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road in hour, for less cost than it could be drayed to the warehouses in Louisville; or even from the water's edge to the warehouses in Bon Harbor. It is evident, then, that Rumsey must be the discharging and receiving point for the trade of Green river, by which means the distance of about one hundred miles round by water, to Bon Harbor as well as the passage of locks No. 1 and 2, will be saved; and the saving, over sending the trade to Louisville, and then back to New Orleans, will be fully four hundred and forty miles of useless transportation. I think this should suffice to settle the question, that the trade must ultimately take this course. But an additional reason will be found, in fact, that the Georgia and South Carolina railroad is progressing rapidly to Nashville. Soon it will be there, and to connect with Louisville will be the next step in the natural course of things. To do so, it must pass over the slack water navigation of Green river, and within twelve hours run of a steamboat, from Rumsey   say thirteen from Bon Harbor. But one great benefit to Louisville, from this road, would be the supplies of coal which it might be made to command, by bending down to dam No. 3, and crossing at the mouth of Muddy river. The citizens of Russellsville, and Logan country, I understand, already contemplate a railroad from Russellsville, down Muddy, to Green river, thirty-five miles. This would form part of the great Nashville and Louisville line. In that event, boats would connect the two lines at dams No. 2 and 3   running in the intervening basin, and passing no lock, and in about three or four hour's time. Now, while the travel destined for upper Kentucky and Ohio, from this southern road, would go to Louisville, that for lower Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, and the lake region would go by Bon Harbor    returning ditto   and so of freights. When this southern road reaches Nashville, fifty miles more will bring it to Russellsville, or sixty to Bowling-Green, on the slack water of Green river, and very soon it might thus communicate with the Ohio. To be sure, it would do so by means of the Cumberland, while the water was in boating stage   but is too much interrupted to be relied on   and while Bon Harbor could be reached in twenty-four hours from Nashville, by way of the road and Green river, it would require sixty hours by way of the Cumberland, even when the river is in good boating order, All the advantages here claimed for Bon Harbor will also apply to Owensboro', which is near by, (wanting the coal however,) and in time, will doubtless form, with Bon Harbor, one town.