Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-07-03
MISCELLANY
From the Baltimore american

From the baltimore .4z1eTlcGn.
Baltimore and Ohio Rail,oay.--From the first
mention of this project have been attentive to OBJ
serve its reception with the people of the West. 1t
might have been anticipated that they would learn
it with much interest as intimately allied with their
own advantage. The ergerness with which the
subject has been taken up in that quarter, has, how
ever, greatly surpas ed our expectations, and de-
gree of enthusiasm seems to pervade the districts
towards which the line of the projected rail road
will tend. III true that this reception in our west
ern neighbours of the great benefits of the scheme,
will not render it actually more practicable or less
costly but in comparative point of ylew it may
be said to do both. AS we have said once before,
IAN observation which is repeated in the article from
western paper which we shall presently notice,l
work cheap, not in proportion to its cost, but to its
usefulness. An enterprise which is to swell the
current Of trade towards this city, in the degrees
anticipated not only here, but throughout the west
which, if completed. will give near market to one
of the most fertile and improving regions OF the
globes will not be relnqushed in the fear of cost
far transcendiug the moderate one at which, from
all that we can learn, it is likely to be accomplished
The argument in favour of the project on foot drawn
by the writer Of the ensuing article from the vast
advances of art within the last half century, is fair
and powerful. 1t is difficult to fix limit to the
effects Of human industry, aided W the powers Of
modern art on the one hand, and urged by such
The article we allude to is communication in
the Scioto (Chilliothe Gazette The writer states,
that the railroad, if continued from the mouth OF the
Little Kenawa to Chcothe, and thence to Dayton,
Ohio, would pursue about direct line from Baltl
} more through the richest part of Ohio. 1t would
cross the Ohio Canal at Chlicothe, by which means
two thirds Of the trade of the Scioto Valley. now
containing 10000 inhabitants. but capable OF sup
porting million aud half would pass to Baltimore
III. t,n vtn ic mi
!. the intermediate country exceedingly rich; and
i twenty miles on each side Of the railway depended
I; on it for conveyance to the ocean, the superhcie
i would be 5000 square miles, capable of popula
n ton of 5OOOOO.-Dayton being the head OF the MI
S ami canal, Baltimore would thus gain the trade
d upper valley of the Great Miami, with that OF Mat
:. River, which together would support 2,0o0,ooo
'f people. During the suspension of the navigation
is the Ohio five months in the year, perhaps the Who'll
trade of the southern part of the Miami valleys an
81 of the contiguous districts of Kentucky and Indiana
y, would take the same course. The amount OF a
CT this trade, is not easy imagine. From Dayton
as Baltimore, by the railroad, would be less than oo
g. miles to New York 1900; the difference IN favou
on of Baltimore, in time distance and cost, as three
"a one. . -
ing the road to the Valley of the Wabash lndlan
Ell next to Ohio, is thought to contain greater BODY
ie good land than any other western State, and to
w capable of supporting population Of ten million
as The road, ifcontinued from Dayton to Terre Hau
Try on the Wabash would pass through the very cent?
as and richest part, of the state. In the vicinity
ex- this last place. and OH the waters of White kive
- are found great quantities of coal. Iron, with t
ers other materials for the road is believed to exist
on, great quantities between the Wabash and Big Milan
cry and the country is one vast plain. :,
tu- The face Of the country, continues the write
ia narticularly favourable to the extension OF
road to the Mississippi ITSELF when the wants OF
'es- country shall Justify it. any one doubts the pr;
ter tcableness Of the scheme, let him remember tt
We fifteen years ago, there was not steam boat on
pro- the waters of the Mississippi, and now there are
the hundred and twenty.
the Every day brings some new improvement in I
mechanic arts. The following, if true to the exit
represented, is one of the most important we nj
lily seen. The Stockbridge, lMass) Star Of the /
uch instant, says:-
by Among the useful improvements in the mocha