The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-08-11

traordinary, of no particular interest
to the public in general or Franklin /
county readers in particular And so
we declined acting upon the hint I'M
less we were paid our advertising rates
Of Sl3 per column, the whole amount /
Ing TO S52 for four columns. Where /
upon the St Adams Daiiy Messenger |
is put into a great passion, and, IN ITS
freuzy, rings the changes upon the S52
so demanded, with wonderful reckless
ness Of language aud great rhetorical
flourish.
How any paper can dare to omit
publishing such smashing account OF
wealthy excursionlsts when en- n free
ride through Vermont and while par
taking of free collation. at an un6n
ishod hotel Mt St Adams seems to the
Messenger passing strange, and in its
anxiety to repair this blunder, it acSu-
ally adyortises for copy of the print
ed report in question. SO anxious to
toady to wealthy nabobs is our Kessen-
ge, neighbor, that it will roll in the
dirt even while Whitefeld is not
preaching, and will crook the hinges
Of the knee when there is even for
lorn hope that thrift viii follow fawn-
ing.
The Messenger claims that those whom
it saw about the unfinished hotel APP
pearcd very little like Getty nabobs or
city snobs" As a nabob is a very rich
individual, and snob is defined to be
vulgar upstart, it is not easy to see
how the terms of the TRANscRIpr were
misapplied in the article complained
Of The putting article states distinct
ly the number of the excursionists
and if their aggregate wealth of $50,
100000 were evenly distributed, each
of the one hundred and ten persons
would be worth four hundred and hf-
! ty odd thousand dollars apiece
Whether such people with such
wealth, going upon such an errand,
ought to have travelled in such royal
magnfcence at other peoples ex-
pense partaken ofthe bountiful hos
pitality OF such bankrupt corpora
ton as the Vermont Central Railroad
Company, and been willing, ladies' and
all, to go into an unfinished hotel with
scafioldings yet in sight, plasterers
and painters still at work, stairs not
finished, and in the midst of brick and
sand stucco and mortar, paint and
putty, and thereby save a few shillings
by partaking of their free collation.
that was brought hither by Boston
caterer we say, whether such travel
lers were snobs or vulgar upstairs,
S lch as Thackeray knew how to exec
rate SO mercilessly, is a matter about
which we can hardly think with I'M
partial minds, there codld be two
opinions. 1t seems, however, there
are. The Messenger inclines to think
they were neither nabobs MOI
snobs. 1t does not matter, therefore
much what the ''world and the rest O
mankind" may think, do, or say or
this subject. The Messenger remarks
! that had it not been for those whom
the TnANscRIrr thus designates, no rail
: roads would ever have been built il
, Vermont
5 The Messenger winds up its dia
tribe with this sweeping assertion
4 which upon examination will prov
Z very absurd. If it means anything
l. means that these bondholding excui
e sionists and ladies We're those t
d whom Yermonters are indebted 70
: the building of the Vermont Centrt
f 4 Vermont & Canada Railroads. III
j present ownership of bonds or stoe
G in these corporations means nothin
(, and proves nothing beyond the fact {
" such ownership. The owners ma
) have purchased them at nominal fs
i ures for purposes of speculation. !
1t any rate, we know that the last tin
10 one hundred thousand shares of ii
~ capital stock of the Vermont Centr
u, Railroad Company were sold, was
the General superintendent Office
Sc St Adams on the evening Of May 2
le 1864 They were sold by the Sheri
e. of the county of Franklin, for twent
G. dollars; being for the sum of one fit
u Of mill per share Others may ha'
Of been equally lucky in getting stoC
Of and bonds. We allude to this OF
e. fact which has come within our know
is edge, simply to refute the assertic
lie that the present owners Of stock we
ID those to whom Vermont was indebt,
m for her railroads. Thousands of orr
I'd inal stockholders never had farthil
d. of profit from their stock never III
n AVIAN n free ride pvcat,t whom thav we