Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-02

Il PRosPrcTs or NoRFoLK. Public attention is beir
much attracted 10 The air line Railroad, designed
be butt from keyPort TO Florence passiag throog
Delaware and connecting with the Seaboard an
Roanoke Railroad al Norfolk.
TIE Governor OF the Statesof Delaware. in his re
cent Message 10 the Legislature, has urged thai bod
10 give The project its favorable considerations and re
ccnmends that the State credit be granted to aid
an enterprise which will prove highly benefcfa
to the people of thatState This will probably done
i Norfolk now begins to assume The importance de
rived from the great natural advantages of position
That city is connected, by means ofthe Seaboar
and Roanoke Railroad, with the South by contnuou
line of railway to Montgomery, Ala, a distance o
500 miles, all of which Is in operation except smal
portion. which will soon he completed, and thence b,
steamboat 10 Mobile and New Orleans.
BY an extension of the Seaboard and Roanoke roa
to Castor, which will be opened for travel within
about thirty days, junction will be effected witt
the Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad leading to Raleigh
and extending thence by the North Carolina Railroad
(now under contract and TO be completely t.
| Columbia, South Carolina, embracing an additions
line of railway of 40 miles. terminating Norfolk
and concentrating at that point large share Of hs
trade and traffic Of North Carolina which have here
Etofore sought other outlets.
! The following statement comprises list of tht
different railroads by which Norfolk as the terminus
of the seaboard and Roanoke Railroad will be con
nected with the Southern and Southwestern sections
Of the United States forming continuous lines from
Norfolk TO Mobile and New Orleans, and to Mem
phis, Tenn.
The commercial advantages which will accrue 10
this city when these projects completed, cannot
be estimated. Our citizens have every thing
hope from the bright prospects now dawning upon
them.
1. The Wilmington and Manchester Railroad. 162
miles, running from Wilmington, N. c., to Man
chester. s. c., uniting with the South Carolina
ltaioad leading TO Augusta, Ga. and TO Charleston,
S. G.
This road is rapidly progressing 10 completion
When completed, there will be continuous line of
railway from Norfolk, Fa.,to Montgomery, Ala, a
distance Of 96s miles. The steamboat line, from
Wilmington to Charleston, will soon be dispensed
with. and large increase of travel over this line
may be relied upon, the time and distance to New
Orleans will be essentially diminished.
2. The North Carolin Railroad runs from Raleigh
to Salisbury and Charlotte in North Carolina, about
$50 miles in length. The funds for this road are
provided. the State subscribed two millions and pri-
vate stockholders The remainder This line, in con-
neclion with the road from Charlotte to Columbia,
y. e., will make continuous line of railway from
Norfolk to Columbia. of 435 miles; and will form
connection, in this direction also, with Montgomery
in Alabama. survey has also been ordered by the
State of North Carolina, for road from Salisbury to
Knoxville in Tennessee.
8. The Roanoke Valley Railroad, will run from
Ridgeway, N. C.. the Raleigh and CASTOR rail.
road to GAINESVILLE, Virginia, and is proposed to
continue this limo to Lynchburg, Va. This road has
recently been chartered. and the work placed under
contract. Ii will form, when completed, a contnu-
GUS line from Norfolk TO Lyrchburg Of about 200
miles.
A. The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and the
East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, will form
continuous one from Lynchhurg, Va, to Knoxville
n Tennessee, distance of $50 miles. This limo is
going forward rapidly. both in Virginia and Tennes-
ice passes through country of great mineral and
agricultural resources, and will be work Of much
magnitude and importance. The means are provided
or its construction.
5. The Hiwassee or the East Tenne ssee an0 Geor- |
ria Railroad. runs from Knoxville to Dalton, Geor- |
ia, lis miles in length. This road is in operation |
rom Dalton to Chattanooga part of the State road
f Georgia. is also already in operation, 10 miles,
6. The Nashville and Chattanooga. This road is
lso going rapidly forward to completion. at cost
about two and one half millions of dollars Il
T. The Memphis Railroad will run from point
n this last named road to Memphis. Tenn, on the
Mississippi river, through Huntsville, Tenn, $50
tiles, and will probably be finished by The time the
lher connecting lines completed. The FIVE last {
escrbed lines will form continuous line of railway
ON Norfolk to Memphis. thousand miles in ex- 4
mt; the importance of this connection need not be v
lggested. II is sufficient trace these lines upon i
e map, and leave the subject to make its own i'm s
ession. "
The aggregate of the lines above described now o
operation actively in progress, amounts TO more
an two thousand miles of railway; all of which n
i'll, in greater or less degree, add The business
Norfolk. Norfolk .frgmS. ri