Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-02-17

> has been going on IN the Legislature, or
the proposition to charter distinct railway
line from Washington to Richmond. This
line is charged to be in the interest Of the
Central Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
and the granting of the charter is being
furiously combatted by the Richmond, Fred
ericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company,
a rival line to which the new line will be.
The South.side consolidated roads, Roanoke
and Seaboard Railroad and every line Of
boats plying in connection with the roads
of Virginia are also arrayed against it, all
on the ground that it is Northern corpora
tien and that this line to Richmond will alb
sorb other roads South Of Richmond and
create great through line from the South,
which would run through Virginia with
sealed cars &c.
We have always taken it as clear prop
sition that all articles will seek the best
q. markets and the best shipping ports, and
that all impediments to and efforts to d.
vert them from seeking such, so to say,
natural outlets, is SO much waste labor
They may for time compel productions to
traverse unnatural routes and to undesirable
markets or shipping ports. but just as GER
: tain as water can not be prevented from
: running down hill, just SO certain is it that
productions will seek their natural outlets
and markets.
- We in the Valley have, therefore, looked
on at this wordy warfare rather as specta-
tors of free fight. We call TO mind the
long delay in procuring the charter for the
Valley Railroad. We recolect that Mary
landers more that 20 years ago proposed to
build Railroad through our Valley, with
out cents cost to and to the great adyant-
age of our people, which was refused, on
the ground gifts being foreign invasion and
calculated to damage the people and State
of Virginia. They afterwards DETECTED
from the old wagon track and built the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, new one Of
the greatest carrying routes in the country,
and of incalculable advantage to the Sec
ton through which it runs, while we are
now, at this late day. dinging away to Sc
cure this same Valley Railroad.
We have seen our Iron Works drag along +,
after the depletiens of the war. till North
ern capitalists (asd where is capital to come
from if not from the North p took hold Of
them, the expenditure Of whose capital
among US gave increased life and vigor to all
around them. We hear, Oh all sides, cor
dial invitations extended to Northern men
of means to locate among US, and hearty
welcomes given to those who come.
We of the Valley feel this way towards
Northern men of means or energy who come
as bona ide settlers, and whether they come
to Virginia to spend their money in Man
ufacturipg establishments, building Rail
Roads, or in whatsoever other way, we bid
them hearty, sincere, old-fashioned Virginia
welcome
We believe that Railroads should be IN
der State control, and, that, with general
law providing minimum as we'll as mari
a,nn, rates, and other general stipulations
to protect the public veal, capitalists should
have the general privilege to build roads
through our State in whatey er direction they
think it will pay.
1t is this liberal policy alone which will
develope our State, and no damage is at all
likely to arise from it, for productions aciN
seek natural outlets, no matter what con-
tracted and narrow policies are brought for
ward to impede or divert them therefrom
No full report of the elections to the Ma
tional Assembly Of France is received. As
far as heard from the Bonapartists and Or
leanists have an immense majority over the
Republicans.
The latest Partisan dispatches, (Which
are not fully credited) state that everything
has been arranged at Bordeaux for the set
element of peace /; that tie draft Of treaty
has been approved by Bismarck and Won
Moltke that the treaty will be signed i'm
medately, and the German troops will then
march through Paris to the strasbourg sta
ton, and there take cars as rapidly as prac-
ticable for home. The Assembly will then
adjourn to Paris and proceed With the re-
organization of France
The departments not occupied by Ger
mans are ravagcd by bands franc tircurs,
who are pillaging travellers and houses
Terror reigns in these departments.
We see that some of our exchanges are
8 looking to a rapid immigration to this coun-
try from France, owing to the late desola-
ting war there, and favor the Legislature
taking steps to induce these immigrants to
come to this State. 1t is especially desira-
bic now, after the successful experiments of
Vineyards in various sections, that we
should secure an immigration from the vine
growing districts of Europe, and we add
,,o;oo alec no oo,,;pe fror, ho ehnltorod