The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-30
.t.hecliag gegister.
Monday MOr"inG' ,' '-''-'-""reh S"'
y,,,,n,orc and Brenen.

..,day Morning. ""reh So'
u,lt,msrc and Bremen.
r. inauguration of direct steam
,,ir,;ion with the city of Bre'
,. celebrated hy the people OF
,,.,,,rs ON Thursday. The occasion
d. ,r, Of the crandest in the history
W." .., Monumental City, Business was
r,,I, suspended, flags We're dis
S.J from ruhlic and private build
"a, military were ont in force, all
.;ric associations took part in the
' .;;prS. and the State aud munich
r. ,n,boritics likewise participated.
immense procession composed OF
,n.rt, Of iutautry aud cavalry, ar
H., - companies, the Erie Depart
,.,,, Trades Associations, German So
tue, Odd Fellows, &c, to the aumber
,..y,r,l thousands, paraded the streets
.,r,r Of the grand event. In the
ING. a complimentary banquet was
NV the merchants and citizens of
n.,,;more TO the officers of the pioneer
,,.,m.hns Of the Bremen line.
% T1e onruils of this line of direct
,,rpirat,ou with North Germany is
,,r,li little Importance to tie people of
~, yirriuia. Ii will land annually
.,.r.apds OF hardy, Intelligent and in
I,.,r.,u, immigrants 1T u port of easy
- IA our State, aud the terminus of
ny great line of track aud travel. 1t
Ill set them down at our very doors,
and we have only to use the proper
me,n, TO draw them into our midst as
rs,mancnt settlers.
Werzirart the following portion from
Oh. r,magks oE \. SCHUMACHER, Esqy
,bc President of th' evening gather
~:
re Baltimore lgft Bremen At time
,f,r, Eclr When but few people take
-. to the United States, which ac-
III, fnr The moderate number of pas
.rr.,.,> s. his, her first trip.
NJ, .a:r>j adyicrs from Bremen render
Il L,Nryrs. absolutely certain that the
steamer Berlin, which is to sail tbs first
nrny,mo, will have full complement of
,,,,r..r passengers, and there is every
,rs.nrr. of the succeeding steamers be-
I'M, filed ta their utmost capacity.
They may be expected to bring gen.
rrI,y better class of immigrants
,hau we have been accustomed 10 see
landed hcyr from sailing vessels, who
will be welcome wherever they may fix
their abode. trust that the advantage
which unr State offers TO settlers Will
rstlIu many Uf them on her soil, though
n,. must aut interfere with the free
I,yrmrLt of those vino desire 20 depart
immediately to the West, which will III
most ci,ys be the destination OF the
great mljOIity of newcomers, from
winch they cannot be diverted here,
The accession of passengers will not be
the only advantage we shall derive
from our steamers. They will also draw
large amount of merchandise to our
place whlch would otherwise be direc-
,h 10 Other seapOrts, and l have a
S,roGs hope that the present monthly
lire VIII soon prove insufficient for the
bu,l.es> Offering, aud that ut no distant
isy 10 will be found advantageous TO
Increase il 10 u semi-m0nthly, or even
10 weekly line, such as the North
German Lloyd maintains I" New
York.
Hon. j. W. GARRETT, TO whose efforts
'ar establishment of this new line Is
.alseiy due. responded to a toast in
homo. OF the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road" lie thus speaks of tie inagnif-
crut success which the road has
achieved:
ou the 4th of July, 1S2S, amid impoS-
in ceremonies and remarkable demon
STATIONS on the part of the people Of
Baltimore and the surrounding country,
the cornerstone of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad WIS laid. The proceed
ms OF that day marked grand epoch
in the history of Baltimore and of Amer
lea. This community thea numbered
among its leading citizens men OF eX-
jraogdinary sasacity, foresight and ell
terpr!sr.
Without an example in Europe or on
this continent, those distinguished men
planned a scheme for the connection of
ll. waters of the Atlantic with the
uIyisable rivers of the West, by which
the greatest economy in transportation
could be effected. That enterprise,
"Iirh was, indeed, the pioneer of all
jAr great railway works of the world,
encountered prodigious difficulties. The
estimate of the capital required was
four millions, yet, before the completion
of the road and its branches, we
find the cost has swollen to
more than forty millions of dollars,
The ambition of those eminent meu
was TO construct a line to the Ohio
riyer, three Eumd.rd and seventy. nine
miles IN lcugth The frHuon has been
that the Baltimore and Ohio Company
and its officers now manage and control
railways, pouring their treasures OF
business into Baltimore, which pass
through one thousand miles of terri
tory, and which have cost more thar
seventy millions of dollars. We find
the prophetic inspiration of that period
being realized by the rapid progress OF
railways extending not only to the
uIyigable rivers of the far West, but to
the Pacific Ocean. We find networks
"t these great avenues of commerce
forming throughout tue Northwest and
the West, aud the Southwest and the
SOuth-all Of which. like the roads of
ancient Italy, lead naturally to our
Rome. We have seen this community
which at the period of the lay
ing that corner stone had an
aggregate basis of real and per-
sonal wealth of bus twenty-five
millions of dollars, prosper aud progress
until, under the recent assessment, that
sum had swollen TO two hundred and
twelve millions, aud those who recog-
nized in that day that the cheapest
method of transportation with which
FrovIdence.favors the world, is upon the
ocean and its tributaries, who foresaw
that city, placed at the head OF the
great Chesapeake Bay, which would ap'
pear advantages to the central West and
Southwest for communication with
Europe, ofnearly three hundred milcs
oi land carriage, compared with the
great city of New York, must in time be
recognized as an economical aud proper
sSntrepOrt of the commerce of that vas