The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-02-06

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] st and the West, but also between tho
" North and the South. Talk about doing
\ it ourselvesi Why, we have neither the
|. capital nor the snerN. These nu1 both
= csme from sbrosd, sud we say, "Let
them come"
}. The &nsarT, in reply to the assertion
9 of the HAig, that the sll-rsil line to Wash
c ington would dwarf Richmond and our
: other Virginia cities, by making them
mere way-statons, through which the cars
would pass from New Orleans to Philadel-
; phia sealed, leaving nothing on the way,
shows that the experience of the Southside
J consolidation line in this respect does not
prove the correctness of tie theory. 1t
says:
1t nsst 10 apparent to all that ths enormous
tonnage now, and to be, brought over the At |
lantio, Mississippi and Ohio road from the |
| great West is not to rest moment at Norfolk |
nor IL one pound beyond the capacity Of that |
| city, BY its capital, to be detained. The cars
loaded at Memphis, and at points intermediate,
pass over the full length of the line of the At
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio road from Bristol
to Norfolk in cars, Dramatically sealed, to be
freighted, on arrival, on the ships of Comno-
dore McCready for New York.
Does the passage of this tonnage to Norfolk
in sealed cars help Bristol, or Lynchburg, or
Petersburg, or Norfolk We think it does,
and for the same reasons we think that like
tonnage passing through Petersburg, Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Alexandria will
benefit these cities. Can the fact that, in the
ono case the tonnage goes East and West, and
in other, North and South, affect the CUES
ton 2
We think that this through tonnage is of i'm
mense advantage to the people along the line
of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio road |
al n hizfi mi had LAME 10 In
reduce his local rates, as to stimulate enter SC
prise all alsng his line, aHd to give impulse to
thrift never before enjoyed by the people along y
his road. And so may the toll worn people | Of
from Richmond to the Potomac, look for a hi
brighter day when they too may escape from We
the blasting influences of a corporation that W
has lived for quarter of a century, and left e
no other impress on the country through ra
which 1t passes but the seal of want and ruin. rs
That Is conclusive. We want to see re
Norfolk and all the towns and all the coun- S a..
ry on the line of General Mahone's road tn
'rosper,-and we know they will from we
lis road passing through, or all the ar ba
uments urged in favor Of Consolidation
'ere wrong; but at the same time we de- or,
re to see Richmond and tho cities aud to
owns and country on the Northsde pros
er also /; and if the through line East and
Vest with its terminus at New York, will
care the fortunes of the former, why will
ot through line with its terminus even
Philadelphia, secure the same good re-
Its for the latter Justice has been done
the Southside by consolidation, and now beft
the Norihside be equally favored The Of |
rough line to Washington to facilitate 'H'
avel and mail communication--if not
ade-is all we ask, and the boon is small
ough surely.
The Wing is full of railroad articles OPP 81
sing the all-rail line to Washington, and she
staining the McCready- Dauie Robinson male
onopoly of Southside trade and travel U wb y
talks angrily, and makes up for what it strst
ks in argument BY a display of bad won
nper-abusing the Pennsylvania as
venturers. 1t talks about the rottenness He
d corruption of the Legislature of that Main Iah
lte, as if the use of money in the lobbies callo
ewhere, were thing unheard of Don't
'ow stones while you live in houses of
III thin glass.
ln speaking of tho appointments made &C
the President for the new District court
this State, the Wing says:
congress has divided Virginia into two Judi
districts, and the telegram informs us that co,
,sident Grant has appointed Messrs. Alex. bsyir
es Judge, X. w. Hughes District Attorney, Biacl
A. s. Gray Marshal. These are about as solul
ID il not the best, m materials which the Re- form
,lican marty of the State cnuId furnish Thu Fema
'ction Of such men is of good augury, as it neg"
icates purpose to raise tina standard of pun
eral appointees. Heretofore in most cases
SONS were selected for Federal positions in
South with whom it was discreditable to
emit people to associate. Nothing could be SO
lstrous to party than such policy, and
er its influence the Radical party in the
ties not Africanized has become as small as
contemplate. We are glad, on account of
public service aud the good credit of the The
1ernment, that the general appears disposed need
naugurate different policy. straa
railroad travelling sometimes brings us
} singular companionships, and not I'M If .
luently gives us strange bed-felows. c carsi
are glad that the Wing can end some by tn
e in General Grants policy to approve, a sss,,s
that it has at length discovered at who
t three respectable gentlemen in the uteril
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