The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-02-03
EXCELLENT.

we take from the Lynchburg Repuo''cah' "
the serious consideration OF the Senate
THE ALEXANDRIA CosNEcTIoN-l WI,
ginian of this place attempts TO tna ih'ain ue
Consistency ofits position. in opposing the con
struc,ion Of railroad from Clarksburg DOW"
the Ohio river al the same time that II ad'o'
Gates the c ,nnection at this point oil the hieA'
snd,;a and Orange Railroad. It's oolecuoh u
the Ciarksburg improvement 49, una, - = WI: :"
lure the leading Improvements Vi Va.
the Central Railroad, the Canai ana lne VIZ =.
giuia and Tennessee Rallroad-py cut''ng oli
from Them the trade and traVei vi 'ue ouio
river. bit il seems entirely oiihd ~ 'he 'iio'e
alarming fact that the same results, 10 much
eraster degree, will be produced by the Alex
sond,;o connection. Connect that road with
an, ,osd nj this point, and the trade and travel
,,b;ch the canal below this city, and the Dan
viii, and Southsde improvements, were de-
stoned 10 accommodate and convey to our Las
,s1n cities. will he cut off, and CARR directly
70 Alexandria and Baltimore, the great COM
rnercial rival of Virginia. Will II not be 4
WHY has Lynchburg always been opposed 10
railroad up the Valley? Obviously because
itwould play into the hands OF Baltimore, 10
the serious injury of all the commercial inte-
rests of Eastern Virginia. Why should Lynch
burr now favor road which will produce
identicaIIy the same result? Would II not
subject US to a renewed charge OF seLfshneSs
The Virginian thinks that the Alexandra
connection would secure q large additional
trade and travel to our city. Admit II, but tor
every pound of fr.ight which IT would bring
here. il would carry away one thousand,
which would not only be lost TO L> nchburg'
but would be lost to Virginia. But, SAYS me
Virginian, Alexandria is Virginia town. Al
NIT il, but eye.y one knows that Baltimore is
the centre of commerce in that direction, and
that Alexandra will always be tributary TO
that great. and growing Southern Emporium.
This, the reader viii remember, is written
by man who lives in Lynchburg, and whose
interests are connected with the progress OF
that city. Is it not true, every word of 1t! Is
it not fact, that the very results which we
dread from the Big Sandy and Clarksburg
Railroad, must inevitably. and as this writer
says, to a far greater extent, follow the Orange
and Alexandra connection Is not the fact
palpable to any, even the least discerning ca
pacity7
A change, marvellous change, change
surprising anything we read Of in the meta
norphoses of Ovid, or the transformations re-
corded in the Arabian Nights, he's come over
the spirits of certain gentlemen residing in the
neighhurhood of Lynchburg- When they were
pressing the Tennessee connection before the
Legislature, they vehemently resisted the
claim of Buchanan to the terminus. Why did
they oppose it? They said. because all the
trade would inevitably 60 up. the Valley TO
Baltimore. They wished this trade, they said,
to build up the lower country towns Of Virgil
nia-they co uld not tolerate the idea of spend
ing SO much money for the sole benefit of Balti-
more. Now, it has been discovered, that even
though they make a railroad all the way for
il to Alexandria-and though there is already
Il railroad from Washington to Baltimore-it
cannot 90 off in that direction. We wish to
know if it could 60 up the Valley to Baltimore
from Buchanan, why it cannot go to the same
place, when there is railroad all the way 2
Oh. bat the Canal--the Canal-and the South
side Railroad. They are to bring the trade to
the East. Why could they not have dene it
as well from Buchanan as they can from
Lynchburg
The Republican takes the only rational
view that can be taken OF this subject. Make
this connec lion, and you place Lynchburg in
the precise condition of barrel open at both
ends, and placed in the middle of a running
stream, one end up the stream, and the Other
down The trade and travel would roll on, in
an incessant stream, never stopping to say
"good morning" to Lynchburg. Who is gn
ing to stop at Lynchburg with his produce
when he can 60 10 Baltimore! This road will
drain il as dry as powder horn in less thar
Ave years. In less than twenty, the fact of {
towns ever having existed there, will be al
much the subjec, of antiquarian dispute as thu
topography OF Troy. The very sel6shnes
which prompts this measure, must lead Il
such contamination.
Gen tlemen tell US that the travel will seel
the shortest route, and that this is good argu
ment in favor of this connection. Are the
not ashamed of weapon which Baltimor
took the FIRST opportunity to throw away q
soon as she had used itl Her papers are no,
moving heaven and earth to obtain from tn
legislature of Maryland the rejection OF til
bill authorizing the airline railroad to pas
through little slip Of land on the Easter
Shore of Maryland. They say twill be cu
ting the jugular vein of Baltimore. Yet tn
Baltimore party here are endeavoring to max
this old Commonwealth do the very same thing
and when we demonstrate against il, we ar
told of the "dog in the mapger," and all tn
stuff that Bali more has repudiated, now tha
she has no longer any need Of it, is dealt GU
to US, as good and legitimate reason for cut
ting the carotid. For our own part, we de,es
suicide, and have but poor opinion Of tn
man who wo,ld commit it under any circ um
stances Still more do we detest it in State
- Sears c. Walker, the eminent astrono
ner and nathematician, died at bis brother,
residence, near Cincinnati, few DAYS since
His health has been declining for some month q
past, but more recently he has been able in a
degrse TO resume bis duties in the coast sur
vey, and to take up the CONTINUATION Of bis
sphemeris 9th planet Neptune,
CHARLESTON RAcEs.-The races conmene.,
ed IN Charleston yesterday. A goodly numbs,
OF horses have been named for the spor,, amoss
which We notice C. g. N. Greene favori,e
horse Gold in. We shall take ,ha earlies,