The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-22
Manchester.

We have been favored with the report o
committee appointed by the people of Man
chester, Gin committee Of the WHOLE, t.
consider the subject of the Improvement
their town. This report, as it should, show
bold and confident spirit. 1t met the ap
probation of the people at an adjourned
meeting, and this tells us that they arc de
termined to 90 ahead and to make the best use
of their advantages.
The present financial condition Of Man
chester shows that the annual revenue /:
S6,22457 in excess of expenses, while the
water-power may accommodate mllcl
larger manufacturing force, and thus yield
an increased rent. The town has, therefore,
already basis of credit to the amount OF
100000, with the ability to increase con-
sidersbly its resources without adding largely
to taxation.
The report presents the cost of improving
by grading and paving and planting trees in
the streets upon several plans. One OF which
amounts to $41 ,404, another to S65,50S, a
third to SOL, 00S, and fourth to $27O,000.
The committee recommend that the town
shall not 60 into the more extensive i'm
provement of the sE Gets at present; but that
il proceed at once to improve upon plan Sc
lected. and 20 on with it as the means of the
town justify.
Manchester has an ample basis for credit
ror all that she wants, and we hope that her
authorities will go to work in earnest. The
topography of the town makes grading
there ineXpensiveand all improvements easy.
The probability is that accessions to her po-
pulation will increase her resources in pro-
portion to the outlay necessary for its im-
provement in keeping with the spirit and
fashion Of these days. We wish its people
all success.
1t is because we know that it will be better
for both Richmond and Manchester that they
should be one than that they should be sepa-
rate corporations-that the common fund Of
both appropriated to the interests of both as
one community would accomplish a great
deal more than the resources of both ex-
pended under two superintendencies, and
likely with some view to antagonism-and
that, in short, the forces of the locality, in
Guiding both shores, should be exerted in
one body for the general good of all people
here assembled to insure the highest develop
ment and successful is for these reasons, we
repeat, that we have advocated most earn.
estly the union of Manchester and Richmond
We trust that no sentiment Of decided op
position to this measure will be ineulcatet
in Manchester, and we know that in Rich
mond the feeling of hostility to it is mucl
Modified, and we trust will in time entirel!
subside.
Manchester should not, however, pause il
her enterprises. We know that capitalist:
nom the North have invested literally in hel
real estate, and that they have schemes o
magnitude in view. But all this should no
affect one jot the inclination in favor of an
nexation. The river is too narrow it is tot
great medium of sympathy between thos,
living on its shores to admit of alienation o
one nom the other. They cannot live 81
near, with interests SO entirely kindred al
separate corporations without being antago
nized. They can only flourish in the highes
degree as one family,