Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-14

ru17RspAY EVENING" NOVEMBER II.

nu17RsDAY EVENING" NOVEMBER ID.
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uNoN INTERCOURSE LOCKING UP Trans
-rs,,-We are not aware that We have enter
81 any protest against "a short cut commu-
s;o.tion by railway from Georgetown to inter
aaoI the Alexandra, Loudoun and Hampshire
: p.;lroad.' asthe National Intelligencer says
80 have It is true that in former times we
b.va not favored such a project, nor do we noao,
non,the terms proposed and in the manner
nronosed, on the other side Of the Potomac;
and that the subject has recently been discuss
ID in our columns BY some of our merchants
and citizens, expressing the same views. But
tbaIntelligencer, in sentence, teils.thet whole
,.le when it says that !" Georgetown is the
Eighth Ward OF Washington, just as Alexan-.
ar;a NAV be termed the Ninth Ward" II
looks at the subject in the interest of Wash
;rptop. as we do in the interest Of Alexandra,
- i both our pleasure and our duty. 1t is
nr4cisely because we don't want Alexandria
.to be the Ninth Ward Of Washington city,
that We think as we do Our good feelings for
oaneraz prosperity do not prevent us from first
looking at and caring for home z We have no
objection, in the world, but, on the contrary,
arden,ly desire thatthe city Of Alexandria may
be the shipping port Of Washington-but the
Ninth Ward! Spare u, if you please i
When the vessels from; foreign ports arrive
here with their cargoes Of heavy, goods, these,
en- be transported to Washington cheaper by
water than by any other mode, thus aiding
commerce, assisting trade, employing lighters,
beueftting Alexandria bene6tting Washing
ton, in reality, and not requiring Washington
huckmen to be fned Tor running wagons,
without license, swhichjour> draymen and cart
men are compelled to pay. This may be
"a very peanut policy, but it is the true poll
ey, and that,siall we and our people ask or de-
sire 1t, is the mercantile interests that we
desire to protect, as we'll aa the manufacturing
and mechanical We suppose, in matters of
trade, the Georgetown and W ashington policy
is the chestnut policy to take the ker
nels and leave Alexandria the bulls The shJ-
eralty'' recently exhibited across the water, in
more than one or two instances, touching
Aoueducts, steamboats,, &c., &C., induces lts to
indulge the hope that or "herality' will not
be called in question in matters in which the
interests of our own community come In con
Aict with those OF other cities. Ii this is
'snarrowness or selfshness'' let not others cast
the first stone at Alexandria. Is it any
Blocking, UP, Of TrAnsits,'' or mon Inter
course Act, when most determined effort is
made to destroy the Alexandria Aqueduct and
Canal, and prevent aconnectlon with the Ches-
apeake aud Ohio Canal, secured to us by agree
ment, by law, and by honor! Is this, back
ing your friends 2" Is this, and similar e.cclu-
siue movements, "a peanut policy ?' And
the e:ccessive amount of liberality which would
allow Georgetown and Washington, on their
own terms, and exclusively for their own bene-
fit, to Zap an important railway, to which the
State of Virginia, and the citizens Of Alexan-
dria and adjacent counties, largely; contributed,
withoutI one. dime being. contributed by the
corporations just named, and they to skim the
cream and allow us the milk, is not, we confess,
any part of our feelngstor wishes. 1t Wash
ingtoiDi and Georg etowniwant railroads let them
build them to the upper counties OF Virginia,
and not require the State and People of Viz
GINA to- build for them. AS for the ','condem-
nation of the National Intelligencer, cor its
adjuvators,' = We assure thot paper, it is mat
ter of the most perfect indifference to U.s., as to
such subject as this, where We are defending
the rights and interests Of Alexandria IA
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