Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-04-17
We annex to this an article from recent
number of the Memphis bulletin:

We annex to this an article from recent
number of the Memphis i;uetn
Memphis and Chal lesion Railroad
The Governor of Alabama, we understand from
the Pre- sidcnt of this road has positively refused
to permit the Treasurer to pay over the $780,
900, ON the bill passed by the Legislature Of
that State Notwithstanding it was passed over
hi, veto. We are & lad, however, to learn that
the company has made negotiation Of S25O0OJ
of their company's bonds, at Charleston, at
price entirely satisfactory, which enables them to
progress with their work rapidly to completion.
The Eastern Division of this road from Tuscum-
bia to Stevenson one hundred and twenty nine
miles, finished nn the day before yesterday,
the 10th ult, and the train will be run that d.
vision regularly and after the Goth ult.
There now in operation on the Western
Division lightweight miles of road. the receipts
of which the past year have been over $3.50,
OOD. The remaining link of this road from Pc.
eahontas to ruscumba, seventy miles, is now
every foot under contract: forty five miles of it
is graded and ready for the iron, and about eight
hundred hands actively engaged in completing
the unfinished grading The iron is all purchased,
and fifteen hundred tons Of it now in New Or.
J leans, and the balance will arrive fast re-
qured for the track laying. The company will
commence laying track at Tuscumbia and Poca-
hontas by the 1T of MAY. and will progress east
and west until the gap closed which it will be,
without accident, by the LIST Of January next;
thereby giving to Memphis direct railroad con
nections with the whole of the Atlantic seuboard,
within twelve months, and opening up to our city
the rich trade of East aud Middle Tennessee.
North Alabama, too, will pour in TO her lap, by
railroads. more trade than she now has. This
connection will give TO the people OF the Missis-
sippi Valley, and the entire South west, the
means of easy, cheap and expeditions communi-
cation with all the great commercial points ON
the Atlantic staroard.
For these auspicious results so near at hand,
we are largely indebted TO the steam engine ener.
| gy, and active business sagacty of the Presi-
dent OF the road, Sam. Tate, who, within the last
SIX months, has seemed Ia be endowed with ubi-
putty, as we'll as the business sagacity and nc
iislty necessary to met every exigenoy.
We give place to The above cheering intell-
| genee with great pleasure, and trust it
will have the effect to stimulate our railway
officials to tho putting forth all their ener-
gles, in III" prosecution If our road. We should
be at the State line by the FIRST of September,
thereby giving to thu East Tennessee aud Vir.
GINA road, the months Of September October,
November and December 10 lay the track
of that road. to Jonesborough, by the time the
Memphis and Charleston line is completed say
by the first of January 357 If this should be
done, and our friends in East Tennessee press
forward their line from Knoxville eastwardly. we
will have not more Than a days travel by stage.
from Memphis 10 Richmond, after the present
year; and by mid summer of 1857. the entire
journey may be performed by railway.
We call upon our ener getic President and Di.
rectors and those of the East Tennessee and
Virginia line not to be outdone by the distin.
gu'shed President of the Memphis and Charles
ton road whose reputation for energy is cock
tensiye with the entire Union.
When we contemplate the completion of this
great line from the tide water Of Virginia to the
Mississippi we cannot but feel infinite pride and
pleasure IN the reflection that our city has borne
50 conspicuous n part in the cunsumaation of
TINS great national enterprise aud we look for
ward most confidently for the carly realization of
all the promised BENEFITS of the most sanru;ne of
the early friends of railway pro yress in orr citv
For the last two or three years they have had 10
listen with becoming endurance tn all the ieer.
lngs and tauntings Of that Gmiable class of ner
SONS whose chief Enjoyment is to prophesy evil
and chuckle at the msfortuncs and di.appoint
ment OF their neighhors hut the darkest Lour
has passed and we now see the dawn IF 4, br;ob.
AID prosperous day r our mountain cjtv. If we
Will only be true II our selves and L., tla o,,.,
ers cioak away to their heart, content.
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