Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-04-22

Road which wages wal upon her by move
menls like these, in which, without notice
IIc her, she gels laws. passed, Which strike
deadly blows al her interests. The present
manager Of ihn Mureua Road informs US
that the loss Of The Baltimore business, for
so much of her line as lies between Athens
lQpd Marieua (35 miles) will so diminish her
prospects ef luiure revenue os 10 take from
her oil chances Of borrowing the sums need
ed 10 finish lhe Roal 10 Marietta. If the
loss Of business on so small part Of her
Road does bet such grea, injury. how will,
tho total loss OF The VII, le business affect
her? Will any capitalist, lend TO Rail.
Road, which allempls 10 force Rail Road
connections by no s.iIe legislation, and which
looks 10 connection contracts by decldra.
lion Of war3 We cannot be mistaken, when
we say Thar The safety Of Road, situated
as The Marieua Railroad, lies, moi in war,
bu, in peace. not in connections al points 10
which her Road is 10 be, bu. a, points 10
which il is completed. Baltimore has not
attacked The Malieua Road. and we regard
the rrssen, auack upon The Baltimore Road
On NoIoo 'uoti MuuuoSo vi AO pun VI VIZ
Marietta.
In The seyeath place, we most soemnly
assert, after full inquiry, that the danger as
seued 10 be sure 10 occur 10 the Marietta
Road, from The failure of this Bill is mlsap
pretended and mista.ed. If lha, Road is in
any danger. i. is because her officers have
mismaraged hei finances, and because debls
nave been created beyond reasonable expec.
lalions. The tender oil connection q,
Athens, and fully completed though con-
neclion 10 Baltimore and Washington, .by
The Isl of December next, does not take
away one larlhing Of either money or credit
from that Road; while, rightly considered,
il gives her credit, and The promise of early
and certain revenues, with which 10 prose-
CUE her Road, 10 Wheeling and Phiadel.
phia. |, certainly is very far fetched con-
cluson 10 consnue such an cffcr ieio emnily.
We speak from full knowledge of ell the
circumstances, when we say, that il there
is anything in the Marietta Road, which
should alarm her stockholders OF creditors,
it is The frantic altemp, TO get such laws as
this passed, and persisling in building
Road 10 Marielia, oyer The hills between
Athens and Marietta, by route involving
expenditures enormous beyond all reasona
Lle calculation. Several routes have already
been located. and again abandoned, and full
one half Of The million expended on that
line, and spoken Of as oeing entirely lost by
the building OF The Hooking Valley Railroad,
is either already or soon will be, abandoned
under l,e RELOCATION Of .he Road, now be.
ing made. One large tunnel, on which
much work has been done, is already aban-
doned. Why throw on The Baltimore Road
the blame for matters in which those who
complain are The guilty parties? -t
liz The eighth place, we remind the House
that the early perfection OF The Baltimore
connection al Athens, Dies not, in any man.
net, involve The abandonment Of the Road
10 Marietta, and on 10 Hemp6eld. On The
contrary II secures il.
In no other way can The Marietta become
a paying Road, within twelve months. The
connection between Parkersburg and Mari
eta, BY eilEer river line or steamboat, is an
insincere proposition, which The Baltimore
Road cannot Iai 10 regard both as an insult
10 her true interests as well as her inteli-
gence, |, involves such loss of lime and
such expense as 10 make il impraclicabIe in
all cases in which ills moi ridiculous. The
very !acl, iha. such I'm arrangement is to be
forced upon ,he Baltimore Road, by such
legislation as this, is proof thai il does mol
res. on us merits. AL we ash s lha, The
Cin.inhati, Wilmington and GAINESVILLE
Road. and ,he Marietta Road, shall have
faii field and an even chance in this Rail
road arrangement rha. Ohio. like Virginia
snail leave pen 10 fair argument, based upon
!acls. The decision, to all The par'ies concern
ed. Virginia as NOT fores,aled The Mari
eua Road in her route either up Cow Creek
or Middle Island Creek. Let an Ohio Leg
isature lorbear in closing The Hot king VAL
Icy against the Baltimore Railroad. Rail
road lines had best be left 10 engineers and
public necessity; and the real public inleres.
always eventually lriumphs, Ohio wants
no Eiie. nor NO Panhandle within her Dor.
dels. 10 obs,rucl trade and travel.
We have thus stated, as. briefly as we
could. our objections 10 The Bill under con-
sidera,ion. We have fel, il 10 do our duty
to do so; although. q, The close Of Iabori.
Gus session, we should all have been spared
lhe agitation of question so suddenly sprung
upon US, and from which such momen.ous
il Auences may flow. The Bill has not been
examined in Committee of the Whole, nor
BY q Standing Commillee, nor is there time
10 do so. Under these circumstances we
feel that the Bill should be indefinitely posi-.
poned, or, at least, 10 the next session.
REsULTs.-The Bill was fiLaly passed
and is now law. II violates the. Consi,u-
lion--is an outrage upon The rights Of CHI
zens of large section Of the Sla,c, and is
producing reaction, which will defeat us
objecl, and establish the enterprise il was
designed TO defeat .I
CAT IN A Boor.-In clearing up one oI
the rooms al SIunwix Hall yesterday, o
waiter discovered cat so crowded into 0
; boot, lha. /, was with difficulty ,ha, she could
be exuicaIed. Having GOT her out, The mex
question in OF der was. allow did she gel
lini' This wos leading to long windet
dispute, when one Of the byslanders took uE
The boot, ga, Q IL shake, and tossed a hal
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