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Eiatarbap Moaning, Moab 15. .1854.
4r,orrtspogautt.
war* Pennsylvania Rail-Sead.
MaCHAtirile •Ht7TICL, POILA..:MarCh 8, 11851.
'tllo.lo S. FIMNA4I, E-q., Preriderd Nova Penny&
to Railrard Company:
Dua Sia—As wcitittep of Towanda, and &friend .
the North Pennsylvania Railroad, I deans/910
4,011 whether tbeidea atlitariced by Christopher
'pm. Eeq., in hits-recent' letter, that the .Plorth
korylvania Railroad should terminate at
is &incurred in b,) any true Wend alba North
inrylvaniw Railroad, who has given your
• iufficient attention to.undinstand•• and up-
sale its obvious and irievitable reiults.
jam aware that you consider the ,North losn4
vision of your road a most important and India
liable portion of the route, possessing advents.
so valuable as to render its profitableness' a
ter of absolute demonstrsoion this opinicua
are sustained by .he people of the North Branch
dry, and by no one more cordially than the or*
asignete. Yours, very truly,
PHILADELPHIA, March 9, 1854.
Altitunt C. MERIVE, E.% —Dear Sir-1n ill:
rer to the interrogatory contained In you leiter,
Nlar,git Bth, Okaying, ! s have to say that, so far
mr knowledge and belief extend 1 tin not at
lime know, one nun friend of the North Plum.
, anla Railroad, who -desires that its terminus
ald be fixed to " Pittston "
d 4 happen, however, in the earlier stages 'cif
enterprise, and when volunteer opittionsaboun
i among the hesitating and Mow-moving, who
I not wiit to inform rhernselves before they yen
red 1°421)6UL - it niiii)Se:lfter PiiiStoii" Was
tied by some of those whopaused at the Lehigh
as one of timer fern enortheraporow to which
tine cif the ritinrreight-be darriiid
Its opinicnt, since abandoned by ire fatherin
Mr. Fallou's by mloptittri; hence she paternal
Itconde Which has invested its restr . scitatedfurnr,
..; : ala dress, with clukteroua pen, fin the Pnbfio
itication: It would be fully, infieciative and ab
late, to le:initiate the the liorth Pennsylvania
ilmad at Pittsten ; and if the other views entreat
in Mr. Fallon's letter have . no firmer basin in
.ion and argument than his references fo the
torth Pennsylvania Railtostl, it is obvious that his
onirrientaries on raifroai will not attain to equal
lsk with the commentaries of the learned of his.
tie Ann on al:arn=e questions in law . "
The apprin Pennsylvania Railroad is none other
a PhifadelPhia Railroad in all its aspects, th.
:t, codateral and contingent. Beginnmg mid
i). on the commercial front at the centre line of
lopulation in the city of consolidaß k l Philadelphia,
;stretches ow laer2ol" eight rural counties, passing
its direct coarse through and near quarries of
'Jimmie and elate, zinc beds, iron d stricts, Seta
.atithracoe and bituminous coal, tirtiber Rationed
tin lauds, to the north line of the State, there to
eoect wi , h marls in 4. este nt New- Yetk, :Mil es.
tblishing bet %Vern .Philadelphia, and take Ontario
al Lie, the shortest and best railroid mina. As
drat mad, limited to the passenger and . freight
*mess to to contributed by the city anti eight
mniie6 traversed by its line, its prospects beam:
rah promises of amplesteuccess and Font.
Posing through a country teeming will' popuis
e, itiduAly and resources, business to employ
S road awaiut its opening. 118 tracking to o'er
paid vaults of mineral plenty, ar.d throug's land
apes of cereal .harvests. The products of the soil
mitheireasutes trite mines, it _trill carry bithkr
wean, to return hence laden with urban merchan.,
tae and manufactures, to supply rural require.
an t is and demands. The travel and intembinge
Onanmodities between a commercial city contain
-te , more than 400 ; 000 people, and eight annum
Jed mining, manufacturing ar d *grit:Apra/ cann
el, containing more. thin 300,000 people, in a
,Ingle twelvemonth will amount 'to an arta:Mona
Iggregate, and bring into the collars of tbn Corn.
pay a large cayenne.
miles of ihe.ronie are in thefeatal coon•
..; to o 1 Carbon and Luzeme, wbieth last year sent to
attic 2,530.041 tons of Anthracite coal, being
. 1 , tore, than four times the amount of tannage trans-
.i. potted over the whole line of Now Yog,li and Erie
I-
1 Railroad in 1853. .
1 in the Lehigh Valley; the Crane Iron Works, at
1 'clataqua,litoduce from four stacks in constant
operation, 650 tone of iron' per 11,iiik , When. the
,t ^ro track.. now in_progress of construction, shall
Ibe compl;tedi the amount of iron nianulactuted id
f
the (*high Valley .will be equal to 2300' tons per
week, or 130,000 ,inns per year. The furnaces are
(applied with coil Train the LShigh mines, and
. withiron ore an d limestone born the • immediate . . ..
ia
minify the- tra cks: .
The Valleys of Saueen and Sandy Itiin, on the
tine of the mall; also abound in iron ore and time
stone, and will soon be dotted with furnacea . I:rain
,ttle great Northern
Valley,
Field, the 111811,6 y. ay of
'= Vi de North Branch ValleY, °fleas the shortest route
K -the uarn the Anthracite miurs to.the,oilks. and towns
In Western New York , and to %arbors on Lakes
-. Ontario and Erie.
