The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-05-09
The Route between Philade
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phiCnI sketch.
From ,ho Philalelphia lnquirer.l

phiCaI sketch.
From the Philadelphia Inquirerl
Perryville is raising into distinction.
Millions who never heard of the place be-
fore. now read Of II every day.
1t may be worth while to describe, or,
at least. localize, PerryvilIe. This now
famous place is situated Ia Cecil county,
Maryland, ,ixty one mills southwest of
Philadelphia, ut the point on the east bank
of the Susquehanna river, where it Is
crossed by the gr, at ferry of the Phila-
delphia " Baltimore Railroad. Ii is from
this latter circumstance that it derives oil
its Importance, for otherwise il is sort Of
"puint.Lo point" There Is nc village,
and the only houses with one OF two tx-
c'puon', Hre the railway depot, engine
houses, W, rkshops and wdodshed,. These
are now in use cs quarters for the troops
concentrated IN re TO protect the line of
communication and they afford veiy good
accommodations OF this purpose.
On the west side of the Sasquehanna,
opposite to perryvillc, is Havre de Grace,
in Hartford county, Maryland, from which
the railroad is continued thrty-six miles
in'o Baltimore. Between Perryville and
llavre dc Grace the railway compaInic1-
ton i kept up by The powerful s.eamboa,
Mary land, which can easily accommodate
two Thousand people, and has railway
tracks on the upper deck, upon which an
entire train of cars, locomotive and all,
can be tran, ported across the river. Itis
by all odds The completest, best worked
and most capacious ferry Arrangement in
the United ) ates, and perhaps in thv1
world. Th1 ferry steamer above namede
is now in the service of the Government.
Below the Susquahanna. the Baltimore
Railroad crosses several very broad but
quite shallow st cams. The first f these
is Bush river, about eleven miles south
west of Havre de grace. This is some.
what over mile wide. The next is Gun.
powder river, about seven miles further
on, and Of about the same width az Bush
river, The third is Black river. within
six or seven miles Of Baltimore, and about
an eighth of mile wide. All these are
crossed by railway superstructure laid
upon piles driven into the beds of the
streams. There is fourth bridge, of the
ordinary kind over n small creek at Can
ton. a suburb Of Baltimore.
The last Of these is totally distroyed.
but the others have only been dammaged
to an extent sufficiently to obstruct the
passage of trains, their very nature pre-
venting any extensive destruction by fire
II Is the destruction or obstruction of the
bridges over these numerous large and
small r,vers, below the SusqNehanna,
which deains all travel souihward, wheth-
er civil or military, at Perryville, to
which place let us now return.
geographically considered, Perryvlle
is an Important point, being situated at %
the confluence of the Susquehanna river,
with the head of Chesapeake bay. At
the railway landing there is sufficient
depth of water for large steamboats, and
and from that point t ere is excellent
navigation TO any locality on the Chesa-
peake, including Baltimore, Annapolis tie
mouth of the Potomac, and Fort Monroe.
For the present, Annap,lii, which is
about fifty miles distant is the important
point The run down from Perryville is
made by the local steamers and freight
boats in about five hours. From Anna
polls over 10 Washington there are two
routs one by rail and one by the stage
road. BY the latter the distance is about
wenly.eight miles-a long days march.
The railroad correction is by branch line
lf nineteen miles to the Washington Rail-
road, which it inersects at a point seven
een miles from Baltimore and twenty
miles from Washington. Some damage
was done to Ann polls line by the Secss-
'ionists, but We believe it is now repaired
and in use by the Government.