The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-05
For the Republican.
NOZZLE AND OHIO RAILROAD.

w Sue 1usuFDlng topic OF tneuay. NotWltn~
standing another Presidential canvass has
just come upon US, always fraught with 50
much excitement and political wrangling, the
minds of the people in this vicinity are OC-
cupied with a subject more intimately con-
nected with their individual welfare than
that Of heated political discussions, seldom
productive of good and often the cause Of per-
sonal differences aud enmity.
A grand scheme Of Internal Improvement
commends itself to men of all parties. 1t
requires no efforts at elOquence-nO tax on
the imagination-no high eulOgiums. On
the contrary, its cause is frequently pre-
JUDGED by such course, designed, on the
part of the advocate, more for self-emolu-
ment, ..for Buncombe, than for the real object
in view. The "Tron Horse" ploughing
through the bowels of the earth, overriding
valleys with lightning speed, &C., &C., is all
stuff, and never converts the practical man
to become its supporter AS has been re-
marked in one of the excellent speeches of
Mr.. Clayton: cit is simply question of
dollars and cents, and resolves itself into the
practical and correct solution of theinquiries
will this scheme of Improvement pay a
dividend on the stock subscribed will it
enhance the value of my property; will it
increase my facilities to market; will it add
to the wealth and dignity of my State, and
does our present condition require its con-
struction, and what will it cost and how can
this amount be raised p"
These are the questions on which the mass
of the people require enlightenment, and to
these l desire to direct the attention Of the
reader.
Take Geographical glance at the route
of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and it
seems impossible for the mind to come to
any other conclusion than that it will pay a
handsome dividend on the stock invested
Commencing at one of our most important
seaport cities, stretching itself through a
range of country unsurpassed in fertility,
and density of population, and terminating
at the junction Of TWO large rivers almost
grooming under the burthen of the numer-
Gus productions of the West that now float
down the Mississippi, and thence up the small
er rivers where these supplies are required, all
Of which on the completion Of this road
would be transported upon it as its natural
channel. / would require, indeed, a long
list of figures to enumerate the quantity OF
bacon, -four, rope and baggiug, in short
every thing produced in the West, that would
leave the river at this point and feed and
supply the people all along the range of the
road; and list equally as numerous to tell
the quantity of cotton that would be carried
to market now compelled to lie a, our Ware
houses, regardlers of the condition of the
markets, awaiting the navigation of our un-
certain streams. This view of itself would
induce favorable conclusion, being by no
means the strongest point in favor of its be-
ing profitable investment. The impedi-
ments and dangers of travel on the Missis-
sippi and tributaries are familiar to all and
Notwithstanding those dangers and extreme
probabilities of disease and death in the
summer season, we are forced upon them as
the only channel of public travel between
the great markets of the South and its tribu-
taries in the West.
There are, also, serious objections strong
ly urged against the main thoroughfare be-
tween North and South, leading through
Georgia and Virginia, on account of the sea-
coast passage between Charleston and Wash
ington. But the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
would be free from all these objections
Those going from New Orleans and Mobile,
westward, would adopt it as the safest and
most speedy line of communication, and those
going North would also adopt it, and be free
from the perils of a sea-coast voyage they
would otherwise encounter. Instead of go
ing, as now, through a low and swampy
country, they would soon find themselves
enjoying the salubrious breezes and pictur'
esque scenery Of our mountainous regions.
If it then be true to suppose this road,
when completed, will command the bulk Of
travel between the South and West and
South and North, (and we see nothing 70
cause us even to doubt IT'D how can 1t De
otherwise than one of the best paying stock
companies ever organized ? particularly when
one fact is observed, which should by no
means be omitted: the contribution of Con-
gress of !, 200, 900 acres of land, lying along
the road. to aid in its construction. Con-
gress has been Landed for this act Of liberal
ity, but it by no means should be considered
an act Of pure generosity to those contiguous
to the road, but rather the result Of the de-
alterations of far-seeing, sagacious statesmen,
knowing and feeling the great Importance OF
the perfection of this noble work in nation
al point of view, bringing, as it were, in the
compass of nutshell, two great and har-
monizing interests, and throwing a feeder
through densely settled cotton country, by
tapping one of the greatest bread-stuff re-
gions on the earth. Nor is this all it brings
70 hoar oil tho fnroes of the West on our