The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-04

Virginia-The Chesapeake and Ohio.
The editor of the New York Evangelist
(Sir. HENRY Nj. FIELD has recently paid g
visit to Virginia, and writes TO his paper
Two letters-one from this city and one
from the White sulphur Springs-which,
with some qualification not at ;al surprising,
are liberal and appreciative.
Touching the qualifying points in these
epistles, we have a word or W in the
k;udest spirit for Mr.. FIELD. He took the
Libby Prison fever, as most Of Il north
ecn fellow.citizens do, and, as is the GUS
tom, had to write home something sensa-
tional about that prison. Now, 1t is about
time, upon q liberal computation, that the
Libby had played itself out. 1t has always
been the victim of gross exaggeration-the
talcs about 1t in some sort resembling the
kuklux fabrications with which General
GRANT has been doucheG. We, for one,
feel n great disgust tor these things. We
have not referred for years to the sufferinsS
of Confederate soldicrsi IL nc rtnsrn Erjsons,
Nn-e<hean to be friends it is best for
m16EEtk and South that we should cease to
drag up the horrors of the civil war. They
only help TO prolong bitter memories and
TO postpone the day Of perfect harmony
II our northern fellow-citiZens who still
cherish malice for the Libby" will only
think Of Camp Chase, Johnson's Island,
"the Old Capitol" Fort Delaware, Point
Lookout, etc, they ought to feel reyenged,
and rest from further elimination.
Again: MIR. FIELD gives an unkinC
"touch-up" to his letter in referring tc
our capitol as where Confedcrates plotted
the establishment of n great "slave EN-
pre-; adding, "Little did they imagine,
intheir ambitious dreams" that " liberated
negroes should sit in the place Of grave
Senators, even giving law to their former
masters"
Aye, and who did imagine such a thing
Sarely not our northern "fellow citizens"
Nay, no respectable number of men in the
whole civilized world Imagined" any
such thing. And whose fault was it that
this monstrous outrage upon civilization,
upon the peace and dignity of the Union,
and upon the very laws Of God which made
these white and black people twain, was
committed! "Let the CALLED jade vince,
our withers are unwrung." Let those who
did this thing answer for the greatest crime
against civilization that has been committed
In recorded time.
In this matter our editor OF the Eudnge-
list has fallen into an error-a wild deli
rium-which entails upon the Union d pc
Rod Of national repentance and rcforma-
ton which cannot be avoided. 1t will soon
come.
But let us see now how amlable aud up
preciatiye a gentleman who is to some cx.
tent 8 victim of the African malaria can be,
and we believe most sincerely. Mr.. FIELD
writes as follows about our great Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad and about Vir-
ginia. There is much sentiment and feeling
here that We most heartily reciprocate
The White Sulphur Springs Is for the
present the terminus Of the Chesapeake and
ONO rallroad, which is completed only to
MS spot. We are now OPT miles from Rich
mona; IL Is but 2O0 more to the Ohio river,
ana this l" now being rapidly built. Some
nve .housanu men are along the line piling
up the ~eMbankments. The work will be
pushed with all speed; and in the summer
OF next year lSI2) the cars will run thromSh |
from the waters Of the James to those 81
the Ohio. The western terminus is fniv
named Huntington, In honor Of the man
who. having been greatly instrumental in
carry ing through the Central Pacific rail.
road, has here sought "another world to
conQaer," In carrying q road over the Ale
shanies rs he did before over tue Sierra
Eeva1a.15 1t is y gigantic undertaking, but
It's success is secured. 1t must be one Of
the continental trunk line, Ike the Penn.