The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-15


buildings of the Lunatic ASYLUM, The
same price is also paid for conveying
IRON used In the building. Were the
seat OF Government located at that
point 1t would require much heavy ma
terlal, such as iron, slate, glass, de-, to
pc used in constructing. the public
buildings, and the overland freight
from Clarksburg to Weston, would
amount to large sum. It Is said upon
the best authority, that the cost of CON
Vey1ng some of the heavy material used
in the Asylum buildings from Clarks-
burg to Weston wants but a fraction OF
amounting to as much as it does to
transport it from Baltimore to Clarl,s-
ourg. Buckhannon is further from the
Railroad, by several miles, than Wes-
ton, and make that place the Seat OF
ioVernment, and the expense of erect
ing public buildings will be much
greater because the roads are much
worse: Buckbannon is almost desti-
tute of any building material whatever.
There is not even lime nearer than
twenty-five miles. II there are any
building stone at any convenient dis
tance, it has never been discovered,
II has been contended that if Buck
hannon were made the seat of Govern
ment, 1t would be the cause of build
ing two greatlines of railroad, and thus
opening up and developing an unde-
hYeloped portion of the State.
Ihere have been chartered by the
west Virginia Legislature two railroad
companies, the West Virginia Central
railway Company, and the Mononga-
hela and ,Lewisburg Railroad Company,
me former is authorized to construct a
railway from the Pennsylvania line
near Joseph Carroll's in Preston coun-
| ", py' the way of Brandonville, the
mouth of Muddy Creek and near King
wood, in the aforesaid county, the
junction of Three Fork and Raccoon
Greeks, in the County of Taylor, Buck
Charleston in the County of Kanawha'
and thence to the mouth of Big Sandy
River in The county of Wayne. But II
alter the organization of the Company
1t shall be ascertained by surveys or
otherwise that the purposes of the Com
y,can be better attained by a change
| OF route, the Company is authorized 10
change the location of said road, SO as
to commence any where in the County
! of Preston or MouongaliR, and extend
the same up the streams of the Monon-
gahela River or elsewhere, to tho waters
of Elk River; thence by way of Charles
ton to the Kentucky line. This proyis-
ION OF the charter ensures its location
by the way of Clarksburg, when it shall
be constructed, because the expense OF
constructing a railway by the way OF
Buckhannon would amount to millions
Of dollars moro than by the way OF
Clarksburg.
The charter of the Monongahela and
LewlsOurg Railroad Company author
ICES the said Company to construct a
road from some point on the Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia State line. in
the County of Monongalia, to be desig-
mated by said Company, by the way OF
Morgantown, in the aforesaid County.
Fairmont or Palatine, in the County oi
"a lrGlN ~
Harrison, Buckhannon in the County
OF Upshur to the Covington and Ohio
railroad near Lewisburg in the Couu-
ty of Greenbrier. But it has been as
| certained that this route is impractica-
bic, and that the only practicable route
FOR said road will be by the way OF
Grafton and thence up the TVCart's
| Valley River. The following from a
communication which recently appear
ed in the West Virginia Journal fully
corroborates what is stated above:
"Wecaunot think OF locating the Capital
| or our new and prosperous State in the
water nor railroad Transportation. If we
| were to build the Capital at BuClhannon,
that would not induce q company to erect a
has chartered a railroad up to the great VAL
| ley OF the shenandoah, and the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company contemplate
building road on that line, there no longer
remains inducement enough ON the propos-
| ed BuckhRnnOn route for any comDany 10
| incur the expense % constructing the road.
Besides there are two rival routes; one up the
| Tygnrt'S Valley River from Grafton TO the
White Sulphur Springs on the Covington
ClaTlzsourg up the west Fork river, and
down Elk to Charleston on the Kanawhn,
| Either OF these last named routes is far pre-
ferrabIe and more eligible than the Buckhan-
| non route. These Two routes would leave
Buckhannon between. So it will be seen
that Buckhannon has not one chance in five
| to secure the location OF any railroad which
may be ever located through the interior OF
money to construct n railroad via Buck han
non than either up the Tygarts Valley or the
West Fork: 1t is not at all probable that a
hannon route, whether the Capital (for the
! public buildings would pretty much COM
pose the town for all time to Gomez is ever
built there or not; for MS Napoleon 8 guide re.
ported TO him concerning the route across the
Alps, The way is barely possible to pass"
The writer of the above takes prac-
tical view of the matter. He knows
that the location of the Capital will not
cause railroads to be constructed.
1t would not be safe to fix the Seat OF
Government permanently at an incon-
ventent point, expecting that by some
kind of a combination OF ofcircumstances
it will in the far of future, become con-
venient.
There is one fact of which you may
be assured, and that is, Clarksburg is
whole State at, this time than any other
point, and whatever railroads may
| hereafter be constructed through the
State will only add to its convenience,
while it is utterly impossible by the
construction of any line of road to
mako any other town in the State more
convenient than it is. 1t is true that
the Stale will increase in population,
but the Northern portion of the State
which is now the most populous will
increase in proportionate ratio with the
more sparsely populated regions, and
it is safe to conclude that the portion
of the State which is now the most pop
| ulous will be SO a hundred years hence.
The superior resources of the Northern
counties of the State have made it the
most populous, and they will continue
it so.
Some objections have been raised
against Clarksburg on the account of
the disloyalty of some of its inhRbi-
tants. This is unjust. The people of
Clarksburg are no more disloyal than
the inhabitants of other towns in West
Virginia in proportion to the popula-
tion. Then its loyal Inhabitants are as
intensely loyal as any people in the
Union, and although the loyal people
above their neiglibors, yet it is but fair
to give them their due. In the begin
ming of our recent troubles it was the
loyal citizens of Clarksburg who origi-
mated the plan for reorganizing the
Government of Virginia on a loyal
basis. The Government at Richmond
had proved reCreant to its trust-had
abandoned the Union of our fathers
and united its destineS with the So
called Southern Confederacy. Some of
the loyal citizens of Clarksburg pub
liShed a call for convention at Wheel