increased Every
civ which has embarked its credit largely in rail roads has
,tsus such those realized by Savannah.
rhos maj h. back wurd reluctant. and siinirJ in
their suLSr Iuns have experienced only The slow, 'ndy
aud ncasuco results which Richmond has realized In
Sc has The experience Of ces been Different in this
gard; in history of all municipal subscriptions
rail roads The scptura parable been verified of The
len, hid in Napkin and tho talents boldly expended in
dcious adventure.
But tho public enterprise of Savannah IL not Yet al
end There are $50 miles of rail road in actual and
profitable operation in The Georgia In addition
heso Savannah has just surveyed road Florida av
ng ils western terminus at Pensacola distance Of three
hundred and eighty miles. Savannah will build it 10 the
western border of Georgia. hundred and ninety miles,
81 500 600 have been subscribed Besides these roads three
more aro in contemplation, and will certainly be built
These will make the system Of rail roads in Georgia
10 one thousand five hundred miles.
give learn from the Charleston Conties that Major :.
4 Goldman editor The illustrated Family Friend publish
al nj Columbus s c. died NJ the residence of Mr. r. W.
Ienry, Charlotte county. Va. on the 18th inst