Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-03-06
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ing the sentiments and feelings OF thnt
community They dohot look on fhosuc-
cess Of the Road, as a matter of doubt at
-ally passing strange, that SO many in
our collIaasjfylssean 10 take no interest in
this great work. The Commerce and trav-
81 on tEis TOAD, ~ ven Ss tKs great Beac.
ct il will confer on this county, are meal
culable. It needs nothing now, but to be
sustained with means 70 meet the progress
Of the work
The following is from the Eagle and
Enquirer.
TUE RAILROAD ER.t,oF MEMPHIS.
Weare gratifed at the significant fact,
kat Memphis is actually furnishing'a por-
ton of the substantial equipment for, the
Northern end of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad. The Deniel Boone has Just left
our wharf with a complement Of freight
ears for that road, to be put upon hetraek
at Columbus, KY, and used for laying the
track Southloqrl towards, Tennessee, A
bout fifteen miles of this Road, we learn,
are in Kentucky. 1t then comes into Pen
nessee, passing through or near Troy, IN
Obion county, and through Trenton and
jackson, &c--crossing the Memphis aud
Charleston Road at Corinth, and going. on
to meet the Southern end Of the Road, in
Mississippi. 'a.' Pr
We wish to impress upon our citizens
how deeply interested Memphis is in the
completion of the northern end of this
road. The great Eastern and lake routes
send their South Western travel all upon
Cairo, and thenceit must take packets to
Memphis, for New Orleans, Arkansas, Tex
as &c, The trip from Cairo to Memphis
now occupies from twenty-four to forty
eight hours, according to the state of the
water, fogs, ice, &C., &C. 1t is about TWEEN
ty miles from Cairo to Columbus. A fine
steamer could MAKE the Trip in one hour
at Columbus, passengers would take the
cars and run to Memphis in six or eight
hours in daylight Here lisa differ
ence Of from twenty to forty hours from
Cairo to Memphis, bYriver and by railroad;
and that will decide ninety-nine out of cv-
cry hundred passengers coming South, es-
pecially when there is regularity and'cer-
tainty on the railroad against danger and
uncertainty on the river. '1l po-
lis thus very apparent that all of tbs
great crowd Of travel for the South and
South West, now concentrating ut Cairo
will come at once to Columbus and take the
Mobile x Chic llead down to where our
Memphis & Ohio Ruad interseets it, Che.
tween Trenton and Jackson) and thence on
the latter road to Memphis.
Our Memphis and Ohio Road, which
without any feeder, is doing fine business
will thus have a feeder from the "grea
North West" that will qualrupic its pres
ent travel, It's most sanguine friends can
not figure up the crowd that will daily com,
over it, when, with this feeder, it also com
bines the vast advantage and influence of /;
direct hrough cQaRcctim with the heart O
the Ohio valley ut Louisville and Cincin
natl Thatthis direct connection will sooI
be made there can be no longer any doubt
for from Memphis to Cairo, Jour end of th'
line) every mile, but about fifteen, is under
rapid construction; and from Louisville t,
GAINESVILLE nearly every mile. r. under con
tract. -4I rI
Our friend, Col J. VI. Fowler ior
mer Director, and one of the earliest an,
truest friends Of our Louisville Road, ha
lust returned home from a trip North; an,
he says there is, at Louisville and Gincin
matt, andamong the thousands of passen
Igers bound South, but one general feelin;
with regard to travel NORTHUMBERLAND tina
manifests itself in universal wish tina
the Louisville and Memphis Railroad wa
finished. sf