Washington telegraph., 1852-02-04

Fort
or the stranger, to jest on the helpless dead
Rut ,far in the realms of the fathomless sea
Would bury my lifeless form;
And ask no more glorious elegy
Than the howl of a wrathful storm
IN the desert of waters Oh! let me die,
Deem. deep in its caverns let me lie!
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From the arkansas Wing,
PLAIN TALK:
usr.Ry.rloN EMIGRATION, OR RAILROADS"
NO. ".
The constantly incre easing receipts 're-n rail-
-o.ds are obtained, not by increasing but by ei-
miu;shing to an extraordinary extent The cost of
travel and transportation.
we now paw about eig hteen dollars, to get from
Little Rock to the mouth of the Arkansas, and
five more to Memphis: and freight up the Arkan-
sas river to Little Rock is on an average tUenty
dollars per ton. OF course, if goods are taken up
TO Rock Roe and wagoned across the cost is far
GREATER. and has amounted this fall, as our mer-
chants tell me. to at least S25 per ton.
Now the Albany and Buffalo railroad runs side
bv side with the great Erie canal, $50 miles, and
carries passengers at l.72 of cent per mile,
which would be, from this place to Memphis, sup
posing the distance l25 miles, tloO dollars and
fifteen cents You can go from Cincinnati to
New York city, by the New York and Dunkirk
route in 43 hours, at an expense BIS 80. The
PENNSYLVANIA road has transported coal at ons
cent per ton per miIe and the average freight on
the New England roads, Oh the heaviest goods,
is about too cents ton per mile. This would
make freight from Little Rock TO Memphis, on
such articles, about So 80 ton. The Provi-
dence railroad has carried passengers at one cent
mile.
Before the New York canals made, freight
from Buffalo to New York was S 90 tom
Now it Is 81 so. the distance being 364 niles
Charles Elicit, Esqr., engineer on the Virginia
public works estimates freight OH canals, exclu-
sive of tolls, u cents; MacAdam roads Is cents;
turnpikes ID 10 20 cents; steamboats, the
Lakes 2 10 cents: steamboats, on the Missis-
sippi and Ohio TO !, or an average of 1 to l
cent. We pay more than that III Arkansas, both
on the Arkansas and Red rivers, especially when
the water is low. | have paid within FIVE or six
years, three dollars BARREL on flour from Van
Buren, TO Little Rock
Railroads create business and trncei When
the Boston and Lowell railroad was proposed the
Commissioners basng their estimates upon the ex
tent of travel then existing, supposed that $500
passengers might be carried annually Many
persons thought this high figure absurd Ten
years afterwards this very road carried 400,-
ESQ passengers in year. The Boston and Wor-
in 1919 it carried 4703l9. The Fi,chburg road
had calculated On 10000. The number immedi-
ately reached 227 OBI
Travel along The New York and Dunkirk rail-
road, for more than 400 mites, as ! did this last
summer, and you will need no further proof how
railroads prodgce population Settlements and
large towns sprngng up at every point,
where nothing but farm-houses had before been
seem Back Of these towns new settlements are
mete, and new lands opened. Articles that
formerly would not pay freight to a market, have
now become. all along the line of road, profitable
subjects Of expert, and new inducements held
cut TO farmers and laborers. As single exam
pie. look at the enormous quantities of milk that
go 10 New York city, from Orange comfy, in
huge Jars upon appropriated exclusively to
that purpose. The yearly value OF that single
article is nearly as much as the whole Gotten crop
Of Arkansas.
1t makes no great difference whether orr con-
templated road pays large dividends not 1t
has been we'll and truly said, Of dividends from
railroads, 'rheSe are among their least advanta-
ges Propretors, urban and rural feel their eff cts
primarily. and to the largest extent. # the 1hole
amount Of the Investment loere wITnoUT diUideRd,
ii pould be good ecOnomy often for the land-oaon
ersJ they contributed erery cent Of ii. The en-
hancement OF the value OF property has in many
cases paid ten fold the value of the Investment"
In the ID years that Immediately succeeded the
construction OF the Erie canal, the value of Pro-
perty in the city Of New York advanced lag per
cent, and though in the preceding ten years il had
not advanced single dollar; aud yet the increase
oi populati0n, per cent, was but very little more.
Col. Gadsden, Of South Carolina, says, ''Wher-
ever railroads have been constructed, property
has risen in value, and new stimuli have been
given TO trade and intercourse. These are not
speculative views hut realities The anprecia-
lion OF property in Boston, from the roads converg
ing upon that city, has been estimated at thirty
seren millions Of dollars. All the laud
along the road to Hamburg and Columbia, for
hive miles each side Of it, has appreciated in
value since its construction, 50.50U, and in some
cases 5OOO per cent; and where before its con-
sruction there not $40 900 of trade, there
is now upwards of $3.50, 600. The valuation Of
property on the South Carolina railroad, compar-
ed before and since its construction, shows, 1880,
Sll,3370i2; 1876, SI9,075,I57: gain S., $685.
l49. The city of Charleston shows real estate.
1880, S'S,366,9I4; 1910, 1882, TAB; gain
So,ioO,S93 This increase in trade and the value
OF real estate, | insist has been principally at
lrioutable TO the introduction of railroads, and if
The sartng were added TO the gain, the advantages
woulo appear almost inappreciable."
Inc increase in the value of real estate in the
counties bordering on the Vicksburg and jackson
railroad, has been estimated to be from 800, 900.
Vaiue before the road built, to 81 600, 900;
and on the Nashville and Chattanooga road, in
iour counties, the gain in the value of taxable
property has been s., ,554 ,639.
Inc increased wealth of Baltimore, in conse-
qnence OF the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, has
more than compensated her fer ID subscription OF
three millions and half
Real estate in Mobile has advanced in value fire
miu'ons IN single year, in consequence OF the
certainty that the Mobile aud Ohio road would
oe ouit- Before that, the total value of property
IN that city, which from 1896 to l847 had averag-
Gu u,~enfy millions, had declined to tretre millions
In no portion of tie United States would the
ouluing oil railroad enhance the value Of pro-
pertY so much 4 Il