Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-09-15


PEE, the Republic says it learns that the
President directed copies to be sent to
the Spanish Minister, the further to enforce
an appeal already made to that govern
ment, now since the leader Of the expedi-
ton has been cut off, to deal mercifuly
with his deluded followers, who were en-
ticed into the invasion under the belief that
the people ofthe island were already in a
state of revolution, and desired assistance
to establish a republican governments
state of facts which, had it existed, could
not have justified their conduct. either in
the view Of our own statutes or Of the law
Of nations, but the expectations Of which
gives them a strong claim to pardon.
Railroad Items.
The third section of the Orange and
Alexander Railroad is about to be given to
contractors; it will complete the line to
Gordonsville The branch road TO War
renton of 81 miles is also about to be let to
contractors.
Among our advertisements, may be
found one from the Chief Engineer of
the Southside Railroad, inviting proposals
from railroad contractors for grading a bout
thirty miles of this road, commencing at
Farmville and extending westward--the
work to be let in the town Of Farmville,
on the 18th day ofOctober. This letting
will comprise rather more than half the
distance between Farmvile and Lynch
burg, and the Petersburg Intelligencer,
thinks the whole line from that city to
Lynchburg, will be finished in the course
of eighteen months. When finished, it
will also place Richmond in railroad com
munication with Lynchburg.
1t is much more agreeable (says the
the Baltimore Amcrican) to notice the in
dicatons at the South which promise
strength and pcrpetuity to the Union than
and of sectional antipathy. The Directors
ofthe Charleston and Memphis Railroad
Company are not politicians, we presume;
at all events, they make reports which say
nothing concerning politics, but abound in
clear, shrewd, and practical views. The
following extract from their report for Jan
uary does not hint at disunion.
"As line of travel the Memphis and Charleston
railroad possesses an importance which scarce
y be too highly estimated. Without concert or de-
sign-in fact, without even the knowledge, on the
part of different projectors, of what each other was
dong-therc has been system of railroads laid out
which, when completed may be called emphatical-
", the highway of nations. Much of this system is
already completed, and every link in the great chain
is now under regular organization and in rapid pro-
gress. Four years will not eapse before the great
err part, if not the whole, will be in full operation
There are now finished and in process Of construc-
ion railroads forming one uubroken line from Mem
phs to Boston, and this line may be called practi-
cally straight. 1t is in fact the shortest line on
which road could be constructed between those
points the natural features of the country moi ad-
hitting "a shorter 1t is truly wonderful that the
merits ofthis should have been soong unk nown
To the public for nature herself seems have mark
it out. Here is line nearly stra ght, passing through
the centre of the Union, which the mountains
have been levelled, if by design. Though this
crosses all the mountain ranges, it encounters no
grade exceeding sixty-eght feet per mile and it is
only the Virginia and Tennessee railroad that This
rate of ascent is used. The line generally follows
natural valleys, where the grades are gentle and the
work light. From Memphis to Lynchburg. dis
lance of seven hundred and fifty miles, the whole
cost of constructing a road of the most substantial
character, and fully equippiny it, will not reach Sl5
900 per mile, although five hundred of that distance
traverse a mountainous region. If this great line
had its termn in Memphis and Boston, it might
well be called national work. But this is not all
There two schemes recently put on foot, at the
extreme points Of this line. which must add greatly
to its importance One is the plan of canal acrcss
the lsthmus of Tehuantcpec, which is now exciting
much interest in New Orleans. the other Is the Eu-
ropean and North American railway which may
date its birth from a convention held in Portland
Maine, on the 31st of July last"
The Parkersburg, Va, Gazette of the
the 30th ult announces the commencement
of the surveys for the route of the Balti-
more link, in the chain of the great Straight
Line Railroad from that city 10 St. Louis.
The Hudson river railroad, it is cx-
pec,ed. will be completed about the first
of next month, when cars will run through
between New York and Albany.
Rapidly and cbeapness are the two
leading features in the competition now
carried on so actively between the two
lines leading from the city of New York
to Lake Erie. The following item from
the Albany Evening journal of Tuesday
shows wha; tits doing onthc route between
Albany and Buffalo.
Seren Hundred Possengcrs.-Thc first Express
train last evening consisted of ten passenger cars,
containing sixty passengers each. Soon after, the
second express train came in with three full cars
Thus nearly 500 passengers arrived in the trains.
The New York Tribune states that the
latest estimate of the friends Of the Erie
Railroad Company for the current six
months is annexed
Expenses and repairs Observation-Disclosures S25, 900
Nett receipts. Observation-Disclosures $780,, 900
Interest at per cent. on sl6,00o,60O-- 100000
Nett A. per cent SSa5 900
on sc, 000, 900 capital stock The August receipt
exceeded by $4,000 the estimates of the officers Of
the road Yesterday, at Duane street depot. 81
200 was received from Cincinnati passengers alone.
10 JUDGE JoHN S. CAsKIE has been
nominated by the Democrats of the Rich
lnond district, their candidate for Congress,
in opposition to Hon. JOHN M. BORIS