Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-11-02

Western New York and the whole Lake
country. The Sunbury & Erie road is in
progress, and is bound to be completed
and such, too, is the case with the North
Pennsylvania road The Franklin road
has again been opened and relaid and
here We are promised another line of COM
munication with the West, Of which the
Connelsville road and others already made,
will constitute important links. The Le-
banon and the Pit,ston and Bloomsbury
roads are opening up important portions
of the Eastern section of the State, while
the great Allegheny Valley road, the Con-
nellsville and Hempfeld roads, and va
rious others, are doing the same in the
West.
Our reighbors, on all sides, are, as We
have said, seeking to pass through the
State, and thus while Baltimore is labor
ing to establish 4 communication with the
Lakes, Northern New York seeks to COM
plete lines of road that will bring the LAX
es in connection with Pennsylvania, and
Eastern New York is doing the same on
her side Of the State. Already the Jersey
Central Railroad has added greatly to the
value Of property on the Lehigh, and has
caused the construction of other roads lea
ding through the northern coalfelds, Civ
ing life to regions that but few years
since were but little more thought Of than
if they had been among the Rocky Noun
tains, and those already made prove to be
but the precursors Of other and more i'm
portant ones about 10 be constructed. To
the making of the Reading Road we have
been indebted for the construction of that
to Cattawissa, Williamsport & Eluira-for
that to Lebanon, ,and for the one now in pro-
cess of construction, ly which this city
will be connected with Sunbury and the
whole Susquehanna valley. To the Penn
sylvania Central Railroad We are indebted
for the Hemrfeld and the Broad Top
roads, and for that pr jected from Tyrone
to Ridgeway, through part of the State
that has until recently been almos. as
much shut cut from communication with
the world as the Nebraska territory. Each
step is bu. the preparation for new and
greater one. Look where We may, the
same picture meets our view, and where,
but few years since, our State was almost
entirely destitute Of communications, We
may now confidently assert that before the
lapse of second future period of five years
only, We shall be in possession of a system
that will give to every county in it more
perfect power Of communication with eve
ry part Of the Union, north, south, east
an d west, than is enjoyed by any similar
extent of country in any portion Of the
Union. If our readers doubt this, let them
take up map of the State and satisfy
themselves, as they may, of the fact
The shortest line Of communication be-
tween the East aud West, lies through
Pennsylvania, and no road can be made
that will not furnish a local trade that will
pay the cost Of construction. In this lies
the difference between our roads and those
Of New York The latter depend to a great
extent on the distant trade, and must be-
come more dependent upon it from year
to year as her interior towns and cities de-
cline, and with the diminution of the way
trade there must be increased di ffi Guilty in /.
maintaining the distant one. Our roads,
on the contrary, must become less depen-
dent with every year, and the less their
dependence on the distant trade, the more
cheaply will they be able to carry the pro-
ducts Of distant lands The great hieh-
way Of the Union is destined to be through .
Pennsylvania, and New York is now, IN
doing all that lies in her
power to secure that such shall be the case
in the shortest possible period. For years
past, the whole efforts Of that State have
been given to building up her one great
city, at the cost of sacrificing all her other
interests If the city desired to have a
mint, the representatives, Of the State will
lingly shut their eyes to the fact that the
cotton anl wooden mills of the State were
being closed. If the city desired to have
large appropriations for steamships, the
of the State were ready to
sacrifice the interests Of the iron-producing
counties for the accomplishment of that
yreat object. If the city desired to secure
for itself the brokerage of the products Of ,
Canadian lands, the senator's of the State
were ready to close their yes to the fact
hat the reciprocity treaty must greatly .
finnish the value of the lands of New.
York, and must produce a heavy drain,
both of population and of wealth, from
is interior counties. If the one great city
,uilds palaces, the representatives, of the :
State find in that great fact abundant con- .
olation for the decline of inland villages,
owns and cities. !
As a necessary consequence fthis course r
policy, the interior of the State is rap