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TmE MEmrnis CoNvBNmoN. This body
met last week. We have seen no account
Of It's proceedings We have before spo-
ken Of It's objects, SO far as they have been
stated by the press, az chmercal and vi.
eionary. Ii tho effect should be a revival
Of the mania for Railroads and other inn
provements, 10 be built on credit, or by
swinding the people with paper-money
banks, tho consequences will ultimately
be disastrous, and deplorable. Ono Of
tho main objects, as we understand, II 10
devise plan for the construction Of arail-
road from Memphis, or some point on the
Mississippi, to Charleston or Savannah on
the Atlantic. II seems to IT'S that the slight
est reflection will convince any common
sense man that such road, il completed, !,
would DO unprofitablei indeed we doubt
whether its revenue, in the present sparse
ly settled condition Of the country, would
pay for repairs and expenses, much less
refund, or pay interest on The immense
amount OF money required for It's construc-
iion. The freight on q bale OF cotton or .
hoeshead OF tobacco, from Memphis TO New
Orleans, Is $l,50 or $e,o0; by railroad tC
Charleston, would be so or So and in Iik,
proportion for all other products. The peo
Pile Of tho Mississippi valley need no othe
channel OF trade than their own might,
river and its great tributaries; and II i
matter Of aslonishment that such wild, iin
practicable schemes as are stated to be sub
iecis Of consideration for the meeting a
Memphis, can be seriously proposed. Bu
the other day we noticed plan gravely pu
torlhin the columns Of a cotemporary ionI
nal al Nalchez--t Natchez against the worl
forhumbuggery, yet tll--proposing to bull
railroad, " Immediately ii not sooner,
from Charleston 10 Naichoz, 10 be contlnu
cd westward ,--whcro do you suppose
reader why, over valleys and riyer
hills, plains, prairies and mountains, to tt
Gulf Of California! Why STOP at Gallo
MAI Why NOT tanael ne Pacific, aud TO
minatc the Nalchez and Charleston railroa
al some commercial point in the dominion
of His Celestial Majesty the Emperor


China


No less visionary and senselees are 9TH
schemes proposed for the action Of the Cc


venlion, such as-icvecing hundreds


mlcs Of Wild swamps, cutting ship can


from the Illinois to the lakes, inland nav


Yards and stations, Nc. SC. 20 bc ciiect


" appropriations from governments "