Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-04

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This showing. from the actual official distances will
10 doubt, surprise great many people who have swa
lowed without examination the report Of the great saving
in distance Ivy the route. Now as to time, the old
route is prepared, believe, to submit schedule by
which mails and passengers certainly be carried be-
tween New ork and New Orleans in quite as short
time that proposed by the overmountan line, if
not indeed i'll shorter time. The mail now lies over
hours at Montgomery OF which it is proposed to
save at least six hours An effort is also in progress,
and is certain to succeed by which six hours will be
saved on the route between Atlanta and Richmond
This added to the six hours at Montgomery would make
clear saving of twelve hours to the New Orleans mails
and passengers.
1t proper to remark that the completion Of the road
now III course of construction from Charlottesville Va,
! to Lynchbrg, Va will save some 20 miles, and the
road from Cleveland the East Tennessee and Virginia
Road over to Chattanooga, will save some 40 more
miles. Little or nothing in distance can be saved over
the 95 miles of staging in Mississippi by the Mississippi
Central Road. These various connections which will
lessen the distance the interior route miles, cannot
be completed under two years.
On the other hand, glance at the Railroad map at
tachcd to Dinsmorcs Railroad Guide for May, shows
that connections arc in progress calculated to effect
corresponding reduction Of distance the Seaboard
route between the great commercial capitals Of the North
and the South. Some fifty miles only arc wanting to
complete the Delaware road from Seaford the point it
has reached to CheryStone point the Eastern
Shore nearly opposite Norfolk The line from Weldon
to New York via Norfolk, Cherrystone aud Philadel
phia would be considerably shorter than the present by
Richmond, Washington City and Baltimore, and il
would still be shorter if the Air Line already projected
from Norfolk to New York via Cape Henry and Cape
Charles crossing the Delaware Bay at Cape May, were
only pushed to completion.
We have compared the actual distances and shown by
the figure that the advantage claimed for the Western
route has existence i'll fact Let US now turn tC
another route whose claims in point of time we have had
occasion to present once before.
By Railroad from New York to Wilmington OF
Charleston-thence by steamer to Fernandina-thenct
to Cedar Keys by Florida Observation-Disclosures by steamer
to New Orleans, will insure the transit of mails anc
passengers from New York to New Orleans or New
Orleans to New York, in under four days This w
understand, the Companies will guarantee. No inlanG
or other line through mountain gorges hope for thu
same certainty in its winter connections Indeed it ma,
fairly be questioned whether the time proposed can b.
averaged by that line even in the Summer.
By the way we notice from some of our exchange.
that great mistake exists in regard to the great North
ern and Southern mails of the country the idea ben,
entertained, at least attempted to be conveyed tina
these mails hereafter to go by the route across tn
mountains of Virginia and Tennessee. This, we learl
from good authority, is not the fact It is true that
single daily mail is to be sent by the mountain rou
after the first day July, but that does not imply dis
continuance Of the mails along the great Seaboard line
Indeed the Importance Of double daily mail to all til
important Atlantic cities and towns, to say nothing
the whole Southern Atlantic tier of States is too grea
to admit for moment the idea Of the removal of eithe
of the mails from this line.
The Greensboro Patriot has, we think, been rattle
premature in its ildisguised rejoicing over the trouble
of the Coast line The $50 passengers day over tn
Virginia and Tennessee route may be set down to fancy
The trains that roadhave true carried two coaches
but sixty passengers day is liberal estimate for them
and of these very few indeed have been carried off from GU
lines They carried very little than the local trav
of the vast region depending upon them would indicate
Our lines here doing very WE'LL when the depression
of all the interests of the country is taken into consd
GRAFTON, and their managers apprehend material dim
mutton of receptS-nonc that the development of th
country will not more than make up, soon as trad
revives and the general stagnation passes away.
1Sr The Washington Union reaches this Office yer,
irreguarly-more so than any paper on our list. Why