The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-08-25
KdRshsld and Kentucky Railroad.


In our article yesterday, on this subject, we
showed, and our authority was of the most
reliable sort, that it only required subscrip'
ton of $500, 900, in addition to the means al
ready obtained, to build this important road
This amount must be raised amongst the citi-
zens Of Nashville, Edg6eld, and the country
around, or the work cannot be accomplished.
The citizens of Goodlettsville and its neighbor-
hood, and of Springfield and other portions OF
Robertson county, have already subscribed
$4,000, to which they are to add the sum
of $50, 1000, making altogether the sum OF
$4,000 This is as much as can be obtained
from them, and will be, under all the circum-
stances, q liberal subscription.
We suppose no one will question the ability
of our citizens TO pay, in the time that
will be required for the construction of this
road, the sum of 100000. Our monetary
condition has been much improved since last
year. Our harvests have been abundant, and
many of our products command remunerative
prices. A new era has occurred in the trade
of this part of the State, and, By the instru-
mentality Of railroads, a large amount Of
wheat is sent directly TO New York, for which
good prices are obtained, the proceeds, of
course, being distributed amongst various
classes of our citizens. No community in the
Southwest is in q more solvent condition than
our own, while there is no town or city in the
whole country of the size and wealth of this,
Il. "A. h. ~ roilr de hn m
portance of this kind of improvement is now
generally admitted, we believe, and it is I'M
necessary for us, therefore, TO enter into an ar
gument upon that point. What we wish to
show is, that no road can be built, more adUan-
ta0eous 10 Nashville and its snUirOns than the
EdgerfeId and Kentucky Railroad; and in doing
this, we shall avail ourselves largely of the re-
ports made to the Board of Directors by the
President of the Company.
CONNECTIONS OF THIS RoAD.-It is especially /
important that railroad should be nell con-
aected, and, in this respect, tie one of which |
we are writing, will be exceedingly fortunate,
when il is completed. The town of Henderson,
on the Ohio river, is ten miles distant by water,
and seven in direct line, from Evansville,
Indiana, and between the two points naviga-
ton is never impeded, even for boats of the
largest size. The latter town may, therefore,
be considered, for all practical purposes, as the
terminus of the two roads, which, when unit
ed, viii constitute the Henderson and Nash
vile Railroad.
Evansville has already connection with the
colossal Northwest by means of roads from
Terre Haute, to which she is joined, to Mich
igan City and Chicago, and thence to Madison
in Wisconsin, and Davenport, Iowa, while lines
are projected that will penetrate into the heart
of Minnesota. BY means of the railroad to
Indianapolis ste is connected not only with
every part of Ohio, including Sandusky and
Cleveland, but with Buffalo, New York, and
the whole Of the Northeast. At Vineennes
her road TO Terre Haute taps the great route
from Cincinnati to St. Louis, thus connecting
her with these important cities; and there is
but little doubt that, for many years 10 come,
the travel, from the latter place, and the coun-
try of which it is the centre, to New Orleans,
Mobile and the Atlantic coast, viii pass over
the Henderson and Nashville Railroad.
We wish that our readers would take the
trouble TO examine the most recently publish.
ed railroad map of the United States, and our
word for it, that the majority of them would
be astonished TO find how many and important
will be the connections created by this road
with the Northwestern, the Northern, and
the Northeastern sections Of the United States
With the Southern and Southeastern con-
nections Of this road, most of our readers are
well acquainted. We will give, however, the
sucoinct statement In reference 10
them, which we extract from one Of the reports
already mentioned; "From Nashville there
Is now running enthusiastically, the Nash
vile and Chattanooga Railroad, which COM
pletes the railroad connection with Charleston,
South Carolina, and with Savannah, in Geor-
gia, and Montgomery, in Alabama. Trains
are daily passing between Nashville and these
points From Montgomery there is through
connection by the Alabama river, from Nash
vile to Mobile and New Orleans. The Nash
vile and Alabama Railroad runs Southwest
erly direction, being intended TO meet and
mite with the New Orleans, jackson and
Northern Railroad. Il will cross the Mobile
and Ohio, and Memphis and Charleston Rail-
roads, thus securing very nearly direct com
nunication with Mobile and Memphis"
In confirmation of the views We have ex-
PRESSED in this article. we win conclude, for