Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-28

asserted each its claim to be made the Northern
terminus, regardless of the great fact that the
Road would be comparatively feeble and un.
| profitable one unless extended until it sh ould
become, by its connections, part of the great
National Railroad System of the country
| But it was the good fortune of the enterprise
that 1t had at the influential and controlling head
OF direction and management, minds of large
comprehension and sagacious wisdom, men Of
determined purpose, of indomitable energy
and fertile in expedients, who could WELD
power, means and influence, and who were
possessed of faith in the ultimate success Of
their enterprise which nothing could shake or
daunt. Prominent among these was Judge
Milton Brown, of Mobile. the President of the
Company, who has been connected with the
road ever since it ran from Mobile short dis
4 ttance out into the woods. He has watched
over the road and been the master spiri, Of
/ its being, through eaA trials, discouragements
and oppositions with his eye single to its sole
interests and his hand hostile to the schemes
!
vert its plans from the chief design, or weaken
in any respect, is operations He has fought
them all consistently and successfully from the
beginning to the present day, and it is
| to his ability and utter devotion
more than to anything else that the
Company is to-day Indebted for the auspic-
Gus future which smiles upon and promises to
| reward their patience and their work 's
| This road had been but just carried through
TO completion, and operations on, il had but
just been fairly commenced, when the war in
| terposed al arbitrary injunction on its success
full career. Parts of It were, in the progress Of
hosti!ities, totally destroyed, ard throughout
its whole length, through hard usage and neg.
lect ofrepairs, it come into sad condition.
When the war broke out there were in the
possession of tlle Company over one hundred
locomotives, and a correspondingly large
amount Of other rolling stock. This was used
and abused in the interest OF the ruling author
tiles of government at will, so that at the
close of the war, there were left to be returned
nominaliy sixteen locomotives, of which num-
ber but twelve were in tit condition for
that only through train, on alternate days,
could be made up. This, however, was but
trfe in the vast sum Of incubus which rested
upon the road and impeded the resumption Of
travel ald traffic. The bond holders Of tho
road began to press their claims for payment Of
amounts due, before the road was capable of
earning a penny to replenish , its exhausted
treasury. The States of Tennessee and Ken
tuc1yZ threatened hasty legislation, which, if
carried through, would cripple the road almost
beyond recovery. The petty local ambitions
and jeaiousies which at its earliest stages had
contended for notice and favor. again sprung
into noisy and virulent life. hoping in the new
exigencies Of affairs to be able to accomplish,
by brides, falsehood and protestation, what
they had before slgnally failed to do. Govern
ment, too demanded the use of the line for its
own purposes, which Interrupted and delayed
progress very sensbly. 1t was fortunate, in
all these complications Of embarrassment,
that the same able and incorruptible
officer who had carried it through its pre-
vious peris, still lived to serve, as he
alone could, the interests of the Company.
With the same prudence, vigor and con-
fidence "a before, he again went to work, and
after an absence from home of more than four
months lie has but lately returned, having
succeeded in averting every Immediate danger
in concillating all enemies who were made
enemies either through ignorance of the whole
truth, or through the willful misrepresentation
of interested foes-in strengthening the hope
and faith of all who are interested in the sue
cess of this great work of national utility-in
obtaining the necessary amount ofroliing stock
to put the road in a condition to meet the re-
euireaents of traffic, and, to sum up all in con-
clusion successful ID every move and measure
immediately calculated to put this road on its
| feet, or more correctly on its wheels, at the
| earliest date and beyond the contingency of
essential harm from its much talking and much
| manoeuver!ng enemies. .-
Twenty locomotives twenty-five new pas:
senser cars, and largo number of freight
| cars have been purchased. Soon daily pas
senger train will be placed on the Road, and
1 separate trains for freight. A. large number
| of hands have been employed for the last few
| months all aloug the line of the Road, actively
| at work, pushing forward the necessary re-
pairs The new tzestle Through the Obion bot
ION is far advanced toward complexion. With
1 the establishment of the daily trans new
| schedule of the running time will be hade out,
! 6y Which many things which Low annoy and
delay travelling (asit seems to those not initia-
| ted unnecessarily will t-be- obvisted.~ The
| through time viii bs lessened, and IL. every
respect tho Road will be put in such condi.
ton that travellers will have no reason of COM
plaint and cannot but prefer, on every account,l
this route from the North to the South. 1t Is,
we firmly believe, destined to become the most
popular and best patroulzed line of railroad in
I the Southern States. -.
| The virtual connection at Cairo with the llli-
nois Central Road makes it to travellers as an
unbroken communication from the Lakes to the
fGulf tile great aOsttA tine Of tue Continent.
+ This metaphor is not far fetched, but strictly
: analogical From this line OF road, as from
The great artery of the human system,
branch oil the ra'iiadng channels OF
communication to every member ana
extremity. The Mississippi Valley, this
I warm. pulsing heart OF the nation, will send
a tide OF rich and glowing life along these iron
| arteries, to feed, renew and invigorate the
nation. Laborers are already engaged npon
The Mem ohis and Ohio road, which connects
with this at Humboldt, Tennessee, and also
upou the Mississippi Central Road, which con-
meets with this at Jackson, Tennessee. Trans
| now run upon the Union City and Padncah
! road-aIso upon the Memphis aud Charleston
Qraad Lfcounecring with this at Corinth, Miss }
from Memphis to Decatur. Other important
lines, some built and some projected, are al.
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