, 1870-05-05
WASHINGTON
The War Between the Cities.
Cincinnatians in Trouble.
The Railroad Struggle for Southern
Connections

The Railroad Struggle for Southern
Connections
Norfolk rs. Baltimore.
[rRo4 QUE OWN coRREsRoHpKNr]
WASHINGTON, April g.
It is such an unusual thing to SEQ lobby
here from the East which is not in some way
connected either with the Tariff, the Banks,
or commercial subsidies, that We experienced
q t1eat the other day il SEEING genuine dela-
CATION OF etaid CincinnAtiaus, Who had come
here, with long faces, to ask government to
protect them from Louisville.
Cincinnati, Of course, Is an Eastern city.
The West moved away from it Bome yefrs ago.
Il used to be called the "Queen City" but
now it is Queen dowager, and, like all old
Queens, from shebs, and Zenobia, and Cleo
patra down, it's sympathies are with the East.
II objects 10 the capital being removed West.
It copies what the Eastern papers say nbout
Chicago. was very sure that it's next step
toward total depravity would be sending eome
Of its most respectable citizens here to aak for
something.
The Cincinnati delegation, in its staid good
nature, deep gravity of department, and cor
tain uunint otl-fashionedness, reminded me
very much Of the delegation which tho Dutch
from Newcastle, On the Delaware, sent to Pc
t1us Stuyvesant, to complain that sono terri
bio swodes had settled further down the bay,
and we're catching all the fish Our Cincinnati
friends wanted government to take Louisville
in hand. It seems that Louisville, ever since
the close Of the war, has been seeing Cincin-
natl two better. Cincinnati has "callod it
and discovered that it has stocked hand. As
friend OF this grieved delegation said to mo:
,"Why, dog it VIC owned ON, body andboots.
soul and breecles, for years. They couldn't
call their sonla their own, but now, you soo,
they are getting Sassy"
sYou sec," continued my friend from the
=! city OF the Queen dowa8eF, that old uaan
Guthrie Senator Guth1ie,-was the hrat or
it. He mada the Louisvilians (uly friend ON
phasized tho tsvilliAns " particularly put out
every mortal coat they hal md 50 in debt for
a 1silroad to Nashville. That road, cir, Wan
| the first link they forged to spila Cincinnati
As soon as they got that road they made tho
| Kentucky Legislature refuse to charter ono for
us. Why, dog it! re can't get out no way.
| We arc stuck fast
"Tho next thing, sir, was the canal. You
SEQ the Ohio River falls at Louisville, and they
hro at the head OF deep water navigation.
Sometimes we hardly hare two feet of water
in the neighborhood of Cincinnati. The best
VS. can do Is to wait for high wator. and then
| wo can navigate over the falls at Louisville.
But, see here, those Louisville fetlets have
| gone and set a pier bridge right On them falls,
50 that our Bteambo9tmen SAY it ls worth IneH
insurance to try and shoot any more. Ihey
have gone and made ehort spans purpose,
| and what's the consequence7 Why, sir, some
| big steamboats, that We were going to ouua
| stand st1ll. We'rc discouraged. And cur only
hope now is to get that Louisville Canal
wi1eued, SO that we can 80 through,
"Tou see there's canal around tho Lonis-
yi1lc Falls. It's been there, perhaps, thirty
yeara- Government owna almost the WHOLE OF
It, aud, although nc succeeded some time ago
in having new set OF locks put IN, the Ap-
proacAes to the canal require to be widened to
! the width Of the locks in order to give us b
chance We ARE here to ask government to
70 IN and make an appropriation to widen that
! canal We wanted Sl00, 900 this year, but the
United States Engineer told us to take 9240l,-
600 If We couldn't get any more; and no sad,
Tor that, ho would try to dig us part OF the
way out"
"Well, what is Congress going to do for
you:n
to do anything. That Congcr TELLER, from
| IQIL luFpu Nd1llb W &tt A4s ONA AAsSA oFNaSH1t
actually argued against us.' He said he didn't
see any sense in government botheF1ng With
that canal. And now, tho question EectIs
with awful Significance, how arc wo gong to
get past Louisyilloa There are no balloons
that we know Of There iB no mercy in kcn-
lucky that We ever heard of. If we don't finish
that canal in some way, We may as well return
to wheelbarTovH. The Kentucky members ap-
pear to be with Us on tho canal question. but
:SI1ro nSx ep IT tse fsils The Great Western and
Pacific tratic has left us to one side. The
Pacific Railroad las been Of no use to ClnciIa-
unti. Unless we get share Of tho new trade
of the South, wo sl,au be on our beam-ends.
