Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, February 19, 1859, Image 1

Newspaper Page Text"TO THINK OWN SKI.I' UK TKl'K, AND IT MIST FOLLOW, AS Til K N TO TIT TIIK PAY, TIIOI CANST NOT Tlil.'N I.K FAI.FK TO ANY MAN."' I BY ROB'T. A. THOMPSON. PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. G. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1850. VOL. X. NO. 30. f | ??1/??YED POEYWV, rrName in the Sand. IIV li. I>. I'IU:XTU?K. Alone 1 wnlkcil l!ic iicciin Hlruiul ; A lu'iu lj' tiliell wins in my li:iii<l ; 1 stooped unit wrote upon ilic smhI M.v nuiue, I lie veur, nii'l <lay : As (.uiwnnl from ilie spot 1 psisse<l. One lingering lnnl< lieliiiul I esi?t: A Wiivi? mini" i-.?llii... 1.1-1 i - o Ami washed my lilies uwiiy. An ! so, mcthoiight. 'twill quickly l>e With every mark on earth from toe ! A wave of dark oblivion's sou Will sweep iutops the jdaeo Whore I have trol the sandy shore or time, and been, lobe no more; Of mo. my day, the name 1 core, To leave no track or trace. . mi'i yt'i wiin iiimi who count.s tlic .vainly, Ami holds tlie WMior in Ilia hands, I know n lusting record stands against iny iianio, Ol'all litis inortnl pull inis wrought, <M :i 11 (Ills thinking soul lias lnnt <rl: f. An<I from thcso Heeling moment's caught, Tor glory or for shamo. e?- ? Remarks of Senator Palmer on the Blue Ridge Rnilroad BillMil. Cm iinjian': It inijrht have lieou supposed that tho position \vhi<:li 1 liavo occupied in rotation to tho railroad ontorpri.'cs of our Stato. would have induced mo to pr.rfiio a different coiii-m! towards tho Blue l'idge I'ailroad on tin1 i>rose*nt occasion thm? 1 shall tin. It is indeed n painful duly to inc to raise, my voice i.i opposition In that measure; 1 mt I shall endeavor todo so fruukly, freely, and in a manner that becomes my ili.tv tomy.-e'.f. my con tiiueuls ami iik M.ite. "Willi a view to a eorrert understanding of lliis rjinstion. ii become* us to lake a view of the investments wh'u-li have heon made hy 111<* Slate and individuals in railroad enterprises. li would seem that tho capital invested in the railroads already completed, amount tout least J?lli.000,lJl.>tl, and that there are one or two more under construction th.-i will prohal'ly swell that sum up to rear SiM,O00,(KI0. Willi l>ul few excej lion", those, investments have made hut Mtntll returns ill tin' u-nv < ! .! > 1 holders. Itut it is I? i*tit na t c for iIuim- inili\ iilnals who embarked in tho?e undeilr.kin^s that llso railroads within our Stall' have oth r ad\antnjjes |r? the community than tlm mote payingof<lividonds ami I take it that no one regrets wliat lias been done, or would willingly submit In a loss el those roads.? lint , j^oiitlomen, wo have arrived ju--( at that point whcie marly every portion of State, having enjoyed the ad\antugi i "f railroad facilities, we .should have pnnsod in Mil1 Cfil<;or. ami it waited the iosull of (be experi in-..ui 11 iiivii >iv "in ii.'iiuvi .vu lu'iiviunni) in the mnnngcuicnt of liis own affairs, would luivc obscrvud this lnOHMiic of precaution; lie would have counted llio cost of wliut hu had dene. ?i ud I lie hcnelits to accrue th"! I'fmin, Y>e?\?re. lie would tiil;c> now risks of ii hazardous eharaclcr. Such should ha\e hcon llio I'niii'.'Cof these gentleman, wlio have gotten op tin; I'din: Kidge K-iilroad. lint mifortunnlcly for onr State. those measures of yirocnutiou which had hitlierto gui?h;d her councils io : lie construction of our local roads vcrc nil abandoned on that occasion. Our Legislature had said ci. phatically that she vouldaid, l>111 nut lead, in the construction ?'l railroads. She rcmiired inilU iilnnl^ i<> gixe faith to those works in wliieh 11? -y wen; about tn embark by substantial subscriptions; anil this was wise mid prudent; tor unless tliorc is a sufficient individual interest to guide and direct these enterprises during their construction anil to their coin|ilciioii, n ud subsequently to insure their econoniical management, you may rest assured flint they vilt be likely to result in disastrous failutc. Hut it was said this was a great enterprise, mid beyond the reach of individual aid; that it was I ut the eariying out of that great Western extension, known a* the Charleston and Cincinnati Uailrnad, which the great ,.f ii. .? .1.