Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-26
LETTER FROM BOSTON.
BosToN, April %, 1862.

BosToN, April %, 1862.
The legislature has settled down upon
Tuesday next as the time for adjournment,
which will complete a session of one hundred
and twenty days-longer by at least twenty
days than has been agreeable to the public or
to the patience and pockets Of members out
of Boston. An effort was made TODAY TO ex-
tend the pay of members, at the So per diem,
for all time spent in the service of the com
monw ealGh over one hundred days. The prop
ositiun was the text of long discussion, dur
ing which very patriotic and very useless
speeches male by various gentlemen
who have expectations" and which closed
with the rejection Of the proposition by near.
" unanimous vote. Both branches are now
diligently working TO complete tho business
which has been initiated and accomplish an
adjournment at the time have designated.
The singular disposal OF the matters relating
to the Troy and Greenfield railroad, ms might
have been expected, is still subject of much
discussion That the matter has been rightly
disposed Of, considering the obligations under
which the state has been placed 10y several
years Of nearly uniform legislation, there
can be no doubt. But the strange jun
bic into which tie friends and the oppo.
nents of The original bill were thrown on the
final passage of the measure, excites some
speculation among those who are not in the
secret OF the history of tunnel legislation.
take the action Of the legislature, huwever, as
all expression of the high public confidence in
the executive CT the commonwealth, upon
whose discretion the responsibility of the
whole enterprise is now thrown. The corpo
ration submitted to be crushed-the contract
orS passed out of sight under the spur of the
previous question, and yet, in the last resort,
tine frieuds Of 10th united with those who
have always doubted the securities which they
hare given 10 the commonwealth The bill
which has passed, and which we have no
doubt will receive the sanction Of the execu.
tive, was opposed by none except those no
are hostile to the enterprise under all circum
stances.
The pamphlet history of the winters bust
ness on this subject would furnish respecta.
bic library. Every man who has had leisure
to write out his views has published them in
duodecimo and cast them upon the waters.
= Unquestnnably the ahlest paper on the sub
Ject, was the one entitled ''T'he Road 10 Ruin"
written by Mr.. f. W. Bird, the prince Of
pamphleteers and one of tie most unselfish
and DISTINGUISHED of men. 1t is n thorough
and in the main just review of the history Of
the tunnel enterprise from its birth, and, from
his point Of view, the most destructive to the
preiensions of the Troy and Greenfield cor
por@;lon OF all that has been said or written
during the long winter. But that he did in.
Justice to Mr. Haup, and his associates in the
contract events will soon enough prove. Mr.
llaupt has certainly had little reason to deal
dishonesty with the commonwealth, when all
the possible profits of his contract were scarce
" equal to the private fortune which lie
pledged to it in the beginning. And lie Ger
tainly has shown something OF selfsncrihce in
ms devotion 10 a thankless enterprise at a
nme when he might have commanded almost
any position of credit and honor in the service
OF his country. He has now been appointed
engineer in-chief of the army before Rich
in"nd, and has accepted the appointment.
VI his peculiar fitness Tor the position
no one acquainted with his personal his.
tory enter'ains doubt. His partner, Mr..
Henry Cartwright. is also gentleman who
had too much at stake, both of reputation and
of fortune, to be lightly reproached Both OF
them educated engineers of acknowledge
ability, drawn into this enterprise on accl uni
Of its magnitude and importance, they seem
10 have been made the scapegoa,s for the sir
of the community most nearly interested in
their work, who failed to keep the promises
which were made to them and 10 the com.
monyeaith. G.