The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-29
KEKrUCKY CITY.

tisement oil sale OF lots to take place at Ken
lucky City, on the 22nd of October next; also, a
lithographic platt or plan of the City.
You aware that the larger portion of that
great North and South Railroad, from the Gulf of
Mexico to the lakes of the North. is now compile
ted, and that the cars win be running on thatwhole
line of road from Mobile, by Kentucky City and Cal
70, to Chicago and Galena, before the end of the
year 1885,
You viii perceive that the road runs from Mo.
bile to the Mississippi river at Kentucky City,
thence ferriage or connection of fifteen miles by
steam packet boat between Kentucky City and
Cairo This road, running North and South, eros.
sing the parallels OF latitude, meets with and caus-
constant exchange Of productions, and forms
g connecting chain between people of every char
aeter and climates of every description, and be-
comes channel for distributing their varied pro-
ductons St. Louis is the great central depot ofthe
vast agricultural and mineral productions OF that
immense and fertile region of the Upper Mississip-
pi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers, and the dan
gers, LOSSES, and hindrances resulting from the
most unsafe and uncertain navigation between st.
Louis and Kentucky City, has induced the enterpri
sing capitalists Of that great and growing city, and
the energetic, enterprisng agriculturaliss of the
interior, to organize companies to construct rail-
way connection from St. Louis via the Iron Noun.
tain, to point on the Mississippi river opposite Ken
lucky City, portion of which is now being rap
idly constructed.
The nearest most practicable connection from
St. Louis to the Gulf and South Atlantic Cities will
ever be by Kentucky city to Mobile and New Orleans
and also by Kentucky City TO Charleston and Sa-
vannah, for the mouth of the Ohio is the nearest
point Of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to Nash
vile or Charleston. -... ...
The Road from Nashville to New Orleans crosses
the Mobile and Ohio road at Aberdeen, Miss, and
thus gives direct route from St. Louis by Ken
tucky City and Aberdeen to New Orleans.
An act of Congress approved 9th Feb, 1883"
making grant OF alternate sections public lands
for the Atlantic and Pacific road, from point on
the Mississippi river opposite to the West end of
Kentucky by Little Rock and Fulton to Texas, thus
definitely and irrevocaby fixing by Congress the
Eastern or Mississippi terminus of the main trunk
line of that great road.
Kentucky City is the nearest point Of the Mississ-
ppi river to Louisville, Cincinnati, mouth of Big
Sandy, Baltimore, &C., &c. and as it never freezes
or gets too low for navigation below the mouth of
the Ohio, this has, therefore, been designated as
the "toacer end of tie mppsr country and the upper
end of tie toOer country" for here it is that all the
rivers from the Allegheny and the Rocky Noun.
tans concentrated their vast waters OF 5000
miles of navigation, and where Railroads from the
Gulf and South Atlantic will meet and connec:
with those from the northern Lakes, and from the
Pacific through Texas and Arkansas. This point
is not only geographically and commercially, but
politically central for it is here that the slave hold
ing and non slave holding States come together
upon this mighty river and it this Political
trality which shaped the bill in Congress, dona.
ting the public lands and fixing the beginning ter
minus of the Pacific road at this point. The Nor
thrrn members in Congress would not vote the
Ian Is aud funds of the nation to build national
road from point upon the Mississippi below this
an opposite to slave holding State, would
the Southern members go for an appropriation
from point further North and opposite nou-slave-
holding State.
The line of Railroad is now either under con-
tract or completed the whole distance from New
York by Baltimore, Washington City across Vir-
ginia by the mouth of the big Sandy and Lexington
to Louisville. This line of Railroad from New
York to the West, passing South of the Ohio river
TO Louisville vii! soon be completed, and the pub
lie lands are already granted will secure the road
from the West across Texas and Arkansas to the
West end of Kentucky, thus leaving unprovided
for only the link from Louisville to Kentucky City,
to secure the completion of the great Pacific road
so as to PASS THROUGH KENTUCKY.
An air line drawn across the map from Baltimore
to the Pacific at San Diego will pass over the mouth
of the Ohio.
The line of railroad will soon be completed from
Washington City by Lynchburg Abingdon, and
Cumberland Gap to Danvle KY, and if extended
thence by Bowling~green and Russeville, it will
connect at Hopkinsville with the road from Louis.
vile to Kentucky City.
The road is now completed from Charleston to
Nashville, and is being constructed from Nashville
to Hopkinsville, which will secure the travel and
transportation from Charleston by Nashville, Hops
klnsville and KY. City to St. Louis and the Great
Northwestern road" will give a nearer connection
from Nashville through Tennessee TO this point.
No Railroad has been constructed from the inte-
rior to point on navigabe river, without greatly
increasing the business and the value of real estate
at such terminus Look, for instance, at the i'm
mense appreciation of real estate in Nashville since
the completion of the Chattanooga road to Nash
vile.
This great road from the South Atlantic States to
Kentucky, connects the best harbor and most CEN
trail point upon the Gulf of Mexico, and the most
eligible and nearest point upon that Gulf with the
mouth of the Ohio, which late Senator from H.
linois in report made to the U. s. Senate says sis
one of the most remarkable points on the globe
The confluence of the Ohio with the mighty Missis-
sppi, spot TO which all the great rivers OF the
West converge, and where most of the commerce.
bound on their blossoms pass on its way to the
Ocean, or from State TO State. There terminate the
valleys OF the Tennessee and the Cumberland,
which come down from the South as If to meet their
kindred streams from the North; Of the Ohio from
the East which throws its branches to the Allegha-
ny mountains on the one side and almost to the
borders Of the Lakes on the other OF the Upper
Mississippi which descends almost from the fro
zer Sea OF the North, and of the Missouri, with
merons branches stretching to the Rocky Noun
tains in the West"
Those railways radating from this point in every
direction, form a direct communication between the
whole interior and this central point, thus opening
a direct avenue for Western produce to the interior
of the whole South, and will the bagging and
rope, -four, and pork manufactures, and other
articles of Western products for the South to pass
from here on those roads, because by those roads
they OF the market for their consumption in the
Interior; Whereas when shipped down the river TO
Nicksburg, New Orleans, aud around by Mobile,
Savannah and Char sleston it will have TO be reshp
ped to the planters at large additional expense, for
such long, round about transportation, reshpments
Ee Therefore, consttf1ar and merchants of