The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-02-19


source of prosperity to Chicago. II Is said
that there are already contractors for freight
of grain, ke., to be shipred from Chicago to-
Liverpool, without break of bulk
Here we have indeed awonderful exhibi-
ton Of commercial growth and prosperity
While our cities are advancing by steps so
feeble and slow as to be hardly perceptible,
this infant city of the West is leaping for
ward with a giants strength and colossal
strides. What is il that thus enables so young
a city to accumulate wealth and power so ra-
pidlyf 1t is that great WESTERN TRADE
which our forefathers in Virginia saw the va.
lue of and to obtain projected those grand
schemes that we have begun, but have not
the energy to push ahead with spirit to COM
pletion. Whilst we are standing still, every
community, which has the slightest partici-
patton in that great trade is growing in
prosperity and POLITICAL POWER.
1t is time indeed for Virginia to wake up !!
1t is time for her to cease her sectional jeal-
ousies and disputes, and to put her hand ear
nestly to work for her common interest, her
COMMON SAFETY; for in her political and
commercial strength mast be her chief refi
ance. Then let us have some VIRGINIA
ISSUES-issues relating to the welfare OF
our own State, the prosecution of her great
works, the pushing her onward out OF the
slough of despond, where she has been left
by her sister States. These are issues, COM
paredfgith which nonethat have been sugges-
ted for years deserve to be mentioned the
same day; nay, not the same year
THE BRITISH MINIsTRY.-The New York
Herald thinks, that in spite of the opposition
of the English Court party, there is but one
Ministry now possible in England, and that
is a Cabinet, with Lord Palmerston as its
soul and head But he must be at the head
of it. To fulfil mission like that devolved
ON Pitt. he must be the chief, and resort
to like bold and uncompromising measures,
to save his country.
PENNSYLVANIA KNOW NoTHINGs IN TRoU-
BLE.-It has been announced that the Know
Nothings in the Pennsylvania Legislature
nominated Simon Cameron for U. s. Senator
and that after an Intellectual ballot the elec-
ton was postponed to the 27th inst! In the
mean time, however, twenty-ezght Know
Nothings have in a strong manifesto, which
they publish in the newspapers, repudiated
Mr.. Cameron. They say in their address
that his nomination by the Know Nothings
was procured by the concentrated and CO.
hesive power of public plumber and the
sssuperadded element of shameless and whole
sale private bribery" They object to him
as san old political hack as ia Pierce
administration man, Nebraska bill man,
and hence they repudiate him because the
new American revolution calls for something
fresher aud better than Mr.. Cameron"
RAILROAD DIFFICULTIES. - As we learn
from the Alexandria Gazette, writ has been
issued in the circuit court of this city, against
the Orange and Alexandria and the Virginia
Central Railroads, to answer an original and
amended bill in chancery exhibited against
| them by the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad company, complaining of
these roads carrying through passengers to
and from Richmond in violation, as is al
| lodged, of the chartered privileges of the
Richmond and Fredericksburg Road. The
Gazette says the two companies have not
given through tickets between Washington
| and Richmond ; but that their route was used
| by passengers during the late freeze, they
paying the fare between Alexandria and
Gordonsville and between Gordonsville and
Richmond separately.
DESIGNATIONS OF MINIsTERs-The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Her