The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-16
Rithnlond nispatrh,
16, 1868
Good News from Ohio.


We learn from the Gallipolis Dispatch
that Mr.. CUTLER, Of the Marietta and Gin
cinnati railroad, has obtained the means
TO complete the branch road from Ham g
den. on the Marietta road, to Gallipohs, on
the Ohio; and that ten miles OF II nave
been already placed under contract. MT.
crr,rR states that the work will be COM
pleted by September. This will bring to
the west bank of the Ohio river q con-
tinuous and direct line Of railway from
Cincinnati. The point at which it APP
proaches the Ohio is nearly opposite that
which is to be the terminus Of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad.
The establishment of straight line Of
railroad communication from Gallipolis to
Cincinnati must excite strong interest--a
pressing and irrepressible desire to bridge
over the gap Of 230 miles that is wanting
to give Cincinnati and the great north
western cities communication with tide
water Virginia and the Chesapeake bay.
That this desire, SO urgent and persistent,
will exist, no one who appreciates The
sagacity and enterprise Of the young,
practical, and active populations OF the
Northwest can doubt and we have as lit
tie doubt that, existing, it will become
active and effective, and materially assist
in the completion Of the railway from the
Chesapeake to the Ohio.
There will be something fitting and pro-
pei in this cooperation Of the northwest
ern communities in this great work. They
inhabit the grand domains given by the dis
membered and much-oppressed Virginia TO
that national government which now so
heavily Expresses her; and it would be a
beautiful incident in our political history
if from the vigorous life that has sprung
forth upon that noble territory there
should flow back to the venerated donor
some revivifying streams to aid in her
restoration to health and power.
The construction Of this great national
highway between the Chesapeake and
the Ohio, along the best of routes between
the Atlantic and the Mississippi Valley
the route marked out by WASHINGTON and
advocated by MARsHALL-will confer ines
Unable advantages upon the populations
at its terminii and along the country it
traverseS and we cannot believe that
after it has been carried so far towards
completion it can long be left unfinished.
The magnitude Of tho interests involved
will force it through at an early day.
To Virginia, in addition to all its other
benefits, the Chesapeake and Ohio road
will become the preferred route Of immi-
grafton from Europe to the Northwest, and
in that way alone will become her regene-
rator. Her population will be rapidly
multiplied, her fertile fields will be
covered with waving crops, her waters Will
be animated with an active commerce,
her mining and manufacturing enterprises
giving occupation to thousands, and her
resources and revenues multiplying to q
degree exceeding the most sanguiue calcu-
lations.
LIE w eSG VIII diu Ill lhis "oih' \"
have only to make o proper exhibit of our
own energies and display cur own faith in
the enterprise, and we are sure to be met
with cordial and liberal cooperation. The
negro must cut few more flip tlaps-the
ultra dcstructives must play out the last
grating and discordant notes of their
"hurdy- gurdy," while the solicitous mon
key presents his hat to gather the last cent
of the negro. 1t is q little drama soon
played out, and then the true men (white
men) of great deeds will brush away the
cobwebs in the path of great achieve
ments, and few years will wipe out all
trace Of the denominations Of these days.