The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-08

= IN square IL, IN South Wheeling.
a deed from VIM. F. Peterson and
Wile 70 james X: Shrodes, for parts OF
lots Nos. 40 and Al, in Centre Wheel
ing;
Adeed from George Gooch and wife
to Oliver Wallace for two acres of land.
on Short Creek. = : >
A deed from George Gooch and wife
to Henry Deyore, for 63 poles of land on
Adeed from Robert A, McCabe md
wife to EltzabethS. Stout, for part of LOT
No. 4, in Eotf and Chaplfne's addition.
RAILROADS IN THIS VICINITY.
2OllIo and the Central ohio Roasfs.
From Pittsburgh letter to tho Cincinnati
Commercially -
The Panhandle route is the latest
ra1lroad sensation. It commends IT.
self to all who desire to spend as little
time as possible in the process of being
1erked from one point to another, in
going from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh,
ana other Eastern cities, on account OF
being thirty miles shorter than nnV
other route, and the nearest to an air
line that hns yet been devised. AS
nearly rs can ascertain, the distance
saved is exactly thirty miles. Hereto
fore, the most direct route to Pittsburgh
has been via Columbus and Steuben-
vile, and thence by the "Circumbendi-
bus" or River Road, until you ascer-
tained, by finding yourself in an inn
Penetrable fog of smoke, dirt and SCOT,
THAT you had arrived in the metroDolis
of Vulcan. The Panhandle Road
proper, commences at Steubenville, and
runs across the strip of land between
ohio and Pennsylvania, from which it
takes Its namo, direct to Pittsburgh.
The distance from mSteubenyiliet to Pitis.,
burgh, by the old road, is seventy-two
miles; by the new, forty-two. slAlow-
ing the SRme rate of speed md the saTne
connections in both roads, there Is n
gain of an hour and half to the trav-
eler; and in these days, when it only
Llkes noout lVe minutes to send a whole
community to tho other world by- eS-
press train, this advantage in favor of
NE ana limb must not be overlooked
Dy those who prefer t'Stlre thinp'' in
TINS vale of tears, of taking the chances
IN the brighter and better land visible
only to the eye of fnith.
Another advantage of the pm Handle
route is that it obvfates tho necessitS,
for n change of cars between Cincinnati
ana Pittsburgh. call this an "nd-
vantage" because 1t is so deemed bV
common consent, though, when n mnil
IS unencumbered by ladies. babies,
saratoga trunks, aud other superflui.
more Pheasant for him, Nothing cnn
be moro agreeable to one accustomed 10
travel than to step out of a car in which
htty persons have been sitting for seven
or eight hours, filled, us it must be. with,
dust and cinders, into n clean. fresh.
nte,wly-swept coach. 1t somehow OF
other makes him forget the misery he
ms Deen enduring, and think he Is
starting out on his journey, when. IN
fuot, he is nearly at its end ~ 5'f 81
: me bridge across the Ohio, Mt SteIl-
DenVi!le, IS magnificent structure, 1t
Is built of solid iron, and is not less
than l5OO feet in length. 1t cost up-
NS,l.9 wafd. 81 SI0O,OOQ. Steamboatmen grum-
Die at II, OF course, MS an obstruction To
navigation. but there is NOTHING To
hinder the largest boats from passing
oetween It's channel-piers, even at the
hlgnest stage OF water, unless the steers
man be of the same accommoflntinV
disposition as the Irish pilot. who. in
taking a ship up the English Channel,
run her against a rock, to demonstrate
70 the Captain that he knew exactly
where it was. There is another BRIDGE
OF almost equal length across the Mo-.
nongaheln, which the Pan Handle road
crosses just before entering the cftyiof
pittsburgh. Taking these two ex1en-
slVe structures, and the number of tun-
nels, ahdthe amount of trestle work ON
- -" tl 4ON4 AuLu CONSIDERATION, 1t is
Ialr 10 presume that the average cost
per mile from Steubenyille to Pitts
DurBh, was greater thun that of most
roads in the West. -
The close of the war has given new
lie and increased popularity. 10 the
l3altlmore and Ohio Railroad In order
70 compete with the Panhandle. three
daily trains through from Cincfnnati fo
baltimore have been put upon this
road, and they are all well Datronized.
The wonder is. that the COMPANY has 10
long compelled all their patrons to
crowd themselves into two trains laily.
The Central Ohio Road, from Columbus
70 ~ 5i3eslltllr, is now really part of the
baltimore and Ohio, and is befnn, man
aged admiralty. lis rolling stock has
oeen increased largely, and the work of
relnylng the entire track with new iron
ls ABOUT to commence. Another con-
telnPlated and much needed Improve
ment Is a double truck from Columbus
20 NeWvarkt distance of thirty miles.
Steubenvtlle is being built ut BeI1afr
and Will be completed within a yenr
enaDllng passengers to go directly from
CINCINNATI to Baltimore without trims
FER. Then there is the new road 5beiI,c,
Dnlis D 70 Point OF Rocks, which, when
y y IHi~Illsns1, ~ VIII make almost an air-Iiue
from Washington to the West and ssIts
n hundred miles of the oresent fIJsI
tance. Out of nll these erIterprisess
fhthered perhaps more by rivalry than
any thing elsh, it Will be seen ffIat the
travelling public will reap great benefit.
Already there nre twice as IIllary, fr.IiI,s
between tho East and the West fs there
were year ago-a fact which will he
wei appreciated by those who many n
nme and OFT have been compelled to
STAND up all the way during q Tourney
OF q hundred and fifty miles or more, =
1hear of avery yimportantmoyem
on IooG among the different railroad
companies of Ohio and the East. n Ia
neither more nor less than to get n con.
trolling interest in tho Ohio and hIissis.-
sippt Road, and change its presa1,t
gauge to the ordinary Width. 30 "a to
break the broad gauge Connection be.
tween New York and st. Isotiis nt Gin
cinnatis and give the narrow, or oriIfnf.
Ty gauge roads better chance for 81.
Louis business than they can hone 10
I,1 h9ye under the present ARRANGEMENT.
Whether the Atlantic and Great West
eFn, with Sir Morton. Peto and NIL the
other English nabobs at its back, VIII
quietly look on and permit this to be
donei remains to be seen. Sir Morton.
y Will be remembered, said In zone snf
his post pEandin1 speeches in this counz
try, recently, that the enterprisinR can
ttaltsts whom he represented, fntendefl
to cease not from their hhOyl5 Ii,(fJ az