Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-08-08
JAMES RIVER IMPROVEMENT

| 100 ''"h ei''''oo remain 10 be subscribed of
the i've millions outhorisedhy the charter of ineo.
| Poration OF the James River md kanawha Comma
ny and, yet the difficulty Of raising this compare.
lively tr,fing sum seems 10 be SO srent as 10 baye
oouscated the faculties and pnr,lyz,d tho en,re;cs
Oh 'oe friends OF the scheme In our las, paper, we
published, at length, the details OF new plan for
concentrating this grea, improvement, which, We
AXE upon ourselves 10 say, will be more generally
! approved, the more rigidy II is scrutnzed Il
needs nothing more than tina, this Plan should be full
y and iarly explained to tic people of the James
nisef and hnnawha section of country, to induce
them at once and heartily to embrace It and ope
rating upon that section alone, alike in It's hnrlhens
aud benefits, of course We lave no reason To antei.
pate opposition to II from any other quarter II
proper, however, IN oui advocacy Of any particular
SCHEME no. 10 lose sight af the views of other per.
sons, or to throw obstacles IN the way of other
plans which may be more popular, and which
may, therefore, be more easily and more certainly
accomplished
The Richmond Compiler of the 2nd INST has a
long article on this subject Which after satng the
tact, that only 3f35 shares have been subscribed TO
the stock Of this Company in the cnlire Safe of
Virginia. exclusive of the subscription in thai CIV
and very correctly assuming FROM this fact that the
| resources OF The rich and extensive country along
which this work must pass have not been sensbly
dlmlniahed much less exhausted recommends that
coffee information be disseminated among the peo-
pie as to the nature and prospects of the work,
to be followed by personal application to each in
dlyaual III every county along lis line and, our
life for II, tsays the Compiler, in less than two
months, the subscription will have been raised, the
company organized, and ready for the appointment
a Its President and Directors, and for the com
mcncement Of the work. The Compiler howey.
CT, complains of the deathike apathy which pre-.
walls IA Richmond on the subjcc--a complaint
winch 10y no means surprises us, who were more
astohlshea at the activity which Was formerly dis.
played 4 the zeal originally manifested by the ci-
2ens OF that place. We AFRAID that their former
tesersh excitement, has undergone fetal reaction.
The Rieamond liAig PROPOSES deputoton Of
Influential citizens le the capitalists oftho NORTH
and names JUICE hafehall, Mr. johnson, Nj.
i-St'i Nj tluHhlHi vi jff1ktllDr iuEh Mi. N lch-
olbs, MIR. Anderson rnd MIR. Marx as suitable per.
SONS TO compose it. When the nsignlfoarce of the
sum Of money required is remembered, this plan
stems to 10 border somewhat on tho ride uous--
like ashing the ocean into tempest 10 drown a fly
The Bai,more Amcficon gives US the consola
tory information that " New Yoik broker, with
the prospects OF good charter, would, in half an
hour spread out an nfoble scheme for raising,
not half million bat half dozen mlans if ih,y
arc needed" and advises to " ty them But
| The American should recolIect that the New Yo.k
brokers' have not only had the prospects of good
charter but the charter ITSELF spread before them
for at lens, eighteen mont his. They have been
t,ied; but, yet the money is not forthcoming They
either have confidence IN the prac,cability of
the scheme itself or taking counsel of the results
Of similar experiments in Virginia heretofore, they
have none in the persons 10 whom is direction and
management viii probably be conided But, what
ever my be the cause of their backwarduess, The
fact is that they have declined all participation in
the work.
We are informed by the Charlottesville hdtoeote
Of the 81 last that i, was contemplated TO hold
meeting IN that place on the 9TH lIasi Monday, To
take this subject into consideration, and 10 devise
means Of completing the subscription. We shall
lay the result before our readers.
In the mean time we again invite public alien
lion 10 the scheme suggested by the correspondent
of the Richmond Enquirer and Compiler whose cs-
says we have heretofore transferred 10 our columns
- Recommending Il loan, to be negotiated by the
State two fi',hs on its acc cunt and three iihs
on behalf of the james River and Kauawha section
The lands of that section 10 bc pledged for the pay
meat of the interest and for the ultimate redemption
Of the principal pledse.by tue way,whclif all
the calculations and estimates Of the friends of this
improvement be MOI erroneous will be merely nom
NAL
3 = Sine the foregoing was in type, we have
learned that a meeting of the citizens Of Richmond
is TO be held, 10 consider what course IT is advisable
tic adopt, TO raise the deficient
~, The amount of tolls received into the Penn
s,lvonia State Treasury, from Nov. 1882 10 July
1888 period of eight mouths, IS 4e1 800 10 In
the same period oftimc, last year scarcely $4,000
were derived from the same source showing Il four
fold increase, and furnishing nauering indications
| for the future.
MESSRS. RIVES AND GILMER.
Mr.. William G. Rvcs has not replied TO the
| statement of Mr. Gilmcr, IN relation to their recent
alteration, and We have reason to believe that he
does not intend to do So A commentary Mr.
G's s,atemcnt, however, appeared several days ago