Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-04-13

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He pointed to Red jacket, saying
"He came into camp ten minutes after
with nine scaLpsi"
! OPENING OF THE FIRST SECTION OF
THE Ono AND MISSISSIPPI RA1LRoAD.-
Tuesday week was the day appointed
for the opening of the first section o
the Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad
Tickets of invitation were issued to up
wards of thousand persons, who EN-.
barked from Cincinnati in the railway
cars for Aurora, Indiana. The line is
of the 6 foot or broad guage, and is
built between the banks of the Ohio
and the Whitewater Canal. When the
train reached North Bend, once the
home of President HARRIsoN, it stopped
and the band struck up "Hail Colum-
bia," and many tear of regret was
shed in memory of the illustrious patri-
OF. The train reached Aurora, a dis
tance of 90 miles, in one hour and fifteen
minutes, where cold collation. was set
for 1900 persons. After this and order
being obtained, the speaking COM
menced. We copy the balance from the
Cincinnati Commercial of last Wednes-
day. ]. c. HALL, Esq, President of
the Company, rose and said:
Gentlemen: We celebrate to-day the
betrothal preliminary to the actual union
by the new road of Ohio and Mississip-
pi. therefore propose the following
toast which l am sure you will drink
willingly and heartily:
Cincinnati and St. Louis-their mar
riage is near: when united in iron bonds,
may they long live in prosperity, harmo-
ny and peace"
(Received and drank with three
cheers.) "Cries of Mansfeld!"
ED. Mansfield, Esq, took the stand
and said: l shall not say much; we are
met here to-day to celebrate the opening
of the Cincinnati and ST. Louis Railroad
that is, the first section. 1t is hap
py and a glorious event-but l must
here recur to our first railroad, the
Cordaroy; long life to it | say for though
here it is of the past, well do l recollect
when jolting from log to log was our
only mode of progress. 1t is gone now,
it is but recollection of times gone by;
the times when it existed was those of
old fogies; we have now come to the
days of Young America; vehement
applause) and l will here tell you how
we came to be Young America. In
1922, 39 years ago a charter was
granted to company for a road from
Cincinnati to st. Louis; that was the
first step, and of that Co., Scott Harri-
son, Esq, of Congress, was one of the
directors. Then met the board of I'm
provements and it said we should have
one road to go to Charleston, one to
Cleveland and one to st. Louis. We
thought then we could go to Charleston,
but were despaired of getting to st.
Louis. Well we've got to Cleveland,
shall soon be at st. Louis, and it viii not
be long ere we reach Charleston. 1t
then took us 80 days to travel to New
York, now we reach there in 80 hours.
We have this day come to the mar
riage of the two largest cities of the
Mississippi Valley. they will hereafter
be the greatest cities of the habitable
globe; there is no denying this predic-
ton; they will be the twin cities of this
vast republic, that will hereafter rule
the destinies of the whole world. 1
will tell you too. in building such a
road as this, you are not only adding to
the wealth, prosperity and power of
this country, but you also do that which
will preserve peace and union, which
will strengthen the bonds of love al
ready existing; and in binding it with
bands of iron, those very bands will be
those that viii also bind the people till
their acts, and their influence shall be
the rulers and governors of the world.
[ Applause. ia Assori
The East shall see what the West can
do. Cheers. We are not quite
through yet. Look at yonder inscrip-
ton; (pointing to that noticed else
where;) itspeaks of the broad guage-
we are on the broad guage. All par
ties, all States, and all men favor it:
Ohio, Mississippi, Indiana, and Illinois,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific; and
when these two oceans are united, as
they will be, we shall constitute the
Great Centre, from whence shall emanate
all wealth, and shall flow all prosperity.