Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-06-28
Richmond, Friday, june -
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.


be outstrpt in the career of Improvement? Why
permit the splendid advantages, which Nature has
bestowed upon us, to be neglected-nay, other
States TO step in and snatch from the ransporta
ton of our own productions? No-no-let us awake
and exert ourselves, to regain the ground we have
lost, and redeem the sold Dominion" from the
taunts of our rivals.
The two last mails have brought us the following
evidences OF public spirit, i'll the North and in the
South:
Subscriptions opened lately in the State of
~ York for the Capital Stock of the Utica and
Schenectady Rail Road Company. The amount
subscribed in New York, Albany and Schenectady
exceeds ten millions Of doiis 1t is calculated that
the subscriptions at Utica would swell the amount
TO fourteen m,ilions-being seven times the amount
Of the Capital!
Let us now shift the scene and direct our ewes TO
the South. In NORTH Carolina, a proposition is on
foot, for holding Contention at Raleigh, on the ap-
proachng 4th July, to concentrate the energies of
the state, ION some practicable system of operations
for improving her condition." The scheme has ia
ken admirably .-Meetings have been already held,
and Delegates appointed, in Raleigh, Newborn and
Winngton-and similar meetings have been called
for various other places.
South Carolina is also advancing with giants
STEP The South Carolina Rail Road" the stock
OF which was, four months ago, 30 and 40 per cent
below par, has lately sold at 102 L. and i'm some in
stances, los has been offered and refused This
Ran Road will connect the different parts of the
State. Ii also throws into the Metropolis the pro-
auctions of Western North Carolina and of East
tennessee, and also portion of Virginia tchich bor-
ders on Tennessee The road from Charleston to
Augusta will be completed by the LIST of July. A
branch of 1t will extend to Columbia-another TO
Greenvile, thence through Buncombe, N. c., and
TO Knoxville, Tennessee. The branch from Column
bla will penetrate the Gold Region in Mecklenburg
and Cabarrus in N. Carolina-and draw off, not on
Iy the precious metal of their mines but the still
more valuable productions of their fertile SOIL AL
ready can the citizen of Columbia 90 by Stage so
miles, and the Rail Road CO. to Charleston i'm one
day-and thence by the Steam Ship, twice week,
to N. York-making days i'm all to this great en-
porium. As soon as the Rail Road shall be COM
pieed, the journey from Columbia to Charleston may
he accomplished in 10 hours-and the merchant NAV
dine in N. York on the 3d day.
And yet we, Virglnans, stand lingering at the
gates. we see our State tapped at both extrem-
Ties, by the capital of Baltimore i'm the NJ West and
the enterprize of Charleston in the S. West How
long do we intend to fold our arms, and submit to
our degradation? How long shall we permit our
great western enterprise i'm efiigy on our
Statute Book?
Several of the Virginia papers have spoken ont
upon this subjsct-Among these we hail with great
pleasure the Wellsburg "Repubcan" in Brooke
county, and the "Danville Reporter" on the Roa-
noke.-We lay the following extracts before our
readers:
from Brooke Republican,
L ms contemplated work of internal improye ment
may not seem at superficial view directly affect the
interests OF this part of the State but very little recc-
ton Is necessary perceive that the citizens of this
well as of almost every other part of the State will at no
distant day be materially affected bv it,
ne object, 1t will be is open by great com.
mercial highway, direct communication from the tire
water oil James river, to the Ohio point in all proba
oy not below the mouth of the great Kanawha river
pracucablhiy oil works of this description has al
Ieauy oeeh iuly demonstrated in several of our sister
states And has been ascerained the products of
Tue country can be transported upon them, not
greatly exceeding that Of the transportation upon naypa
bic rivers Although it is we are nomnally at (,
great distance from this Improvement vet when is
lectcd that it connection with the Ohio river ,he
ept nj tara
comes al once apparent that it will be work not of To-
CAL but OF general character lis will
We more or less fc by the people OF almost every county
w 'he State but more especially by The citizens of The
Wes'; Tor by II the eastern Ito them new market will
ne thrown OPEN and the value OF their real property aud
Of their products, proportionably inci ased.
- Ii is the first grand scheme OF internal improvement,
projected under the patronage OF The State and if shall
be carried into successful operation the abortion of more
quesonabiy trueD W
I is system for which the citizens of Western Wiz.
gina nave uniformly cOnended and will be hailed bv
hem triumph over the restrictive policy which has so
long influenced and controlled the councils of the State
therefore we hope !! may be attended with success.
We nave copied two or three articles on this subject
from the Enquirer TO which invite the attention OF our
readers" " ~
From the Danvilo Reporer.l
HE JAMES RIVER AND KANAwHA Improve.
MENTlhe refusal OF the Farmers Bank to subscribe
Tor The Stock oil tie River and anay a Couoa,,
has excited very strong sensation throughout all M Inc
OF The contemplated work The Lynchturg Yiroi,i,r
the Lexington Union, the Fincase Patriot, and .he K A.
hawha Banner refer TO the decision of the Farmers Rnk
WIN evident disgust and indignation A want Of space
only prevents our transferring our columns the rcat.
VI 'hose prints on tins interesting subject Those prints
are ov'"c'y disappointed and chagrined at this result
we are not, we confess, appointed-we verheess
uePore lie characteristic sho hedncss of the Farmers
BANK as sincerely the prints have done to which we
nave Referred frofs past easily III ,med than
corrected e have seen for long time, the narrow
selfish aud impoic pursued by the farmers B,nk
10y which has been for several wears gradalt
's'niy alternating from its support when The hour 0f neeo
shd come those great interests in the State upou which
us existence absolutely depends We do not deny ,a
ne Stockhoders have right do as they please with
che'r own we remember, however, that within few
years past The generosity OF the Stdesayed then
rom destruction When their last application for renew
III oil their charter made teir stock wac il our mo-
o1y serves us correctly, about 20 in the 90 below mar
me Legislature nagDaDmously extended their priyile
ges demanding Bonus almost nominal Their s,ock ha
SINCE risen 10 about 10 or IL dollars above mar The eo
nature struck Tie rock and they drank from Tire fountain
Which renovated decayed and dying coronation Tie,
remember 10 orget That by This net their Stock has
Tts'nen'eu IN value, upwards Of my dollars a share
ineh me stockholders were the suppiiants Then the,
%eTe .ne humble and whimpering mendicsnts crayiuo
the doing" oil chariiybut now grown as fat as aldermen
they would refuse to "s country, the crumbs which fall
from the r,c,, mans table This e in character Let NJ
man lay the blame 10 MIR. y. w. Leigh. Th" I. u
wo.'d have acted the part II Ina, gentleman had
been IN Nova Iemba, or SoHth Carolina.
but meeting has been called of the stockholders we
perceive Tor the 22d July reconsider their decision
ihey walled TO see how the Virginia Bank would acl-tc
SUM The gale Of public 0pinon-o see whether private
patronage. and the public deposits would be withdrawn
ana seeing these consequences they will make virtue
OF necessity, and yet take the stock rear is more ac
I'VE principle with minds, than gratitude or love