Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-11-19
Legislation.

The Legislature of South Carolina con-
vencs on the .tth Monday in November, inst.
Many questions of vital Importance affecting
the rights and interests of the citizens of the
Commonwealth will then be discussed and
acted upon we hope, with that conslcra-
tive wisdom which should characterize the
intclligont Representative into whose hands
are entrusted the fortunes of an enlightened
people.
Among the many questions which will
command attention and elicit debate, none
perhaps will or ouyht to receive gravcr CON
sidcration at the hands of our Legislators
than the expcdcncy and policy of the State
in removing the restrictions imposed by the
Act of 1851, and the granting of further aid
to the Blue Ridge Railroad. The consum-
nation Of this grand enterprise will, rs We
humbly conceive, contribute more to State
advancement and agSrandizcmcnt than any
enterprise of the kind before set on foot or
known in the. history of the past. And now
with all due Difference to the views and votes
of tho,opponents of this great work. we can
not but believe TINT they, after calm and more
mature reflection, and with such presenta-
ton of facts as the friends and advocates of
the Road will be able 70 lay before them,
will rcconsaeY their votes cast at the last
Session of the Legislature and grant the APP
preparation. Can it be that after an eXrcndi-
turc of Three million dollars and with more
than twu,thirls of the work completed in
South Carolina, our Legislators will refuse
to grant the desired aid, and abandon the
enterprise? We make our appeal TO them
rs men of intelligence WILD will act out their
own conscientious convictions of what is
right and who will consult the interest Of no
particular section, bat of the whole State.
we would like. if we had time, to discuss
this question at length-it is IL question of
mOnjantous interest to the people OF South
Gurolina-but VIC I1ust content ourself w tn
the statement of few facts which we would
have our advcrsaries ponder.
The Blue Ridge Railroad runs through
this State distance OF 50 miles, its termi-
nus in this State being at Anderson Court
House. Ii milesof this Road is completed
to Pendleton, and in iine running condition.
From Pcndlcton to tho great Tunnel all the
heavy work is done. The masonry NJ Iwcn'
ty-six- Mile Creek is oil finished and tho last
stone laid-this is said to b0 tho heaviest
structure on the whole line. The last abut-
mcnt of the stupondous bridge over the Sem
eca River is already completed. Tho gront
Tunncl which some persons very unwittingly
supposed would be like tho Lotus troo in
Mohnmmcd's seventh Heaven, bocanso be-
yond it there was no passing, will most ccr.
tainly find that they have orrod in their
Judgment. The work is now more than two
shrds done, and we have the assurance of
gentlemen experienced in Rail-roaling. that
II the restriction 10 removed and the appro-
pration made, th8t this stupenduus under
saking will be completed in n loss time than
siS n,snths This being finished. half tho
,unncling of the whole Road will be dono,
and tho masonry in this State, which is little
lcss than the mason work Of the entire Road,
Which wc may eayis nearly if not entirely