The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-13

only remaining question then l. the cost, the
time required to build arailroad Of two thou
sand miles long over an uninhabited desert,
the workmen and their provisions, the timber
and the material of al kinds to be supplied
from the two extremities."
Great il Yankee enterprise, sbut we doubt
whether the Pacific Railroad will be built
for the next hundred years. Long before
that time, California, the golden star OF the
West. may have shot from her sphere In our
federal system, and dozen OF her sister
planets followed in her train. -
THE CENTRAL RAILRoAp.--Every travel.
Ter by the Central Railroad expresses admi-
ration of the solid and elegant character of
the road (al but a few miles of which are laid
with heavy raip and all its equipments, 1t is
one of the best roads in the country, and for
safety and speed cannot be surpassed
Those who recollect the old, Stacking road
of ancient times, are astonished and delight
ed with the change, as they glide ra1idly and
smoothly over the substantial tralk. The
luxurious cars, the polite and accommodating
conductors, the delightful region IF country
penetrated by this road, make it One of the
most attractive roads to TRAVELLERS in the
United States The mountain track is mira
Gle Of modern art 1t is not only great
achievement of engineering skill, (which has
added new garlands to the laurelled brow of
Mr.. Elicit but it is as substantial a structure
and as safe in every respect as any other part
of that or any other road in the United
States.
This road will afford great facilities to trav-
ellers and pleasure seekers next summer on
| their way to the Springs. We trust that the
next Legislature will treat it in more liberal
spirit than the last, and will hasten to their
completion both the Central and the Coving-
ton railroads.
KossUTH-The Hungarian exile is writing
| long letters to an American correspondent,
which appear in the New York Times. In
one of these he recites the predictions he has
| made as to the results of the plan OF militia
ry operations adopted by the allies, and
proves himself very good prophet. He
says he foretold them the very number OF
| their losses England's $4,000 have been re-
duced to less than $4,000 month ago.
| scarcely one out of five will ever return"
were the words ofKossuth. Even the French
army, he says, has lost more than half its
number, and the very Zouaves, "those men
of iron," lost so per cent. Kossuth predict
ed their defeat, and he considers them al
ready virtually defeated, for, says he, Give
months of unsuccessful siege of half open
town, is defeat; and this very month we read
the intelligence that ''the English are retiring
from the siege before Sebastopol to Balak
lava
A good many others besides Kossuth pre-
dicted the same thing; but were laughed at
as wiseacres by the knowing ones of this
world. Kossuth ventures on some farther
predictions which we hope may prove as
true as his former ones. He says:
sand worse will yet come. Oftwo things one,
either Bonaparte, with England in his wake)
does not succeed in his policy of alliances so as to
make them dangerous to the Gear; or he does sue
ceed If he does not succeed, then he falls by the
Car; England has no army more, and England
and Bonaparte not able without allies to cope
of fact whereas if he succeeds 10 his policy of al
liRnces, SO as to cause serious apprehensions to
Russia, he drives Revolution In the hands of Rus.
sa, and he falls by what he desired to avoid.
AT present, Bonaparte seems likely to sue
coed Sin his policy of alliances" The cham
pions of freedom" are banding all the DIES.
pots of the world in league against the
Gear. With such facts staring mankind in
the face, it will not be easy longer to gull
them with the idea that the Western Powers
are fighting the battles of human liberty.
That transparent pretence has been explo-
ded by their own hands.
Kossuth exclaims: Imagine all Europe
hanging on the thread of one MANS Bona
partes) and such man -life and luck and
then imagine that thread broken. Oh how
| this rotten Babel will break to pieces at
single blast"
| kossuth states that the French army in
the Crimea is on the brink of a military re.
volt; that the war is so unpopular in France
that not one volunteer is to be had either for
love or money; that differences and division
prevail in the headquarters of Bonaparte
and the very midst of the family, Fould and
Morny, being for peace at any price, and the
| Emperor fora war, but a war restricted to
the Crimea and to the Pruth at utmost
The grand project for the dismemberment
of Russia, and the demolition of Sebastopol
seems to have dwindled down to a yerv small
point.
HE NEW REGIMENTs.-It is to be hoped
that the offices in the new regiments will be
filled by men who have had military edu
cation, or some military experience in the
wars of the country. Those offices, it is to
be presumed were not created for private
benefit, but for the public good, and ought
only to be placed in the most practiced and
efficient hands.