| From the New Orleans True Delta |
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| June 2, 1861 |
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| Completion of the Southern {(of
Mississippi)} Railroad |
| The Vicksburg Whig of the 30th say: |
| It is with great satisfaction and pleasure
that we announce this morning, on the direct authority of the president
of the Southern railroad, that that important work is now completed in
all its length. The bridge over the Chunkey river, a rapid and impetuous
stream i the hills of Lauderdale county, about fifteen miles from
Meridian, has been, after being washed away in its progress of
construction several times by the severe and unprecedented freshets
which have marked this spring, at length finished, under the direct
supervision of R. C. Green, Esq., the chief engineer and general
superintendent of the road, who for the last month has night and day
given the work his personal superintendence, and has built a strong, and
permanent structure that we learn can defy all the force of the stream. |
| The completion of this great work, while
it must redound to the prosperity of Vicksburg and of the whole state
for all time, is especially important at this juncture of our nation
affairs. As a military road, connecting the Mississippi river with the
great thoroughfare, the Mobile & Ohio road, itself connecting the mouth
of the Ohio and the Gulf of Mexico, it rises into paramount importance.
It opens the way for trade and commerce and a social intercourse to the
heart of Alabama. It affords direct communication by rail between New
Orleans and Mobile, those twin cities of the gulf, between which
intercourse by water will soon be, if not already, precluded. It unites
the waters of the Tombigbee with those of the Ouachita in Louisiana. It
is a lint to bring the capital of the republic and that of Texas almost
within hailing distance of each other; and in every aspect its
completion must be hailed as a new and most important era in the
commercial, social and military interchanges of the south: It is and
will ever remains, a proud monument to the intelligence, the enterprise
and noble public spirit of those who have, amid many discouragements,
persevered to the final completion. |
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