Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-04-13
RAIL ROAD FROM PHI sBURGH.

- "a mia NAANA SA1lLENS.
RAIL ROAD FROM PITT sBURGH
We promised. on Monday. to make some few re-
marks upon The Pirs!urgh scheme Of constructing
a rail road from that place toward Cumberland. We
are induced to thus by rePorIs of prevailing disease
upon that subject existing at Pittsburgh. which. for
aught we khow may continue until he canal opens.
aud the attention Of The people Is turned toward
Pennsylvania Improvements for The ensuing summer
Ii will then be allayed until the ensuing winter.
but n lever ripe n and break out into any hing ianvi.
BILE. The disease. we can assure the friends Of
Pittsburgh, is entirely inward aud resembles the
"~sripes" in most of. its symptoms, although IN Une
it approaches the idolaIry Of that people, who are
said TO worship the sun, and turn their faces ic il
on all possible occasions, in whaIsoever part Of the
heavens it may be. So with Ihs P~utsburghep.-
Their faces fellow the tobacco h'gsheais aud pork
barrels. let them go where they will.
The principal objection we have to This humbug.
is the influence il has upon The Balumore and Ohio
Rail Road Co mpany from their great aim of com.
pleling the read To Wheeling. Though that com
Pany may not know enough now. they will. before
they have constructed a road thirty miles on their
way to Pittsburgh. that should It be completed to
that point. it will mol reach the Ohio at a point mat
will make it available. We must look at facts as
Ehey are. and that company will be induced d TO do 80
before it eIpends muck money on a false truck
There Is. four years in five. sx weeks to two months
Of great Eavel. when The Ohio river is closed bv ice
Travellers. then, from the South, take the srnee at
Cincinnati. and come TO Wheeling over The Nolon.
nj Road, which has cost the United Slales more
lhau fu., uiIl,on.. Of 49,. - - -.
equalled by any other road in the country. Tray.
oilers from Indiana and Illinois will travel through
on the National road aAd arrive Al Vince
ling. They will prefer continuing OH TO Cumber.
land, to going 10 Pittsburgh by land, as the time
required would te greater and the expense at least
equal. Tn n Of course, the six weeks is entirely
lost by that portion Of The rail road west Of Cum.
berland, oS the travel from Pittsburgh would be but
little. and that from the liule region toward Cleve-
land, would follow the New York works. Itistue
the road east Of Cumberland would get the passen-
gers through Wheeling. but with The same obsrrue.
tons il now hasa hiatus between this and
Cumberland, calculated to drive away iravel. In
The summer from July 10 October. full three months,
the river is not n~avigabIe above This city and scarcely
no to IL. and the SAM difficulties arise. The travel.
east aid west mus, take the national road as il now
does at that season Of the year. The plea need not
be presented. that light draught boats are constructed
for the low water. The stage ride 10 Cumberland.
Is now quicker and AS cheap as the low water Trip
to Pittsburgh. This cuts off another slice from the
income Of The wsrk west Of Cumberland. AT these
Seasons Of the year, being 30 less Than FIVE months
of The twelve, no freight could pass over the road
from Pittsburgh to Cumberland, while the amount
OF freight and passengers that would come on tho
road were it constructed from Wheeling 10 Cum
berland, destined for the interior Of Ohio end the
west, would be very great There. at ordi
nary seasons Of The year. are some hun
dreds Of passengers weekly passed over the
National road in Ohio. They reach Wheeling -
Two dollars fare aud twenty hours boaIing. at a
good stage Of water carries them 10 Piusbu h-ten
hours and four dollars more and they find Ihemsel-
YES in Cumberland while should they AXE Stages al
Wheeling, they would reach Cumberland in 20
hours at the same fare AID less expense Of lime.
Passengers are the most profitable part ofS rail.
road business, they paying from Cumberland to
Baltimore, now, about three dollars per hundred
weight. while freight pays but an average Of thirty
cents per hundred. Time is great object with
NFeANAa aNa ~ teHH - a AAAoeAfhA " az w tS
river from Wheeling. the rail road company will
gain hnls by constructing it to that point, without
bringing IL 70 Wheeling
We have not touched in This upon many other
COnsidsrai ions. which must appear ~palpable to the
mssl superficial observer. Pennsylvania 10 embsr.
raised with debt, Der own improvements sro N
direct conflict wish The interest Of The rail road -
They pass ibrosRh the centre Of The Stale. and carry
with them The great mass Of represented voien.-
Will aot ths rail road be throwing itselfin tho very
jaws Of The lion. by making is Only. first Or main
quite 81 the very punt, on The very ground. occO-
pied BY these improvements ,sgsoIting themselves
20 Inc Legislature whims Of these enemies. cad the
opposition Of many citizens Of Pittsburgh. Who will
aiss act snd feel that it - not q Pennsylvania work.
We might pursue this subject al h6itan. and We
sbould 6nd no sUbsiantsl rsss0n Why th,
c0mpany should desire 10 prosecute their
work toward Piusborgh and every rssson br hem