New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-15
The Erie Railroad.

We for years looked forward with more
of hope than of confidence to some day in
the indefinite future when we should unite
with Others in celebrating, by trip to
Dunkirk direct, the completion of THE
NEW YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD. Cir
cumstances then unforeseen will deprive
us of that pleasure, but not through the
failure of the work. That noble, magnif-
cent enterprise stands virtually completed
this day, so that trains will pass over its
entire length within week, though its for
NAL opening will not take place for month
yet. But the great END Tor which so many
have family hoped, for which much fewer
have ardently, generously struggled, Is
now secure beyond contingency. Before
the intervening forests will have taken on
their Summer foliage, regular Freight and
Passenger trains will be running daily from
New York TO Dunkirk, and passengers
who leave Lake Erie at AM, will be
quietly reposing in their beds in OR City
at an early hour of the evening Of the same
day. We Judge that the passage the other
way may take an hour longer, bat trav-
elers leaving this City at AM, will be
set down at Dunkirk between 10 and II in
the evening of that day. At Dunkirk they
are three or four hours westward on Buffalo,
and several of the finest steamboats, on the
Lake will be awaiting the arrival of each
passenger train, fred up and ready to start
forthwith for Erie, Cleveland, Sandusky,
Toledo, Detroit, &c. &c. The compile
ton of this Road brings Cleveland within
"a, and Cincinnati, Toledo and Detroit with
in SO hours of our City.
All this is but initial to what is prepar-
ing. Two completed lines of Railroad
connect Lake Erie with the Ohio at Gin
oicpstl. vile third, nearly finished, runs
from cleveland to Pittsburgh, and another
crosses the peninsula Of Michigan from
Detroit to New Buffalo in the direction of
Chicago; but, next TO the New \ ork and
Erie, the Lake Shore line of Railroad
seems tho most important link Of inter
communication now in immediate prospect.
Steamboats, are excellent things; but on
waters so perturbed as those of Lakes Erie
and Huron they are an uncertain reliance
for the regular transmission of Mails. The
Lake Shore Railroad, stretching westward
from Buffalo and Dunkirk through Erie,
Cleveland, Sandusky, &c. to Toledo, will
bring Cleveland, Cincinnati, and all the
West and Southwest at least six hours
nearer than they now are; yet this is but
step leading to others. The Southern Mich
igan Railroad is now completed from To-
ledo nearly TO South Bend, Indiana, and is
to be completed TO Chicago in little more
than year; while from Chicago again
Westward the Galena Road is running 10
Elgin on Eek River, and is being rapidly
extended 10 Belvidere on Rock River, and
TO be finished TO GaleRa nextyear. tmay
safely be assumed that, unless some great
pecuniary Revision should meantime be
experienced, there Will be, on the LIST dav
of November, 1852, continuous line of
Railroad from Bangor on the East to Ca
lena in the West, and that travellers nav
be conveyed from Bangor to this City
within - hours. and from this City to
Gslena within go hours al fuEthest; while
branch Railroads will diverge from the
main line 10 Ithaca, Geneva. Canaan
daigua. Batavia. &c. on the North, and