Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-10-02
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GIGANTIC ScHEMEs.--The railroad hence to NASH
vile, will not be great in length that through the
expenses of construction will be equal is doubted if we
may judge of the facilities locally presented The road
10 Charleston rugged and uneven in its course requr
ing that the vaes should be raised and the rough places
made plain. But the route hence TO Nashville keeps
the even tenor of its waythere being scarcely hill
lock 10 obstruct the level of the visa-and very few
marsy spots. Timber is convenient to the route The
whole wayand the road will be convenient for the Ten
nesseeans Missssippans and Lousianians Ii will run
west to The Lakes, Tor the product of Florida and
tire OF the State OF Mississippi 10 subscrye many plant
ersas possible.
The width of the track will be about l.2 feet This
larger than usna-bu considered likely afford great
or facilities for carrying cotton the be of
greater capacity MIR. Ranney, the engineer of the
company, IS on his way TO New York 20 o Europe
that he may inspect the improvements recently made in
the Railroads in England, Scotland and the CONT
nent-and the engines. lie seems to be fully aLe-
quate To the object OF mission and we entertain no
doubt OF his lie may be useful otherwise TO
Louisiana, for we hear that project will be started
OF connecting New Orleans with the gulf of California
through Iexas by Railroad hence Natchitoches or
Nacogdoches, through the gorge of the Rocky noun
tas and thence to point The gulfwhere good
iarbor may be found We have learned from those who
have traversed the mountains at the gorge, that Rail
road could easily be constructed there and soon
Us peace sha nave been restored IN Texas the citizens
OF that State will anXously aid any Efforts the part
OF the New Orleans merchants, form thusa direct in
tcrcourse with China. Is not such route as nrncca
bic us one by tile isthnus of Panama Shall the mer-
chants oil New Orleans continue sumbcring over the
prospects which nature has indicated them--which
gics OF wealth and art to colnplee'
This would be glorious ramiication of routes for
New Orleans On the South would have facilities of
external communication with every part OF the world
by the gulf OF McxIco-by which merchant vessels
steam ships boats, would afford rapid easy inter-
course Foreign and domestic On the last we shall have
Railroad 10 Nashville, thence 10 Richmond-whch
will be short OF 800 miles-thence to Baltimore Phila-
delphia and New York-bcine about 900 miles or 400
less than amy other route between New Orleans and New
York; besides aording rapid and conmunca
ton at all times for trade and travel-Supposing then
IL.
might pass between those cities i'll so hours but incud-
ing probable delays in at least four daysso that in five
days, might from abutmen State of the
Union to the other-from Maine TO Louisiana
Northward OF the city, we have intercourse with one
third of the Union, hy The Mississippi and its tributary
rivers; and westward, besides having similar commu-
nicalion by the Missouri, White, Black, Arkansas and
Red Rivers we grasp in prospect the almost certainty
oi having railroad hence across the mountains to the
gulf Of California, from which command the
Pacific ocean, send steam ships thence China, the
East Indies, Persa-to all Asia and the of lrica
and vastly outstIip the little queen of the ocean en-
throned ON the northwest of Europe o. that Texas
longed to the u. States.
DO not perceive that England is making every eff.
fort TO anticipate our rapid strides to facilities and extern
sion Of commerce with Asia that she even nedita.es
steamboat navigation by the Euphrates and Red Sea TO
the Eastern ocean ?and that the poentates of E0yp
Turkey and Persia must play second fiddle to her at
lempis Shall the citizens of America sumbcr with
such prospects before hem of forestang the Asatic
markes--and OF extending their comnerce every part
OF the world Can they not perceive their superior IA
cililics of forming intercourse with Chna-and that
thcy might second time thitlIer before English
men could once, even by the Mediterranean?
If the route the isthmus of Panama deserves
the attention and support of the national government
douby so must this matter~-being chiefly within the
national domains, and national control.
OcR BoUSDARY.-Wc have but little TO add on this
subject to the matter contained in last weeks Journal
After four days military occupation of Toledo tile Michi-
gan army from 1900 10 1900 strong and commanded by
Fix. Governor Mason and Cen Brown in person evacu-
ated the town on Wednesday morning. 9th SeptO and
dispersed TO their demonstrating gained other aures
III tie campaign than the destruction of gardens and or
chodsthe shooting of horses and hogs-and some pet
" dcPredations the Office of the Toledo Gazette As
OpPostiOn offered actual collision took place
tho citizens looking cooy and deterfninedly and
fixed in their purpose Of abiding under the laws Of this
State. Notwithstanding the presence Of the invaders.
the Court Of Common Pleas for the new County was
organized about mid day Gas learn by slip from the
Gazette ooe) in the Academy the upper part of the
village, and after having completed the business before
them, aud appointing such officers for the county as re-
ceve their appointments from the Judges adjourned and
returned quietly To their homes. Our Commissioners for
running the Boundary line have fixed on the I'd Of No
yeiuber next for recommending their operations Till
then, we presume, things will reman in statu quo
Columbus JOUrHat