Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-04
II ninn aud gispatth.
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 4. Isss.
lrgest Circulation in City and State.
OUR RAILROADS.
The Evansville. Henderson and Nash.
viIIe-Its Rapid PrOgress-Tbe Cann-
try which II Traverses-Ifs ImpOr.
Eanf COnneetIOns. etc. etc.

1 AHg oi the EYansNlile, henderson and Nash
vile railroad and the Memphis Branch Of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
Guthrie is the town located at the crossing.
which is little over half mile from the
/ Tennessee line on the Evansville. Hender-.
SON and Nashville railroad, and three
! quarters from the Tennessee line on the
Memphis Branch, and includes the ground
along the State line one mile and back one
mile, making fine scope for town, with
eligible ground. A large portion of the
land within the boundary of Guthrie is
I laid off into town lots, and offered to the
1 highest bidder On. ths- 19sh 81, Felssssary.
/ A number OF lots on the Memphis Branch,
I near the State line, were laid of by the
owner,and quite village has sprung up
! at this point, with two or three hotels, as
many saloons and stores, and a number Of
dwellings. Iwould judge there are one or
| two hundred inhabitants here already, and
| in few months there must be several hun-
dred more. have been up the line of the
| Evansville, Henderson and Nashville rail.
road as far as Hopkinsville. Trenton is
nice village in Todd county, and must soon
become fourishing town. 1t is situated
in the heart Of a rich and fertile district.
originally beautiful prairie country, but
| now grown up with oak forest, where the
axe has not kept down the growth Six
miles north Of Trenton, and beyond the
West Fork, is Pembroke, which, like Tren-
ton, il situated in the center OF one Of the
richest and most fertile farming districts
Southern of Kentucky. Pembroke is in
Christian county, and they claim 10 be su-
perior 10 the celebrated bluegrass coun-
try of Kentucky in their capacity TO grow
tobacco, corn and wheat, and inferior In
nothing except in the production of blue
grass and hemp. In beautiful women
Trenton and Pembroke, from the speci-
mems i have seen, are equal to any Of the
rural districts of our wide spread country.
The railroad is within two miles of Penn,
broke, and / learn from the affable and
gentlemanly contractors, Messrs Hanson
q Day, that they will reach Pembroke
this week, and Col. Howard, the chief en-
gineer, expresses the opinion that he will
be able TO run the trains regularly from
Nashville to Pembroke, distance of sixty
three miles, by the 9th or 10th Of February.
This will open new and large and rich
scope of country to your merchants and
manufacturers. No doubt they will avail
themselves of this new outlet for trade and
traffic. The grade of the Evansville,
Henderson and Nashville railroad is CONS
pleted TO Little River in the edge of Hop
kinsviiie, and the road will be completed
TO the vicinity of Hopkiusville early in
March, as the contractors assure me, if the
weather is at all favorable. Certainly the
road will be completed at an early date
The iron and ties found lying ready on
the side OF the track from Guthrie to Penn
broke. All the material and labor is ready,
and all they require is suitable weather
HopkinsVille is quite city, beautifully
situated between Little River and the Fork,
with the most eligible "Iocaie' for a town
in The Green river country. IL has pop
nlation of from 5000 TO 1000 inhabitants.
Il is we'll built, with nice streets, with ro-
mantle situations in its vicinity, and will
easily be made one Of the loveliest spots 10
behold in our whole county. They have
handsome churches for the Baptista,
Presbyterians, Episeopalians, Methodists
and Reiormers, and the Baptists and Re-
formers have two handsome collegiate insti-
tutions for young ladies' now well filled
and sustained by a generous and liberal
patronage. For social and educational
advantages, Hopkinsyille has no superior
among all the towns of Kentucky vet visit
ed by me. The county has in process Of
construction one of the handsomest court
houses in the,State The building will be
a monument 10 the architect, an ornament
TO the town, and an honor TO the county.
The approach Of the railroad is waking up
the people and infusing new energy into
the population, exhibiting itself in the
erection Of many new buildings over the
town. This place has every thing to make
il an interior city. 1t is the county seat of
Christian county, the richest and most
fertile of all the counties of the Green
river country, and one of the first counties
in Kentucky. In 1860, 81, GO, 63, it was
claimed to be the largest tobacco growing
country In the United States, and its ca.
pacity for the production of tobacco, corn
and wheat, illimitable and incalculable.
All Il requires is a regulated and systima-
tized labor. Hopkinsville is situated be-
tween two rivers, and has water power, but
what is better, has an ample supply of
water and coal within fifteen miles to make
steam TO drive millions of wheels aud
spindles Hopkinsville is about midWdy
between Henderson, on the Ohio river, and
Nashville and would be a suitable place
for the great machine shops of the Evans
vile, Henderson and Nashville railroad.
With proper energy and liberality, she
could secure the advantages Of these im-
portant improvements, and add from 500
TO 500 to her population. If her
people act worthily of themselves and
their town and county, they will make
every effort and exert their liberality to
secure the permanent location of the MAJ
chine shops in their town. This will be
the nucleus and prove the starting point of
her prosperity and greatness.
learned here that the engineers of the
Evansville, Henderson and Nashville rail
road are in the field north of this place
surveying the line between Hopkinsyille
and Madisonville. We learn that it is the
purpose of General Boyle, the President,
TO place the work under contract to Madi-
sonville, and complete the road to that
place this year, il possible. Gen. Boyle
confidently expresses his ability to reach
the coal mines sufficiently early in the fall
to supply your city, and the towns and inter-
mediate country with their winter supply
Of coal, if he receives the support and aid
of the country interested in the great work
he has in hand. Every confidence is felt
at Hopkinsviile and along the line that he
can and will do it,
learned from a casual traveller, inter
ested in Cairo, that General Baum, Mr..
Golliday, and other prominent citizens of
| Cairo, are confident that Gen. Boyle will
build the Evansville, Henderson and Nash
vile railroad, and they are planning TO exs
tend the Elizabethtown and Paducah rail
road TO Cairo, and have obtained charter
for the Paduoah and Cairo railroad. They
are determined TO make an outlet 10 Cairo.
General Burnside and Gen. Baum are TO
| build the road from Nincennes TO Cairo.
/ The Nincennes and Cairo railroad, my
| travelling companion assured me, was to
give bonus Of S800,0O to Gen. Burnside
if he would build the road. He says the
road will be built, as Gen. Burnside has
accepted the offer. The road from Vim
ceunes and Paducah, the Iron Mountain
railroad TO Birds Point, and the Mobile
and Ohio extension, with the Illinois
| Central. are all TO center At Cairo, and the
business of the Evansville, Henderson and
Nashville railroad is to be drawn to the
| City of Rivera, at the confluence Of the
| great waters. The St. Louis and Shawnee
town railroad, and the Chicago and shaw
neetown raiIroad, with the Madiscnville
and ShawneefoVn railroad are the only