Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-29
THE CENTRAL RAIL ROAD.

PITTSBURGH, July 80, 1850.
Having just reached Pittsburgh by the Central route
from Philadelphia propose to say few words respect
ing its position and prospects.
The Railroad from Lancaster to Harrisburg has been
m lch improved and is in fine order, with heavy
rail. AT Harrisburg stayed half hour to dine.
From Harrisburg to Huntingdon had most de-
lightful ride on the railroad. The scenery spen
did, the railroad first rate and the luxuriously
comfortable.
inquired particularly to the time when the rail-
road connection between Huntingdon and Holidays
burgh would probably he made, and gratifed to
learn that there every probability OF its being
compshed by the first OF September. Most OF the track
is already laid, and the company will be ready
the road the gaps closed. Thsls mat
ter of the first Importance the trade OF Philadelphia,
for the coming fall. BY connecting with the Portage
Railroad, it will give continuous railroad OF 275
miles from Philadelphia TO Johnstown, and Will do away
with two of the three transhipments now required.
From Johnstown to point near Blarsvie, we had
the pleasure of seeing that the road was in active
progress The railroad distance from Johnstown to
Pittsburgh will bc seventy miles, and the force
ployed this part Of the line about three thousand
men, This shows that the work the Western Diyi-
sion is pressed with great energy. 1t is intended TO
have part of it in early next season; but the deep
cuts in WestmorelaGd county will necessarily require
time than other parts OF the line. As many men
will be employed in them work without being in
| each others way.
Pittsburgh is a dull place now. The Ohio river is
low, and when that is the case Pittsburgh is always
dull How would the citizens OF Philadelphia feel if
there but three ect oil water IN the channel oil tue
Delaware Every body hopes for RAM Last year, Tor
three months, the Ohio river, all the way from Pitts
burgh Cincinnati of very little AT Cincin-
nat the passengers left the river by railroad Tor Lake
Erie, and so they do
The remedy Tor this is the Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA
railroad the construction of which has been undertaken
by the cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, in their
porate capacity together with many citizens OF Penn
sylvana and Ohio This road, with its branches, will
connect Pittsburgh and the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad with
Cleveland, Columbus. and Cincinnati, and the vast
1t will be 1S5 miles long, and where it viii ter
inmate in Ohio great trunk lines will take off, one
leading Indianapolis and st. Louis and the other to
Chicago.
! Western men have undertaken this work Pittsburgh
feels the necessity of it and would Philadelphia il
her road completed without it. 1t s almost
cessary the Pennsylvania railroad 5 tender is
locomotive engine. The grading and bridging going
finely and eleven thousand tons OF rails have recent
ly been purchased.
RAILROAD CONNECTIONS WITH ST. LoUIs.-The
prospects now are that shall have railroad connec
tions with st. Louis than the sangune
could have anticipated shori time ago. Our readers
that there is continuous line of railroad
constructing from this city Terre Haute, the Wa
BASH Such ample provision has been made for the
structon of this line and il is going forward with
much energy that il may safely he calculated that il
will be finished in about two years many portions of il
much There only remains, then the line
Illinois, from the Wabash to the Mississippi This hia
tus has been supplied. We learn from the Illinois pa
pers that the stockholders who recently assembled al
Vandaa, organized the Mississippi and Atlantic Rail
road Company, by the appointment OF a very efficient
hoard of Directors w. s. Wait, of Bond elected
President. More than SIG 900 Of the stock ounC
to be subscribed, and ten per cent this amount
paid in and all the other acquisitions of the law
piled with. The Company will proceed once in ths
organization of the business for which it incorpor
ated.
Thus the line is complete from the Atlantic to rhs
Mississippi passing through the heart of the great Oh
valley and n its whole length through the richest agr
cultural region in the world
The State Sentinel boasts that its party has gain
ed much in the Legislature ''in counties heretofore
whie." Such boasts will do very well Immediately af
ter the elections but they carefully avoided before
l--Madisoa Banner
Exactly So The wings do their boasting before elec
ton; the democrats after.-N A. LEDGER.
Thank you, friend Ledger, for giving the Banner
that rap over the knuckle5.