The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-05-10
Southern Enterprise .

present time, outstripping the North in
great enterprises Of internal" improve
ment. While railroad projects are near
ly all suspended in the free States, en- :
terprises of the most gigantic character
are steadily and vigorously progressing
In the slave States. While We cannot
enumerate but few great works now
under construction at the North, which
have not been arrested and enfeebled by
the panic, it is difficult to keep posted
upon the rapid progress, on the numer-
Gus great lines of roads at the South
The great trunk. line through Virginia
and over the Alleghanies into the valley
Of the Tennessee, and on to the Nissis-
sippi, at Memphis. will be completed in
few days, and by the Memphis and
Little Rock Railroad, is being carried
across to the st. Francis, the White, and
Arkansas rivers.
Its engineers are steadily pointing their
surveying instruments in the direction OF
the Pacific, confident that it's terminus
will be upon those delightful shores.
Missouri, slave State, has taken up
the enterprises Of her free sisters, that
have approached her borders, and is car
rying all their separate lines across her
territory. with an energy that shames
her boastful rivals, with the bold in.
tentioI Of pushing trunk road for all o
them through the barriers Of the Rocky
mountains, into the golden valleys o
California.
The lines Of roads that are approach
ing the valley of the Tennessee from the
coasts of the CarOlinaS, through TIT
rich mineral districts that lie at tn,
Southeastern base Of the Alleghanies
are opening the wealth and trade Of
those sealed regions.
From Charleston and Savannah, through
Northern and Middle Georgia and Ala
bama, two lines have been for year
steadily working their way; one devers
ing with a branch, to the commodiou
part of Pensacola on the Gulf and toti
uniting in trunk to Montgomery, ant
thence by sections already under con
struction, is making its way to the Mis-
sissippi, at Vicksburg; crossing at tina
point, the road now building from
Vicksburg to Shreveport. will unite
with the Texas and Ell Passo road, AM
in time carry it across the continent t,
the Pacific.
From New Orleans, the Opoulousa,
road has been constructed through tn
swamps Of Louisiana and got upon tn
firm land of Attakaspas, and is gradual
ly pushing its way towards the Texa
line to connect itself with the southern
Pacific Road, which, under the liberia
patronage of the State of Texas, will
the first road to reach the Rio Grande.
Florida is being spanned by railroa,
from the Atlantic to the Gulf; so SILENT,
and unobtrusively is the work progress
ing, that it is almost unobServed and un
known to the country.
These are the main East and Yves
lines now under construction. From
the Gulf towards the North, New Or
leans is pushing her Northern road
which has already reached the Capita
of Mississippi and in the course of an
other year it will be carried through tina
State to the Tennessee boundary, wit
the ultimate design of carrying it to tn
Ohio. The little city of Mobile is abor
to- complete one of the grandest entel
priSes of the age in the construction Of
road--almost solely by her own energi,
and resources-five hundred mile
through a vast and almost unbroke
wilderness from the Gulf to the junctio
of the Ohio and Mississippi. The clio:
of the present year will witness the con
pletion of this work.
Alabama is urging on another 70:
from the Alabama to the Tennessee riv
to connect with the road direct to Nasl
vile, thence North through this point
the Lakes by the Henderson and Nasl
vile road, if that shall ever be built,
by way of the Nashville and Louisvll
road, when that road shall be construc
ed.
The Iron Mountain road, from
Louis, is completed to Pilot Knob al
active measures are now being taken,
extend it 160 miles South, to poi
opposite Memphis, whereof crossing t
Mississippi, a connection will be ma
with roads running to the Gulf, formi
almost an air line railroad route, fro
ST. Louis to New Orleans.
There is another deeply INTEREST,"
enterprise, that may, in the mutations
commerce, affect our fortunes, as a eli
A road is under construction from MOI
gomery, to the deep and accessible h;
h0r of Pensacola tho opl,- ono ON 4