Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-16
VIRGINIA,
The C. G. II. R. r..
Tidcwater Connection.
The Route VIA Cumberland Gap
20 Norfolk and RichmeRd, Va.
ITO the Editor of the COurier-Journall

ITO the Editor of the Courier-Journall
A committee of gentlemen from Vir-
ginia will arrive in our city within a
day or two with the view of comforting
with our leading business men and city
Authorities in regard to railroad con-
nection at Cumberland between the
Lebanon branch of the Louisville and
Nashville road and the Atlantic, Mis-
sissippi and Ohio road. The stay of
these gentlemen will be necessarily
limited, and it may be well enough
that our business men and city author
tiles may understand beforehand the
object of the visit. We IRE assured that
they are prepared to furnish guaran-
tee that the Atlantic, Mississippi and
Ohio Railroad Company will meet the
Lebanon branch road at Cumberland
Gap with the least possible delay, thus
making an unbrOken railroad cOnnec-
ton between Louisville and Norfolk,
shortening the distance between Louis
vile aud Norfolk to seven hundred and
fifteen miles, between Louisville and
City Point, on the James River, to six
hundred and forty-five miles, and to
Lynchburg (which is by canal but one
hundred and forty miles to tidewater)
to five hundred and twelve miles.
If the reader will take the pains to
trace the route of the Lebanon branch
railroad to Cumberland Gap, and the
proposed route of the Atlantic, Missis-
sippi aud Ohio road westward to the
same point of connection, lie will dis
cover that it is by great odds the most
direct line to the Atlantic seaboard yet
proposed. The completion of the line
would render available the branch of
the Louisville & Nashville railroad. in
which road we have an investment of
four millions of dollars, which invest
ment, it is said, in the present condi-
ton of the road, is paying absolutely
no dividends to stockholders. The
promise of cheap freights for the grain,
tobacco, pork, and other products of
the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and
the cheap return of imports, is, how
ever, q consideration to us far beyond
that of handsome dividends from in
vestments in railroad shares. With
this connection complete, Louisville
merchants would very naturally sup
ply Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk
and Eastern North Carolina with those
articles which are at present purchas-
ed in other markets. The vessels of
the Atlantic line of steamer sail regu-
larly between Norfolk and Liverpool,
and the tide of emigration from the old
country to the great Northwest, thro'
this medium, would necessarily flow
through our city,
We must confess that the proposition
of our Virginia friends to meet us at
Cumberland Gap with first-class rail-
road. without full knowledge of the
terms upon which the proposition will
be made, is rather attractive, and our
business men and city authorities
should at least extend the visitors a
kindly reception, and give their pro-
ject calm, fair and reasonable consid-
Grafton. y.
EPISCOPAL CoUNCIL.-The Bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal Church of
Virginia, announces that at 1.-The re-
quest of the Rector and Vestry of Grace
Church, Lexington, and for coed and
reason by them assigned he
has determined to change the place for
the meeting of the next Council. No
tice is therefore given, that the next
Council will meet in Christ Church,
Norfolk, on Wednesday, May 18th, at
nine o'clock, A. NJ.
MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY
Wednesday, the oath ult., on horse
back, in front of the Tavern House of
VIM. j. McGraughlin, in Pocahontas
county, when the Thermometer stood .
degrees below zero, by the Rev. G.. l..
Brown, DANIEL MCCARTY, Esq, a
pensioner for service in the war of 1872,
aged 7S wears. to Miss ANN GABERT,
aged % years, all of Pocahontas county.
We clip from the Marion Herald
the following. touching a promising
young minister:
BRISTOL, Tenn, Feb. 6, 1872.