Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1838-11-24
Erom fhe Indiana Journal.

:. From the Indiana Journal.
THE CENTRAL CANAL AND MADISON AND
INDIANAPOLIS RAIL RoAD.-It is Of the ut
most Importance to the best interests OF the
state, that such facts and arguments should be
laid before the next Legislature as will induce it
to appropriate an amount ofmoney sufficient to
insure the earliest possible completion Of the
above named works. Those two works, when
completed will open communication through
the heart of our state and the finest agrcutu-
raj region in the west. They will afford the
means of Importation from and expectation to
the great cities of New York and New Or
leans, thus giving Indiana the choice OF two
ofthe best markets in the United States. The
vast benefits that will arise to the State from
their affording the means of expectation and
importation are not all, and perhaps not the
most considerable, that will spring from these
great thoroughfares. The passengers and
freight belonging to other states that will pass
over them within five years after their compile
tion,we venture to say will astonsh the most
sanguIne of the friends Of Indiana's noble sys-
tem.n This is not mere random or needless
assertion. The experience of the past sum-
mer must convince, any one that the trade
and travel from the east to the west and south
uncertain one Of the Ohio river. The Wabash
and Erie canal, the Central Canal, and Madi-
son Rail Road connected will form route that
will not only be more certain, but a quicker
and more direct one than the Ohio river,
which will induce the merchants of all the prin
ciple towns in northwest Ohio, Indiana Ken
tucky, western and middle Tennessee, and
southern Illinois to have their freight transpor-
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will always prefer thisroute to the Ohio Cana!
to convey their merchandise, because 1t Will
be taken to point much lower down the RI
yer, and from whence it can certainly be ship
ped at all seasons except when the river Is
closed with ice.
This route will also be ofinfinite importance
to the travelling public. twill be more direct
from New York to Louisville, St. Louis,
Natchez, New Orleans and other towns on the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers, than any OF the
present routes. 1t will also afford greater
variety of modes to conveyance, and OF scene-
nv and diversity of country than any other.
The traveller from New York to st. LOUIS
can first take the steam or canal boat or very
soon the rail road car to Buffalo, then the steam
boat to the month of the Maumee, then the ca
nal to Indianapolis, then the rail road to Madi-
son, and then the steam boat to the place OF
destination. We are Of the opinion that this
route will prove to be the speediest; and 1t will
certainly be the most attractive and agreea-
bic.
The best interests of Indiana imperatively
demanded early appropriations on these works
sufficient to complete them. They will, with
out the shadow Of doubt not only pay the
necessary repairs and the interest on the mo
new expended in their construction, but yield
to the state handsome revenue; and that
too from the moment of their completion.
That we may be better able to revert to
this subject again, (for we are truly anxious
to impress its importance upon the Legis'a-
ture) we will propound the following ques-
tions to the editors in Buffalo, New York.
At what time is It expected that the rail
road from New York to your city will be COM
pleted? When it is completed how many
hours will be consumed in travelling from the
city of New York to Buffalo? What length of
time does It now take for passengers on board
the steam boats to arrive at the mouth Of the
Maurnee from Buffalo?
We think when the above interrogatores
are answered it can be clearly shown that the
immense and increasing trade from the east
ern cities to the west and southwest will all
pass over the public works of Indiana.