Washington telegraph., 1852-01-28
Frsn the ArkGnsGs Wing,
AIN TALK:
o.-.pv.r,oN, EMIekATioN, OR RAILRoADs.
NO. tn.

From JHC AFk0USoS ss"sSt
PLAIN TALK:
o.-.uv.r,oN, EMIGRATfoN, OR RAILROADS.
NO. til.
So have not exaggerated the condition
S,.ta that are we to do in order to bet
Of ~. =, W. have been sitting still; aud folding
&c. h.nds long enough This thing will not
ou' y. lrt alone much longer. We must
osa. .,arve. emgrate, or set about doing some
thing. .;,.o.d ;,to the canfre or
c,.,e, and for two reasons that railroad
W. VIZ, hay its eastern terminus at Memphis The
nun =. III. that of the Mayor who had fifteen
" s..sons for not firing salute to welcome
G'.s.n Elizabeth, the first of which she deciar-
ts,ec;eut.-that the town had no cannon
w. have not got the means to build one TO any
~, without help from abroad, and that help
Po'., Ian get only from Memphis and further east
80 On that ruute. 1t is perfectly idle to think
,,., We can build one without the aid of foreign
capital; and if we get that al all, must oe De-
ns. The road will not only benefit US, but some-
body else .,.
linn. of road to Charleston, and will do SO in
~. ~, short time. When about lU0 miles of road is
Lii, from Morton to TuscumbIa, and 1870 from
nsc.tur to Chattanooga by way Of Winchester,
~. wiil have a complete open communication by
,.;l,o,d with the two great Southern Ports,
Ch,,leston and Savannah. Two or three years
,.I effect this. and then a man may go from
Memphis to New York, if not to Boston in four
days. ,~
The contemplated road from Memphis, by
Jackson and Nashville to Cincinnati, will follow,
far railroads breed railroads, and then the Ten
nessee aud Virginia railroad, connecting Memphis
Directly with Richmond and Baltimore
a., To- Ia, hnf storo 10
No longer any doubt upon that point. Build
ro.d from Little Rock to Memphis, distance ON
!. straight line of only l20 miles, aud We can reach
NV York from Little Rock in four days and a
half.
Memphis must have the Arkansas trade The
orest alluvial region embraced in the counties of
Cri,tenden, Mississippi, st. Francis and Monroe,
i. more important to her, and will throw larger
amount of products into her lap, than all her
hack country in Tennessee. Open the roads to
Savannah and Charleston. aud that to Cincinnati
and Nashville aud then i've her the trade OF this
Great aIluvial region, and she is At once great
city, One could hardly exaggerate the brilliancy
Of her prospects, She understands this, and she
aces that road to Little Reck will be Ia her what
The Boston and Worcester road has been to Bos-
ton. She is ready to help us, and to help US ef-
fectually.
She must have the trade of Texas and Southern
Arkansas She cannot well exist without it; and
TO get it, she must come forward with her capital,
and among other roads, run one to Shreveport,
or Fulton. and help to build from that point
to Little Rock. The future trade Of Arkansas
is in the Market to be bid for. Memphis and
Charleston wants it, and so does New Orleans.
LIT US see if we cannot induce them to bid Lis.
for it.
What we want, and must have is railroad
communication direct with the east aud one
with New Orleans, to give a choice Of mar
kets. If We go to work in earnest, We can have
them. But without aid Gom Memphis we shall
never reach the Mississippi river. We need
Memphis as much as she needs US, aid she is
really quite as much our city as che is that Of
Tennessee.
1t is all nonsense to say that road to Mem
phis will no, pay. Railroads create business
Look al every line of railroad ever bliIt in the
Uuon They all pay, and pay welt The i'm
mediate effect OF the road is that settlements and
villages spring up all along the route, in cohse-
4usnce OF the abundant occupation which the
mere buldiag oil the road gives TO large num-
ber OF hands. Lsnds increase in valle; produc-
,ou is doubled quadrupled, with rapidlty that
astoaishes even the most sausuine.
recsiect the time when there was not foot
of railroad in Massachusetts,. " hen the western
road to Worcester was proposed, for it was not
then even dreamed of runlling to Albany. very
distinguished man inquired who in the name of
Heaven would ever want to travel TO Worcester:
and yet there now running on that very road.
half dozen passenger cars day, in each direc-
ton.
Suppose we see for moment what railroads
have done for the city Of Boston
the first railroad in Massachusetts was opened the
ll3O miles Of railroad built have increased the val
lie OF property in b 'ston from less than serenty-
.fre millions to one hundred and eighfv
millions: while in the length OF time her
popustioD has not doubled. by nearly 10000.
Blu, this is far from being ALL The valuation
OF the towns and cities within nine miles Of Bos-
ton amounts to about S267, ,O0O. .OOO,-a gain in
ten years of over one hundred aud three per cent
These towns are, in fact part of Boston, her
capital creating their business, and her business
men residing there. They have "a population of
about 2S3. 900. The public and corporate proper
'y Of Boston and its envrons, not included in the
above assessment exceeds S2l ,000, 900.
la September, 1851, the number of miles of
railroad in operation in Massachu usetts was Il42.
And they had cost S5I ,0o4,572.
Besides what Boston has invested in these roads.
her capital has built aud owns railways in New
Hampshire, Vermont. Michigan, Ohio, North
oarol'nd, Dele~are, Maine. Pennsylvania, and
DINER States She has capital. invested in rail-
ways TO the amount Of over fifty millions of dol
And on the Boston and Worcester railroad the
estmated number o. passengers in wear. before
tne o road opened, was 23.500: Soon after opened.
1o<,o5o, and in lS4-, o07 i AZ, or more than th;r
y Jour unes as many az travelled that route be-
lore that road was opened.
me best response to the objection that rail-
.O.u rom Little ko'k TO the Mississippi will not
support ITSELF will be to see how it has been with
~" ': roaos' Let us irst see what roads there
,,s "a .ne country, and what they have cost,
ing. " '"0' "'' oo
Railways IN THE UNITED STATES IN SEPTEMBER,
1851.