The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-02-12
Are the Pittsburshers asIeepi


We are not in the habit Of meddling with the
affairs of our neighboTs bnt when we see a largo
and respectable community of people insensible
10 their own best interests, and slunbering in a
state Of dormant inactivity and culpable indilEer-
cnce, we think we are excusable in plainly tel
ling them Of their errors. Pittsburgh must Ell
Their become a great commercial mart, or else
must r~etrogrado and sink into forgetfulness. One
half the year the Ohio River is either frozenup
or dried up, 50 as 10 prevent steamboat travelling.
The Pennsylvania canal during the winter season
$ closed, and it generally requires a month to
repair its annual spring breach. These two thor
oughtarcs are the only ones upon which the Pitts
burgll merchants can rely. Now if P~ittsburghers
wish their city to prosper, they must speedily
establish a rail road between that place and Phil
adelphia, or construct a branch railroad 10 inter-
sect the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, at some
convenient point. We are fully aware that these
projects have been talked of for several years
past, but it has been ' all talk and no cider,n as
we say out here in the west. Every once in
while they get up the rail road mania in Pitts.
burgh, hold meetings, and get afloat subscriptions
A wonderful tempest of public spirit preyails,-
in q few days they have every rail laid--on paper,
and every steam car going it-by riRd! Bat the
riad 1cork soon ceases, the Pittsburghers satisfy
themselves, that they can talk large, and then
they fall back into their easy chairs TO sleep again
Why, that little clustering village of Wheeling.
has more public spirit and determined energy
than Pittsburgh! If there was a railroad from
Pittsburgh east, nearly all the business men in
this section, would travel that way, instead Of
through Wheeling, as they do at present. They
would purchase their fine goods in the Eastern
cities, and on their way home, through Pittsburgh
by rail road, would buy in that city a large stock
of her W manufactured goods. We have heard
cur business men complain time and again o.
The delay experienced in travelling through Pitts
burgh east. They can perform the journey &c
Baltimore, Philadelphia or New York, by way o.
the National Road, one day sooner than by way
of the Pennsylvania Canal Or Philadelphia turn.
pike. The citizens Of Wheeling are now making
every effort in their power 10 have the Baltimore
and Chic Railroad completed TO some point at OF
near that place, and We have reason to believe
that the Virginia Legislature will move in the
matter before that of Pennsylvania. The Pitts.
burghers will not awake from their morbid drow-
%siness, until they find the grass growing in theil
streets, and then, like old Rip Van Wrinkle, they
will rub their eyes in establishment at the scenes
which surround them!
P. s. Since the above was written and in type.
we have received the Pittsburgh Morning Post
of last Friday, which contains a Memorial of the
Board of Trade of that city, to the Legislature
Of Pennsylvania, in which the Committee urge
upon that body speedy action on the subject of
continuation Of The Baltimore and Ohio Rail
Road TO Pittsburgh.