New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-21

scccrrpf he'd il will he one of the greatest achieve
ments in railroad construction recori-lSO miles in
II months Mr.. ADDISON r GILMORE the former eff
| cent agent of the New Haven Road and who was con-
nected with il from tie commencement Is now the SUI
perinierdent Of tic Chicago Road.
The annexed communication is on subject
ofdeep interest to this City, and is well worthy the
teuiion of our business men
BUFFALO AND PITTSBURGH RAILROAD.
GENTLEMEN ! would call the attention OF our mer-
chsnts and our capitalist TO project OF the utmost
consequence TO the City and State OF Newfork This
il the organization OF Company al Buffalo to construc,
railroad due south from thst city 10 the Penny
ne-here to connect with road leading 10 the City Of
Pittsburgh The officers OF this company have been
chosen-the papers required by law, have been filed
and large of lis stock has been taken esteem
the road of the most important in the United States
one certainly. in which citizens have deep In
teTest.
At Pittsburgh two different Railroads will run
by direct rouies and connect with rosds leading % Gin
cnrst and 81 Louis trsversng the rich States Of Ono
Indians and Illinois and through the Buffalo and Pitts
burgh rosd, opening 10 the City of Ncw.YOrk the
shortest, quickest, and cheapest route to Western
Pennsylvania, and the great Sta;es of the Yves.
The City OF New York thus has at last the trade of
Western Pennsylvania in her hands The people of
Southern Ohio OF Western Virginia OF Southern ndi
and CT Kentucky, many Of whom from social afni
ties and from their eghbOrhoOd to Pittsburgh hereto
fore have purchased in Philadelphia VIII naturally all
resort 10 the Newfork market Il Will be for their in
teret do 80, upon every consideration that has force
with merchant and il Is fair for 10 presume that
through his Buffalo and Pittsburgh road the trade OF
our City sdestined TO receive enormous ncreasc
We wish that the readers OF this article would turn 10
smGp Of the United Stsfes, and 60 with W in our re-
marks We viii premise by saying that the yhts OF the
Anegnry Mountains present almost insuperabc bar
Iier 20 ralroads from the Atlantic the Wstern States
the southwet corner of the state OF New-York, AMI
a. few points east of Chautsuque and C1ttarauyus
Counties they open sufficiently permit the passage OF
trains. But with these exceptions and few the line
OF the rocky range running South, this barrier is pas
sible by railroads away into Alabama. After crossing
the Aegar in Caitaraugus County the country way
10 tie Rocky Mountains and from the Ohio River the
Like, i - level floor, and railroads be built
uytn anywhere snd everywhere and "a the least
pence. Now, railroad map oi OaO would show net
work OF black lines. Principal and striking Of tlc,e
il the line Of road from Pittsburgh direct 20 Cincinnati.
and thence 10 - Lous-a great work. Western Nir-
GINA. Kentucky, Indiana Illinois Missouri and Iowa sud
Ohio OF course, viii resort 10 it aud Use It freely.
The next most striking route, Il thtt which runs from
Pittsburgh through Beaver and Il IL Uunain throu IN
indianapolis across the State OF Illinois, 20 St LOUIS
alsC-tayer-ing the very garden Of America. TAen
there another line OF road traverng c1On o; abund
snce from Pittsburgh by connections through OHIO to
the banks # the Wabash, nj Fort Wayne. Tnen there
is road from Hudson Ohio TO Warren IN Pennsylvania,
and thence 10 Little Valley In CatlarauSus County,
NewYurk, where it meets the Pittsburgh and Buffalo.
Then another road IL contemplated and pretty certain
OF being built. from New Castle in Pennsylvania also
10 Little Valley And another Is being constructed
from RoytBua Ohio, a. Now Castle Penn, by the way
roads draining the garden OF America ant tracking the
region Of ls dcnses population and IL future empire
will seek the eastern slope Of the AllePny mountains
through Csttaraueus County In New fork-that they
will each md all contribute to the Buffalo and Pittsburgh
Road. passengers and freight, form idea of
the great vflue of this route ntnsicay md of its vast
importance 10 cur City.
Tie line of the Road VIII traverse IN exceedingly
rich agricultural country, within the Sste OF NewYors
the very ichet portions Of the State, strange this
my seem lts natural and une'dcd resources VIII be
very great. II will pas through vast fields OF btnm
nous coal very desirable for smith work: and
fuel ranking above all other coal III America. mean
the Pittsburgh coal This Road will effect revolution
in the bumlnous coal trade of the La<es Ii will come
upon dock at Buffalo, ready tor shipment, nj lower
fgres an other desirable Goals can be aid down either
nj Cleveland or Erie IL will be umei very largely
within the State o NewYork; and III, reighng OF the
coal alone, Tor domestic use well "a Tor Western
shipment, will give the Road profitable business
Our merchants nigh complain if they saw lit, of the
jealous and liberal policy that Philadelphia has long
msneeted toward this City They will understand AZ
glance that this Buffalo and Pittsburgh Road deals
denih-bOv her little schemes of hedging in the West
and forcing it to buy OF her All THE comes TO an and
This route direct and it, grades are so easy, com
pared with those of the Pennsylvania Central Line
ing TO a falling Of the Alegany Mountains and the ex-
tence Of convenient passes Just where they are neede
that travel TO the East rh take IT, The Virginia NOR
chant leaving Pittsburgh, reach NewYork City In
eighteen hours For in 1863 passeng gers by the Hudson
River Road will be set down in Buffalo In IL hour md
from Buffalo hours will suffice 10 deliver them In Pitts
burgh.
Freight and passengers win inevitably take this
route coming the New.York Central lines by way
OF Buffalo, diyergng upon the Newfork and Erie at
Lte Valley The route opens TO the merchants OF the
West the peedest and the cheapest access to the two
best markets in the United States-New York aud Bos
ton-aHd there they rM 80. Philadelphia has GOT to
succumb 10 the laws Of Trade.
| hope that merchants and capitalists will give
this projected the attention II merits, and II /,
shall be found necessary that they will take hold OF t
firmly and push it through" CEDARsrsEEr