The true Democrat., 1855-10-09
Kentucky City, Sept. 8, 1855

III lLe IHuldu Call Ildily papers anu aTGlCIeS were found which had been taken from the mail party. In haste. yours, etc.
 Kentucky City, Sept. 8, 1855.
 Dear Sir: 1 enclose an advertisement of a sale of lots to take place at Kentucky city, on the 22d of October next; also, lithographic plat or plan of the city.
 You are aware that tn larger portion of that great north and south railroad, from the gulf of Mexico to the lakes of the north is now con- pleted, and that the cars will be running on that whole line of road from Mobile by Ken lucky city and Cairo, to Chicago and Galcna, be- fore the end of the year 1856.
 You will perceive that, that road runs from Mobile to the Mississippi river at Kentucky city, thence a ferriage or connection of fifteen miles by steam packet boat between Kentucky city, and Cairo. This road, running north and south, crossing the parellels of latitude, meets with and causes a constant exchange of pro- ductions, and forms connecting chain between people of every character, and climates of every description, and becomes channel for distri- outing their varied productions; St. Louis is the great central depot of the vast agricultural and mineral productions of thatimmense and fertile region of the upper Mississippi Missouri, and Illinois rivers, and the dangers, losses, and hinderances, resulting from the unsafe and uncertain navigation between St. Louis and Kentucky city, has induced the enterprisng capitalists of that great and growing city, and the energetic, enterprising agriculturists of the interior, to organize companies to construct railway connection from St. Louis via the Iron mountain, to a point on the Mississippi river opposite Kentucky city, portion of which is rox- hainfr TO ni11,, constructed
 The nearest and most practicable connec ton from St. Louis to the gulf and south Allan tic cities, will ever be by Kentucky city to Mobile and New Orleans, and also by Ken lucky city to Charleston and Savannah, for the mouth of the Ohio is the nearest point of the Ohio and Missippi rivers to Nashville or Char eston.
 The road from Nashville to New Orleans crosses the Mobile and Ohio road at Aberdeen, Miss, and thus direct route from St. Louis by Kentucky city and Aberdeen to New Or leans.
 An act of Congress "approved 9th Feb, 1853," making grant of alternate sections of 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 ire vocably fixing by Congress the eastern or Mis- sissippi terminus of the main trunk line of that great road.
 Kentucky city is the nearest point of the Mlssissippiriver to Louisville, Cincinnati, mouth of Big Sandy, Baltimore etc., etc, and as it never freezes or gets too low for navigation be- low the mouth of the Ohio, this has, therefore, been designated as the "lo'oer end of the upper country and tic upper ed of tue o,oer conaty,' for here 1t IS that all the rivers from the Aleghany and the Rocky mountains concentrate their vast waters ofnear 10000 miles of navigation, and where railroads from the gulf and south Atlantic, will meet and connect with those from the northern lakes, and from the Pacific through Texas and Arkansas. This point is not only geographically and commercially, but polit- cay central, for 1t is here that the slave hold ing and non-slave- holding States come togeth- CT upon this mighty river, and was this it poziti- cal centrality which so shaped the bill in Con- gress, donating the public lands and fixing the beginning or terminus of the Pacific road at this point The northern members in Congress would not vote the lands and funds of the na- tion to build a NATIONAL road from point upon the Mississippi below this, and opposite to slave holding State, nor would the southern members go for an appropriation from point further north and opposite -slaveholding State.
 The line of railroad is now either under con- tract or completed the whole distance from New York by Baltimore, Washington city, across Virginia by the mout Bigh of Sandy and Lexington, to Louisville. The line of railroad from New York to the west, passing south of the Ohio river to Louisville, will soon be com pleted, and the public lands 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 con- pletlon of the great Pacific road so as to PASS THROUGH KENTUCKY.
 An air line drawn across the map from Balti- more 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 Danville Ky., and if extended thence by Bowling green and Rus sellville, it will connect at Hopkinsville with the road from Louisville 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, Hopknsvile and Ky. city to St. Aoulo duu Guc great west, CuOuSu Lu0 Nashville snd north western road" will give a nearer connection from Nashville through Ten nessee to this point.
 | No railroad has been constructed from the interior to point on a navigable river, without greatly increasing the business and the value of real estate at such terminus. Look, for instance at the immense appreciation of real estate in Nashville since the completion of the Chattanooga road to Nashville.
 | This great road from the south Atlantic States to Kentucky, connects the best harbor and most central point upon the Gulf of Mexi- CO., and the most eligible and nearest point upon that gulf with the mouth of the Ohio which a late Senator from Illinois, in report made to the United States Senate says lis one of the most remarkable points on the globe. The confluence of the Ohio with the mighty Mis- sssppi, a spot to which all the great rivers of the west converge, and where most of the con- merce bound on their bosoms must 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 Alleghany 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 frozen sea oi the>north, and of the Missouri, with numerous branches, stretching to the Rocky mountains in ! the west"