Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-01
RIVER.
E'rOcet dingS of The Convention
at Chattanooga.
From tho Atlanta (aa Intelligence

reported present, the great body of whom
were from Georgia, Alabama and Ten
nessee. Gov. Patton stated the object
for which the Convention Wss called in
an appropriate and highly interesting
address. He said that Congress had sp-
p%ropriated les 100000 toward opening
the Tennessee river, and that amount
was To- being expended between Chat
tsnoog8 and what Is known as the
Suck An efficient engineer had esti-
mated that the entire cost Of removing
distractions would reach about "a, co.,
600, the Muscle Shoals" being the
chief impeachment.
Messrs. FRrrOw and LESTER, of Georgia;
McAllister and Whitney, of Alabama =;
Rsthburn and Wilder, Of Tennessee ;
Elweil, Of Ohio; Winchester, of Penn
sylvania, and Moore, OF Virginia, were
appointed a committee to nominate per-
manent officers for the Convention, and
reported as follows:
For President-Gov. r. B. Bullock, of
Georgia.
For Vice-Presidents- Reuben Arnold
and L. Hubert, OF Georgia; s.. d. Weak
ney and w. B. Figures, OF Alabama H.
l.. Chamberliu, r. K. Byrd and John D.
Divine, of Tennessee +. d. Moore, Of
Virginia; s. w. Winchester, Of Penn
sylvania.
For Secretaries-Df. Chas. Pinekney
and Eugene Davis, Of Georgia; Joseph
II. Sloss and L. l.. Chisolm, of Alabama I;
r s Rendrick and Mr.. Kirby, of Ten
nessee.
The report was unanimously adopted
and the officers duly installed.
the Committee on Resolutions reported
through its Chairman, Col. V. A. Gsskill,
Of Atlanta, as follows:
WHEREAS, The report ola survey of the Ten
lessee river. made undsr act Of Congress Of
March ?, le67, by Col. VIM. b. Cav, Civil En-
gineer, under tine direction of Brevet Mai Gen.
y. Weitzel, Major U. 5. lgineerS, which re.
port was made by Gen. Neiizel tn Gen. a. A.
Humphreys, Chief OF Erg iueers U. s. a. dem
OnStia IS that the Tennessee river. the sixth in
lmportsnce OF all the rivers of tine continentin
point of length aud extent of country drained,
draining an area OF $500 miles, requires only
the construction Of a series of canals around
tEe distractions commonly known a. the
Muscle Shoals, at q cost extremely moderate in
comparison with the benefits 10 be derived
therefiom, to make it navigable, including its
tributaries, for 1900 miles, during min months
of the year; and
Whereas, Gen. Wei;zel, in transmitting this
report TO Gen. Humphreys, endorses particu-
larIy the recommendation for the construction
OF a canal around said oostructions in the fol.
lowing Language In addition to the many
good reasons gwen in the appended report for
making the improvement at this time. aud to
those which ave been given by the many able
men who have reported on this subject during
the Fast forty years, there occurs 10 g, thai
not only would a work be done which should
have been done years ago, but which would
have repaid the Government a large interest.
." am perfectly confden that II the dis in
gd1shed soldiers who commanded cur armies
operating along the line CT this river, during
the late war, would be called upon to testify ia
this matter. il would be found tina enough
money would have been tayed 10 the Quar-
termaster's Department by an i'm proved liver
IN one campaign, TO have trebly paid the x-
penss of deing the woFk y ana
Whereas, General RU mphreys ransmittfuz
the report to Congress, urges The i'm
thetwo Muscle Shoals, 9ad ColterCs Shoals. all
between Browns Ferry, thirty-fve miles above
Florence, and Waterloo, thirty miles below il, !
the river below Chattanooga. and If overcome
would open a navigsti n for nine months in
the year ~JnroughCpt the whole length OF the
feonessee flVef, ana uLen us tributaries. AL
9th sr i'm psdiments are not insurmOuntable al |
most stag $ OF tae water; and
whereas, The Tennessee River, from Elk
River Shoals to BaInbr dg-, known as the Mus
Gle shoals, is not navigsbie at any season OF
the year and /
Whereas, The people of the Tennessee Val
ley, now engaged in developir g their wonderful
mineral resources by the establishment OF eX-
tenslve blast furnaces and the opening of rich
mines OF coal demand cheaper facilities for
transportation for the products OF these enter |
prises as we'll as for those OF an improved sys-
tenn and extended development Of agriculture, |
in which the states and portions OF Estates com /
mer -ially united in tnteTeJ with the valley of
the IeunesSee, and !
