Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-06-08
Baltimore and Ohie RaR Road.

A Committee of the Directors of the Baltimore
and OHIO Rail Road Company have proceeded
10 the Eastward, TO obtain information, by
examining the Rail Ways already constructed. and
by consulting with scientific and experienced inen
who hive turned their auention 10 the subject.
At New York, says the Gazette. one oil tue
COMMITTEE as introduced to Mr.. FleGning, the
Engineer, who engaged nv Messrs. Van
Rensselaer, & Co. 10 make The Albany Rail Road,
aud visited y gland to examine the Rail Roads
there, whence he has just returned with much
valuable Information on the subject. Mr. Fleming
very readily consented to proceed with the Com
niitise 10 inspect the AIauch Chunk Rail Road in
Pennsylvania, where they probably srIived early
this week.
MIR Fleming has mnuely examined every
Rail Road of modern construction in England,
and be insists that Rail Road is entirely
practicable, and that if we wood, which he
says we ought to do in the first instance, double
way can be made for five thousand dollars
mile, after tine road il graded. Mr.. Fleming has
travelled on Rail Road in England al the rate
OF twenty miles hour down inclined plain
but this rate is considered bsz irdous 10 the
machinery and travellers eight miles is fair
moderate speed, and is easily effected over any
ground, aud should think 1t sufficiently
expeditions to answer all The purposes con:em-
PLATED in the rresen; great undertaking.
We are highly sra'iled with ihe lnformaiion
anu we ltel CERTAIN e'eIy TctUtT Oh the SgAZetle
Will be equsily pleased, to hear that the people of
New York view our scheme with friendly eve,
and no among them doubts OF The entire
praclicability of the undertaking, and the certain
success OF the plan, under The guidance OF the
talent and enterprise engaged in perleeuns it.
Mr.. Fleming speaks of rail ways as being so
simple in their construction that nothing is at all
difficult but the selecting the beet route, and TO
have the moving power adapted 10 the amount
frny -ndi fho aIttis 81 .lac
try. With these plain facts be.oi= rs and The
certainty that nothing further will be required
than the exercise OF sound judgment, steady
perseverance, and firm, patisn; pursuit Of the
object, all of which qualifications tie present
Directors Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road
Company possess in an eminent degree, we cannot
hesitate to assert that the profits on the stock, and
the benefits TO be derived by this community on
the completion of the road, NUT far exceed the
most sanguine expectations of every friend to
our increased commercial prosperity.
Baltimore American.
writer in the Chhicothe Ohio Gazette,
under the signature of CARROLL, proposes a
Public Meeting in that place 20 adopt measures to
extend the Rail Road, and asks =" Shall we
lose by our own wait of energy and of action,
the prospect Of sharing the advantages of this
grea, thoroushfare to the Atlantic, which would
place Chlcoihe and The Scioto Sslley within
sixty miles Gland carrisge) Of The City of Bal
tinore, and that great outlet to the Ocean, the
Chesapeake Bay--He then recommends tina,
immediate steps be taken either by calling toge her
The citizens Ut the town, or by the agency OF some
other plan, to open a correspondence with the
Board OF the Rail Road Company of Baltimore,
and also with the towns on the Great Miami river,
IN the relation to this important public enterprise
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The Residents Proclamation, inierdicing the
Intercourse with the British Wes Indies, was cars
lied out by the Birmingham, which arrived at
Liverpool on the 3d. l. was published In all the
papers, but we do not observe any other comment
on the subject, than that il was the only course
left to the President.
The British ship Of war Tweed, with nearly
two millions of dollars, aud large quantity of
cochnesi, arrived in England on tie Gath. She
had been expected hree or four weeks earlier,
and high premiums were paid upon her cargo at
ldoyd'S large amount was insured In This
country
Lord Cochrane is said TO have arrived at Nspo-
u o. komsnia on the lS'h, where he was received
with the great enthusiasm. The Enterprise steam
vessel, destined for Lord Cuchrane, was towed
into Plymouth on the 22d April. having burst one
Of her boilers IN !. Jier. 4dy.
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