Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-22
FL From Dc sori American al and U. S. Gazette
SO Pittsburuh and philadelphia.

| MdSsrs.s NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. your very COuIte-
GUS correspcndent-Our polished viSiter from Pitts
burgll-has camosed, / will endeavor to inform him
| in few words, why it is that we wish to construct
the Hempfeld road, and iohv we prefer Wheeling
10 Steubonyile, our terminus on the Ohio, with
out caring very much whether the cast be, as he
says, a million or more less. '''- -
| 1. We have A CHARTER for our road through Viz
ginia TO Wheeling, and we have none to Sleu-
benville.
| O. We have BRIDGE across the Ohio at Wheel
| ing, chartered by Virginia, and the right to main
lain it is confirmed by an act OF Congress; and we
have neither bridge nor charter for one at Steu-
benville; nor canwe get charter, or build bridge
there, without charter. tt8E
g. The Henpfeld road reaches he Ohio river,
| inst where the Baltimore and Ohio touches it Al
iWHEELiSG, point 90 miles below Steubenyille-
while the distance from Philadelphia to Steubcn-
willie, via Pittsburgh is 1893 miles, Just the same as
the distance from Philadelphia 10 Wheeling.
| We cannot afford to surrender to Baltimore this
advantage of22 miles. 90 4.r .'3las org
A. The Hempfeld road, is universally known to
be theonly line by which we can compete for the
trade OF the SOUTHWEST, at all. }.' .-a aol t.f
| 5. The Hempfeld road opens the shortest line
from Philadelphia to any city due west of us, b.
means ofthe Central Ohio road, now all in course
| of construction. --- ...
6. BY new line, just chartered and organized
in Ohio, about to Obtain an advantage through
the Hempeld road, never before though of in this
cityyz the shortest line that can be laid out from
|
territory. r .Ha5 NJ VI
To understand this matter, I ask the reader to
take any good railroad map, and mark down, in
pencil, the line which shall now describe
This line is all chartered, and part oftisin course
of construction. -si.ah {"
| First Part.-From Wheeling, by the valley OF
Indian Wheeling Creek, passing South of Cadiz to
the Steubenvlle and Indiana road, east of Coshoc
| ton. il.'t .+.z
Second Part.-P aSsing north of Coshocton, and
MT to- Call
| lime, the western terminus of the Ohio and Penn
syvania road. From this point, the distance Ia
Philadelphia, by way of the western road Of Ohio,
passing through Wheeling, and thence to GreeEs-
burg, sabout 25 miles less than the distance from
Crestline to Philadelphia, passing through Pitts
| burgh.
| Third p art.-This division extends from Gallon
to Fort Wayne, and is in course Of construction.
| " Fourth Part.-From Fort Wayne to Chicago,
with branch to Michigan city, in favor of which
a Convention is now in session at Warren, aud
which, is as certain 10 be promptly undertaken as
any other western line s-zl- ,s"1a 1.f If:ifr
Fifth Part.-From Chicago to Galena all in
good progress. H.. .-4 z,.ss-.sr',
this great north western line upon the best map he pc
sesses to measure the distance from any point along
it TO GreenSburg, by The way of Wheeling and the
Hempfeld road; and also by the way of Pittsburgh,
and the Ohio and pennsylvania road. The posi-
lion take is ths-that from every point upon that
line, the shortest route to Philadelphia, is through
Wheeling, and along the Hempfield road.
maintain, therefore, that we need the Hempfiell
road, not merely to enable us to compete with
Baltimore, for the Southwestern trade, but to
compete, with our best effort with New York, for
the NoRTH- WESTERN trade. ~. 1,u . ~, ftf.p,, I
If the reader will look carefully at the map, he
will find that the shortest route from Springfield TO
Philadelphia is through Columbus, GAINESVILLE and
Wheeling, by the Central Ohio and HempfeLi
roads and the Shortest route from Londonsvile to
phIladelDhia is also through Wbeelpp and nv the
Ohio Western and the HempfeM roads.
Draw one line from Galena to Wheeling, and
another from Nashville to Wheeling. The whole
country enclosed bytbese two lines, 1 say, must
uade with Philadelphia Though the Hempfeld
road. Put your finger, reader, upo, any to,en phat
eper betceen these lines, and the shortest route from
philadelphia to that to,cn oiH pass through Wheel
ing and Greensburg.
A map showing these facts will be left at the Ex-
change Reading Room by 4.l-,i, W. Is. O.,