The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-02-07
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IT, Nrief pasAefapA In he editorial columns
q ysslaedhyr DssrsssA, toaeAing Ne defeat Of
- IN appeopsiatinG ote,00o 10 The eossanua-
- q ~ noaaoks vaisy Railroad 70 Keys
M ~ accidentally mutilassd % - not to
- ernctly inssiiigtbas. The portion OF the Ar
SSA,e nunit,nd. assumed that the rejection OF
- Mtale iii was b. no means IN act OF
..nv o. The part Of the Legislators; BE-
-, eone Of 10 opponents are Advocates Of
49, proSects for roads nom Clarksville
~ easer potnts to pass through Soush.Side
>..ss,ee. including Aeeklsaburg, and con-
-, vvish the Soath-Side Railroad, or with
ahas noad and the DAnvtlle Road At the juno
Either one Of these alter.
nass prulecss viii involve three or four times
- mscA - the short road from Ciarksviile
- Esysvilis. and some Of them will certainly
- hacking At the door Of the Treasury before
hong Thets advocates, however, have more than
protAhay defeatsd their own schemes In de-
1sAsing The Keysville connection. That little
rcd viii most assursdly b built, and when
Il = 0ntsAod, IL will b an additional facility
70 The Roanoke region 70 communicate win
nod markets, and 70 that extent will be an ar
aumest aesiust voting farther aid 70 district
% much better supplied with improvements
than many much larger ones in the State
A.oshsr consideration adverse to the pros.
uects Of these counter.proposittons, is that
thsir friends having opposed % bitterly the
Ksysville connection. they cannot count upon
~ assistance Of the friends of this latter i'm.
proyemeut-in their hour OF need.
Nor will Norfolk be benefited 50 much as
her friends might conceive by the defeat OF
tASs small appropriation to very valuable
Improvement. Norfolk has . claim in the
consideration Of the Roanoke Valley Exten-
sioa, that Petersburg Ger tainly has not. Nor
folk subscribsd some S7O,OO0 to the construc.
tion Of the Valley Road-from Ridge
way on the Raleigh and Weldon Railroad to
Observation-Disclosures subscribed nothing.
Now, the question 10, which will do Norfolk
ths greatest injury, the construction Of the
continuation of the Roanoke Valley Road--in
which che 10 % large stockholder-to Keys
willie, or the construction Of road from
Olari.ville to the South Road at Blacks and
WHILST
TIE continuation to Keysville will largely
Increase the business upon the Roanoke VAL
10y Railroad, and thus lift mp that improve
meat from it. present embarrassed and linger-
ing condition. This will be beneficial to Nor
folk - . stakeholder. Again the continue
ton TO Keysvills will open route to Norfolk,
from her very wharves, to the upper Dan ana
all the rich region of country in Virginia and
North Carolina pierced by the Danville Road
and the proposed road along the valley OF the
Dan to Germantown, in North Carolina
Aud why may not Norfolk profit by such a
route TO . country Of such vast resources
Certainly there will be NO obstacle thrown in
her way, 20 far ~ our railroads are concern
"a. Every facility that can be afforded BY
the equitable arrangement of charges on the
roads and the mutual and fair Interchange o.
ears, will b accorded, we are sure, without
the slightest opposition. We should be il
fAvor Of putting provisions in the bill requir
ing this to the fullest extent. Then, if Nor
folk can offer the controlling inducement t.
the trade, TO Norfolk it will go. Here, then
are important advan tages for Norfolk, withou
demanding further expenditure from her.
On the other hand. what earthly benefi
would Norfolk derive from any Of the othel
schemes from the Roanoke to the South. Sid,
Road, or the Junction. None whatever. Tn,
freight would be drained from a road in which
che 10 Q large stockholder, until it would b
unable to maintain ITSELF and be probabl,
abandoned She makes, therefore, a great mis-
take in opposing the extension of the road sh
10 % deeply interested in to Keysville
After the bill was defeated, Mr. SEppo,
moved 70 reconsider the vote rejecting it. an.
IT was laid on the table. Soft may be brough
up again; but the vote was so decided as t.
leave but little hope amongst its friends. MI
BAsKaRvILLB, of Mecklenburg, made a speed
In behalf Of the bill, on Saturday, which W
did not hear; but which is generally pro
bounced by those who did hear it to have bee
Q powerful effort.
, With regard to the different schemes to whic
We have referred, Richmond has no very i'm
portant grounds of preference of one over an
other. We take IT for granted that those citi
sens of the Sou Side counties, who desire
new road, do not want it alone to 20 to Pc
tersburg; but they desire that 1t shall be so lo
Gated that 1t will give them the choice of tn
markets Of Petersburg and Richmond. Blu
Richmond knows how hard it is to raise me
1ey, and how much easier and quicker shol
road can Be- built than long one Therefor
she has NO hesitation in giving her support all
her means to the little Keysville extension
and We have no hesitation in saying that it vii
b built, whether the bill passes no. Yet
would seem to be hardship, a eelf-inflicture
injury, that Virginia, who subscribed so large
ly-say, almost the entire capitalize build tn
Roanoke Valley Road to connect with rail
road Of asother State, should now refuse a small
sum to unite that Valley Road with one of tn
lnnASu~ liuna In her own hOrdpraV
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