Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-03-15

our correspondent says Gu "a lCeo Nlate Oy
gradual and peaceful means is being
promptly acted on in Preston cOualy,
which is always foremost in every good
work. Let the other counties emulate her
example.
Re-OPenInE OF the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad.
Our readers in the interior of Western
Virginia will be much gratitied at the pros
Pees of an early opening to trade and travel
on the Baltimore Ohio Railroad. 1t has
been repaired as far as Marliusburg, and
trains arc now running to that place.
Large numbers of Workmen are actively at
work lower down along the Potomac, and
it is confidently expected, We believe, that
the whole road will be thrown opeu next
week. Since the retreat from the line of
the Potomac by the rebel forces, and their
withdrawal into Central and Southern Viz
giuia, the work is prosecuted with entire
security, aud that whole region is now so
thoroughly cleared out Of rebels that there
will be as much safety and immunity from
annoyance along the route as there used TO
beiuthe ralmy. days Orthis great thOl Ough-
fare
People hsreabOuts will soon have an OPP
portunity of renewing acquaintance with
people and places along the line that they
have not seen since last May, or Of visiting
Baltimore or Washington by the short and
direct route, as they have not been able to
do f,r the same period.
To our shippers aud importers here the
opening of this road viii be an important
and gratifying event, For nearly year
they have been shipping aud receiving
ffsiShIs to aud from the east by arOute sell
dom used while the baltimore route was
fres-no more direct IRON Philadelphia and
New York, and vastly less direct from Bal
timOre. Whether the ireiShts on the Penn
sylvauia were formerly higher than on the
Baltimore and Ohio, it is certain that since
the closing Of the latter they have been
greatly increased. THIS was but the nat
ural result OF lack OF wholesome compe-
tIiou- At the same time the facilities and
Recommendations on that road have not
been correspOniingiy increased, and our
business men have had to endure not only
high prices but Inconvenience aud DELAYS.
The re opening of the Baltimore road will
be relief to them in more ways than one.
There is another class to whom it will be
still more beuedeial-not here in Wheel
ing, but in the interior, 10 all that section
OF West Virginia, which relies for its trans
PortauOn on this road or its branch, the
North Western Virginia Road. Bal
tiuore has always since the completion of
this thorOughfare been the chief market
for the production OF their farms. Aud
Baltimore, and Philadelphia via Baltimore,
have been the chief resorts of Western
Virginia country merchants for their semi
annual purchase of fabrics. For almosta
year past the farmers thus situated have
made no shipments by this route, and nice
tsnths OF them by none other, and as a re-
suit there has been no corresponding re.
turn of wealth. They have suffered
greatly, even those who have escaped the
rayAges Of the rebel horse thieves aud
Pluderers that have iafesIed some of the
back counties.
Roads, facilities for transportation, out
lets 10 markets, are essential to the VEIL
doing OF al agricultural people aad this
has hsea wanting to that people for nearly
ayeAr. Now ii is returning 10 them. and
they cannot bat feel Slhted At the prospect
II opens for an Improvement of their Juan
sss aad general condition.
1t is scarcely Necessary to do any more
than allaae 70 the advantages this road
formerly Afforded, and soon again VIII otter
TO oar neighbors in Ohio, and their neigh
bOrs stu further West for the transmits
Sioa TO the Atlantic markets Of their vast
stores of grain ani cattle. No ioab, the
sEPsrisaee and Pra>iice Of pAst years in
thai respect win very shortly be reaeUsd.
HoU greatly the interests Of the GsTeru-
meat (And through it, Of the whole eoun-
Try are 70 be advanced BY the reAabitita,
tioa Of the Baltimore Road, viii be seen
by every one, in the increased faeilities in
the shipueat of troops aad army stores,
and the consequent reduction Of freiESts
on the same. How advantageous it may
be in other respects, cannot we'll BE esti-
mated. 1t sometimes hapPens that il IS
worth eAmpaiEu, or At least battle, 10
have At hand the utmost facilities for the
speedy transmission Of troops from one de-
PartmSnt to another. At any rate, The
fact that the Government vOluntsercd its
protection to the rad. saf5eieutly shovs
how much its aayantaEes have been and
yet viii DO needed by il
On the other hand, there is animportaat
class Of Our eiiiseas, who it's feared viii
be iuiur "a by The renewal of trade With
Baltimore. We ailoae 10 our wholesale
merchants in every bnaeA Of trads-l