Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-08
N.emphis and charleston Kailroaa.


Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
sThere are now i Is miles ri tins road finished
and in operation. and ~ lnil.s in addition
fully prepared to aeceve the rails These with
the chairs and spikes hnve been purchased for
the whole road, and their payment provided for.
The track is now being laid down from three
points, aud 2l7 miles Of the rond. will certainly
aa finished and in operation by November or De
cember next: le9 miles ON the Eastern division.
connecting with the Georgia and South Carolina
roads, and SO miles on the western division, con.
meeting with the Mississippi river ut Memphis.
leaving only 20 miles 10 be completed. OF the
unfinished portion, over one half will be graded
by October next, and the balance by or before
July following, so that the operations of laying
the track viii not stop antilahe whole line is fin
shed."
In another part of the communication from
which this is taken, the writer SAYS 1.-THE whole
Taea will be finished by the Fal! OF next year"
The President OF the Norfolk x Petersburg
road writes to friend in ihis city. under date Of
2sth July. as follows -"Onr road is progress
ing very well. We have large force employed
on graduation, which expect to complete be-
tween Petersburg and Norfolk by the end Of tho
year. We have oonlncnoed our bridges on the
Elizabeth river. and will complete them cnrly In
the ensuing winter. Then nothing will be re
quired.but to lay tie tracl which can be done in
a few mon tbs" Tie South Side rond is fnshed
and nothing TO do GA The Virginia aud Tennessee
worth mentioning, but 10 lay fftysi miles Of
track Next comes the East Tennessee aud
Virginia road. FROM Bristol to Knoxville. 1hi.
nj L.. ba mi b,1 Ia,
Tennessee and 8 eofgia road. from Knoxville Ia
Chattanooga, has been opened throughout its
entire length since Jane last 1t thus seems
that there is seaEaoy ropmio doubt but that by
the end Of 1856, the ports of Norfolk and Mem
phis will be in daily steam connection. We do
not believe that one manin ten thousand. between
those two great commercial points has any dea
that near the accomplishment Of this
great design. which had its origin in this city, in
May, iSi7-when the first public meeting wns
held to recommend to popular favor this greot
scheme Of national ntercommunioation.
Virginia and Tennessee should be proud of The
progress Of their great works, especially when
they reflect that Maryland and New York have
been occupied more than quarter of n century
in building the Baltimore and Ohio and Erie Rail
Toaus, fuRttHfl more lenR'n III
line than from Norfolk to Memphis. 1t cannot
be said that the great Southern line had-fewer
difficulties 10 encounter, neither can it be said
that the wort is IN my respect inferior to either
of the other two lines that huve passed th
chains of mountains separating the waters oftho
Atlantic and the inland seas of the country; bu
this may be said, that our Southern line will no
cost per mile one half what WAS expended upo,
these Northern roads. Yet we hear every ia,
some one complaining md disparaging Southeri
enterprise in such matters. Will our peopl
never learn to appreciate properly what's don
at home, and cease TO cherish and to eulogis
those whose daily avocation is to defame US ms
people in the eyes Of all the nations of the earth
There is nothing more untrue than this opinio
which is industrously enculcated by many per
sons, that these great enterprises are better man
aged at the North than in the Southern State.
The fact of the matter is they are in all impoi
tant points better managed in tile South than
the North as may easily be demonstrated if ne
cessary