Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-30
THE DAILY SPY.



place, is evidently incorrect. At that
time colonel Amory's expedition had not re-
turned, and five companies of the 5lst were
still at Polocksville, holding that place while
the remainder of the brigade went on towards
Trenton. There has been no full report Of
what has been done by this expedition, be-
cause such report could not be made until
the work in hand was finished.
The rebels are in a most exciting condition
of uncertainty in regard to the destination Of
the forces that go from Newborn and Beau
fort under command of Gen. Foster and adj
mral Dupont Their latest report is that the
troops had left in two columns, one going to-
ward Kinston and the other toward Whining
ton. They are very sure that an attack on
Wilmington will be made. Perhaps their ex-
pectations will be realized; and perhaps
the expedition will not go where it
has been so long and confidently eX-
pected. Our advices from Hilton Head
are two days later than those from
Newbern, and it appears that the iron~clads
that were at Beaufort Jan. both, had arrived
at Hilton Head when the mails left that place
on the 22d 1t is quite possible that the rebels
have been cunningly misled in regard to the
real purpose of . Ger. Fosters expedition.
They will soon make new reports OF its move
ments. Let us wait and see what they dis
cover.
despatch from the west states that our
troops and gunboats have again approached
Vicksburg, and that there is now prospect
that the canal Or ''cut of will be made to
operate so successfully as to turn the river
away from Ncksburg and make that city an
isolated frog-haunted queen OF a swamp.
That would be an opening of the Mssis-
sippi which the malignants in that quar-
ter would remember. We shall sosn know
if this effort proves successful. Meanwhile
the force under McClernand has been rein
forced by large portion of Gen. Grants
army: and large portion of the rebels that
have been pitted against Rosecrans have also
gone in that direction, it is said. News from
Vicksburg will now be expected with unusual
eagerness.
cities, body of men known as the Board of
Trade. 1t is mainly composed of sensible
merchants and business men, who are content
to pay their annual subscriptions for what is
deemed the public welfare, and that is about
all the majority of them have to do with it.
In this board, as in most coporate bodies, a few
uneasy and talking men, fond of public noto-
riety, hold meetings, make speeches, print
reports purporting to be from the board of
trade, and so VIGOROUSLY wordy and wrong
headed are these productions that among
quiet, sensible men it has almost become Vn
axiom that if there is wrong side to any sub
ject the board of trade is sure to advocate it,
This body, through their painstaking secre-
tary, have lately thought proper to advocate
the union of the Worcester and Western
railways, not deeming the directors and stock
holders of these two successful corporations
competent to manage their own affairs, and
have a long report full of generalities and
petty details, which only shows how little
they comprehend the real question in dispute
The Worcester and Western railway COM
panies are each Of them large corporations,
controlling ineach aproperty of millions, each
ample enough to be within one CONTROL either
for the safety of sound and unbiased legisla-
ton, or for the protection of the public, who
may have cause of complaint against any of
their official acts or employees. Any one who
has observed the lobbying power exercised by
the New York Central railroad or the Yer
mont Central railroad upon their respective
state legislatures, will be very cautious how
they place Massachusetts, under any like in
iuence or despotism. Should the proposed
fusion of the two roads into one grand monop-
oily be successful, the next movement might
be to absorb all the roads to New York, or to
Chicago, so as to have only one interest all
the way to those cities. The same arrange
ment for the one would equally apply to the
other.
The simple questions between the two cor
porations is one respecting the proposed diyis-
ion of the joint earnings question of bust
ness experience and arithmetic, which can be
as easily arranged by few competent men as
the joint business between Boston and New
York, between New York and Washington,
between the New York Central and the Hud-
son River railways-in fact, as between every
railway in the country and its connecting
road.
1t is simply a business dispute, such as arise
every day among business men, and are daily
settled by reference to some neighbor or
disinterested person. The board of trade or
the Massachusetts Legislature have little to d.
with it, but there will probably be the us Il
number of lobbyists engaged upon both les,
all sorts of speeches relative to the laws of
action between the sun and moon will be
made, and the two companies and the people
of Massachusetts will be put to a large and
needless expense in talking about AT IN ust
be eventually settled by reference to pract-
cal railway men. These two RAILWAYS are
largely owned by trustees, guardians. and
small investors, who have placed their earn.
ings in what they deemed a safe place Manv
of them are stockholders in both companies,
and the quarrel really amounts to one between
their right and left pocket.
Both companies are sound in condition and
driving prosperous business, and the basis
upon which the Joint business is arranged il