True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1839-04-10

HAIL ROADS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES The i'm
mense advantages to be derived from Rail Road con
munlcat'on and t'nvcl are no longer problem to b
solved. Fears a.d apprehension are started bv III
timd, lest the business viii compensate Cor the q,
rense OF their constructions BE il so, which we do no
admit is 50, when they pass through the mmens
tracto country, forming as it navigabie srea
which never Obstrncted, ia which no shoals the
produce a result the belefs of which cannot be m,a
snred. That which was wilderness, springs IN into
blooming garden or beautiful farm under the bus
hand OF cultivation. The earth is made 10 Weld IN il,
~enl'I'-"eai' that might have lain dorrnnn, 70
ages.
The Baltimore American wi II the intention of brine
ing the subject more fully before the Legislature Of Ma
ryland, will, view to draw their attention to ,he
great western Rail Road, has made few very intere st
ing extracts from an article "Rnil Roads in Ireland
IN the last number of the London Quarterly Review A
tabular statement accompanying tho article show tina,
out Of 44OOO,OOO Of pa sengers who had travelled on
Tic va'ious Rail Roads in Great Britan only ten pas.
sengers were killed. very small number Of deaths,
considering the amount of travel
I The American in sustaining Us position in favor of
Rail Roads, and the advantages adduced will all an
ply to our proposed road Nashville very correctly
ohScrves:--
"fhe reduction, almost amounting to anphjIa,;on. Of
sPace caused by the Introduction of RAILWAYS and loco.
motive engines. together with The prodigious increase
III the number of travellers arising rom the SAME, cause
have been the subjects Of our constant surprise and fro
quent remarks. To the same ends the use ofste,mho,.
WI" their comforts has also been attributed in rreat
MEASURE and it is only necessary to look b,cL c,
years to be wonderstruck the changes which I'M.
time has effected. Where ,went, five vc,rs ..s
was scarcely profitable employment for snel. ,,h,;.
coach, such is the present amount of nass.,.or ,-
porat'on that thirty times the extent If trave,,;r
commodation i. found scarcely adeouote FIR tho don
we remember Alright, previous to the We n 1915 ,hc,.
were Two coaches running each way daily between Rail
""ore and Philadelphia; now, such is the amount Of
travelling that besides long train of cars each or
containing from forty to fifty passengers s,.,,hoa,
line runs daily with advantage Nor only do f,;,,;.
u ms KIND accommodate business intercourse bu thew
create to an immense extent A p,rson !, ph;.da;
pm" sh'"g to communicate with friends in Baltimore
no longer trusts to the uncertainty of cn;s,oor o
Po"dence but gets into the cars in the morning o;vas
NJ baltimore to dinner, arranges his business NJ s;~ =,
HE evening takes the steamboat on his wov hon,.
""efe re arrives little after midnight he wing s,sc
or''y effected what might have cost him II cabs oe
'vn'''ns correspondence by letter. Under s,ch ~
"msfances, is ii wonderful that travelling sbop,a b.
'a'e"' anu mat hundreds who, under df;,rcn, s,,
" t'lngs' would never have dreamed of leavi,c ,h.;
omes' now go forth on journey of hundreds or u..
'i Us little trouble as afternoons peosu,. ill.,
'o"d nave cost tle'n' There is another po;n, or ;
"'ch these roads may be considered a, c,n;,e,,,.
sen'' They promote social converse and make n.o,
'e happier aud better by drawing them closer to,eh.,
TENDERS OF the same family, residing at difsrep, uo;n.
,ed no longer be estronged but at any time NAV ,rm
"ppy party around the pa,ernu dreside, or should
,k"esS invade the domestic circle, in few hour, the
'", "a, Oh a"eco''ae attention may be procured" a
"' s"''ee' IS 10 US, one Of great interest," We like
d"e'' on the beneficial influences which will h. Nv
ted when our country will be t-aversed from mo No.
+ to another by rail ronds and cansls-hos. l,.. - fl
no" which hereafter will aid not ,,s in c.m.,,;,r
d holding our union together. n
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