Luzern. county, which is traversed for fritiMifes
t'7 tho line of the North fenpsylvanis Roamed,
?win?, throirgh ;Niteroi of the coal held, lain year
s!nt to market 1,440,197 tornr.of Anthracite coal..
This trade began-in 1039, when 7.000 tons Were
market,. The completion of the Nonh
'retch Division of the Pennsylvshia Rail.
"std, will open a new and enperiofoutlei , from the
Wroming mines, to then North west zountry, and
fitly facilitate mining operations in the Wycitn.
1 1 Valley?" Viewed as a coal mit akme, the North
41 ' 741 Dirtsiult of the roarlis 4 :sii . e'to Mar there
blAilLoN C..MICRCUR
fz
f: ...
,nrstamilsv
Mail=,l
t: '....` 14 , .. —..e” ~
it 110) , six per cent on - ii riga ! til-stas el in
limit:equal value bartilliostf Ei'n in ibaCiii
as any other valley of
,like men In Penney !eons.
And . Fn this estiatate . Pni upon-its - worth, you; have
the secret of my movements, reselling , in its survey
and occupation as apart of the main .line of the
North Pennsyfinia Ralfro a rt. therfon s Mageir;ln
the Brmin Mons enar Mines,'i pr' the' iii6nierVe‘i . Or
the North •Brannh'i•iiist which 'wile Pass over the
line of the North Petineylvan . iis 'Ridtoad iniltelso
comprise'an importani item in its tranaietiona --:
tri OM; Intl the raiioos' - roilikia''ot ll' lie 'C'Si'n
apiculture, will•likeiviie seek : a pity, Marken in the
- cars . :: iity. ; ' "', ,
.., We hive ths3ol o sinii 't4loii and attractiv e
which iiii,'Noriti' &nisi fl 4:
nia Radt l).l 4Pnieeit 16iIftuaru!'0?11990 tonnage
iii measure to multiply with each year's 4404-
ments,xtotif it 'abaft scion .evil 'the carrying, &Spa r
city of the !oat[: Th e trou con L y are Impending,
will not be'to: fid tonna g e - for oielisints;,t9:a:ry,
.hiii,to iiiPpli tridriii - 61 the' toitn'age'ieeking tran s.
poitation over the road.
' The jnexhaustible depnaktirries . of the nation's
1 mineral fuel open
f their ; dark portals,ronlyray upon
the track of the rowf, opnbinll ilopes
_l4 the Areal
coal
-,, mitgelhatparts the- ILehighand sosgoehsnna
waters. Snotheastward, thil - North l!ctinsylyania
Railroad crinsiilntes - this . elloiieitt fin, from the.an
'Mackie coal .. mines to
. the Atlantic
,thle,ltt !hilts
delphia, and nmthwestvr 010, stub} .the . anthracite
ma! mines tprhe lake,.witlef, al, tfikl ilfl!fl - 1 1 .,fla
fitaffatn„L_The demand for anthracite . cnal increases
with each year, -- aintwill-ia legp seasoAs surpass
in : amonnt . the aggregwe capacity of ,tbet. imn„smi
waterlines pt transportation .schich .nnw,.diverge
(rpm, Ow_ Merent coal r,ginnot p ,
~ , „. .
Increased consumption will make, new avenue,
k?r,ltlfetn:
sjlvanis4ailroad, ocenpying the moskiiligi , hlß,Aind
ailsantageons ground, $4 ill at,. once supply I,i, cont.
mercialnecesaity and reap a financial harvest. „,.
And if the citizens of Ql4itadef e hia would only
cinder Lye!' ihe scheme the , time and elemtnalioo
s 9 i uisite to beget a full atidersitn;brtg ant:l , eppre
atinn of itsmmeiliate and Aesign aril
prospects i fft their isopißTuArli i tapithaa t l combin.
pd mastautV,Ati itriciptAe olipany would be
sought abet, snit, the sehuting of ii ter.tteemat:
Atifrot by• tile possepsor, seekispiats invesimesit
Isis fouls. • 4.1 - 9 K• 6
The consideration thalami amPinconsiog
populated employe:elms dose. Coal and irocritioreota
upon the route requiring-. !huge goaatitiosi tiff simg
chandiso,con be supplied from this city ( as the
most colleen ieni markeVcoMAMMlie
Maki() Lye whole.meicantile Foinruitrilikiint,T r e pt
,iike wise, with tither classes olpouitaiMll Volk the
route, besides works in coal and iron r - whime. oe-
cupatiaria and permits in the towrra,
farms nitein the route, create and maintain an pC
live interchange in. prodncla, . manufactures and
merchandize Wad kinds, which,-in the aggregate,
camprom ire" a brisk and valuable. local *raffia, to
be gathered and - distributed • Dom Lttte 'may. station
on the tine of the road.
Oi derma hundred and •sitteen , mtleti of main
ontr.a •et are in Abe consolidated C . 'oj
Pitiladdpha, terenty-oni - ittihti-itt-the *my ; of
Montgomery, - fifteen . in Backs; eight: in' Lehigh,
twenty in: in Northampton, twenty-one Carbon,
forty in Loze.ne, thirty-four in Wyoming and fatly
four in Bradford'. • . .
