The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-04-09

T,rsrssr, & i !, APRIL 10, 1873,
~. ats southern RAILWAY,

= VIA
we have always considered that ssncln.
natl would and tue !. Southern = rat way, OF
which her people have boosted So much, 20
;.ha n,he elcphaut. s1,' And theg have been cen.
realizing this fact for years. y is supposed
t,,at So, 900 viii be, needed 70 finish the
work, ana delegation from Cincinnati are re
asking from the legislature the passage q 7, :
bill TO permits that city to subscribe tn ne
needed money under certain conditions
According TO custom, Whenever . propo-
sssioa Is made to provide for the complexion
81 the rad by Cincinnati it's proposed %
lease Oh. the road to railway companies = TOT
terminal facilities. The principal adyo cate
Of this mode Of putting things in motion
,,rres tina, the read be let and the roiiing-
stock be rented out to companies nee ding IT,
Possibly very wise under the ci II tances'
Int does ii not look very much like going
to pieces We could hardly predict that a
rrat, SO aisposed OF IA road that had such a
5 Da,rof, as the great city OF Cincinnati, With
millions of wealth md millionaires OF clti-
zens--would become q remarkably profitable
road. Evidently Cincinnati Goes not think
so. she Is clearly OF opinion that she has has
the !. elephant and the moment it is pro-
posed that she shall finish the work she
begins to look about for dry nurse-she
wants to alet 1t out !" to somebody or some
body else.
We have not been mistaken about this
g Cincinnati Southern" IL was great
mistake, conceived in prejudice and prose
cuted in practical blindness. The authors
OF the project erred in opposing the only
true way to the prosperity OF Cincinnati,
which was to cause the commerce OF the
Northwest and West TO hug the mean line
of the Ohio river east aud west. The at
ten,t to force travel out OF IT'S naturai{ilne.
the ATTEMPT TO draw cotton from the ship
ping ports, and the attempt to draw dealers
in imported goods from the importing CT
ties. could not but fall, and now Cincinnati
sees il. The people there do not like to
confess their error, aud are wriggiing 10
their dilemma.
Let Cincinnati, late rs it Is, look to her
easter, and western connections. She can
Go so TsaIiit. bc SoHhS1eioo' w
tween. Cincinnati and Huntington arc short
and may be constructed economically.
These would give her lncomparabiy more
trade and prosperity than she vii! ever get
from her Chattanooga road.
II she is joined to her IDOL. it cannot OF
course be helped. Putting herself in con-
nection with the '.iust middle line" by
connecting herself with the middle tempe
ate route to the golden gate OF the Chesa-
peake, she will recover something OF tina:
which she has lost by the drain towards the
lakes through Chicago. But let her move
at once. or she will find herself in degree
checkmated by the establishment OF railway
communication from Chicago uia~Point
Pleasant and the kanawha and James River
valleys. Chicago will thus be advantage
ously situated. The stool! OF grain that is
caught there by winter may be rapidly con-
yeyed below the frost line, and get TO the
sea in the most favored OF all ATTITUDES for
commercial activity and thrift. This would
be an emphatic checkmate upon the hove
ments Ct Cincinnati.
We like the Queen City Of the Ohio. and
would be glad to see her taking care Of her.
sell. But depend upon it she has had very
siniudicious advisers.