Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-08-11
From the Cleveland CO., Plaindealer.
Cleveland and ST. Louis Air Line r. e.
Another Great Work Begun.

TO be astcnished at them The national
mode of travel is fast undergoing an entire
revolution. Indeed, Railroads could not be
projected, built and supported as they are,
if the people, melted by the progressive
spirit Of the age, did not demand them
Common carriers are left NO alternative but
10 adopt the AecIest mode Of transportation.
or surrender their profession. Thus all at
once, as it would seem, is the old fogy sys
TEN abandoned, cork legs laid aside, and
locomotives substituted.
The great Northwest, with lis interim
nabe space, boundess prairie fertile soil,
leeming population and level surface, pre-
SCENTS the finest field on the habitablo globe
for the application, development and prac-
;ical utility CT the locomotive system Of
transportation. The facilities for building |
Railroads are better, the distances to be
overcome greater, and the country trayersed
richer than any locality known on either
side the big waters. This applies to its
internal business, but a greater consideration
arises from the points connected, especially
with roads running east and west.
Our rich and recently acquired Pacific
possessions, the opening spectively Of the
great Pacific trade with China and Japan,
will bring from the west tide of travel and
tide of trade, that will almost equal our
eastern communications. The Pacific Rail.
road, inevitably to be built, will furnish the
channel for this great thoroughfare. It's
location, as well as completion, is no longer
problematical. The trade and travel of
country is dictated by its commercial inter-
ests, and this interest viii consult its con-
venience by locating its commercial thor
inf Of lie prgi., y
business. Now it matters not in what par
ticular latitude ths Pacific Road may cross
the Great Desert. The travel it may bring
will look to the Atlantic coast somewhere
north of Baltimore and south of Portland.
1t has no business, nor will it travel in any
State, south of Mason s. DiXons Line
There is no commerce there, there rs nc
trade, and commercial men have no business
there. 1t has 9gats. to seek continuou.
route from tive Pacifictp the Atlantic coast
through. s6tio. Il is shmited north by The
great chain IF Lakes. 1t is limited south
bythe Ohiofiver and the slave States.
Again. ii cannot reach the Atlantic coas
through Ohio, crcept through CisuclanG.--
Why? The Almighty has placed higl
and Pennsylvania running north and south
Lake Erie, which range is an cvcrlas;in!
barrier 10 Eastern and Western roads
Not that such roads are not built and doin;
good business, but the investment, cost 0
repair, wear OF machinery, and increased
motive power required on mountain roads
forbid their ever competing with lake shor
roads.
1t is with n view 70 accommodate thi
u T., !,
Brought into the Mississippi Valley by til
ft Pacific Road, that the present air line rail
road from st. Louis TO this city has bee
projected. While other Western road
have been located to accommodate rafticu
lar localities, running zig gag TO this cit
and to that, owned and controlled by numcr
Gus companies, all doing well in accom-
plisliI@the local business Of the country
this road, with air line drcclness, runs fron
point to point, irrespective Of all other roads
and continues on magnificent scale out III
great trunk railroad across from the Pa
ciiic. II completes with no other road, bu
its location will secure TO the lake coprtr,
this vast tide Of western travel, and in thi
way benefit all intersecting roads. Som
eight millions Of the stock has already bcel
subscribed by New England capitalists, an,
under MIR. Hopkins, the indomitable am
enterprising egent, Tie work is bound to 6
on.
ORGANIZATIONS OF THE cLEvELAND AND 81
LOUIS II. Z. COMPANY.
~ The subscribers TO the stock Of the Cleve
BAND and st. Louis r. r. Company, con
yened in this city on the 22l inst, in pur
suance Of legal notice, and elected the fol
lowing Directors:
Iarael Ollie, of Newark j. Barker, G
Cleveland; ]. G. IIussey, dol II. Girls
wold, do; II. N. Day, Of Huason II. II
Dodd, OF Toledo; +. II. Binkley, OF Lima.
At subsequent meeting of the Direc
tors, Israel Ollie was elected President, j
Barker, Vice President, and II. b. Spell
men, Secretary. The office of Treasure
remains to be filled. Erastus Hopkins La
by vote of the Board been appointed Gen
eral Agent. The principal Office of III
company will be established in the city {
Cleveland.
On the 29th of March last, the Compan
proposing to construct the portion Of line i
Indiana was organised and the board is no,
constituted as follows:
Erastus Hopkins, Of Massachusetts
President; (Gov.) Joseph a. Wright,
Indianapolis; J. G. Davis, of Darke count,
VIM. e.. Collin do; VIM. II. Harding,
Lafayette; II. II. Dodd, of Toledo, Obi
Israel Ollie, of Newark, Ohio; VIM. !
Harding, Secretaryi Z. NJ. Benson Of Nor
tezuma, Treasurer.
5000 Acres hanCj