Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-01-07
Railroad Matters.


rnissioners appointed under the charter
of the Missisquoi Valley Railroad, to
be held at Richford on the Goth of this
month"; is to authorize the opening of the
subscription books, and to consult as to
the best methods of carrying forward the
enterprise. We give the names of the
Commissioners -
The Missisquoi Railroad Company
was incorporated in 1867, and the fol-
lowing persons named as Commission
ers Silas Carpenter and Harvey ID
Farrar, of Richford n w Clapp and
William II Stiles, of Montgomery !;
Dolphus Paul and Joseph smith. OF
Berkshire Ira f Deane, of Bakersfield
l. w Leach, and Anson Ladd, of Enos-
burgh j II Hubbard and Alonzo Green,
of Franklin Csc f Rixford and Is
rael S ennson of Highgate; William
II Blake, Geo M Hall and Albert b
Jewett, of Swanton; Jerry Sh attuck, OF
Belvidere Edwin White, of Eden ;
Alfred Keith, J f Draper and f NJ
Marsh of Sheldon w q Elkins, III {
Wilson, S II Davis, and G II Benton,
Troy w y Crane, Luther Baker, ID
Pender AMI l. III Bisbee, of Newport.
This act was amend d at the last session
of our legislature and the following
named persons added to the list of Com
missioners l. Robinson, Geo r. Lane,
and Russell Cummings, of Newport /;
e Dickerman, Levi Spalding, A L
Foster, S G Cutting and Elisha Lane, of
Derby, E o Bennett and l. w Clarke,
of Charleston.
The Newport Express, in abiding to
this meeting, says:-" In Franklin
County there is a general interest felt
in the construction of tie road from st.
Adams to Richfori and thence to this
point (NewporD. Should road be built
here, 1t is to be presumed the connection
with Island Pond would soon be made,
and the shortest and most feasible route
from Portland to the Great West be es-
tablished." Our contemporary urge all
the Commissioners to be present at the
meeting, and all others who can, in
order to encourage the enterprise by
their presence and words, and when the
timelarrives, give it their generous and
more substantial aid.
At meeting held at Wolcott on Sat
urday evening ten thou and dollfrs in
STOCK was subscribed for the Lamoille
Valley Railroad. An enthusiastic cor
respondent of the Ne,CS dealer writes:
There are five more shares that will
be taken by men that were not present
at the meeting, but have pledged to take
that amount. There was only one eX-
preston during the meeting:- =" we
, L. nX n
heretofore opposed the road and worked
subscribed literally. Wolcott has sound
ed the whistle" off with the brakes"
and let this train move down the Val
ley, Will MorristOwn meet us at TIE
town line, take charge of the train and
deliver it to Hyde PAX, and Hyde Park
TO Johnson and so on through the
whole route? Spunky Lamoille, look
vel. to your laurels! The least delay,
and the Missisquoi Valley Will come
rushing down to your western borders
with an express train, and ask of us
Lamoille have you buried your one tai
ent?
The Commissioners named in the act
incorporating the Montpelier and Wells
River Railroad Company give notice
that they will open books for subscrip-
ton to the capital stock of SAID road on
Monday, the nth of January, at the fol-
lowing places: Montpelier, Barre,
Plainfield, Marshficld, Groton, Wells
River. The books will be kept open
from day to day Sundays eXcepted) for
the space of ten days, and such further
time as the commissioners shall direct.
REvERDY JOHNSON AND HIS FEES.
The New York SUMS Washington
correspon lent tells this little story OF
our minister to England. While Re-
yerdy Johnson's nare was before the
Senate Committee OH Foreign relations,
a member of the House called upon a
very distinguished Senator on the Com
mittee, and asked him whether he
knew from the official records that Mr..
Lincoln sent Reverdy johnson to New
Orleans as an arbiter in the case of the
100000 in gold which Gen. Butler be-
lieved to be the property of the Con-
federate government, and which was
claimed by a foreign banking house,
and that after an examination, Johnson
decided that it Was the properly of the
foreign house, and Mr.. Lincoln accor-
dinghy turned it over. The committee
man replied that he knew these facts.
He was then asked wht ther he kne v
Mr.. Johnson's handwriting He re-
piled in the affirmative, and his visitor
handed him a receipt signed by Rever-
dy Johnson land dated while he was
making that eXamination) for a fee of
$4,000 from the banking house for attend
inc to some I'm nOrtant businesS Oh his