Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1853-03-24

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quantity Of lumber, the weight, length, size
and form of the required iron, as welt as the
quantity Of ether Materials and tie cost of con-
siruction. II Is valuable document
Ludlow Weston was dumb He hung down
his head, and thought Of the ccAiempt he had cast
upon his companions studies.
Mr.. Bracket continued the visitor, Il am
authorised by the State committee TO pay YOU
one thousand dollars for this design, and also 10
oiler you ten dollars per day so long as the bull
dire is ia course of construction, for your SER
vices as experimenting architect. The first
named sum will pay you now, and before
leave would like to have from you an answer
TO the committees proposition
Before the delegation returned to $
Charles had received his thousand dollars cash,
ana accepted the offer for experimenting the
erection of the State House.
AN, Charles, said Ludlow Weston, after
they had finished their supper, you have indeed
chosen the wisest part. had not thought that
carpenter could be such man.
And why not carpenter as well as any,
one = 1t only requires study and application
But all men are not like YOU
because all men don't try. Let a man set
his eyes upon an honorable point, and then fol-
low It steadily, unwayerngy, and he will be
sure to reach it.. All men may not occupy the
same sphere, and it would not be well il they
should but there are few who may not reach to
degree OF eminence in any trade or profession
no matter how humble it may be-
Il believeyou are right, Charles but il is too
late for me TO try now. l shall never be anything
but jourDeyman.'
i will own Ludlow, that you have wasted the
best part of your life for study but there is yet
time and opportunity for Reinforcement
Ludlow did try, and he studied, and improved
much, but ne was unable to recall the time lie
had wasted. He had now a family upon his
care, and as he had to depend altogether upon
MS own hands for support, he could not work
much with his MIND.
! Charles Bracket saw the building he had
planned entirely finished, and he received the
highest encomums Of praise from the chief off
GERS of the State. Business flowed in upon
him, and ere many years, BRACKET, the nrchi-
tect, was known throughout the Union. When he
led Mary Waters to the hymenial altar, he did
own one OF the prettiest houses in his native
town; nor did poor Mary have 20 wait long
either.
There is deep moral in the foregoing for
our young mechanical readers, and we have ne
doubt they have, ere this discovered it.
.
Below we commence the publication Of an
article from the Bloomington Macon COY Re-
publican. The editor says the Road comes
within eight miles of running on direct line
from Hannibal to st. Joseph, and suggests that
an Indignation meeting be held at Bloomington
because, as he.thinLs the Roerd Of Director.
has acted in bad faith, in not allowing it TO d.
verge sufficiently from straight line to run
through the county seats Of all those counties
which subscribed stock:
HANNIBAL AND ST. JOSEPH RAILROAD.
The location OF this Road and the strange and
unaccountable proceedings OF the secret conclave
which claims TO have made that location has
thrown this community into perfect fermept
! Two gentlemen from Hannibal, and ]. N
Brown, OF this place attended at a meeting oil
the board of directors, as had been given out
each recommended by the Stockholders and cit
liens Of this county and Hannibal respectively.
The Directors, from St. Joseph, as polite as they
are cunning, expressed themselves very glad
that these gentlemen had come thus recommend
ed, TO fill the places-of the three directors who
had sent in their designations, not being able &c
attend, and that they were very anxious to have
full board 10 share the responsibility of the
location. After the meeting of the ST. Joseph
delegation and the member from Palmyra and
one from Hannibal, vote was taken as to their
power to appoint, and decided afirmatiyely
next, it was moved that they decide whether
they should fill those vacancies before or after
the location, and decided, two to three, thai
they fill them after The road sraS located"
Mr.. Brown desired 10 be permitted ms .
Stakeholder, 10 see and hear ~hat they did, but
tbs cds denied him! And these pinks of honor
AMI decChcy condescended inform the peo
pie, about The hotels and grog shops that They
had located, or indicated, the extreme Southern
line as the route for the road. A inc which
misses every county seat upon the whole route
clear through.
This refusal to permit the representation o.
the Stock represented by the three absent mem
bers OF the board; and that too, after admitting
the authority to do it, which was never ques
toned, and approving the Recommendation
made by agreeing 10 appoint after location, is
killing fact fact damning in its character, on
which should and will, consign the perpetrators
to eternal infamy and disgrace. No wonde
that this community is in perfect Juror.
We collect the facts of This case from Mr.
Brown; who after being thus insulted; and see
I ing the people OF his county likewise insulted
a and wilLully and cOrruptly wronged, refused I
+ have anything to do with this would be-calle,
Board OF Directors.
The people of this State have placed them
$ selves in a condition to be taxed to the amour
d of one million and half of dollars for the con
struction OF this road, and which they are sur
> to have TO pay if ever the road is built, and hav
given to this company all the land granted TO III
: State by Congress, for its construction given
n to them for no other consideration than the ben
q eheal location and construction; and now wha
. do they find A manifest intention 10 locat
d and construct it Sc as to ruinously depricat
one million of dollars worth of property, belong