The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-20

| rise hcvon2-spacc Tor an iilibchH1
,,d room for cypausion on all tho hcigi's'
The river is deep enough for sina'' S'''''i'S
craft or steamers TO WAKES land''s' opp.
j, s;,S Seventeenth, street; and conNsr'''Ne,s
small amount of dredging and bi's'!''S "H'
omen GOOD channel right up to DcHl''r Z"
uoxcrap,s mills, at the abutmcnt Of MAfo's
bridge: III fact, quite to the 1901 Oh '''e i'',''
,ctcn wc tolk of nchmond's unriVallea
wa,cr-powcr. Where is It! why l'i'i'''s
on thc Manchester side. Nature put II tlicle'
md art cannot take il away-wousd hot ~
nrrm;tted 10 do it--bccausc III al! c'en'
Manchester has the right to half the bed Oh
the river. and that gives thrce-'o''Itis Oh 'ne
water. These are rrcpondcr"tlhS li't'i'n
advantages not stated now for the hist l'ic ;:
they nave long been known. The ofA2'iE''
surveys of the james River ana haiI'" Ia
I c,nq, made that work terminate i'll NancheS-
fer. and 50 sensible was The then Legislature
Of the righteousness OF the location li!"' IL"
.o,d fory~ merchant in M&ncleSle. ~
feared the growth Of the town, Inc cN'e'!S!o"
NJ its corporate limits. consequent 'N''i!
in trade and 4 competition against ''S l'"'
estate, that lie employed PATElcK llENEi ~
,,,ocar before the committee OF the Lesisl'-
lure charged with this matter ana oeica' 'i'e
scnene. But even cur great HoMrE-DGHos-
TUNES. though he might fer Il season
obstl1lct the laws OF nature, co"io ho'
reverse them. And now Manche>tcrS turn
has come round again, OF is rapidly coiii'''s'
For consider: We wish now to rival baill-
more. Wccan DO if we act wisely; lof inc
Chesapeakc and Ohio railroad, which Is the
precursor Of the through! canal, the Dah'iiIc
railroad, and all the rest, can DO Is !luch 1or
us as such things have done Tor Baltimore.
]; may come sooner than we expect. But II
| i comes, or as il comes, we must provide for
Il POPULATION of not less than oj0,oVo people.
Now, where will you seat them ana put
them to work on the Richmond side: Think
Of 1t moment; travel, III imagination, from
H." a""0t Of the Baltimore and Ohio 10 The
depot OF the Philadelphia railroad. What a
water front; with its wharyes and ships,
away around to and beyond Fel's Point !;
and not room enough then, but shipping
driven across to Locust Point. Then so to
tie DEPOT Of tie Pennsylvania Central, and
look at the lay Of the ground, the grade Of
tho streets. Richmond, dear, beautiful Rich
nond, has not III herself such wafer front,
aud ground, and grades. is those. But Man
chester has, and Gun supplement Eichmonds
deficiencies by becoming part Of her, or
hy becoming her rival. You doubt it:
Think a moment again. The Chesapeake
ana Chic railroad has just bought river
WHARFAGE front Of 1900 feet, nearly 4 mile,
end means to tracb;-Iay up to the I'rcdcSar
besides. Eut that Will not lie nlore than
enough for her own t:Sc !; for il must accom-
m2tl:.te the short line frum Lynchbur%.
What will the Danyl!e road with Ill its
feeders do? What the Petersburg with its
southern connections: VIII they cross the
river and culnc--.llc D.lnviic 10 il crlupCd-
I'D s!lnlliics on Virginia street, where they
have not now room rnou@iI for Il tllrl-tai;lc:
the Petersburg to EyM street, and thence 70
tide rs the dock connecticut? DO any be-
licyc il except octogcaaIian lcal-cstAtc hold
c;:s OF the owners Of wharf property? Does
The olIcs: iogy in The Council tilini. hat when
manufactures want power, trade space. or
more convenient brcatlli1g-room, anything
Richmond can DO will keep them from going
10 Manchester, where al c;;n be had in abund-
a;lcc, ;nd on ,isttcr terms tlau in Richmond:
is it known that already the Uam"il.e road
has track to deep water 1T Rockets: That
| Il million dollars worth Of stonc is begun 10
| IL dressed there for shipment: That north
EN- capital OWNS from DrcWry's is!and in
elusive, up to and behind the Daiivillc roads
wharf! II Int in the name of common sense
caa keep us from seeing that, with Il longer
ard deeper river front, backed by 4 dead
| level, end leading 10 q better watcr-power.
trade must utilize these advantages as soon
as trade begins 10 establish itself.
"Oh. but the water: the i:cshes :" Well;
Eockctts and Dock street catch it rs badly rs
/ Manchester. Canoes have lately navigatcd
up - the intersection Of Main and Fifteenth
! streets. And it is harder to prevent such
mischief in Richmond than in Manchester;
for Manchester can be lcveed-the whole OF
it perhaps, tie lower part certainly. There
it is only an easy question Of engineering
skill; here it is q question Of cost. The
space is too narrow for the outlay. Once
lcYeed, Manchester would be safer than Rich
mond-safer than New Orleans, which,
IoIo In, L..
Mississippi for Il considerable part of every
YEAR, is vet much safer t!ran the alluyia part
| OF Richmond.
Now, then, is Richmond willing to look
six inches beyond her nose, and secure all
this to herself by annexation: to fortify her
self against all future rivalry by fur and
equitable union? This splendid territory for
development, these riparian advantages, this
harmony of action, is offered to her, if size
will assume debt Of the interest on Si3j, 600,
and for Il short time appropriate the taxes of
that territory, and no more, to its improve
ment. Will she make the bargain? One
might think SO, for but recently she gave,
wisely and with generalanprobation, $500, eco
for great and valuable, but yet smaller, con-
sideration. More lately still, she has, by unan-
inous action OF her Council, agreed to give
100000 for the privilege of free Intercourse
with these very people. How can she refuse
to pay only twice that sun to haze them
wholly incorporated with her? What is the
sense Of i free bridge without annexation !?
Nc" Rocks.