Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-09-01
RntfrOadS Again.

We are compelled again TO the dresry task
| Of comnIaint. A short time since the an
pounc ement was made ths. the roads west OF
Lyncbburg were resolved on rates OF trans
pcrtation which would defy opposition, and
secure beyond all question the current OF
trade which was driven to Charleston and
Savannah, by their former miserable policy.
Facts, however, came to our knowledge on
Saturday last, which painfully demonstrate
the real truth, that the old stupidity continues
70 hammer the usefulness of these tne roads,
and to disspeoint the reasonable expectation
CT a long suffering. patient. and SILL san.
guine public. We feel now fally satisfied
that until public opinion makes itself iels'
! there will be no impruvemeot-and We, fof
one, shall give it direction and voice to the
full extent Of our power. Too maoyinterests
are at stske-of the State, of the sesbosrd
cities, of Lyncbburg. and of the great agrl-
cultural S)uth-W West, for any independent
press 20 be silent. We call on our brethren
here and elsewhere throughout the State to
speak out, ard help along the movement
against a policy which is SO rulnous to the
prosperity OF all.
1IlDklS III lioSe ~
Norfolk, Redmond, Petersburg, or Ale1an-
dria, came to our knowledge on Saturday.
A wholesale grocer from Knoxville, OF hign
standing, Informed Us that he was stopped
from thinking OF purchases in any Virginia
city, By the fact that the freight from klch-
mond or Petersburg was nearly If not quite
one half cent per pound on sugar and coffee
more than it was from Charleston or Savan'
nah, and that he could ship 20 Knoxville from
Petersburg or Richmond, cheaper by way Of
Charleston than by way of Lyncbburg.
Had not our Norfolk friends better stop
throwing up their hats, and give over the idea
of refreshing the Mississippi ut Memphis With
a bottle or two of water from their splendid
hsrbor.
Far wiser it would be to expend their en-
thusiasm 10 eending some one TO the Legis-
lature who would grapple the Lynoh6urg
and Tennessee extortion with the firm hand
of law.
Far better act with all their might upon
the board of public works-!ar better speak
outin unmistskcabie terms the indignant feel.
ings of a wropged and injured people.
And Alexandra, too, straIning herself to
death Tor the poor satisfaction of seeing al
omnibus more OF trabSeFs per uny pnee
through her streets for Baltimore or New
York, Wo were looking over the Gazette
Saturday, when our eye fell on a comuunica-
too gravely talking OF great prosperity, from
Alexandria becoming a distributing pointtor
tue cotton of Memphis. We are not in the
habit of laughing at the columns of the GA
zctte. That coed old journal is always 10
structive and Interchangeable this time we
couldn't we'll help it. Cotton from Mem
phis by those Railroads. A bale Of cotton
might 90 TO Alexandra by way OF Cape
Horn, the Cape of Good Hope, and across
the Atlantic from Memphis. Such q thing
is not impossible, although not the shortes.
route between the two places-but by way OF
the Lynchburg and Tennessee road! That Is
a stretch of Imagination which insults the
word possible. We are positively sure that
whatever may be the size Of optics with which
the correspondent of the Gazette is blessed,
be may determine to put in his eye all the
cotton that comes to Al, xandris, that way,
without the slightest danger OF damage toths
orgau.-!SouM Side Democrat.