• The loarcounties most remofe'frotir thresh)? lie
Cut in twain by its trackway, v lllO , pasei - othrotigh
the centre of each an aierage . di stance ot thirty
lour and ihreeluarter miles. Two of these corm
ties are renowned. for their inethausrableantkrucite
deposits, and the other two are destined to tie
known hereafter for heir aceessibie - bitominotis
coal veins,, as well as for their terrestrial and agri.
cahoot! resources. Throwing out of the account all
through transsetirma„ with the roads of 'Wervern
New Yor,k, theta is still left to North Pennsylvania
Railroad a local business, which it Can justly claim
4o Intone r exceeding fourfold the aggregated local
and.through business claimed by other unfinished
lines of more length and less merit.
E-4., is descanting
, opon two roads
etitrering-both sides of his bear', and of comae oc.
copying most of his railroadafirectiOns, onderfakes
to enlighten the pribliictincerni4 this ehroxigh lea.
cores of the North Penneiltania RS'ilroari, as part
of a route to thelakes, in. language -at once so as
awnings and facetious. that it iS deemed beAlopapy
the whole paragraph, lest the,sbasoce ofs word or
-senace -might destroy: its likeness, it norcoofuse
its merwing e .especiaily its.its hydraulic alliudsu..,- ,
-Here it ts:.,, ,
-Jilin it is. tint by *AA that .trade front the
Lviren can teach byway of the. New
York and North Peonsyliian:ta roads thy ,g,. route
atiorterMan the Suribmg...and Erie roads and net
;connexions! an:prrint-of notxtesse:
But if it .trere t ,ao, antL I • ware to lissome , thahthe
North ;Pennsylvania eminent' 'IRA the New York
and Erie tat the moat favorable. pout .for the Anse
-1 meruotAy,at.Waverly, andihat the itsconvsnienee
ofiirAtilleceinseoflanges is obviated -by die North
Pttnnsylaanis adopting ihe_New,York and Fits. in
sta., fore: euttee, and. r itlirAY#MIS ttonteWhet
,searerto P,hiladelphie: than-No 4 Yoritisslte'
one labors under the ithoion of sopposingthatmore
than a stray car load offreight mill ever come from
tha.f.,akes, by' the New York-improvements, to
,Waverly, Ind thencefuld its !stay, fry.,:theNruttt
.Pennsylvania, to,Philadelphie,,Lemokl edeisaipch
an way Let pailicaeop ley !o -make • eater
.flowep hilt it; im.apenAaromekvol,lilseit he has
,criccee f fed in hie intereating ,riperiment,: baknot
till ilics a .he May expect to,substni fixed taws
of trade and to see cars loaded with freight
coming from the takes-by that route to this city,.
No, rim-. -So longs@ the. New York:: Add -, Ede is
eithin e the feed. 'midst the inflaettelr e ol
New Yak, and her atoergainctipally.toinned: (trent
—seafoet as New i Yinkmewthintasto not fools-4o
long as Waverly temains , 266 , . miles pour theists.
tern tigminse of the New York end-Erie Road ;at
"IttenVIMSS `air beinINCIIATIOX FILOK ANT•IWARTER. v)
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j i,theNOliiiliitinkifyitiia
Nee York l aiii•by tlib Nditi York '*nth brie bail
af ihtl'heidlOrfriger•Seheit
itte
o r nii tgity - ii,d)estiear`ei to Philadelphia than te'Neki
Ynti at birtitay of the tentral
Itisi`iers4‘toi4s; it seeps
iltittriirtii'itisti r ds Phifittelphiaitt
attitude es Tama q ui tt particularly , when it tatter;
• tiftirai 'that from Touttiqiia ttie Sdaque
hatuiti:lti the !Antal& grip ; more th'ari'stllf born:
a& in die - Alibi Siatel'es ihe notur iVaiterfy to
• tha lake it Ddiiltirti ! • r • "
to - sokeieihat ill the tearli* in iireSteit "getv
York Ad' itiaitaiideielaslvely 'to Attirriistelhelif;
threat , of titeW fork city; rather‘thin tae interests of
the Stoettiotifeis,lslitelithciot ea
boli're millet:l'4lA the raiirnads'in was edit' Airookl-
Are'eltitif Ai litill - to benefit
. ;o1 'thentlsere prOjenied
with apeCiat teretetiqt . tit 'Eerie iiiitheittchtit oat Of
he Slits, +ilia dieretty opeli "outlets to i c ke.iiiiittitWrd
both neritaiel trot/di - el WeitterOess
York ii'iiiis"iiideften'tletir city as 'Wes:
teen Pe;nrii‘frvartiiiii . ert in the matter
of
of Yearned:lr'. Arid f speak iikivitttqlly when I . day I
Ilitikithaiih6tile rosin; in iVeitein - New Yett Akke
direenii sith'eernest gdzb io teon
with the North ll'enriSYliasie Tilt!
tiiiereby' Mity he d iCsde
to ThilsdAßbili, welt alp
Nell/ To - Ar city. Therweiniriat tines of risills'isweeii:
in it t ordi rind 'south : SCiotis `weitern New' '464
tfirterite gliectisk
ada.buffido, aH kiit more teirtirds
PhihrdelOisihso New park difjr•Theitiiicrade all
ootineeterittrttret Nita Yoritioriligneßoinf,'Wirro
seisms OMR, beuseso it iwiheicihtettiC to . &VW"
aid secondly, bee stoetfiett NeW arid Erse
,settie , New ; _ merit
, Railroad is the:only rolifdlectitfoittiltiOSittlotheli
gunge of track drat icqhe ocean tides.