%.. ..it ~ i ' 1 1 1 ,IMIi ) tin ?; j 1111f \ i'ii in. Him >\iiirii the .State was willing to embark $10,000,00(1 to < litiiin the tratii' oi iii.it io^icn i ) e>'.t"i'rv mid lint for the revulsion ??l* that day. tho object would liavc boon obtained. lint ha\e gentlemen pursued tin1 same course that was pursued on that occasion'/ .Most assuredly not. I wcdl recollect tho appeals that wore made to the different district* throughout the Nfato, and tin- largo amount oi individual mibscription then obtained. Tho district which i have the honor to represent, alone vailed about $100,000 : ami if the same means had been used on this occasion that were itluen resorted to, 1 have no doubt a inueh larger individual subscription would have been procured than has boon, and tho public, sentiment of tho State would have been so woll <?. tertainod oil the sulycct that tin; entoipiso would eitherIiiivo been placed upon a sounder Imata, or it would never have been undertaken. Hut the State and the city of (Jharloston, with i? precipitancy amounting to rashness, and without Mint deliberation that should always fittend great arid hazardous undertakings rushed into the measure, without having provided the means adequate to the construction ( t'u railroad that i? to cost from seven and It. half to eight and a half millions of dollars. Is it to l>c wondered that a party who had undertaken thin measure so precipitatelv, kIkSdIiI l.uvo A.tln.l II...:... and !>c compelled to come hack to the l,ej/in. lature, and to ask forrt change in tho condition of their contract? Which contract was, t Imt tlic company should a fiord a iciiHonaldc pronpoct of tlic completion of the road before tlie Comptroller General tdiould endorse tlic State HUarnnteo upon the Imndft of ilio company to the amount of $ 1.000.000. Was such a condition mm iHonahlu? Most anftnredly not. Thoohjuct and de?igrf* of the Legitdaturc in itltadiing that condition to the State Kuornnlcfl. whs that the State subscrintion of $1,000,000 of stock, and u giinvnntflo of $1.000,001) of tlu) bonds of tlic coinprtnyi should be a finality of tho contribution of tho Stnto, and that tlw ninouot would complete tho entorprinft. WlMit, then, are tho reasons asHigued why this condition should bo removed? Why tlmt linngs &. Co. had agreed to oomjilote tho road for one-half cush, onofouith in tho bund=f, aud oue fourth iu the stock of tho company) mid that their fiiilnro to (imply A with theircontract Innl led l<> want of means w tu complete ilu- roji'l, mill to tin* pre-ont con- in ilition ol thin;;.*. For myself. I never luol ol any faith in this con I met; ami i believe. if to they had not been \cry properly ilismisseil. Ii; i lite protrne.t'uiji of the coiu)ileiioii of the roinl tr 5 would have imiilc it cost more than it will w now ilo. Hut it is siti<l we must repeal this \\ i ..r. : i *i , ........iinii niiii ine ."Mine must ;<) <n> willi et | tin'work ; because the .Static of Now York, !\ : I'cnnsyl vaiiiii. Yirginia and ' leorjiiu have nil ' inn<!c Ihose Western extensions l??i* tlio sake 11I'the value of the trade ?if that region. I.et us, Mr. tjhivirinaii, examine tlie points of the jt West t<> which these States have constructed their railroads, nod compavc them to that to | which we are now directing our attention.? c< Xcw York and l'onii:<ylvaiiin have tin* hrmi- j is | ?>/' of their roads :it mii h cities a< UuH'a'n. 1 | Krie nnd Pitt.-lmrgh?cities containing from |j j .10 to SO.IIOtt inhabitants?and two of these ! located upon the lakes, those great inland j seas, .surrounded by millions of enterprising , J'1 1 inhahitants. the products of who e labor a- J'i i imiiiiH in iiiurc man 90U.UUII.UIHJ ; and all of I'' ! tliis immense commerce is collected nml do- si ^ posited at points, for (1:0 railroads tn take il( tliom to cities like New York and IMiiladel- ( ! pliin; and vet, under all t!io*o favorable eir| eumstauees. (h?\<e ronds have not hoen a , j source of profit to those wlio have construe- ' | ted them. Cnmparo, 1 say. Mr. Chairman. { Jhis splendid picture of" woalth to that n|' the c: j region of country to which our attention i- ol ' directed. 'Vho Hluo liidgo ihiilrund is l'.J}< miles in length, and of this distniu'O, one Immlrc 1 miles is through a mountainous re- ^ ' gion and coni|iarati\olv no r. nossessio" Imt little wealth and fnrnishtnj; hut scant ' rial for tin.' loeal trade iiu-l travelof the road. il Let ns pursue it in its ?: mrse, and see what' t! ii attains, nvi.'n at its destination?Knoxville. d That town is situated on tin- Moisten, a riv- (| er iinvi;rahlo for small steamers at certain , seasons of the year. it contains a j oj illation I . not exceeding 10,000 inhaliitants, and the area of productive country around it is of so . 