The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-08-12
rom. rdnor. of,ho GAINESVILLE Courier,

communication signed "StocknolueTs'
which appeared in the Courier of the 18th
inst.
I suppose that functonary thought, BY
sffixng his signature, with evidence Of his
official position, he might be able TO give 1t
that weight, to which its merits did not en-
title Il; because, Mess,s. Editors, no one
can find, in his entire communication,
satisfactory answer to a single inquiry pro-
pounded to you. This worthy President,
who ,laims % be familiar " b all the workings
and doings Of the Central Ohio Road--its
special guardian and defender-the only mar
who can superintend its working operations
nj home, or it's finances abroad-he who, over
the letter "B.," in newspaper COM
municaton, became so jealous in h'S o"n
defence and that of his coadjutors, as to do an
humble officer of the road the greatest injustice
and who, in another communication to one
Of our city papers, Che editors Of which are
induced to permit it to appear as editorial,
thus operating to relieve the actual author
from the responsibility thereby 20 call IN
question the accuracy of the doings ofanother
officer, without placing before the public the
entire report ofthat officer, giving statements,
supposed to be very favorable to his own
management of the road, and indulging in
the most fulsome self-prase; when called
upon to answer a few simple inquiries, based
upon facts and figures made public by himself,
either over an anonymous signature, or upon
the responsibility of the editors of a paper,
became very indignant, that the writer should
not make his inquiries over his proper sigma
ture; and, mot content with manitesting his
Indignation against the writer himself, sees
proper to indulge in intimations, which may,
or may not have any foundation whatever
with regard to the conduct and action o.
others.
Apprecating, however, the importance of
the inquiries made and others which desire
yet to make am not to be induced to
abandon them, and enter into any personal
controversy with the President of the Road.
Nor do l. feel called upon to defend Messrs.
Galgher and Jewett, or any other parties
connected with the road, from any lmputations
which may be made against them. If any oi
those gentlemen have done anything wrong
let them abide the consequences; and, when
ever a specific charge is made, |, for one
will expect to see response. Neither shal
/ stop now to enter into any dispute about
the propriety of charging any portion of the
depot grounds and machine shops in tht
Yves: GAINESVILLE, and the machinery now il
use on the western division of the road, q
the eastern division. shall not undertake
to decide which was correct, nlr. Sullivan
when he attacked Mr.. Eaton's unpublished
report, through the editorial columns Of the
Gazette, OF PreSt. Sullivan, when, in New
York, ne mortgaged it, as part ofthe western
division of the road, to secure the payment OF
$500 of bonds upon which money was
raised to construct the western division
He may, at his leisure, with all the facts
before him, settle il to his own satisfaction.
Nor do consider it at all material which
way il may be settled; because, if it should
be proper to consider it part Of the eastern
division, it will be equally proper to charge
the western division with part OF the depot
grounds, buildings, warehouses, and VtheI
fixtures in Zanesvi,le, the machinery to be
used on the eastern division and the machine
shops that may be erected on the Harris
Farm or elsewhere; SO it will be just abou,
Gas broad as it is narrow" take (which way
he may.
Icanno; pass to matters alluded to in the
communication of "Stockhoiders" withou
paying a passing notice to the Presidents
rNsous for not publishing Mr.. Eaton's report
He saws he "did not know that its otfca
publication was expected"--it "was made
under call Of the directors, for theirl own
information" Wonderful! Why, amongst
us outsiders It was presumed that the directors
ought to have been able to know what they
had been doing themselves, without asking
the auditor to enlighten them! 1t was also
supposed, inasmuch as no detailed statemen,
of the transactions OF the directory, or the
condition oi the company, had ever yet been
piyen to the public, that the directory
Wo Id embrace the very first opportunity that
might be presented for doing so. 1t was due
to the stockholders and to the bondhoders
that this should be done--aye, and ifM IS
riohi, il is due to the directors themselves
that il should be done. And, as was said in
the former communication, the very fact that
an unwilingnass EXITS TO disclose but one
side of the transaction of the board, Is justly
calculated to excite q suspicion that all is not
righi. These suspicious may be groundless,
and hope they ATE: II so, the board can at
once dispe them by the publication of the
report of the auditor.
But the President very generously tells us
that that report son file in the oihse, and cen
be there inspected by the Stockholders, Yes,
and he further tells la that "ii the present
administration be incompetent or corrupt, u
reference to the books of the company-at
all times open to the inspection OF the stock
holders, and kept under the direction of the
late Treasurer-will prove them 10 be So"
This is truly very magnanimous! Just think
of il! The stockholders have the permission
of the President to 60 to the Office and examine
the BOOKS kept by the late Treasurer! Do
you not expect TO see them forthwith begin
to make pilgrimage from New York, Balti-
more. Wheeling, Belmont, Guernsey Mus
kugum, Licking, Franklin, and elsewhere
And when they arrive at the rail road office,
II the first man who gets hold of the books OF