| From the New Orleans True Delta |
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| April 28, 1861 |
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| The Last Rail and the Last Nail |
| The Tribune, speaking of the completion of
the Mobile & Ohio railroad, says: |
| The party which went to lay the last rail
and drive the last nail for the completion of the Mobile & Ohio railroad
returned home Thursday. The president of the road, (Gov. Brown), the
chief engineer and superintendent, (Mr. Fleming), and the assistant
superintendent, (Mr. Goodwin), Col. G. S. Gaines, Gov. McRae, and a
large number of other gentlemen were present. The occasion was one where
our most worthy fellow-citizen, M. J. D. Baldwyn, was the chief actor.
He drove the last nail, as he started the idea which drove the first
nail. Our readers know he had to hammer this idea into the heads of our
people. Like other men who have been benefactors, he stuck to the work
with hare blows, until her it is, after great toil, completed. So modest
a man as our friend Baldwyn is not pleased with any thing like flattery.
It is enough for him that he has the esteem of all his fellow-citizens. |
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