The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1866-08-02
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
TFrom theCharleston News.
Cincinnati and Charleston Rail
road via French Broad.

road via French Broad.
In view Of the great interest which i.
now being taken in having communica
ton by railroad between the Northwest
and tho Atlantic seaboard, and on account
of the urgent claims advanced by the
friends Of rival routes, we would respect
fully suggest to the friends of the various
routes, and especially to the citizens OF
Cincinnati, Kentucky, Tennessee, North
and South Carolina, that Convention be
called, composed of delegates from Cincin
natl and the States named. The Conyen.
tion to meet this summer Or fall, at some
convenient place-say Morristown, Knox
Vile or Asheville-to consider the merits
of the various routes proposed decide
thereon, and see what may be done in the
premises Let Cincinnati name the place
and time.
II it be thought expedient, corps of
engineers, in the meantime might make a
reconnaissance of the different routes, or an
examination of the surveys thereof, which
have already been made, SO as to report to
the proposed convention.
1t is of the greatest importance to the
whole country, and especially to those who
may be interested as stockholders that the
contemplated railway should have the best
possible location. the most direct route, the
cheapest !;ac, and should pass through q
country capable os producing the greatest
amount Of business. Other things being
equal. any unpreiudced mind would be in
favor of such proposition as self evident
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with English railway builders, aud lss great
importance is now being recognized by our
own people.
These advantages we claim for the route
extending from Cincinnati to Charleston,
S. c., via Cumberland Gap, Morristown,
Tenn, Paint Rock, Ashevillc, N. g., Spar.
taburg aud Columbia, S. G, which We sub
nit, have been fully proved, are uuanswer-
cd and unanswerable, by the able report of
DIR. NJ. Carriger, Secretary and Treasurer
of Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and
Charleston Railroad, lately published in
the Cincinnati Commercial
The only argument against this report
which we have seen, used by the Hon.
Geo. A. Trenholm before the Charleston
Board of Trade, at which he is represented
to have said "Now, as regards the Spar
tanburg extension, they have not got
charter to enter the State of Virginia, ard
they cannot reach Cumberland Gap, which
is in Virginia, without one; and it is out
of reason to suppose that in the present
condition of the public mind-it is contra
ry to any reasonable conjecture, that Vir
gia will grant charter for a railroad which
is to tap her whole system of LEGAL and
State roads, and is calculated to divert her
commerce to another State 1t is true
they have q charter from the State of
North Carolina, but such is the jealousy of
that State in regard to its own seaports,
and the value of its own costly system of
railroads, that in that charter they have
reserved to themselves the right, when this
railroad shall have been completed by pri
vatc capital, to indemnify the corporators
and take the road for the State of North
Carolina"
The distinguished champion of the Blue
Ridge route must think that cause strong
indeed, against which he urges no better
arguments than these. But as to the fact.
Cumberland Gap is not exclusively in the
State Of Virginia; the principal part of it
is in the States of Tennessee and Kentucky.
The one or two hundred yards of Virginia
passed through here, is tunnel which
commences in Tennessee and terminates in
Kentucky, which, we are well informed,
belongs to one individual, who is a stock
holder, and has given the right of way to
this projected line. Besides, if his facts
were true, it is difficult to imagine how the
passage of road through this remote,
mountainous, and very small slip of Vir.
ginia, would so derange her ",ohole system
OF local and State roads, and divert her
commerce to the support of another State" ("
Her whole system of railroads would still
DO left free and open, and with the contem.
plated road finished, she would save in dis.
tance from Cincinnati to Norfolk via Cum
berland Gap, Morristown and Bristol, six
ty four miles over the line from Cincinnati
to Norfolk via Knoxville. And in case
the Virginia and Kentucky Railroad should
be extended from Bristol to Cumberland
Gap, as is contemplated, she would save in
distance, from Cincinnati to Norfolk, one