Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-12

THE SOUTHERN RAnwAY.-A delegation
of citizens from Nashville are now in Gin
c~innati, to advance the interests of a direct
route from the former to the latter city.
The Nashville Bapncr has the following in
regard to the route proposed and its advan-
tages:
Nashville desires the most direct route Of
railway communication with the East, and
Cincinnati for many years has felt the need
of a direct Southern line of travel TO the
Gulf. There is no route which presents so
many advantages to tho Cincinnati people
as the route through Nashville. A road has
already been constructed from Cincinnati to
Danville, Kentucky, via Lexington. At
Lexington the Covington & Lexington road
connects with the Msysville It Lexington,
which runs TO Danville, in a direction which,
if continued on the map, would lead direct
ly 10 New Orleans, via Nashville. 1t is the
cheapest Southern route for Cincinnati,
from the fact that there are but 275 miles to
be constructed from panville to Nashville,
through a comparatively level country, and
undoubtedly the richest as well as the most
productive section in America. 1t would
be the best paying route, from the fact that
Nashville, with her numerous railway con-
nections South. East and West, would bring
10 it g vast amount of trayel and freight it
would not receive from any other contem-
plated route. The road from Nashville di-
rectly south to Decatur, Ala, and the Ten
nessee, is now in complete running order,
and one of the best roads that centers at
Nashville.
The Pensacola rosd-chartered as "the
Alabama Central Railroad starts at De-
catur, Ala, where it intersects with the road
thanaa IN panaaoO1a ruhfnh = EDSclal - /
in use. The length of the road VERY nearly
an air line, and nearly due south and
NORTH is lone hundred and eighty miles, of
one hundred miles is graded, and
that portion lying between the Lime Kiln. |
it crosses the Tennessee and Ala
bama River Railroad) and the Cahawba
some fifteen or twenty miles is finish
ed and is in use Besides the capital stock
Of the Company, the State of Alabama made
a;free donation or bonus Of S60O, OO0, the inter
est on which is to be paid until the road is
completed when the principal is to be paid
10 the road Besides this, the United
granted to the State of Alabama up-
wards Of 100000 acres of land lying along
the road in alternate sections, with the pri-
vllege OF running back six miles on each
side of il. Mr.. Frank Gilmer, Of Montgom-
cry, is the President Of the road.
The Mobile and Great Western Railroad
the Albany d Florida road at Pol
lard, from which point to Pensacola is about
forty miles, and to Mobile fifty or sixty
The Tennessee & Alabama Railroad
Is crossed by the Alabama Central
at Lime Kiln reaches from Selma 10 Blue
Mountain or Jacksonville. By the last road,
Selma, Meridian, Jackson, Miss, and Vicks-
burg are reached. At the latter place it
meets the road being made to Shreveport,
La, a portion of which (hoE much we do
not know if now finished TO Monroe, lie.
The Northeastern and Southwestern Rail-
-oad from Meridian via Tuscaloosa intersects
with the Central Alabama Road at Elytoa, /
Ais The half of this Northeastern and
southwestern road is already graded. This !