Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-03-05

For tks Enquire.
Messrs. Edi,ors:-A writer in the "Whig" Of Nj:
day, signing himself Marshall " has very decided!
discovered mares nest His alleged facts are :
GENERALLY mies,ats as 10 require correction oaI Q
arguments aud iuisrences may snley be left until
haa adapted them 10 the true stafe of things.
He speaks at the Northwestern Virginia RairOa
N passing for the part along the margin OF u
Ohio lr;ver,." The road doe. pot pass for even 4
soot along The margin Of tho Ohio, but starting ffe
that river az Parkersburg, runs ~ nearly due east
the nature Of the county will permit for l0I mile
and connects with the Baltimore aud Ohio Rarc.
at point lou miles from Wheeling.
H.. cay, ;hat Petersburg j. one hundred o.
twenty lni!es below Nherng The distance Ue,<ry
those places by the river IL nlnetytwo miles, and
a straight line considerably lnsa.
He aays that "our grasping neighbor and r'T'
next applied for, and obtsned-by what mcaH', ~
haps the n-Et generation may lenrn-a charter 10 =:
tend her sJhd down the valley of the Ohio 10 sca
little town more than halt way down 10 itusysi
dotte." and adds, thet not content with thl-, "tE.
have d,niand.d the privilege OF pushing their vori
down the river, across he Virginia iwproprm'Hf,
rha mouth of Big Sandy. the Kentucky line 4
this is pure fiction. Neither Baltimore nor the u.
tmore and Ohio Company have asked for either
these privileges; much less have they ever "obtst
ed" 4 charter 10 any little town below Parkersbdi!
believe the Alexandria, LOudoun and Hamp-hi
Company are authorized to 20 TO Ravsnswood, s'r
forty miles below parkersbUrg. Perhsps they "
satisfy the present generation 10 10 the 'nsda. 7
which they obtained this privilege.
He says thu BsItimor- and Ohio Company ~
chartered in 1921. This should be 1927.
He says that Pennsylvania refused that comp1l
permission 10 go through that Stste. in l52s. Prii
syvania gave such permission, and in 1879 eS'en;-
the time originally limited for its construction ui-
1877.
He gays that in consequences Of this alleged refG.t
al. -.
ginia had granted the privilege one year esrss
namely, in March, 1877. The assigned terminus ~
not Wheeling. The road Was not to strike the q,
at a point lower than the mouth Of the Little hp
nawha, tina, is, Parker burg. In 1887. Virginls']
thorized subscription of three hundred thou'.,
dollars to the stock of the company, and in lSp
subscriptions in lieu Of the former Of upwards OF Z
million of dollars condition that Wheeling shot,
fret subscribe and pay one million, and this :"
first time the name of Wheeling il mentioned 10 81
act OF Firgi nia, in relation 10 that company.
lie 7ays that the rensOn urged in favor Of the Nrs
Western Improvement !. ".nt YsIy fractional psf
community ha- Il right 10 improve ,he naluIs
cii-- that chance Ia liz in their vicinity" &C. 81
Another reason ia that they constantly and hlaS
taxed fO pay III. interest and sink the principal 81 7
investments Of the Commonwealth in railroads
every other section, and ar. simple enough to q! 4
that this IL not sufficient for Withholding '
them ordinary Legislative facilities which can =
effect any one ese. NORTHWEST
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THE LEVIATIIAN.
Captain Harrison. who Is to command the les
than. writes, ihs Boston Journal informs U.s. IL
NJ is in hopes TO oe in Portland with his yessel IN 4
latter part of the month Of June and that he proPo
10 relnain there with her aeven weeks.
NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.
WASHISGrus. March 3.--The Senate yesterd'|
confirmed the following nominations w. II. Cus'.1
Cherrystone; &. e. Robinson, naval officer a,
folk; A. j. Denby, surveyor at Norfolk; W. Shat;
surveyor At Richmond; II. Hancock collector
Washington.