Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-02-12
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

An IMPORTANT MEMORIAL, TO WASHINGTON
Crrr.-Yesterday, Mr. Kennedy presented the
memorial Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, asking leave to extend their Wash
lngton Branch Road, 80 a. to form a closer
connection with the Southern and Southwest
ern lines, by one Of the following routes, at
their option:
fst By tunnel under Capitol Hill, so as
not to interfere with the public buildings, or
disturb the surface Of the grounds, and thence
by tho most eligible route to the most convent
emit point on the Potomac river in the District
OF Columbia, with authority to use locomotives
I'd By leaving said branch Railroad so as
to strike line between east Third and east
Sixth streets, and run along or near said line
to some point on the east branch Of the Poto-
mac, between the Navy Yard and the Potomac
I'd. By or near the route of the Alexandria
and Washington Railroad, to and over the Long
Bridge to the west side of the Potomac, with
the privilege of a connection with the eastern
side of the Potomac. This third route and
branch to be operated with horse power
4th- BY or near the route heretofore char
tered by Congress, near the eastern boundary
Of the city OF Washington, crossing the Eastern
branch OF the Potomac above the Navy Yard,
AID thence to point on the eastern shore of
the Potomac nearly opposite to the city of AL.
exandria, with the privilege of using Iocomo-
tiyes
Inc memorial sets forth that this extension
VIII NIL the only gap in the route from New
orleans to New York, which when properly
organized, will reduce the time between those
cities from SIX and half to three and q half
days.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad company, and the Orange and
Alexandria Railroad company concur "A the
memorial
80 far as the interests of this city are con-
cerned, We have no doubt that the proposition
70 extend the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to
buzaard Point-the high headland between
the Navy Yard and the Arsenal-will prove
most advantageous, as it will open to settle
ment, as it were, that section of the city and
Will thus result in q considerable increase of
the Corporations revenue from the Sixth Ward.
desideratum devoutly to be prayed for The
conaition OF that portion Of the city has been
an eyesore for the last quarter of q century.
me construction and use of a railroad through
II VIII at once cause it to wear the air of i'm
Provement incident to every other portion of
washington. The companies, if Congress ap-
proves OF that route, will, of course, at once
provide the means of transporting the mails,
passengers, baggage, freight, &C., between
Washington and Alexandria by swift boat,
running the Al miles in perhaps third of an
hour, arranged with facilities for the entrance
and egress of passengers, freight, &c direct
from the cars on either shore, equal to those
In use in Philadelphia where the Camden and
Amboy railroad connects with that city, or at
Havre de Grace
Solar as the Long Bridge project is concerned,
we are satisfied that no time would be saved by
resorting to it tusing horse power) and that u1-
iess the enterprise be restricted most stringent
ly, 1t might vitiate the contract of the Govern.
ment made when it purchased that structure,
that it shall be kept up as a free bridge for the
use of travel by ordinary vehicIes-a matter of
great Importance to the interests of the Seventh
Ward particularly, as well as to the consumers
OF marketing IN the District of Columbia The
Government is now bound by formal contract
embraced in the deed in which it purchased
the Long Bridge, TO keep it up in psrpefuo as
Tree bridge. To decd it to any railroad COM
Pany under the expectation that it would use
1t as much for the original purpose of it's pur.
chase by the Government, as for a source of
revenue from railroad and other travel, would
be dangerous experiment, We fancy, it mat.
tiers not what pledges might be made.
"UsFRIsSDLY LEGISLATION In Kansas
By way Of enligh.ening Southern members of
Congrt IS who continue to regard Senator Doug
iss as being II all respects entitled to Democratic
party Fellowship, we print below bill recently
introduced into the Kansas Legislature, in ac-
oordance with Mr.. DIS views of the right of
squatters In United States Territory to ex.
eiude slavery therefrom by unfrendly lecis-
Iatlon." The Supreme Court says, substan-
naiiy, that owners Of slave property in the
States may lawfully carry it into United States
Territories, and that by the Constitution III.
General Government is bound to protect them
Units enjoyment there. Senator Douglas. while
admitting the first Of these Supreme Court
propositions, utterly denies the latter; claim
Ing that the emissaries of New England Adolf
ton Emigrant Aid Societies being squatters
tnere, may, If they can control the Legisla-
ture, render the constitutional right 10 take
save property into territory absolutely mill
ana VOID How the emissares of the Emivrsn,
AID Society in Kansas are already nrost;n. hv
senator Douglass hint, will be comprebepdeJ
~ once on reading the bill referred to abov.
which is as follows: -"''''
An Acr aboiishing all laws establisbi,o
cognizing slavery In the TERRITORY ~ & ul re-
and Furnishing certain offences In re1aId ~
persons held as slaves tskao 10
Whereas, it has heretofore been ATTEMPTED 70
force the Institution Of slavery upon the neooIo
OF Kansas, and to legalize the same within In
limits OF this Territory contrary 10 the known
Will Of Its Inhabitants; and whereas the existence
Of servtle class Of debased and degraded me-
groes within said Territory, is deemed ipimicaI
TO It's highest interests; and whereas IL IL a.
serted and maintained that slavery has legal
existence In said Territory; and whereas, persons
are now held In state Of servitude In this Ter.
Iltofy oy persons claiming to own a fight of
property In them; and whereas, neither the or
xanic act under which the Territory Of Kansas
organized. nor the Constitutions Of the Unit