Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-09-02
Toll-Gate near Staunton.


Turnpike has no authority to turn over to the
corporation that part of his road from the cor
porate line at Tams-town to the Courthouse,
or sell to North and Middle River Townships
the fraction of the road to the toll-gate. The
directors at their meeting this Fall, if they con-
cur in this suggestion, would have to ask the
Legislature this winter to permit them to carry
it out. A year nearly will be lost, in doubt
full effort
The other proposition to open new road
from point West of Mr.. Fultz' orchard thro
his woodland, through the Opie place that used
to be. and the Moon, now G. &. Miller land,
into the Churchvile road, near the Donaghe
home, ought not to be thought of, for reasons
now to be briefly set forth
The distance will be increased from 18th to
mile.
Ihe ground for greater part OF the way is
most undesirable for a road-a Northern expo
sure, and when the frost is out In the Spring,
has no bottom
Then the amount of damages will be very
heavy, every cent of which is to be paid by the
townships named.
This is not all before it can deserve the
name Of road, it must, besides being grubbed
through the unusually thick woods of Messrs.
Fultz and Miller, an exceedingly expensive job,
be very heavily McAdamized, over every foot
of it. Besides, it runs over quarter of mile
or more OF the very worst piece OF road that
enters Staunton and which is heavy in grade,
and liable to wash, and must also be McAdam-
lied. The aggregate expense of opening this
piece of road, apart from an increase of dis
tance, and putting it on worse ground, will
reach $3, 900 at the most moderate calculation.
The present road is objected to where it passes
Fultz woods, because of the mud when wet.
An eighth of what the grubbing will cost on
the new, will McAdamize the old from the
eastern skirt of the woods to Hite Opie s gate.
Ii the county will furnish the writer two good
teams, say such as Jo Houff 8, and such en-
ergetic men as he to drive them, and ten eff
cent hands for five days, he will give his SER
vices in experimenting the work, and put the
road from the eastern skirt Of the Fulz woods
to the toll gate 10 such condition that it will re-
quire little attention and cost to keep it up for
five years. He will provide the material to
gravel such parts as need it, and will suggest
as the county has to board the scamps, who
ought to be in the chain gang, that tenant the
Jail. if they are placed in charge of some eff
cent man, like Parent, to break the stone on
this part of the road, it will repay the county
a small fraction of the expense it sustains in
feeding them
But what of the toll gate nuisance? I pro-
pose that we unite together in refusal to pay
toll and subject the turnpike company to the
necessity of enforcing its inlqultous rates OF
toll. If our people can now afford to pay from
SIS up to $40 and $50 each per annum toll for
3-Sths of mile to the corporate limits or Il
miles to the g. H., they can afford to expend
trihe each In abating what all agree In term
ing an unrighteous imposition. The sum the
company collects at this gate is said to be in ex-
cess Of $4,000 per annum. The arguments in
favor of this course are strengthened, when 1t
is remembered that the present road cannot be
closed, say from Fultz' orchard to the toll-gate.
NORTH RIVER.
CApR1c1oUs AS THE WINDS No woman ev-
er practised her wiles of coquetry more sedu-
lousy or capriciously than has ROBERT w.
HUGHES. First an extreme 'war to the knife, -
'black flag, no quarter" disunionist. Next,
when his State was overwhelmed by her enc
mics, the editor of Radical paper. Then
again, when the wind was apparently changing.
a jealous advocate in the National Democratic
Convention for the nomination Of BLAIR, vo-
| ting for him along side of the Hon. JAMES BAR
BoUR. JOHN B. BALDWIN, JOHN GoODE, and
others Of the Virginia delegation as the best in
strument with which to defeat this same GRANT,
to whom he now appeals, and to whom he will
doubtless appeal in vain for help. And then
when the power Of GRANT was found omnipo-
tent with the people, again au editor OF Rad
| lcal paper SUSTAINING CANBY In his determlna-
tion to exclude every man from official position
in Virginia who had been true to his State, and
would not swallow the IRON CLAD OATH the ad-
vocate of the great disfranchiser WELLS for
Governor, and the negro HARRIS for Lieuten-
ant Governor of Virginia-the paid agent OF
the men and party he had denounced to lash
| the people of his native State into obedience to
laws he had held to be cruel and oppressive, and
finally as reward for his desertion of his peo-
pie, the chosen leader of the negroes, the cham
pion of Radicalism. White men of the Com
monwealth, Virginians, can it be that there is
one amonst you who can cast his ballot for ROB-
ERT W. HUGHES? For the sake of your race
and State, we hope not-Rich. Who.
s'The best laboring class on the globe" are
all working for Hughes like beavers. As con-
sequence, those whom he disparages-the
white working class-are not expected to play
a subordinate part to the negroes. They will
not wear the badge of inferiority, and 60 into
contest on the side of those whom the Radi-
cal candidate places above them in the scale OF
usefulness, aud on the same plane in the mat
ter of social equality. -.Lynchburg Nirginian.
General Kemper's watchword is: Simplicity,
economy, and honesty in the administration Of
the government.
Mr.. Hughes watchword is, "Bottom rail on
top" Mr.. Hughes is SO far gone in political
sin that he seems willing to ruin every interest
of the Commonwealth to advance his own per-
sonal ambition,-Rtersburg zadez and Appeal.