Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-04-15
Our Trip to XyhitevIIlc.

ment but favorable, rather, to a calm review an
candid examination Of our position.
Our Trip to yyhitevInc.
Our associate paid visit to Whteville Mon
day last on the Manchester Road. The Road, we
are pleased to learn is in good order-the are
excellent and the locomotives large. The speed a.
bout 80 miles per hour. The track has been COM
pleed little beyond Porters Swamp, about 65
miles from Brunswick River from which place the
start. Distileres being erected at several
points on the Road in Columbus county. Lands
have materially advanced in price in this county,
since the Road has gone into operation.
The Superior Court was in session, his Honor
Judge Dick, presiding. large number of friyol
Gus cases of indictments of various kinds, were dis
posed of on Monday and Tuesday. Columbus will
be very different county in five yeas from this
time. 1t possesses all the elements of wealth, and
all the facilities for progress, in not
ceeded by any county in the State and its
will soon be largely developed by the to mar
ket which the construction of the Railroad will open
up to its products.
We return thanks to our patrons for the very
liberal manner in which they came forward and
squared up old accounts and also for the liberal in
crease to list-both Daily and Weekly.
THE IsrHMus TEHUANTEpEc.-It appears by
recent advices from Mexico, that Col Sloo and other
citizens of the United States in connection with
tain citizens of the Republic of Mexico have entered
into contract with the Supreme government of
Mexico for the construction of a communication
across the Isthmus and Messrs Mora and Gonzales,
the agents of the had left Vera Cruz for
Minatitlan, to make delivery of the route to Senior
Ron oio E1tio
The company had already deposited three hundred
thousand dollars in the Mexican Treasury
According to the contract the communication shall
be by the River COatzacoalcos far as navigable,
and thence by plank and railroad to the Pacific
the plank road to be finished in three and the rail-
road in four years the direction of the road being
such engineers shall point out the shortest and
easiest. The government grants to the company
land for all its necessary purposes, and allows it to
take gratis from the public lands any materials it
may require. During the duration of the contract
I the company shall have the exclusive privilege of
portaton, and the power to establish rates. COL
lect fares, etc. The company may import duty free
every necessary for the construction of the road
for the maintenance of the men employed upon it.
The government Will protect with its full force the
construction, preservation, and security of the work
The fulflment of the contract at the stipulated time
guaranteed under certain penalties to be borne by
the contractor.
! The Company contract to carry the Mexican mails
free of charge, also the troops etc, of the Gene
raj Government of the States The national proper
y is 10 be transported for one fourth rates. and the
metals agricultural and industrial products of the
Republic shall be transported for 25 per cent less
than the usual rates.
The contract to subsist for fifty years, during
which time the Mexican Government is to receive
twenty per cent of the nett revenue and at it's ex-
piraton, to enter into full and absolute possession
of the road with all its appurtenances and necessary
machinery. The Government shall be considered a
stakeholder, and have onc-thrd power in the di.
rection.
i Foreigners who become concerned in the mixed
company, either stockholders under any other
title which may give them right to take part in it.
to participate in its proceeds, claim any of it's
concessions shall have greater rights than Mex.
leans All questions of this nature. and such as may
arise in regard to the acquisition preservation or
loss of Stock rights in the said road shall be de-
cded by the proper national courts in conformity to
iaw-the company to discourage any attempts at
smugglng-to erect no forts, and transport no arm
ed men without express authority from the Govern
ment
treaty guaranteeing the neutrality of this route
and security to the company was signed at Mexico
on the 23d, by Mr. Conklin, the u S. Minister, and
the proper officers of the Mexican government. II
yet remains for the U. S. Government TO ratify it.
But its refusal will not yitiate MIR. Sloo's contract
which is already concluded-the first 100000 de
) nm md &hoo in
sion of the route. What effect the return of Santa
Anna may have remains to be seen. 1t may ye
upset the whole arrangement
:. BG~ Santa Anna has been elected president o
Mexico. by an immense majority. With his known
Eantipathy to the United States and his more thar
suspected tendency to European intrigue his cours,
/ viii be Watching.