Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-01-11
DcroBER, 1880.


Juage: Municipal Guards bring the prisoner
into court. - Prisoner what IS YOUR name:
Prisoner: Peter Thomas, may it please your
honor. =
Judge: Peter Thomas, you stand accused OF
having uttered sedtious cries against our iiiustr'-
Gus king. The citizens have trembled with horror
at hearing you vocifcarte .hurrah for Charles -
that imbecil and cruel tyrant-the last OF an odi-
Gus family, which fell in aiming blow at France;
HIS name is forever prescribed.
Prisoner: May it please your honor, had Jus!
come out of prison, where / had been confined
three months, without the possibility Of reading a
newspaper; and was so happy to breath again IN
open air, that without dreaming Of offence, crl-
ed 'shurrah for Charles x"
JUDGE: The court condemns you, Peter Tho
mas, to pay fine of 16 francs, to undergo three
months imprisonment. and pay the costs OF court
-sse0e3es~
From the Baltimore Ga-etfe.
1t appears by the proceedings of the House Of
Representatives, that the bill authorisinS the IN
PRODUCTION of the proposed Rail Road into Wash
lDuton. has been referred to the Committee on
the District of Columbia. We do not know II
this sudden and unexpected interruption to the
passage of the bill arises from hostile feeling TO-
wards the measure. or if it be only with the IN
tention of introducing some modification OF Its
details in relation to the termination or direction
of the road within that city. We would, how
ever, naturally suppose the latter to be the real
object of the reference, because we believe there
is no instance on record of any city refusing to
permit a great public avenue or thoroughfare be-
ing opened to it.
AS regards the interests of the Rail Road Com
pany, who have periodically undertaken this
highly important public work, and who have, as
we learn, provided the means to accomplish 1t
without in any manner interfering with the pro-
gress or funds Of the main line to Ohio, 1t is we
presume, of little consequence what decision
may be made on the question OF its introduction
into Washington. The jurisdiction of Maryland
extends to good navigation upon the tide water
of the EASTERN BRANCH of the Potomac
river, and the lateral road may as well, SO tar as
concerns the interest of the Company, be ter
minated at or near to Bladensburg as at the Capt.
tol of the United States.
By the termination of the Railway upon
Steamboat Navigation on the Eastern Branch,
the distance between the main line OF the Baltl-
more and Ohio Rail Road and that point will be
only twenty five miles, and its cost will, includ-
ing all charges. not exceed five or six hundred
d0llars-from this point steamboat
may be opened to Alexandria,
Richmond, Norfolk. Petersburg and all other
Southern ports without touching Washington, or
obIiging travellers who have no business there,
to 20 several miles out of their way through that
city. Washington, will,by this arrangement. be
placed precisely in the position she herself here
tofore placed her neighbor, Georgetown. BY
building bridge over the Potomac, and which
effectuailv threw the latter place out Of the
main line of the travel between the North and
South. How far this benefited George Town
let those who hold really property there; and Par-
ticularly Hotels. answer.
By stopping the Railway at the Eastern
Branch. the expense of a viaduct over that river
will be avoided; this it is estimated would cost
100000
To which add seven miles for construc-
ton of the Rail Road along the saores
of the Eastern Branch. between Bla-
densburg and Washington, say at Ss5.
O00 per mile l79,ooo