The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-10-25
RIC Il NJ 0ND, VA
TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER a5 lass.
Lynchburg and Tennessee Railroad.

We referred on yesterday to resolution
which win be submitted to the approaching
meeting of the stockholders of this Road il
Lynchburg, expressing their desire for the ex
tension of the Road to Richmond and ask
ing the Legislature for modification oftheil
charter so as to allow that extension aftei
they have completed their Road West o.
Lynchburg. We are glad to learn that Rich
mond win probably be represented al the
meeting of the stockholders, and we should
be glad if, in addition to the vote she is en-
titled to cast, some of her other prominent
public spirited citizens could be on the ground
to express their sentiments in regard to this
important measure.
We trust that the press of this city will
bring, and keep before the people, work in
which all must feel profound interest, who
desire to see Richmond participate in the be-
nefits of the great leading lines of Railroad,
which must otherwise build up Baltimore, not
only at the expense of Virginia, but with the
money of the Virginia people. If all our inn
proyements are but to render Us tributary to
the trade and prosperity of a foreign city and
Commonwealth, it would have been but Just
and fair that the State and community which
is TO have the benefit of them should also be
at the cost of constructing them. 1t is not
too late to adoptthis plan of completing apub-
Tic work, if the whole end of them is to
render us commercial province of 70
reign city Let that city pay the cost of ia
king possession of its province. Happily,
however, we have the means in our hands of
avoiding the serious effects of some of those
suicidal measures which Virginia Legisla-
ture has adopted. We have yet the opportu-
nifty to secure to Richmond fair proportion
of the immense trade and travel which are to
come from The Mississippi Valley, as well as
the local trade and travel of the great South
east chain, Of which the Virginia and Tennes-
see Railroad is so important link This
vital object can be accomplished by substi-
tuting for theindirect means which Richmond
now has of securing her portion of that trade,
the direct means which will be afforded by
an extension of the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad from Lynchburg to Richmond. The
proposed measure is rendered more impor-
tant, by the competition which Richmend
will have with Baltimore and Alexandria on
the North with their direct Railroad commu-
nication with Lynchburg; and Petersburg
and Norfolk on the South. with the Southside
and Petersburg and Norfolk Railroads. The
distance from Lynchburg to Richmond by the
proposed extension win be eighty eight miles
by way of Southside and Danville, it is one
hundred and twenty two miles; from Lynch
burg to Norfolk, one hundred and ninety nine
miles from Lynchburg to Ethan, one hun,
dred and twenty four miles; from I-ynchburg
to Baltimore, two hundred snd eleven miles
A glance at these figures, and at the map OF
the public Improvements of Virginia. VIII
show that the proposed extension is essential
to the prosperity of Richmond, and to her
security from the measures which have been
adopted to cripple her trade