The Portland daily press., 1867-06-29

PASSAGE OF THE CORTLAND AND oGDENsBURt
RAILROAD BILL,

PASSAGE OF THE CORTLAND AND 0GDENsBURG
RAILROAD BILL,
The New Hampshire House of Representa-
tiyes has passed the bill chartering the Port
land White Mountains and Ogdensburg rail-
road The disposition of the Senate towards
this enterprise, which promises so great adj
vantages to both Maine and New Hampshire,
is understood to be quite favorable There is
unquestionably business enough for all the
roads now running through New Hampshire
all they can do-and for the new road too.
The opposition which has becn threatened
would be short sighted as well as selfish.
L A bill was passed to third reading, author
izing' the Nashua & Epping Railroad to unite
with the Portland 81 Rochester Railroad. SHAVE
, A bill reducing the valuation of the poll in
assessing taxes, from $40 to $3.50, has passed
the House. ESQ., ls..45 4-5 .l44. 4. .44il- 81. s.l.
The bill proposing to abolish town settle
ments and have all paupers taken care Of at
county poorhouses has been indefinitely post
poned. q, ----- q f.. ed .-.s ~ -.--l..
The House has instructed tie Railroad Com.
mittee to inquire into the expediency of en-
acting q law regulating the tariffs on passen-
gers and freight on railroads, and TO report by
bill OF otherwise. $3.50 .la -4JaJ EHi4 aJn
The house has also instructed the Special
Committee on tho Constabulary bill to inquire
into the expediency of enacting aliquor license
law, and to report, by bill or otherwise. or.-'
A SOUTHERN PAPERS VIEWS OF THE
RIsIs.-We commend the following extracts
from the Charleston Daily News to the serious
attention of those Northern agitators who
think they are serving the late rebels by inter
posing between them and tho laws which
Congress has passed for their government.
That the re storation of the Southern States
can only be secured by their acceptance OF the
measures of Congress, adopted in reference to
the restoration of the seeding States TO the
Union we presume no one viii deny. Ii there
are any such, we address no argument to them.
If at this day any are yet uneonvinced upon
this point, no power of human reasoning can
move them from their prejudices. To them,
we would regard it as a waste of time, TO adj
dress & word of remonstranee. But, to those
who have already suffered SO long and so much,
that they must have relief or cease to liye-to
them We would address ourselves. And when
we speak to them, We feel and know that We
do address large the largest-portion of the
people of the State and of the South. To
them we say that their only security, their on
ly safety, is in the acceptance OF the provisions
of the acts of the last Congress, faithfully and
fully, as the measures, and the only measures
by which they can accomplish those great
ends. .-....... --.r,f..t,.. 10, ~. ffitg
In the appeals which are made to the Presi-
dent we can only see, SO far as that high Off
cial is concerned the preparation for involving
him in another controversy, more violent, and
more determined, than that through which he
has just passed. Aud we do sincerely hope
that he will give no heed to the counsels of
those who have in the past been SO little able
to defend him from the assaults they have pro-
voked. &c there be one condition, more than
another, which would tend to the develop
ment OF a degree of confusion and disorder,
that would be pregnant with the most lamcn-
table consequences, it would be the personal
and direct interference of the President in the
enforcement of the provisions of what is called
the Reconstruction Acts. Che President has
done all the highest sense of duty required of
Sim When these Acts of Congress were
passed over his veto they were to him the law
Of the land. When the Supreme Court refus-
ell to interfere with the operation of them, no
became confirmed in the correctness of his de-
termination, previously expressed, TO. enforce
them faithfully and in accordance with the
spirit and the letter of the Acts. 97a s7.s1