The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-06-14
CONVICTION AND OHIO RAILROAD.

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the proprietor will not forget this.
CONVICTION AND OHIO RAILROAD.
From the advertising columns of the Charles
town tka.l Republican, we learn that propo-
sails will be received from the 20th to the ooth
of this month, FIR grading and bridging the
railroad from the mouth of Big Sandy to The
kanawha river, distance of forty-fiye miles.
The contractors are required 10 finish their
work in enc year. After most careful sur
vey, the location has been found TO be admira-
BILE, the grades being low, the radiants broad,
and no tunnels. The Republican says it
learns from Mir. Ruggles that the course of the
route from Scary TO Big Sandy is uncommon
ly direct. From the same source we learn that
from the Sandy to the Falls of kanawha, there
will not be single tunnel or short turn, and
that road may be constructed on which a
speed equal 10 any ever yet known, may be at.
tanned. The engineers are now locating the
road-staking it out-and making it, in all re-
spects, ready for the contractors. The Re-
publican pays the following well deserved
compliment TO these gentlemen
ave are glad to know that the engineers as.
signed to our Covington and Ohio Road are OF
the right stripe, having large amount of the
true go aheadltiveness-being ambitious OF
making the best possible road in the shortest
time practicable. We do not conceive that
the Canal Company have any right of way for
their improvement from the Falls 10 the Scary
and we can see no good reason why the
whole distance from the Fallsto the Ohio may
not be put under contract this summer. we
are encouraged TO believe from our knowledge
of the character of the Directors of the Canal
Company, that they will not throw any serious
obs lacles in the way OF the railroad"
1t is proper for us to say that we know moth
ing Of the rights of the Canal in the premises.
THE BRITISH SHIP OF WAR LEAN
DER.
This ship, our readers are aware, has arrived
in the harbor Of New York, bringing the Britt h
Commissioners and the contributions of Great
Britain to the Worlds Fair. Her appearance
in our waters awakens recolleclions of stirring
events, for there is history connected with
every plank of her venerable old hull.
We first read of her at the battle of the Nile,
in 1885, where she did glorious service. She
was afterwards dispatched by Nelson to Eng.
land, to carry the news Of his great victory, or
as he chose to express it, his conquest. Az
forwards she was transferred to the American
station, and in 1906, off the harbor of New York,
fred into an American vessel, in time ofpsace,
and killed one man. This affair produced terri
Bile excitement in the country, and combined
with other incidents, caused the Chesapeake
to be ordered to the Mediterranean. That YES
sci had hardly cleared the Capes of Virginia,
when she was pursued and fired into by the
Leopard, Capt. Humphries, and being in nc
condition to resist, was boarded, and three
men alleged to be British deserters were taken
from her ant hanged. This was the most di.
rect cause Of the war of 1872, for it reused the
passions ofthe nation to pitch that would moi
subside. 1t occurred, however, in 1907. In
the early part of SIS, the Leander formed one
of squadron that chased old Irons des, after
she had taken the Levant and Cyane.
Her mission of peace at this day, presents
singular contrast to the stormy scenes in which
she has been engaged.