.MTg0.NDIzOTU

was when we passed he order that he would not Suspend but would move on Slowly until funds could be raised by the Sale of Lands and other Sourses - I am extremely Sorry to See So much wavoring about the matter when we put the whole management of the Contract into his hands it was with the distinct understanding that he would push the work on as fast as means could be raised from the resources of the Company and if necessary to ? it to Plymouth he would raise it from his own liability which was Satisfactory to all parties we did not ask him to ? his own estate but believed the Securties of the Company was ample I attended the meeting of CB Smiths Board at Cincinatti this week and we have agreed to make a joint effort to get a bill passed by Congress giving Rail Road Company a Creddit of 10 years on the duty on Rail Road Iron to be paid in the Transportation of the Mails and all other matters belonging to government. I saw Harlan Member of from this state he said he was informed