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me CCJlflCCr cxpccis luiiavc »* uu »by f*ll.hu mistaken believed the unconstitutt •when this »v leu would I *1 instance! traducing I them.' But cnraa to the WBeflefantaiue, to cpnncci with the Ohio aud Pcnn-| jlOWgril 0f {Tlie Weitem Ukll Road.W« lean from one ef the moat eminent citizens ot Indian*,who has just pasaoll throngb'Fiitahnrgb, on his way to Philadelphia, end who has access lo the beat of information, that 131 mile* of the rail I road running from Indianopalie eastward, towards!aylvania Kail Road, will be completed and brought ir.io use this year. A brick building for a depot,400 feet long,la to be immediately eroded atlndi-enapolia. Tho line to Terre Haute is in rapid pro-gross, and the whole line of the Central Rail Road acroaa tbo State of Indiana will soon be completed.A Rail Road Convention waa held at Vaodalia,Illinois,on the Itb inst.» at which tho preliminary steps Were taken for the immediate commence* ment of toe rail road from Terre Haute west across the State of Illinois, to IHtooistown .opposite St. Louis, a distance of 160 miles. The Convention resolved that no obstacle shall prevent them from “formmg dteconneeting and closing litU hni tf our great chain ef rail roads from the Atlantic ocean to the Mississippi. Three,Commissioners were appointed to open *bc hooks in each county, for subscription s to tho “ Mississippi and Atlantic Bail Esad Company!' to remain open until tho first of April next. It was resolved that, when the rail roads from the east shall have reached Terte Haute, *• Illinois will extend to them the hand of true eiitcrhood, and with a hearty welcome conduct then speedily and ea feiy to the banka of the Mississippi.”This Is the troo spirit, and we hope that this cheering news from the .west wilt bve its proper elect upon our own citizens. Philadelphtashould pu^ her whole line under contract to Pittsburgh os soon as possible. Pittsburgh should press forward her Western Rond, which she has; undertaken, to Massillon, Wooster, and Mansfield.At Enon‘Vpliey, 40 miles from Pittsburgh, the road ieAdiog to Erio wid diverge irom the main lino ;• at11 Alliance,*' ncftr Mount Union, 60 miles from here, the road, from Cleveland will be inter*•ected j at Massillon our lino croswa the Ohio Canal ; at LoadaaviHe, the “ Columbus and Prttr* burgh Rail Road” will come in, via Mount Vernon, which' will be the shortest continuous rail road ' route from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati j at Mansfield■ wo connect with the road.running to Sandusky City; and at11 Crestline, near Gallon, ISO miles from Pittsburgh,our line terminates. Attimlpom1 jt intersects the Cleveland 6: Columbus rail road,'^and unites with the direct line leading to Belle* fonlaine, Indianapolis, Tcrro Hnutc, St. L'Kus^tnd also with the propo*cd rail roads u Toledo andChicago.- ( .What wo have to do is to press forward our main trunk, and others will take care of the branches.It fa well to have many ra!l roads,but Jet us have one first, and that the most important one. We want no bridges over the Ohio river. Pennsylva- ^ ^ aia protests againstthetn. Our line is continuous and I ^Uc • unhroken, and it interferes with no large navigable J theque stream from Philadelphia to St. Louis. A rad road from St. Louis to Independence is cbout to be un-dsrtakea, with every pro»peciof saccesr, and we have no doubt that the city as weU as the cili tecs of St. Loths wiU press the work onward with vigor and energy.Such are the brilliant prospects before the citizens of Pittsburgh, and those of all other places■ - on our magnificent trunk line. 1* any thing moreneeded lo .stimulate cur citizen* to tho energetic discharge of their duty to this great work Taudit occui power of G m long und arable Judf Lean,) and the subject w^re com tho subject frtteBtgeva prepared b read, and « Nicholson ed four p wit# on cor the Tetril would eve tiou ot ala pie of tho ' same vie« The peepl settle this they will * world wa ia the ahatided it. self to jui them is a and peopl right** I your onailand on v have the rive it frc ThoN friends, a all knew Mr. Ci undue er North on with it; h to justify volution gtnm, it while or it* being carried c act word it, then t act likeMr, V. like this, did not i be proth Mr. .( wrongs South. South. I the Unit Then were nlt; had its had its them, gioos it | slavery any run the bes whoevi tterot'gi Hellwoold But be a rrsu1 Mr dm dot teas th therefc this *8 eudea Mr.for the ant da the ot! bis he listemmt. ..i.irlral 4lcmlntrr.he dir
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Pittsburgh Daily Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Feb 25, 1850
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Robert H.
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