11 l'mitcd a natuie as to he wholly ir.adeipiatc 11 to supply tlic freight lor a road that is to cost tl eijjht millions oi' dollars. l>esi<les, if wo ti 11k>k t<> tin* <re'??rni|'liy <1 the country, ii will l,i> |iereei \cl tliiit the streams which unite with tin- Holstcn to 1'nrin thu lii;^ Tennessee I'm- their junction helow tin* town of Knox- i \ i 11??. :i ii< I it will ho easier for hunts t o jjo , 11 ili'wn to t,'hattnnoo?;n than to jxo ii|> tn tin* t< Co-, incr jilaee, ami there van hi> hut litt!o tl douht that a portion of those |?ro<lucts will j always ?o down the river. That 1 ha\e not |N under-rated the value of this road, I hejj leav e ' , to ajipoiil to faets, nail will eall your attcn- ' tii>:i to the amount of business that is done on ' 'J the Kast Tennessee and tieoriria Hailrnad. a '' I romI extending n distant e of 1 10 miles from 1>< | lhilton, tin (1k> Western ami Atlantic Kail- a mail to Kno.wille, ami running through the 'J' valley of the streams that How through tin t (i ; region of country. This roiul lm? been coin- | p'.cied some three or four years, and it in, c.'iiic lVoin ami enters ui.Ot.li:, mails ainounle.l, in l.'vVi. to S.J'J'i.'iiiil ; in ; n Is.'u. ^2'-'7.0UU, ami in IS.'.S, S'Jti I,t>?H>. This p increase in the latter year, is mainly nttri- ' < ( tunable to the completion of the Hast Ten' iicsseo ami Virginia Jlailroad, which has put n > tu>- jrn-ui iiiic 01 .\nnucrn travel. The freight to which wo mi- > luok I'>i- the bit si- l'1 ' ness, which is usually its development i>I" j railroads, w c ( an scarcely hope fur i:s heini: ' tl more than doubled ; ami how comparatively h; insignificant are these expectation.-) to what , j( has been achieved by other State entorpiis- 1 s <vs ? Can there be a eater infatuation than ! | to sop|inM> that a road with those s'.etulor moans of support, can ever he a sell- -nstainiii?5 mad, much less a profitable one? lint j it is said that Knoxvillc is not to be its re t | (li injj-plneo : that it is destined to extend to 1 n: Cincinnati iu the course of time. Let s , tl Ibr a moment examine into the proba- j ^ bility of so oh an event. 1' is well known that ' a company had had been formed, some i j'1 two or th:eo years since, to construct a road j iu the direction of'Danville. Kentucky, and w on to Cineinnati, and it had but a short lived j ill existence. The magnitude of the undcrtak- ! ot .......ii unm iih-cii |iri|iit'iii iiii'm i m:ic it was : j liov?>n*l iheir roach, as (he difficulty of pas- [ i sing through the CuiiiberhunI Mountain is . 1 mI little less tliaii the passage through the | . I?!ue ividge. l?esi?les, the Legislature of i Tennessee, at its last sesion, no iloiiht he ! "i 1 lieving that >he iiaii g'ono its jar :ts it \vac ; !' prmlent in the construction of railroiuN, re- |'u , pea I ci 1 i lie law granting State aid of $10,000 > per mile to all Midi enterprises as hud not I ()1. commenced sit the time of the rencnl. How. i ilict. ean thisextension over lie eHeeled with- ! -~l ! nut State aid '! And why should S ate aid cv- 1 'l> er ho granted? The State of Tennessee has j hi , made all of her extension* Northward and ' Si j Westward with iheOliio and .Mississippi Kiv- : |{ | ers from Nashville, her Capital, whose she ^ is endeavoring to eoneentrate a large trade:' i would it he wiso in her to assist another line I of railroad to kitoxxillo, when probably there : would not he nunc than a sullieiont amount ! * '' | of business for one of the line-"? To feel the ! to 1 full force of this argument, let us supposo ' to that the Klne liidgc Kuilroad was huilt te n, 1 Knoxvil!i> wi.nlil S.niili 1'iiwi~ ' ",u tli I construction til' another lino from Spartan-1 i burg tii the saino point? To entertain such j , nn opinion woulil argue a degree of infatna- ' ! lion little sdiort of madness. J>ut to lie eon- j I elusixe on tins cubjeet, the line of railroad to , from Lexington o Danville, Kentucky, umler tli | conduction lias not only failed, but lias ab- ' solutely been sold. Such being the fact, it is jj evident that the lilue llidge Railroad t.'onipa- .. | ny committed n most cgregiouH blunder in " I e\er having inudo- Knoxxille their terminus, | 10 1 a point of but little capacity for the c dlce- !"i | lion of business, and from v hence two rail- , all j rood*, already constructed, one in the direo*1 yy nuii 111 ? irgiiiut jiiki incomer townrils iicorI jrin, must ncce^urily divide Unit little bu.si- I . i npSH, tlie whole of which would ho nltoucth- 1 | or inndequatft to tho wantaof the Ulue Ridge ; ^'J | llond. l-roin Ivnoxville to Richmond the ; distance by railwirty is 4;">C miles, and from on I Knoxvillo to Charleston it is 4('?5 miles, nine lb I miles farther. Richmond, it in well known, ()| has tho finest flouring mills in tho United wj States. Tho (lour manufactured there is better for shipment to Kin Jan?iva and other 111 South American markets than tlmtmudo nny il" n...i :? ~?-i- ? n iiv* v vagvi Kim it ?o ivrtouimuiu H) Hll|l|)()M! 1411 (hat, iliatniiccs being emiul, tho grain oiTen- tic iicshco will f-cck a market thoro, in prefer- bo once to Charleston, from whence it ban to he )v ubip]>cd Now York to be minnifucturcd. ^ s I rnnarkol In i' re, Mr. <'hairnnin. thorn j I as ?ii i-rrnr in making Kimxville the tor-' t inus ()!'