Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1847-05-06
THE Rail. ROAD.

THE Rail. ROAD.
Our citizens will remember the meeting called for TO-
morrow afternoon, 10 take into consideration the ,rpre
" Of making conditional 5scripon to the stock OF
the Richmond and Ohio Rail Road II is a question
we think, Of the highest importance and we would ear
nesy urge every one interested in the prosperity of the
to attend II Is very possible that the securing the
charter and commencement u the work ina v depend m
on the decision of Tomorrow S meeting
II would be presnmptnons in attempt TO set forth
in necessarily hra editorial article the relative merits
Of Rail Roads and Canals fact two we are enabled
To state, however which shows conclusively how I'M
founded is the ldea that Rail Roads are not adaped 10
the transportation oiagrcullura products and other hea
Wy articles.
II may be news To many Of readers THAT South
Carolina and Geor.la, xithout making any great noise
about It, are pushing magnificent system Of Rail Roads
from Charleston and Savannah to the Mississippi in one
direction and to the heart of the State Of Tennessee in
another There lsalready completed and in operation
line, reaching from Charleston To place called Oahca-
i1ga-belongng to the South Carolina the Georgia and
The Western and Atlantic, Rail Road Companies
embracing about four hundred miles We have now be-
fore us the rates OF freight upon this line of Road and
we find that from Charleston to Oohcalga the freight
upon sugar, Coffee hardware &c. is so cts per hundred
pounds. We learn also, from card of "Chandlcr's
Through Transportation line, that the same articles are
taken from the present terminus Of the Ra Road to Knox
vile, Tenn-a distance of about | 40 mes-at GO cents
per hundred pounds So that the freight from Charles
ton to Knoxville on groceries, &c inclusive Of commits
sos storage and incidental charges Of all kinds is one
dollar and forfy cents per hundred It is well known
that, heretofore, goods intended for Knoxville We're shin
ped to Richmond and forwarded through this pace-or
sent to Winchester and thence forwarded in WAGONS -
We learn upon enquiry that the freight ofhcavy articles
by this route, from Rlchuond 10 Knoxville is abou,
FOUR DOLLARS per hundred. Need there be any
wonder therefore that but little forwarding done here
especially when 1t is recoecrd that freight is less from
New York to Charleston than to Richmond
The Kali Road is not TO stop at Ooihcaoga II is to
be pushed on towards Knoxville and to the Tennessee
ver We state as fact, that the people Of Charleston
expect, " great confidence, in the course Of wear or
wo to draw to their city the trade of the South western
counties OF Virginia. and to deliver goods in ABINGDON
And Why should they not What is doing by VIRGINIA
u prevent such diversion We are naknr NIocad
AIMED load TO Abngdon-not from Lynclburp or from
buchanan, but from an isolated village in the mountains
-ahd at rate SO slow that the present penetration
will hardly see it finished When finished it will serve
as feeder to the Knoxville and Charleston Rail Road
We would say nota wordagans the Southwestern Tprn
PIKE AS local improvement it is desirable-as -
means OF counteraetng the improvement schemes Of other
States, or Of developing the resources ola neglected re-
g'on and drawing lis produce Richmond it is mere
waste OF money. Alacadami2ed Road like Canal
vas good thing before Rail Roads came into use-It
As now as obsolete idea would be the bow and ar
row against battery of Bragg's flying artillery
We will state another fact illustrative Of the superi
orlty of Rail Roads. The Western Road in its course To
the Mississippi, has reached the Coosa-a branch Of the
Alabama--at point $50 miles above shoal which i'm
Pedes the descent Of steamboats, Produce is taken from
the neghborhood of these shoals in steamer ,p STREAM
$50 miles, To the Rail Road and thence carried +,
Charleston, though uninterrupted steamboat nay lra
tlon Is afforded below The shoals to Mobile
We should be peascdto unfold the agni6cent scbemss
OF our Southern brehren-bu, without an accompanvipc
map, 1t would be difficult do So Suffice j, Ia saw t,,
IN no part OF the Union has there been exhibited mora o.
gacy and enterprise in the PROJECTION of lines. nor more
energy and perseverance, in their completion The o5s,
Vi 'ese Will be seen, in very few years in the
prosperity and growth Of Char,st,n which ,s ds,;ed
10 oecome by the energy and foresight Of its citizens one
o' 'he great commercial emporiums of the Union.