The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-06

gerous, and calls upon the company TO put
IN good order. Now we do not expect IN
inteiligencer nor any other paper to praise
road that does not deserve praise, but we NIGH
expect to see censure omitted where i, was no
aalled foi-especially when we consider tina
TO apply II as in the present case, our neigh
Dor is really inaicling injury, upon Peters
burg interest. upon the Petersburg and Roam
ole iailroad-ihe first grand enterprise of thu
Cockade city and now her most important i'm
provement. For if the public is to be fright
ened from travelling over the Petersburg and
Richmond Railroad, let US inquire-wiH they
not be driren also from the Petersburg and
Roanoke Railroad? So that it seems TO US
justice to Petersburg ought 10 keep the Intel
ligencer from at least an exaggerated repre-
sentation OF the condition of the Petersburg
and Richmond Railroad.
| The truth is, the Richmond and Petersburg
| Railroad was never in better condition than il
is now. A good portion of the road was re.
laid last year with heavy bar rail; and the
| company with the present season begin the
work of relaying their track with heavy T
rail. This fact has recently been announced,
and we had hoped would have found its way
to the columns of the Intellgencer-for the
good of the railroad line. Besides, where is
there any proof against the good manage.
nent and safety of this road2 After fourtee
years of constant operation there are two
accidents-one by which passenger, a fe.
male servant, was SO injured that she died. and
two others received injuries of which they
recovered completely and in short time.
Few railroads can make better exhi5it to
prove their good management and safety.
Il Gerrt Smith, the famous abolitonst
who is also member of Congress from N. York,
was at last dates quite i'll at his residence in
Petersburg. New York, having recently under.
gone severe surgical operation. Smith is
one of the most wealthy men in New York
He imbibed sort of black skinned enthusiasm,
which, however, has never gone to the ex.
treme of making him sacrifice much of his
worldly wealth. There was much parade at
one time concerning his liberal gifts of land to
the blacks-whereas, in truth, he gave only
some mountain and almost uninhabitable lands
that the negroes. as soon as they saw them,
ran away from as from a plague. Deeds be.
came no more to them than so much blank pa
per, and the lands of no more interest to them
than the lava mountains of the moon. The fact
is, Gerrit, like many others, hid no objection
TO the fame of a philanhropist, if it could be
obtained at a triAing cost, and was, for that
purpose, willing to give up the wild lands in
question, which were q mere incumbrance of
his estate. To that barren and rough region
ne invited the passengers by the underground
railroad but they had lived too easily, end
Jared too well at the South, to regard brothe,
Smiths gifts beneft-and so he lad few black
brethren to share the poor corner of his rich
patrimony he offered them without charge.
Gerrit Smith, indeed, has an inveterate habit
Of taking care of himself. He pushes his sell
fshness little too far for his own good. He
has an immense real estate in Oswego. and he
holds it too closely, doing but little for the
promotion of IFS value by improvement and sale
of part. He is therefore an old fogy. He is
considered in Oswego an obstruction to the
prosperity of that place. His black philan-
thropy is only skin deep, and his liberality not