Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-08-04
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Wanted by Hire Or BY Purchase.


VETB viii Purchase or Hire, for q term OF ave years,
w Five Hundred or q Thousand Slave LAbarers, 10
work on the Southern Psoife Railroad. in -Te1as-imme-
diateiy wet CT Shreveport, L0uIsians-in Il region Sc
cure and protected from invasion OF m0lestation during
the c-nhict which shall exist between the TWO sections
Of this country. The country through which The road
passes IS entirely healthy, and for TIE distance OF son
900 or 500 tai'es west OF shreveport, Il penetrstes one
Of tat haest Agricultural countries on the continent Of
America.
This company has 3 msminceRtlant grant frem Texas.
4. G., O,24O acres for every mile OF road the company
constructs, for the dists- &c OF eight hundred miles from
Shreveport on the eastern, 70 FL PasO on the western
boundary OF Texas In times like tue present. The
CompanF cannot command cash 20 ray for labor essential
70 the rapid Development or The cCmpany's interests
but for n term o years, By hire or Oy he actual pur-
chase, this company will make the most liberal and aa-
vantRgeous arrangements with slave-owners in Ken
lucky, Missouri, Virgi1ia, Maryland. North Carolina.
or elsewhere for the hire or purchase, with payments
in the most undoubted securities, Of 900 or 1"a saves
Famller entire will be taken either Js are OF by pur-
chase. The company IL enabled o propose liberal terms,
because Of the munihceut land grants by Texas. and it,
ability 70 purchase the iron and rolling stock for the en-
tire road across Texas, with The construction bonds OF
the company, At rates almost equal u ~ash. All ne
rights sf this company are dXCd and vested BY the laws
Of Texas. This company has secured the sympathy, ana
tue route on the 3d degree Of parallel Or lstitude hss
the sanction, Of several OF the most powerful European
zovernments-among them are France, Spain, PORTUGAL
Belgium and Swiizerland-as well as Of large csuttBi
lists, Commercial meR and contractors Of these c~ountries
The late congress OF The United States passed A bflI -
its last session, donating to this company, through Ari-
ZOna, New HeIicO aud California, some I9 Coo 400 acre.
OF land, and 3 loan Of t~hirty-siX millions OF dollar. =,
be repaid in postal aud other public services. This hin
passed the house Of Representatives, was amended in
the Senate and only failed 70 become law Tor ms w.Dt
OF time and the startling political events familiar =
the nation
No company in the world has q larger basis Tor a.
successful prosecution, aud no company has sttracteS
and secured 70 Itself tho appreciation Of 80 mtDv Ar,er-
lean states and EurOp an .,
muca benent 70 It's stockholders, and TO the world surh
stupendoss results brinsing inevitably with lis cors.
pletion scr0ss this sentiment, the trade Of China Jansn
Australia, and the whole Pacific ast-dfstributin ~
treaSur. s d~erivEble from the trade, travel. etc ~ aa~S
70 every city from the Gulf VI Mexico 20 the mosf
northern hsrbor on our Atlsntic coast-givfug each is
dua sno natural share-a COMMERCE which as never
failed to enrich every nation on earth that has ever
controlled Il IN the PAST sid Is II IS snnuaIy iucreas
ING, It viii SIT more enrich those vhe shall COZ troll il
in the FUTURE.
We want the labor, 10 progress with the wu-k, fu
most unquesttonablo securities, and for il, the most lib
sral Arrangements will be made with slave owuers-
giving them terms which must, We think, be sstis -
~tory-WithOut endaneertng, by position. emplO' n eut or
terms Of contract the safety . the slaves themselves
or admitting the slightest uncertainty OF ultimate pay
ment.
All applications viii be made to Hon v. &. Steven.
son, President, Nashville. Tennesseej Dol. Sanue
Tate, President Memphis and Charleston Railroad Com
pany, Memphis Co. j. r. Mcdaniel, Lyncbburg, Va;
OF 70 myself, Memphis.
IEPTHA FOwLKEs,
General and Financial Agent Of Southern Pacific
my14-tf Railroad CYupany 81 Texas