Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1834-09-08
MAGNIFICENT SCHEMES.

Niles Register soys-"A meeting Of Individuals
from various paris fthe State Of New York is 10
be held on the | lIh Of September, TO discuss the
subject of applying TO the State Legislature 10
cause ,Ship Canal 10 be CONSTRUCTED from Lake
Ontario 10 Uuca and Albany. Ii this grand pro
pet 10 AID lnlerna navigation IS carried INTO fl ct,
It will add greatly TO the prosperity OF 'ha' state,
and tend also to increase the riches OF he Wesl"
Another great scheme spoken Of a Rail Road
from New York TO Washington, via Philadelphia
and Balnmore--a distance Of about 2i0 miles
There IS only one obstacle, learn from the
Philadelphia Inquirer, to the immediate commence
ment o: this road, ond 10 IT'S completion IN IL or IS
months-and that ls the small section of % miles
between Trenton and New Brunswick 40 New
Jersey The first section, from Washington 10
Baltimore IA nov IN progress the second, from
Baltimore to Port Opposite Bridge on tho Susque--
hanoa has been chartered the stock subscribed and
the route surveyed and located the third section,
from Port Dcposite Bridge to she Maryland aud
Pennsylvania line, and tho fourth, from that point
10 the Columbia reil road near Coatcevllie arc III
he Same situation the fifth from Coetesytlle TO
Broad street in Ph.adelphla, is now IN use the
SIXTH, to the Delaware river, IS only mule 10 eI.
tent and of course ctn speedily be done; the Sc
venh from Philadelphia 10 Trenton, 10 nearly
completed the eighth from Trenton TO New
Brunswick distance 26} miles, is the only obstacle
IN the way, beng the only section throughout the
whole line from Washington 10 New York, that IS
M, chartered for railroad tho ninth seetion
from New Brunswick 10 jersey city opposite New
York, will be completed next year.
| MAY rot this line be extended South, without
difficulty, until it reaches New Odeass, without
he aid of the general government eIcep so faf as
| he District of Columbia IS concerned, and oy INC
exclusive action of JOINT stock companies, chartered
| by the several States through winch II Will pass
! Nav il not he o. once extet dcd firm washington
| to fredericksburg, from which latter pace 10
Richmond a company has been already enotle'ca
| 10 construct a roadl And when II reaches h'ch-
mond VIVA, need is lhcrs that it shouts stop shoTi
| of Petersburg, between which place and kale'eh
railroad has already been contemplated iudeed
| we see no good reason Why it should stop at all,
until it penetrate the whole Union from lis extreme
Northern TO 10 extreme Southern boundary, II the
travel and trade upon il would Justify its extension
-snd who can doubt It
Some Of the dazzling schemes which the busy
minds of mon aFe abiiy Celebrating and thro"
ing before the public, may turn out 10 be dreamy
speculations-Yet We cannot bu, see ~ thon the
germs Of wonderful works, tho bare suggestion OF
which would nave astonished our sober tcreiaihsrs
- which, indeed aslonIsh even Us, 10 whom many
Grand scien tifc discoveries untnought Of by them
have rendered these great Achievements tauiliai
things. And who, tecollectng the history OF The
last thirty Yea,s, should attempt to set bouols "a
human snierprze and ingenuity Who cen pfs
lend TO say that The schemes waeh ate no" r'd'cu'
I'D as visionary and imprsciicab'er may not be con
summaled, and even supposed, while the Psesen
generation yet exists To use an idea OF the eel
ebrsted Oliver Evans, who penetrated the future
wrh almos, prophetic accuracy, the child Is noa
living who may see New Orleans bro Shs within
Fl re days travel Of Boston !
II The ignorance Of American affairs. among
| the people Of Europe, is strikingly illustrated BY
| a circumstance mentioned in letter of Mr.. Fay
| one Of the accomplished Editors Of the New Yori
| Mirror, now on a visit to that continent. he says