Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-09-26


list oG letters for som days. l. i, discour lged7
Keep heart lfyou can set over this bar PER.
haps YOU will swim in dep pulll
ABOUT THE RAIL ROAD.-We hail
from the verdont ami prolific garden of our
Young sister at Parkcrsburg. the following. to
which W. call attention as one of the little
things that are attempted to be covered by n
veil SO thin that it is with difficulty IN, veil
is seen at all, and the object TO be attained
appears more prominent from the effort to
hide it.
CO. We have before us pamphlet copy of
the proceedings of the Stockholders of the R,l
,imore and Ohio Railroad Company. at their
meeting held in Baltimore on the 18th July
last. as they originally appeared in the "A
merican OF that city and were copied into
this paper at the time, There is. however.
Preiixcd to the pamphlet the paragraph which
we subJoin, declaratory of the intention of the
company "unqwliiedly to reject the law" of
last winter, the Wheeling Tmas TO the con
trary notwithstanding.
Ii Is then certain that the Company reject
Wheeling as a termination. and are DESTROYS
oil striking the Ohio at lower point. All
thos,, therefore, who are interested in the
routes from Fishing Creek to Petersburg
should b. up and doing. The memorial or
dered by the Clarksburg Convention will. we
understand shortly be circulated for sigma
lures, aud we trust that all concerned will.
without waiting to BE- called on, seek an op-
portnnlty To aitN their names. Great efforts
are making III PENNSYLVANIA to open the route
10 pittsburgh, AMI should the Virginia legsla-
ture persevere IN Its suicidal policy, that place
Will be the western terminus of the road. Are
the citizens OF North Western Virginia pre-
pared to be deprived of this great advantage by
their own supneness7 Ii not, let action BE-
prompt united and energetic. Let all inter
ested IN either OF the routes south of Whea-
ling put their shoulders to the wheel TO obtain
the right oil way. Union of the whole. there
Is the strongest reason To believe is all that is
necessary To ensure the desired action on the
part ol the Legislature. Great changes in pub
lie opinion. espccially in the eastern and south
western parts ot the Commonwealth have
been gong ON since last wiutcr-changes ndi-
eating an alteration i'm the policy of the State
AMI favorable TO the views of tn North West.
Miny whJ were heretofore cool friends and
even open opponents, are likely now Ia be
with us, AMI ii we ar, bat true TO ourselves
success seems to be within our grasp.
1T having been alleged, in some quarters
that The stockholders of the Baltimore and
Ohio Rail Road Company. at their meeting
held ON the l2,h july, 1873 did not design to
rJccI the Virginia act of February 18th. 1915.
but only To waive, for tn, present, its accept
ance AMI this allegation, wholly unauthor-
ned oni uniounicd tending TO miseal the
people oil North Western Virginia in regard
10 the purposes of tn" company, and 10 impair
their confidence in its iirnness and good faith
The following republication is made. for the
norml,ion of those interested i'm knowing
the truth respecting the acts and intentions of
the company. Its believed that an attentive
ant Candid per,issl oi the following Proceed
iI5S reprinted from the Blltimorc American
oi ths lt'l July last, cannot fail TO carry the
CONVECTION home to the mini of every inteli-
gent ant Impartial read r, that it was AMI is
'n' purpoa' ol the company "unJualifiedly to
reject The INV, AMI that the language in which
ihis rejection Is expressed was dictated solely
ny dd, respect to the sovereign State which
had enacted it,"
Now there is an effort made by the editor
OF The GUette, in tn, first plrigraph, to lead
tha reader 10 suppose that the sentence quoted
isprelixed to the pamphlet by the stockholders
OF the rail road, whereas the paragraph quoted
SHOWS on It's own face that it is piece of
Petersburg work, or that of some unau,hor-
ncd individual in the direction or company.
II II was the work of the stockholders or by
their authority, it would have been to an an
thorzcd copy, not a mere newspaper report.
we would call the attention Of orr readers TO
tn rmlrk about petitions now in circulation,
Ought there not to be counter ones i'm This re-
gion?