The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-08

The project of constructing railroad from Har-
risburg to Pitsburg, or from Chambersburg to
Pittsburg, is now beginning TO he seriously fn'er-
tanned by many OF the leading minds In this State.
The travel from the West is gradually leaving our
State works, simply for want of railroad connex-
| ion between the points named The great Bal'i-
more and Ohio railroad transports daily an immense
train OF western passengers, most OF whom, coming
| by way Of Wheeling, would prefer coming by The
shorter route from Pttsburg to Philadelphia, If only
the means of papd communication We're at hand.
This subject will no doubt be warmly and intelli-
gently discussed during the winter. Promptitode,
however, is everything; and the sooner the under
taking-the obvious propriety of which cannot be
questioned is under way, the better for US. Hon.
the money is TO be raised 10 make the road WILL OF
| course, form the most important consideration. II
is plain that il cannot be advanced by the State. To
| a company no more certain and hattering invest
ment could be found. The route from Pittsbufg to
PHILADELPHIA will be the shortest, and therefore the
cheapest: and the immense travel Of the Great West
will seek it as the natural outlet to the eastern mar
kets The West will insist on some uninterrupted
connexion of this sort; and If the railroad between
Harrisburg and Pittsburg should not be constructed,
| no human power can prevent the extension OF the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad to some point on the
Ohio river and thus enable rival State to carry OIL
all this travekby another route.
| An announcement is made by correspondent OF
the United States Gazette, writing from Reading,
which has occasioDed quite laugh here, among all
|
asserted have settled ticket and intend voting for II
at the next election with prospect Of success!
Everybody has heard of Berks county the great dem
ocratc levathan, whose big majoriiies strike terror
/ to the souls of adversaries, where the wings
have as much hope Of success as they have in Her
kimer and ST. Lawrence, New York, or in Edge
combe, North Carolina, or in the "Tenth Legion"
| Of the Old Dominion. The announcement that the
fraction of the party yet extant in Berks county has
nominated ticket, is a proof not only of great
spunk, but very remarkable instance Of "the ac-
QUESTION of power under dificulties" do not
know that Berks would make perfect political
polypus its sister Northampton, described in a
recent number of the "Union y which, although d.
vided and subdivded retains all its original power,
while the counties created of its oins each
heavily democratic But il is certain that Old Berks
forms most massive and effective unit in any great
battle and has already decided, by single blow Of
its ponderous battle axe, the political complexion Of
the State. Whether our friends there are alarmed
at the awakening of the wing sleepers in that coun-
| ty we are not informed.
| Nothing new ,jn stocks, and prices continue
steady. The theatres all doing a capital BUSH
ness. The Chestnut, with Mr.. and Mrs. Kean,
who appear there in about week, will no doubt de-
rive most profitable return from the enterprise of
Mr.. Burton