It is the only oithAlithilWoiti %bit present points
Rkititr.g**ol9l;4lslbliilbellt) ea osajan, bin wpm
411Vifi ItiliTcr.4sl4 WasUlge OM. iklamattltill - 11 1 , 1 Ski4
Tbp 9Pfleroll 0 .4 414, ,Ptaasybaaiik ;Railroad
. 1 914 1 1 1 3tia1elilakiAllmis tQ kital-CPlifitplioAlt end cow
,hicittOpt witit„olleds4erntittaling.llll lakacrwill
9141 1 :091131 , 1 1 1 tfleot„ltlade a. gliaksof.storhdoolithe
;I a_ playa E i biladelPhia forl Mae* oaror
-diettl'illef-Yerknelly 19 eaoli,sa9 *ll of limo sweat
fig StYtatailt ! ••• ; . • ;
t. ;ThedeffecLo lads wiltibe similar to the effect of
thetfpeiiing.nf-the Perk mid Cumberland Road up
Witte business of the Cantiberiand Valley Railroad
end theCdroherlend Valley. trade. Up to Melrose
of the completion of the York and" Cumberland
Road, the whole of the Cumberland Valley wade
messed over'the Eintquehanna river at Harrisburg.
And parsed sknon over the-Harrisburg anal Lances
tetrii.ailroedmiestined chiefly for Philailelpuiei , but
salmon as the opening - of the Yotkaand Cumber
land Road complead adiremindependenrline from
Baiiithore Rothe:Cumberland Valley Road, &large
ly increased rportion of the Cumberland Valley
ttadb was atones dtvettedio Hammon eity by the
mew, route. And, it is An everyday spectacle at
4
-Harrisburg to see long nein" of bonito cars +iris
,ing-at;lhe opposite bank of the river,lailen-with the
products of one of the richest valleys in the State,
ACM oft-!roar the track leadingeast to Phaadelphte,
sod pa t es away south, &tern -to Rattnnore. Car
-loads of merchandise, salt from Baltimore, are die
intnued throughout the Cumberland :Valley, and
;thus a city tanfilaryland divides with Philadelphia
the trade of a productive valley in the intoner of
of Pennsylvania.
Distance from. Philadelphia tattoo Com. -•
berland Valley Railroad.
Distance from Belmont", to the Cumbe
rland Valley Railrbed,
Difference hi favor Of RaltlmeiA, t4tn lles.
*
"This diVisioh of trade iti made - ittlehnsylvinia
by Baltimore, on the strength of an advantage in
distrince twenty.four Miles the exceisive
Curtratortivitt the PhiladelphiaTme:iming offset by
- bleier gradients en the thibiiiiiire fine: '
'Baltimore, befit remembered, doet Wol oritripare
WitfrPhiladelptua tor ii market, while Philadelphia
is* quite equil'tollevv:Yortiii tiny just
that martiti'matle tratweitii thetbut ,
pr. pall'oo' s lis error iiisaying that' a liahim me
is as near to the seaboard as Philadelphia?'
defer. is morethall finy miles hewer tolhe sea
turd than Th& tfive'igened df triklelo
isio'Pents3ittanta counties m con"-
‘4,l l aP* ll V4ONIPI the opening of 4.-4440411+Tati
, 42 -. 1 411Vt-0 a-,Peni l lPAlt .the
gence of trade to Philadelphia from - the,rweroyj
.tbrett.,F•otiouva in western ,New York-l-h2,4e realm;
ea Pp , 111 9coc40 11 !cm , , qt.
Railroad... new .market will Aar , operied-to„the
compelition of Philadelphia merghtte , ta t ,tiridltlew
,fof P4ilad.f.WAlMW.fac
-30',19-e•iintalaPif4r
Mr. Fallon hai no authority for antaipution_and
foreshatlbwin3-iiffactiltiteLtu the North Nnneylva
mitt „Radioed in gamins canna stoin
York. and .Erit Railioad:-"At,Wainely its nattitiray*
Jauchei.ditectlytivon , Statii. lino, afftirdintrat
ihabpnintoind also •ar paints sat nr.west thereof
say coheettience fors can:lesion, as authorized
and stontempLate I by. the , übluter of. the North
.Partoeyletnia7Raittoad Company. The Legielautre
of Pennayirenia, in ranting the sight•ollrayto the
Nowrovrand•Eritillaitneut Company, in 1541,
traserreditharaight to :authorise conneanni with 11,
and at the omit time, atedwites,eontlition4hatio
alLbharga fot ennsayanes and , trahspottmion , no
higher =tie alloi.ldibe impaled. pet mile upon the
trusumeetwhimb ;Olt passim it traitor Ma Penn.
MEM!
107 miles.
