Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-01-05

which will undoubtedly be made co-exten
s;ve with the interests Of the whole State
North Carolina, too, has entered the field
and on her bosom exhibits an Illustration o.
the temper of the age. An important work
| is actively advancing from Wilmington te
the Yadkin, thence to the Catawba, dis
tance Of two hundred and fifty miles. An
other rail road is also started, from New
bern, On the Ncusc, to Clinton, embracing
an interesting communication deeply i'nPor'
tant to the countries it is proposed to con
meet. When North Carolina, State re-
markab.e for caution and prudence in de-
pairing from, ancient usage or in the adop'
ton Of any thing new, has embarked in the
construction Of rail roads, it is argument
conclusiys that they arc necessary and in
dispcnsable to the public interest. If TIM:
fact sod isolated and unsupported, it would
speak volumes on this subject.
The state Of improvement in South Caro-
lima presents facts interesting and useful
With characteristic spirit, she has been a.
mong the foremost in adopting and execut:
ing extensive improvements. Her road
from Charleston to Hamburg has vindica'
ted by its success the wisdom ofits adoptlen;
&thcrc is no doubtthat its whole cost,wth in.
tcrcst,will be reimbursed in afew years. The
Columbia and Branchville rail road, cover.
ing a distance of sixty miles, is commenced.
and also the road from Hamburg to Edge.
field.
In Georgia and Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana, are various works projected or
in progress. In Georgia, the Athens and
Augusta rail road, one hundred and fourteen
miles in length, is now under contract. u
the Florida, Alabama and Georgia rail road,
from Pensacola to Columbus, two-tlIrds Of
the route is located in Alabama. The Tus-
cumbia, Courtland and Decatur road is fin.
ishcd; the one from Daletown to Greensbo-
ro' is advancing, and also that from Wood
vile, in Mississippi, to St. Francisville.
kentucky presents the Louisville and
Portland Canal, and the Lexington and Ohio
rail road, which is completed from LeMng-
ton to Frankfort.
Ohio has borrowed eighteen millions, and
after achieving the most extensive improve
ments, is surprising what she has already
done. The Miami and the Ohio and Ere
Canals have been completed at the expense
cf the State, including a distance of four
hundred miles. Their effect upon the value
Of property has been almost Incredible
The value of real estate has, in a large ex-
tent of country, been quadrupled, and the
results a:c sill progressive. In addition to
canals, more than thousand miles of rail
road have been surveyed, and extensive
works Of this sort are advancing. But
forty years ago, the valleys Of the Ohio, the
Miami, and the shores Of Erie, were will
.derncss, untouched-in all the majesty of a
wide, boundlcss forest. Now the hustle
of population and commerce and manufac-
tories, the varied and vast products Of q
million of people, transported with an case,
facility and rapidity unknown in the Oldest
and richest regions of the earth, occupy
that space where only a few years since, the
wild tenants of the woods-the Indian, the
WOLF the bear and the bufalo-held their
solitary and undisputcd supremacy.