Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-03-22
SUNDAY IIlng---Pennsylvania Rail-
road. &c.


day evening last, for the purpose of con-
sidering resolution submitted al the meet
ing held on the 18th inst, declaring the
resolution adopted some time since-pro-
hibiting travel on the line of road belong
ing to the company on the Sabbath--to be
premature, and that it ought to be rescinded.
The meeting being organized, series of
resolutions were submitted which had been
prepared by those representing both sides
of the question, and after some debate,
adopted. The gist of the matter is COM
prised in the following:
Resolued, That the Board Of Directors be re-
quested to suspend the operation of their reso-
luton of November l4th, lS49 until further ac-
ton of the Stockholders, and in order to obtain
decision of the question, they be requested to
afford opportunity to each stockholder to vote
by ballot for' or against daily lines of travel
over the road.
The polls to be kept open during the office
hours) for a period of thirty days.
Resolved, That each Stakeholder who shall, at
the time of his voting, have paid the full amount
OF instalments, which may be due by him on
stock subscribed, and every person who shall
have subscribed, or who may subscribe on the
new subscription, and shall have voluntarily
paid one or more nstalments thereon, is entitled
to one vote for each and every share of stock
held and represented by him.
The hasty action of the directors in
stopping Sunday travel, and the dissentions
which have arisen from it, are lessons that
may prove Of profit hereafter. A COM
pany making pretensions TO compete with
The great rivals north and south of Penn
sylvania for the trade and travel of the
Great West, ought never to have engaged
III an abstract question on which even the
" fathers of the churches differ-or if
they did, their efforts ought to have been
directed towards inducing general stop
page of Sunday travel throughout this and
the adjoining States, and thus, by stimuli
taneous movement, effected what no single
company can ever do. 1t would have
been well enough had they suspended
Sunday travel during the winter, when but
little necessity existed for it-at least until
the road is ompIeted-resumed daily ope-
rations with the opening of navigation, and
then ascertained the sentiment of through
travellers in relation to the matter. If they
are agreed to lay over twenty-four hours
at Jackstown or some other out-of-the- way
place, and find no fault with the Company,
no one else will--but we rather opine that,
in such case, no western man who has
been absent from home for any length of
time will patronize the Pennsylvania rail-
road second time so long as the Balti-
more and Ohio, Baltimore and Susque-
hanna, Columbia and Philadelphia, Har-
risburg and Lancaster, and the Chambers
burg roads are open on that day. We
have said thus much, not because we feel
any personal interest in the road, but be-
cause we look upon it as a great work
whose success ought not to be jeoparded
before it is half completed. Whether de-
cided for or against daily travel is of no
moment to us--whether it will not be of
moment to others, if in favor of the latter,
remains to be seen.
On this subject we have also word to
say TO the gentlemen who in county meet
ing solemnly resolved '' That zee ,OM re-
sist 10 the utmost ertent Of the iatc the
desecrafion of the Sabbath uithin oar
borders, by the officers and agents Of this
or aay other company, should it be at
tempted" Why, we should like to know,
are the officers and agents of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company to be singled out
for this purpose in case train should be
run! Is it indeed true THAT OUR MORAL
ATMOSPHERE Is so PURE, and our commu-
nifty SO bright an example, that it is neces-
sary to travel among the solitudes of the
Narrows or the wilds of Granville to find
a Sabbath breaker! Are drunkenness and
profanity no longer rife among us on that
day Has blackguardism and its kindred
been banished from our borders Are
there no dcns of pollution, no sinks Of ini-
guilty, no vice in any form, which could be
ransacked If we are free from all these
and gladly would we learn that we are
it may be well enough TO travel across the
river and make examples there but if we
are not, let us reform ourselves before we
undertake to throw stones at that or any
other company.
HoRRIBLE REvENGE.-Thc Galena JEFF
fersonian says, among the overland emf