The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-09-23

ATLANTIC g. GREAT WESTERN RAILROAD.
The following article from the Cincinnati
Commercial presents many facts connected
with the completion of this Road, to which
,hiuk the project an impracticable or use.
Jess one:
1t is not so much to be wondered at, af-
ter all, that the commercial ard general pub.
lie has been taken entirely by surprise at
the announcement Of the success Uf negoti-
ations for completing the middle link Of the
broad guage Railroad between st. Louis
and New York, through the city of Ci4cin.
natl. Not only has the reported progress of
negotiations been doubted, but there have
not been wanting wiseacres who have de-
monstrated, beyond cnvil, the utter imposs.
b!i,y of such scheme being considered at
all by sane capitalists, just as The Mcawber
of Tie Telegraph service proved conclusive.
Iy that an electrical current could never be
sent distance of two thousand miles-his
argument to that effect having been publish
ed in the New Orleans papers few days
before the actual reception, by the President
Of the United States, Of telegrophic mes
susc from the Queen Of England.
A little attention to the position and con-
neclions of the Atlantic and Great Western
Road might change the views Of people who
Zee in ii nothing more than scheme for
an additional line running through parts oI
three States, each Of those States being lib.
berally supplied with railroads already. But
look ut it. The New York g. Erie line ex.
tends from New York TO the harbor Of Dun.
Kirk on Lake Erie, distance Of 459 miles.
At that point passengers and freights change
from the Wire cars 10 the narrower carriages
Of the Luke shore roads. -Four hundred
miles by direct route farther West, the
traveller and goods reach Cincinnati, where
they again chsnge from the narrow cars ic
the broad guuee coaches OF the Ohio u Mis-
sissppi road already completed and in sue
cessIul operation to the great city of st
Louis, three numbered and forty miles far
lher West. Between the Cincinnati depo
of tie Ohio and Mississippi, six foot guuge
and Little Valley Station on the New Yori
& Erie, six foot guage road, is un uncom
ple,ed line of six foot guage road, four hun
dercd miles (including the Dayton trunl
line, on which third rail is TO be laid) il
length. A large portion Of this line is al
ready graded and bridged in the most cub
stantill manner. The road bed is abou
ready for the rails between Dayton an'
Springfield, and at various points betweeI
Springfield, Urbana, Mansfield and Warren
The enterprise which is now exciting gene
rul attention, has for itSobject the compile
ton Of the old, and avery way sensible pre-
iect of building the link OF similar guage, be
tween the Ohio & Mississippi at Cincinnati
and the New York g. Erie at Little Valley
and SO .briHging all the six foot guage c
railroad in the United States into one d
rect continental line of twelve hundre
miles in length, without ferry, without til
crossing of navigable stream, without OF
cupying the streets Of any city, without nj
cessty for change Of cars, and connectin
what is forever to be the metropolis Of IL
Western Continent with the largest citi'
of the Mississippi Valley. No wonder tn
e the grandeur OF the scheme appals the imag
nation. 1t must, however, be borne in mir
that two.thirds of this gigantic scheme
complete. Millard Fillmore's head is whit
now than on the proud day when, as Pre'
dent of the United States, he led the impo
ing ceremony Of opening the New York al
Erie road to the public and the Ohio O.
Mississippi road, too, thanks to the time
aid Of ofAspinwall, Chauncy. Alsop, Barlo
and their New York associates, has bel
in successful operation for more than
year.
@ With the means already provided by I
successful negotiations of last month,
middle link of this continual line Of Rs
road may be completed during 1860, and
tendency thereto OF passengers and freigh
from North and South OF the Ohio river, Il
will immediately develope itself, will pre-
the sagscity OF the faf.sighted capitalists
London and PAris, who have taken The thi
million loan.
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