Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-05-04
COM N UNICAT. TON S.
For THE ADVERTISER.
RAIL ROAD MEETING.


According tr previous notice, public meeting Of
the ciliz.Is of Edgel.Ll Village and III. surround
ing country was held in the Court House; On sat.
urday The Goth day OF April last. A Charter wau
granted by the Legislature Of South Carolina at its
last Session. to the Columbia l. GrernYile Rail
Roal Company, authorizing said Company to build
ii branch Of their Road from some point on said
Road West nf Sa'uda River, to inttrsect ihe South
Carolina Rail Road at, or East Of Aiken. And the
particular object of this meeting was to consult as
to the means to be employed BY the citizens nf
EdgcirId Yllagc and the surrounding country su
influence the oc.nn of said Road, 81 that it shall
pass through rha Corporate limits Of this Village.
On mntnn. Col PlckrKs was called to the Clair,
and W. W. ApAMs, Esq, requested to act as Sec
rcary
Col. PcKEss on taking the Chair, addressed the
meeting ut considerable length, in practical and
interesting speech, wherein, after explaining the
object Of the meeting and assuming that the Rabun
Gap Rail Road will be bailt and completed at no
very distant day. Or demonstrated that :he building Of
the contemplated Rail Road from New Market or
some other point the Columbia & Grccnrr
Rail Road to intcrscct the Snuth Carolina Rail Road
at or near Aiken, will be necessary and indispen-
sable TO met the demands OF the Rabun Gap Road,
and must, from the necessity Of the case BE- built.
BY such Road, Charleston will be brought about
Sc miles nearer To New Market than it i, By the
Columbia & Greenri1c Rail Road; and not only
II, li.tn th,r1 h., "a
Sc miles, but the said Road will have immense ad-
vantascs in point of location. The Columbia {;
Grecnville Rail Road is subject to disasters from
every lrrshet, in consequence of the numerous
Rivers that are crnsscd by it. Whereas, the con-
tempiated Road from New Market to Aiken will be
on level ridge throughout its whole length, with
scarcely stream of any considerable size to cross.
The meeting also addressed by Chancellor
WARDLAw and several other gentlemen.
Maj GEO. \. ADDISON then moved the following
Resolutions.
l. RcsOlred, That we, the und, rsgned bind our
selves to pay the respectively attached to our
names, for the purpose Of building a Rail Road
from some point in Abbcville OH the Columbia and
Grcenvillc Rail Road, through the village Of Edge
field to Aiken on the South Carolina Rail Road
Propidcd such terms of junction with the Rabun
Gap, Columbia and Grccnviilc, and South Carolina
Rail Road Companies can be obtained, us the SUBJ
scribers ajorily OF them shall deem expedient
and proper.
Rcsolred, That Committee of Seven be raised
TO act Commissioners To receive subscriptions To
the capital stock of said Road.
JOSEPH ADNEy, Esq, moved the foowing:-
Resoirca, That it is essential to the best interests
Of Edsrtcll District. that Ra Road branch slall
be established TO pass from New Market, or some
other point on the Grecnvillr and Colombia Rail
Road, hear or through EdgrlrId Village to Aiken.
or some other point on the South Carolina r. Road.
This Resolution was accepted us an amendment
to the above Resolutions, and with the amendment,
were unanimously adopted.
The Chair then appointed the following gentle
men the Committee under the 3rd Resolution, Maj.
G. y. ADDISON, }. ADNEY, Esq, DR.. L. T. MINIS,
w. c. MonAGSE, Esq, j. SHEPPARD, A. SluKINs
and S. CHRISTIE.
Dr. B. WALDO moved the following -
Rcsolrcd, That a Committee of three be raised
to ascertain something about The terms of junction
with the several Rail Road Companies abvvc mcn-
toned.
Resolved, That this meeting when it adjourns
stan,l adjourned 10 the PM Thursday in May next.
Rcsolrcd, That the proceedings OF this meeting |
be published in the Ehgrfcld Advertiser, |