Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-07-06
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Wanted by Hire or by Purchase.

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WE will Purchase or Hire, for a term Of five years,
w Five Hundred or 3 Thousand Slave Laborers, to
work on the Southern Pacific Railroad, in TeXas-imme-
diatsly wet Of Shreveport, Louisians-in q region Sc
cure and protected from invasion or molestation during
the Conflict which shall exist between the two sections
OF this country. The country through which tSe road
passes is entirely healthy, and for the distance OF some
400 or 600 miles west of Shreveport, it penetrates one
of the finest agricultural countries on the continent Of
America.
This company has magnihceHtIaud grant frem Texas,
j.. e., 10, $40 acres for every mile OF road the company
constructs, for the distar &c Of eight hundred miles from
Shreveport On tie eastern, TO Ell PasO on the western
boundary OF Texas In times like the presest. The
company cannot command cash to pay for labor essential
10 the rapid development OF the cOmpany'3 interests
but for q term O. years, by hire or by the actual pur-
chase, this company will make the most liberal and adj
vantsgeous arrangements with slave-owners in Ken
lucky, Missouri, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina,
or elsewhere, for the hire or purchase, with payments
in the most undoubted securities. Of 300 or 1000 slaves.
Families entire will be taken either by hire OF by pur-
chase. The company IL enabled to propose liberal terms,
because OF the munlhCent. land grants by Texas, and its
ability to purchase the iron and rolling stock fer the en-
tire 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. This company has secured the sympathy, and
toe route on the 3d degree OF parallel OF latitude has
the saRctiOn, Of several Of the most powerful European
Vovernments-among them are France, Spain, Portugal.
Belgium and Switzerland-as well as Of large capital
lists commercial meR and contractors Of these countries.
The late Congress Of the United States passed q bill, at
It's last session, donating to this company, through Ari-
IONA, New Mexico and California, some 1900, 900 acres
Of land, and a loan Of thirty-six millions Of dollars, to
be repaid IN postal and other public services. This bill
passed the House Of Representatives, was amended in
the Senate, and only failed to become flaw for the want
Of time and the startling political events familiar to
the nation
No company in the world has a larger basis for its
successful prosecution, and no company has attracted
and secured 20 itself the appreciation Of so many Amer
lean States and European ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS so
muck benefit 70 its stockholders, and to the world such
stupendoas Notwithstanding inevitably with its cons
pletlon across this continent. the trade Of China. Japan,
Australia, and the whole Pacific misunderstanding the
treasures derivable from the trade, travel, etc, Of each
to every city from the Gulf Of Mexico 10 the most
northern hsrboT on our Atlantic c0ast-gIviug each its
due and natural share-a which as never
failed 70 enrich every nation on earth that has ever
controlled 1t IN the PAST; and as 1t is annually increas-
ing, it wiz still more enrich those who shall coLtrol it
in the FUTURE.
We want the labor, to progress with the work, for
most unquestionsble securities, and for il, the most lib
eral arrangements will be made with slave owners
giving them terms which must, we think, be satis.ao-
~tory-without endangering, by position. employ Rent OF
terms Of contract the safety Of the slaves themselves,
or admitting the slightest uncertainty Of ultimate pay
ment.
All applications will be made to Hon Y. K. Steven
son, President, Nashville, Tennesseej Col. Samuel
Tate, President Memphis and Charleston Railroad CON-
psuy, Memphis; Col. J. R. Mcdaniel, Lynohburg. Va;
or to myself, Memphis.
JEPTHA FOWLKES,
General and Financial Agent Of Southern Pacific
myl4-tf Railroad oynpany Of Texas.