The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-05-27

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Buckner, unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That we have learned with sur
prise and regret that the Vicksburg, Shreve,
port and Texas railroad has been located on
the line of township II and 49, crossing Red
River at a point some two miles or more below
the town of Shreveport, and that SAID location
has been adopted and confirmed by the board
ofdirectors, and recorded in the general land Oh
fee at Washington City, and at the land offices
in Monroe and Natchitoches, as the permanent
location of said road.
Resolved, That said location is direct vio-
lation of the letter and spirit of the charter of
The Vicksburg Shreveport and Texas railroad
company, and was made in total disregard. not
only of the interests of the city of Shreveport,
but of its very existence as town.
Resolved, That this meeting appoint CON-
mittee of FIVE, on behalf of the city of Shreve-
port and parish of Caddo, to represent them
before the next meeting Of the board OF dlrec-
tors at the town of Monroe, for the purpose Of
obtaining an amicabe change of the location
of said road, in conformity with the require
ments of the charter.
Resolved, That said committee be requested
to report to meeting of the citizens OF Shreve-
port and parish of Caddo, to be called as soon
as practicable after said meeting of directors.
Resolved, That our interest in the railroad
is undiminished, and that whenever the location
shall be changed in accordance with the re-
qurements Of the charter we pledge ourselves
to continued support of the road, and that
we will use our utmost endeavors to complete
it from The Texas line to the Mississippi river.
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Gazette, and the Caddo News be requested to
publish the foregoing resolutions.
B. l.. HODGE, Charm con tee.
On motion Of Colonel Hodge, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the committee appointed to
attend the meeting Of the directors, be request
ed to urge upon them to make an arrangement
for immediate connection with the ''Southern
Pacific railroad company" at the State line.
The chair appointed the following gentlemen
as committee, (who are authorized to name a
substitute, to attend the ensuing meeting of the
board of directors at Monroe, in June next:
L. M. Matt, j. G. Beal Reuben White, B. NJ.
johnson, T. P. Hotchkiss, B. L. Hodge, NJ.
Watson, George Williamson, E. c. Hart, and
DR.. Joseph Wilder
On motion the meeting adjourned to meet
at such future time as the last mentioned COM
mittee shall designate.
T. T. LAND, Chairman.
N. Z. WRIGHT, Secretary.
PROGRESSING ENTERPRISE IN TExAs.-We are
much delighted to perceive the enterprising
spirit which is prevailing in Texas. She is
not only projecting and making railroads in
every direction, but she is turning her atten-
ton to the erection of manufactures, the raising
of large crops of wheat, innumerable herds of
cattle and hogs. She will soon become to the
south what n. York is to the north. We think
our neigbbors in Texas might also proftably
turn their attention to raising horses, mules and
sheep. They never commanded such prices
before, and we think the prairies, affording as
they do, excellent grass, offers inducements to
the undertaking. We noticed the arrival in
Shreveport ii few days ago, of several wagons
from Hopkins County, Texas, loaded with wool.
One of the wagoners informed us that about
10000 pounds of wool had lately been for
warded from his neighborhood for shipment.
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We see by a recent statement, that strip of
country bordering the Mississippi river, and
running from the upperend of Calhoun county
to Quincy, Illinois, forty sixty miles in length
and six in breadth, is about to be reclaimed
from periodical overflow, by diking on large
scale. This portion of the river bottom, equal
to about one hundred and fifty thousand acres
is now almost vaueless, or account Of its liza
bility to nundation but will, it iss believed, be
Of unsurpassed fertility when the enterprise
shall have been completed. A st. Louis COM
parry now own this tract of land, and at the last
session Of the Illinois legislature, obtained a
very liberal charter for the purpose. We be-
lieve the same course Of operation might very
probably be pursued in Louisiana, and hope
the experiment will be made
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We are pleased to find by our exchanges,
that notwithstanding the backwardness of our
spring, the prospect of a fine yield of summer
and fall fruits are anticipated in Maryland, the
eastern part of Virginia, the Carolinas, Geor-
gia and Alabama. Railroads will afford great
facilities for the conveyance of delicious fruits
from one part of the Union to another and we
expect before many years pass by, to see the
delicious Mayduke cherries spread out on the
stalls of New Orleans-they may even reach
Shreveport.
NEGROES GoING SoUTH-The Chattanooga
Gazette, published at the great crossing point
# the turnpike into Alabama and Georgia,
says the number Of negroes passing south ex-
'eeds all former precedent. They are mostly
rom Virginia; and the paper thinks the Old
)ominion.is preparing for the advent Of north
IN regenerators, BY sending her negroes to the
otton fields of the south The next census
will disclose an important change in the proper |
ion of slaves in all the northern slave states, |
rec territory will be found rapidly advancing
owards the cotton districts ...... /
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The Macon Citizen reports the crops ofcorn
nd wheat in Cherokee and adjoining counties,
5 being very promising. Abundant rains had
allen. the weather had become warm, and yege-
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