The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-10-16

The Richmond Enquirer and Wing have
expressed their just indignation at the sum-
mary action of Judge Bond against the Cues
apcake and Ohio railroad. The Dispatch is
silent on the subject, having, We suppose,
been struck dumb by the startling proceed
ing in the interest Of foreign railroad lnVa-
ders.-Petersburg Neus.
The Dispatch Is not in the habit of "pitch'
ing in" where no good can be done ny
"pitching in," and where it really knows
little or nothing. We knew that the appoint
ment made by Judge BOND, under the cir
cumsances that attended 1t, was censuraole
and we further knew that when the Chief
Justice and Judge HUGHES appeared on the
beach if anything which bad been done
wrong were not beyond the reach OF re-
yersal it would receive the proper attention
OF the court.
There are many interests at stake In the
matter of the delinquency of the chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, and there need be no fear
that they will not be vigilantly looked after.
Their magnitude assures us that they will
not be neglected. And so far as the interests
O. Virginia are concerned, we have reason 10
know all that can be done for them will be
done.
We bide the time, hoping for the best, and
not being disturbed by the apprehensions
tina. are INDUCED in certain quarters. we
do not believe in the extravagant stories
about Baltimore and the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad. Those things are the phantasma.
roria that are used often, for sinister pur-
poses. to frighten people, Baltimore has
at present shorter routes to the very
cities which are to be reached through
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. She
could hardly undertake to get at them
Though a route longer to her, at the
COS, Of millions of dollars. She has no! the
.surp!us funds necessary for this. No corpo-
ration in the Union has the money to be ap-
Died TO schemes so unnecessary as this
would be. 1t is great folly to be eVerlast-
inglv paradlpg Baltimore and the Baltimore
ami Ohio Railroad Company as monsters to
alarm the people of Virginia. We would
better look at home. p" The Greeks are at
our DOORS"
Besides, as we know, New York comes
forward, if possible, to shove aside Tyson,
judy BoND's receiver, with the view of get.
ting some arrangement for the protection oil
thu New York bondholders, who claim to
hold the great bulk of bonds issued by the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
We have no doubt that the property, should
it not fall to the control Of Virginia, will b,
absorbed by the New York claimants. W.
have no fear of them. New York is not
giant going about eating up small communi
ties. She is powerful and generous. Viii!
we do not sympathize with those who pill,
up denunciatIons upon Baltimore, she Ger.
sainly has, by contiguity to US, an opportu-
nifty to do US some harm, which, Topographic
ealIy, would not be suggested to New York
and which that city is too great and mag
unanimous to do us. We do not mean to say
that Baltimore would go deliberately to WORK
to hurt us; but wise is the community thai
shields Itself by deprIving competing com
munities of the opportunities to do it harm
In conclusion, the case Of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad Company is one in
which such contrariety of interests are at
stake that it may linger in the courts for
years If there be enough strategy and nge.
nuity in the legal profession to Keep it there,
and we do not believe that lawyers are at
all deficient In this respect.
We are quite hopeful, then, and believe
that the Executive and our leading Rich.
.raond citizens will do all they can to place
the great road under Virginia coutrol. But
II thatbe not possible we must hope for the
next best thing to that. We by no means
despair. We hope for something good. We
put grea. faith in the overriding power of
the natural tendencies OF trade. We have
lost none Of our trust In them by the history
OF railroads. All their riyalries have ended
in submission to laws which railroads and
railroad kings have been altogether unable
10 change.