Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-10-25
THN nANYlLLe RAlLRoAn.
1O,439

This Is an extraord nary number for this part oil the
world, when we consider that there only train
day on the road that it only ran distance oftwenty
sever miles, and terminated most nconvenienty at
the Appomattox river.
The bridge across the Appomatox having been tin'
lshed, and the road being continued TO Amelia Court
House, the number OF passengers Will, OF course De
still greater and when it reaches Burke's IN Prince I'D
ward as it will in the OF he present year, we
| may expect yet more encouraging exhibit tor the
road.-DispGtch.
| In this view of our contemporary even those
who have been least hopeful as to the success of
| the DanvilIe railroad must concur. When ii
shall have reached Burke's, it will be within 10
| miles of Lynchburg, and, if proper arrangements
be made for running stages, passengers will be
enabled to 60 from Richmond to Lynchburg in
some eighteen hours. Burke's is about 80 miles,
by the public roads, from Charlotte Court House,
and 35 from Staunton river, and the produce and
travel Of the "Roanoke region" will begin to be
attracted by the railroad. Early next year, the
fifteen miles between Burke's and Keysville will
be opened, and the attractive influence of the
road will be still more sensibly felt. 1t is very
important that at least as much Of he line as the
! twenty-one miles from Keysville 10 the Staunton
should be placed under contract this winter. If
information is correct to the disposition In
Charlotte and Halifax to make private subscrip-
tons, fifty Or sixty thousand dollars ought to be
procured in time to effect this object. We hope
every effort will be made by the friends of the
work to get the subscriptions. The county of
Amelia, not yithstanding tho adverse results in
Charlotte and Halifax, will, it is hoped de-
termne to subscribe 100000. Gallant little
Henry will probably produce her $4,000,
although the condition on which she promised it
has not been fulfilled The railroad, by making
itself practically felt, is fast disspatng prejudices
aud We have now no doubt at all that it will be
completed. But all the country interested in it
will sadly suffer by unnecessary delays. The
people along the line cannot regard what is doing
in all other parts of the country on the subject of
improvement, and deny that they have failed to
contribute with proper libarality to this raro adj
If men worth thirty, forty, fifty, nay, some hun
dred thousand dollars, who have subscr ibad one
Or two shares, or none at all, could 60 to Georgia
and there see how differently men of no greater
means have thought and acted with regard to rail-
road subscriptions they could not find it in their
conscences tobe content with the little or nothing
they have done. We believe it is no exaggera-
ton to say that the Danville railroad will more
than double the annual profits of every iudicious
farmer and planter within its reach Can they be
so unwise as to postpone this great benefit, be-
cause they prefer to profit by their neighbours
liberality instead of their own? If the Discus
sions in Charlotte and Halifax have had no other
effect, they must have convinced the citizens of
those counties that the railroad ought to be CON-
pleted, and must be completed, if they wish to
better their present depressed condition.