(lie IJluc It'.'! -y J'ailr<>it<l in.^toail : ( ('leavchtml. which i < ?>i> tin? iliroot lino | j ' 'liaitaii'io^a. At (!luitliiiK'">:a wo r-lionM \ ivo I i> i'(iii)|ioiitnr witli (liMi^ia l<>r iIk.> , 1 aile that lias Keen coit<*<>i11i*iit<><1 there. and ' o should lm\o heon in ciiiii>ccti<>it with those t ( -tern i'X't>ii<iiins, lii?-1? we mi much < -v- ! i , luit "('which wc have mi litllo lin] c from | imxvillo. I j This lirini's mo t'> that privtioinif tin- ar- I UIHMlt which III litis 111 I I h" viw.i.owv t "" ,,v ~ Y- "' i' *"'V" i * in, ::s a reason w 1 y South Carolina should , s illow her example. 1 jrrmit, Mr. < imirnil, that (Ieor<;ia li;.s bcrn eminently >ue- j i ssful in all her railroad enterprises, and in every respect worthy i>f uiir imitation, i lit eonip>rc tin- t; runnus of her State ' nail with that of ours, and see thocjill'cr- ' ice ; (Miattaii'iojia is situated on tlit* Ten- ; . rssee Uiver, at a point which enables her, 1 v steamers from above and helow, to edict a l. vjto amount of freight. l?esides, , !< is placed in connect ion with a wealthy ' < irtinn oi' X'.rth Alabama by me ins of the ! ( iiaileston ami Memphis Kailroad. and the . unities of the upper portion of t.!< jr^in, 1 ??nir i in- line ol tin- railroad. almond i:i ! POtirees, ami furnish iivotv handsome lo- ! ^ il business lor the load. I lotn (lit! report l'till' Slipoiillllctlf ol' 11II! I'd,111 tl) ill" <ioV- ! ( rnor of the State, it would appear that the ' irninjrs of th?* load fur the years lS.">7-~?8 ave amounted in the tine instance toSiMIU,. ; i>i), ami in the other tu )0,00>l, showing decrease in the business of the road i:i j ic year lS'iS, of 8100,000, which, no | illll't. is attributable tri tlw vtioct I...UO ..l' lit; crops ami the revulsion in money mat - ' , rs. I'll is la?;/c amount of Ims'.iie-- over 1 ( ic (leorjria State 1 \o;i?l is assumed as the ( asis of the business of the I'lue l!i<l^e ! | lailroad. Wluit rijrlit have the friends of j ( nit enterprise t?? make any sivdi assunip- , 1 on'/ Chattanooga is distant from ('liar- j ( .ston hv the (leor^ia Mailroad 1 ill miles, ( liile the distance from Kuo.wille to Char- ( 'ston l>v the IMue 11 ': and other rail | >ads in South Carolina is boiiij: jirca- , j r l>y seventeen miles. To suppose, then, , i:i( tlie fivi?rht business whi-li has been I leeted ;il ( "uiitt:il)001>.:i \V( ?11?I ;;o up to | Miuwillc, :i distance o| 1 < <> miles, to (in<l ^ startiMir point lor Charleston. is wholly iircasilimbic anil opposed to every thin.tr ( kc coiunion sense. Not only will this not v ii the ease, but we may fairly assume 11 sr.t f portion of the business chine on the Mast enncsseo and (!eori;ia ll iilroad will eiine \ J ..-.vn to Palton, and find an outlet t:i marot over Clio Gco'-jria vondn. 1 lmve, Mr. 1 : liainnan, j.iv -n a bri'.d'skvtcli of the c:::i- | ( cut fuco' ss of (loorj^ia in hoi' State enter ( ri.-e, and all this has been achieved ;:t a | , '.-I of !mt <?.").?,u0,"00 ; smd while she has' | Dint (liis :if lit (iwtl expense, vet it h is : ( r>t hcen for lier exclusive heneiit. The ixiplti of 'harlestoii and of tho State of t , onth Carolina are larpje participants in ( lis valuable trade, and that, too, without j f nvinjr incurred a shilling of expense lor ' ~ s attainment. In the mime of common ( inse, wny should we have desired more j tan this? Hut we are told that the trnde inio tons over lioorgia railroads, and that ( 10 State might have deprived us of it,, 1 >y scriminating freights in favor of Savan- ! ( ill, and against Charleston. How was . ' C tis practicable i 'I ho roads leading from j | tlanta to Augusta, and from the same : lint to Savannah, arc not State works, ( utaretho property of her citizens, and hat motive could there be for legislating >. i favor of one and against the other, with- . it exhibiting a degree of injustice and ( voritism, rarely manifested by legislative , lilies towards her own citizens. Ho tluit J lis arj^mnont falls in the ground; and lest t s might be supposed that 1 have over-est- ( uited the. value of trade coining to Char- ( ston. I heir leave to itppeal to tacts. 1 ( id upon the examination ol tiie i'reighi ( hie of the \\ estern and Atlantic Railroad, ( 1 as it is better known with us, the (leor a State Road, that of the freight S col- | ctcdat its different stations and paid over connecting roads, in the year I^f>7, ' t JO 1,000 was paid over to the (leorgia t ailroad, and {501,000 to the Macon and ( 'cfctern ; and in 185S, $1 OS,000 was paid < j cr to the former,' and $70,000 to the lat ?IM.? ............ -? . . ..:.i ?. 