Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1843-07-06

Ran. ROADS IN TIE UNITED STATES.
We clip ihe following picture Of the Rail
Roads in The United States from late
English publication
if,he reader will place n map of the
Unued States before him, and, begin
ning at Portland, in Maine, trace The
ropte thence by Boston, Providence,
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington City, Richmond and RAJ
leigh, TO Charleston, and thence by Au,
gus'a and Athens in Georgia, Decatur
nDd Florence, on the Tennessee River,
and thence 10 Memphis, he will have
passed over a distance ot about 1900
niles of railroad nearly completed, aud
coppecling the mississippi with The At
lAntic, AT Charleston, and thence with
The principal cities on the scaboard. The
Tennessee River, is not, like the Ohio
ana Mississippi above their junction,
closed by the ice in winter; and the
reader will SEQ that by means Of steam
boats on this river the line of railroad
connects with the Ohio and Cairo, and
here intcrsecls the central railroad of
Illinois, which, when completed, will
intersect the lines which The States O!
Maryland. Pennsylvania, New York,
and Massachusetts, are extending to the
Great West.
Massachusetts has completed her road
to Albany, on the Hudson, and from
thence other connecting lines are com
pletcd, or nearly so, to the lakes. New
York, in addition to her great canal, and
numerous smaller railroads, has begun
and indeed has completed, very con-
siderable part Of the road from New
York to Lake Erie. Pehnsy vania is
extending her road to Pitshurg, and to
the lakes at E,ie and Maryland, during
the present year, will have completed
her Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, to the
mineral district Of Allegheny, and will
soon press forward to Pittsburg. These
lines will be extended along the shore of
Lake Erie to Cleaveland, and thence
through Indiana to the central railroad Of
Illinois.
These great routes are come cted with
minor aud dependent lines, many of
which are completed, and others will be
constructed. DO you not see that they
will bind the parts OF the Union together,
by ccmen'ing their interests ?-iha, they
constitute an essential part of the agrl-
cultural aud commercial, as well as The
military system of the country that
they will facilitate the means of concen-
trating our army for surpressing insur-
reclions, or repeating an invasion who,
would invade America, with such means
ol concentrating an army of 3,OOO,OOo OF
ircemen
RoUrE FROM DGTgoIT TO CucACo.-I
The GENITAL Railroad from Detroit to-
Jackson, Michigan, is now finished, and
affords an easy aud safe conveyance to-
Chicago, Illinois. Passengers can now
90 from Delroii to Jackson go niles by
railroad, ~ 6 hours /; from Jackson 10 St.
Joseph, (l20 miles, by stage, IN O..
hours; irom St. Joseph to Chicago Co
miles by steam boat, ~ hours whole
distance 2G9 miles, IN 36 hours Fare
through from Dctlolr to Chicago, S8 80
The route by The Lakes il long, monolo.
nous, and olcu dangerous II generally
occupies 40 hours, the distance being
about 700 niles The Detroit Free
Press sinlcs, ns u remarkable fact, that
about gJO.O persons have passed over
the road since It has been in operation,
nud not one has been lnJurcd by any ac.
,idrti o. lhC road.