The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-10-03
[For the Louisville Jorrnal1
LOuisvillc-Evans Railroad.

lance that her avenues of trade and COM /
nerce should be open and unobstructed
throughout the year. Her natural connec-
ton with the cities above and below, must
continue to be by the Ohio river until ade- /
quate railroad facilities shall be provided
1t is not TO be disguised, that. during several
months of the year, the Ohio river almost
entirely fails to afford that kind of naviga-
ton tnat is essential TO the business prospe
rity and growth of the city. Such is the
case at the present time; freighiing from
New Orleans is entirely suspended, while
only now and then the lghtest draft steam.
boats with passengers reach our wharf. This
state OF cCmmun ica,ion with the South
ought not to be suffered by the business men
of Louisville longer than it is unavoidable.
Free and uninterrupted commercial avenues
are due TO su h a city as ours. We are
now connected by railroads it is true, upon
the Indiana and Ohio side of the river with
Cincinnati Indianapolis and the North and
East, and soon shall be through our own
State, with Covington, Paris and Maysvile
Still, with all these facilities, ii is essential
TO our prosperity that our avenues should
remain open and unobstructed throughout
the year for the transportation of the immense
commerce of our hourishing city with New
Orleans and the South, for such is the nature
of commerce IN these pressing times, that it
waits for neither winds nor tides in its on
ward march. Ii it cannot pass through our
city, il it cannot reach US, it will find other
avenues, and other cities as its marts Tne
citizens OF Louisville have no power TO i'm
prove the navigation of the Ohio, the waters
are subject 10 the higher powers. Our Lou
isville and Nashville railroad, when COM
pleted, will be of great Importance to our
city, while road still more direct through
Kentucky and Tennessee, connecting Lou
isv lille with Memphis, would add largely to
our prosperity. These ROADS we all hope to
see constructed in few years, and although
the cost of building them will be heavy, and
the stringency of the times looks inauspi-
cious, yet as it is said revolutions never 90
backwards, the idea may with equal truth
be app!ed to the great line, of railways.
when once commenced in good faith; they
may be retarded, delayed by causes over
which their builders have no control, as the
interposltion Of monetary embarrassments,
but IN the end success must attend the prop
er efforts of their friends. With these roads
constructed, and our railroad connection
with Evansville on the Indiana side of the
river, over the Ohio and Mississippi road.
with which we are already connected, and
the Evansville, indianapolis, and Cleveland
Straight line railroad, that intersects the
Ohio and Mississippi about fifty miles from
the city of Evansville, and one hundred
miles from our city, we shall have the most
important connections with the South and
West. To show the great Importance to
our city OF the railroad connection with the
city OF Evansville, we eli the following ex-
tract from the editorial of late No. of the
Cincinnati Gazette. The connection is
equally as important to Louisville as to Gin
ciDnati. The Gazette, after speaking of the
great importance To that city of the Ohio
and Mississippi railroad, with its present
connections, says:
"But il is to have another connection and
greater Importance than either of the roads
above named. 1t is to be intersected bv
the Evansville, Indianapolis, and Cleveland
straight-ne railroad in the county Of Davipss,
Indiana. BY this road Cincinnati and Ev
ansville will be united together by direct
railways. Evansville is over 200 miles be-
low New Albany, and the time by railroad
from the Ohio river at Evansville, to Cincin-
natl, need not exceed seven hours Ito Louis
vile not over five hours.) The section OF
the raighl-line road TO the crossing OF the
Ohm and Mississippi road, is only 81 miles
and is under process of construction with
heavy force, To be completed in all next sea-
son. Highly important as it is 10 Cincinna-
II, and TO the OHIO and Mississippi railroad
To be connected directly with Evansville,
and the business of the Ohio river concen-
tratlng there, as the matter now stands look
ing 10 the geogra phical position OF Evans
VILE, as being tie southern city OF Indiana
commanding the commerce of the Green riv-
er, White river, and Wabash valley and the
outlet OF the Wabash and Erie canal,the long,
est canal in the world suIl, the great i'm.
poriance of Evansville as d connecting point
for the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, con.
sists in still greater degree in the connec-
ton south by railroads that will be made
there. The southern railroads have been
constructed north as far as Nashville Tenn
From that point two roads are being CON
slrncted-the one TO Louisville, and the other
to HENDERSON (Evansvllle.) The Henderson
route Is so much shorter, and SO entirely
practicable, that it will be in operation, as is
conceded by all who are acquainted with the
two roads, long before the road 10 Louisville
can be constructed, even under much more
favorable auspices than attend that impor-
tant work at The present time. The con-
struction OF the Henderson and Nashville
road of lI5 miles, the section OF 81 miles of
the Evansville str ight-line, and the compile
ton of the Ohio and Mississippi road to the
point of intersection, will connect Cincinna-
ii with Charleston, Mobile and Savannah by
direct railway. These onnecii0ns,'althongh
highly important, are not more so than the
contemplated strdight-line from opposite
Evansville by Ii ndersoD, Smilhland and
Paducah to Memphis. The distance from
Paducah to Evansville by this line is only 90
miles, and only 240 miles ftom Memphis to
Evansville. The road from Memphis TO
Paducah is urder contract, leaving only the
link from Paducah to Evansville to be put
under process of construction, to have the