| From the Wilmington Journal |
| June 17, 1862 |
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| Opening the Railroads |
| We are glad to learn that it
is in contemplation to restore the running of passenger trains on the {Virginia}
Central Road from this city. We will not doubt that the provision also
includes the running of FREIGHT trains, of which there is still
greater need. When our armies were on the Potomac, our Northside
railroads were so much taken up with military transportation as
greatly to interrupt their usefulness for ordinary business. This
shifting of our great camp would now, however, enable them to be of
extreme advantage to us. We have no more sagacious, patriotic and
enterprising citizens in the land than the Presidents of these roads
and their associates; and we rely with great confidence upon them to
rally to the public help in this exigency. |
| We believe that several
bridges, destroyed by our soldiers, constitute the only immediate
obstacle to the full use of these roads. We trust they will be
restored with all possible dispatch and we hope the lesson will not be
lost, and that this precipitate, useless burning of expensive bridges
will be abandoned. There has been a good deal more of it than was
necessary. It is greatly more to the credit of our commanders to
defend than to destroy. |
| Meantime we hope that the
provision dealers and caterers of our city, will exert
themselves, through country agencies and otherwise, to gather in their
accustomed supplies and at prices that people can pay. The extortion
that some are now practicing exceeds any thing that had before been
witnessed, and calls loudly for the Provost. Far better to exert
themselves and gather supplies, than to draw the very blood out of
their customers by wicked prices. We presume, of course, that the
hospitals will have their agents out to procure supplies; and if the
large hotels, and association of private citizens do the same, it will
diminish the present pressure on the market stalls. No expedient for
relief must be neglected. |
| Richmond Enquirer, 14th inst. |
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