The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-05-05

of the Confederate authorities. The
destruction which resulted to the
rolling stock from the operations of ,
the contending armies, from repeated ,
raids, and from the natural wear and >
tear, increased by the impossibility of
obtaining materials and supplies nee
essary for repairs, is stated as fol
lows:
LIST January, 1860 LIST May 1860
Locomotives in rung order, . 5g----------.---l3 !
" under repair, 5.---.-.---.----.4 |
" out oforder but good o.. --.-..--.-..-...3 SO
" Explod and cOndemnd l---.----------.-o
Passenger Cars in runng order. 90 ------------ IL
' under repairs. --------- l----------------7
Baggage Cars i'll running order, l----------------3
-" under repairs --..---.--------..2
Freight Cars in Tun'ng order 12l 23l
uuder repairs. -----..--- 2-------------- SO
The stock designated as in running
order on the 1st May wouldnot have
been used before the war, but the
pressure of business forced its use
Notwithstanding its bad condition.
The damage to the roadway con
sisted in the destruction and decay of
the bridges, trestle-wOrk and cross
ties from Oklahoma to Union City.
distance of 1S4 miles; the burning of
| 10 warehouses and station buildings;
the destruction of the tools and sta
tionary engine in the Whistler Repair
Shops at the evacuation Of Mobile,
and the wearing out and burning of |
about 81 miles of rails.
At the close of the war, the road
was in fair running condition to Okla
Iona, 261 miles, and paSSa6le for trains
to Corinth, but there were only 10 To-
comotives, 231 freight and II passen-
ger cars to operate it; and tie tools Of
tie only repair shops for keeping the
rolling stock in order tcere unft for use.
The report Of Superintendent Elem
ing, from which we take the foregO-
ing, gives the stock on the first of
April last as follows:
Locomotives in running order ....-.-..-... 40
under repair 10
out of order but be repaired. 80
Passenger and I'd class cars in order ---..---- 80
- under repair 4
under repair. .--..---------. p
The earnings Of the road from the
first of May 1865 to January 1866, are
thus given:
From Passengers S43j. 306 93l
Freight, s94, 54l 30
% Npress.---------------. 80, I27 80
Making total of-..............sl lis, 976 30
And the expenses:
For repairs of Road. sara 2l7 %
condno+ Machinery ,tion 5 5gs S3g 20 %
Making a total observation-disclosures s699 500 IA
And leaving a net revenue of-.---.-..--.s7l9O 16
The following amounts were
; also earned within the same
time:
I From Express ......---........ sI3 500 81
sGSyt EXPERIMENTATION TT gSa being un %
b Transpn OF Mail (estimated) 80. 1900 90
D Making a total of............. s1O5 600 81
+ And the total net revenue of s.24777 g.
h In reference to the freight tariff and
-. passenger rates the report of the Su-
perintendent states:
The high prices of labor and every
~ description of materials required OF
5 railroads, the small amount of rolling
e stock, the worn out condition of tn,
roadway, and the small business South
II ern roads will have until the industrial
pursuits are more settled and develop
IS ed-together with heavy expenditure
4 necessary for repairs-will requir
s. high rates to sustain the roads ant
D. prevent them from going into tn
. hands of the bondholders All man
ufactured supplies and mechanical la
r Dor can only be obtained at double tn
rates which prevailed before the wal
- and the depression of Gold has no
or produced a corresponding decrease i
>" the prices of these articles. Ordinar
ed labor and timber have increased abou
- fifty per cent, but the aggregate eS
:. penses of operating railroads in tn
10 South is quite twice as much as befor
FL the war. The passenger rates an
be charges for freight are less on thi
q than on Southern roads generally, e1
hi cept where fixed by the charters an
under the present condition of affair:
'lANAA bAAC WIN (thlllCo ldNO III OICOlU v
other resources to rebuild their roads
e- high rates are a necessity. And this
no. alike the interest of the stockholde1
- and people, who are interested in hay
l'A ing the roads in the best condition, an
u retained in the hands of those VIII
n sacrificed so much for their constru(
of ton.
al The whole exhibit presents to tn
in public, for the first time, view of tn
all difficulties with which the administr;
ty ton of the road had to contend du,
he ing the last year, and in our opinion
Id should satisfy every candid man of IL
III energy, prudence and industry wit
I'd which the interests of the compan
ad have been administered and in such a
lie emergency as the present, the con
rs pany's interests are the interests {
ID the public. The stockholders, VIII
were best qualified to judge, in the
election Of Directors ratified the ac
u of President Brown, and we are col
u WINGED that with his knowledge of tt
past affairs of the road, he can accom-
nI-t,plish more in his present position tha
p any other man in his place could do.
II -~--~ S
n RE "Mistakes will happen in IL
RS best regulated families is an o.
I'M adage, the force and truth of which W;
VIC violently impressed upon us yesterds
an unlocking over the article in our co
re- umns referring to the festival at Wick
burg The initials E. H., had bee
no metamorphosed into E. A. The
:. they stared at us in type in formal Loo
ias ing murderous array, tempting us
/ exclaim s'shake not thy CORY locks
o. me, thou can'st not say i did it
! Another error was the omission of Q
N, entire paragraph of the manuscril
Of which was particularly complimental
I - ov,a - 4bo tGfaira1f ar,aurr tho 70 n.