The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-17

we venture In tnlS c0nneCtlOn> 10 reiudTk,
is not only the central city, but contains
the most representative community in
America. Covington and Newport are
South Cincinnati. We have three bridges
over the Ohio, and the famous boundary
stream between the two sections is only
our principal thoroughfare. This road
connecting the central city of the Ma
ton with the railroad center OF the South
will be bond of everlasting union.
The Enquirer says: Cincinnati is no tri.
fer. At great cost she has brought the
people of the vast fertile Southern States
to our door. She now invites them in. A
great, substantial. opulent city, the Queen
of the Ohio Valley, commanding COM
mercial mistress, with twinkling demon
strations of delight, will receive the repre-
sentatives of the splendid sunny half of
the land. Their coming marks an event.
The guests are gathered from the broad
productive States of the South, where cli-
mate spreads her softest charms;
and these States are now all just
over the river. The Cincinnati South
ern Railroad moors the States of the cotton
and the orange and the cane almost on the
southern bank of the Ohio. The Cincin-
natl Southern Railroad is a short avenue
between great Southern network of rail-
railroads. Its commercial Importance can
not easily be estimated. 1t is expected
that it will become tempting connection
between the great Northwest and the Sea.
Enormous shipments of wheat and other
grains from the Northwest will pass over it
to the seaboard in addition to the measure.
less traffic that will naturally flow between
the tive systems of railroads which it con-
meets, comprising, perhaps, five thousand
miles. To the Southern States and to the
material interests centering In this CITY
this road will be an inestimable boon. But
it will be more than this. 1t will
draw the people of the South closer to the
people north of the Ohio in all OF their
human relations as citizeus of one coun-
try. 1t will make the people of oppo-
site sides of the river better acquainted with
each other. and, consequently. better
friends This road is the enemy of section
alism. 1t pleads eloquently for union. We
can partly compute its dividend-paying
power as commercial instrument, but we
can not measure its value as an unifer, a
band and bond of peace and goodwill.
1t is destroyer of time as a
swift channel of traffic; let it be still more
completely destroyer of the non-commer-
cial distance between the North and the
South. In this spirit let the people of Gin
cinnati bid our Southern guests welcome.
In this spirit let Cincinnati make them feel
that they are welcome. Let The hospitality
of the city be as large in warmth as in the
scale on which it is extended. The city is
host without precedent in this country as
to the number of guests it will simultane-
ously feast, and the greater effort must be
made to manifest the spirit of hospitality
in delicate attention to details, which is
made exceptionally difficult by the excep.
tional number of guests. But let the well
come be cordial, hearty, that the recollec-
tion OF it may be both pleasing and lasting.
The Gazette says: The Southern Rail-
road has been built and it will stand. 1t
is the shortest line between the Northern
and Southern systems of railroads. and it is
one of the best roads in the country. 1t
can not be snuffed out. 1t will not be
fenced in. 1t is in splendid condition to
compete successfully for business. 1t will
secure its legitimate share of that business,
peacefully if it can, but it will secure it. If
there is to be throat cutting, it can stand
that better than the Louisville & Nashville
vsrted va ~n nvran,id a and Il viii, he nav;na @ ~; ~;
vestmapt whan tho rival comh;no t;on will
he a hone,ess financial wreck To.dav % Tho t
Sonthern MERCHANTS will sas tbis aroot
thoroughfare for themselves and to-mor-
row they will be heartily welcomed to this
great city which reached out these iron
arms to grasp the railroad system of the
S,nth Thev will then be better oble ~
;nSaa Of The merits Of tho rIversv ,I tbat W
& has been forced and To iudoe of tho sdvan. a~.
,,"n ,aoes that are tn he secured to tho South
hv tha C;rcinnati Sonthern Ka;Irood
Tho Ohio House of Renresent.tvos roc
,,assed @ tho Raw School Brard Riil w wb;ch @
irovides that twelve members of tho
hoard shall be chosen by the whole bodv
"a electors the rest of the hoard ha;,a
composed of one member from each ward.
This is good as far as it goes. TO elect all
at large would be much better, but this is
a gain. Therefore our citizens should be
looking about for twelve good men to fill
these places; for men OF education, who
are interested d in public education, and ca.
paple of Judging its requirements, and also
it's business affairs; for men who do not
need to seek these non-salaried places to
turn them into means OF hvine, but who
can afford 10 renoer 'ns service TO the
public without petty plunder, and job
bery.-Passehgers that leave Chattanooga
this morning 1or Cihcinnatl WAL be here
Tonight over lne Cincinnati southern.