Whsr- aS, TIE strength OF this popnlar de- |
mand ,or improvement ofths Tennessee river,
manifested during the past I rty year,. by reso- |
intiOns " ths legislatures c: Tennessee ana
Alabama, u gtngtJe action Of Congress by re- |
pested surveys OF the river, under &c $ of Com
gress in resolutions, to the demand of the peo- |
pie, ard by insufficient appropriations by the |
General Government for the removal of tie |
distinctions a. he Muscle Shoals, has been in |
ereaiing in exact ratio to the developments Of
the resources CT the country, until Wituin The |
past two years the enterprise has Fee=rea its |
eudor ement asa national one Uy The g.sat
river Convention held at ST. L9nis in rs 8. az |
well As DH the Merchants National Convention |
Of Philadelphia, Penn, in l. IS, OF The NstionsI
Board OF Trade at Cincinnati, 1865, and or the
great INTERNATIONAL Direct Trade Convention, |
held in Norfolk, Va, 18th October, 1868 and
through a popular Convention, similar to the
present, held in Chattanooga, Msrch IRfh ISsS. /
through repeated resolutions OF the legislatures
of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. throurh
the press of ell parties, the pejpls have urged
upon opgress the necessity Tor his great work
Of internal Improvements until appropria-
tons were granted in ls5S for the survey OF ms
river and for the removsl of a few cympara-
lively trivial distractions In the upper AMI
lower llvef, but the acts granting these appro-
priations ignored entirely the great obStrue.
lions at Muscle shoals, without the ren, ~ ,
immense mineral aud agricultural prouucfS an
This country, o. tassess 10 the products Of ne
great WORTH west; aud
Whereas, This enterprise being a n~attonal
one, and as such entitled 10 be carried cut by
the General government, is demonstrated by
the fact that Congress has, by Jaw. declared rs
control of navigsble rivers, ano has. al various
periods during the past years. Caused surveys
OF the tennessee river to be made with a view
to its Improvement, is further demonstrated by
tha fac. that the TennesSss and its nayfgabie
tributaries traverse the states O. Keutu ky.
mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and
North Carolina while it's cSrtain that no
mere local or State matters could, az has the
proposition for the remsvsiO of ths instructions
al Muscle Shoals, unite the Governors Of Mis- !
souIi, Iowa, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee in q call for such a convention as
that now assembled; therefore
Be IL TeSOlUed, That the attention OF Congress
is respectfully, but earnestly, invited to The
facts set forth In the foregoing preamble, and
that the senators AID Representatives, from
the States here represented, in particular, be
urged to press this matter upon the attention
of their respective bodies without Ces Stien, |
U1til ths distractions to navigation on the
Tennessee river between Dacat ur, Alabama, |
ana Waterloo, Alabama are all removed.
Be 70 juTthsr resolved, That a committee of
thrt be appointed by the Chair to prepare ard
draft a memorial TO Congress, which shall set
forth such facts in connection with the Tennes- |
see river and its tributaries as they deem
to influence Congress in favor OF the
objects of this Convention.
Res0tCed, That all papers printed in the s ates
specially intere itfd in the success Of this enter
prise be and they are hereby requested to pub
lish the proceedings of this Convention.
All Of which is respectfully and unanimously
V. A. X Chairman.
Tse report was taken up, az a whole,
and adopted unanimously.
Under the foregoing resolutions w. B.
Cav, Of Tennessee, II. P. FarrOw, Of
Georgia, and ex-GOv. Patton, OF Ala
bama, were appointed a committee TO
memorabilia Congress in behalf Of the
enterprise.
NOVELTIES in Dress Goods at Menken
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