Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-07-01
RAIL ROADS-THE UNION
.9nA Tic CitR Of RichmOnl.

III.
and Directors of the Louisa Rail Road Company, al
TaylorsviI!c, on Monday the 9th nsl John II. Hop
kns, Esq, appointed Chet Engine MIR. Flop
kns has filled the station Of principal assistant tng-
neer in locating and constructing the Richmond Frcde
ricksburg and Potomac Rail Road and from the energy,
fidelity and skill which he has cynced IN the discharge
of the arduous and Responsible duties which nave de-
volvcd upon him in The prosecution OF that WORK. there
is every TO anticipate that the Louisa Kali Road
Company will have 10 deem 1t an event oil slngu'
lar good fortune, that they have been enabled to secure
his services MIR. Hopkins, with the aid OF Mr. Sanford,
as his principal assistant will proceed as soon as posi-
be 10 ORGANISE n Corps of Engincers, and commence
their preliminary surveys preparatory TO the final oca-
lion OF the road twenty miles of which it is hoped
will De ready for letting by the month OF November
KichmOad md PeicrSjurg Rail ROad.
We shall publish in the Of the next week, the
Report Of the Richmond and Fredericksburg Rail Road
(,ouuanv The Road is advancing with almost unex-
anipird rapidly In few weeks Will reach the Bow
ling Green when we shall have lie morning Washing.
ton apers at clock In the course OF the year. It will
enter fredericksburg The trade and travel have already
Increased beyond all calculation The cars 60 out and
corlc in every day three timcs-and we understand
the stock is expected TO be among the best i'll the Union
We are happy also understand, that there is brilliant
pros oec of continuing the Ka't load from fredercks-
burg to Alexandria, via Brentsvie-so as to connect
il wi tn the Baltimore Rail Road. Thus, the great Rail
oaG is gradually going on, link after Ink, SO as TO form
4 CO, ,tinnous chain from Florida TO Maine.
We shall also lay before our readers the Report OF
Mon Robinson Esq, on the Richmond and Peters
burg Rail Road-wh the last proceedings OF the Com
pany. Mean time, we lay before them the two follow
inc resolutions designating the point at which the Bridge
is to cross the James River:
ION consideration whereof, (viz Mr.. Robinson S
Rem,rl i; was Resolred unanimously, That the board
appr owing the location contemplated by the Engi-
neer of the half of the Rail road next 10 Rich
rnond deem it expedent that the road should cross
JAIME River from point al or the southern abutnent
of Trens bridge, TO the termination Of 9Th street. and
the1,c pass along this street to point OF convenient
TERI inatiou north south Of The BASIN.
" 1T was also unanimously l'es0lrcd, That The Engineer
be authorized to put the bridge James River u
der contract when he may deem the same judicous;
and also to place under contract, from time to Time rs
opportunities may offer, any portion OF the DINER %ork
upon the half of the line which may be in readiness and
for which reasonable propositions may be made by re-
SIP onsibe contractors. . -
The President was authorised to purchase behalf
of the Company, much property IN Rchmoal ms
may be necessary for depot engine shops ana oner
pur poses" -.
Thus speeds the Rail Road system! Arrangements
are making TO extend the Southern line to haieeh.-
And who shall arrest it there: II will rresslbIy DFst
lis yay further South until it reaches The Gull OF Mex,
CO. We hail them in every point Of view with una!loycd
satisfaction not only many abosavinE machines IN
the eye of political economy, but as the gaments whch
are To- assisin binding the Union together lhey operate
in III srespcct in ahundred ways.-As Tor Richmond her
SELF she is gradually rising to that state OF prosperity
and distinction which she destined to attain "nat
has Of Nature done for her-and was 1t not Tune Tor " o
be c:i. edintoaclve requson Tor her anu ne
cksb arr Rail ruad-tIe Louisa Rail road-the PETERSBURG
Rail road-the James River Cana-are pushed win an
alacr which promises The best results She is aesthed
besid es be great manufacturing clty-ih cuhStc
auen Of her immense wafer poWcr-the rich oeeS VI
coal which repose in her immediate neighborhood-ano
the luxurian iron mines which scattered throughout
the uounlans Already four or five large iron ma
nuelrtories rising around us-and itcanno be long, oe
fore we shall the pigs of mines fabricated INTO
alms every variety Of FORM instead Of being sent up
the North River returned to in bar iron and soiu a
90 cd proft with the expense of double Transports
ton Don it, We have also cotton factories paper MINIS
around us-a glass-housc proectedn fact who snail
say 10 the Arts, Thus far. and no farther:
According to some signs, Judge White Is poltcaiy
defru ct, as Presidential Candidate-Even the H. " mig
is per suading the most patriotic OF its friends to give up
witt e. and go for Harrison. What the Judge may
think of such backing from his friends. we neither know
nor wish to know-But there is Lores iaOor loS
and is friends might have spared themselves the trouble
Of in..1ng his biography. We have not seen copy OF
il probable that like its Prototype OF lhe
SIN it: may fall still born from the Press But the rae.
10 his life has been written almost at the very moment
when his Presidential Epitaph composed.at leas
the MOI bile Register tells US, rhe last joke OF tne sea
SON rcept one shall mention PresenuyD VIZ
the Lille of General Harrson,) is published p!og1a-
phy of Judge White-whch closes in climax oil eulo-
gy by pjacing him above every body, since "ash'2g-
ton -ihe glory of the living Madison ana Jackson