Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1852-09-16
Pom THE yInaINtAN.

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PoR THE yInGIStAN.
Hr. Editor I'm d communication address
ed to you few days since, offered some
reasons in favor of the financial measures fe-
commended by the friends ofInternal Improve.
rnent. recently assembled at Union. With
your permission. / will now proceed TO show,
thai il the policy suggested by the Convention
shall receive The sanction of the Legislature.
II viii result IN restoring 10 It's par value
the five millions pf doliars which have been
SUI scribcd by the State. by corporations and
individuals. 10 The capital stock of the James
River and kanaH LA Company aud will IN
thirteen years from the completion Of tie I'M
Iproyemcnt 10 The Dh'o river. reimburse tho
easl OF The work. With the interest thereon,
which shal. assume 10 be twenty millions o !
dollars. including The expenditure to Buchanan
In order that the lacts "hch shall use ~
Ills investigation may not be set aside IN n
shori hand kind of VA, very common will
! Virginia gentlemen, ho canDot spare the
time from political dispptaiinn. rs investigate
mBiters ofpraclicsi s,biestnouslip, "iI state
Ia Tie hcginning, thu ! have obtained the
staii.t'c- use from Official extracts, furnished
al lie Census BUREAU an Washington.
The First Ill, ~ The Investigation shall be
10 ,slirnale III kaaI Donnape oithe James Ri
yer and Kanaeha line 81 impI ovement. In
taking his slca shall nj claim cry augmen
rat,n 81 the tonnage tom HE eouulics east
LYnchhurg. beyond the present receipts Of
The oaua; but sbnli look exclusively to the
tributary counties west nud south west of lhat
point Ter enlarged rcc,tpls will look 90 Bed
lord, Campbell. l}olcroutt AIicghany, Rom
noke, Montgomery, Franklin, Patrick, Floyd,
Carroll, GraYson. Pulaski, Wythe, Snylh,
Washington, Scott, lsec. Russell. Tazrwe,
Giles, Mercer Raleigh. Fayclto. kanawho,
PHnaa1, Mason. Catell, Boone, Wyoming.
Logan, Wayne, NIchelas. Braxtcc,, jackson,
Greenbricr, ond Monroe. These 'GrIy.six
connlies had by tho census oflS50 Two hun
dred and fourteen thousand.rw haudred and
lightly one "laile inl,2hitams. They coooIn an
urea tHtcr MS large as Massachusetts. end pro.
dtrccd IL, thu period, odv 3,6i1.l9i lbs. Of
Tobacco. I,e39. GOO bushels Of Wheat aud
7,1Gj. 39f bushels of f.en. Thos,, items Of
produc1"" conf ned III tons give 2l9 q 10
| suppose vii lac granted, II nj when tins
co'hlliy shall h, furnished with Railway aud
Canal lrai,sil t,.r dr. prsdacrs Of labor in all
Tire diversified lrarsuits e tto energetic poo.
pie who will mhnlnt tnls region, they will
hive IN export trade equal a. tonnage Ga its
prescott prodoetion ~ Mr Hr~ ogtT~it0fai
~sPirs cuun s'sared above. l. IS equally rca.
Sonal,lr. 10 allow 10 yirem an Smpot trade Of
one furlh their export, lhi4 gives a. the total
l"'sl tonnage 214,"5I Ttis tonnaec | dis
'''Niir ~ t"toSss one halt Ia lnss over $50
mics OF The Inc. fourih over 200 miles
and The remaining fourth over 900 miles
shnl III estimating the income 10 lhe inc from
This local tonnage - trnat the wtrale es agricul-
tnfal tonnage, and oaFx toni lir e,ieta rauspor-
ton chnrs"d Tor such rounapo on 'Iss PENS |.
Non' Canolin ls5l, one cent PEI ten per mile.
liz $40 - 'hehPlI II tle. t,aisl local touuug,,
THIS On 40 mliro pI lar oaoai vNoa1d pay at
one cent pertonp per rlilr...#.. lS2o5.9lS 80
q co 4