The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-04-30
THE LOGIC OF DOLLARS-OUR PA
CIFIC RAILROAD.

ne total amount OF lanu SIanteu 10 tne
Ill., Central Railroad Company was 1885,
600 acres. The company has built 7O4
miles of railroad, now in operation, at cost
of S25, ,940,544. 1t has sold S65,2ll acres
of its lands for $l0,7l3,22S, and has still on
hands l,729,789 acres, which, by the average
value of its sales last year, and worth S29,-
3s6,746 Here is the logic of dollars which
everybody can understand.
Our Pacific Railroad through Texas will
be 1888 miles long, and has grant Of S,0l7,-
900 acres and loan of $4,000 per mile
| from tae State. You will search in vain the
records of Railroad legislation and Railroad
companies on this continent for any parallel
to this. Placed by the side of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, the prospects of any other
Railroad company that can be named in this
country sink into insigniicanee, because alb
soutely contemplate. Taking the average
price of the Illinois Company's lands as ba-
sis, the lands of the Southern Pacific Road
will be worth more than Sl2O,000,0 ,000!-
Anybody can make the calculation for him
self
That the lands will be worth more than
the Illinois lands, we have not the least
doubt. They are among the richest lands
in the world in delightful climate, and
capable of producing anything from cot
ton and figs to potatoes and OATS With the
marke: they will have at this city, within a
days ride on the road, can any man set
bounds to their value? The fact Is, the
more we consider this road the greater does
our establishment become at the vastness of
its prospective wealth, without counting
what the road itself, when completed, will
earn at all. The boon offered by Texas was
not generally known or duly considered,
otherwise there would nave been half n
dozen companies in the fed contending for
it. If managed with energy and wisdom, as
we cannot now doubt it will be, the company
will be one of the richest in the world.
Eight million acres of land is easily pro-
nounced and written but does the reader
comprehend the quantity represented? 1t is
greater than the combined area of Rhode
Island, Delaware, and Connecticut! 1t is
nearly twice as great as Massachusetts and
1 New Jersey together, greater than New
Hampshire or Vermont? The latter, one of
the New England States, contains but $685.
$50 acres. 1t is pot strange that the stock
of this company is taken by thousands of
shares at clip, as we learn is the case
Neo Orleans Bulletin.
"HE Is LosT."-The Paris correspondent
of the Boston Courier tells the following
anecdote of Orsini, for which, he says he can
vouch:
One of the Magistrates, highest placed on
the bench, and who was foremost in conduc-
ting the prosecution against the prisoners,
| (you will easily see why can not give his
name pubicly,) had, both personally and by
letter, held communication with Orsini since
the trial, and, Orsini having written to thank
him for various good Offices, the magistrate
! speak of paid him last visit at the prison
of La Roquette. Upon this OCCASION, he ad-
dressed Orsini thus: 81 have no right to ask
you what am about to ask, and you have
every right to refuse me an answer. Conse-
quentIy, it my question be indiscreet remain
silent. What is your belief with regard to
further attempts upon the Emperor's life? will
these continues"
Orsini looked him full in the face, and an
swered slowly and very gravely: 81 can
have no reason for not answering you, and
for not speaking the perfect truth; it is i'm
possible he should escape-he is lost"
HALIFAX, April 23.-The steamship Can
ada has arrived, with Liverpao accounts to
Saturday, April 10th.
Liverpool Cotton Market.-The sales du-
ring the week ending the 9th inst, inclusive,
were 1900 bales. The market had been
considerably excited and all qualities of Cot
ton had largely advanced, but the demand
subsequently fell of, and the market closed
quiet at an advance of I'd. to Id, on the
business of the week.
Liverpool Breddstqfs and Prouision Mar
keL-Business in these departments was in-
active.
London Money Marhet.-No change is re-
ported in the money market and Consols are
quoted at oct to 96s.
BLUE TIMES IN SAN FRANCISCO Sonora
and Arizona noio The Pass wordS.-The fol-
lowing is an extract from letter just recelv-
ed bya gentleman in Covington from n
friend in San Francisco:
This city looks desolate and Deserted
IE all my life have never seen such achange
in n place. Sonora and Arizona are now the
passaurds here. Every one that can go is
roing. II our Government does not buy
! Sonora our people will take it, They say
thew must have Gnyanas, and will have it,
Some of our first men have gone to Arizona,
and others are going.
tbs BuRDELL MURDsR.-The Detroit Ad-
yertiser of April 18th, says that it has learned
conHdentially of new developments which
warrant the supposition that the perpetrator
ofthe Burdel murder will soon be disclosed
A HuMBuo HURRIcAEE.--That awful hur-
ricane at Bentonvile, Ark, rs published IN
the papers last week, was hnmbug. Some
rascal hoaxed the ST. Louis Republican, from
which we copied the paragraph.
ssss- The papers tell of divorce suit