The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-27
From the Baltimore American.

The passengers who left New Orleans on the
l4th instant in the steamboat Eclipse, connecting
at Louisville With the steamer Alvin Adams of the
Union line and at Wheeling with the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, were brought through from
New Orleans 10 Baltimore, including stOppages
and detentons, in seuen days and t1ro hours
making the trip In the shortest time in which IL
has ever been accomplished. From memoranda
Of the time table of the trip, with which we have
been furnished, we learn that from New Orleans
to Louisville the trip made by the steamer
Eclipse in four days and nine hours, being nearly
three hours less than il had been done before.
From Louisville TO Cincinnati the steamer Alvin
Adams made the distance in ten hours and four
minutes, and from Cincinnati TO Wheeling in
thirty six hours and twenty five minutes; and
from Wheeling the passengers were conveyed by
the railroad to Baltimore in eighteen hours.
The rapid trip thus accomplished. and which has
been uneQualed heretofore s the fruit of the COM
plete connexion now formed by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad with the great natural channels of
the West, and of the facilities which offered by
the superior character of the boats of the Union
and the Louisville and New Orleans lines by which
these connexions are perfected. Whilst this speed
can be effected with safety TO the nasseneers-a
point which should not be overlooked for the pur-
pose OF securing any temporary triumph-it must
follow that the route which is offered from our city
to the West will continue TO gain on the popularity
winch mas already been SO strikingly manifested
towards it, Full trains of through passen gers from
Cincinnati, Louisville, st. Louis New Orleans, and
other important points of the West and South,
instance over two hundred of this class of passen-
gers were brought to our city by a single train.
Baltimore, therefore, is enabled to assume
the vantage ground 10 which her geographical
position, well her social sinities entite her
She can offer to her friends and customers OF the
West and Southwest for themselves speedy and
attractive route to the Atlantic border and for the
produce they may wish TO send to market, and the
merchandise they need in return, regular, reIia-
BILE, and prompt mode OF transit. With these in
creased facilities Of travel and transportation our
city also prof re increased induce ments as a mart
OF trade for the region 10 which it has become
so closely allied, and with which the intimacy of
her connexions must continually advance. Already
have we begun to feel the impetus that will be
given to our city by the prospect presented to is
business men. spirit of confidence in the future,
OF emboldened enterprise, and determined energy
ls manifesting itself; and whilst we may properly
point to the advantages we already enjoy, and the
inducements we can justly offer, we may also
truly prophecy of the still greater advantages
and inducements that will make Baltimore the
great central mart on the Atlantic seaboard, and
fully confirm TO her the commercial prosperity to
which we hold her to be entitled