Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-06-13

Virginia and Georgia Railroad Com |
pany will assist the Knoxville and |
Ohio Company to complete the q
miles in Tennessee from Careyville to
Boston on the boundary line, about
eight miles of which, viz: from
Careyville, the present terminus, TO
Buckeye Tavern, is already graded
the cost of grading the remaining 10
miles being about $3.50 000-and the
only draw back that has existed is the
unfinished way down the French
Broad.
Since this last stumbling block has
been removed by the recent action of
the Legislature of North Carolina,
Company to push its work more Wig
OTousIy, is il not time for the friends of
this enterprise TO meet once more and
exchange such valid assurances as
may secure the fulfillment of long
expectancy? The Spartanburg and
Asheville Railroad can not stop at
HendeTsOnvile. The State of North
Carolina will build her line TO Paint
Rock, at no very distant day. In
view of these facts, the Louisville and
Nashville Company must go to work,
or be behind in this race. Whilst the
way by Knoxville is not our choosing,
we will most gladly accept it as ne
! cessity. Only let US have it. Fifty or
sixty miles out of the way is not so
serious where all the parties are
| friends.
There is q way wherein a Railroad
King might Just step across " from
| the Knoxville and Ohio, to the Gin
cinnati Southern, but we will not
mention it now. IF the city of Louis
| villa will IcoEx bar fui ri U N tho
| face, she must place her right hand
upon this road. Her way to pros
perity-if she will pardon the remark
is not by Eufaula. Over the range
of the Cumberland, across the fertile
| valley of East Tennessee, along the
! serpentine track Of the French Broad,
whose complaining waters still con-
| tinue the work that in olden times
! cleft a national highway through walls
of adamant, over the high plateau Of
the Blue Ridge, and through the fair
vistas Of Carolina is the route by
which Louisville is nearer the ocean
than any other great city of the North
west Eastward as well as Southwark
The crimson skies that overhaDg the
shOTeline of our CarOlinas are beckOn
ing her TO fortune, and the swell OF
the Atlantic bespeaks Letter things
than the sWamps and lagOOns of the
gulf. From the beautiful river TO the
sea, is but a span. Let their horizons
meet!
To this great enterprise we have
contributed our mite. 1t is true we
have not reached the goal, and for
this the zeal of some has tagged and
their faith grown week. We ave not
wholly failed in our endeavOTs. In
the face OF greater financial difficult
ties than have met any similar under
taking in the country we have placed
our engines across the mountains with
our limited means.
When we think of Louisville-her
broad aud beautiful streets, her park,
her city cemeteries, her stately build
ings, her splendid bridge spanning the |
Ohio River, the steamers and bsrges |
that give her waters DO time to rest, |
the constant iugress and egTess of |
railway trains, and all the varied in |
dustries that owe their Outgrowth and |
development to her large and intelli- |
gent population, we long 10 see her |
stretch her arm across this puDy bar |
rier and clasp the hand Of Charleston, |
that their wealth may ill with the |
whitG-wiuged messengers of COM |
merce the old historic haTbCr Of our |
"City by the Sea"
Your friend truly.