Daily American Telegraph

Railroad Enterprises in the United States.

A short time since we published a complete list of all the railroads in the United States—the number and their extent being sufficient to excite wonder and admiration. It would seem, however, that this is only the "beginning of the end" of the railroad system in the United States.

At this moment there are some half a dozen railroads of a most important character projected in different parts of the country, and attracting the attention of capitalists and property owners in different regions. One of the principal features of this movement is, that some of the projected railroads are to connect seaports in the Gulf of Mexico with the great and fertile region of the Southwest. A railroad convention was held in New Orleans on the 4th of January, for the purpose of arranging a line of railroad to secure the trade of that region. The States of Mississippi, Missouri, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, were represented in it by delegates. The subject of railroads was fully discussed at this convention, and something will no doubt grow out of it. Another line is projected to connect Norfolk, in Virginia, with the West and Southwest. Other projects are contemplated to connect different parts of the West with the great lakes; and no doubt others will soon be to connect the great central valley of the Mississippi with Boston, New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, the Chesapeake, and elsewhere. From all appearances, railroads are only in their infancy in the United States.—N. Y. Herald.