Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-07-25


which it had managed our Legislatures, and
by the forbearance Of the people; confident of
its power to extort still better terms from some
,ctser Legislative body, again resolved not to
bid for these improvements, and to adopt
bolder line of policy, and to make them IN
FACT, what its officers had represented them 10
be in their pamphlets and subsidized press.
UTTERLY WORTHLESS. And It proceeded, in
pursuance Of en- arrangement with the for
wardlng companies. made il is believed last
winter, to buy them off this Main Line by
guaranteeing or giving $50, 600 10 one con-
pany and $50, 900 to the other, and have
them draw off and sell their boats and cars,
leaving it abandoned, deserted worthless
to Philadelphia, to Pittsburg, to all the inter-
mediate parts of the State, and to the State
ITSELF For, presume every body knows.
that in consequence of the unavoidable tran
shipments at Johnstown, Hollidaysburg and
Columbia, no through carrying can be done
on this Main Line, but by means Of through
forwarding lines, except the little that may
be done In the small section boats.
And though, more than five weeks ago, the
Company had its agents travelling all along
the line, with the owners of the forwarding
lines valuing their stock and though for more
than two weeks, almost every man. woman
and child residing along the canals and Rail-
roads between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh,
have known that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company had bought off the forwarding lines,
and that they had for that length of time re-
fused to receive froights, and have for the last
two weeks been removing their boats and cars
from the Canals and Railroads, forming the
line, yet the great Commercial Journal of
Philadelphia the g North American and Uni
ted States Gazette. !" the organ and guardian
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. is
entirely innocent of any knowledge of these
| transactions! And, in its leader of the Goth
June says that .' The fact charged is. that the
Directors Of the Central Road have bought, or
are endeavoring to buy the interest of the
several Transporting firms who have been
using the Main Line for the carriage of freight
between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. For
two or three obvious reasons, it is sincerely to
be hoped that the measure has not so much
as been contemplated. In the FIRST place, it is
highly desirable both as regards the welfare
of the Commonwealth and its citizens, that
| the improvement in question, should be kept
in active operation" And it effects to dlsap
prove the measure and to administer some
gentle reproof to the Company.
| But whilst its affection of ignorance of these
infamous movements Of the Company are high
ly amusing, its terror and alarm At the prob
able consequences likely to ensue from the
audacity of the movement, are undisguised
and unaffected. And well may the organ
and the Company both quail before the storm
they have raised. And permit me to say.
that the afectation of ignorance, the gentle
reproof, and the attempted diversion by the
organ, 1 am inclined to think, viii not avail
to allay the spirits of the tempest they have
evoked.
Equally farcical is the effected ignorance of
the organ, as exhibited in its leader of the
28th June, respecting the resolution Of the
Company not to bid for the Main Line. When
that resolution was passed, have not the
means of knowing-but / kneso more than
yfoe ,ceeks ago from the President of the Com
pany, through reliable source, that such a
resolution had then been unanimously passed,
and had not then been published. because. as
he alleged, the report of the Company, kindly
setting forth the reasons, as was done in 1854,
why the Company should not purchase the
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