| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| February 10, 1862 |
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| Important Railroad connections |
| The {Virginia}
House of Delegates on Saturday passed a bill providing for the
construction of a railroad, for military purposes, connecting the
Manassas Gap Railroad, at or near Stras Mrs. in the county
of
Shenandoah, with the Winchester & Potomac
Railroad, at or near Winchester, in the county
of
Frederick. We have not yet had an opportunity of examining the bill, but have
been informed that it makes an appropriation of $125,000. That the
road is, in fact, a "military necessity" no one can doubt,
and the importance of prompt action on the matter will be duly
appreciated by the Senate. |
| It will be remembered that President
Davis, in his message to Congress at the commencement of the present
session, recommended that the Confederate Government should assist in
making a railroad from Danville, Va. to Greensboro', N. C. {the
Piedmont RR}, type the ground of a strong military necessary
for completing an interior through line from Virginia to the Southern
Atlantic The subject was again alluded to in a special message
recently sent in; and the bill (appropriating one million Klaus, was
defeated on a motion to engross, is a probability that it will be
reconnected. The North Carolina Convention, on Thursday last, by a
majority of 23 votes, passed an ordinance authorizing this connector.
It merely gives a charter to a company desiring to build the road, or
to the Confederate States, if, in pursuance of President Davis's
message, they conceive it to be "a military necessity." |
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