The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-07-09


We learn that the tJonvention At Bucking.
ham Court House, on the subject of the pro-
| iected straigh shoot railroad from Richmond
TO I.ynchburg, was !. most enthusiastic assem-
biage. The very warmest interest was DIS
rlayea In behalf Of the cause. The people
along the entire line are earnest in Its sup
mort. and their representatives at the Conven-
lion uledred them TO aid the work most iioe-
rsfly Col HoFpuRANr, ON behalf OF Buck
ipgham. pledged her for Si9o.Ooo Minimum,
suhserintiou. Other counties were pledgeo
for Internationally large sums. PoWha'""'
with her limited boundaries. was pu. eo"n
for ASH 600. The general spirit maniies'eu was
ar.r,ng To the friends OF the cause, ana
p,ohmond meets the people OF the country
en-. same vein--aud she cannot by pos
lss,,I,v meet them In any other-the road is a
"a fac. and one OF early consumm alton.
rns oft,eiai proceedings will, we suppose, be
IN due time furnished to the press. We re-
gret our inability to be present on so interest
ing an occasion, regarding the road, as we do,
of vital importance to this city. We shall be
Obliged 10 any friend for information relative
to the prospects OF the improvement In the
country.
F This railroad, connecting this city IN a d.
rect line with the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad, must be built, or we must SET at
pought every consideration suggested py COM
mon sense and experience If Richmond were
to commit so suicidal an act as to decline 10
take part in this grand enterprise, she wouio
ne considered as a WORKOUT and exhausted
city-ose tired of struggling, tired OF enter
Prise. and content to fold her arms to SUM
her people would say she is finished town,
and wants no more population, no more
wealth She would have no more accessions
N her people. and no more trade. city who
cop,d disdaiu the trade OF the southwest
co,ld see no advantage TO How from direct
channel of comm nication with the great val
lev of the Mississippi proper--and who would
refuse to aid in building so short road as thai
between this city and Lynchburg, to open that
direct communication--all sagacious obser-
yers would say, can never be a great city, and
is not worthy Of the noble advan tages she has
not the intellect to appreciate s-
But this supineness this indifference, can
not exist. Richmond must go with the people
whose interest are her interests and whose
growth and prosperity must add to hers. Her
people must respond to those of the south
side who have espoused the cause of this road
they must answer pulse for pulse and cheer
the strongest sympathies of mankind, that
there should be GOODNESS here while there is
en- thusiasm along the line of the proposed
terry of travel and trade which is to terminate
here 1t would be a GOODNESS of the heart
while the life blood was warm in The arteries
it would be a GOODNESS that cannot long exist
without death.
But we anticipate different result. We
have too much faith in the force of eircttm-
stances and the triumph of reason, to believe
that Richmond will turn deaf ear and cold
shoulder to this important measure. She will
see too plainly the value Of 4 direct commu-
nication with the great Virginia and Tennes-
see Railroad, and through that with the rail-
| road systems of Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama
Mississippi and Louisiana-nay, with the
great SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD which
| strikes the Mississippi at Memphis-to re-
main idle and indifferent while the peo-
| pie of the country are exerting themselves
| in its behalf. She will put her hands to the
| work 100, and 1T WILL BE FINISHED IN
| GOOD TIME.