The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-07-29
don and consumption. Fake Lewisbure for

ton and consumption. lake Lewisburg for.
instance. seia a a
Now 50,000 bushels coal--diifer.
ence cents SIS 900 90
500 tons dress. freight nj 50 per ton. I 200 90
Difference in the freight Of material
and product say one-half Of 81
on 5000 tons, 5000 OF
Or saving Of $3.50 $4,000 90
on capital Of not over 100000. In price Of
land and food, Lewisburg would have the ad.
santages.
There is no doubt bat from all our GEN.
trail Western cities railroads are to radiate,
and that they are to be sespective CONNER
cial centres Of circles OF greater or less di.
ameter. The three cities 10 be Of the most
Importance are Cincinnati. Louisville, and
ST. Louis, Pittsburg is too far in the noun.
tains, and the state Of Memphis is too inse-
cure from the vagaries OF the Mississippi
river, and to near the miasmata Of the Mis-.
sissippi alluvials to compete with the cities
named. tss
Now let my one look a the maps with
the rivers ard mountainSFi the lowlands
correctly laid down, anac1t will fad no
difficulty in perceiving that oars is, and for
ever must be, the great central position.
No one will contend but that the valley
between the Mississippi and the Alleghanies
will be far more densely populated than that
between the Mississippi and Rocky Moun-
tains; and il will also be admitted that the
most important and numerous lines Of arti-
fetal travel and trade will be between sec
lions Of different productions and climste;
between the North ard the South; the lake
country with the gulf country; the rice and
cotton fields with the wheat and hemp fields.
Il will not, moreover, be denied that these
lines must pass through Kentucky, and
between the spurs Of the Alleghanies and
Cumberland Mountsins, and the lowlailds
in the Western portions Of the State. The
routes must be West of the mouth Of the
mouth of the Kentucky, and East of the
mouth Of the Green river; West Of Null
drow's hill, and East OF the lowlands on
the Green and Cumberland. Ii 50, rs Lou
,sville has already the start in commerce,
population, and wealth, she will attract
each, and be the centre OF each. The ter
mini Of these lines are to be Charleston, Sa-
vannah. Mobile, New Orleans, and either
Memphis, Hickman, or Columbus; ST. Lou
is via Mt. Carmel; the upper Mississippi
via Nincennes; the Southern point of Lake
Michigan via Tene Haute and Lafayette.
Lake Erie at Maumee via indianapolis;
Cleveland via Cincinnati; Baltimore via
Wheeling and Richmond via the Kenawha
valley.
Here at the falls Of the Ohio is the nat
ural and nearly the geographical centre Of
these various routes. In short, all the con-
Meeting lines from the lakes, and from the
Northeastern seaboarj which penetrate this
valley, and terminate on the gulf OF ON the
Mississippi below the mouth Of the Ohio,
how ever widely apart may be their ternini,
must, in passing through kentucky, be con-
traeted within the Psinss have named: and
the main branch probably will be from this
city through ShePerdsville, by the mouth Of
the Rolling Fork, through a gap in Null
drow's hill north Of Hodgensville, and then
nearly in a straight line to Nashville The
line now pressing Northward from Chatts-
nooga; that from New Albany towards Lake
Michigan, and the line from Jacksonville
to Columbus towards Lake Erie, and thai
from Louisville 10 Lexington towards the
Chesapeake Bay, must soon acquire sufli-
Gent momentum to force the construction Of
the main trunk.
If am in error in any Of these points
let competent engineers show the error. l
cannot regard as authority the Cincinnati
report Of 1885. on the then proposed
Charleston route, wherein the professor and
the counsellor did the paper engineering and
The engineer enumerated the list OF articles
to be transported and their prices-and
where the only practical information relied
on was from a letter Of a northern Pedlar
and Speculation, who, although very sharp
sighted man, did not pretend that he took
either attitudes or levels in his route through
the Cumberland Mountains.
The tortuous route for a canal, slack-wa-
ter, or railroad. suggested as POSSIBLE by
Maj. Baker. has not been deemed sufh'
GENTLY promising to Justify REcoSNor
sANcE.
Our Cincinnati friends have drawn thou.
sands Of emigrants TO their city by talking
so largely about this great Southern railroad,
which was to terminate there. They have
used OUR capital and we have been TOO
MODEST to assert our rights. Is it not time
TO expose this humbug! Ia
Now let us see where, on these lines OIL
commerce, and within our reach, are the
points where the manufactures, requiring
cheap power and cheap materials, are to be
found. ASSN, +. j.
First, on the routes connecting us with
the Chesapeake Bay. we find coal and Tor
together on the Sandy and Licking; the Goa
and iron on the Kentucky we reach by thu
locks and pools of the kentucky river
I which passes through the rich hemp district
the Nashville route passes near the coal ant
iron in Ohio county and within reach OF tn
cotton Of Tennessee by the same road; the
route to the ever-navigsble waters OF thu
Mississippi river passes through both edge
of the coal field; the Ma. Carmel and Ten
Haute routes cut the coal and iron in juxta
position in Dubois, in Martin, and Vermil
lion counties in Indiana. BY the Ohio
Cumberland, Tennessee, and Mississippi
rivers we reach the cotton which can mos
easily be manufactured on its way to tn
consumer by the Tradewater, the Bon Hal
bor and Cannelton coal. Here we hav
perhaps ono hundred positions within II
miles OF US, and on the lires referred to
and all within our reach, each one havin
power and material, and food vastly CHEAP