Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-01-17

Southern Route by Railroad.

Ii is evident that the connection ,f ..
link Of the great line Of road between Lyp.s.
burg and Charlottesville, is looked ur,r D..
the friendsof the Richmond, Fredcrirk,lvr,
and Potomac Road, As a severe blow. .. r;r
be seen by the numerous articles ,pcakir.
of the Great SoHthern Ronfe.
One in the Richmond Daily Di,patcb. =
December Goth, is AS follows The presor.
time by rail between Richmond and \a,.
York, is 20 hours and Is minutes. and BIZ RI.
proposed link, speaking of the Baltimore and
Potomac Road it will only be II hours.
Now | propose to show a great mistake in
this calculation. In the first place, it j. con.
ceded that the same route now used from
Richmond and that north Of Baltimore i,n
he used, which brings the whole saving #
time between Aqua Creek and Washington
bv steamboat, and from Washington to Bal.
timore by Washington Branch Railroad.
will now allow the whole time required from
AQUA Creek to Baltimore by present route,
five hours and fifteen minutes, and YOU still
have one hour and thirty minutes of the time
protested TO be sayed-thus showing tina, the
Is miles over the Baltimore and Potomac
Road must. to accomplish what is stated. be
run in one hour and thirty minutes les than
no time. | call that fast running.
Another induccmcnt in behalf of this new
! MARYLAND scheme i, held out by appealing
TO the taxpayers of Virginia. Well, | pre-.
sumo they are just rs much interested in the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad a. in the
old lines, and in fact much more So. than IN
the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac
Road, where the State has no controlling
p0wer-the road being almost wholly owned
by individual stockholdcrS-and the writer.
or writers, referred to. have been very care
full not to say a single word about the
profits accruing to this road by getting
back the through travel. and the route Is
acknowledged To be suffering, as YOU will see
by OH article in the same paper before re-.
ferred to, which SAYS The Wilmington
route has already lost immense travel by rhs
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
Now, r~ecollect that this same Wilmington
Road was one of the connections made with
the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac
Road, and the Virginia and Tennessee Ryai
is nor one Of the links of the regular Mail
, Line between New Orleans and New York
and by this Road, or Virginia Central ant
Orange and Alexandria Road, and only this,
can YOU buy II through ticket from New ork
To New Orleans. And still another article.
in the same paper, Of January 18th. in which
the insuiicicncy Of the Aqua Creek route
is acknowledged, in these words 1t j. la
BILE to be closed i'll the most uncer"moniou-
manner by huge masses of ice" And. fur
Their: We may laugh at the winter rupricrS
of the Potomac, &C."
Now, | am well acquainted with this sam,
Potomac, and know Of even something worse
+, than the ice; and that is a regular North.
eastern blow. which has mot may detained
the travel at this same proposed ferry IL the
! Baltimore and Potomac Road for hours, when
the waves were tossing the boat to and fro,
and the passengers were all alarmed for their
safety.
1t is well known that when the Orange and
Alexandria Road is finished to Lynchburg.
which will be in "A short time. it will be Il
much shorter route to Washington and the
North, than by Aqua Creek that Il largs
portion of the now small travel over that
line from Georgia, South Carolina. and a part
Of North Carolina, will find it to their intcrrr,
to come by L%ynchburg to Washington. over
the Orange and Alexandria Road and even
should the Baltimore and Potomac Road be-
built, the traveller from the South would find
himself i'll Baltimore by the Orange road, by
the time he could possibly get to this tims-
sGrtny route. W.
Gordonsvillc. Va. Jan. II.
I IST OF LETTERS remaining in the Post o.
IL fee. at Alexandria. Va. on the 18th day u
January. 1859. Persons calling for Letters in thiS