1 IIV IIIIIWWIII; Ul llt'l|{|Jt Jf.'IIU UVl'l" I () 1O8O two lines of railway, the one leading 1 t Augusu and Charleston, and the other < Savannah, may he taken as the expo- i jut of the amount of business enioved hv ; ie different termini-?Savannah having . ctty much the monopoly of the one lino, id Augusta and Charleston dividing the . her; hut in what proportions I am unable say. Of one fact I feel well assured, > at Charleston will derive as much trade . Din this line as she will from that of the , Ine Kidge. A very marked difference in ( Vi IV of I lie I !iiril'(ri<i Xt-itfi K/viil >...<1 il.<x ads built by New York, Pennsylvania (1 Virginia is, that these lines are built s most exclusively over anil through their ; M irn territory, and it they were, not to bring ( e trade anticipated from them, they ' | >uld at least have greatly increased the ! s luc of the property of their citizens, and j j detl to the wealth of the State?such has j linently been the ease with Georgia.? t nt how is it with our great enterprise ?? f the 11*8 miles of road, there are but 5-1 ,1 jI . 1?- !* c?. .? * nun mc 11 in it tn me ouue; ine remain-1 g 144 being in North Carolina, (ieorgia d Tennessee. I should not, Mr. Chair :in, regard tliin as an insuperable objec in to the undertaking, if, after having ; nofitted our neighborr, it would add great- (i to the trado and wealth of Charleston. ? it I fcur that ou tliia aubjcct wo avo la .Hiring uihV r a i:\vat <1'ln>iuii The ,kViiaor limit Charleston, (Mr. Porter,) says hat N. w York lias inereaseil in commerce n a much ureal or ile^ree than (Miarlostnti : lint du re was :i time when the trailo of lie latter was "real -r than the former, :in<! hat thi.s is nttrihiitahle I i her j^n .iler rail o-nl extensions ; this i- jni'tK' true. !>ut have must satisfactnrilv shown tlttit t'iio rath' which we have nhtaimil hy our j.ivs iit Westorn conaeetions, or are lively t > iht.'iin l>v hup Ciitnv.. io ....l.. i^nitiear.t to that which Now Vork and thor eities have c?V tained 1?y theirs. It is hi', loo lamentably tin ?, tliiit Charleston Vas ;it on*! period ol" her ahead of Sew Yorlv in her commerce. 11 or p.'diiiie.-1 lays were those of our colonial exist: ne1, viien the \ aluo of our prodtn ! to the 1110 her con sit i . jjave us a din/el trade with .or. stud the profits of the trade wore divi led between the partus, inoo. (lie essence of our confederacy, the shipping of Sow York Mid other Northern c'lies I.as alien the plae1 ol' that of fin laud. and he profits of that business have yfoiie to en ioh those eit'e-s; : :;?! of this we have no 'it! lit to complain, for iiS lonij tis ('hsirlcson is ( (intent to <lo a oomu i.-'-ion i usinoss. ind has but a small shippintrinleiv.! of her iwn, tlie North will ever enjoy the prolils if her trade, in despite ol all ol the. iv.iloads jiin tidy built orim v be built. I have 11 ready sliowu that there was an injudicious mroipstanev 011 I ho put of tin State in cinmrking in (lie 151m; Kid;vo Railroad, :m< 1 hat ifcvir < ?n? j )! . v 1 it will ho attended iv'.th comparative! v small results. I shidl low piMOOcd to show at what c ist tho.-o Mids arc t<> !.>' obtained. I poii vx:ni;ii*injr Jio reports of the o!l'ie> is of t';<! company, I find tiiat it will re<piir''> to ooaij dote the he naked road, (to speak in round mini jci <. .-( ' ; ii!"l to < >llt]>ll'te allll i|>i:p it, 8S,(>( !.),(((.!( . Ni \v K l us assume, li.il to e-nnj?!< l * iitul liut > ?*?jii'?? lie lo'iil. (bat it will cost ;>,OIKl,HO!l. iitul I tlii 11 k it but ;t fiiir as: ir.njtlion. And if t were not that I bad a v! <;:t re-pert for be candor and integrity of lite President if the void, and 1110 utmost enii!:d"nce in lie ability am! accuracy ? !" .Major (iwynn. 'on Chief I'jHiiinccr, a ui'iitlviicm wbo in irufessional attainments is alio d of any mo wlio lias ever ben in the service of the s'tate, I should be incline 1 t > the opinion !iiit it Would r.-o:=t more. To incut this o.\.icnditmv, lot us see \v 11::I art* ille hu mns id" ho company. it would i>j,p .r that tli iVliolo amount is Sli.li.Vi.OiM ; of t':is, thi r. of inilivi j?ti u in South Car>li:ia il:o Mini f f ?liuwing most loarly tlio little faith tint i.s manifested in ho enterprise by this class of stockholders, 'uttin;/, thou, l.lio most lavov.ihlo const rneioii upon their own showing, and it will HllM'.MV o nil.I : r . ?. mmivh in \ in y-, )O0 to co:n])!clc the road, and 111:s is based ijioii the assumption that the Stato shall r:\uit 81 ,000,000 of uuarant vd bonds iiuw inder oonpideration, and tliut the eompaiv can make availabl" 81 ,;>')(),000 ?