Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-06-14
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
COMPANY.

|O BY HIRE OR PURCHASE.-W will purchase or hire, for term of five years, Five Hundred or thousand Slave Laborers, to work on the Southern Pacific Railroad, in Texas, immediately west of Shreveport La, in region secure and protected from invasion or molestation during the conflict which shall exist between the two sections of this coun- try. The country through which the road passes is entirely healthy, and for the distance of some 400 or 300 miles west of Shreveport, 1t penetrates one of the finest agricultural countries on the continent of America.
 This company has magnificent and grant from Texas, i. c., 10,240 acres for every mile of road the company constructs, for the dis tance of 600 mics from Shreveport oh the eastern to Fl Paso on the western boundary of Texas. In times like the present, the com pany cannot command cash to pay for labor essential to the rapid development of the com. pany's interest but for term of years, by hire or by the actual purchase, this company will make the most liberal and advantageous arrangements with slave owners in kentucky, | Missouri. Virginia, Maryland North Cai olina,
 or elsewhere, for the hiie or purchase. win l payments in the most nndoubted securities. ot 800 or d 1000 slaves. Families entire will be
 taken, either by hire or purchase. The com pany is enabled to propose liberal te ms. be- cause of the Inumihcent land grants by Texas,
 and its ability to purchase the iron ard roll. l ing stock for the entire road across Texas,
 with the construction bonds of the company,
 at rates almost equal to cash. All the rightsof
 this company are fixed and vested by the
 laws of Texas. The .compaay has sFcnied
 the sympathy and the route Oil the 32d gFgiee
 of parallel of latitude, has the sanction of
 several of the most powerful European Gov
 erhments-amongst them are France, Spain, | Portugal, Belgium and Switxerland--aS well
 as of large capitalists, commercial men and
 contractors of these counties. The late Com
 gress of the States passed oil, at its last ses- sion, donating to this company through Aii-
 zona, New Mexico and California some l3,-
 GOO GOO acres of land, and loan of thirty-six
 millions of dollars. to be repaid in postal or
 other public services. This bill passed the House of Representatives. Was amended ID
 the Senate, and only failed to becoM'40 l00 for the want of time and the startlius&
 events familiar to the nation.
 i No company in the world has larger basl@ | for its successful prosecution, and no company
 has attracted and secured to itself the appro- baton of so many American States and Eu- i ropean Governments promising so mncn benefit to its stockholders, and to the world | such stupendous results-brnging inevitably
 with it's completion across this continent, the trade of China, Japan, Australia, and the whole Pacific coast-distributing the trea- sures derivable from the trade, travel, etc, or each to every city from the Gulf of Mexico | to the most Northern harbor on our Atlantic
 coast--giying each it's due and natural share 1 "a COMMERCE which has never failed to en- | rich every nation on earth that has ever con-
 trolled 1t in the PAST, and as it is annually IF
 creasing, 1t will still more enrich those who
 shall control it in the FUTURE.
 We want the labor, to progress with the
 work, for most tunquestionable securities ana
 for 1t, the most liberal arrangements will pc
 made for slave-owners--giving them terms
 which must, we think, be satisfactory-witn
 out endangering by position, employment or
 terms of contract, the safety of the slaves
 themselves, or admitting the slightest uncer-
 tainty of ultimate payment. v
 MAll applications will be made to Hon. '.
 K. Stevenson, President, Nashville, Tenn; Col. Samuel Tate, President Memphis ana
 Charleston Railroad Company, Memphis; Cold. R. Mcdaniel, Lynchburg, Va, or !"
 myself, Memphis.
 JEPTHA FOWLKES, General and Financial Agent of Souther" Pacific Railroad Company of Texas may31-1m