The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-27
,,;,road Movements.

. abroad MCNSilcAc'
der.taud that engineers are sur.
we i;nc for railway from Mathiass
-, the Potomac, in King George
'". ,,,, 10 this city. This point IL imnr'
s;s,ely opposite Popc's creek, on the Mary
,D.a .ide the terminal point OF the batt'-
n,oro and Potomac railway. now IN course
-, o,,.trnction by company OF WINCH
Governor Bowie is or was president AT.
n is assumed, and correctly ina! .n's
,o,,te from Baltimore to Richmoi'o 10 .ne
sb,rtesf and most direct that eau NC 'ia",
49,, Tho ferry a, Mathias's Point VIII DC
,,,, drawback to the speed with when II
con he travelled. The ferry Is at poih' 'n"'
will seldom nc interrupted by ice proo"'
b,v not once in five years. ;,
/, is understood that TIE fenhs!i'ai
Railroad Company. which got charter last
x,,n,cr 10 build road from TINS cl's 10
.,,,.a,5r;,. is the real builder Of the Ma
r,.,,nd road. as we'll as the protector OF its
continuation through Virginia. Whether
that company will become the purchaser OF
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto-
mae railroad or not, is predetermined. II 1t
should buy that road the line crossing at
Mathias's Point, by striking the Fredericks-
burg line near Bowling Green, Caroline,
will be as straight as an arrow. Should it
not buy the Fredericksburg road, there Is
good reason to believe the road from Alex
andlia TO Richmond will he built ny it: in
which event the Mathias's Point line will
be made to connect with il at some point In
Caroline. This will give travel from Rich
mond two routes to Baltimore all the way,
and three from the connecting point oil the
Alathias's Point line in Caroline.
The road through Maryland to Pope's
creek Will be graded by the 1St OF June,
and soon thereafter equipped. Should the
company purchase the Fredericksburg
road it will be easy to have the al-rail line
bv the lower Maryland route this year.
Certainly there will be great railroad
changes in Virginia in the next twelve OF
eighteen months. Besides the anticipated
changes above referred to, there are active
movements in the Valley. The Pcnnsylra
mia railway is projecting a line along the
Valley to Salem, and the Baltimore anc
Ohio railroad is already stretching its arms
along the same rich region of country, hay
ing its connected lines already from AleXan
dria, and from Harper's Ferry to Harrison
burg. There is pause at this point. The
proposed continuation, under the name oil
the Valley railroad, over which young MI
GARRETT is president-and which Is the
especial enterprise of "M1KE HARhAS'-
Gro for ha of pDllntI
tions. The people of Lexington took a fllrt
at it short time since, rs our readers
know. and deputlzed committee to SOUND
Mr.. GARRETT the elder, and another to
commune with Mr.. HUNTINGTON, to ascer-
tain which would help their road Out OF the
mire, or which would give the best terms
So, with two strings to their bow, they
will hardly fail.
The Danville road, which Is getting
thawed, is looking for its new links, giving
it straight line to Atlanta, Ga, and short
ening the distance between New York and
the Gulf at least $50 miles.
But the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company is also looking down into the
North State. A recent movement about
the chartered line from Danville to State
VILE. y. c., looks as though Il little OF the
Baltimore steam is at work there.
II is supposed that the Pennsylvania COM
paDy will also soon appear in the North
Carolina arena, and give new impulse to
railroading down there.
General MALONE is understood TO be ar
ranging matters with view to the cOn9truc-
,.-ht lob
opens new route to Kentucky.
Finally, our sure reliance, the Cbesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad Company is
achieving wonders in the way of Fastening
the completion of their railroad to Rich
mond. And what is deeply interesting, in
addition, is the energetic movement in both
Ohio and Kentucky in the matter of estab-
fishing connecting roads between the ter
minus of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad,
and Cincinnati, Louisville, st. Louis, and
other great Western cities. These connect
ing lines will be completed probably as soon
as the great road itself will be finished,
which will he in July or August, 1872.
Here are, indeed, great railroad move
ments. hey are most cheering to our
people. What they want is rapid transit
and low fares, and no instructions to trade.
They are as able to take care of themselves
as other people, and neither desire nor ask
for anything but equality-thc same tacii-
tated intercourse that other people have,
and like liberal rates Of transportation.
Railroad companies are no longer the
foolish corporations they have been. They
know that their interests are the interests
OF society-that their surest way to pros
perity is to promote the thrift and growth
OF the country their roads traverse. So
there need be no fear of being devourcd by
these roads. The alarmi>ts even are not so
much alarmed as they pretend to be. They
only had Il purpose to effect by alarming
the people. They have nearly "dried up"