Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-16

State OF Mississppi having guaranteed bonus OF TOUR
hundred thousand dollars towards its construction
road has many years in operation from jackson to
Vicksburg which, including section east of jackson to
Brandon, is sixty miles long From Vicksburg to the
Texas line the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas road s
chartered and stock taken the amount of $500 by
the State Of Louisiana Other stock to the amount Of
900 has been taken by individuals, parishes, and
the city of Shreveport giving present reliable capital
Of ST 900 to that road II is thus perceived that the
boundary Of Texas reached by comparative
y straight line Of railroads. completed or in progress Of
completion by individual and State enterprise and all
of north latitude
The Legislature ofTexas, as participating connection
between the two railroads and also their loca
tons have passed law granting twenty sections OF land
per mile Tor the construction of road through that State
from point on her eastern her western boundary in
the direction OF III Paso elengh Of the road through
Texas is estimated to be hundred and fifty miles,
the lands granted upwards of millions of acres which
will be WORTH at reasonable valuation when the road
finished five dollars per giving the handsome
of fifty millions of dollars. Now, if we estimate the en-
Of this road at forty thousand dollars per mile
(which is high estimate but thirty millions os dollars
Of its win have been exhausted construc
ton This will leave twenty millions of dollars to cover
accidents and should occur applied in aid
of the extension of the road to the Pacific ocean, dis.
lance of six hundred and fifty miles from the western
verge of Texas How much Of the remainder Of the line
lies in the State Of California, Ito which section un
willing that the Federal Government shall make any con-
tributon towards the construction OF road, how
much of it lies within the Territory Of New Mexico Ito
which am willing that the Government shall make be-
raj and munifcent Donations have been unable
accurately to ascertain but inclined to think that
hundred and fifty miles will reach across the southern
extremity of California.
Liberal donations Of lands in New Mexico will be
greedy accepted by one of the companies before
mentioned most probably by the Vicksburg and Ell Paso
company by combination Of companies, and thus
railroad communication be secured from the Atlantic to
the boundary of California, somewhere the
confluence of the Colorado and ella rivers When road
there the necessitieso and sefnerest viii
feet he
The work is thus accomplished by private enterprise
and all experience teaches that any work thus per-
formed is always better and sooner dne than under
taken by the Government which is uniformly plundered
whenever it becomes contractor. All Government pa
ronage and its oorrupons thus avoided and secu
rity given against profigate extravaganza
Among the other for donating lands in the Ter
rtory of New Mexico towards constructing railroad be-
tween the thirty and thirty third parallels Of lat
tude find those which cogent in the fact that it will
be adding necessary link to what is destined to become
continuous line that it is probable such donations will
give impulse and energy to the individual and State
terprses upon this line which the wants of the country
urge to speedy establishment and in the comforting
possibility Of its relieving the Congress from the
rous applications for the donation of lands which lie
within the limits of different States.
Another consideration in the location of this road and
of great moment, is that avoid the Mormons-a
toward which the religious sentiment of the country
will be reconced and which is destined to be the
fruitful of local and political annoyance and rou
be The further separated the better for US and
for them.
am thoroughly convinced that no line Of railroad
muncaon between the Atlantic and the Pacific
will be established in time other than the route have
indicated is the shortest route the freest OF natural
distractions, the most convenient to carry out
tiona policy and to aid in executing treaty stpula
tons under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and will
distribute its commercial benefits most equally among the
States of the Union. establishes convenient and
rapid communication between each Of the original States
and the EXTREMIST limits of national domain, and
brings the wealth of Asia and the Pacific islands, from
Jeddo to Australia their very doors This
will be distributed through the northern portion of Ala
bama Eastern Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia
by the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad which d.
verges from this line at Selma. The Mobile and Ohio
Railroad ntercepts by crossing the line near the east
ern border of Mississippi and which connects the Gulf
of Mexico with the Northern lakes. The New Orleans
and Northern Railroad which the cities Of New
Orleans and Cincinnati will the line at Jackson,
and pour the of the Eastern world upon our
Western and extreme Southern States while the Misss
sippi river if gratitude to its tributary waters VIII
give to the tide Of refux fow and, in ex-
change for the substantial products of its valley return
all the convenences deicaces, and elegant luxuries
which the refnest civilization could demand or desire.
know sir that shall be suspected of giving prefer
to this route because of sectional feeling If so,
unconscious Of it. and the facts which have present
ed will acquit The time has been when was Sec
tiona and it has passed. here sectonal but the
noble trio of New England (Messrs MACDONALD, HIB-
BARD and INGERsoLL have taught me to tear the word
from my political vocabulary, and insert in its place
another which is elevated and patriotic, the word
constitutional .t.@. "
The people of my State told memorable oc-
casion by very high authority there that if of them
should be asked If he American the should
be- .No, sir; am South Carolnian." This sentiment
has had its day and its votares, of whom was
more earnestly jealous than myself; but, sir, recent
of this Congress- which vindicates the great prnc
pies of intervention, popular sovereignty, and the
rights of the States has verified the dotum Of Mr. JEFF
ferson that Of opinion may be tolerated when
son is left free combat it, and will henceforth
my heart swell with loyalty and pride to be called
American NO, sir; my devotion to my own State to
which my allegiance is first DUE requires not to be prop
ped by the cultivation of sectional sentments and if it
can be shown the satisfaction of my judgment that
and better route through the Territories and
which be built upon at less cost to the Government
can be traced from California to the western extremity Of
Lake Superior, the city of ST. Paul. pledge myself
| to give it my countenance and support,
Towards the perfection Of this great enterprise would
give literally of lands which lie in the Territories and
to avoid the inconvenience of large land monopoly,
would re9re certain number Of sections to be sold at
such mt intervals of time would at
form the in, of the road and avoid embarrass
ments to the Cow ument. would stipulate reasona
BILE time in which T. work should be finished, and ex
tend the time in which the contractors should enjoy the
emoluments of the road to period which would ndem
Nifty them handsomely and beyond casualty; and then
would the road and its furniture to be sold to the
highest bidder and put the money into the Federal
| Treasury.
| A CHEAP BARoMETER.-A correspondent ofthe "Coun-
try Gentleman urges that henceforth farmers instead
of watching locusts and crckets for signs of weather.
devote their meteorological observations exclusively to
their wives camphor bottles. He says:
For aome wars have been in the habit of watching