EMI
MIM
4-4003-bL47.1;
'iliailintifirltl;lo Win dittiri viii bJ.
shwa, demigod tapas upon it to and from thavity
of New-yolk. And shoo theNeiv;irtork arid Erie`
Compaoy aim attempt •Icr riVade ary of
the laniti'stipulated m the grancq rightof Ray, the
kAci-Olg th?i , l l ol4 stOLP', 3 ififffi's insOok, llte
thatehoundarf, and ArithWtheijurisdictiou of
pannayhrania leightiatbre="which fairer taidyceold
" ° !te4ll - . 4 ./94:19k4FT ul i "LAIK I 4, I FP!.P.A. ) ,E9m•
pet a compliance—repacially if asked to do so on
the tition flanked , by , tboiofibooye of a whole
range of lateresied " Pan n ay, aitrifichnniivi,Lia ;elf('
Ment warranty datooditiltelty will arise. Besides i ,
Mr) Fallen toilmermearyinotwithitandiMi-&iiiroi
and will not anytime b be to the interne of the Nevi
Yorlratte Erie Illillroad.kflitsiMeill
connexion witl x itbst North pertellvania Railroad
for every ton oniitight i.ati;ieni,er East
ward bound that may: be diverted , Rem thaNew-
York-and Eris-Ratioad, at Watterlyoothe• North
Pennsylvania-Railroad, the lanai will compensate
in freight and, passengers, bound: Northwestward,
passed:how .the NorthoPennsylsania -Railroad to
Me New-ifortandTErie Radiants's Waverly. In
arlilitton to ihis l Aka North Pennsylvania Railroad
will pass trilby New-York and Erie Railroad isn•
mensertrains of coal manage, for distribution among
ihatownst on ita roam from ' Waverly to Dunkiik;
aniltilkfai tf,a falta - pq,
by literal coals., a /venue mutton'' ' . therefore,
the coprtexiowia ono Mat bniernenda illicit the New
York turd Erie CoMpaq. , ' ".. =•
ii,„lnislifiiMaiiPtto mei that, thou jut!.
the mind of this community fears of datiedltien in
the connexion or *Meth ran rurylvarria' gold with
tbo •N trid r trirt :Road, ,a( ,Wrii , elly„ are , t4oinie
With KW!" . 4 .ll4: l ol4.iitittliter-to,the.ll;o4l,ko. 4 ,
Again—Mc. Fallon'a atmettion that if,.,04
eitY in pain beitti more
. flian . ftijo l itloidtecf tnilei of
tilt#6 l * lateki° 0 44. 1 1 40-4 1 a Ink Pttdi
vattgence," iaanothotavidence lamentablehiek
of 4Mo/ration- opcovthe inibleet ' Matter of hie' pro.
.einciashento:' ", '
• kfPa lc Haven, on Lake
Outhficy : ove, r oupik but 411 mifes.in length, from
Phtlatlelphia l lieing one hundred sistegn miles shutt
er than .tbe tone from Philadelphia to Erie city,
without piintoifty'ffiljoi!titii IC Y. and 4 Ihit!';o4d,Ofiukinimlitellft- aftsier , ilc- W4Oril city
influence or control.
• ~ .,Wram the:Lake; an Friirlfavinti-ibe:Lliket Onta
rio, Aabont and New . Y F iqc liadroad, inprogrets of
itioit i roctitini4teodedge)tootb.n.diatitnee.olveven : .
41. three milltaloyogaley'ai.vrbere *tribune a 0'40:
lion with the - toad' =trotri •Ithaeo to 'Owego.,
Tcrittere TO Waverly ? tatlif
Atop grilse,. and Avkien rotattpltbattbnic
iber•sopplird; either brtheresteniion•of -the of
t he L. , lee Ontario Rilail l oi'oitiolinviilt ill be
an independent, remprocattng 440Xtgb. ttlAtts trout
iniladvilphiseo take Ontario: • • -••
From
. WoVerly to Elthitli s the distance iseighteen
milesrliom Elmira to Niagara Fa*, one - hundred
and sixtoOur miles. A wide gauge road is open
'lit'itiesr,loperisionbridge,e6nnecting with the Cana.
dallreat Western Railroad, which is finished to,
Vindsc4-, opposite petrtii, a distance of two'hun
-died add tiventy,nine miles.
- 'From Batavia, on the tlmira end Niagara Falls
route, ; to Ruffalo, a road bed ikgrailed For a wide
tra'ek so . thathy the making of rine intermediate
link of riled fibril 'Waverly to Etiniia, eighteen
miles, a direct and continuous railroad cornmunica
bon would be establi‘lied over an unbroken route
finm Pitiladelehia to Raffato; Niagsa Falls and
Canada West, wholly independent of tlielV. V.and
Erie toad. ,
By a road diverging from the Korth Pennsylva
nia Ratiroad of the mood' of Towanda creek, anti
passitizarest to th; Tioga Railroad, another direct
'thotigh indeiientlent fine to B - uffalo could be etrab.
fished by. the Union of the Tioga with' the Corning
Bird Buffalo mid*, without tistng any portion of the
New York and Erie road, Another link thrown on:
'west from"a point on the - 'Ttoga Railroad ic -Penn
sylvariia, ro connect Corning and Olean
Railroad, Would comple:e a tut-off line loin the
'mouth of TOwitula creek to Olean, not exceeding
'22 miles in length', beiniVl6 Miles shorter then the
rattle bertkeed thisarriepointa by way of Corning,
Which is 138 miles. To complete this ctit•ofi, por
tions Of lite Toga and Corning and Olean Railroads
tonfd'bis i tised, so !hit no more new than would be
required than is aeceeaary to supply a link between
Olean and Sunbury and the Erie Railroad' at the
mitintiof Drift Wood creek. 'Tbia route - makes the
Nijiitti:Pennsylvania . Railroad pan of a lint, from
Philadelphia to Dunkirk, 'not exceeding 383 mired
—teas than - the distance between the seine pitintsi
Itk'atiy - rithefrOtite: ' "
' 'Fiiim &Eli via NotlltVettnetl.
