The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-21
RAILWAY MATTERS


9 Gen VIM. Malone, of the late copfed
crate states army, vas elec,ed Pres,den
OF the Southslde Railroad, on the III
, instant,
PACIFIC RIILwAY.
, ne new Commissioners, M,ior Ger er
/ al curtis, Colonel Simpson, United STATE.
+ EngIheer Corps, and Prescott Smith q
lhe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. appoin
led by the President to examine the re.
Gently opened sections of the Union and
t Fac nc Railroad in Kansas, report the
road completed for sixty miles from lis
eastern terminus, Wyandotte- The first
lorty miles were accepted by the Govern
lneht some two months ago. That Dor
tloh just examined, the third section OF
I ."eh'y miles, Is said to bea better road
tnan the hrst ftrly miles. This compa~
aoout building branch railroad
rom lawrence to Leavenworth, and ex
Pect 70 have their main line completed
10 Fort Riley, one hundred and thirtv.
4 SIX SIX miles from Wyandotte, by july next.
Inc LeaVenworth branch will be finished
oy the lst OF May. There is now a con
'lnuous line OF railroad from the capital
Oh the Union to the capital of Kansas.
about 300 miles. -0''O'
me Ene Company has negotiated a
loan of $4, 500, 900 in England tor the com
pletion of its double track.
Inc Baltimore ald Ohio R road Com
Pany are preparing to double track their
route from Baltimore to Cumberland
Instance of 178 ftiiles. Workmen are
already engaged and it is expected TO
t o'G Ihe double track in running order
oy n the lst of January, 1867.
poii me business OF the Illinois Central
mc haiIrc d. IN November, is reported as
follows: 4'o0 DIS
LAND DEPARTMENT.
construction Lands, acres 3 91n 90 |
sold for 500, 55l 90. - 80
:, interest dn9 res Fund Lands, acres I2O 90 .
&c, $50 80 Solo lor
Total 5. sales during the month of Novem.
Der Der dooo, acres 1864 So sold for SII8.
420 % to which add town lot saIaS
9ouo w, makes the grand total J.:
q Acres 10, 364 5S; sold for sII9.
-, Sold since January l, 1865 acres 112
0lf % sold tor Sits ,529 "a.
}97 &c. 1'o'enloer 9lo8,- '
20 Cash dSd collected since January 1865
3, ,O2O, lI9 53. = 1ooo' {
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT. a
Roooi. oi1i passengers S223 631 Sc.
Pecep IPseceipts from treights $780,, ,l9I 90.
Rece!pts from mails sc, ,I99 So
hecelpts from rent of road : f06 Ok o
401l. sources ~ d
q : otai tai receiDts in month of Nov 7aG5 q
624, 968 30 No''' A0oo' s.
sfi 1'el eec7 erce7ceIPts in month of November,
Jotal receipts since ,Janua,y 1ocs
6,637, ,2O3 40. uo"'y J. 1902 st
Iotal receipts in corresponding ne TT T
od of 1864, $5,726,O44 93, -l''l's Pc u
ne tolaI amount OF traffic of the A. 81,
"'lc ana Great Western Railway for -
lie month OF November, was sal 90 10 ~
49, ,46O. A'0Ao' increase nj
fRAIsE FROM THE EnGLIsU T71-,p, n Or
III scoHlng into reverence, curses int In
cSsihSs' and to CONQUER the oood In
lnion OF the world in despite aInooet of AT
ell Is work not given to manv man All
lere are a few grand examples in bis
y, ana but few. Therefore wban CIR,
ma ruler whose elevation saan1od ,
PreSSage reign of terror, and Who's nm
lecedents pointed him out rather as a..
avehger than healer OF social disor. q
:, %inning MS way In the worlds es. oI0
inoy - ~ clemency, the spectacle makes Ed,
teeP impression on our minds and arm
! % lGP remark not more generous than owe
eesblv disar;e AtluIe" Johnson has it 81
The world by a yvise .nd one nan Lee
10y that VIII give him high place in Joa I'a
pantheon of American worthioa zen
te in another wav 70 49, "oFthles. Mis-
oy Che republican fanatics, he ia the IA 7 ar'
for the time, and while Wasbinn rme Ear
mas the credit of establishing his i!ct Dict
ntry' independence and settling its n nlrt
OF government, Andrew Jo6nson 4 I arc
yet go down to posterity as the Z arc arc
esman who, by a wise cIemencv, con. 0urr
cted the editice when it had suffered
," that shattered it to its founda. loIa .
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