Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-15
A Gigantic Project.

The annexed article from the Washington Re-
public alludes TO railroad enterprise, the further
ance OF which is to be the subject of consideration
at Convention TO be held at st. Louis i'll the COM
ins month of December. With this, and with all
other similar works in the West and Southwest Bal
timore will be advantageously connected, fist by
her great road to Wheeling, and soon thereafter by
the branch to Parkersburg.-Bah American.
A railroad from Minnesota to New Orleans, CON-
ptting with the great Father of Waters throughout
its course, and joining in close fellowship the six
months snow of Lake Superior with the perpetual
sum ner of the Gulf of Mexico! That is the latest
project 10 which the eShaustess enterprise of the
Republic has given BIRTH and one w hch i'll its gil
gantc proportions is little likely to be paralleled!
Mr.. Whitney's scheme for uniting with iron bonds
the waters of two great oceans exceeds 1t IN lmmen
sity, but Will bear comparison with it in regard
to feasibility. His route for the most part runs
through arid wastes, now and for generations 10
come devoi both of necessitiei and facilities for an
undertaking of the kind. The plan OF which we
speak is dissmar to it in all respects save one In
proportions the line from the North to the
far South yields the palm to the indomtable advo-
cate Of the Pacific line but III every other partcu-
lar it is UNNECESSARILY superior. 1t starts from q
point just opening into civilization, it is true, but
that is manifestly destined to achieve unex-
amplel growth; and thence, running southwark, II
opens to market the broad praries of Iowa, exacts
tribute from the fertile soil of Missouri and having
,topped Ior breath at the commercial emporium of
the West, proceeds to traverse the gorgeous savan
nahs of Arkansas and the rich plantations of Lou
siana finally pouring its accumulated treasure ILL
to the lap of New Orleans route, in round fig
ureS, of some three thousand miles, already posses
sed of an enormous river traffic, and more or less
settled at every important point!
We are not dreaming dreams, or indulging in
fancies at variance with facts. We record pro-
ject now occupying attention along both banks of
the Mississippi which has received The cordial APP
prevail of cool business men, and which will short
ly be presented to the country in plain business
aspect. The merchants of ST. Louis have taken
the Il ad in its behalf with spirit that be.okens
early and good results; their efforts must command
the assistance of New CLEANS, which is at length
ava kenng TO sense of the necessity of land
well as wafer communication; Arkansas and Iowa
are pledged by their action in other matters to a
cordial cooperation; while the infant giant, Min
nesotn-.'the New England of the Northwest''-
enters into it with spirit at characteristic and
hopeful.
The project is pregnant with great considerations,
political and commercial 1t will unite climates
unlike in their nature and products, and will give
common aim and interest TO peoples differing
widely in their circumstances and pursuits. 1t will
form a guarantee tor the perpetuity OF the
Uuion, and will contribute more than egisa ton to
smother sectional strife. 1t will secure TO the
IRENE Northwest its legitimate markets, and will
more rapidly attract to it the capital and the labor
that needed to develope its magnificent re-
sources.
A convention is to be held at St. Louis in De-
cember to obtain the practical cooperation of the
North and South along the Mississippi Valley
We look forward to its deliberations as TO the be-
ginning of new era in the commercial history of
tile South and West.