Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-26

INTO IlttSOufHn (NllH lHelI consequent
gains To them from the completion oil
the Southern outlet through West Nlr-
ginia, where lie intact under her hills
vast deposits of iron ores, comparing
favorably with, if not excelling,
those OF Lake Superior, and where
dense forests, as yet unmeasured, have
grown ripe for the axe and the
locomotive, and which forests abound
with timber the most valuable that the
markets of the world demand. The
road as is well known, was organized
some three years ago, and, while 1t Is
true that il has struggled through some
adversely, is now completed to Wash
ington, Pa, distance southwark OF, say
thirty miles, with branch fifteen miles
long (ready for the rails, from point
ou the main line twenty-five miles from
Pittsburgh, called the Virginia Junction,
to Hillsboro. 1t is this branch that the
Company propose to extend into west
Virginia, as presenting the short
est and more desirable route-rather
than constructing from Washing
ton or by connecting with the
Waynesbnrg railroad. When the iron is
laid (which will be accomplished with
i'm the next sixty days, the iron being
now delivered)On this branch, the road
will be in operation 81 miles southwark
from Pittsburgh, and only nine miles
nOrthward from the Greene county line.
Thence to the State line is about q
miles. The wish of the management is
to secure aid to complete this latter sec
ton, namely: From HillsbOrO TO the
State line. From this latter point
southwark the company will, by the
municipal aid that is insured along the
route, be enabled to continue the con-
struction of the line without making
further drafts upon the Pittsburgh pub
lie.
All that is required, therefore, to place
the railway upon such a footing as VIII
enable it to enter such field of useful
ness as this community should heartily
desire, is encouragement from those who
will ba most benefited and that, too, to
VIEW limited eXtent-at least, so We are
informed. In the one item of ores alone,
ii Pittsburgh could control base OF
supply thereof in competition with the
Michigan product, the saving would IN
one years run of our furnaces repay the
whole investment required to construct
the road, as above mentioned, TO the
State line. Nor does this take into
consideration any advantage from
the transportation into Pitts
burgh, to be worked into mer-
chantible shape, the poplar, walnut ash,
OAK and other woods required by our
boat builders Wagon manufacturers, cab
inetmakers, Nc.; nor, indeed, does 1t
mention the intercourse that wall be
opened up with a people who, up to
this time are strangers TO our commerce;
nor have we included the fact that when
completed to the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, the Pittsburgh Southern will
afford a connection for Pittsburgh with
another tranS-cOntinental trunk line
from tide water at Richmond TO the
Ohio river at Huntington now but with
in short time TO the Pacific Ocean-for
it is we'll known that the
same controlling influence that
has reorganized that railway,
Is pushing the Southern Pacific east
ward and rapidly closing up the gap
with connections that will soon provide
the Union Pacific with a formidable
competitor. Again, but a short dis
lance south of this Chesapeake Il Ohio,
crossing the Pittsburgh Southern,
reaches the Atlantic, Mississippi Il Ohio
road. at Chambersburg, whence is reach
eel the entire net work of the Southern
railway system. This latter object, so
important was it considered, that the
city of Cincinnati nearly bankrupted its
| tlXpavcrS To- attain. Pittsburgh manu-
] .,,,.l l,n-sfnn.s nnnI IN y
/ contribute a tritling sum, and that con-
| trbutiOn, too, unquestlonably secured,
/ To enable them 10 reach out with their
| trade into the same regions and with
equal facilities for so doing. Will they
respond to the request for their aid,
with the unanimity which becomes a
public spirited community?
Nix. GLADSTONE has made the late
massacre in Aighanistan the theme OF an
attack upon the BEACoNSFIELD admins
trafion, and his 81 told you So in this
case is not merely an empty boast In
prot sting aga INST the pro- osed invasion
o. Aighanistan in Parliament in last De-
cemb.r, GLADs ONE said:
at : impossible to refrain from the
recollection that the Afghan war IS no
new war We made wa- with Afghan
istan i'm 1888. To repeat the same war
on the same ground, with no better JUS
LITIGATION, is certainly lamentabe. To
repeat such Il war is a greater mistake.
/ TINS war has been repeated in the face
of every warning conceivable to be men
| toned, and in the face OF an unequalled
amount Of authority, and in the lace of
your own agent on the spot.
| IL is said history repeats itself,
and certainly the repetition is in some
eases singular and touching. Perhaps
there has not ever been a case OF closer
imitation or approach to identity than
| this. Gou who have sent men into this
country send them again in the same
generation, aud when there are still
many living i'm Aighanistan whose men,
| orv bears the recollection of the horrors
/ that YOU carried into that country, and
| that YOU endured in that country not
vet forty years ago. All this has to be
/ done over again. Nav heaven avert the
| omen, Nav heaven avert that cataStrO-
/ pine which belell our army in 1871, and
| that sanyuinary massacre which fol-
lowed upon the catastrophe'