The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-01-27

ing in Massachusetts,, it was wise and prudent
for her people to undertake to make railway,
and where it shall be located. He thought the
time for making a railway had come, but he was
wholly opposed to a railway from Boston TO
Hudson.
Mr.. Jackson of Newton, never felt so much
confidence in the success of the rail road i'm
proveihent as now. The gentleman from Ber-
Eardston had admitted every thing essential.
Railways were superior to canals $4,000 tons
of produce were transported between this and
Albany-24 900 passengers-which he had set
down as producing $76,00O-at 81 so they
would produce $175,0O0; more than equal to
the Interest on the whole expenditure if the
state did the whole.
The question ofloeation is not now to be con-
sidered. The act provides for making the rail.
ways, and it after the money is subscribed, the
directors prefer the Northern route, it will be
adopted
He then adverted to the saving of expense
by railroad, stating it II of the expense Of
transportation on a common road
Mr.. Green of Marblehead, feared all he might
say, would be regarded as little better than
fish story. Since 1903 the cod6shery had de-
clined rs per cent Fresh fish would be great
treat to the gentlemen of the country After
the railroads are made the hardy fishermen Of
Marblehead will be able TO sell fresh cod in
Ohio! The sea never yet has refused to dis
count the Marblehead drafts, and if other Banks
refuse, the fishermen feel quite easy, if the
Grand Bank makes liberal discounts. Have
not the people of Marblehead claim on the
sympathy of their fellow citizens. More gal
liant fellows never trod the earth. In the revo.
lutionary war, 400 noble souls proved the sim
certify of their love Of liberty by enduring the
horrors of British prison ships. These men
now ask for railroad. 1t would enable them
to sell their fish to an almost unlimited amount.
They could go 100 miles into the country, where
labor and timber were cheap and build their
fishing schooners and then bring them on the
railway to their destined element If man in
Albany wanted 100 quntals of fish, the next
day after sending his order he would have them
at his door
By selling more fish, the people of Marble
head would be enabled to buy pork to eat with
their fish. He would make the railroad. if If
cost $lO,OOO,OOO. Itwould cost but $3 GOO, 600
which at per cent would be but Sl2O,O 900 in.
terest. 1t would be worth 500, 900 annually to
Marblebead, one sixth of the whole interest.
II would help the fisheries every where. and
the salt works on Cape Cod. The coal mines
OF Pennsylvania, the gold of North Carolina,
sink in comparison with the endless treasures
that the Ocean opens to the hardihood and en-.
:erprlse OF Massachusetts. The state, he thought.
should do the whole work
FRIDAY, Jan. %.
SENATE. Mr.. Lincoln from the committee
appointed to inquire into the concerns of the
Farmers Bank at Belchertown made a report
which was read, laid on the table, and ordered
to be printed. The petition of the same Bank
to be allowed to surrender lis charter, was re.
ferred to the committee on Banks
Committee on towns reported bill to set off
part of New Salem to Aihol which was read
once.
Report of the reviewing committee on the
petition OF the inhabitants of New Salem, and
memorials of Nahum Bryant and others, and Of
A. Pierce and others, in favor of the PRAYER of
SAID petition, were referred to committee on
Towns
Report relative to the Massachusetts, Claim
was taken up the first Resolution was agreed
to.
HOUSE. On motion of Mr. Cotton of B.,
ordered, That the committee on the Judiciary
DC directed To cnns'd~r che e1PeSicuSy of Inn
posing duty or tax on all estates settled in
Probate offices in this Commonwealth which
shall nett more than the sum of five hundred
dollars.
Mr.. Rantoul from the committee on finance
reported bill to apportion and assess tax Of
$75, 900. -
Mr.. u. Blake of b., reported bill respecting
arrests and imprisonment for debt and attach
ments OF personal property also bill concern.
ing the attachment Of real estate.
The House then resumed the Railroad Bills.
MIR. Smith of CRANKY rose in opposition to
the bill He said because Railways were good
in England or at the South, it by no means fol-
lowed that they would answer good purpose
here. Their value was wholly relative and
what was very good at one place, might be
good for nothing at another. He thought the
cost of making them must be enormous and
they would be worth but little after it was made.
They would cost more here than in England,
owing to the higher price of labor he thought
the cost must be between and 10 millions.
After they were made, the transportation would
be small. The idea Of an increase Of popula-
ton was fallacious. The billy country Of Mas
sachusetts would not support an increased pop
uation, because the land there will not bear
the plough it destroys the grass.
Mr.. Green Of NJ. said if the land on which the
gentleman from CRANKY lived would not bear
the plough, if he would go to Marblehead he
might there learn how to make 3 tons of hay
to an acre grow on a rock, for such was Mar
blehead. Barren as it was the people were able
to supply themselves, and to raise 200 tons of
hay annually, to sell in Boston market And,
how did they do it By hiring men at ST. a
day to cut seaweed from the rocks and put it on
the land. This they would send on the rail-
road to CRANKY, and then they could raise there
as they did in Marblehead, 20 or IS bushels of
corn to the acre. $1,000 or $4,000 worth of
Goldfish heads were annually thrown away in
Marblehead. On the railroad these could be
sent to enrich the land at CRANKY. He heard
much Of the transportation by water; but by
this mode, it sometimes took two months TO get
return from Albany The railroad would car
ry Boston into the country and bring the coun-
try TO Boston.
Mr.. Makepeace of Cambridge considered the
superiority of railroads over every other mode
of intercommunicaton to be settled. II was a
new power. 1t opened new sources Of wealth
to the people and the only question is how it
shall be best directed for The public good.
Population is the source Of trade !: il creates
the demand for transportation. The fisheries of
Massachusetts, produced greater staple pro-
duct than any other state possessed. Coal of
Pennsylvania would not compare with Them
The tonnage Of the great staples, carried on
the New York canals was but l.3 of the whole