• .•e.
From mouth rowanda
(: - .eveett 1917 tones.
Frogr,T9woodo.oreekio Okao . tit -
YoUry
snit' Oily roidss • " 99 "
Total. froin PlOLladelphic to •Eck city, ' . •
shortesty
WStAkt -.Wal/er4 y . AOpe
,arg,91.6/nolom of broad,
_pole noloool,.copreaknong an . agxsegiuecapOal 01 l
$36,3i0,4Q0. - To 01 points reached by theoeloci , _,
aus fi*llatr , 44ol lll o, NAIR recPl6, 9040gitiC
PennaVvatiiP RiVePd, siitkAojcw.,l49 9dyaokage,io
iineatimoasme, Wary mile/Lope( .1+1,99 , ,Y0c,k city.
• - By e, connexion, allorston ornb
theiteelte &Alen% Attd. Griiat Aerlk l. l illr9P4lrat Peon-,
a3Saania ,Ilailuenl lietplaced iu ilirect connex
ion wiih .542eirlsivikbruad gauge militia() contrail.'
ing between Waverly atl . ( rsat.,l44, represinuirig ,
a capital of A 18,71913,786., This broad gauge aystem
ot rejlrorita, with "'Mich the North ,Pennsylvania
,Railroad win interlock„comprises s twirl , 9,518
in ilea tA mod. remse.uing a capitol 01 . 84129,186.
?PO/ I **Ni: of 2 8 - Western tiete.Yokk - -
counties )1150' 1,038.4112.
'-Popnlititar of l Csaida Wit in 11951; ' 1152,004
••••1
Totabpopeletion tole :forniabed with
shortest name to tide water at, P6itar
delptie - by North Peeriejyriote'Reil
Unit% t •• - • • 60110 41111
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Venation nfpropeniyin 23 Now York •
.IEOI2 .a.:.5172.263,318
Valuation cif. gnnparty,in ,
~Philadelphili• UAL $ 136 . 56 3•027 - I
Volustios or:pnatterty in
.lAllegbeny•co• in 1831. U. 028.220
Excess inirionetiom, or ,Weidein New •
Yoricia,lB3o aver P 11 0E 1 40 1 13 SPd - •
Pi4stturg. as.9sed by Revenue COM
missiongra.in 1851 r 511,685,471
taige.commerce.el,ls on Lake
Brit a in 0142' $98 1 228,507
Db.' in 85i ... , ' 99.288;597'
Iniieate in oneyesir ' $6,950,476
Like apoitnerfti"oftrie city;'l4lls!.. .SSAIRS.3O9
4 crevitio4. $35.416,826
Grand total Lite Cominerce in 1•61;5326,593,335
TradeorLatra Porta labia Ire nearbr -
PhiladelphiaVian to N. York city. 2115 1 053A37
TraiksofLake Porte winch are nearer to
N. York city than to Philadelphia,
Total, u before given $3211,899,335
• , It will he perceived, that ningentikeithti whole
amount of Lake trade is - gathered and distributed
at ports nevi!' to Philaddphia.dtan to View. York ci.
Arid as the North Pennsylvania Railroad forms
part - el the shortest route to the Vithes by connexions
terminating at the laqqaPshipping ports upon the
Lake waters of Ontario and Erie, which ire nearest
to the ssia,'llie cpnetusion _ is irresistible, that Mitch
of this trade the,trade at PhiladelPtiii,
through* the new cannel of the North Petinsylirs—
.nia'Railroad. ft is the most direct Railroad lead
ing front Ph iladelpkit i 4 ards , : caKarla. In. 1851
the : value of the trade Witfireetti;-ihrKriiited Stat e s
and
. cariatla,-inelitilogAmporia and. exportiOF
$13;875,536.. The skims causes Which w-ilf s aWeei
a portion 6fthe Lake trade to Philadelphia, will al
operaie to draw hither a lair share 91 the Irate
•
of Canada West. . .
