Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-08-08


TnE PCBLIc Works AND THE RAILRoAD.-
\. Harrisburg correspondent of the Franklin
Repository aud Wing makes some grave charg-
es against the PennSy lvania Railroad Com
pany which may involve the latter in serious
trouble, if correct. lie says s.one part of the
charges made is that the Railroad Company
has bought OF the transporting cOmpanleS-by
giving one company $4,000, another S60,0C0
TO withdraw their boats from the Canal, and
thus force all the carrying trade npon the rail
road e..a ..-z s5.ft 20 .....s, s-. -.
=: Wien 1 first heard this charge made,
Thought it untrue, but l am now convinced
that there is some reason for making 1t. | am
also informed, on good authority, that the At
torHey General, under the direction OF the
Governor, has inquired of the Railroad COM
I,iny IN regard, TO these charges, and that the
Company has admitted that there is some truth
in them but say they are not 50 bad as
represented. The Attorney General has de
nIanded an explicit answer, and the company
has fixed an early day FOR giving their version
of the matter. You may rest assurnd that the
Governor has determined to-probc- the matter
to the bottom, (iu which he will DC sustained
By tie pcopIe,) and will call to his aid all the
power OF the law to stop any such abuses. If
true, q more Illegal act was never committed,
and the Directors, of the PepnSyiyanIl Rall-
road Company will find when it is perhaps too
late, that they will have raised storm Of pop
hurled from office, as chat before the angry
Wind. and their chartered rights, and ill-gotten
possessions resumed by the Commonwealth
They have been so uniformly successful in con-
trolling tlie Legislation of the State to suit
their own purposes, that they have become en-
boldened by past successes, and. think them
selves omnpotent. They are however ToiUlly
mistaken. The people will as one man sus-
tain the action of their independent and fear
less Executive in all that he may do in the
premises, for if through the venality OF the
employees of the Canal board no revenue does
accrue 70 the oinmonwealth, still the carry
ing trade4of tile country can be accommoda-
ted, and we are not willing TO be cheated oHt OF
the valuc of our public improvements by
corporation which has grown up through our
care, and prospered through our Indulgence
f-E#'eft ---
s CALHoUS AND THE MISSOURI CoMPRoMIsE.-
A chapter in the second volume OF Col Ben
tons, ssThirty Years View contains pas
sage from speech of Mr.. Calhoun in Ie5o,
showing that he had been in favor of the Mis-
souri, Compromise at the time il was adopted
blamed Mr.. Randolph for his ssuncompromls-
ing'' opposition to it-and had since <fchang-
eds his opinion because IL encouraged the
aboIitiouists The yeracity of that chapter
having been rudely assailed, and application
having been made to Col. Benton to confirm
the assertion that the answers of Mr.. Calhoun
we're found in the State Department, while Mr..
John NJ. Clayton was Secretary of State. Col.
B. addressed note OF inquiry to Mr.. Clayton,
who answered that, though the questions and
answers cannot be found, the archives of the
department show that they were indexed ana
filed. Mr.. G. was told.they had been abstrac-
ted from the records and could not be found,
but he did not make search for Them HIM
self. q He has never doubted that Mr.. Calhoun
at least acquiesced in the decision OF. that DAY:
Since he left the Department of State, he mas
heard it rumorcd that Mr.. Calhoun's answer
| to Mr.. Monroe-s queries had been found, pus
knows not npon what authority The statement
Was, made. ,-,;....,-., ,ssI asft rI.s
s5FIvE MILLIONS oEl GoLB,--IMhe The british snip
Red Jacket, with the Australian mails fer
England put into Rio Janeiro on the 18th oi
| June for supplies, $nd sailed the following
fi,lv.oz She had three hundred passengers and
the immense sum of three million dollars III
gold. making, with the manifest of the ship
lightning, upwards of five millions of gold
shipped from Austrilia for England WITHIN
thirty days. a1gd s.aHF3 5al loU 8s9f' 7s
ssGE- Ready money paynfeSts are the ees'
proapters of frugality. 4e-. b-s