>f t!i? ir irst niortjraiio bond; for both of these tcii'.y arc embraced in the means of the iinpanv. As 1 before remarked, all cirunistanecs boin.tr favorable, there will be a leliciency of S2,000,000. ami how is this leiieieuey to he made pood/ Why, the 'resident tells us most honestly, that the ity of Charleston in so weighed down with axes that she will do no more ; ami that Iter the State shall have (guaranteed this >1,000,000 in dispute, that she must p.ive ii additional subscription of slock to the mount of another & 1,000,000, and that kurhnps he will he aide to supply the uthr defieioncy of & 1 .('00,0,.11) hy liie >aie of ecoud mortgage bonds. The sale of sc;:ind mortgage bond- This i- taxing our redulity to the extreme. |) >es the I'resilent believe for a moment that these bonds an ever ite made avail b' '/ !! .: evt! / > >! > autiou oil tin' subject indicates his hotter Uil<f|UOllt, ami I am wry doubtful whether he (irst inortpi^e bonds c ut ever b.1 ivaihilde. Mr. Chairman, this is the list ime that tlie Senate can liave control over his matter. Look to the appeals that are iMac. to our patriotism and our St ite pride, n not allowing the enterprise to <;o down, i;id the want of'wisdom which will he mantested in throwing aw.iy the $2,"00,000 hat his been subscribed 1>y the citv of Jhnrlcrtton and the State. It" this appeal s now strong, and influences the kind feelilgs of men towards the road, in despite of heir judgment against its utility, how nucli .strougor will it become, nay, how rrcsistablo will it be, if we consent to guarintec this 81,000,000"/ I shall consider hat the State will be thoroughly commit in! to the enterprise, and no matter vviieth r it may involve a debt of ' >, 1 or S.i.OOO,>1)0, it must he incurred, or the road will ?oabandoned, when it will cost more than t now does to tibaudoii it. hid cd, I ronider the giving; away of ?l,0l)U,000 as a mail sacrifice to what we may he called in to make, even in the event of the road >eiii? constructed, and not to prove selfIKf linilKV I ,<?f Jlvl Clint. u.i lliii IV?Oi.l l?. lv.? IT " v ",v **" ? ,U "V uilt at its estimate 88,000,000, and tlint t should prove unprofitable ; who is tosuxaiii it if I should ho glad this question rore answered. Hcsidos, I challenge the ecoi'd, to show a single instance in which road lias boon completed, (it a given anount of capital, nnd tln.t amount not havng been increased by applying the ojinings to its iinprovcment, or by a further srtiic of bonds. The State I load in Moor-' 'ia went into operation upon a capital of j ^000,000; it is now *">,<?OO,O(>0. So ?t Ins boon of all the railroads ill our State, IJilt the friends of the road say we inn-t isn i?:t a! iill hazards. ;>ttd (It it it will In' bad faith on 11 part t?f the Stssti' >">/ to do so. i do not six' 11o\v this can bo; tin- Stato doo.s not ?is]< to 1?c released from hot* engagements. it is tin' company that nsl<s to la: released from tin irs. Tin? State ve one million of Mibscriplion, and wvs to :ri ve one million of mnr isnttjy upon a condition that made her c-< 11trihution to the ru ?l a iinality. Ihit, the company wishes this condition withdrawn, in order that the Slate may lm e unpolled to complete lho work. M r. < 'hairinaii, this eharjjc of bad faith comics with a biduracc, lVom those who make it. I<ct us see for a moment liow the different subscriptions to (ho 1*0:1?I have been called ill. Kroin t!ie , report of the Comptroller, it would seem that the whole million of the State's sub! scrip!i;;n has been called in, while there still remains of th" subscription of the city of ( hark - ton and of the individual subscription (originally 001') thcr" still remains uncalled for S'Jo'.bOOO, showing that up to this time only ot this contribution has been .applied to tlx* construction <>!' the road. This, I think, is a vevv strong indication as to who is to bear the biin.t of mm.:..:. . 11" ' 1 not the first time, Senators, that tin; State !i ts embarked in a jrreat scheme of internal improvement. .In t forty years ano, wliOii I w;s rjnito a younjj man. I listened witli great attention to the debates that went on in the two I louses of the Legislature on this snl'ii and 1 have been .-truck with the similarity of the arguments used on that occasion and on the present. The Ijejrislnturo, in the first instance, was only culled on to ? rant an appropriation of a tow hundred thousand dollar:- ? -that was spent, and without any beneficial results ; a few more hundred thosands was (h'mnnded?it was resisted, those who opposed it were branded as unwise and unpatriotic, and told most emphatically that all of the money fiat was spent would be lost unless then' Was another :mi>viir>ri!itinn <>.1 * I.I of tilings wont on through ll sorios of years. until l!io Stati* spout ?2,000,000. Who wore rii;ht tiion, those who wore for?rranlii: or those who resisted tho appropriation of t! o money ' What is loft of that iua<rnifieont. scheme of internal improvement of 1 which so much was then predicted'( Is thore an individu il in this body who would ltIvo liftv thousand dolhirs f >r what costs *2,000,000 Most assuredly net This, then, should bo a warniii'', a unido to ns, 1 ,, i'?. . ... ...i i. ' i i < .... I (-n -.