Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-08-08

The city Of Washington, on The superstition
that thu rail- road faro between Baltimore and
that city is kept too high, has passed through
one branch Of her city council AN ordinance
prohibiting the admission of the locomotives
INTO the city, and requiring the com ,,any to
h',nS ga their cars with horses. A writer in
she Baltimore American, who SAYS he writes
10y authority, states that in case that bill be
comes d law, the company will build d depot
at the city line, two miles from the avenue
and there await the change of councils with
cut providing the means of conveyance into
the city. Well, we shall see which is the
most potent, the city or the chartered compa-
ny- Expressions and cxaCtions in soinc OF
their most dangerous forms have lately been
practiccd BY the company and it remains to be
seen whether it will not make itself so olious
as TO b, brought in direct opposition to the
people everywhere. Frederick, Hagcrstown.
Cumberland and Washington, whose friend
ship might all have been preserved, have be-
come its most bitter enemies.
Thc Pittsburgers and Baltimore Raj Road
Company have thought of a new way of get
ting that road to Pittsburgh. They are To
connect the den of snake heads called the
Chambcrsburgh and Philadelphia Rail Road
with the II. 81 o. near Hagerstown, and drive
a smashing business. Hold on a minute.
perhaps Virginia has a word to say in that as
in that State the connection is to be made.
and perhaps the people of Baltimore may en-
qsnrs. too, whether they are to be sacrificed to
the completion of the road. If PHILADELPHIA
is to b. so vastly benefited by the Road, why
Baltimore must be injured but where, indeed.
will be the interest on the forty-nine millions?
MIR. X. Boyd is putting up two very fine
houses in front of our office. We are glad to
see that he is laying the foundations a icv
steps up from the street, not sinking them
under ground as is usual. If he will keep d
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put III mortar enough, and gives his houses a
c2uiice 80 as to throw the caves from rest
ing like a quaker ha, on the upper windows.
lie VIII have a handsome establishment, fit
residence for man. We do hope to see an
improvement in the style of building here.
and we think it is coming.
THE SUPPRESSED DUCUMENTS.-Thc
stockholders of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
road Company having suppressed the reports
made by their late president and their cngin-
eer, IN which the rejection OF the Virginia law
was advised ON the ground thati would slim.
Mate agitation in Virginia, il was hoped nor.
maps, that this part Of the game would not he
understood by the gool people of our State.
H. was hoped, perhaps, that the new issue of
"a general right of way or no road - voild
appear after the rejection to be the true iss,c
But that this matter is thoroughly understood
III Virginia already, we have little doubt
For example, here is an article from the Mari.
Oh Pioneer:
fSHAw!-A writer in the Scion of NJ
Thocrdcy, who signs himself North w., 50
declares the Issue nOLC To- be. on the Rail p,.,J
q"cs'loh' whether II II TO 90 through Pqnn.yI-
Nd'ia or have a general right of way tbrnnob
slfSlnld IL prcs1mcs, as a matter of co,,sS
That all the counties represented NJ onr i,ta,
convention Will now unite with him f,r = -
""'eStTtofcd charter for the Company-Ohio
excepted f' O"io
We regard this Advancement as sufic;ont 70
.IVNz,m :" NV subsequent letters which
North West may write. His su,no.;,nIn
are prcPostcrous and Absurd. and hi. nrny,n"
non altogether gratuitous. The cifizcps 90 Nj,
non Nl'ulongalia, Preston. Marshall TrIo,
bfook aud ONO will hold the Rail RnsI o.
pany to The present. iHp. or stand nnn,scJ ~
any o'her;-they apprlrnd no danpcr fro,U
NE Vlt ac5ion oil liiG PENNSYLVANIA Lcgisiaturc.-
We call upon all our citizens. and ali ,yho,,o-a
represented at our late Convention to obssr.o
th,s truth: egoris rH be nude 10 inJ,,cS non .,
Daitps maj Inc Rdlroad ComDany rim syc,,eJ
|hh PeHHsyiUaHiG. and kafH is iydIgsren,
az 10 me etisfmg Virginia charfsr. and osIs
amer toT a more Southern rouie oy man, -,
m. Don't believe a word of it. BE- on your
euafd'--watcliul as the lynx.-aud susi,in
under all circumstances. the prcsnn, L.. a
all will yet be well. ""' anu
'ANEs A. EVERETT, Esq. Of Houston coun-
w. Georgia, has made a donation or S1ooo -