The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-06
Southern Railroads.

The attention q statesmen and business men gene
rally, in south Carolina Georgia and Tennessee has
selected routes and webuit lines OF railroads Many
miles length OF rails have already been laid and sth
asphs .s%9san nss the solio~iOs in relation to
this sueject:-
We believe that few CT our business readers have
roads OF the South and thereors we lay rapid sketch
before them From Chsrleston there direct road to
Aagus,s GsorSa, and from thence continuous line
through Georgia TO Chattanooga, In Tennessee-in all
about four hundred and fifty miles This the West
eru and Atlantic road and over pass the entire pro-
Georgia Nor is this ALL for At Chattanooga It reaches
tho waters Of the Tennessee river Dsvgsble thence by
steamboats, noout one hundred ana MY miles up 20
Rockville From Chattanooga downwards this river IL
siso navigabls to DECATUR alabama where begins the
Decatur and Iuscambia Railroad ny the use OF this
road the difficulty OF the Muscle shoas In
the Tennessee river, Is avoided. AT the Tuscumois
landing the free navigation Of the river again COM
neDces and continues unintsrrupted.sx ct very
low stages Of water at the Waterloo shoals about 20
miles below Florencs-to its junction with the Ohio
cver-a distance Of nearly six hundred mies-which
With that to Knoxville makes about seven hundred and
afy miles of river navigation, running through one
Of the most productive and wsn-peopled sections OF
nes. hs" hitherto 1'i S.en done With %
By this route, East Tennesse and the Western
district Of Tennessee. can now be reached from New
and ct less expense than from Philadelphia, by any
liable mode Of which the latter city has at
and Ows arc to
connected with this by railroad, under pro-
cess of construction, from Chattanooga to Nashville
The stock in this road has been subscribed for by the
states Of Tennessee and South Carolina, and con-
remplsted to have the road completed 10 about two
years Another road has been prof from Tuscum
bic to Memphis the Mississippi river, distance OF
about hundred and twenty miles. Forty.two miles
Of this latter road, from Memphis to La Grange,
graded The whole Of this road will not be made at an
early day, but will ultimately be completed This
upper Georgia and Carolina road therefore, well de-
the name of Western and Atlantic, for it
petey taps several points, tho tupsndous
Of the great Western Mississippi Valley Nor 1t
this alone that reaches; for, in Carolina, the road
branches of to Columbia, from which two other rosds
take their starting point to Chsrlotes N which
will ultims be carried tho southern line Of Vr.
gua; the other dir cot Greaovle Co. and thence
the western portion Of North Carolina The bust
on the main STEM or Western and Atlantic 10 al.
ready great but when s combinations and branches
completed, it viii be vast indeed
Tho other great line of railroad begins at Savannah
and runs westward to Macon thence to Atlanta where
IT, joins the Western and Atlantic. At Alfalfa 1t turns
southwark to Montgomery, Alabama. The distance Of
eighty miles, between West Point and Atlanta is ell that
IL un6nshed of this Central r alroad-the name which
IL takes from running through Middle Georgia 1t to
DO united with tho Western and Atlantic before men
toned ct Atlanta and also with road nom Augusta,
intersectipg 1t ct point near Horse creek When the
eighty miles from Atlanta to West Point shall be compile
tod direct railroad line will b established to the nsv