Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-09-15
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- CITY AND s9ATn AFFAIRS.
MEErISo OF SroeKaeLDsRs-The l2Lh annual
meeting OF the stpckhoIders Of the visEiaA and
Tennessee Railroad. was held a. the psputpf the
Company on yesterday. = 81. g
AtIlf o'clock p NJ. the meesipg was called to
order by James 7. Johnson. Ezqs she eominated
Thos. j. Kirkpatrick rs Chairmaa, - Ehstles ".
Christian, Geo. w. liardwicke AN ~ Bat
ton. as Secretaries ~
The roll of Stockholders was eallei. aai II was
founi that there wcrea quorum in Attendance, AS
follows:
whole of which be given by others than
o. 'l w, stss 4. stat. may civ. ,woA. at
ssIs sss 4 Voc. n.es..., to constitute quorum 80
re.eu, In person and by proxy other than the State sses
On which he State may give two-,hiris 1894
Number Of votes present. being quorum 4ass
A Committee of three was appointed to examine
proxies, rs follows: John NJ. Preston. Richard u.
Morris. and jaime. w. Morgan. who after retiring
for fsw moments. returned and reported tue
proxies to be in proper forms. =,
The President If the Company, John ~ NC
Daniel was then notified of the organisation OF
the meeting, when he appeared and read his nm
nual report If the operations Of the roan: IL Is
quite a voluminous document. repiete WIN iac'S
and figures of vast interest to not ony Inc stock-
holders Lut TO tho community ~ large. Inc re-
cents from ali aources during the fiscal year, end
ind June goth last, are S672s94,51, and the dis
burscments during tire same time. S394. l35, 81
showing clear excess IF $27S. 159, II of receipts
over expenditures The largest export depot was
Bristol and the smallest Mount Airy. large
number of buildings have been erected during the
mast year ut different points on the ruad at cost Of
SlO472. There has been put on the road 7 first
elaas passenger coaches 5 second-class passenger
cars S mail cars and so freight cars OF a cost "f
$685. The total cost of tho road up to 3Oth
June last is S7lO0.527.74. There are been Lut
one death among the large number Of slaves en-
poved by the Company, which clearly att"sts the
care and attention which has been paid them 10y
those having them in charge. The Board
og Directors have purchased two lots on the
west Of the canal in this city, which it is their
intention to extend the depot The company own
CT acres adaccet to the present depot in this city.
The whole receipts "f the road since its organ'za-
tions from all sources, is over nine millions OF
dollars. The fltatng debt of the Company is ca
n,he of being liquidated, at the present ratio of
rcceints Calculating GO per cent. for expenditures
On or before 1880, together with all interests, g..
The Presiden. reports the different roads compr-
inc the mail line between Washington city and n.
Orleans in fine condition. aud that the mails have
been carried through during the past year to the
satisfaction of the Post Office Department. The
companies composing this through line have put
in bi for carrying the mails, ordered to he put
ON by the last Congress between Portland, Me.
and New Orleans La. The bid will be given On
lat of November The Beard of Directors con-
structng n line Of telegraph on the road, which
will shortly he completed, the cost OF which will
not exceed $4,000.
The reports of the General Superintendent. L.
H. Gill, Esq, and the resident Engineer, Capt.
Jas. ii. Buford were read.
On motion of F. b. Deane, Jr., Esq, the reports
were received. And on the further molten of r.
G. Morriss, Esq. they, together with the accom-
panying documents were ordered to be printed
The reports were referred to committee of ID
stockholders. The chairman appointed the fol-
lowing gentlemen sid committee: F. d. Deane,
Jr., d. /. San lers G. l.. Crockett. W. A. Read. q.
W. Hopkins. c. Scott, W. NJ Blackford, ID. Ora
ham, Is. Wilkes. c. X. Slaughter, j. W. Morgan
and r. Rapcr.
The meeting then adjourned till u o'clock P. NJ.
CANAL SunvEY-The party of Engineers engag,
ed in making preliminary survey for the James
River and Knnnwha Canal, are now encamped
about four miles from the Sweet Springs. Gov.
Wise, who has been for the last week examining
the various routes on the western side OF the
mountains, is now with the party in their camp,
On Potts Creek but will leave for the cast in
day or two The object Of the survey is to deter
mine il a route up Potts Creek thence to Second
Creek by tnnncl. and dawn tn Greenbrier, pos
sesscs any advantage over the route
lcc,ed and located up Dunlap's Cleck-leaving
Jaokson's river at Coyington.
1t is the belief of the Chief Engineer that the
route by Dunlap's Greek requires much less lock-
age with the same distance of tunnelling; also,
that it affords much better situations for reservoirs
10 prove the advantages to the people, some OF
whom think it (Dunap's route,) not the most
practicable is the oil ect Of tho survey of the Potts
The party consists of Mr.. +. Lorraine, Chief
Engineer Of the James River and Kanawha Com
pany, Edward s. llutter. Vim. L. Wingfeld, Jos
p Mnetrcc, 0. c. Henderson. 7. NJ Boyd, and
J. W. Kerr, Assistants. AL graduates Of the
Virginia Military Institute.
Rev. D. p. WILLS, pastor Of the M. Z. Church
81 South, of this city, who has been elected President
of the Wesleyan Female Callege at Murfreesboro
Il N c., will enter upon the discharge of his duties
u in few days; in consequence Of which he will re-
sign his charge here He carries with him to his
new field of labor the goood wishes of the congrega
tan. n.tn which he has ~ acceptably labaed Tor
the last year Rev. Mr. Duncan, $50 well known
4 IN our midst. will fill the vacancy created here,
until the next session Of the Conference. Ga
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i.oN FOR THE LYNcHBURG ExTENsIoN.-T ship
Falmouth arrived at Alexandra, Va, Sunday
afternoon, from Cardiff, Wales. with one thousand