Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-08-23
RAIL ROAD TO DANVILLE.

A RAIL ROAD TO DANNILLE.
Under this head and over the signature
of h, appears in the last Danville Demo-
crat, stupid article TO prove that Danville
should be made "point" in the railway
communication between Philadelphia and
the Lakes. 1t has always been the custom
of the citizens of Danville to make that
place "point" so near their eyes that it is
impossible for any thing else 10 come with
in the scope of their vision. In the pre-
sent instance the author has not failed in
his adherence to that custom. Danville
furnaces, Danville rolling mills, Danville
founGries, and Danville enterprise, are the
subjects of his pen and the objects Of his
praise. Through the whole of a column
and half of BREWER, he boasts of her re-
sources in eXtravagant terms, and only de-
scends from lofty flights Of gasconade to
abuse of neighboring town. Boosting
and self aduation are at all times IN bad
taste, and become grossly so when the OBJ
iects of it have been elevated not by their
own eXertionS, but are the creatures Of cir
cumstance, raised to little distinction by
the advent,ious aid of foreign capital and
foreign enterprise. Self praise always
comes with bad grace, and is never so dis
C,,e,;nr, nc u,ha1 ~ 10 occompop;,1 h,, H.
traction of rival. We might pardon a
little display of natural pride in the author
when he speaks of the improvements of the
town in which he lives, but there was no
necessity OF his referring IN terms Of abuse
TO any other place. Jewellers sometimes
use foil TO set of to advantage the bril-
liancy of a false diamond, and with the
same object, we presume, the author insti-
tuted his comparison in this instance. The
only excuse we know of for him is that he
resides in a place where detraction and
calumny emanate from the citizens as natu-
rally as the miasma rises from the stagnant
waters and decaying vegetation which sur
rounds it. Like the first fratricide, their
hands are against every man, though un-
fortunately they have not the pallation Of
that wretched outcast, that every mans
hand was against him. They are not on
good terms with any town in their vicinity
The hostility of Hannibal to the ancient
Romans is not without parallel since
their feuds with their Bloomsburg rivals
and even among themselves, one half o
the citizens are at daggers points with each
other. X. must have inhaled the spirit he
displays with the atmosphere of the town
But there is another reason for his at
tack. The Danvlle and Pottsville Raj
Road, unfortunately, never reached that
place. And why? Its original projectors
the lamented Gen. Daniel Montgomery
and John c. Boyd, Esq, now no more
both citizens of Danvile, who seemed tc
possess all the public spirit and practical
enterprise OF the place, saw that the natural
route for the road was to Sunbury, and sa-
criiced their local preferences to the pub
lie good. Though they would have pre-
ferreG having the road made TO Danville
instead of Sunbury, where they had no in,
terest whatever, yet they could not see the
proprety of making a road with steeI
grades or an inclined plane, to take coal
twelve miles further from market, wher
an outlet with descending grade, neare,
market was before them. But they hat
not the aid of these modern lights, who
look upon long continued grades, rails upor
stills, and bridges 100 feet high, as moth
ing, provided always that Danville is mad,
"point." That ''coal can be carried much
cheaper on the canal" than on such a road
none will deny. 1t is true that the roac
from This place TO Shamokin, has fallen tc
partial decay, aud the engine aud cars, in,
deed all the estate OF the company have
Ibccn sold TO pay their debts in Schuylkil