Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-05-02
Hempfield subscription.

Hempfeld Subscription.
An absence from the city during the greater por-
ton of the past week has prevented any notice of
the action of the Council in relation to the pro-
posed subscription of $4,000 on behalf of the
city to the capital stock OF the Hempfeld Railroad
Company. The ordinance relating thereto is found
in anether column and we invite the attention of
the voters of the city to its terms with view TO-
determining what action is proper 10 be taken un-
deri We should be doing injustice TO our mast
position, did not say that when this proposition
Was inst made, we were anything but favorable to
it An abiding desire TO preserve the credit of the
city, to reduce rather than increase the already
butdensome taxes of our citizens. had the neces-
sary tendency 10 make us approach with caution
any proposition which might tend TO increase our
ultimate Indebtedness already the largest compara-
tive city Indebtedness for railroad purposes in the
Union. No one, conyersant with the history and
connections of the Hempfeld Railroad, could for
moment doubt its pre-eminent importance to
this city, and its abstract merits as line, If not
the Central line. connecting the Atlantic with
the waters of the Gulf and ultimately with the
Pacific itself No propositions from any quarter,
could have more fayorably commendelitself to the
feelings aud interests OF our citizens than one
which invited them to further aid this road, SO
vital to them, and at the same time, SO important
as great connecting link in the national line of
railway, tending from the Atlantic to the western
seaboard, and we, in common we doubt not with
othets, were deferred from giving immediate
support to the measure. FIRST, from the further de-
sire before stated of protecting the credit and in
dehtedness of the city, and secondly, from the
further desire OF learning the necessity of such
tiono our part for the interests of the road ITSELF
Upon both these points we have been more than
satisfied from the thought which we have bestowed
upon the question, aidet by the lucid exposition
of the President and officers of the Road, and The
terms on which they propose TO receive the con-
templated subscription, and now that the question
IS before for adoption or rejection, we have no
hesitancy i'll giving to this measure undivided
support. Such course is ImpeTativeIy demanded
alike by the interests OF city, the interest of
the ROAD and by the cause Of Railway improve
ments itself. The Hempfeld Railroad is impera.
lively the road for our city. 1t is the master key
which unocks the avenues of the west and bids
her innumerable railway Improvements haste 10
the Eastern Seaboard by The shortest and most d.
ect route. Without it, more northern lines can
safely compete with our present Seaboard connec-
tion, alike in time aud distance, while the acile
grades OF some of them us compared with the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, must always give
which they fully appreciate and are over-ready 10
take advantage OF.
With the Hempfeld Railroad we can enter the
lists with marked superiority 10Th as TO time, dis
taIce and cost of transportation. Nor is this ALL
Ghe Ohio iues of r il.saa.- Leaking toMards the
and appreciate the pre-eminent advantage OF a
connection withthe Hempheld Railroad over any
other road to Philadelphia and New York, while
even freight aud travel seeking Baltimore finds
ready and superior outlet by way of the Hempfeld
and Connellsyille, or Hempfeld and Susquehanna
Railroads to that city. is therefore emrkatical-
ly the eastern outlet FOR the western roads, and
for us, it will act like chemical agent, so as to
, fix and draw together in harmonious union, the
discordant reads now having no affinity with each
other. twill control the wild visions of the man.
ayers of roads West, and compel themb by the IL
resstible appeal of self-interest to make their
connections here, and here only.
Aword more and we conclude. 1t has been OBJ
lected that the amounti is loo great, and that it is
unconditional This is not tile fact. The Coun-
Gil have full and perfect discretion TO the amount
as well as terms of subscription. Past experience
has demonstrated the necessity of their having this
discretion, and without it we would advocate no
railroad subscription whatever. The maximum
alone is fxed and the Council have full authority
to subscribe such less sum as they may deem pro-
per, and on such terms as they approve Of and
should the people delegate authority to them, we
doubt not they will so use it as 10 promote, pro-
tect, and guard the interests of this city. They
are'the cuStodlans of our credit, and of our gene
raj interests, and they will not dare TO prove dere
lict in either. The vote contemplated merely
leaves the question of So description or no suLscrip
ton, the amount and terms in their hands, They
will, no doubt. protect the one, and subserve the
other by looking on this as on other subscriptions
primarily to the interests of the city. Entertain
ing these views we shall cheerfully advocate the
affirmative of the proposed vote. and we doubt
not bnt our citizens generally will see the impor-
lance of placing it in the power of the Council
TO aid further the Railroad, confident that such
aid will be extended on terms acceptable TO The
company, and at the same time, on such terms as
will subserve the interests and promote tile pros
periey of our city.
The Mayorality in Philadelphia.
Inthe Wing Convention of the consolidated city
ofPhilidelphia, objections were made to The nomi-
nation of Judge Conrad, on account of an errone