Richmond Enquirer

GREAT SOUTH-WESTERN ROAD.

We have the pleasure of informing our readers, that col. Long and Lieut. Frimble, of the corps of Engineers, in the service of the U. S. for exploring and surveying the great South-western Road from Zanesville in Ohio, to New Orleans arrived in town on Tuesday last week, and departed for the South-west on the succeeding morning. We understand that they are passing over the contemplated route with a view of making a general reconnoissance of the country, and to collect such facts, as to the practicability of constructing this great national work, as may present themselves from a topographical survey of the same—that, when they shall have examined the country as far south as Rome, at the foot of the Muscle Shoals, in the State of Alabama, they will there be met by Gen. Bernard, the chief Engineer, who will take up the line South to the point where it intersects the great South eastern mail route from Washington city to Orleans.—From Florence, col. Long and his party will commence a critical examination and survey northwardly to Zanesville, the point of commencement from the great National Road now making from the right bank of the Ohio river, opposite Wheeling, to Missouri.

We also understand that the prominent points indicated in the instructions from the War Department, from Zanesville South West, are Lancaster, Chillicothe, Limestone, Lexington, Nashville, and Florence, in Alabama.

[Cincinnati paper.