The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-27

Samuel Hallett q Co. new contract for
the construction of the whole line.
The results seem fully to have justified
this action Of the company, for Messrs.
Hallett d Co. at once entered upon the
work with such vigor as totally to chi ange
the prospects of the enterprise. The
people OF Kansas were startled by the
invasion of their soil by an army Of work
men, accompanied by labor saving ma
chimes OF the latest invention, and ubd er
tho direction of the ablest engineers and
superintendents. Mr.. HaIlett went upon
the ground himself and assumed the
charge of the work, aided by two of his
brothers. men of great energy and pracii-
cal knowledge, and the result is that a
large portion of the branch and over halt
the tirst section of forty miles on the
main line is already graded, the iron and
rolling stock procured, and the bridges
IN process Of construction, so thatlthe
first day OF January next will undoubtedly
see the section completed and equip ped
according to law, and trains running feg.
ularly as far as Lawrence.
II is under these circumstances that
the Canadian contractors (who all this
time have been unmolested in the use of
a small force upon the branch, where 0 MY
they have used the trifling force in their
employ have asked for an injunction
az inst the issuance Of bonds by the COM
Psny, and for compulsory process to
oblIge the defendants to restore to them
the privilege Of building ,be road unuer
their old contract. luis the company
resist. The plaintiffs assert their own
ability to fulfill the obligations they as
sumed; while the defendants alegc that
they have forfeited their contract by fail.
ing to fulfill its conditions, and insist that
their own obligations as contractors NTH
the Government for the execution OF an
important national work will not allow
any further trifing, liable to result in
failure and in the forfeiture Of important
grants.
We do not pretend to judge between
the parties. and We do not assume to de-
teImine the legal points at issue; but We
cannot deny that our sympashies are with
the men who are working earnestly and
effectively in the great enterprise they
have undertaken, rather than with Those
who insist on retaining the valuable
powers they have not succeeded in WELD
my, even 10 the extent Of imperilhng the
success of the whole scheme. After the
paipabie failure of the foreign contrac tors,
to prosecute the work in a way at all
commensurate with its necessities, and
after their waste of the last invaluable
season in doing little jobs of street gra-
ding in Leavenwor,h city, while the gol-
den hours intervening between the enter
prise and a forfeiture Of the Government
grants were rapidly passing away, it GER
tainly would better become them, If act
ing Loyalty towards the great interest they
undertook to protect, amicably to adj
matters with the new parties so empbati-
cally proving their sincerity, instead OF
spending time aud money in tie interpo-
sition of legal obstacles intended to delay
the completion of the road, if not entirely
to prevent it The old fable Of tie deg
in the manger seems apt. In view of
the previous apathy of these parties and
the vindictiye spirit which animates the
affidavits they have submitted in evi-
dence, contfasted with the patriotic zeal
and high tone of the defendants, we can
not but hope that the latter may not be
seriously interrupted in their labors by a
litigation which is more than suspected
to be encouraged by the bitterest enemies
of the Pacific railway idea, if. indeed, it
is not instigated BY foreign interests in
tensely hostile to the existence of the
United States, and power Of the nation
ality which We are sacrificing SO much to
preserve.
"PATIENcE ON MONUMENT Val
landigbam, sitting on the dock at Wind
sor, waiting for dispatches from the AM
ercan side, and sadly whistling-
6 Do they miss me at home,
Do they mise me 2"
Ey Philadelphia is famous for its NOR
tuary poetry. We kept file of the Ledger
(says the Boston Gazette) once for three
years for the sake Of its elegiac "lines !"
The following epitaph We find credited to
that locality:
Farewell, my children dear,
am not dead but sleeping here;
Tell your father in letter
God took me % make me better
Two QUESTIONS DECIDED IN THE Ar.
FIRMATIvK.-A letter from Folly Island