Surrindependeirt of the Lake trade and the trade
of Olinda : the loear transactions in the commerce
of the . twenty three Niiw 7 York counties, reach the
enormous annual, mgregate of at least "lio,uUu,noilf,
exceeding dui wholerradeof many of ih&Western
States. ,Add.to this the trade of Lake pans in the
same twenty three 'Western 'New-York counties,
atithinting tit. 5140,000,000, and the figuris demon
strate a trade of 5215,000,000; to which, Philadel
phia re neater. than New-York, and to which she
can obiain access by the North Pennsylvania Rail
flied With reciprocating connexion's, ramifying a
pop:My e verywhere alive with business, population
,and
'Mt Fallon, when be , so pungently* at icribed a
itstraretti load of freight,',l must hive been medi
:toting upon A railroad through a ifildemess, the
"stray car" stopping now and then at a way-sta
the .woods, to pick 'up parcels ofilbeal
freight, ConiPrising venison„w ild game, fore, / and
other, forest miscellanies.. Tree nooks-are not the
adults enumerated by the census,.nor do the com
modities trafficked in - bv-- hunters furnish golden
promises to the stockholdeni of 4nads , destined for
a time, pet haps,to rely' upon the execution done by
the rifle and the huntov, knife for Supplies of local
:height. '
As this is not the case with the North Peonsylva
nits Railroa'd', nor with any of its prospective con•
flexions ill western New• York, where there are
railroad stallions in every county, and nearly 1111 ma
ny miles of iron line between towns as of division
lines be!wnen cennties, the 4, stray car" was put
upon the wrong track.
There are many more trattoria to oaf Ciliate upon .
the attraction of trade from &alio over the North
Pennsylvania Railroad, than (rum Cleve Valid to
Philadelphia over the Venan;o the:
first place, is the_ shortestroute to Buffalo, and in
the second place, it is the only road which will pro
vide an uniform guage and hack betweifP,hilactel
phis and Buffalo.
The Venango Road, on the contrary, forms part
of a route from Philailelpnia.toCievNand, of great
er length in lineal miles, than anothe .route from
Philadelphia to Cleveland, in which 1 - he city of
Philadelphia has a large liecuniary interest. This
preferred route comprises the Pennsylvallia
road, the Northwestern,Railrnad.and the Cleveland
Anil tlabontng Railroad. The Ordinance passed
by Councils on the 113 , h of February, 1854, rub.
scribed 5750,1)00 to the capital stock of the North
western Railroad Company, contained provisions,
inserted to secure, beyond risk or chance, the har•
monious and reciprocal working of the entire room
ikons Philadelphia to Cleveland. •
The distance from Philadelphia to bleve—
Tand by the 'Northwestern Railroad
route is 472 miles.
Prom Pniladelphia to Me city, via Silo—,
bury and'Erie route....
Pro'tri Philadelphia to Buffalo, via North
"Pennstirade route - 383 miles.
Cleveland is at the Southermost bend Lake
tries Buffalo ism its Northern end, end, Erie City
is about inid-Way between them,,theiliafinee being
95 - miles from Pie CiT to'Clev'eland, andk§crnifra
hem F o iegitylogidlalo. From Clevelanl the short.
-est and most /lima Mute to Philadelphia is by the
liationitig, Nerd:western and Pennsylvania Roads.
Fre A nt Ouilafrt to ilriladelphiathe s only - dire, one
4ieumrsimethelmles the North PennOlyailikpiil..
soad--Ralflalo and Cleveland being at Opposite ets 7 I
iremes of the Lake, are on the great hi,ghittraxejtoti
stretebyg into the vast eourrry beyond ; an 3 4
; everything must parrs overland when . Lake-Navtli:
lion - is suspended, wit t ever passes along ine.Canada
shore of the Lake, destined (or Philadelphia, will
arrive over the North Pennsylvania Railrdatl, arid
whatever passes :thing the south shore of the Lake,
destined tor Philadelphia, will diverge at Cleve
land - arrive over the Nonfirrestern or City Railroad
•
'route.
,:, Th! Sunbury and,Siie Riilroail i being betwees
tbesektsrosocees, will neither serve as a Philaiiel-.
sobsiitut . e, nor compete-se a rival to either of them
for rem ote North weg•biredandArade; but with the
Kttlemeut develbionent ansl iinproietneut of a
wide 'VIM of : coning, its impoilanceos well as the
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utility of lei construeticm,l will bOomet' more and
mint evident, with the atii)
business Albin the bounds ol the - entinties m be
trait'erseti by its -fine: Unquestionably its strobgest
PitilailoPfrie points are itir prospronve Anent
vantages to Erie City, Sonbery, 'and: tiff' interirieif
late places, - whcisixtrade 20 - influence deserve
foateied in Ottiog Mite, acc;rdinglo the meunte of
weir intrinsic worth ,
In the . seationnflaktmavqation,artictes fitttahotir
boat i`potls . on ihe ;14.4 laii4and ilastinetijor
tideestafer ciuei , wat'seek, the hike harbor.g . okFil
which tis.shorteat overfami mate may be throats -..
1611*dt - the place ofilestinafion anti .13affalo Sit 4 li
tteurret itian ant, other, Ei , harbor ,, q; oco4
ew s York; and il antilit,clqlphia cities ,. will ,ever iton
tinutramanirepot of ISliewirde.. Moreover, many '
lines ntpropellets, stearneii , , and innumerable .
inecrili ar e a owned ..in Buffalo, and will convey
freight and passengers horn the upper fakes about as
cheap lo Buffalo, as inland them mar ypon within
a bond red miles west of iftiffalo:
The
. lake produce gathered, and the,:sitlantip
Jrnerchandize, distributed: from Buthilo.br. water
craft audrailway Cat; in time of navigation, and
the latter in season of wititerandicey compritib
t commerce so enormous and rOgnificent:"lllat -
Philadelphia shoit,ld not pause no: H e sitate until she
sholl,haro opened an iron way to attract an _enrich
,
f ug portion at it hither:-
Th 4 Venarigo Raitroa can-be . More- sandy demo.
