Litchfield enquirer., 1840-07-30

the trifling sum of $l5O,OOO. There would then remain unfinished, the 20 miles from the northern line of Connecticut to West Stockbridge, and as the parties who own this road-Which being almost dead level can be constructed for $lO,O00 per mile, Gndeed the contractors on the IIousatonic offer to construct it for less sum,)-also require aid, the Housatonic Rail Road Company are prepared to borrow the money and loan it to them.
 We have neither time nor space, to enter in'o detail of the resources of the country
 through which this line of road passes; but we would simply state, that the Iron estab- liShmcnt of Mir. Ames at Canaan Falls, now turns out daily about five tons ot Iron, and would, 1t the Rail Road were finished to that Point, furnish daily, from ten to fifteen tons oi Transportation in Iron, Pig Iron and Coal All the marble from Berkshire must neces- sarily pass this route and now that the Berkshire and Albany Railroad is about to be completed by tho interference of the cor porations of Albany and Boston, all the pro- duce that leaves Albany in the winter sea- s3 s> ... .... :. lis way to New York over this Railroad, if it be completed previous to this
 -uC having for itself an outlet through Boston instead of this city. It does not admit of a question, that in consequence of The distance from Bridgeport to this city being water communication, by which mer- chandiZe is transported for 7U cents per ton, barrel of flour can be transported from Albany to New York through the Valley ot the llousatonic for twenty per cent. less than it can be conveyed 10 Boston on the contem- plated great Western Railroad.
 The Housatonic Rail Road Company have, as we have already mentioned, expen- ded $56O,OOO on the portion of their work completed, which is already yielding six per cent interest. They have contracted to pay S475,OOO for the thirty eight miles unfnsh- ed and to enable them to do this, they re- quire aid to the amount of $Sl50O0O. But to insure the completion of the Berkshire Road Qwenty miles) by the list December, 1941, they must also raise the sum of $l5O,0OO for that company. They therefore, say, that inasmuch "as New-York has a deep stake in the early completion of our work, we pro- pose to borrow from the capitalists of that city Ss3000C0. 10 be secured by mortgage upon all our property"
 This reduces the question to very sim pie one; will the capitalists of this city hesi- tate moment to make an investment on such unquestionable security, when as a condition of their investment, the borrowers pledge themselves to finish their work within period which literally renders the recent movements in Boston and Albany harmless? The capitalists of Boston and Albany have done much more upon mere contingency. They have act ed with spirit and enterprise, in the distant hope of thereby securing portion of that trade which is already ours; are not we prepared to do something to preserve that for which our neighbors are bidding so high price? We will not permit ourselves to entertain doubt as to what will be the re- sponse of our city to the application of our entcrpriZing neighbors. It is Our duty to preserve the trade which is legitimately ours; and if the Housatonic Rail Road Company could not offer any security for urge the propriety of raising the amount oy subscri ption, or to take it from the city Treasury to secure so great an object.
 THE TREASURY-FED DEMOCRATS.
 MT. MoNcURE, in his speech at Stafford CourteXpatiated very much at large on what he was pleased to call Democracy, and the Democratic party-insisting that the oppo- nents of the Administration were Federal lsts, and his own party the true Simon Pures of Democracy. MT. NEWTON, in re- ply, whilst he expressed great respect for genuine Democracy, said that the gentle- mans remarks called to mind an anccdote that he had heard of an old Dutch Farmer and his son. The boy said to the old man =" Father, if should call that cows tail a leg, how many legs would she have ?'- "Why, five to be sure, you blockhead, why do you ask such simple question ?" The boy replied, "No it wouldn't, father, for my calling the cows tail leg, wouldn't make 1t leg, would it?'-(great scnsation.)- "Now," said Mir. Newton, "there is as much resemblance between the gentleman's Ireasury-fed Democrats and the genuine Democracy, as there is between the cows tail and her leg. The gcntleman's Demo- crats do not support the body polite, but like the cows tail are dependents and hang ers-on upon it."-Cmmense applause.)- MT. Newton continued-"Theg gentleman's Democracy resembles the cows tail in an other particular, it is growing downward" Upon this the cheering became so great, as to prevent his progress for some time. This is sign of the feelings of the genuine De- mocracy of Statlord-Frcd Arema.
 The truth is sometimes iold through misiake distinguished member of the Van Buren party, who attended the celebration of the 4h inst. was asked how he liked the ora,ion. He replied, "that Carnan made a very good speech, but he didn't like Ellis speech at all, it bore too hard on the present administra- tion." Mir. Carnan delivered the oration, and Mir. Ellis read the Declaration of Inde. pendence. Vincennes (Ia.) Gag.
 To School IeacherS.--"A n Common School convention in Hamden co. Mass, we heard the Rev. Dr. Cooley relate an anecdote slrikingly illustrative of the course to be pur- sued with refractory students. He said that many years ago. young man went into