Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-18
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The Rail Road companies between New York and
Cedar Keys Fla, have formed themselves under the
and title above stated, with general agency and
control and have proposed to the Post Office Depart
ment to guarantee the delivery of the mails in New Or
leans from New York and in New York from New
Orleans in four days. and, when some links are compile
ted, in still less time.
They also propose to carry passengers and baggage
in the same time selling through tickets and giving
through checks The cost of through tickets for first
class passengers to be forty to foryve dollars including
meals on the steamers between Charleston and Fernan
dina and between Cedar Keys and New Orleans We
suppose the fare between New York and Havana or the
Atlantic terminus of the crossing point on the sthmus,
will be graduated in proportion to the above rate
The steamers to be of iron, Of the most approved
construction and of the first class divided into water
tight compartments, with every other safeguard that
skill can devise. They will be elegantly fitted up, with
view to comfort and convenience
No doubt large express freighting business will be
done by this ne which will be opened for business by
the first day of November next. AS already stated,
connection will be made with the points of crossing the
sthmus from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Cali
ornia mails passengers and express freight will be for
or oftener from Aspinwa Tehuantepec as the case
may be. The Havana branch will be semi-weekly, via
Key West.
We give the above facts as understand them to
exist without any attempt at establishment or cooring
We might draw more glowing picture, but we think
that the simple facts are sufficient especially they will
bear the most rigid scrutiny. Our railroad companies
through their officers have been actively at work for
months to form this great association, under whose
pces the line to be worked and we rejoice that their
abors have at length been crowned with that measure
of success which their energy had so WE'LL merited.
We have a word to add about our line from this point
to the Chesapeake Bay. 1t is said that branch from
Enfield on the Wilmington and Weldon Road to Suffolk
in Virginia. on the SeabOard Road will probably be
pressed the attention of our Legislature at its next
session. and with every prospect of success 1t is assert
ed by persons along the line Of the proposed branch,
that they with the State, will take tourtJhS of the
stock leaving only oncfth to be raised by the Compa
ny, (which las the branching privege and by indvid
uals not Immediately the line of the branch. We are
not acquainted with the details of project and do not
know how much of the proposed road would be within the
limits of this State and therefore capable of being
sructed under the branching privilege of the Wilmington
& Weldon r. r. Company.
No doubt the mails and large travel would continue
to 90 via Petersburg, Richmond and Washington City,
but certainly line to the Chesapeake, worked con-
troled by the w. e W. r. r. Company, could not fail
to be of vast benefit to that road and to the railroad
interest of the State, placing it in more independent
position in regard to its connections, and adding largely
to its frcightng and express business.
The opening of this proposed branch, however,
would, matter of necessity, tend to depreciate
the value of the stock on the Seaboard Road and
it is certainly not the interest," and should not be the de-
SIRE of Southern roads to cut each others throats We
think it is not the policy, know it is not the wish
of road to do anything of that kind that it pos
sby avoid and we believe that way is open for the
attainment of the desired end with the occurrence of
collision Of interests so much to be deprecated. We
have Just been informed that Mr. Robinson and other
parties owning large portion of the stock in the Sea-
board road willing to sell at fair rate. If this be
3d. it presents the opportunity for friendly solution OF
all the difficulties. If the purchase be made, it will
give the wishedlor control and obvate the necessity fol-
any branch Or any other satisfactory arrangement
be made by which the seaboard can be thrown open fol
general in the through business the result will be
the same, and will, think, cause the W. & W. R. R
Company to suspend at least for the present. any move
ment in the direction of the Enfield and Suffolk branch
which necessity may otherwise force them to make.
FLooDs.-While we here were suffering for want o
rain the people to the North and West of were en-
Toying an abundant moisture, reminding them of thu
floods caused by the heavy rains of Noahs day. and sui
cient but for the promise that the world not to b.
again destroyed by water to some wicked cite
look upon it as likely to result in second edition
the general deluge There several creeks that fal
into the basin at Baltimore, among the res that know
as Jones Falls which passes through the city, and whtl
in food is apt to do damage This stream got
cited last week and flooded good many of the street,
there on Saturday to the depth of several feet doing
much damage, rolling into the basin with great fury
sweeping vessels from their moorings besides melting
much brown sugar.
The Schuykill at Philadelphia got to sweeping ava.
property and sometimes persons Cairo, Illinois, tn
Southern terminus of the Illinois Central Railroad wa
danger of being wholly carried off at the latest dates
and the water stood four feet and-ahaf deep at tn
depot
Cairo is at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers and is the delightful ampbious place immortal
zed by Dickens in Martin Chuzzlewit under then nam
of Eden. There is place near Cairo called Mound City
because few feet of generally left dry at hg
water. TO this place the passengers proceeded tn
Railroad aud were thence carried in flats to the steam
boat landing presenting one of the phases of western
travel.
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