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Newrdiii •"i • railed into a , t ) programme
than into a Pitladelph . Railroad prograname. : -.-
The, map gotten up and irculwed by the company,
halispl rye a bold black 114;;tratchirm
York city 'morose Nef..Jersey,, thence tnrougli
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entrylvattia to . ‘Varr s on, Obid,', whence .thre,a grehd
lines diverge to New Cirleane; 5r:4...6044nd Gilena ,
With divers beano/tea end lateral linesrim(iaqr*
tprotvlbotat the whole %Mat 1 WeSt
country.
On a ecirnar or the map are inscribed iliekerarids
' 4. Vinangu aka its Ca' neaioti
r s: At
Line from New York So Cleveland, Toledo and rth
,.
Philadelphia is honored siti a ,delicater Jutted
line train the „Nero York broad" Welt " rir liaki r 10
the .11 eidiorg Railroad, Which Litter road in ruii,iod
by a render tireakt.line iiicanderiN
river. .
if the Venangli*.id was projec'ed as Philadelphia
roaVite contrivers kale manifested an . extraind y
taste in irseafingli'Ne* York features in prefer
ence to its philad4hiaiendenciea now alleged to
' The authors oi the map and pamPhlet, tioy-
Aver, doubtless meant to repnisent Minim chaise:et.
The.Vanango'Road as a link in a New Poi/Mete
arrears to hive had more value in theirlyes,‘ 7 ,
hundred fold, than ace link ion Philadelpitit toute.
Philadelphia will penetrate into the soinirteest by
the flearpfteld and Martens Road, diverging Item
the Pennsylvania Railroad lit Greensburg: into the
central west, by the Steubenville and Indiana
road; into the wept, northwest west by the Penn
sylvania and Ohio Railroad; into tbe-.-Jake, region,
at Cleveland, by the Not th•western Railroad. Thcise
foifr feeder-routes 10 the Pennsylvania , Radio - at;
spreading out over the whole - country west of the
Pennsylvania State line, with connexions and con
tributing roads converging from itintimerable points
beyond the teethes ieadmg directly to the main
trunk road, unfold Philadelphia's w estern tailrold
system, itsgrand Otillinerpl wide and long extent.
The Vern`iiigo - mid has no,place in this PliiindelpkiS
western system: tt!id if it be, An jruth, a [Wadi!-
,
ptlia road, its sole Cele - fulness o ill consist iu local
aeaopunodations furnished by it to the neighbor
hoods-around its way stations betweetvsthe Ohio
. 't,of i Ene and Ridgway,iii Elk county, where I'll
4, •
Mile end also its mammoth contributions will to la•
belled and lodged ma " stray car" or " stray" train
on the Sunbury rind Erie road. k
Viewed as a New York City link, the" Venango
Railroad becomes somber work altogether.
,New
York.city has two lines of radioed leading to Lake
Erie, but no road leading-directly into she Westeth
country—within the State of Ohio south oftheritlie
shore, whelieri.-111,1dle and Southern d4io and ibis
r egion beyond may be penetrated.-:This ilegider
.ptum the Venango Road may, in taril 7 be made to
supply.
The Central New Jersey and Lehigh Villeyvoads,
both under New . Yolk_advpices, carrY*l 4 l4!"
Year "air tine" as flr weei as the Cdtawissar4ad,
,which it is asserted and believed, will carryfrei,ght
and passengers for New York cikLaccironl without
the alightest discrimination in favot of-Philadelphia,
and which Company, it's Undeistood, haVo stip
ulated for reciprocating-charges with the Sunbury
_and Erie for passengers a n d .freight, both. ways—
And theVenango Railroad Company having Made
similar isima, in effect, with the Sunbury and Erie
Railroad Company, New York interests awn lobe
about as well protected as it she atoned: the' whole
Iroute. - The only ndeontdge left to Philadelphia in
this aspeetiaf-thecift is the forty mitel.),essdis
i.rance from Tarpiitra to Philadelphia, es,cokkPared
1 with ,the distance, from Tamaqua-to NeuvrYork,
...
IN/Fitch advantage in-distance ti - precisely-the Same
aslthaf pOssested by me North" renii#Wliiii Ikail
FO4 from R e ' t ti:,erly lo Plidaylplphie„over the lireiV'''
York and Erliiaptlroailiromil&verly to New York '
city: • . " , • . - ' ' •
The idea that the Venalek; Railroad '
stum'a
stump jar , •
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any
, privilege of value.wnen they vfaiveiltleiraglit
to•evientheast of Ridgway: is very tunny, inasmuch
las Ridgway, according to their - own map' published
in Ocbaber;lBs3; is the point Otinnction with the
Sunbury and Erie - Road in ca flying east the air line
40 Neu , York Ihe Venattsm Company coultLnot
come , east of --Ridgway .without running paiallet
1 with the Sonbi - y and Erie line, or deflecting froth
their boasted .. air line. 4 The construction
e of t h e •
Venango Road being provided for one paper, ih a
way meet:tire on paper the completiotronfin s on .
[bury and Erse Road to RitigtrA, the.uext query is.
will the Vonalgo inhere, s tielp to push em the Sun:
bury -and' Erie line from Ridglvay ° to Viet city, a
t dtitailee of -407 miles! If it be tette,. as alleged,
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