The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-06-28
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New York, June 81, 1854.
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The fostering flrh in our stfrets has at
last done its work. FiIty-seven deaths from
Cholera ate reported by our City Inspector
for the week ending on Saturday. II will
not now be thought that we are idle alarm
lists. The pestiience has commenced its
career among us, when il will terminate he
mercy Of Providence alone can decide, for as
yet nothing has been done by our authorities
to mitigate its violence or remove the caHse
10 which this dire effect is obviously tracea-
bic. In some places, single case Of choI
era is enough 10 give the alarm, and sanato-
ry measures are ut once resotted to. Here
We have an average Of from eight to ten
deaths day, and as yet the Board of Health
have not even had session. There is no
nttemp. TO take away the corruption which
engcndcrs the disease. Our street Commits
sioncr coolly puts his hands in his pockets,
no more moved by the deaths Of his fellow
citizens than if they were 80 many dogs. Is
it not enough to m IKE an honest mans
blood boil to see this state of things and at
tie same time remember that his substa nee
is eaten up by tabation We can only pray
that the evils of the peslileuce may be aver
ted. With an imbscile Common Council in.
tend only on robbing the people, we have no
reasonable ground for hopo that thep will
be.
Some c,irinSiIv has lately been mani
tested as - whit has been done or is
doing by the famdds Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad Company. which organizrd nearly
n year ago In this city under the auspices of
Robert J. Walkrt, Levi S. Chatiield, and n
great number of prominent politicians. ex.
governors, and the like. The names were
everywhere else except on Change; they
oomed well on piper, bnt were no, much
thought Of The knowing ones were some
what surprised 10 see men subscribing
for 100000 worth of stock in this compt-
ny who would have been put to their trumps
to raise Sloo. Above all they we're amazed
to see Mr.. Walkers name down for al0,-
100000, when it is well known that, how
ever, skillfnl he may have been in managing
Mr. polk's treasury, he has been peculiarly
unfortunate rs regards his own; thlt he is
now and lns for some time back been living
on hope and at the present moment owes n
considerable debt To Mississippi, which that
state has hitherto been unable TO collect.-
For such man Ia take stock By millions
does certainly look rather absurd. Other
charges, also, have been circulated against
the Executive Committee, of which Mr..
Walker is prominent member, showing
that some "f the stock -holders have very
little confidcncc Ia their management. These
rumors, which have lately assumed definite
form, have called forth defence frum the
company which states that every hing has
been done in n straght f,rwLri miuner, that
their aifirs are prospcro and that arrange
mcuts have been made for breakin! ground
on the road near the Northeastern corner of
Texas, on the coning 4th of July. The
rout selected is one which will be Of great
advantage 20 the South, and particularly to
Texas. II brgins at u point on.a navigable
tributary of the Red River, runs west across
the upper plains Of Texas to Rio Grande,
thence by way or III Paso del Norte In the
direction of Cookies wagon route to the
junction Of the Colorado and Gila, and SO
over the desert and the Sierra Nevada to the
Pacific. The geographical advantages IF
this route are considerable yet It runs for
nearly a thousand miles through howling
desert, without timber, without means Of
subsistence, peopicd only by Indians, md
very few even Of them. We have great faith
in Mr.. Walkers fnancicring, abilities; yet II
would seem impossible for human energies,
however, great, to carry through so gigentic
an enterprise without better foundation Of
cash capital to do il ON. .-
The Superintendent: Of the Erie Railroad
lately passed a regulation to the effect that
every engineer whose train runs of The trnch
shall be discharged and ,iis name sent 10 9th.
er railroad companies to prevent his future
employment The engineers, thinking that
they aught not to be held responsible for the
errors OF switchmen and others, requested
that IN exception should be made exempting
them from the penalty except when this ac-
cident happened from their own carelcssness
Failing e. obtain their request they resolved
to stnkc, and gave the company weeks
notice that unless their reasonable request
was acceded to, they would simultaneously
stop work at II certain hour, leaving their
locomotives where ever they be along the
road. Some trouble was apprehcoded.--
How the matter ended has not yet trans.
pired.
A marriase in high life came OF yester-
day st CnlvH,y church, the Rev DR. Hawks
performing the heeeremoay'in the presence of
a large sssernbIage. Tho lIsppy man was
the Hon. John B. Weller, u. s. sena,or for
California; the bride wss Mrs. Lizzie w
Stanton, Of fourteenth 81. A number Of
noted CaliforEians we're on hand to tendar
their congratulations; among whom were
Senator Gwin and Judge McAllister. Three
bridesmaids supported their friend, tvo Of
whom, Rose and Blanche Niles, are said 10
havs been tlse bona fiae originals from which