The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-17


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msHt Horse Railroad POlitieai Aatsrs-AJolaios.
lists eating an1i0usly for SSosaeAisg 70 Tarn UpRH
JOB Sass route for kassas- HIS Eaeoater 9th ao
der RaHano-No Traitors al Ciaciaaati-ESsaks Of "A.
| Telegraph, &c.
very large increase in the rates Of over the sever,
railroads terminating In this city made during the la,t
year. is already resulting disastrousy TO the companies ana
inurously the owners Of estate living on The Inns
Of these roads. As consequence Yankee ingenuity hs,
been put into requston and horse railroads are begin
ming to be all the rage. One Of these Cambridge and
Mount Auburn, three and opr miles distant is already in
successful operation. neat and comfortable car con-
sructed In the omnibus style and somewhat larger cana
BILE OF seating thirty forty persons leaves for Old Cam
bridge every six minutes and Mount Auburn
Porters every half hour almost from the door-steps of
Revere House. in Bowdon Square Two horses draw lie
car and sometimes fifty sixty passengers three miles to
Old Cambridge Harvard University in about twenty
minutes thirds the time occupied by the omnbuse.
This viii include twenty thirty stoppngs to take and
leave passengers Ring bell, and the becomes sta
tonay before the sound ceases and in one-thrd The time
required to stop omnibus This is effected by abreak
applied to the wheels The transient fare to Old Cam.
bridge, Mount Auburn, Porers is only ten cents with
discount Of twenty per cent package Of one hun
dred tickets The motion of the is much more pleas
ant than that Of any other vehicle II sets low, and
very easy of ingress and egress Whole families daily
patronize the road for pleasure trips. Already there
are two hundred houses going up in Cambridge
and the city before thriving to greater es.
tent The citizens of Roxbury are also endeavorinp
to obnin the right Of way for similar road through
Washington street. and those Of Dorchester have raised
the requisite capital ($l00O0O) to construct third from
that place into State street. entering the foot Of Sum-
and passing down Broad The great objection TO the
Roxbury road is the narrowness Of Washington street.
which does not apply to the Dorchester BY the way
what glorious route you Washingtonians have ora
horse railroad, via Pennsylvania avenue from the Capitol
to Georgetown; and what fine chance for good invest
of capital for Of your enterprising citizens with
vors TO ask Of your Uncle Sam except the right
way There is plenty ofroom for such enterprise with
the latest improvements, in your y of magnificent dis
tances if the Bossonians cannot find it. Our horse rail-
roads promise to produce great revolution in reasae
movements bringing up the value of property in such
towns Cambridge, Roxbury Dorchester, &C. near the
city while those greater distance will suffer at least
long the present iadvsed high-are system ad
hered to by our railroad corporations.
As the time for the meeting Of the Democratic National
Convention at Cincinnati draws near greater and
rife becomes the agitation among the elements Of faction
here in New Engand-the legitimate offspring Of
blue-light Hartford Convention federalism They ap-
pear to be eagerly anxious for something to turn
up" which, by creating diversion in the great dem
ocratc current which threatening overwhem Sec
onalism may give them little aid and comfort Just
enough TO encourage them to continue the guerilla warfare
to which the approaching win find them
down. The late attempted murder of civil officer In the
legal discharge OF bis duty at Lawrence Kansas was at
first excused by Of abolition prints One Of them
said thatit only the legitimate result of the Kansas
measure and the policy pursued by President Pierce 10
carrying that Sheriff Jones deserved be shot But
the next mail brought intelligence that the agators
Lawrence, with Reeder and Robinson their head had
been holding meeting aud passing resolutions denouncpg
the outrage and discaimng all participation in it, offering
$500 reward for the arrest Of the assassin by authority
of the bogus governor and finally pretending that the
border rufians' had shot Of their own men all for
political eeci Thus Sharpesrife newspapers which
at first ready defend and exult in this
rage were taken all aback and had their labor for their
pains. They evidently begin 10 think that 1t will TAXA
long time for Something up Of the Kanias
Emigration Aid Society dodgeperhaps until after The
democrats have chosen their President In the tin,
they will turn anxious eye to the telegraph from Wash
ingon for startling Developments Central American AZ
fairs And this should Gail them, in despair Of even
throwing the next presidential election into the lover
branch Of Congress they will express themselves perfect
y satisfied with the selection Of any other candidate
Cincinnati than General Pierce. They know that his
denomination Is equivalent to reelection They the
handwriting the wall which osctes that would be
the death Of faction in New England and that be win
easily carry under plurality vote If by majority
every New England State except Massachusetts, and Yer
mont Perhaps do wrong make the exception OF tAs
Commonwealth From present indications the democrats
stand good chance to carry IT Such the admission
OF ar. Baker, Of the prominent known nothing
speakers at the meeting OF their State council to which
alluded in my last letter With Pierce Fillmore, and FIRE.
mont Seward In the field here there Is decidedly the
best chance for the former.
The black republican delegation TO the Philadelphia Con-
yenton, who go by steamboat round Cape May will take
with them band OF music and two pieces of TJ
go for Fremont under advice from Senator Wilson tits said
These may prove formidable weapons in their band,
In case Of fagtveslaye riot If they should deter
mine to continue their trip down the coast and then round
to Kansas, via the Mississippi &c The market here bare
OF Shapes rifles, and will be taken Job Sass ESQ.,
the venerable correspondent Of the Boston Herald M last
week for Kansas and took with himhe last Of The
lot purchased by Heary Ward Beecher and Professor Sill
man. Mr.. Sass Is determined that Kansas shall be Hfrs
Of everything in the shape Of q niger He Is as
compsnied by his neighbor Mr. benjamin ttcomb7
who at the last accounts, bad encounter with
border ruan" at Sandusky, Ohio in which both Of bs
Shapes rifles taken away bu, subsequently
ed Mr. Sass says that the person who made the attack
Squire peter pctlingae whom he afterwards learned
"about the ferocous border rufian yet known
Akross After taking the Squire by the all Of the
ses and pitching him into the middle the street Mr. Sass
adds that when he "begun kun to- order restored
by the boarders Of the hotel Then he and aMistur pet
tingale stepped up the bar and tnockn glasses one
agn tuher very Forgot who Who and what wa
What r Mr. Sass says be Is "Abowt worn out with bis
iaun and has nearly come the conclusion that bar
Is fuss made Abowt these nggu than The hole Tribe
EN- wurb, " they put up sreksbun o-sor-
row and knocked OFF like so many Pigs or kows'
accc,n tn thie ~ thp