Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-02-19
Correction.
TRAVELLER.

MIR. STANDARD "A few days since
| fell in with some of the directors of the
Connecticut 81 Passumpsic Rivers Rail-
road, in their cars, and after a liberal
amount ofpersonal abuse and bilingsgate
had been bestowed by some of them, in
refere nee TO your correspondent B. H.,
l requested them to point out any errors
or misstatement of facts or fact, in the ar
ticles published in your columns over the
signature of B. II. have always no.
ticed that men would make wholesale
charges Of falsehood, fraud and deception,
much easier than they could specify in
what particular statement was false !;
but in the instance above referred to,
one of the directors undertook on behalf,
l suppose, of all the rest, to specify.
The specification is this, that B. II.
either states, in words, or carries the idea,
and intends people shall understand, that
nothing has in fact, been paid by Boston
people or stockholders, for the extension
Of the road from St. Johnsbury north,
when in truth and fact, the holders of
stock in Boston hare paid INVENTIVE per
cent. to have their old stock preferred,
and placed or equal footing with the new
stock subscribed for the purpose of said
extension.
Ny belief is that the communication
referred TO would not bear the construc-
ton put upon it by the directors of the
road. Certain it is that it was never the
intention TO convey an idea that the hold
ers cf the old stock, to make the aggre-
gate preferred stock, whether in the
country or city, had not paid twenty-five
per cent on the old stock and it is stated
that cid stockholders had paid twenty-five
per cent to have their stock preferred
that was not now worth the expense o.
preferring.
1t was designed that everybody should
understand that there never was a dol
lars subscription to the stock of the road
made in Boston, CT by Boston people, ant
placed at the disposal of the directors fol
the extension of the road north of St
Johnsbury. How much money was rails
| ed by the preferred stock humbug, o.
from whoe yer, B. H. never pretended t.
know or state.
The contract with the country wa
that the city would subscribe nine hun
dred thousand dollars TO the stock, for tn,
extension of the road, if the countr'
would subscribe three hundred thousand
The country performed on their part, bu
the city wholly failed, never raising a dol
lar by subscription, but went into the pre-
terring stock to raise money, and require
country subscribers for new stock to pa
just as much to prefer their old stock, a
was required by city people who signe
for no new stock.
The fact is, no one of the trio of direc
tors who flourish in the extension of tn
road, dare attempt to deny any materis
averment of B. H. and challenge proc
They will not be able TO dispose of
II. as easily as they did of presider
Fairbanks. He was unwilling to be
a position that subjected him to their ca
jimmy and abuse, and sooner than allo,
himself to be maligned and traduced b
would step one side and let the littl
, beauty take his place.
, Some things are we'll known and ur
derstood, and others not so well. Anon
those well known is the fact that the lara
white store standing at the extreme mort
end OF the track Of the railroad, is on ii
land OF the corporation, but whose stoI
that is is not as well understood. an
whether it was built with the agreemei
l that the corporation should pay for it {
: not, is not as fully known as the fact thi
| TIM poor lrishmen who labored and toll,
to build the road, have not got their ia
] for their work. If the corporation ow
E the Store' as we should suppose from
t being on their land, all will agree that
: would have been much more ereditab
e to have paid $4,000 to the poor lahore
5 who graded the railroad, than TO lay
e out IN fitting up store for one of II
a 'r'o Of directors. snless the goods are