The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-25
GRATIFYING NEWS TO RICHMOND
THE GREAT MIDDLE ROUTE.

GRATIFYING NEWS TO RICHMOND
THE GREAT MIDDLE ROUTE.
What we have long been hoping for, and
what we have always regarded as an inevita-
bic event, is about to happen perhaps little
sooner than we anticipated. This is a con
tinuous Railroad connection, Southwest by
South, IN n line scith tie DanrlHe Railr0ad.
The people of Columbia, South Carolina, are
actively moving in project to build Rail
road from that place to Augusta, Georgia
The question of subscription by the town
of Columbia of 100000 to this road is agi-
tated with great earnestness, and judging
from the signs afforded by the papers, this
subscription will be made
With that road all that is wanting is the
filling up of the gap between Danville and
Greens borough North Carolina, to give us
complete line from New York to Georgia. A
line that will be the shortest and most agree
able, and most popular of all. A committee
of citizens Of Columbia, appointed to take
the matter under consideration, in long and
able report, say
BY the present routes projected, the distance (see
leans Ia fifteen hundred and sixty-one miles-to Au.
gasta being eight hundred and ninety-eight miles
this being the great mail route.
By our contemplated line by Danville and Rich
mond, connecting the former with Greensboro by
road of fifty miles, (the only link wanting to Co
Iunbia when the Central road in North Carolina is
completed, the distance to Augusta from New York
will be eight hundred and thirty.two miles, saving
distance of sixty six miles. From Augusta to New
Orleans by the present route is sig hundred and
six'y-three miles but by the Warrenton, Macon,
Muscegee, and Girard and Mobile roads, the dis
lance will be five hundred and eighty seven miles,
giving another saving of seventy-siX miles, making
in ali a saving OF hundred and forty-two
miles. These roads are either completed, under
construction, or recently chartered.
This route will be completed-the gaps are
too few and short, and the public convenience
too imperative to admit of doubt on this
point. North Carolina has put her face
against the connecting link in her territory !;
but North Carolina will not maintain that
position. She cannot. Virginia tried that
policy and had to yield; and North Carolina
will be bound to follow her example. 1t is an
idle effort for any State to stand out against
public convenience-tO endeavor to stop the
current of trade and travel. 1t is worse than
Mrs Darlington trying to keep out the sea
with her old broom!
The subject is of the deepest interest to u.s.
Our glorious resolve yesterday to have our
connection with the Ohio, fortifes us in the
West-our connection through the Lynch
burg and Tennessee road gives us an equal
chance in the Southwest-and through our
great Danville line we shall be secure in the
Southern Piedmont region. Our skies are
decidedly Frightening. All that our people
have to do is to keep their shoulders to the
wheel, now that they have got them there and
Richmond will come out right. A brilliant
future awaits her.
MISSISSIPPI FEMALE COLLEGE-NR.
CRANES ADDRESS.
We have received the third annual cats.
logue of the Mississippi Female College at
fernando, Miss. The fernando papers give
glowing accounts of the Commencement OK
ercises The Annual Address delivered bv
our talented townsman, A. Judson Crane
ESQ, is spoken Of with very high, and we
have no doubt deserved, eulogy. The Her
nando AdUaAce says:
Major Oliver the distinguished Senator from,
the district then introduced A. Judson Crane Fso
of Richmond Va, to the audience who for one bonr
held them spell bound by of the most interest
inc orations which we have heard for MANY wears
Laying aside all the brilliant glare OF mere rhetoric
ami verbal grandlioquence, he gave us an address.
original IN conception, sententous in style and prac
teal in design His positions were bold and by the
mere use of logic, could not have been sustained
AIDED however, by history, written and unwritten
domestic and foreign, lew would be willing TO CON
t'st his propositions with any hope of success The
address interspersed with classic sIInsions
enough to show that he has read the world in hooks
as well as by sight; that he had read the tbongbts
others, as well as thought himself We cnnsiar
n hin iorcible, and an eloquent speaker"
The Peoples Press, published in the Same
place, says:
The Annual Address of A Judson Crane T..
was listened 10 with unwearied attention and ssad
ed 10 reach the public heart and popular mind =,
was original in thought and senten,ious in stvIe
A correspondent of the Advance paws il
the following warm tribute:
"Mr. A. Judson Crane. of Richmond Va vas
then introduced to the sudience by Mai Oliver and
proceeded in strain OF rare and classic eloauence
10 deliver the Annual Address His theme .sT'be
Influence OF Woman on AnglO-Ssxon Civiliz alton >
wss handled with The skill ot a master and inyes,
ed with an original and profound interest which
chained the attention OF the entire congree ration
Notwithstanding the excessive heat of the weather
and the crowded state of the room. During the de-
livery OF the address, the orator was interrupted
by repeated rounds Of applause, called forth by
come feicitous alluson or some splendid burst of
eloquence; and when at last it was ended the only