Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-06-09


on Sunday the 10th inst. The public are
requested to attend. ..
RAIL ROAD IRoN.-Thc Mount Savage
Iron Company are Shipping by Canal to
Alexandria, Va, Eight Hundred tons rail road
Iron.
1t is designed for the Junction and Break
water Rail Road-a branch of the Delaware
rail road to be extended to Breakwater-tht
port of the General Government at the
mouth of the Delaware River.
When completed this road will furnish
facilities for transmission of Cargoes to Phil
adelphia and Baltimore, in the winter season,
when the navigation Of the Delaware and
Chesapeake is closed by ice The rails are
Of the T pattern, so lbs to the yard andap-
pear to be of very superior quality
The idea of late years that heavy rail Of
rs lbs and upwards, was the most economi-
cal for use, appears now to be abandoned by
Engineers. 1t has been demonstrated salts.
factorily on the Reading and other railroads
that the durability of rails depends more
upon the quality of the Iron than upon the
section or weight Of the rail.
The first heavy rails made in the United
States after the use of the old plate, or Snake
head rails, was suspended, were-rolled at thu
Mount Savage Iron Works in 1874. TIL,
Franklin Institute awarded silver medal tc
the Company in that year for the speciman
These rails were of the Bridge or . patterr
and weighed but 45 lbs to the yard. They
have now been in use upon the Cumberland
and Pennsylvania Rail Road for fifteen year,
carrying gross tradeo Of some four Million
tons, with prospect Of much additional ser
vice.
Considering the characteristics of this raj
road, its grade being, Que hundred feet to the
mile, its powerful Locomotive Engines weigh
ing 80 and 80 tons, and its large coal trans
portation, ranging at times as high as ter
thousand tons per week, it mltlst be admitted
that the As lbsamerican rails have withstoot
a test sufficiently severe to confirm the theory
that the wear of Rail Road Iron depends
more upon the quality of the material thar
upon the weight of rail. We confess tina
we have been very much surprised to sec
laid at our very doors, Rail Road Iron manu-.
featured in Europe, when we have such al
establishment as 'the Mount Savage in Gu
midst The superiority ofthe article manuiac
tured here must be apparent to every one
as an examination of the rails laid through
our City will demonstrate. Why ther
should it be brought to us from foreigl
country? We hope to see those works NOR
extensively patronizcd than they laye eve
been heretofore
CREDITORS OF THE CHESAPEAKE AND ONO
CANAL.-A meeting was held in Baltimore
on Friday, 9th ult, consisting of the pre-
fcrrcd bondholdcrs, and otlter creditors Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, hay
ing for its object the procurement Of som'
action by the Legislature Of the State of Ma
ryland whereby the claims Of the other cred
itors of the Canal may be recognised, anr
some measure: adopted calculated to do then
at least tardy Justice.
The largest amount Of claims eli the par
Of private creditors having been represented
by Andrew Wylie, Esq, of Washington, 1t
was called to the chair, and j. H. Gordon
Esq, of this city, was appointed Secretly.
The meeting was addressed by severa
gentlemen, and the remarks of William
Price, ESQ.,, Of Baltimore, on the history 0
tho Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and cana
enterprises generally in the United States
BE particularly interesting.
More than q million of dollars of claim.
were represented at this meeting DIR. Fitz
patrick, of Cumberland, represented half ;
million of bonds held by the State Of Vir
ginia.
On motion of Thomas /. McKag, ESQ., o
this city, a committee of six consisting o
y. I. McKaig, William Price, William P
Maulsby, Hodge, Watkins, and Gordon)-
three for the preferred bond-holders and
three for the general creditors-was appoint
cd to recommend a plan which would les
insure the object Of the meeting. The meet
ing then adjourned and reassembed at tire,
o'clock, when the committee presented res.
'olution looking to the appointment OF com
mittee Of ten by the chairman, of whom five
should be on the part Of the preferred bond
holders and five on tho part Of the genera
creditors, who should be'charged with tn
duty OF presenting the claims Of the credit
ors before the next Legislature, and authori
ling them to draw up and present bill TO
the relief OF the bondholders and creditors
THE resolution was adopted and the commit
tee appointed, as follows: Thos. j. McKaig
James Fitzpatrick, and Thomas Devecmon
of this city; James Wason, of Washington
county Bradley r. johnson, of Frederick
A. Bowie Davis, and Greenbury Watkins, @
Montgomery county; William Price. ant
Lawrence p Bayne, of Baltimore; and Geo
w. Riggs, of Washington. After some 9th
or business Of minor Importance the meeting
adjourned to meet at Annapolis, on the fourth
Wednesday in Jaruary next, when and WHERE
the Legislature of Mary land will be in ses
sion.
ArPoISTMENTs.-Ata meeting Of the May
or and City Council, held at the Council Cham
Ter on Monday last, John H. Young, Esq.
was appointed Treasurer, DR.. Jas. NJ. Smith
Consulting Physician, and Jacoc Brown, ESQ.
Atsornev for tho