Washington telegraph., 1851-12-17
lCoastiuued from first pa,ge.l ]

j of internal Improvement, and its effects
mon the country.
fTToou al. examination of the country
reen Little Rock and Memphis, the
'adnlatios will be found SO slight, that
IA between these points can be construct
sy nearer an "air line" than any other
sonte sa to the Mississippi river, equally eli
':rIo And thus it will combine more
s,,.ntages for "tgunL liaae," which, if
ce ance achieved, will pat future construc
.:,ns ont of the question, with view
of shortening the distance. which mod
experience develops as so vital in the
.ors,ruction of "trunk lines" of rail-
roads.
o,counter, it will be found, on examina
ton can efectualy be crossed without
4 a;diculty-in fact there is no finer coun-
,,v m the world for a road-abundant
materials on the line for building it. and
nothinp to prevent its construction with
great rapidity. from its commencement.
No engineering of consequence, after the
,,aGminary surveys are made, will be
rroonired further than iudicious adjust
utnt OF the me dIlEt IL !" A00iuou w ooi'o
a road
This road, with G5 pound rail and
broad gage, we estimate, i'll round num-
hers TO cost when completed, ready for
the cars, not exceeding $l2, 900 per mile
and NAV fall short of $4,000. This es-
innate has been made with great care,
and at the present prices of the iron
rails, now worth S30 per ton, on the sea-
board.
In the construction of new routes, ex-
perience proves tnat the inte trade of
the country grows faster than the means
accommodate it. This is an important
fact. which should not oe lost sigh: Of, by
anv one interested in the advancement of
this State.
Up to 1885. there was bnt one route to
connect the country west of the Alleg ha-
MES. with the Atlantic, and that was the
"Erie Canal" We now have in addi-
ton the Pennsylvania canal, the Mary
land canal, the Northern railroad from
Albany to Buffalo, the Erie railroad, and
the Baltimore aud OHIO railroad.
There are six thorougifares, where
there was only one, 10 years ago, through
which the products of the west are pour
ing upon the Atlantic seaboard The
Pennsylvania railroad will soon add an
other, forming companion route to the
Pennsylvania canal, as the Baltimore and
Ohio does to the MARYLAND, and the Buf-
alo and Albany to the Erie Canal be-
Sides the Memphis aud Charleston rail
road, which interests :he Mobile and
Ohio Railroad, now in rapid process of
construction, making railway cOnneX-
ioH, when completed, from Memphis to
Portland, Maine, and between the Gulf
aud the Mississippi river, at Cairo-con-
Meeting with the Chicago road and iuter-
secting lines embracing over 600 miles
of road completed, or In rapid progress,
extending TO all the west and northwest
ern States: intersec'ing also the "Ohi0
md Mississippi rGuroaG between Cln-
cinuati and St, Louis, and other roads
which will be in come xion, and tributary
TO it; exhibiting the fact that St. Louis,
the eastern terminus of the "P0cifc
Raiiro0d." is in coanexion with the At
lautic on this line, bv shorter distance
than by any other route, making a con-
,inuous hne of railroad from Portland
to Kansas, SOC miles West of St. Louis.
If we continue this view into the other
public works not enumerated, it will be
found that our external commerce does
not keep pace with the vast developments
of our internal intercourse.
Experience shows that multiplying
meaus of communication even by the
same route, muitiplies business, SO that,
in fact each has more than any one would
have, if there was no other TO COM
pete with it, Moreover a great public
ihoroughfare creates local travel and
traffic almost sufficient, in time, TO pay
a fair interest Oh itself
When the railroads now in progress
are completed TO Memphis, you can reach
in few hours, any of the great COM
mercial centres of the west, carrying you
along on any of the great ihoroughfares
now diverging from Boston, New York,
Philadelphia. or Baltimore, extending to,
and intersecting with the web of roads
now traverSing the United States
Let it be bore in mind, that the Mem
phis and Charleston road, which is to
bring US TO the Atlantic seaboard, by the
nearest and most speedy route, courses
through mild parallel of latitude, which
never can be interrupted by SHOWS or
Hoods-a matter of great Importance to
the merchant aud traveller, in the winter
season.
Railroads are of great benefit in pro-
noting an acquaintance between widely
separated sections of connrry-in extend
ing the means Of social intercourse-in
cementing mankind in bonds of Union
and absolutely Indispensable TO any coun-
try thai intends to keep up with the spiri.
OF the age, and compete with other States,
TOR agricultural wealth, and commercial
supremacy.