The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-25


Yesterday aass q great day for TIRE Rich
n,ond aud Aileghany railroad. MI COG COG
mt, 81 Amherst, mad i. powerful speech
in support oil The bill, xplaiaing Z fuiiy,
and presenting Tin 4 manner that rnaae y =
7 .5,,uassailab,e. ii weuidsse baolitely ride die
ulous for any man to.seek an 9rening OF !; g
neglected seam ssiFough which CART Or
lance might be sent. y were vain to search
for such. ,4,i ..ls So
AFR. CoaHILL com7letely understood the
whole subject. de answered all objections
and closed up aiI points OF assault. Z ie
genera. Terdictwas that bis speech was un'
ans#erab,c, and Tint the 4 legislature ought
without iuuher, hesitat lou to pass the bill. %
Yet that could not be; for gentlemen
!. representatives Lad 10 discharge tfeir
du.y.o SO to speak, md yipdicate them.
selves at home by, IL. nothing better, giving
expression to the preindicesg of their con
ssi.uents. a 49,. Il or. ri 81 IS. I.
FOR no sooner had Mr.. -GoaHILL concluded
than the courteous Mr.. " aRNER T ITALIA.
FsRRo, representing Norfolk, got up and
broadly opposed the biifas alien 10 Norfolk
He assumed that the bar Z railroad dh' 'a
should come 90 nearer n orsolk thar. ;;LYnoh.
burg, and should there switch into the At Z
lantic. Mississippi and Ohio railroad, and
,s.sS I,s
he represented ass-the superior seaport
of the atlantic. coast - Baltifnor Nes
4 York, and Boston being mere " shaiioW.
water,, towns ) compared TO Norfolk.
Richmond was nothing more more than 9
manufacturing town, not tosba considered
at all in reference TO commerce. Mr. TAI
IAPERRo did, not condescend to inform MS
auditors why q manufacturing town Nigh
not need a.raiircad to bring her at least raw
material He satisfied hinself-so easily
was be satisfied on this point-with the idea
that as Richmond was manufacturing
town she did not at all need : railroad along
sfhe river fromtLy nehburg. The. view %
mfr. TAL1ArgRRo seemed TO be that
Richmond must be thus cut off be
cause the interest OF Norfolk demanded II
The moral Of his speech was lyery much 10
z .the line of the logic Of the Puritans, that
the earth was the Lords and Belonged to the
Saints, and that they were the Saints II
Norfolk and her Representatives viii par
lt,on us, ave venture to declare that.hich-!
mond is not b seaport, but that, accepting
~the Judgment lof Norfolk and7her sapient
representatives, we confess that she is an
humble manufacturing toMh, -and humbty
-;crare that she may be permitted tofhaSe 2
railroad to bring raw material TO hera a1,
carry away her manufactures. ~. =. t..fp. [
Z, We beg this for Richmond. That NeHolk
may besgreat and prosperous is all the BARN
we have eVer-wished her, and we would
gladly settle amicabIy upon this point. U /
But we must Say that Richmond has reaT
son to object to the speech OF her represents
alive. Itiwas neither Just nor wise, and
we are sorry for that. An intelligent audi
tor declared, after hearing 1T, that that
speech would secure the passage OF the Dill
The course Of deliberation, Yesterday T., vas
most encouraging to, the prospects of the
bill. The Richmond delegation approached
harmony, and we anticirateaultimate and
solid unioi} At present there is suspected
to be an entangling alliance, but we do not
apprehend any disturbance from it tonltl-
,na.o- oanoard.-Wo should regard -0tscuru
among Tue representatives OF Richmond
upon the great measure OF a railway along
the James-River Valley as most lamentable
and most perilous. What would be thought
were it to appear that Richmond's own rep
resentatives were not united upon such 4
subject as.that? It.Would- be-thought THAT
the rneasure,pyoposed lacked merit or that
Richmond did net understand her own I'M
,terests. u. - f'.e - 60 s.as