Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-10-03
two important points gained, the cause Of free
dom has been sacrificed Let us hear no more
of "Northern dough-faces.''
European and North American Railway.

European and North American Railway.
This contemplated enterprise is being rapid
iy Invested of it's problematical character, and
assuming more matter of fact aspect. 1t will
be recollected that our legislature, at its last
session, appropriated the sum of five thousand
dollars for the purpose of defraying the expen-
ces of survey of that part of the line in our
own State. Under this resolve Hon. Amos
Pickard of Hampden, (who ably advocated the
merits of the appropriation before the Senate,
of which body he was member) has been ap-
pointed Commissioner to superintend the
survey, and it is said has commenced opera
tons at Milford, a point some seventeen miles
above Bangor, and running directly across the
country to Calais.
The enthusiasm in the provinces seems rath
er to increase than abate. The subscriptions
at St. Johns, and along the contemplated line,
are already large. The government of Nova
Scotia has despatched mission to England, to
solicit the endorsement of the home govern
ment for the bonds of the province, 10 be loaned
to the Railroad Company. In Halifax it has
bsen proposed, and with every prospect of sue
cess, that that city should guarantee remuner-
ating dividends upon twelve hundred thousand
dollars of the stock. A similar interest per-
vades all parts of New Brunswick and Nova
Scotia.
This distance from the eastern line of our
State to Bangor is less than ninety miles, and
the information thus far developed. says the
Bangor Democrat, proves that the road may be
built on this line at very low cost and with
very favorable grades.
1t is thought that the road from St. John
must be constructed so as to strike the eastern
line of Maine, some fifteen miles north of CAL
ais, crossing the Penobscot river some thirty
miles above Bangor, and follow the course of
the river to that city, where it is contemplated
to connect it with the road to be extended from
Waterville. more feasible route. from many
weighty considerations, would be to continue
the road down the Penobscot river to Belfast
thence cross the country about thirty miles
to Thomaston, and there strike the chartered
line from that place to Bath. The portion of
the road from this city to Thomaston, passing
through Wiscasset, Damariscotta, New Castle
Waldoboro', Nobleboro', Union and Warren,
some of the most thriving villages in the State
would doubtless b, more profitable than the
same length of road in any other part of the
State.
The following, from a London paper, indi-
Gates the interest with which this magnificent
enterprise is received in England: =
Ii is with extreme satisfaction we observe
that al no distant date the Atlantic is 10 be
brdged over by means of such an improved
system of communication, that the Old
World and the New will, by means of rail
and steam, be brought nearer TO each other
than Lelli and London are by the average
voyage of their smacks From the western.
most point of Galway to the easternmost
point Of North America, the sea voyage will
be easy of accomplishment within five DAYS,
and already The plans Of the railroads from
these points TO the interior of both countries,
have been fully matured, and the undertake
in~s, to great extent, subscribed for.
North America will then be to England
what Scotland is now. The inhabitants of
each country will reside almost ndifferenlly |
in either. Our Senators, in place of hasten
lng Tue Cioee vi tle SESSION. 10 gel OH 10 |
grouse and the moors, will bolt from ST. |
Stephens 10 The praries and Buffalo hunt
ing. Our fashionable enauyes will winter al |
New Orleans or ST. Louis, in place Of Rome |
or Naples, and our nobility and gentry will |
have their demesnes and mansions in the |
Western or Middle States, as well as in the |
mother coun,ry. The intercourse will be so |
intimate and universal, as materially 10 mod |
liy the habits of life and thought in both |
hemispheres. England will become more
republican, and America less democratic. |
The distractions aud jealousies of the Two |
States will become oblIterated by becoming
because people Of the same orr
gin, blood, language, history. literature, and |
traditions, in daily and hourly communion
with each other, those having the strongest |
social and moral affinities being the most
likely to find each other out
Let this tide Of intercourse once fairly set |
in, let the United States become the fashion |
able, and The easy retrenching and retiring
resort of our nobility, gentry, farmers, per-
haps, and superannuated merchants, and the |
tide of migration will eow on like the Pro-
poniic, which knows no retiring ebb.'