Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-06-29
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
 COMPANY.

NNE THOUSAND SLAVES WANTED O BY HIRE OR PURCHASE.-We 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 aregion secure and protected from fnvasion 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 500 miles west of Shreveport,
 it penetrates one of the finest agricult0
 countries on the continent of America.
 This company has a magnificent land grant
 from Texas, i. e., 10.240 acres for every mile
 of road the company constructs, fcr the d,s-
 tance of 800 miles from Shreveport on 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 con- 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 Carolina,
 or elsewhere, for the hire or purchase, with
 payments in the most undoubted securities, of
 500 or 1000 slaves. Families entire will be
 taken, either by hire or purchase. The com pany is enabled to propose liberal terms, be- cause of the fnunifcent land grants by Texas, and it's ability to purchase the iron and roll- ing stock for the entire road across Texas,
 with the construction bonds of the company, at rates almost equal to cash. All the rights of this company are fixed and vested by the
 laws of Texas The company has secured the sympathy and the route on the 32d degree of parallel of latitude, has the sanction of several of the most powerful European Gov.
 ernments-amongst them are France, SpaiEy Portugal, Belgium and Switzerland-as well kol.c paI 0f1ft contractors of these countries. The lase Con-
 gress of the States passed bill, at its last ses- sion, donating to this company, through Ari- zona, New Mexico and California some 13,- OOO, ,00O 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 in the Senate, and only failed to become law. for the want of time and the startling political events familiar to the nation.
 No company in the world has a larger basis for it's successful prosecution, and no company has attracted and secured to itself the appro- bation of so many American States and Eu- ropean Governments promising so much benefit to it's stockholders, and to the world such stupendous resuits-bringng inevitably with its completion across this continent, the trade of China, Japan, Australia, and the whole Pacific coast-distributing the trea- | sures deriyable from the trade, travel; etc, of
 each to every city from the Gulf of Mexico 1 to the most Northern harbor on our Atlantic | coast-giying each its due and natural share l "a COMMERCE which has never failed to en-
 rich every nation on earth that has ever con- trolled it in the PAST, and as 1t IS annually ln- creasing, it will still more enrich those who shall control it in the FUTURE.
 1 We want the labor, to progress with the work, for most unquestionable securities and 1 for it, the most liberal arrangements will be ! made for save-owners--giying them terms
 which must, We think, be atisfactory-with-
 out endangering by position, employment or
 terms of contract, the safety of the slaves
 themselves, or admitting the slightest uncer-
 tainty of ultimate payment.
 s' Ali applications will be made to Hon. ". K Stevenson, President, Nashville, Tenn; Col. Samuel Tate, President Memphis anu Charleston Railroad Company, Memphis {, 1 Col. J. k. Me Daniel, Lynchburg, Va, or to
 myself, Memphis.
 | JEPTHA FOWLKES, 1 General and Financial Agent of Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Texas. may3ll I'm