Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

Asa Hill, Esq, the WelLknown pas
senger agent, left on the Natoma yester-
day, for a trip through Arkansas.
Another railroad wal has COM
menced at Augusta, Ga The necessary
papers have been sued out TO prevent the
South Carolina railroad from using steam
power in the streets of that city.
Chattanooga was wild with excite
ment upon the receipt of the news that
that place bad been selected as the south
ern terminus of the Cincinnati railroad.
Canons were fired on the main street. "A
meeting was held, and everybody was
mbilant.
The multiplication of railways is
among the greatest marvels of the present
century. II is hardly more han thirty
years since the first iron rail- was laid on
the continent. To compute the number
Of miles of railway now in operation, one
must spend some time in the collection Of
statistics from every State, and almost
every county, in the republic.
Flanagan & Brown have contracted
to build the Port Royal Railroad. The
contractors agree to have the road finished
from Augusta to Port Royal by August
OF next year. When this has been accom-
plished, two lines of steamships will De
Immediately established-one running TO
AN@h III ~ NAAN NAARL ~ ii AECoAH
Gov. Patton, President of the South
and North Railroad of Alabama, has sold
on satisfactory terms $500, 900 of the Mont
gomerv CITY bonds subscribed to the stock
of that road. The line of the road is being
permanently located by an efficient corps
Of engineers, and the work of construct
ing the road will be commenced in a few
DAYS.
At the Western Car Builders AssO-
citation at their late meeting in Chicago
the following were adopted:
"Resolued, That il be the sense of this
Convention, in their judgment, an axle
for our heavy passenger GAYS should be at
least ~ inchesin the wheefand So inches
in the center, the journals to be 81 by 7
inches long, n of the best hammered
iron.
sResotued, That in the opinion of the
Association the six-wheeI trucks for the
large size passenger coaches and sleeping
cars are the safest, and, all things consid-
the best for railroads to use"
AeOmmittee ofthirty-six gentlemen, |
representing all parts OF the State, are in
session at Jefferson City, Mo, for the pur-
of preparing q bill to be presented to
the next session of bhe Legislature. to pro-
vide for the distribution TO railroads in
process of construction or projected, 3d.
OO0, 900, due To the State by the Hannibal
and St. Joe railroad company, and which
that company propose to pay previous TO
maturity, provided the State will distrib-
ute it as subsidies to other roads. There
does not seem to be much harmony or
unity of purpose in the committee, and as
it is alleged that the &annibal amidst. Joe
company are specially DESTROYS that the
should be given to direct Or in
direct feeders to their road, it is not
thought that any definite action viii be
reached.
The New York Times declares that
the value of our railroad freights in 1867
was no less than S1o,472, $50, 900, or four
times the national debt; that the average
annual increase for the ten years preeed-
had been S737, 000,00 and that we had
1866, $4,000 miles of railooad. 1t esti-
thai in 1880 we shall have 10000
miles, which Will transport lao, 900, 600
Of freight, valued at $50, 000, 000, 600,
while our population will then equal
200, 900. II these anticipations are cor
and they dapot seem to be eXagger-
lted. the countfN6as never increasing 80
as now in wealth and resources; and
The war, instead of proving destructive to
our national wealth, has probably in
il by thu stimulus il gave and the
freedom il afforded for expansion in all
directions.