The national Republican., 1869-01-23
RECEPTIONS,

THE PRESIDENT and his daughters will re-
eeiye next Tuesday evening, the 10th instant,
commencing at p. IN. and closing At IL.
The conservatory at the Executive Mansion
open to visitors Friday of each week from
until . p. m.
SrEAKER CoLFAN's receptions will be on
every Friday evening during the session,
from $50 to II p. m.
Mrs. Colfsx receives every wednesday,
from to IN.
MRs. Postmaster GENERAL RANDALL will
receive her friends on Wednesday of each
week, from to 4 p. m, at the residence, cor.
ner ofTwelfth and X streets.
MRs. SECRETARY McCULLocH receives on
Wednesday Of each week at the residence,
No. 800 H street, from IL to I, and on Friday
from s to IL p. m. Cards to be issued for the
evening receptions.
MRS. SECRETARY BRowNISa receives on
Wednesday OF each week at her residence, No.
$50 street, from II m. to 4 p. m.
MRs. SECRETARY ScHoTIELD will receive
her friends each Wednesday from II IN. to p.
m, at her residence, on II street, between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth.
MIR. sHERMAN's RAILROAD BILL.
We have carefully perused the bill intro.
duced into the Senate OF the United States by
Senator sherman to incorporate the New
York and Washington Railway Company.
This bill should be enacted at as early q day
as possible. The object OF the bill 10, as
stated, ITO promote commerce among the
States, and to cheaper the transportation OF
the mails and military and naval stores"
We doubt not that every man, woman and
child In the District Of Columbia is In favor
OF the passage OF this bill. Its advantages to
WaahlnQtOn ara mi nj
tion would be OF immense value to this entire
community. Indeed, this is so patent and the
arguments in its favor so strong, iirrefutable
and conclusive, that II may seem almost q
waste Of time to state them.
We have but one railroad connecting us
with the North and Northwest having its
terminus In this city, and upon this one line
we depend for the transportation OF the mails,
the freight and merchandise which we need
and must hsyej and all who come to wash
inEton from the great country lying north and
west OF US must perforee travel over this one
road. This might be endured for some II me to
come, as 1t has been endured In all the days
that have gone by, had we not as a nation and
people outgrown this condition Of things
What was well enough years ago, before the
war, 10 not well enough now. We might as
well determine to go back to the days OF stage
capital OF the nation with one little railroad
connecting us with the great cities lying at
the north and west Of US, together with the
millions of broad acres spotted all over with
thriving villages and towns, where tee ming
populations reside, who must send their rep
resentatives by the thousands to the capital
every year. We must have other facilities for
travel and transportation to and from wash.
ington, and we give warning to those who
oppose Mr.. Shermsu's bill that they must, at
no distant day, accept the situation. Monop.
olies must give way. The interests and well
fare OF the whole people demand 1t.
There is one point In this discussion, and in
these efforts Of our citizens to obtain further
railway facilities, which cannot be ma de too
prominent, nor can 1t be dwelt upon too fre.
quently. We snude to the eheapening OF
freight and merchandise. Now. our mer.
chants, business men, produce dealers, and
market men must pay just such freIghts as
the several companies united In one continu-
Gus line between here and New York, and be-
tween this point and the great West, please to
charge. And what makes this demand for
other lines OF road leading to the capital more
imperative is, that all these high prices Of
reight upon articles Of consumption and OF
prime necessity come directly from the pock-
cts OF the consumer; and what is more, the
bulk OF this sum, made up and wruug by
principles which are In themselves but short
remove from the thing known as extortion,
Is clutched from the pockets OF the poor.
cheap ireights and cheap living 10 what we
want, ltis the demand OF the hour, and now
more pressing than ever.
But we can never have these things as they
should be till we have other line. OF railway
leading from Washington, and this we shall
show In another article.