Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-08-01

Pittsburgh and Stenbenville Railroad.
The Wellsburg Herald states that this Road is
now under contract across Virginia, and that pro-
baby the work is progressing, &c. That paper
COMPLAINS also of the silence of the Wheeling pa
pers upon the subject. It seems hard TO please
fine Heard. If we comment upon the road, the
Heard is not satisfied, and if we do not comment
the Herald is still dissatisfied. Really, we would
like to know how we can please the Herald. Pos
sibly if we were to come out in advocacy of that
road we might please the Herald, but we hardly
think we could DO that eyen for the pleasure it
would afford US to crafty our friends of the Herald
Hoping that we may now atone for out alleged me-
elect in this matter we will briefly allude to the
condition Of this road and the apparent designs of
those connected with it.
Last winter an application was made to the
Legislature for a charter TO construct this road
across Virginia. That application was, after
weeks of Pittsburgh bullying outside The House,
and the ardent advocacy of DR.. Smith on the floor
of the House of Delegates, defeated bya voteIof
20 81. It's advocates then declared that they
would make this road despite that action and with
out charter. Then came the secession move
lnent, and what has gone with that movement the
Herald can doubtless inform us and also whether
it has improved the prospects of the road, or
whetherit was but designed for election purposes,
and having failed of its object has been gathered
to the past Well, then we Learn but it is hearsay
merely that the President of the Steubenville and
Indiana Road proceeded to acquire tile land tile
through the Cove for the purpose Of building the
road Next, we believe, IN the annals of this road,
comes the "tempest in the teapot explicit of the
delegate, son we believe of the said President,
from Steubenville in the Ohio Legislature, then
the performances of Capt. Naylor & Co., at Harris
burg, IN opposition to the Hempfeld and, perhaps,
the Injunction close the outside operations Of this
company designed for producing effect. These, TOO,
have passed away and are now regarded by the
authors as they then were by Wheeling, as idle
clap-trap, too weak and puetile even to excite the
fears of those designed to be influenced thereby.
Now to the substance of the matter so far as we
can arrive at it. Sometime since Mr.. Jesse Ed
pineton and Mr.. NJ. Wells advertised the lettings
of this road through Virginia. The day fixed fol
SO doing has passed by, and from the Herald We
learn that the contracts have been taken and That
the work will progress Immediately. On Monday
last. Brooke county court day, Mr. Wells, we learn
from the Herald, made an application to the court
SASSS SSGAASS ASS-AS
with their proposed railroad, and that the applica-
ton was referred 10 the road commissioners for
port, and will be acted on at the next court
This then seems to be the state of the case so far
as can be learned from the Herald, and itremains
to be sezn what will be the action of the court.
The Legislature of virginia, the sovereign pow
er of Virginia, has refused TO foreign corporation
the right to cross the domain of Virginia. Thai
corporation, in disregard of such REFUSAL in direct
contradiction and opposition to the right CT emf
nent domain, inherent in the sovereign power Of
the State, declares that it will invade the soil Of
Virginia with the aid of the landowners where
the road is to pass; and has even asked, through
its agent, the court of Virginia county, also to
disregard The action of the constitutional law-ma-
king power of Virginia, and to aid them, byits
order, or permit, in acting in opposition and eva
sion ofthe plainly spoken voice of Virginia. The
case one ofnovelty, and certainly the first OF the
kind in Virginia, and we shall quietly await and
seethe end and whether the authorities of Virgin
ia will tamely submit to this invasion of her soil
by corporation acting in opposition to the inter
ests of large portion of her citizens, and in direc
!, hostility TO the voice of her Legislature.