The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-05-14
THE DANVILLE RAILROAD.

bout two hundred thousand dollars will be
quired. From this point, as we have said
ere can be no doubt thatit will pay. Yet to
bis point il cannot be carried without the sum
bove specified. Contractors must be paid,
and men and horses fed. There are, besides,
many heavy expenditures for the first year,
which must be met, but which never re-.
cur. These are for depots, water stations, &c.,
costly, but permanent establishments. The
engine which is required for fifty miles, is good
for one hundred and fifty, and this is one of
the expenses of the first year.
Could $4,000 be procured by private SUBJ
scripton, the State would be compelled to add
her $3.50, 900. and this would make I'D the re-
qured sum. The question is, cannot this sum
be procured? We address ourselves to the
citizens of Richmond, who are more inter-
es,ed in this railroad than any other. 1t is, in
effect, Richmond Railroad. twill bring to
Richmond the increased crop of tobacco from
the greatest tobacco region of Virginia and
North Carolina. 1t will bring all the produce,
Which passes down the country, parallel to
James river, from the Tennessee and Virginia
Railroad; for the South-Side Road is destined
TO be nothing more than feeder to it. There
is no other improvement there can be no other,
In which Richmond is SC Immediately and
deeply interested, for there is none other so ex.
clusively its own.
We feel the full force Of the delicate no.
sItion in which any man is placed, who al
this time, makes an appeal 10 the citizens of
Richmond for aid to any work, how useful so.
ever. Yetwhen the alternative is presented.
OF having this, the most useful ofany, cut short
IN It's career, before it has had the ability to
reimburse those who have taken its stock. we
feel that we are discharging q duty to the city
In making it. If 900 ofthe amount can be
raised in Richmond, the remaining 100000
can, with all ease, be obtained in Amelia.
IN Pittsylvania, and in Henry. Charlotte
has already furnished $4,000 towards the
expenses OF the road. We ask the good
people of Richmond, those who have houses
and lots. which they are DESTROYS TO see rise in
value, those who, engaged in merchandise are.
OF coarse, interested in having as much pro
duce brought to this market as possible, being
sure of reaping their reward in return freight
composed OF their goods, the mechanic, whose
prospects brighten with the increase of bust.
ness,which quickens every source of industry,
the tobacconist, whose interest it is to secure
for this market, all the tobacco that can come
to tive ask all descriptions of citizens.
whatever may be their occupations, TO lend
their hands, in securing this great object All
the old stock has been taken. 1t is proper m At
Richmond should take the lead in subscribing
to the new. 1t is true she has already done
much Her subscription, private and como.
rate, has been large to this and to all the other
Improvements which radate from her. as from
a centre. But she should remember thu,
hothIng is done, while anything remains an
zone. Inv will have been her public ZEAL
her money, her exertions, if she stop here-if
she allow the Danville Railroad to stop where
IL Isl her good sense and her public spirit
desert her at this. the most important crisis of
her fate-lt, for the sake of few thousand dol
lars, she throw away the untold treasures
which this improvement is ready to pour into
her lap.
TO The county of Halifax, too, we would es-
pecially appeal, on the present occasion. By
most singular train of reasoning. that county
persuaded itself, last fall, that it ought not to
subscribe 10 the Danville Railroad. ,hough
there IS no portion Of the country, save this
city, which would be SO much benefited by
II. 1t is one OF the very wealthiest counties in
The whole State-it makes three thousand
hogsheads OF tobacco every year-it is com.
peiied 10 carry this tobacco, in wagons, to the
James River Canal tabout sixty milesl or TO
maui II all the way 10 Richmond. The fire ght
enormous and the cost all falls on the pro.
Queer. Yet that producer is opposed to anv
cheaper mode OF getting his tobacco to market
inns is The sirangest of all the strange infama.
lions we have yet heard Of. Nor is the cost Of
transporting the back-loading less. We will
take the article of salt alone. or this article
the county OF Halifax consumes, annually. at
least 1850 bushels. They buy it here for 81
3o. Ii is sold, readily, in Halifax, for So So
The enormous increase OF price, is owing TO
The high freight which the merchant is Obliged
TO pay. The consumer pays, in HALIFAX
$9VVo more, per annum, for his salt, than the
merchant does here! Every article bought in
this market. and sold in Halifax, undergoes a
corresponding appreciation, for no other reason
than that already stated. The tax on salt. We
see, is equal to the interest on $4,000. and
yet the county refused TO subscribe $4,000
Tor cheaper method of conveyance. Take
n sugar, coffee, molasses, iron, steel, hard.
ware, crockery, dry goods, implements of hus. |
landry, negro's clothing, SC. sc. &c., we !