The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-01-08
SOUND SENSE.

we hnd in the Wincne9tc1 80 . h"ohs " ssso 30
rious consideration Of the Legislature. If We
may make so bold, We really think il is time
they were doing something for the benefit OF
the State il they mean to do it at alt.
The Wheeling papers tell US Of large con-
signments Of pork already brought there from
Louisville ID anticipation of the opening ofthe
railwaysto Baltimore This article has here
tofore been generally sent in The opposite d.
recfion, to New Orleans. How immense must
be the advantages Of Northern Atlantic mar
ket over one on the Gull. TO thus draw trade
500 miles up the Ohio and then 400 miles over
the Allegheny mountains Let our leg'sla-
tors, in whose hands lies the task and duty OF
building up Virginia sea-ports, consider TINS
fact, and together with the further one that this
trade travelled northward two hundred miles
along our Western boundary, seeking IN vain
an outlet TO the East until il reached the Dor
ders of Pennsylvania and found one there pro
vided by the little State of Maryland. THESE
two hundred miles are just so mucn OUT OF IT'S
way, for il might be intercepted at Guvandotte
and carried TO Richmond or Norfolk over
railway route fifty per cent. shorter IN eqnateo
distance than that from Wheeling to BALL
| more. And when il reaches Norfolk, IL VIII
| have reached sea port with harDor oeeF,
| wide, and safe enough TO shelter the combined
two hundred miles from blue water and only
| kept deep enough for brigantines by the dahy
| labor OF mud-machne.
How can they look at this STATE OF things
and hesitate to devote the entire means ana Gu
ergies Of Virginia to the immediate accomplish
ment of the Coyington and Ohio connection
A link Of only one hundred and forty miles,
presenting no difficulties equal TO those over
| come between Cumberland and Grave Creek,
nn a
nawha. and the State. will then have within
| her own borders. wholly under her own con-
lrol, and raising her rapidly TO wealth and
greatness the only direct communication that
can ever be made between The ocean and Inc
Ohio.
The Vrginian is not altogether right in It's
figures, but it gives Baltimore the advantage OF
its inaccuracy. 1t is two huedred tnd thirty
miles from Guyandotte TO Wheeling, and 1t IS
two hundred and fifty, if not more, from Banl-
more to Hampton Roads. To the shame-the
eternal shame of Virginia-she has gwen TO
Baltimore, which bears about as much relation
to seaport as frog-pond does to Lake Erie'
the whole of her Northwestern trade, and her
papers talk of Virginia as if she were second
Ichaboe or Lobos, whence she may carry Oh
the treasure at her own convenience. Inc
preposterous idea of making this burlesque OF
sea port the great mart of Southern COM
merce, is spoken of as fixed fact. every Gay
by her newspapers, while we have the choice
of half dozen locations, either one OF which
could float all the navies in the world. 1t is
lime to put a stop to this oyer-weening inso-
do hry
railroad TO Guyandotte. 1t would inevitably
take all that trade alluded to by the Virginlan,
and much larger quantity even, for it would
be met at Guyandotte by road traversing
Kentucky from Louisville. The Virginia Cen
trail Railroad to Covington is 207 miles-the
Covington Railroad TO Guyandotte is $3.50
that it is 437 miles by this route TO Covington.
Give US the railroad to Ethan, and in 470
miles from Guyandotte we can place the pro-
duce OF the West in water forty feet deep-in
,spstd crteK. - III tf1fee nodrs;" I'd sfeih6-Rg
can take the vessel out to sea. II the same
produce go to Baltimore, il will travel first, by
water 23O miles to Wheeling-2d, 2S7 miles by
railroad to Baltimore-3d, $50 miles from Bal
timore to the capes. Total, before getting to
sea, 767 miles. About fifty miles of towage
will take us out to sea Balance in our favor,
$50 miles-the whole distance from Baltimore
TO the capes.
We confess we were originally greatly op.
posed to the direction which the Central Rail
road was made TO take after reaching Gordons-
vile, because We think a glance at the map
will convince any man the legislature never
designed it to run in that direction. From the
Junction TO Harrisonburg draw Decline, and
it will pass through the very centre of Cor,
louisville, leaving Charlottesville 81 miles to
the left. At GordonsyiIle the road is thrown
of, as nearly as possible, at right angles to the
route it had followed up to that point. If it
had been intended &c take that direction, il
should have gone the shortest rOute-that is to
say, straight through Goochland and Fluvan-
ma, taking the hypotheneuse, instead OF the
other two sides of the right angle. But the
truth is, it was never designed to 60 there. 1t
started off from the junction In Decline for
Harrisonburg, and it was keeping that direc-
ton until it was, as we shall always think,
most unrIghteously detected. That detection
has already been the source OFF nealculabIe
mischief, and it promises a great deal MORE
1t has come, like comet, across the track of
our system, and deranged it all.
But that is not the question now. The mis-
chief has been done, and we are bound, as men
who love their country, to make the most oft.
1t might have been different; but as things
now stand, our salvation depends in great
degree upon our reaching the Ohio river with
this improvement and that of the Coyington
and Ohio.
More hereafter.
The SCHOOL For SCAHDAL.-The Exami.
ner is wrong in attributng to the editor of this
paper the remarks made, in the local columns.
with regard TO the "School Tor Scaadal."-
They were those of one of the reporters of the
Dispatch, and were not seen by the editor un-