-III H SIIOUHI lliaKO u :<tr**111> 1 \" cautious !io\v wo contract it (.lobt tli.it would pross seriously upon tin; resources of tho Stato. Hut wo nro toM that i ur t:ix<-s arc li^ht. ami tho iloht <>t' the | St ito small. I t that our present ih-ht i *:!.( 1)0,(110 is small. Ihil is it to i main stationary ' I >ir's any member supposo that it'wopo into this l>!u>"> liidjro on torpriso. (hut ui tho end of five years it c:in be loss tliau "> in* S<>,(JU0,O00 ? W ill our ! State Capitol cnst less than ?2,")! ((,000 ? ' And wouhl the Blue Uidj^e llonil cost loss than three or four million of dollars? i think not. Then wo should have at tho I oust tho amount of debt whi d? 1 liavestai tod?and tho annual amount of money to ! be raised to moot tho interest on that debt would ho from i50'> to 5J($'J,0U0. Now, sir, if this larjxe expenditure of money was: to I produce a corresponding ^ood, I ; hould not oliiei t to it : hut 1 i.?l: ? v i nrr !K I 11.. this second scheme <>! Statu internal improvement will result in a failure little less disastrous than the former, i cannot uo into it. lint, it is said that the Bank of th* State ilitl pay the debt that was formerly contracted, andean do the same in thiinstance. I believe it can ; provided the 1 iCirinlatuve would pay the annual interest of the debt by f ixation. I >nt do ?rentlemen reflect what a waste of money was involved in the internal improvement of Isjs?two millions of capital sink, and the interest aeiruim; thereon for n p -rind ofthirt\ years', and if our present enter prise should proven failure, that a wasteful expenditure of tin! public money would again be incunvd ; and vet gentlem-m scent to think that this would he nothing, provid d the bank should finally pay oil the d *bt. Hill let us rclleet for a moment.? If, instead of applying the income of the bank to these extravagant schemes, it had been applied t > educational and other pur ! pases, how different ami how magnificent ! would h ive been the results '{ Mr. ('li:iir! man, it is a sad duty for in to vote against removing the conditions that luivc been imposed upon this (omp.'uv, and in a spirit of concession, rather than see the enterprise stop altogether, I should be willing to guarantee *>."<,1)00 p r mile, for the purpose id' purchasing the iron and laying of the. track. I>ut this appropriation must ho a finality 011 the part of the State, it must he a foot mix up 01 t lio liill oi Costs. I int. gentlemen Kay that it'.rill not answer (heir purpose, that it would be impossible for them to get along with such an appropriation ; why should it he impossible? It must he because the enterprise wants the confidenee of the public, or that the means raised in the firsi instance were wholly innnoquate to the Carrying of it'out. For this 1 am not responsible. If, after an expenditure of fc2, 12(5,000 of money on the road, and with cash assets on hand, amounting to a halt a million of dollars, and the positive assur nnce of ?8,000 por mile to finish tin- roml, f say, that if with all this, capitalists will not loan them moncv on tlu-ir (list mort I leiiiil-, I'.i.-ii it tni'.st !? ' Ijcciiusp tlioy liiok l i;i ?' 1 o i:n| ?rt:?n of' tin- riml; ' I iiln.1 if its, WilO :ifi! lif ill! 111011 till) ij most s I'j'iciiiu-i in (]) ' i it vest m?*>it ol thmr I I IIIin 1 s, rcl'ose to jjive fh":n credit, how can I we, wliu arc the represent.ifiv? s of tlit' people. t ike the re.- pollsibilit V c ?T-ltvjui I i ll tllCIll j money to an unlimited extent ' I Gtrnngc Nesaillancc- \ l'.i,<>i>i:\:r.NT or \ CAI-I IVATIM; \ I S Willi A t'lil M ltY (,'t.OWN. Two r . \ yi utlil'iil candidates f<>r matrimony, from j Ihuirhim ( untily, Kentucky, made tlicir do- } but -ft the Spencer House yesterday, im<l ;i> soon iliey had breakfasted?they were not pee, ibove tho reach of appetite by their p > i?made known their coiinubiil wants. Mr. France, one of the clerics ^ ut' t!i hotel, to whom they applied, asked wliciv (lie prospective bridegroom was, seen r.o on(> but a very large, ruddycheeked, :<wkw ml and entire!y rural individu d, wlio looked its ii' lie had just loft thy i i#'v-. " I in that feller, Mister, nnil f want to niavrv t!iis ?jal, ri^lit oil, ?;ni?