Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-12-05

ascertained, that no costly aud extended ON.
depending ior the most part upon the business
created by ITSELF il may be confidently said.
couid be supported without them. In order.
thsreiore, 10 answer public wants, and to sus-
tam ITSELF the Improvement which is to con.
meet 'he James with the Ohio river, must af.
lord To the travel between that river and IN.
Atlantic as desirable and decided ADVANTAGE.
as any other improvement, or this great and
indcmniiying source Of profit must be chiefly
IL not entirely lost. But this not even m,
canal could afford, were il ever 50 perfectly
executed, and were II at this hour ACTUALLY
open Tor use in connection with steamboat
navigation on the kanawha river. Were IL
so, 1t would require about five days to make
the passage from that river 10 Richmond.
whist II would require about three or three
and hall days to make il by Wheeling through
Baltimore and Philadelphia to New Yoff.
from the same point Of departure. This. in
most cases, would be decisive with the trav-
eller IN turning him from ours to another,
route. III, however, a railroad were made up-
ON the unfinished line Of the James River and
hanawha Company TO Point Pleasant, or to-
Guyandotte, 1t would afford the shortest con-
nexion IN time by which to reach New York.
through Richmond, and would no doubt Sc
cure the travel and the profit upon it which,
'he cahai would lose. But that is not ALL by
Is the peculiar and controlling principle in,
railroad operations. Having no superior for
passenger transportation, the railway relics
upon mat Tor It's expenses and is thus enabled
where the reliance rs safe one, to relieve the,
freight out OF the profits of the travel, and es-
pecially would it be enabled thus to do IN the
case OF State Improvement where the char
ges VIII be restricted to mere remuneration
and repair.
In addition to this it may be remarked, that
it is the peculiar and happy faculty of this kind
OF road that it can be adapted to apy rate If
movement, and any one of burden, and with
an apparent capacity under the progress of
mechanical invention for an almost inde6-
mite increase in the degree of both. Whilst
tne rate oil passenger speed is checked only by
the Tears OF the passenger, the rate of burden
transportation has been gradually raised from,
some three or iour times the weight of the
engine TO some twenty times that weight. and
tle engine increased from four OF five tons to
nl,een or more, thus shelving progressive
power OF accommodation for all uses. AT least
as great as those uses can ever require.
AT what point upon the line OF the James
River and kanawha Company, the railroad.
IL adopted, should begin, and BY what ps rtic-
uiar route II should be conducted, are contro-
verified questions OF exciting local interests
which commit to you in the perfect conf.
dence that there will be found Justice, disin.
terestedness and firmness enough in your
Dody 10 settle them Alright. No people have
ever been more admonished by bitter eYner;.
ence than We have been, to the exercise pno,,
questions OF this kind, of genuine spirit of
mutual liberality and concession. Without
TINS spirit, rely upon it that nothing will be-
accomplished; section will contend against
section, and the Common, wealth will con-
tinue to be what it has long been, impoyer.
ished by the.very multitude of its blessings.
In relation TO the funds which any lepisI,.
non upon the subject may require, | respect
iiuiiy submit 1t as suggestion, that they NAV
D: OBTAINED IN great and perhaps sufficient
degree by simple recurrence to the rate of
taxation which was fixed by the revenue law
OF March, 1913, Had the rate then establish
ed been continued, it would have produced
upwards OF hundred and sixty-three thou
sand dollars more than the revenue of the
present year, which. itselfis sufficient. to pay
oil all the current expenses of the Govern
ment, with an estimated balance over OH the
trst OF October next, of some two hundred
thousand dollars beside. Or, if the revenue
law OF lS4l had been continued without
change, upwards OF one hundred and seven
thousand dollars over the amount of the pres
ent year, would have been brought into the
treasury.
Should ii be deemed expedient, therefore.
Tor Tie purposes III question to re-enact even
the rates OF that law, you would have annually
at your disposal, sum not less than two hun
area ana ffty thousand dollars; one half of
wnich might be used as an interest paying
lund upon which to raise the capital required
Tor the execution OF the works intended. and
the other half as sinking fund to aid, if need
De- IN the redemption OF the principal.
State Convention.
lhe subject of calling Convention for
the purpose OF revising and amending our
Slate Constitution, has engaged the public
mind TO so great an extent..ior several years.
ana especially Tor the present one, and is it
seii enforced by so many considerations of ex-
Pediency aud justice, that should be wanting
IN due sense OF official duty, if failed to
recommend 1t to your calm, wise and patriot
ic consideration. There is no other subject
with which your present legislation is con-
cerned, which puts into issue so wide a meas
ufe oil pubic anxiety, or upon which the pe-
neral welfare is more dependent upon lust and
we'll considered counsels. Let such counselx
only prevail, and be followed out in their re-
suits, and it may be confidently hoped that
the common interest and Brotherhood of the
State will be relieved from the discontent NJ
sections chatting each other, and the general
principles OF our political system be better
than ever maintained
treat was the ability with which our first
constitution was prepared; and great also as
were the experience, learning and virtue that
were employed in the amended one that was
afterwards adopted, there are, nevertheless.
certain provisions in borh Of them which have
never been satisfactory to large portions of
our people, because, in their judgment. in
consistent with those principles OF equality
and justice which it was the main object Of
Doth to establish. From the first hour of
'heir appearance in the amended Constitution
which was expressly sought for to correct
,hem' up to the present moment, they have
peen complained OF and resisted, and hence
they have been again and again presented to-
your own body, as involving principles which
IL was nard TO leave and hazardous 10 prolong
~ all thIs we see only the spirit of free peo.
P'e Ieso,Veu upon removing from their funda-
mental law, as far as they can efIec, - sycr,,