The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-06-16

REMOVING THE BARS.

Our readers are aware that the Council, al
;,s last session, reported a resolution for add
ing $4,000 to the sum already provided by
the General Government t$l9,0o0l to be APP
propria,ed to clearing out and deepening the
channel of the river. Col. De Russey, the
II,;,ed States Engineer employed in ,he sur.
vsv. reoor,s that So, 900 will be amply sufi.
c;ent TO give US fifteen feet of water, and that
will be enough for all reasonable purposes.
Thus, then, we may look forward with Ger.
,ainty TO the period when our harbor will be
enabled to meet, in great degree, the COM
merce which the completion of the Central
and Danville roads and the Canal will bring
us, in unteld quantities.
Two other plans are presented, both OF which
will be completed, beyond all doubt. at some
future day, and both of which, in conjunction
with the improved navigation of the river, will
not be more than sufficient to give vent to the
additional trade which we have every reason
TO expect. We allude to the Charles CITY
Railroad and the Ethan Railroad. The last
we hold to be more especially important to the
commerce of Eastern Virginia than any other
tide,water improvement of which we know
anything. 1t will give US the advantage over
all contestants for the commerce of the great
West, placing US, with respect to the Ohio
river, 200 miles nearer the sea than Baltimore,
and more than half that distance nearer than
Alexandria. We have heard persons who do
not seem TO have we'll considered the subject.
express fear that by building up city on the
York river, we shall do an irreparable injury
to Richmond. We do not see that there is the
slightest danger of anything of the kind. If1
We entertained any such, we should at once be
relieved by the example of Baltimore, ALWAYS
wide awake to its own interest, and proven.
bIaily sagacious ia pursuing il. She is mo.
wing heaven and earth to obtain an outlet for
her commerce through Jersey and Delaware,
into Delaware Bay. tfthere were any danger
to Baltimore in the seonsummalion of such a
scheme, we feel assured the people of that
city would Icing since have found it out. They
|eFe convicted, however, that there is none.
We have heard it said that the Ethan road
|uld not be kept up because the shippers of
reduce would be compelled to pay too high
ice for transportation, and in proof of the
ct, we have been asked to look at the car
age Of flour from this point to the Cat Hole,
y railroad, which,.it is alleged, costs the ship
re- ten cents per barrel more than it costs them
ship it direct from Rockets. 1t the Ethan
is expected to carry only some forty or
thousand barrels per annum, and scarcely
thing else, we admit that the analogy is
hplete, ard the argument Irresistible. But
he road be built at all, it will be built
Der the expectation of carrying ten times
1t amount even OF -four, besides imne nse
antilles of western produce, amounting ,kon
whole, to many tens of thousands of
Is per annum. 1t will be reasonable TO
kpect. also, an immense travel, always upon
road. Now, if a road thirty FIVE miles long
i, under, such circumstances, afford to
>HQur at three Or four cents per barrel, or
q cheaper, although il lose upon tina, parti.
sssserticle, We are very greatly deceived
THAT the Albany and Boston railroad
-d1fo1r two hundred miles for y.fye
Why may not this road, provided it
carry also other produce upon which TO clear
the loss sustained upon -four, and a large mum.
Der OF passengers to boot7