The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-01
1eake and Ohio Railroad.
Edmond Votes the $4,000, 600.

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Edmond Votes the 100000.
Is city Of Richmond yesterday re-
4fined in the most decisive manner her
4orner vote of $4,000 900 subscription, IN
sheY corporate capacity, to the chesapeake
and Ohio railroad. A very few prominent
gentlemen who were opposed to the sup
scdption objected to tho first vote, ale
gik that 1t was illegal because voters IN
kubwn to the laws Of Virginia (negroes)
srx(tc allowed to vote, whilo others entitled
n,Ider the State laws to vote (the non
Registered whites) were excluded from the
polls. The very few gentlemen thus 90
jecting threatened to test the iega''ty Oh
the vote in the courts. The president Oh
the Central road and the friends OF the
noble enterprise Of cxtelu 1g that roao
to the Ohio pcrceiving that the credit OIL
the city bonds issued under vote thus 10
be contested must be seriously affected,
determined to appeal to the Coun-
Gil to authorize second vote upon
the proposition, in which the non-re-
gistered whites should be allowed to vote.
This appeal was granted, and General
ScHoFIELD concurring, and authorizing the
use of the registry Of voters in the city Tor
the occasion, the election was fixed 1of
YESTERDAY, and came off accordingly, with
q result more decisively favorable 10
the subscription than that OF the hfst
election, us will be seen by the state
mcnt Of the polls at the close yester-
day, and this, too, Notwithstanding the
extreme inclemency OF the weather. The
chief issue raised by the opponents of the
subscription, with reference to the. Led
franchised white voters being. 8 disfran-
from the polls, is nobly msGcuen to one in
chised, who gayecrip,ion. The harpers
favor OF tdrge negro vote cast at the
upoer ELECTION will have nothing to play
upon in thesSote of yesterday, since in
that, for some cause or other, the Legro
vote is dwindled down to less than the
white vote; and the subscription is carried
SO decidedly by the white vote alone that
there is not the slightest ground for cavil.
Of course the second vote settles this
important measure. The result of yester-
day cannot be affected by the opening of
the polls to-day in Madison Ward. Mr..
DANIEL, the city attorney, gave his OPT
MON yesterday that the polls could not
legally be kept open longer than one day
On question Of corporate subscription to
public workout it does not matter the
public mind is settled in behalf ofdevoting
the means and energies of this city to the
great work of railroad from Richmond
to the Ohio; and whether called upon to
repeat their decision, or to vote through
prolongation of the time Of voting, the re-
suit will, nevertheless, be the consistent
declaration that the road mast be built, and
Richmond ,pM help to built IL.
We congratulate the people of Rich
mond and of Virginia upon this heroic
determination Of the people Of the
metropolis of the State. Ground down by
misfortune, and, worse than this, oppressed
by the unwise and cruel measures OF the
dominant party in Congress, they have re-
solutelv determined to assume large
debt to open highway from their city to
the tceming Mississippi Valley. With
hopeful and intelligent view Of that futur"
through and beyond the interval Of cloud
and storm which lies Immediately be-
fore us, they have pledged themselves
to the measure which is to bring to them
the richest rewards and to Virginia pros
perity and power exceeding the brightest
anticipations of the most sanguine.
The subscription by Richmond secures
The great work. The company, under the
name chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Company" may now be organized; and
their work will, we believe, soon be put
partially, if not entirely, under contract.
What but the best effects can result
from this public-spirited and courageous
act of the city of Richmond The coun-
try must admire such resolution at time
of such Encouragement ; faith and conf
dence in this community must be impaired
everywhere and the conviction must fol-
low that city inhabited by such people
must grow and thrive in all the clements
of wealth.