The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-16

advance OF the IlhICn W '"'P'"hC"'Sn''
Vow wc have in hand this great work,
ovcr the best route i'll the United States,
| which would prove to he the most profit
able TO all who invested in II, and the
most beneficial to the people of
both Virginias of any vet projected.
Mr.. Il. stated that he was one. of the
commissioners of West Virginia for the
disposal of the franchises aud property
of the Covington and Ohio railroad.
| Those commissioners had lnbOred ear
ncstly and ardently to make the best
contract they could. and at last they
had effected one with the Central Kan,
road Company which he believed WOMB
bs successf full. He felt confident thnt
the work would be completed wlthin
the specified time. He had heatu .ho
Central railroad ridiculcd i'll Inc hofth-
ern cities as IL temporary WORKS WV II
that had been seriously lnJnreu. hc
had travelled on 1t for the hrst lIt'i ~,
mnJ fonnd II in better order than no
rOuld have imagined. 1t was M eXCel-
lent road, a strong entering wedge Tor
Nnpninr the way tor the completion OF
thp great work to the Ohio. lie never
had faith in Pell Il Co., or Ayres, or
Judge Resnor, the leaders OF schemes
Uttered for their consideration, but he
believed in this contract with the Cen
trail road. II the people interested on
tho line who were to receive the dement,
of the work, would only do their duty
the road would be soon completed.
They had the authority to subscribe
money or lands, or TO subscribe py
counties and corporations. IL there
were foreigners who owned lands VINO
would not aid in the work they had the
mower to tag them and make them as
sist in an enterprise so much LOT tnelr
benefit. He enlarged upon the I'M
portance of the work, auH Ho L.;, y"
merit the eulogy after death OF having
assisted in completing the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad. lGrent applause
In addition to the delegates present
from Virginia the following gentlemen
represented West Virginia in the Con-
vention:
NfomOc.-A. II. Caperton, a. y. Ghsp-
man. J, NJ Burnside, +. Nawter, RoOt.
I NcNutt, \. X. Humphreys. William
Ujntou, Samuel \. Clark, }. NJ. Michel,
james w. johnson, Caleb +. Johnson,
Newton Dickson, c. W. hutchinson,
William y. Monroe, Thomas +. Pnrke,
/ \. G. TibOetts.
| Pherson, Thomas Mathews, II. +. Den
mis-, II. NJ. Mathews, James w. Davis,
! Thomas Creigh, Wallace Robinson, u.
/ c. B. Caldwell, William White, Madi-
son Collision, c. 4. Rupert, y. c. Lud-
! ington, b. l.. Rennick, II. z. Brown,
james Dolin, John b. Calwell. Mich
, John ii. Copeland, William b. Cnlwell,
A. w. Mann. John Erwin, Sr.
EGyctte.-H. NJ. Dickinson and Mr..
McClung.
Eumaphu.-Lewis Ruffner, G.. r.
Hansford, julius Brace, c. w. Smith,
c. Barlow, +. IL. Rutfner, j. c. Thmyer.
McTcer.-Elliott NawIer.
/ Observation-Disclosures Burnley.
P0cdhOmtdS.-Dr George Il. MOffett.
NaSom.-John Hall, George W. Craig,
General John McCausland, Peter 5.
| Couch.
Observation-Disclosures same as from
Ca6cU and Wdymc.-Colonel Labnn T.
Moore, d. S. Iouushell, alternates.
| RdIcigh.-James G. Paxton, alter
nate.
! Gov. Peirpoint was chosen permanent
President of the Convention. On TAX
| ing the chair he made the following re-
marks:
He took up the subject of the great
work the Convention had met to con-
slider, and the wonderful resources of
the country it acknowledgements clus-
tered together in IL manner uneNampled.
The great coal deposits which stretched
from Canada to the Gulf seemed to
widen out as they crossed the line of
this route, and give to Virginia and
West Virginia "a wealth OF coal deposits
unsurpassed for quality and abundance.
Here, too, were the great deposits OF
iron ore. On the Ohio river we see iron
ore brought from the mines of MissOu-
ri and the lakes for furnaces and FORCES
on the Ohio, at II cost of twelve dollars
per ton for the raw material. BY the
building of this Chesapeake and Ohio
road coal and ron would be placed
within one hundred miles OF each other,
and the cost of raw material would
l.slI tnV
were the great agents of national
wealth and power: and an Improvement
that would give the Nirginias such ad-
vantages in the use of these agencies
was of incHlculable value, and would
be the means of accommodating unlimlt-
ed wealth.
Gov. p. gave rapid glance at the i'm
mense range of densely peopled and
thrifty States that would seek access to
| market by this great route, which WAS
the best yet discovered for connecting
the Underwater OF the Atlantic with the
Mississippi, and ultimately, as he be-
lieved, with the Pacific ocean.
In his hurried remarks he alluded to
n late speech of President Johnson
while at the North, in which that gem
tleman said that he believed the people
of New England were fifty years ahead
of the people of the South in idedS-i. e.,
ideas of IL practical nature applied to
physical development and labor saving.
Governor T.. contended that it was not
owing to any lnferiority of southern
intellect as compared with northern,
but to the fact that circumstances had
prevented southern intellect from
taking the same direction with that OF
the North. He had perfect faith in the
capacity OF the southern intellect, and
we should see how it could develope the
immense resources of the State. In
this great work we had field for OPP
erntiOns, an incentive to enterprise and
development not before presented to
the southern mind. What we wanted
was the practical application of the en-
ergIes and industry of the people to the
purposes of development and the con-
version of the results of industry with
the greatest economy into money. He
illustrated by explaining how in New
England IA few farmers united and con-
Structed cheese factory, where the
milk of their several farms was con-
yerted into cheese. This milk was car
ried each day 10 the factory. weighed,
and entered on the books, and immedi-
ately emptied into the general reser-
voir to be manufactured. When the
cheese was sold each man was paid what
was due him. He sa id he was informed
by one farmer, that through this fac
tory system he had made 81 900 in one
year from the milk produced on his
farm. On the other hand, we, with our
splendid grass lands, were importing to
Virginia both cheese and butter.
The Governor explained the system
of the freight railroads which he laid
before the public recently in his letter
TO the Dispatch. He expressed the
opinion that ultimately this great line
would become just such II one as he
had spoken of. Railroads were max
inc iInmanRP DrOiitS and would mt ma