Virginia Free Press

WASHINGTON.
JENKINS.

It will be seen, by the following article from the St. Joseph (Mo) Gazette, that several of the names used therein were once citizens of Jefferson county. It is gratifying to God that wherever they go They attain prominence, and are always in the front rank when useful contests are on hand. The subject of a Railroad to the Plains is now occupying the attention of both Houses of Congress, and the road here projected may form a portion of the main route.

MARYVILLE AND Denver City Railroad.
-As the late session of the Kansas Legislature a charter was granted for a Railroad from Maryville Kansas, to Denver City. The bill was introduced by Mr. Cary Whitehead, a popular and enterprising Representative from Doniphan county. The following gentlemen are the corporators: M. Jef Thompson, Fred. W. Smith Willard P. Hall, S. K Miller, John Callagh, B. M. Stewart, John Hinkson, A L. Lee and F. J. Marshall, a board of gen. Bloemen of great public spirit, enlarged ex perience and extensive means.

This road, commencing at Maryville, the terminus of the work now under construction west from this city, is but a continuation of the "Hannibal and Palmetto Railroad," and a second extension of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Road. It is a most important charter and richly merits assistance from Government. The claims of the road as a military and post route must be obvious to any person who will glance at its location on the map. It hugs the parallel of thirty-nine degrees and forty minutes north latitude, upon which the greatest thoroughfares between the Missouri and the Atlantic seaboard are located, and which is the most favored with respect to climate, soil and population on this continent, and the most direct between the Atlantic and Pacific.

We are advised that the adaptability of the country to a railroad is not, perhaps, surpassed on any other route that is at all direct No serious obstacle is anywhere met. We are also informed, by parties of the highest intelligence with respect to the mountains beyond, that the extension of this route to Utah on the same general course will be found entirely feasible, if not the most facile passage of rivers and mountains intervening between the Missouri and Salt Lake Valley inasmuch as this information comes from gentlemen who have a personal knowledge of the matter and corresponds perfectly with the experience of the company of Dragoons who but recently returned from Utah on this route, as well as that of many of the miners who explored extensively the last year, We see no reason to distrust it.