The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-06-02

Heroes must be more than driftwood
Floating on wayeless tide.
Correspondence Of the New York Herald. I
The Memphis Commercial Convention.
MEMPHIS, May 20.
Under the call of the Statesthe fol-
lowing resolutions were read and re-
ferred, together with many not read i:
That the standing committees hold
over until the next session, the chair
man of which shall have power to call
them together at any e,and requires
the railroads to furnish transpor-
tation; asking each State to hold con-
ventions and appoint ten delegates to
the General Commercial Convention :;
for the committee to ascertain an ex-
peditious form of q permanent con-
vention to meet from time to time :;
asking for aid for the Augusta and
Brunswick Railway; for government
aid for the Selma and Memphis Rail.
road, and for committee of FIVE to
memorable Congress on all the sub
jeots endorsed by the Convention.
A resolution requesting the South
ern railroads to hold conventions for
the purpose of establishing an emigra-
tion corporation and taking means to
systematize labor was ably supported
by Colonel Cole, of Georgia, and pass
ed under suspension of the rules.
Governor Patton offered n resolu-
tion, which was passed under sus-
pension of the rules, to memorable
Congress for the repeal of the direct
land tax of 1862.
The morning hour having expired
the Committee on the Southern Paci.
fio Railway made the following report,
which was unanimously adopted amid
great applause:
Resolved. That in the opinion of
this Convention the interests of the
whole country, and especially the
Southern States, could be served by
a main trunk railway line from San
Diego, CAL, through Junction river,
Colorado, and the Gila, and along the
valley of the Gila south of that river
to Ell Paso, on tho Rio Grande, and
thence to a convenient central point
near the thirty-seoond parallel of la
titude east of Brazos river, In the
State of Texas; from which main
trunk feeder roads should lead from
St. Louis, Cairo, Memphis, Vicksburg,
New Orleans and other points, all Of
which feeder roads having equal right
of connection with their main trunk !;
while similar feeder roads from San
Francisco and other points on the Pa.
cifio coast should have similar equal
rights of connection.
Resolved, That the President of the
Convention be requested to. forward q
copy of this resolution to the Presi-
dent and Vice President of the Uni.
ted States and Speaker Of the House
of Representatives, and request them
to present the same to the respective
Houses of Congress.
The Committee, which was composed
Of representatives from seventeen
States, including three members of
Congress, gave the following reasons
for che report:
lst. 1t is the shortest line connect
ing the Gulf of Mexico and Valley of
the Mississippi with the Pacific; and
I'd. It is the line, of all those now
unocoupied. of most easy grades and
cheapest constructed on permit. :
Sd. 1t passes through less inhospi.
table and barren country and over
more fertile and hospitable lands than
any other unoccupied route proposed.
4th. The line is touched by water
transportation at three points, afford
ing the greatest facilities for construc-
ticn, and consequently Fastening and
cheapening such construction.
9th. The line will open to the world
the great mineral resources Of Arizo-
ma and Sonora, and render moro vel.
liable the stock raising districts of
Texas, New Mexico and Northern
Moxioo, and thus enjoy unrivalled traf-
flo. N,l A""
9th. 1t will inevitably attract nu-
merous fesders from the neighboring
republic of Mexico, and thus not only
stimulate enterprise there but secure
to our shipping ports q greater portion
of the bullion which now seeks Eu-
rope by hazadrous conducts and snug
CLING vessels.
7th. 1t will open the new cotton
growing area in Texas, New Mexico
and Arizona, tho lands for cotton
growing being now useless on account
OF tho lack OF facilities for transpor.