Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-05-08

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Norfolk and Petersburg so
South Side = ~ so
Richmond and Danyiiie 90
4 Va. and Tennessee $50
Il Manassas, with fEanch llO
4 Alexander. Eoudoun and Hampshire l65
Northw estern lOo
4 Va CanaI 10
tRte hmend and York River 40
jCoyington and Ohio go
fredericksburg and GordonsYiile as
4 Roano Re Valley 90
4 Washington Bfanch
t.222
or the above roads The following in whole orin
part will be constructetI tins yenf.
tSonth Side. entile 90
Richmond and Danvfile 20
Va. and Tennessee 90
manassas 20
IiNorh Western, entire los
Iva. Gentrni fP-ssfs7- - & 20
4 Roanoke Valley 10
os5
81 1t wall require one hundred and eight thousand
tons OF Raii for Single track for these roads, say
lfwenty one thousand six hundred ions yearlys
(which nj ; 20 per ton will ain9uii to So 900 600
Ior 81 80. 600 pc nnntiti for this item alone. The
demand for iron rails is very tia The
supply, aud necessary conseq there IS no
EprObability tint the price will be less than It is
now, for many years TO come. The Whole msllu-
Etacture of rproad iron the world is supposed 10
he 500. 900 Ions pet annum. The Pacific rhilfond
fora single rack will require 250 600 tons to com
strnct II TO lie MlsSsSippl- Should this stupen-a
deus work be undettnken with view 70 scoui-
pleton, the iron business OF country must re-
Iceiye an additional impetus 10 its already very
prosperous and tiourshing condition..
From document published by The Massachus-a
lsetts Legislature in 1853 it IS nscertainsd thai
there IS locomotive for every fonT and half
miles OF railroad completed IN the State. Vir-
ginia, haze probably Tor every seven miles,
mole Khan one locomotive Tor every Ivy emily miles.
i be equal with achnssetts, we shall require
IN Virginia III the next 1--WE years, locomotives
including the i50 already here EQUAL TO 70 yearly.
Richmond and Alexandria are the only two pla-
CESS believe where locomotives are manu- iactur
et;s the latter, 1t stated turns out hr' per
num. lam not aware how many are made IN
your city, but presume The number does not exceed
| those manufacture d IN Alexendtie We have then
50 locomotive nanufa clured Virginia in year.
4 not enQugh TO supply he demand Ethat within all
ptobabIfty be made for item ius the next i've
yeats. Much the larger number OF the locomo-
lives mad sAlexas1fn are sent TO Northern mil
roads. ileye iearil II stated that the manu- fac
turers oil loconloi IN every section5uf the Uni
ted States have more orders than theycan fill;
thI8 is cash business il quite evident that the
difadens are mole ce.tain and relinble than those
tof the California or "A ustrnlia gold miner.
/, Mr.. Editor NiIginia has enboxied in her hills
and mountain ms. iron ore and coal equal aye sppe
fior, to amy found in other countless. "a rails
roads extend, both these products will be brought
into use and must enrich The State and all those
who employ capital and labor in working Them
rheiroa interest in Virginia ere long; will proba-
bly, not be second 10 any other Capitalists should
Il which use il 10 any extent.
Would 1t not, All. Editor. be much more advan-
tage6us, in every aspect which it my be viewed, il
II on= fhnlf of these young gentlemen whosa
Il educating themselves for law and medicine, aye,
and as many OF those who are selling tap and
H CALICO would educale thenlsel Ives lor manulactu-
IeTs Of iron.rails, iocon nsss aud machinists.
How much better would II be lso, il tile 40 0D0
adult males inthis State who can neither read nor
write. would only educate themselves III blast fur
naces, digging and melting igon ore.
YonIs. u.
I.Petersbnrg has turned out lately very good Ru.
A,slyERsARY OF the M1nYI.asp SuspsY School
| UNIoN.-The anuiy rsary meeting of the Mary
land Sunday School u held last mig hit al
the First Baptist Church in Sharp street, anilats
tended by numerous audience. The exercises
i were opeted with p aver 10y the Rev. MIR. Hitch
cock, after winch a hymn was sung by the char.
1.-THE annua report vas teaI by Rev. NJ. Brittain
IT u state The yianll Sunday School Union
was one of the e. rl' 81 organized, and was for q
long time one of the most iourishing OF our benes
violent Institutions. a few years since. from sone
cause which forbears TO mention, It's finances be-
came e pbafTassed. i was Subsequently, re-organ-
Used, aud alter Obtaining an incorporation,
all Ills iiathties were quhIated. in part by unso-
laicted donations. principally by the unexpect-
LED and generous OF Janes Cox and Thos.
/ WILSON Esqts. $
Feeble schools have frequently been supplied
Iwiili donations of books from repository estab-
lished for that purpose. and small fund stiIre-
llmains IN the neasury for similar purposes. Ar
rangeInenis have been mad by which the schools
have been suppliedwit books, but more vigorous
efforts are demanded for this department of Chris
4 tian enterprise than has ever been put forth
corresponding and collecting agent has been APP