Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-07-24
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
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Ha1sT08d company
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Wanted by HiFe or BY Purchase.

IKE viii Purchase or Hire, for a tsrm Of i've years.
w Five Hundred or ; Thousand slave Laborers, 10
work On the Southern Pacifc Railroad, in T-exas-imme-
diztsly wet Of Shreveport. L0uisians-ln q region Sc
cure and protected from invasion OF mOleststion during
the conflict which shall exist between the Two sections
OF this country. The country through WHICH the road
passes Is entirely healthy, and fo- the distance Ct some
400 or SEQ miles west Of shreveport, It Penetrates one
Of the finest agricultural countries on the o%outiEent OF
America.
This company has a maRnifceBtI land grant frsm Texas.
l.. e., 10 $40 acres for every mile OF road the companv
Constructs, for the dista- e OF eight hundred miles from
Shreveport on the ~east-rn, 70 81 PasO on the western
boundary or Texas. In times ike the present. the
company cannot command cash 70 Tly tor labor essential
to the rapid Development or the cOmpauy'5 interests ;
but Cor a term o. years, By hire or Dy he actual pur-
chase, this company will make the most liberal and ad-
vsntageous arrangements with slave-ogners IN Ken
tncky, Missouri, Virginia, Maryland. North Carolina.
or elsewhere, for the hire or purchase, with payments
IL the most undOubted securities OF 500 or IHJ0 saves.
Families entire will be taken either d, are or By pur-
chase. The company IS enabled o biopose liberal terms.
because OF the munifceut land grants by Texas. and ia
ability TO purchase the iron ard rolling stock for the en-
tire road across Texas, with the construction bonds OF
the company, at rates almost equal &c ash All the
rights Of this company are fixed and vested by the laws
II TRxas. This company has secured TIE sympathy. and
the route on the 31 degree OF parallel Of latitude has
the s~aRction, Of several OF the most powerful European
goyernments-amoDg them are France. Spain, Portugal,
Belgium and Switzsrlznd-ss well as Of large capital
lists, commercial meR and contractors OF these countries.
The late Congress OF the United States passed bill, at
its last session, donating to this company, through Ari-
zona, New Mexico ard California, some 1900 coo acres
OF laad, and a loan OF thirsy-six millions OF collars. 10
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passed the House OF Representatives, was amended in
the Senate, and only failed 10 become aIaw for the want
o. time and the startling political events familiar 70
the nation
No company in the world has a larger basis for its
successful prosecution, and no company has attracted
and secured to itself the appreciation Of 50 many Amer
lean States and European neutrality-suspicious. 80
much benefit 70 its stockholders, and TO tbs World guoh
stupendous results-bTinging inevitably with its c1rs-
pletion across this continent the trade Of China. Japan.
Australia, and the whole Pacific 0ast-distributing the
treasures derivable from the trade, travel, etc. OF each
10 every city from the Gulf Of Mexico 20 the most
northern harbor on our Atlantic coest-givfng each il
due and natural shsre-s COMMERCE which as usvsr
failed to enrich every nation on earth that has ever
controlled 10 h. the PAST ard as il Is annually fncreas-
ing, it wiz stih mOre enrich those who shall ortrol IL
in the FUTURE.
We want the labor, TO progress with the work. for
most unquestionable securities, and FOR II. the most lin
eral arrangements will be made Win slsye owperz-
giving them terms which must, we think. be satiss.r
endangerinE, b position. emplos neat or
terms OF contract the safety a the slaves themselves
OF admitting the slightest uncertainty OF ultimate nav
mont.
All applications VIII be made to Hon Y. <. stevsu-
son, President, Nashville, Tennessee; Dol. sausuef
President Memphis and Charleston Railroad Conn
pany, Memphis; Col. J. 3. Mcdaniel, Lynchbura. Va.
or to myself, Memphis.
JEPTHA FOWLKEs,
General and Financial Agent q southern Pss(as
myl4-h Railroad cTmpsng Of sazAa.