Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-04

: ATLANTA.
II This city has entirely arisen from tn
/ ruins Of the war. / was here when it wa
little more than q heap OF rubbish, ant
now everything is changed; great, solii
blocks of brick standing where then des
i olatiou marked the track Of war. l ha,
Il a pleasant conversation with EX-Gover
=, nor Joseph +. Brown, president of tht
= Western and Atlantic railroad company
j He says the road was built by the Stat,
: of Georgia at a cost OF some six million
, dollars, and was operated directly by
the State for a number Of years; that
during the eight years he was gov
: ern0r he made il pay into the
f treasury nearly twenty-five thousand
dollars per month, but that under Othel
administrations il was apparently run
more for party than for profit, and the
legislature determined to lease it, and
did lease it TO the Atlantic and Western
railroad company for twenty years, at
twenty-five thousand dollars PEI month,
which sum has always been monthly
paid by the company into the State
treasury during the three years and a
half they have had it. That the COM
pany has not yet declared any dividends,
but has greatly improved the road hav-
ing put on fifteen new engines and four
! hundred new ears. By this il will be
seen that the State viii get back, during
| the term Of our lease, the entire original
/ cost of the road, and have the road also,
! besides all the additional taxes on the
increased value OF property all along
! the line of the road. This is conclusive
! evidence to my mind that it is a wise
! policy on the part of a State to aid in
] ar of II oul-
| Governor Brown if he knew OF another
| instance in the country where the State
acually built and owned a railroad, and
he said he did not. / asked what he
thought of Governor Bullock's opera
tons. He replied that the road was
mismanaged under his administration.
but he thought il was due more to the
men in whose hands he had placed il
than to Bullock. He said he did not
think Governor Bullock guilty of the
charges of various kinds made
against him, and saw no reason why
he should not return 10 Georgia if he
desired. On the other hand, i met a
member Of the legislature, or eX-menl-
Der, who seemed to think Bullock guilty
of all that is alleged against him. Gov
eTnOr Brown is man of high forehead
and pleasing address, and, in common |
with most men who have succeeded i'm |
life, speaks with earnestness and interest |
Of those affairs in which he is and has |
been engaged. ! understood him that
he was elected governor at the age of
thirty-siX years, and served eight wears, |
during which time he gave especial at |
tentiOn to the affairs of the road: that
during five and half years ne had no
control over it, and that during the last
three and half years, he has been ope-
rating il under the lease. Making it
from the age Of thirty-six to now fifty
three, he has been operating it all but
five and a half years, 50 that a large por-
tiOn of his life has been given to the in
terest Of his read.
ATLANTA TO AU5 UsTA.
We only called Off at one place be-
tween these two points, and that was at
Stone montain, which is a great noun
tain Of rock looking ike an Old iron pot
turned upside down, and almost utterly l
devoid Of trees and vegetation. This is
a pleasant summer resort, and there is a
very fine hotel there. / did not think {
the country along this route as product !
i've and wealthy as from Chattanooga to
as most of the country north of
Atlanta is mountainous and of limestone
soil, while eastward to Augusta il is roll
ing or level, and OF thin soil, showing
the unprOductive yellow clay and I
Darched up crops OF corn and cotton, such
ls Tennessee and Arkansas would be ,
ashamed of. l am satisfied that there
are thousands of acres of land in Arkau-
sas that can bought at a dollar an acre
more productive than the generality of
what | saw between Atlanta and Au- {
gusta, and the distance is one hundred
and seventy-One miles.
AUGUSTA
is very beautiful city and was not de-
5trOyed during the war. The brethren
)f the Chritian church, under the lead
srship Of Elder J. 5. Lamar, are about
to erect new church TO cost, for lot, /
lou and furniture, one hundred thou ,
sand dollars, which will be in one Of the
most public places and will add its mite
10 the adOrnment OF the city. | became J
acquainted with Hon. John 2. King. !
president OF the Georgia railroad and J
association, and formerly }
United states senator from his State. :
He is now quite advanced in years. His :
Dad, from Augusta to Atlanta is said to /,
,e about the wealthiest in the State. and :
o own controlling influence in the At !
anita and West Point road, leading TO },
he extreme western part of the State, !,
nd in the Port Royal road leading from I
augusta TO the Atlantic seabOard al Port 7
Royal. At Augusta we found ourselves :
/ the head Of steamboat navigation on
he Savannah river, and Just three mum
red and ten miles from the Tennessee
iyer at Chattanooga by rail. This is
he missing link in water cOmmupica-
ion between the Atlantic seaboard and II
ne waters Of the Mississippi, and | sun
'ose to connect these two points
y canal would be the burden of
he proposed canal for the trans
OF grain and provisions
rom the northwest to the southeast. +
Tor my own part l have read what has
cen said in the late convention on the v
nhject of the canal, and nothing that | .
cad convinced me Of the necessity of =
onstructing any canal at all, for the I
eneral reason that canals appear to be u
ehind the age, aud the particular rea- le
)n that Georgia had better raise her =
wn corn than build canal to bring If -
ON the northwest, where somebody :,
'ould have TO raise it for her. But II is y
rged that canal would break up the 7,
abroad mOnOpOlies and reduce the price a
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chattanooga are concerned nature has -
laGe the Tennessee river to compate u
'ith them, and so far as the roads from a.
to Augusta are concerned II
he state actually owns one OF them. a
al II there is eXhOrbitant rates charg- y
she can readily rectify it by reducing p
er twenty-five thousand dollars Der ~
lOntn lease money in consideration of ~
reduction OF rates. This would hiring III
orn OF the northwest as far as Atlanta. OOs'
men the ordinary competition of rail ~
nd other transportation would distrih. as
te it over the State. However. Georgi- NJ
rs must know their own business hest ca
nd if they think they need a canal Ia
ley certainly have the men and the L.
them go TO work and p
lake it. u
PORT ROYAL, S. c. ~
This is brought into direct communi- 81
,tiOn with Augusta by the Port Royal p
IlrOad, completed few months ago.
is an Atlantic seaport, twenty-five a
iles nearer TO Augusta, consequently ol
Yenty-fiye miles nearer to ChattanOO- al
4, Memphis and St. Louis. 1t is said la
be one of the finest harbOrs on the b,
,ast, vessels Of.the largest class coming u,
rectly up to the railroad wharf. con- h,
IS to feeling of great qualification as cc
looked upon the iron rails terminating In
this wharf, where they were met by Id
e waters of the Atlantic, and reflected n
at had beheld these same iron rails Y
id down at the bOat-landing on the 70
lightly Mississippi, at Hickman, Ken Sc
cky. There is a close connection of fe
terest in all these lines of road. E.W. of
ole, ESD, of Nashville, as president of al
l the line from Hickman to Chatta- be
loga, and general Superintendent, if 1
lslake not, of tlfA -linr frnrn Chaffa-