New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-18
WHOLE NUMBER 973.

had come for the purpose of resignjne.
Their efforts to select his.successor have been
premature, as Mr.. Casey does not intend to
resign. His course is not only sustained.
but fully approved both by the President
and the Secretary Of the Treasury.
( Senote.-The Committee on the Pacific
Railroad unanimously reported Mr.. Kel-
logg's bill No. 647 to-day, with amend
| ments.
! The eastern terminus of the road is at or
| near Marshall, Texas, running near the thir-
| ty-second parallel to Ell Paso, thence to San
Diego, California.
The capital stock Of the company con-
! sists of 100000 shares of S1OO each.
The road is called the Texas Pacific, and
the Incorporators meet within three months
after the passage of the act. As soon as
twenty thousand shares are subscribed and
ten ten per cent is paid in, the incorporators
The company have power to consolidate
with any other company and purchase it's
FRANCHISE, and grant twenty sections of pub
lie lands per mile on each side of the road.
and granted with the right of way from
Marshall to San Diego. =
Ihe road is made post road, and the
company are authorized to issue construc-
ton and mortgage bonds.
The New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicks.
burg road is made connection and granted
ten sections OF land per mile from the
Texas line east Of Marshall to New Orleans.
The company, organized under the laws of
Arkansas, are also made to connect from
Fulton, Arkansas, to point near Dallas,
Texas.
The North Louisiana and Texas road is
also authorized to extend their line, and
connect with the eastern terminus of the
Pacific road.
The Southern Pacific Railroad of Califor-
mia, running from San Francisco, is author
lzed to connect at point on the Color
ado river, in south eastern California, and
Is also given grant the same as the New
Orleans and Baton Rouge road. The COM
pany are to accept the terms of the grant
within one year after the passage of the act
and five hundred miles of the road to be
completed within two years after the
passage of the act.
The corporators of the Southern Railroad
bill introduced to-day are James L. Alcorn,
Mississippi; James H. Starr, Texas O. C.
French, Mississippi; Silas M. Martin, North
Carolina; John M. Corse, Louisiana; George
p. Wentworth, Florida; Powell Clayton,
Arkansas; John Ray, Louisiana, J. J. Kinds,
Alabama; James L. Hodges, Florida; E. G.
Carolina; Philip II. Morgan, Louisiana;
Thomas A.. Scott, Pennsylvania; A. C.
Babcock, Illinois; A. c.. Osborne, Florida;
Isaac II. Sturgeon, Missouri; Thomas Al.
colt, South Carolina, j. D. Cameron, Penn
sylvania; Alva Gage, South Carolina; John
Whytock, Pennsylvania; F. s. Davis, Ken
tucky; G. G. Pool, North Carolina;
G. r. Weeks. Texas; James 81. Oglesby,
Louisiana; Isaac E. Gates, North Carolina;
Delos W. Edmunds, Michigan; NJ. A. South
worth, Louisiana; J. C. Kenzey, Mississip-
pi; Nathan Patton, Alabama; Webster Flan-
Rgan, Texas; William P. Clark. Texas; W.
b. Bolton, Alabama; G. W. Pierce, Missis-
sippi; L. NJ. Flournoy, Alabama; John
Lockwood. Louisiana; James W. Boster,
Leonard 7. Smith, Mississippi;
81. P. r. Stafford, Arizona; D. N. Stanton,
Alabama; j. F. Trow, New York; N. II.
Decker. New York; Elisha Dyern
and Rufus Hatch, New York; Jed
Lathrop, Michigan; Charles Jack
,on, Rhode Island; John T. Sprague,
Rhode Island; Frederick Smith, Alabama;
Mason W. Benjamin and George Maury,
'ennsylvania; John W. Forney, North Caro-
ina; James r. West. Louisiana; William
'hatfer. New York; Samuel Sloan, Mssis-
ippi; d. B. Ward, Michigan; Charles G..
lrowbridge, B. T. Allen and Hiram Pierce,
Alabama; s. S. L'Hommedieu, Rush r.
'loan, William T. Walters, Josiah Bacon
md Townsend Blanchard, South Carolina;
ames r. Ledlie aud r. G. Gilbert. Florida:
l. q. Lippet and J. c. Staunton, Massachu-
etts; Samuel Tate, Mississippi, and Charles
l. Weed. Louisiana.