The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-03-20
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Should nothing interveneto check III
prospects which railways hold out, the
Improvement will carry us FAR beyond
anything that steamboats, can accomplish.
A railway between New York and Phila-
delphia, with Locomotive Engines, would
enable passengers to breakfast In this city,
dine at rhiladelphia, and return to New
York TO supper and ia the Transports
tion of merchandise, will do away at once
with water carriage. We live IN q won
derha age, and nothing should surprise
u.s.
This newspaper was not alone In fore
seeing the Importance of Stephenson's in
yention The Edinburgh Scotsman, quo
ted in the Troy Sentinel, thus compares
the Importance Of the political events of
the time, with this discovery inlocOmo-
tion.
ut is melancholy TO observe how rare
ly objects, events, or individuals, are es-
teemed according to their importance.
All the periodical pens III London are AZ
this moment At work upon the Turkish
Treaty, the New Police, Cobbett's Corn,
Mr.. Listers Tragedy-and perhaps, one
or two most bloody and barbarous' muir
derA We have columns and pages filed
day after day with comments on these
matters, which, two months hence, will be
completely superseded by something
equally ephemeraL while we have not
seen in one of the metropolis prints a
single remark on the experiments at Liv-
erpool, which unvei mechanical truths Of
such stupendous Importance, that, ii OBJ
| ieCts are to be Judged by their influence
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paigns the Catholic Question may,
French Revolution, sink into, nothing in
the comparison. How triaing was the Of
feet produced by all the wars Of the ff-
teenth century on the state of the world,
compared with the discovery of Printing!
And how little were the consequences Of
that discovery understood by the contem-
poraries Of Faust and Guttenbergl The
experiments At LiVerpo ool have established
| principles which will give a greater i'm
/ pulse To civilization than II has ever re
ceived from any single cause since the
Press first opened the gates Of knowledge
TO the human species at large, They may
be said 10 have furnished man with wings,
10 have supplied him faculties Of locOmo-
ton, Of which tho most sanguine could
not have dreamed q few years ago.
Even steam navigation gives but slight
idea Of the wondrons power which this
new agent has put into our hands. Il Is
not exaggeration to say, that theintroduc-
ton of steam carriages on railways places
US on the verge Of new era---of social
revolution OF which the imagination can
mot picture the ultimate ehectsh
In the Troy Sentinel Of Jan 10, 1880, IS
the following extract from an English let
ter of two months earlier date
/" You will be rather surprised when /
communicate to you that the stockholders
in the Sankey canal, the most profitable
canal In this kingdom, rising from el0O to
J o., 800 per share, have had meeting this
: week, as is most confidently believed, to
: take into consideration The erpsdSsRcQ Of
? Isttiagit dry and laying a railroad on u,
and they are about applying to Parlia-
| ment foT this liberty"
: Soft seems that too much was expected
, from railroads by some who witnessed
their early successes
: Another article in the Edinburgh Scots
Z man comments upon the probable Iedue-
I ton Of the cost Of transporting freight
, and passengers, oCcasioned by the intro
duction of railroads and locomotives II
concludes that two shillings viii be pay
ing rate Of fare between Liverpool and
Manchester, and five shilings per ton vii
! be a remunerating freight charge for The
same distance. Itadds;
"When the carriage Of goods, which
Is now about Cd or10dston per mile BY
2 land, is reduced to I'd, and when, in poini
!. Of speed, one day does the work Of four
? the heaviest commodities, such as corn
! potatoes, Goals, will bear the expense 9
J carriage fora hundred miles. The resul
. will be that living in great towns will b.
reduced, and the price Of raw produe'
will rise in remote parts of the country
Z The facility, celebrity and cheapness Of IN
Z ternal intercourse, contribute more, prob
4 ably, to the advancement Of civilization
thanall other circumstances put together.
= The Sc0tsmGR also estimated that traye
: would be prodigi0usly increased BY tn
! Improvements rendering It cheaper ani
more rapid, andin this, as well as in i
3 estimates concerning freight trensporta
!, ton, its good Judgment has been prove
9 by the result.