FOR THE INTELLIGENCER. MUSCLE SHOALS RAIL ROAD.
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Among the many works of Internal Improvement

 now going on and in contemplation, in various parts of the Union there is not one which has stronger claims on the public attention, promises richer and more certain interest the capital required for

 it, than Rail Road around the Muscle Shoals, run ming on the south side of the Tennessee river. To the citizens inhabtng that beautiful region of coun- try called the Tennessee Valley, it is subject of incalculable importance. This is one of the pro- | iects of Internal Improvement, which at an early period of our political existence, engaged the aen- | ton of the Legislature We find, that early as

 the year 1920, an Engineer was appointed to exa-

 mine and report plan of improvement for the Mus ce Shoals. At that time. nothing more was done,

 than to ascertain the fall of the river, by Mir Terry

 the Engineer honored with the appointment. The inconvenience however, arising from these obsruc-

 tions was too great to suffer the State to rest long

 without attempting to devise method, by which they were to be obviated Accordingly an act was

 passed by the Legislature in 1893, entitled "An act to appoint commissioners to improve the navigation | of the Tennessee rver," under which act, a com

 mission ofthe most intelligent men in the State was | organized, to act conjolntly with commissioners appointed for similar purpose by the State of Ten nessee to carry into execution the intention of the | Legislature. These commissioners met and being

 unable to procure the assistance of a scientific Eng

 neer proceeded to give the river personal examina tion; after which they made to the Legislatures of the two States very elaborate and able report set ting forth the vast importance of the contemplated improvement to the interests of our extensive sec

 ton of country, and containing much statistical in

 formation, collected with great labor. Their calcu

 latons we intend to use in this essay, although it is well known fact, that the commerce of the Ten nessee has doubled itself since that period, yet we will err, if at all, on the safe side. The commis. sioners recommended Steamboat Canal, and ad- vsed an immediate commencement of the work

 the funds to effect which to be raised by loan

 on the faith and credit ofthe State A mode of pro, ceedng, which it appears did not meet with the ap