The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-05
New Routes for Trade and Travel.

The rhiiadciphit Press announces ''''
-, Monday thc house OF LAMBERT. THOMAS
go received from Mayssille, Ky. con-
sramcut of -four by way OF the Cnes"s"'N'
.,d o,,;o railroad, and the Press thus SPEAKS
Of The prospective advantages 10 ih'iaoe'-
mia from this great railway:
..rb,s railroad will be an important auNll-
:.x, ~ tbc trade OF Philadelphia hen com
,,ric1 to Cincinnati. Already the lOhloj
Ir;y,.r towns. cut off from railroad co;umuni-
r,t;on during low wafer. can reach hunt
irf,Iou when il is impossible for steamboats,
- e., aS high as ParkcrsburS, Wheeling. OF
p,It>ta,ruh. Huntington l. some eig1tv mites
nearer. 1871 below the terminus OF the bai1i,
more and Obi, railroad, near the mouth OF
the Bic Sandy river, and within sight OF the
Kentucky State line
The Chesapeake aud Ohio railroad has
already brought to this city freight for boston
and New York besides that to Philadelphia
noticed above. Tire Press Of that city Calls
attention TO great advantage II mas III
having is western dtp6: on the river, where
fh,. volume OF water is always so much
larger than at any OF the towns higher un
the river. Water transportation is so cheap
that the .vcit freight business OF the ONO
Valley follows the water rs long AS 1t can. 1t
can reach Huntington Il large part Of the year
when i: cannot ascend the river above ii.
Therefore the Chesapeake and Ohio railwa!
will take great deal that cannot pass by II.
and great deal more because it Is the short
est line from the Ohio TO tide-water, and its
grades are better than those of any Of It's
competitors. So 1t will become, as rapidly
rs it can furnish the means Of transportation.
Il Hrincipal artery for commerce between the
Ohio Valley and every prominent city Of the
Atlantic coa>;.
The ultimate destiny Of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad is MT fixed, a. fiT Is we
know. but it viii very certainly be at some
point en- the peninsula between James AID
York rivers. To Richmond it matters not
where it may be. All we ask is that the
best accommodations for receiving and
>i!:ppinc freight by this great railway be If
forled to our merchants. That such will be
secured to uS we do not for moment
merit at their hands, and, fortunately, it is
their interest to give us just what we want.
We have not doubt that they will lay
their track down to what is styled "deep
water" They are welcome to do so, for
Richmond. Every road that goes out Of
this city is undoubtedly also Il way into it,
and all know that the great cities Of the
world are not On what is called, par er-
cel!cace, deep water" Give us the tacll-
tie, OF Er.t-cla>s business railway und we
have no anxiety for cur welfare on the score
Of" deep wa!cr." Had the Atlantic, MissiS-
sippi mud Chic cn;ie ~ this city as it ought
10 have, for the sake of the road itself As
well as this city ana the State, we should
have desired its continuance down to the
safest and deepest water.
But TO return 10 our >pecuations a to the
effect OF the improvements in lines of trans.
portaiiUn. We may say that five years will
produce very great change to our adyan-
1ana. Al tie lines bearing upon the trade
lad traye, Of this city will undergo m9dii-
ca ;o,.< advantageous to us. The airline to
Atlantis will work considerable revolution.
Il, wi: bring large southern trade to this
city aud will draw a great travel from the
Tines cast and west OF it through this city.
Ii will likely form advantageous connections
with The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad AID
also with the York River road and its water
!iats to Baltimore and Philadelphia. There
viii bc an expedition and Elcitation of
travel and trade growing out Of this airline
a!;i its alliances tlu. will "do great deal
Of coed" for Richmond.
We published a few days since an account
Of grand scheme that is being engineered
by JAY GOULD that will have lis effect OH
commerce and travel. The plan seems to
be Il land and water railway that cuts across
by New York hay, Sandy Hook, New Jcr-
scy, and Delaware bay, to the Chesapeake
Steamers some three hundred feet long,
whose decks are covered with railway tracks,
are TO do The water transportation. The
scheme is said 10 be in opposition 10 the Erie
and Central lines of New York. The Balt-
more and Ohio railway is said to he the line
for western TO and fro business that is 10 CO.
opelnte with this amphi1iouS line of The
great JAY GOULD.
Exactly what this may do We cannot fore
see, Blu. the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad,
with its mild temperatures, easy grades, and
short portage between the Atlantic tide and
the Ohio river, will profit by every measure
which throws transportation between the
Atlaut;c ana the great West upon the mitl-
die lines o: railway.
Tct anolbcr scheme is the railway adven-
tu.s down the peninsula of the Eastern
Shore. \ railway from Wilmington, Del,
10 Crisfeld is at present in operation. 1t is
located to Capeyille, Northampton, and will
question Of its continuation is under consd-
GRAFTON. General MALONE, in ii letter to q
gentleman interested in the enterprise, SAYS
that so eligible is the country for railroad
that one may be built ready for equipment
down the peninsula from Cherrysto..e to
Cape Charles for 81, 800 per mile. &c thinks
il would be a great addition TO public nc
commoiation and would draw Il great deal
OF travel from other lines. He thinks it
would draw travel from the Richmond and
Fredericksburg line; and further, that il
would draw travel from Lyncaburg GA the
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio road We
doubt the realization OF the latter suppose
ton. This Eastern Shore road would pro-