Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-04-19
Cleveland and pittsburgh Rai1roaa.


The Wellsburg Herald in its issue before the
last alludes to the fact that the city council had
authorized the subscription of $50, 900 TO this road,
and asks where are the 4-5ths ofthe citizens, which
the Intellisencer stated were in favor of the Vir-
GINA shore! That paper then, as usual, charges
bad faith upon Wheeling. We cannot lay our
hand upon the extract, but believe we have cor
rectly stated the points in it above. Our answer
IS easy. We have always, from the beginning,
been the avowed advocate of the Eastern shore
route, via Wei s5urg to this City, from Wellsville
We openly avowed that route, and would vet
prefer 1t. Bat we have always said that we
wanted this road. conc what side it might" and
While we would have been most gratifed to have
seen the Virginia Route adopted, we advocate the
making of the road, even though our preferences
as TO route have been ever ,uled by the decision
OF the Company. 1t is rather surprising that the
editor Of the Herald should so assduously labor to
misrepresent and impugn the motives and actions
oithis paper, and we cannot conceive what good he
proposes to the public, or even to himself by such
course unless it be TO crafty the supposed pref
udices OF very small fraction of Brooke county,
or perhaps TO increase his subscription list in Hol
laday'S Cove. If his either grat6es or prof
its him we are content.
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q Mr. Sweeney procured the passage of the bill by
the Senate, giving the most ample aid from the
State. The delegate from Brooke and Hancock
while admitting that the Objectionable part had
been stricken out, yet refused to aid the bill One
of our Delegates had left for home, and was in
Baltimore. Upon understanding from the Del
egate from Brooke and Hancock that he would
support the bill in the House, our Senator tele-
graphed to Baltimore. and the Delegate returned
10 Richmond 30 aid in its passage. We learn that
the bill would unqueStonably have passed. 1t
was laid on the table the motion of the delegate
from Il. and H., and not ell referred, and there
II has since aimed. We have nothing to say as
to the course of the member from B. and Fl. He
is anSwerable to his constituents and them only
TOR his course. 1fthey approve it, well and good,
we only wish them to understand that the Senate
bill would have passed. had it received the support
oheir delegate after the restrictions were stricken
out" and with this bill we could have influenced
the construction of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh
Railroad in Virginia. Wheeling has done all she
could do for the Virginia route, and when the
sound of the steam-w histe is heard in La Grange
when the produce and trade of Brooke and Han
cock are seen crossing the river into Ohio, and
building up the towns of Ohio, rather than Viz
gnia, the citizens of those counties will perceive
too late their true policy, and discover that they
have been ''contending for shadows while the SUBJ
stance has passed from under their hand" They
will at least perceive that VIC have done all we
could do, and that had we received from them the
aid which we had right to expect, they would have
participated in the advantages Of the road which
we must now reap alone.