The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-10-06
Proposed Railroad Route from Loais-
willie to Norfolk.
(From the Louisville Journal.

(From the Louisville Journal.
Most of the cities of the West have shown
that they appreciate the advantages of quick
communication by rail with some important
point on the Atlantic coast.--Cincnnati,
Chicago, st. Louis, and Memphis have reap
ed rich harvest by adopting that policy.
(, As soon asst was understood that the work
on the Covipgton and Ohio would, in all pro-
liability, be resumed, some of the snterprising
citizens of Cincinnati land St Louis, it is
= said subscribed to the stock OF the Peninsula
Road, having its eastern terminus at New
II port News, with the intention of making that
q their entrepot, as it would save about 100
{ miles as compared with New York e..s
1t seems that Louisville is becoming alive
p to the importance of the subject, and the Le-
banon branch of the Louisville and Nashville
road ia being extended to the southern Dor
q der OF this State, to connect with the Knex-
vile and Kentucky road, thus giving |. con
nection with Charleston. The interest OF the
city will certainly be promoted by that road,
and it ought to be built-But such city as
Louisville, should not rest satisfied with that
outlet, when, BY a vigorous effort, she might
secure a route to Norfolk that would place
her upon al equal footing with the Queen
City Of the West, sa
Il The Virginia and Kentucky read, which
was once under contract, is again making an
effort (which will doubtless prove successfully
to get under way, having it's eastern termi-
j nus at Bristol. When it becomes manifest
that the road to Cumberland Gap will be con-
stfactedyy it is almost certain that one will be
commenced, connecting that place with some
. point on the road in Kentucky, south of the
q Grab Orchard, and if a road be built from
Bristol,to Portsmouth or Norfolk (via Dam
yille}, Louisville will then be as near to Nor
a folk as Cincinnati will be to Newport News,
via the Csyington and Ohio, the Virginia
n Central and the Peninsula roads. st. Louis
2 ID also deeply interested in the proposed
route, as il would be about seventy FIVE miles
nearer from, that city to Norfolk, via Louis
vile. than to Newport News, via Cincinnati.
The distance from Cincinnati to Newport
News Is about $50 miles. From Louisville
TO Norfolk, $50 miles, From St. Louis to New
port News via Cncippati, 1000 miles. From
st. Louis to Norfolk, via Louisville, 925
miles. Isa5 t',<
1t is very nearly the same distance from
Louisville to Norfolk by the proposed line
that 1t is to Charleston via Knoxville. Louis
Vile would be about one hundred miles near
er to Norfolk than Memphis is to Charleston
and more than two hundred miles nearer
than Memphis would be to Norfolk -a
writer in the New York Tribune, about
the list OF August, stated that cotton would
bear transportation over the line of road now
IN operation between Memphis and Norfolk
and thinks that II could be sent abroad upor
- bet ter terms by that line than fsent to No
bile TO be shipped. If such is the case wouc
AZ not be better to send the cotton that i.
now sent by the riverl to Memphis direct te
louisville TO be forwarded over a road NOR.
3 thaaitwe hundred miles shorter than it woult
be from Memphis9 isq tas1..., q