Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-03-10
JUNCTION Valley TURNPIKE COMPANY

| JUNCTION VALLEY TURNPIKE COMPANY
From recent report of the President and Di
rectors Of this Company, we derive the following
facts in regard 10 their affairs:
There has been subscribed by individuals, and
1the Corporation Of Stanton $39, 1915 which enli'
lies the company 10 draw from The Stale $50,
1881, making in all $9S,437 80. There has
been paid on account Of the Capital stock by indi
viduals The sum Of $50, POI SO and by The common.
wealth S4S,95I Us in all amounting to the sum oil
$S3,22S AZ. There is still due on account of the
stock the sum Of $l5,2O9 0S. There remains IL
be subscribed Of the private stock the sum of $625
conditional subscription Of $1,000 has been made
BY one individual. If the conditions of the sub
scr:ption are acceeded to, the whole amount OF pri
vate stock Will have been subscribed land the com
pany will be entitled to receive from the State the
whole amount Of The sum of $60, 900, which the
Board Of Public Works are authorized to subscribe
BY the charter of The company. There has been re-
celved on account OF tolls, the sum of 1854 IT,
Tho whole sum received into the treasury on &C.
count fslock and tolls is $4,753 10. There has
been expended the sum of $97, ll3 Sd.
The debts Of the company which have been or
dered to be paid amOunt.to the sum Of ST. ,564 81
There are outstanding claims which have not been
presented and which amount TO about The sum OF
$500. Thus The whole liabilities of the compa-
ny may be stated at the sum of $4,000 The
company own personal property which cost S.
652 oo and which may be valued at the sum Of
$o,UOO. lhe greater part of The money due from
Stockholders has been subscribed with the under
standing that it shall be expended in the county
of Augusta.
The Grading, Masonry and Bridges, upon fifty
one miles of the road has been completed. This
includes about forty six ard half miles OF The
main line OF the road commencing at Buchanan
and ending at point near Greenvle, and the
Branch road to the Natural Bridge. There re-
mains to be graded twelve and half miles of the
Stanton division. Until recently the funds sub
scribed in that portion Of the line were not sui.
Gent TO justify letting TO contractors even the gra-
ding and masonry. The subscription of $4,000 by
the Corporation of Stanton has provided the
means for grading The residue of,he line, land plank
ing portion of it.
| The grading and masonry of The II ] miles be-
tween Staunton and Greenville has been contract
ed for by Messrs. Stair, Paul s. Openchain at
S45S per mile. The work TO be completed by the
l2lh day of November next. The contractors are
represented as entirely responsible men, and much
experience in work Of that description, and we be-
lieve the work will be executed according to con-
! tract. y 49,.
Abou. thirty miles of the road are now planked,
and there is plank on hand sufficient 10 lay one or
two miles more.
1t is estimated that ME Buchanan division can
be completed for the sum Of Sl4,654 90 and that
the Augusta division can be completed for the sum
of $685. 10 complete the mile through Lex
ingtOn will require the sum Of $3.50.
Thus it appears that it will require in addition
TO the capital stock Of $780, The personal prop
erty being valued at $4,000 and applied to the
payment Of the debts, about the sum of SAC, 900 TO
complete our road from Buchanan to Staunton land
pay the debts now due.
The Report then goes on TO urge that The $4Q,.
600 can and should be raised.
o. The "Bold Stroke for a Wife," in which
Mr.. Henry Wycoff has been figuring in England,
Switzerland and Italy, is narrated with great par
ticuarty of incident by MIR. Weed, in letter pub
lished in his paper, the Albany Evening journal,
under date Of Genoa 9Th January. What he takes
three columns to tell we must put into hardly
more sentences.
Mr.. Wycuff, (himself native Philadelphian,)
it would seem finding a former Philadelphia &C
quainlance, young lady by the name of Gamble,
by curious combination Of circumstances an heir
ess, made proposals of marriage TO her, which she
refusing, he pressed with most annoying perseyer-
ence, following her ali over the Continent, brbng
iher courier and laying manyingenious traps TO OBJ
tain interviews with her against her will. Once,
on the Lake of Geneva, she admits 10 Mr.. Weed
she promised to marry Wycoff if he would let go
her hand, in order not to compromise her with
some spectators Of the scene. Again, at Genoa,
she says he attempted by force TO induce her to be
married on the spot, endeayored TO use chloroform
to reduce her to submission but succeeded only in
obtaining from'her written pr'mise of marriage,
secured by the forfeiture of half her fortune. The
Rext day she went to the police, had her pertina-
cious lover arrested and he was in prison at the
date of Mr.. Weeds letter, awaiting his trial.
The writer says he believes Miss Candles story
truthful relation but adds that Wycof "has his
own version" and that Z" he (Wycof) insists that
Miss G. loved him quite devoedly, but had been
Influenced by others to wrong both herselfand him.
For the purpose Of giving the affair the character
of civil offence, he drew up and swore to state
ment in which, among other things, he says that
their last week in London was one of such endear-
ment aud dalliance as their betrothal rendered
proper and natural This Miss e. utterly Denies
She did not, she says, duriGg that time see Mr.. w.
alone, and finally denied herselfto him, leaving
London, as she intended, without his knowledge;
though the sequel proved, That he had perfect
knowledge Of her movements through ialhless
courier. IN Y, Erp.
Another paper says, Miss Gamble, the lady that
Chevalier Wykof endeavored to marry, is the
daughter of Col. John e. Gamble, Of Florida, and
formerly of Richmond, Virginia, and not Of Phila-
delphia, as has been stated. She was taken to
London, while mere child, by her aunt, Mrs
Dunlop, the sister of Colonel Gamble, and adopted
by Mr.. and Mrs. Dunlop, they having no children.
Mr.. Dunlop was wealthy merchant, and for many
years in the Virginia trade.
The Chevalier was Fanny Essler's homaae DIES
afaires, when she travelled in this country;-sub-
sesuently he was Editor Of The Democratic Re-
view and after the election Of B0naparte, he went
TO France, 10 indoctrinate that gentleman in the
art and mystery of Democracy. His labors, in
this particular, appear to have been more success
full then those directed 10 the acquisition of a
wife.
Genoa paper of the Nth, states that Wikoff
and his acoomplce, Miss CANDLES courier, have
been convicted and sentenced to Is mont his impris
onment.
Japan and The Japanese.-The projected expe-
dilion 10 japan for commercial purposes is prompt
ed no doubt by the increasing intercourse now go
ing on between our Pacific coast and Eastern Asia,
and hy the certain prosDect of continued ENLARGE