The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-10-19


~ uhs6speaks and Ohio Railroad.
~ iusountement has already been made
- go surual that the Chesapeake and Ohio
failtv46 for . roea connecting With u, which
4 8 3 our isterests The same thsng,) hss
b,sa completed 10. Ashisnd. Ashland Is
: ll.a,e >eva, a ne Kentucky bank Of the
0hio rtseY. Il Is below the worst bars 10
IN fttSr. Therefore the Chesapeake and
osie yuslrosa cas benceiorth have no such
ronsuo 81 learing low water as u bias here
seeors IA There are, We suppose, not
aesen 61ysip tie year when the Ohio river
d. ut coutsia good stsge Of water De-
.sWeon Ashland snd Cincinnati.
Hut The dsepwater connection is not all
~ ahs Chesapeake and Ohio railroad Sc
curss By us connection with Ashland. Toa
point opposite Ashland, on the north bank
o. TIE Ohio river, the scioto Valley railroad
win soon he completed. Two hundred
mesi asd I0o teams are now at work be-
swen Portsmouth, Ohio, and The new ter
mlot ~ The Sc!oto Valley railroad. The
Porssnsuth Times says that more than nine.
tent6s 81 tie grading will be done by the
sass Of October. Mr.. ROBINSON. the super
luteudent, announces that II nothing un-
eoresesn shall occasion delay, the road will
be completed before the list Of November,
: or let us say before the day Of the prcsi'
dental election, which takes place two
weeks from to-day. The Portsmouth paper
seems not to BE- quite so confident, but says
(. that Il n safe to predict that trains VIII be
sweeping up the Ohio Valley TO connect al
Ashland with railroad leading to Rich
mond BY The FIRST day Of January next-only
sevensy.odd days hence.
Again: The indications are strong that
the Chesapeake and Ohio railway is to be
extended very soon from Richmond east
wardly to Newport's News. This terminus
WIN be Cd deep water and within an hours
steaning Of the city OF Norfolk, which
already exults 10 the prospect OF having SO
grand q connection with the great West.
Some Of the people OF Richmond always
become little nervous whenever there Is
any talk heard Of the extension OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad eastwardly
beyond this point. But the question OF It's
extension II 10 its owners, whatever 1t may
be 10 us, q mere business matter. They
have concluded that IL will promote their
interests to extend their road TO Newports
News, Just as the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company decided TO run steamers in
connection with Its road directly to Eu-
rope, and Just as that company takes pas
sengefs and freight directly through Balti-
more to Philadelphia, New York, or else
where. Perhaps we shall fear the proposed
extension less II we look at 1t as road from
Newport's News to Richmond Instead OF as d
road from Richmond to Newport's News.
Every rosd leading out Of Richmond is road
leading into Richmond. The James river
10 equal TO dozen railroads; and that
stream is navigable only east Of Richmond.
We mean to say that we have no fears for
this city. Its admirable location, at the
head Of tide-water, is guarantee that, like
Baltimore, which is at the head Of the Chesa-
peake bay, Richmond can mover be rivalled
by any Virginia city lying east of 1t, or
nearer the sea. Her climate, her healtbful-
ness. her advantages for manufacturing, her
ncsrness 10 the interior and to the West at
the same time that she Is ION tide.water, all
combine TO insure to Richmond pros.
perity and continued growth which eau
not be prevented by any Of the schemes OF
mon tfa