The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-12-08
Or, Western Felow-Citlzens.


Sepsrated as we have been from the reo
pla of the West by the intervening range
of mountains, we have socially known httl
of one .anoh her since the era Of railroads
We were, as we knew, politically fellow
citizens; but we did not feel the relation
ship. 1t had hardly a semblance OF life ane
action. Therefore, when we contemplate
the early completion Of the Chesapeake
and Ohid RAILROAD, we are aratihed to kno"
that thu Two peoples. thus long separated
will be socially and commercially uniteo
by that important channel of communities
ton.
1t is pleasant to know that this sentiment
il also entertained in the West and North
west. In all the cities in those sections the
subject of the completion Of this road is
regarded with great interest. The papers
alIude TO it. in an earnest and hopeful
spirit-letters are written from different
points Speaking enthusiastically OF the
western extensions OF the road and the
benefits that it will confer upon the county
by giving to the people new, vigorous.
and short line to the Atlantic. The perusal
Of these letters would Impress the reader
with the belief that some western COM
munitics are more excited about the great
work tlisn are our own people. We have
before astia letter from Huntington to II
Cleveland paper. 1t gives a detailed ac-
count of the rise of Huntington which
reads like fable. 1t recites the ease with
which Cleveland may, through the pro-
posed connections, have her route to
the ports Of our mild central latitude
Of the Union in winter, and so on. The
interest In the work is growing daily in that
grand section of the Union-that land
tecming with wealth and of ineXhaustible
resources.
The Huntington paper states the pro
grc>s OF the work. We have already an
bounced that the trains were running on
the road from Huntington to Charleston,
Kanawha, Il distance Of fifty miles. From
Charleston to the Falls Of Kanawha, u dis.
lance Of thirty miles, the bed is ready AND
the bridges very nearly ready. The track
Will he laid to the Falls this winter, and
thence to the White sulphur, distance Of
some seventy miles, the passengers will be
conveyed in tiue post-coaches until the
whole road is finished next fall. That dis
lance it is proposed to run In very short
lime. Mir. HUNTINGTON, who wants every
ing to 90 ahead In double. quick time
a 4, this journey done ut the rate Of TEL
mites TN hour. We hope he will be graft
tied. A large stream OF travel will imme
diately now across the country from
Charleston to the White Sulphur and t.
this city.
All these reports and expectations
these accounts of plans and of improve
ments in the Ohio Valley growing out o
the prospective completion of the Chesa
peake and Ohio railroad, till our ears will
the thuIders and the echoes Of the loco
motive along the bold and grand bills of the
Kanawha and Greenbrier rivers. We al
most feel the quaklng Of the earth as TIT
immense trains OF that road come lumber
ing along to their eastern terminus. This
indeed, is but dream, naturally occasionet
by the increasing signs of tho grand even
itself. Yet that Is not all dream, whicl
Is the projected shadow Of rapidly-ap
preaching reality.