Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-06-28
9EMPFIELD RAII.ROAD.

HEMPFTELD RAILROAD.
- notwithstanding the strenuous efforts made
by the rctoed President of the Northwestern
Virginia Railroad to induce the public to believe
that this road viii not be completed, we have
daily evidence Of the fact that it is progressing
rapidly TO Washington, and then it win be an
easy question to see that the interests involved
mus. compel the speedy completion of the road
70 GreensburE. Even the present trains, run
ming only sixteen miles, give some idea Of what
this road must prove when completed, viewing
it as . mere local road even. The region OF
Pennsylvania through which it passes is inferior
in wealth and prospect to no portion Of the State,
and its productive capacity must be trebled by
thus afcrding them direct communications with
the markets both Fast and West. This to
Wheeling is the important view Of this case. But
70 Pennsylvania, and particularly to Phiiadel-
phia, these are minor considerations and sink
into comparative insignifcance when compared
with the vast area Of the West which this road
and its connections open up to the Pennsylvania
Central and TO Philadelphia. The whole south
eEn LsIfof Ohio, looking to the Ohio Central, the
Marietta, and Wilmington & GAINESVILLE Railroads
for its eastern outlet to marketand to purchase,
must, by the completion Of this road, fall into
the lap of Philadelphia and pass over the Penn
~sylvania Central. This trade, destined north,
now passes mostly over the Lake and Lake Shore
routes to New York, because it has to pass so
far north, for want of this line, before diverging
for the East, that it finds New York the most
available and readable market. Open this road,
and the rich valleys of the Sciota and Musking-
nm, the heart of wealth and agricultural pro-
duct in the State of Ohio, will turn to this line;
the Marietta will of necessity be completed; Gin
cinnati, ST. Louis, Louisville, Lexington, Nasli-
vile and Memphis, must turn their eyes to this
line to the seaboard, and a new and hitherto un-
approacfable mine of trade and wealth will be
opened up to Philadelphia, part of it taken di-
rectly from New York, and the residue develop
ed as It were by thus placing the market at the
very door of the producer.
Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Central
seem To have been blind almost, to the impor-
lance of this road to them. They have been
looking with eager eyes TO the Wilmington
route as having wealth for them, but they have
failed to discover that this is the only line by
which they can tap The reservoir which they SO
anxiously contemplate. The Wilmington road
terminates at GAINESVILLE on the East. No other
road looking to Philadelphia, but the Ohio Cen
tral, meets it there. The Stcubenvillc and Indi-
ana, which is so favorably looked to as the key,
by the Pennsylvania Central, is then 81 miles
back towards Columbus. Suppose freight is
brought on the Wilmington road for Philadel-
phia via Steubenvillc and Indiana Railroad. 1t
must be taken back on the Central, break bulk
at Newark, break 6ulEat Steubenyille, runacross
Virginia without a charter, liable to be in
terruptedb by State authority atany moment, break
bulk at Pittsburgh, and then take a fresh start
east By the Pennsylvania Central. What the
effect is of these 6reakages and stoppages upon
freight Ito say nothing of travel, which never
turns back) we need hardly say. On the
HempGeld there need be but one break Of bulk
between Cincinnati and Philadelphia! The diff
ference in actual distance is marked and in ia
vor of the Hcmpfcld, while the distance meas
ured by time on the break bulk line is too great
for accurate computation. This is only a sug-
gestiOn of a reason or two why the Hempficld
must be completed. We do not even allude to
the roads in the far West which it must control,
We have circumscribed our range on purpose
that We may not appear to over-estimate this
road. If Philadelphia aud the Pennsylvania
Central desire 10 compete successfully withNew
York and her lines, they must be up and acting.
We are told-by Mr.. President Swami that this
Road cannot be completed to Grecusburg. "The
wish was father to the thought" He secs the
importance of this Roadand fears it We think
he is too timid. We trust that there will be
business for both these Roads, and say to the
Philadelphia line that every days delay in the
completion of the HempfeId lisa permanent and
irremediable loss to the trade of your city. Let
the currents and places of trade once become
fixed, and you will find it hard to change them.
The present is always the best time for action,
and it is with you to say whether the Hempfeld
must be completed :~nstdntcr or whether it must
work its way to completion pari pGsau, with the
Northwestern Virginia and other roads in the
country.
The FRENoST PLATFoRM.-The Cincinnati
Commercial thus dagucrrcOtype the platform of
the party, and the candidates to whom it pro-
poses to give an earnest support"
at is an unsafe collection of truisms, plati-
tudes and fallacieS-a thing over which the shall
low may laugh, the judicious grievc, and the
unfriendly exult.
Top Acco-PREmuX DAY. There was a full
attendance at the Planters Tobacco Warehouse
this morning, it being premium sale day. Five