The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-27
THE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS CoNvEN-
TIoN-ExTRA sEsSIoN-PROGREss OF
TUE COyINGTOE ROAD

fishes letter from gentleman oil uis'hc'
ton and influence in Greenbrier county. set
ting forth the importance of the proposed
Convention at the White Sulphur OF the
friends of the great Covington and Ohio
Railroad. and disclaiming, on the part of
those interested in that Convention, desire
to connect it with an extra session. He re-
marks: "A session of the Legislature, COM
posed Of the proper material, is desirable, MS
all must admit; but the calling together of
the present divided and discordant set would
result in no good, but in great deal of HARM
II, therefore, any Of the Eastern friends of
the Covington and Ohio Railroad are oppos
ed to an extra session, they should not be
prevented from at once taking measures to
be represented in the approaching Conven-
ton, by the fear that the Convention will
throw its weight in favor of an extra session.
We say this, without relinquishing in the
slightest degree the opinion which we have
always held, that the interests of the State
require an extra session; that the Covington
and Ohio Railroad is quite as likely to re-
ceive aid at such session as at the next re-
gular one and that it was fatal blunder in
the new constitution. which limited the ses-
sions Of the Legislature to ninety days in two
years. The great interests of the State, the
accumulated business of two years, added to
the unfinished business of the last regular
session, will make the next regular session OF
the legislature a scene of the most unprece-
denied hurry and confusion, in which it will
be most fortunate event if the Covington
and Ohio Railroad, or any other great inter
est Of the State, secures legislative action
But while holding these views very clearly
and decidedly; and while we have seen nolh-
ing to change our own firm convictions upon
this subject, we are quite willing to make
known that some of the best friends OF the
Covington and Ohio Railroad wish it under
stood that the Convention at the White Sui
phur will not have for one of its objects an
extra session. We have received letter of
the same purport with that in the Enquirer,
from a valued friend and most estimable gen
tleman of Greenbrier. From this letter, and
from the communication in the Enquirer, we
feel satisfied that there need be no apprehen-
sons among the friends of the Covington
Road opposed to an extra session, that the
White Sulphur Convention will give its in
fuence in favor of that object.
Richmond, we can assure our respected
correspondent, viii be well represented in
the Convention. If there is any difference
of opinion in regard to the Covington
and Ohio Railroad among any of the mer-
chants, the mechanics, the property holders,
the bone and sinew Of the city of Richmond
if there is one of them who is not heart and
soul for the extension of the Covington Rail
road to the Ohio, we do not know the man.
There is but one voice among the classes we
have mentioned, in the opinion that the com
pletion of the Covington and Ohio Railroad,
in connection with the James River Canal, is
absolutely essential to the prosperity of this
city.
Our Greenbrer correspondent, also speaks
N very complimentary terms of the energy
of the Board of Public Works in prosecuting
this Improvement. He says that there are
about one hundred and fifty hands between
Greenbrier Bridge and the White Sulphur al
i'~oy at NOih kAet llCS AdfC
on each side of the Allegheny tunnel-the
Great Tunnel, as it was called last winter
which has been reduced from six to near
three thousand feet that the contra ctors are
preparing to throw two bridges across the
Greenbrier river having fifty hands at each
point that, within two miles of the village
OF Lewisburg, three miles of the road have
already been cleared, and half mile or more
already graded, fine and smooth, giving our
friends III that ancient burg ray of hope
Tor "a good time coming" This is all on
the west side of the Alieghanies On the
east side, between the Allegheny and Cow
ington, there is also a large force. One of the
contractors has recently brought from New
York hun. red Germans to work on that
portion of the road. This looks like life and
action, and we do not wonder that it inspires
g our western friends with fresh hope and de-
termination Let them be assured that Rich
mond will work with them heart and hand
ouf Hreenbrier correspondent Justly saws -
The destinies of the Central Railroad and of
the James River and Kanawha Canal and of
the city OF Richmond, are all involved in tbis
CovingtOn road. And he adds the roI,o,r
ing kindly and generous wishes for our citv
81 desire to build up Richmond; to make her
the first Capital in the South nay to make
her a New York, with thousands of spires
and hundreds of thousands of inhabitants.
making the earth shake with their mighty
tread. We all desire this, and will contribute
the last farthing to accomplish it." We feel
grateful for this cordial sentiment towards our
city, and rejoice in the hope that by the pros
secution of the Covington road to the Ohio,
Richmond will be enabled to share with 9th
er cities of the Commonwealth the benefits of
that system of improvements to which she
has so literally contributed, but from which
persevering effort has been made for years
to exclude her
PRIVATE ARMED SHIPS PRIVATEER
ING,
We coincide fully with a Washington cor