The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-18
DlsrAN cES ON THE CENTRAL RAIL.
ROAD.

| DISTANCES ON THE CEN rRAL RAIL.
We made our estimates yesterday from
memory, not deetning il necessary TO be accu
rate 10 a hair. For the benefit of those who
love minuteness, we subjoin from MIR. Shaw's
letter, the following table. II will be seen thai
we were not far out of the way
From Stanton TO Baltimore via Winchester
| 2l8 miles.
4" by Alexan
dria. 1876
3" Richmond 1862
| miies, thence to York river, 4o ITO
r,om Ra,,;,,s - c,nas ofya.. 200
| York river 10 capes, w
| Stanton to the Capes OF VIZ 40 =
| ginia via Winchester, 40
p;. b,aonion 10 OF" '''' o36
h1 psi,;m 10 favor u '' ls2
| " over
Aiexandria, ia
| These are the distances that the "curves and
| grades on the Alexandra Road and the
Staunton Road are to neuralize, according to
a "Cax. PAYER and Citizen" The absurdity
| of the thing is apparent. The gauge on the
| Central Railroad will he the same with that on
| the Covington and Ohio Railroad, and with the
Big Sandy and Lexington Railroads, so thai
by proper arrangement, the same cars may
pass all The way through from here to Lex
ington, Ky. Produce is TO come all the way
from Kentucky to the Orange and Alexandra
Road. There it is to be darted upon, as an
eagle darts upon fsh-hawk-and carried of
to Baltimore, directly in the opposite direc.
ton from deep water. The notion is too alb
surd. 1t will not hold water.
l. The IRISH ExoDUs.-The London Times
still port-ays the effects of the astonishing
| fight of the Irish population from lreland.-
The Galway papers represent that bodies o
| emigrants, often amounting to over 100, daily,
are leaving by railway for The seaports. La
| boz is getting scarce, and wages are incre ased
| Letters, inclosing remittances from America
! were pouring in TO pay the fares of the emf
grants, and the Times adds, sit would be idle
to expect any check to the great clearance
sy stem now in progress, and which seems like
ly TO last until the Celtic race shall haze
rholly passed array from the Northern coun
try" And what then /? We shall see. Pro
badly England may find, when she has lost
the Irish, that she has "thrown away pear
richer than all her tribe" If so, we may fe
| licitate ourselves that we shall have taken thai
| pearl into our own house.
| The Times goes on with its dark pictuie.-
From Westmeath and King s county, ii learns
the emigration is equally great. In the latter
especially, there is scarcity Of han Is for the
spring work Ia some districts whole villages
have been abandoned. On Sundays there is q
painful evidence of the iepopulation OF the
country in the absence of the gay assemblages
on the roads which were wont TO be alive with
people. The stranger may pursue his journey
almost in soIitude-not even beholding the
| '.dance at the crossroads,' pastime usual
among the peasantry in their happier days.
| In the last week in April there took shipping
from New Ross and Waterford, 1l48 emf.
grants.
To add to the melancholy picture, crime
still continues, and the same Times from
| which the above facts are obtained, gives an
| account OF the execution of three persons for
murder at Ennis. They were all naEned Stack
| poole-Richard Stackpoole and his wife Bird
| get and Honora SIackpoole. The husband
of Honora was in prison awaiting his trial,
and would doubtless be also hung