The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-01-26


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Ss... msfns .neI os.. sosn' 'ns' ys1'
PU.Won snoatu ue unossst0o1. 49, -.-.,.
ted ess,iss sss so.S Tbs Of sompi.ot iRss
mensioned va sxuisnea s.sissctoriiv. hope hat
as you have sincs Declined 70 sxecats the ordsr OF
the committee do nos know whether you still ad-
here to your purpose expressed to Tuesday even
Ing; skt
III you DO not intend to continue a. superinten-
dent ! win thank you to inform me without delay.
nsve wisned 10 see yoe ABOUT tne encioaeo ms. .
Out pus o.Ina un VIZ. SaHn0' feln''"
J '''Se'1 ronrAirx,
The memorandum related to some busiuess of
tne company, which he told me next morning had
oeen attended to.
ASK, now, whether Mr.. Timberiake was net
Souna, on ,ne principles OF honorable and fair
dealing, 70 have written TO me directly, If be did
NOT CONSIDER himself the superintendent. How
could ne reconcile to sense Of propriety, sfper
my cahng on him - did In that letter, to permit
me, MS silence, as was bound to do, TO consi-
oer MN superintendent, he did not SO regard
himself more especially, If he thought the sched-
uie unseIe, ought ne not to have written to me,
'ns% ssA seemed 70 expect OF him to examine the
..uoouie, ne was NOT superintendent, and as he
;.ousa. unsafe must not rely on him to revise
lne language OF my letter; do not
Iie'eiy enquire are you now superintendent but
II YOU 90 not intend to continue as snperin.
sn,, senoea., whi tnank you to inform me without
sesy. haa right 10 regard his silence as q
ueeAration OF contnuance the more so. because
% tuen ne1' oay !ound MIN IN his office with Mr..
,eA@ninius tue scneduie before sending 1t
" mn 1e P'iu.el'
~, .e.o ss sun anoIner opportunity offered for
h,u, .aoss appIoplaieiy 70 nave informed me that
-, u auu "nen again II was most plain.
a.; " lave GONE SO, tnas was MS view OF
s e.ou, oelns evloent 10 MN tnat was
oons ~ nln as acung permanently. had
s.e 90. :., ~ s.H y " spenu inc nonoays, ana
quey remaining t1ere, wnien ne ana all
S. wv nnSM @e woulo coneiude wouid not
s: u-o, - oio nos suppose ne wss IN tne luu
uisSn On ~ ~ =, ousy at ,nAt CRITICAL period
ou Ins @nn oI Decr, ailer the coihston, when |
acbednis and ba yro,a me- % rssa; anG.u !. 'hs
ssueuuie, anu ne wrose me refusing 10 90 II, ne
ulu @ 10. ulluoen DO ouperintenoent ana oio
Luz Au.ena 70 ooutieue, was nos nere most ap-
PIop.i1Io OCCASION iol MN 70 say sof IL no ion'
so. IL souuous ~ooiu no uos n@ve salo III MS
auS"er vi 'n"s uAts, All no' superintendent OF
your road' ana tneIetote cannot undertake to
cnange tne scne0uief Stiii ne does not say so or
any'nine h1s IL, out fe"arhs "lSn very mucn
tpat we couio agree As 10 ine proper poiicy, or
scneouie LOT running Jun 1hA!NS, leaving
lne coheiIsiop, tnas ne nad not resign
Gu, ana az tue same Time refusing 10 40 nis DUTY.
no" does ne account ior tnis strange conduct,
OF seeming 10 De ouperntendent, ana YET not dis-
cnarslng iss mose lmportans usies, aIalure "n1cn,
human NE as wen as properly he says II was
1rlenashlp TOT Mr.: Hunter tnat induced hlm TO re
main flenGsnp isa noDie virtue as II sometimes
sppears IN eAnloitons OF seHsacIinclng deveuon:
put was sucn Is ibis commenoaoief On the con-
Hafy coulo language paint II IN coiors TOO odiousf
- a. LIZ 'nS ne ~ y. tno ,ssse., VI, ~ 'ne
a Nd eli tha .;rn ,,arm;,t;n :, ~. d,st 80. =. .t
inu;nan. ~ Ill sh,. IT, e.oIs o. 70.
,;,a -.rn - d.ans, =. a. no eSs s;. us'no e
SsSs nsa of Ii. non1as - svart ~ no o,
oom,.a M ;orut, oe ~ t " n,s o"n az
go ~; g., - ,;ts;y'. 49, IT, ~ Js- ~ .I: % ~:
to-, of arna,;n,aoSan. .nd ';, o'Supy VIC posi
,sad rb;nb no thouaht 'n.fe Ia :. W. ns
o, , 10 t.,a at ua ~ $500. s-aS W. =. WIS
na na;,har si,sr !, h;neoa .us ils!us,
aa,rhar ~ ,ha poard af r. ,aIpI;s' ~ S y. my
All tb;s .s or, af s.;.mJsh.n =" M TI,.n.ns ~. ~.
.a.a h;,n sar,a r.,,a ,.h"rI w. " Tn..a.;. "
man md deserves tha fr;ondsb,r of rona 49,,
hr, tb;s v.s . n,ost ;nannrnnr;at. ia VI gu or.h,
Mi Su. ,n.s 40 moss anu uh"oi'ny
desired II does not seem ,ha, his fr;ardsh;r =,
NJ n;mhorI.to 90. of ~ -. @.:L -If =: "
dnco hin, -, snn,ross ~ ,h n" .rst "A.cn moau IN
uuce niln W suppress Ihe truta. AS some OF his
statements are reHeo on ies IL oe remembered lna1
hesays Mr. I1mberiake consented to send he
schedule to the printer, with the portion of the old
| one which was unchanged and had his name to it,
which was practically signing it; and farther that
instead of his being bound by mn authority not fo
80: s. ~ -, - - 100 - - hp - s ~ ~ ". =. nsf'.,e1 .,
niun 9 " man. any .uao he .nousns p,opei, VIZ
nioio "ahso'ouo 'ncA hc PioieSoeu to iegStu
IT, the more criminal was ne In falng TO correct
There has been much said about resisnipg, but
that does not prove fixed purpose to do So much
less that il had been done there might have been
some dipIomacv in all this spcb as The real
cf 1A,h Noyaphar exb;htad =
1',]
nave only one more remark 10 make ABOUT the
resignation, and that is, when be wanted to effect
increase Of salary by rendering his resgna tion
he knew very well whe were the proper persons
to communicate with and how to make il plain
that he had resigned He did not talk of rssigna-
| ton to the Conductors and Engineers on the road,
| and the very highly respectable Merchants on
Pearl street and In Charlotte sVie, but after learn
ing that was unwilling for him to resign, he ap-
preached the Board of Directors, with the follow.
ing letter, adroity contrved to bargain for an ad
dition ct 81 600 to his salary which hazard but
little in saying, was soon regretted by them, as
much as many man mas regretted oeipg mace
by him to pay too much for q horse. Here is the
letter:
RICHMOND, Nov. i4th, 1856
To the President and Board Of Directors Va Central
K 4. Company;
Gentiemen-For the last twelve montns and up
nave sven tne W niai nsfosd, as Sou,
IN vsrv nos.,hi .. t th ~ neo...t ;,
intersst and that in evsrv dan.rtmsnt Snow in
many things have not fully satisfied myself but the
fslu'e resulted from insblllty and not from want
proper asgoson or VIII 70 90 10. very great and
neasy 1ospuns'o,les, s @ o. ws o. very s'est laoof
tendeut in order to discha ce the duties in snts
II.