-l;, * was the ros|H) isc tin' j'le.dcstined Benedict, while ; tin ;^iil, ljirt'lv seventeen, and unlike him as ('ytheren was unlike Vulcan, smiled at , v. ii.it appeared to her, in her blind partial| it v. an open c\ prcssion of his manly regard. i Si? wonder the clerk did not conjecture the rude Hourhouitc to lior lover. No one who believes that like seeks like would I have dreamed of the possibility of such a I compact. The "irl is very fair, delicate and pvminofrii. il r.n ?.? ? -- 4 **' .p.... i. i.mu 111 ii uieiimre, Willi blue eyes and golden hair, and tin' most darling little rosebud of a mouth that ever pouted kisses a buvi; the enehiiuting dimples lit' a 1 M'.mti!HI chin. She was lithe as a lilly on its stalk, and every motion of her form, and ever gesture was grace itself.? 1 lor eon veivition was ingenious but elegant, easy but intellectual, and it was evident, she added, ! ) a naturally refined mind, a MijHTiiM- ciiucamiii combined with various aceompiishmonts. Wo thouplit of Titnnia and Bottom, and 1 >lauclic ami Quasimodo, and Beauty and boast, and wc know not wli.it i 111 r orations of fiction, as wo gazed at the pair that wcro to wod, and wondered 1 whether the cvn;i of husbands had not been short l.sst season in Bourbon. Wc are 1 ' | aware, o! course, that opposites attract each other, but culturo generally seeks culture, and refinement rolinoiuent, however temp; eramo.nt and oruani/.ation differ. This in -I m. e, liowovur, w.is an exoepfion ; Jlor lioio :iu tu'Ciunplislicri youn;j; lady \v;is on < tin.' rve of mating witli a clown not only in mannors, but in person and character.? Mirandi's love for (,'alilnu \v< old not liave l)Oon more unnatural. Still tlio fair Kon(uoK'ian was \ iolently enamoured of lior buOolio lover, it was evident, and had doubtless iiloli/.i'd lii.ii into :i sort of fair Apollo. I lis (lol'ofls she supplied with the roninnoo of lior own naturo. and covered his faul)? i ..... ... > ^ iui'i iiwKiiruu wuii ino gorgeousni.?s of her imagination, until lie shone forth, in I her ovi-s at k'a?t, the incarnation of poetic dreams. Tin v were nnrried in li\-~ than an hour, , ami a> th' V retired from the reception room to which thev had been invited, .she seemed a> much phvised with his i/hitcfu-rt'rs, .is lie with her elegant and engaging tlfcportni"s 11. We t ii'.u ;ht of the famiiliar lines I - 1 1 ' ' I in mv; I'niv, ;iM<i iitii mow inovouphly tlioy I \\\mv verified in tlio example before us : In joining in contrast In-tli love's delights, lI'MU-e hands of snoiv in palms ol' rusycl lie; Th> 1'oriit til Hercules ami of Sylph's, Ami breasts dial ease the lion's (ire-proof heart rind their loved lodge in avnis where tremor* dwell. i The. marriage was. as may lio supposed, the result ufan olnpeinmit. Tin:bridegroom Inni In on employed by the bride's father in a menial caiticilv. and as siinn as she r<? J:ir:?v'.l ? Ww school, where every pains had !>t on taken to jrive :m cxcelloiit education, sho ' loll 1 w love" with the " ru le, unlettered hind,"' mivl herself proposed the runaway. The devil is in some women, and no ini>tal;p, and this was a ease in point. Whether the father, who i- wealthy, will accept his plebeian son-in-law is a question wo can not determine. Perhaps, as he i>; extravagantly Ibml of his daughter, he will forget her mr.vnHnnro for the jrreat love ho boars his child.? ('in. ji'i/irr. j A Si-f.r.niiio Donation'.?The f)?uf/n'rn ' I'lix/ii/hi iiin snyn : 'J'ho Hon. J tidgo Perkins, of tlic Onk*?, Miss. litis just given to the Theological Seminary, j :U Columbia. Ilie linmlsoine aiiin of MTiyJhon- , . ' sand dollars. Thirty thousand dollars will ./ lie realized in ea?-h on the first of January next, ami twenty thousand dollar* on the first of January, ISti.'l. The tud^e has upnroiirintcd thirty thousand d-dhirs to the establishment of a now Chair in the Seminary, that of Natural Srienoe in ennnootion with lteveafefl I!..!!.-:.... 'I' I > .*..11 ? >'< 'UHIIIIN arc to bo nu. !on^ of a fund, wliir.li lie <wneM!y do/ne.-" to set; inr/oaee:!, for tin; sustonta!k;:? of iiuligont Iheolojiieal students, and tlio . reinninin^ ton thousand uvo to br applied? tlio intoriMt, that i^- ?N> the aid of disabled | and sujiorannnatod ministers, -ind to the dett- , j ! titutu families of those who are deceased ? I ri.n a?i; - . ... i.muiuiiui ill till' lll>|M?IIS||l mil MI lllltll (it' those lust charities is t<> bo jjivon to residents i of Mississippi iiiiiI Ii'tnisiiina. ' Wiikn n man treats mo with want of rospoct," snitl a philosophio p"nr,man, " t comfort myself with the refection that it Is not myself that ho slight*, hut my ?>hl shabby coat ami hat. which, to say the truth, have ' ^ no particular claim to admiration. So if my \ hat an<l coat choose to fret ahout it, lot them, i bul it is nothing to inc." * ; ? "... M I .p'raMr ' iM,

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