Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-19

RAILROAD UNDERTAKINGS. go From the
Winchester News With the opening of the
| Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, now near at
hand, it will lie some miles nearer from Win
chester to Cincinnati by Staunon than BY
lIarpcrS ferry and ';rkcrshurg. The same
may be said of Washington city; which will
| likcwi>, the shortest route 10 the west re.
vcrscd in It's direction. passengers and trade i''r
the Cincinnati, indianapolis and St. Louis
parallel turning southwest instead Of northeast.
Eu,lating distances by comparison Of grade,
even Baltimore will find this the best route.
East of NlIlb"ro, the line is quite rs level and
| ,huch more direct, than The corresponding por-
ton Of the Baltimore and Ohio road; while
west OF that point there is no grade over thirty
feet tn the mile ag;, inst the enormous lncllncs
oil one hundred ana five and one hundred and
sixteen feet 70 the mile scattered along the
ortuorlS line from Piedmont 10 the Ohio
We do not realize the change that is thus to
b" wrought in the current OF trade The
! heavy trains We have seen pursuing their wind
! Ing way from Richmond. Lynchburg and points
still farther south via Manassas and Strasburg
to the west assist us in doing so. They will
strike for Staunton, aud they will be follow
ed by large and rapidly growing traffic from
the Potomac and cities to the north oft. 10
Accommodate this, two railways arc in process
| y
! finished, and about to be resumed with u view
to immediate completion, from Fredericksburg.
\ fourth, or, counting the Orange and Ac1an-
dria. fifth, is now being located. This styled
the Piedmont and Potomac, starting from
Washington city, crosses the Manassas road
at or near l{cctnrtown, twenty-five miles from
! Winchester. 1t thence aims al Flint Hill aud
Thcrnton'S Gap. The Blue Ridge according to
the reports OF recent surveys, Is passed there
with facility very surprising to those VINO
| have travcr,cd that region and crossed the
! Cap Light grades and no tunnel will cary
the track into Page There the new work
reaches the Shenandoah Valley road: but pro-
fcsscS to maintain its independence and strike TOR
| llanisnnblrg and proceed to the westward of
that town, aided BY Il subscription the Harrl-
Sonburghcr> talk OF making. $GDOOoO subscrlb-
ed cunditonally by Washington, aided By the
very considerable amount OF grading long ago
done on the Independent Line and Loudoun
| Branch Of Manassas, is affirmed to have AREA
dy placed this enterprise beyond peradvcuture.
Shortening the distance from RcctortOwn,
S,rashurg &c to Washington ten or eleven
miles and furnishing the ". Il o. road, which
it crosses near Falls Church. It's best outlet to
! the saline city. ii will have Il strong hold upon
boi. that road and Manassas The clrcum-
| stance is on" not likely to have been forgotten
in the ca Icnatnn> of the projectors.
| Thr>, four or five creek 10 the llunlng1n-
! iIinn lra are IN the hand, "i almost many
separate Interests Which Of them shall be
! first in Favor with the great corporation to
which they >lly, j. Ia he decided hy it. Ii will
/ lu mi">>hr. however. il rXriulc all from
share Of IT.. I.nrI!> that bid fair t" be over
/ ii,wi'.@ Every town. TOO, must participate,
| to an Xr,!t dependent in great degree On the
enter r>r and libcralily Of the citizens "i each.
ARREST OF THE WATERFORD n. Y. BANK
R"EEEE> The New York Evening P''>t OF
Tuesday gives The particulars Of the arrest of
the Waterford New York; hank robbcr> who
recently COT into that institution, gagged the
cashier, and stole $500 uuU. IL Sny$: 1t was A.
ccrtaincd that Il carriage, containing three men.
had been driven rapidly through tohocS al al
early nnur Monday morning. and down the
turnpike road leading to Albany, through the
toll gate of which the vehicle was rapidly driv
IN. at about four % clock. the driver failing ~
pay the TOLL This gate is half Il mile north Of
the bounlari, oi' Albany, and here all traces Of
the carriage cease. At ten O'Clock two men
took the train at Albany for New York, bur got
out at CaSrctun. some eight ulilrs Glow there,
and hiring Il rarr;ng. for Stuyyr>ant, they pro.
ccrdcd there where they took IL later New York
train. In the meantime the news Of the rob
berry had reached Ca>tletou, aud the station
agent there, su>pcctiu" something wrong on the
part of the two men. tcicsraphcd to Stuyvesant,
when ne learned that the men had gone on TO
New York by the cars Another telegram to
! Hudson overlook the raScais and they were
arrested. They refused to give their names,
bur Il resident o!'Troy, it is said, who was in
Hudson, recognized one of them as Ret
Cuulcy, Il notorious bank robbcr and planner Of
hurglaricS The name of the ether is unknown,
but he and the other seven arc supposed to be
! New York thieves.