Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-31
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
 COMPANY.
ZANE THOUSAND SLAVES WANTED O BY HIRE OR PuRCHASE.--We will

o BY HIKE OK PUKCH ASE.-W We w II purchase or hire, for term of five years, Five Hundred or thousand Slave Laborefs, to work on tue 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, it penetrates one of the finest agricultural countries on the continent of America.
 This company has magnificent land grant from Texas, i. c., 10,240 acres for every mile of road the company constructs, for the dis 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 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 ill Kentucky, Missouri, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, or elsewhere, for the hire or pure base, with payments in the most undoubted securities, of 800 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 munifcent land grants by Texas, and it's ability to purchase the iron ard roll
 
 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, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Switzerland-a well as of large capitalists, commercial men and contractors of these countries The late Con- gress of the States passed pill, at it's last ses- sion, donating to this company, through Ari- zona, New Mexico and California some 13,- GOO .O00 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 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 results--bringing inevitably with it's completion across this continent, the trade of China, Japan, Australia, and the whole Pacific oast--distributing the trea- sures derivable from the trade, travel, etc, of each to every city from the Gulf of Mexico to the most Northern harbor on our Atlantic coast--giving each it's due and natural share "a COMMERCE which has never failed to en- rich every nation on earth that has ever con trolled it in the PAST, and as it is annually ln- creasing, it will still more enrich those who shall control it in the FUTURE.
 We.want the labor, to progress with the work, for most unquestionable securities; and for It, the most liberal arrangements will be made for slave ye-oWners--giving them terms which must, we think, be satisfactory-wi out endangering by position, employment or terms of contract, the safety of the slaves themselves, or admitting the slightest uncer- tainty of ultimate payment.
 All applications will be made to Hon. V. K. Stevenson, President, Nashville, Tenn; Col Samuel Tate, President Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company, Memphis; Co!/J. R. McDaniel, Lynchburg, Va, or to myself, Memphis.
 JEPTHA FOWLKES, s
 General and Financial Agent of Southern
 Pacific Railroad Company of Texas.
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