sympathy Of ali the rebel section south Of It. V
lis Louisville really building up in d so'id'
substantial ways"
aYes, il is. They hayo put up some fine
buildings there. They hsvo two fine hotels, =
which il moro than Cincinnati has,-and they
nre getting good deal Of manufacturing
started. Men, right from opr nsishbo1hood,
have moved down there. end there il big North
cru element which hsa gone to the city since the
war. I have just made trip 70 Ne" Orleans,
and tell you, sir, the crops they are making
and tho prices they are getting FOR them in the
South Win enable them to own rs just as they
| lid ten years ago. Cincinnati ought to havo
| had the greatest part OF all that trade b1r it
looks now ss if il would be divided batween
Louisville and perhaps Norfolk" -,
sis not Chicago picking up good deal OF
traalc close around you 7"
"Weu, they arc picking up trade every
where. The last time was in Chicago SAW
one merchant who bad orders for goods from
Hamilton and Richmond, which. are almost
, suburbs Of ours, and they were just the kind
I. CT goods. too, that Cincinnati ought to have
fu1niehed. Those Chicago fellers arc = run
mad set anyway, When went over the Pa-
cifc Railroad, could see twenty or thirty OF
them jumping ont at eTery station, and. wnio
/ AL N+t-x WIN SfIH3rf
natians we're taking our wliskey, those infer
nal lrummers would be measuring men for
| hats, boots, 17atch-ehains, and Whatever else it
could enter the heart OF man to conceive. i,
ut would tickle you to death" continued
MT anxious friend, ''to sec how those Chica-
gang Of them viii 60 in together,-aAy 3
timer, grocer, a boot and ahoe dealer, u
li1uor merchant, and dry goods jobbor,-
and they will pick up some feller ut evcrJ like
" town they como to, and stock his whole
place for him. L he succeeds, it is their gain
Of course !; but, if he fails, they don't 60 right
of and eel him out, but they will stock hin,
again. and put q Trustees name over the door,
and give him another chance, 80 that, ten to
one, tho second time be will make it."
"Ah," said my friend, +" that Chicago is
run-mad place. It il just liko New York.
Why, you go into the Chamber Of Commerce
at Chicago and you will see, amongst others,
some young fellere, With fol'-chning, struttlng
up and down, hallooing, and bidding. and
bfufipg, and they will tell you that the Cham
Der can't collect the dues on them. The other
5ay their Court House fell down; I suppose
they arc MI in it L:sain by this time. But the
question that risea with awful emphasis ID
HHox is Cincinnati going to get past them
fallsf T"
wAn OF EASTERN RAILROAD KINGS.
Some very important railroad movements
are being made in tho vicinity Of the Capital
City, nearly. NIL going to show q desperate
struggle between the Baltimore Ohio Rail
road Company and its restless rival, the Penn
sylyapia Genital, for the .siitrol Of the trade
Of tho South and Southwest. 1lr. Garrett, Of
the Baltimore road, has e1cluBiTe connections
With Western Virginia and the great valley OF
| Virginia, but the Pennsylvania rond has flank
| cd lin in the Southeast and created rival IL
tercst il tho State Of Maryland itself. by buy
ing the charter Of tho Baltimore and Potomac
road, which WAS originally granted to Hot Of
private epeculators by the Maryland leglsla-
ture, md then purchased from the lncorpo-
tators bT the Pennsylvania interest; this road,
oatepgibiy mere accommodation Inc 1or
tho westcrn peninsula OF Maryland, haa
; developed into part Of great tfunk. hne
from Now York and the lakes to Norfolk and
New Orleans. This it w1l accomplish ~
steam ferry OF tunnel opposite Aqua Greek,
which Will make it link On the une-Matel
route from New Ycrk and Baltimore to Fred
ericksbure and Richmond. From FTederlcks'
burg, rneantimo, road has teen graded fol
seventy miles toward Charlottesville, and thit
! with it, connections, will tap the m,ddIo anc
, lower Valley Of Virginia, and give long link
toward Cumberland Gap. Yesterday, ground
; was broken in the outshrtslof Baltimore city
| for the great Junction Railroad Which 1s &c
\ make this new Baltimore & Potomac line fas'
nsTr and