The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-05-07
THEDAY OFJUBILEE.

r. seems that to morrow, the sth inst.
has been fixed upon as the time for
driving the last spike of the Central
Pacific Railway. 1t is eminently aP
p-opriate that the occasion should be
celebrated with becoming cerem onies.
OF one of the purposed performances
Intended to give significance to that
event the San Francisco Call says:
We are informed that beautifully polish
I'd railway tie, of California laurel mounted
=. each extremity with solid silver. las been
prepared in this city, and will be forwarded
70 the end of the Central road this afternoon.
Accompanying the tie is Il Spite Of solid
gold, manufactured at a cost Of two hundred
dollars. With this beautiful, tie. and this
costly spike, President LELAND STANFORD
viii, on Saturday next, complete the great
enterprise, which has cost him the best years
Of his life, and with which his name will be
inseparabIy connected. The bearer of the
tie and spike IS Mr.. FRED. MAcCRELLIsH,
proprietor Of the Alta. "The times change
2rd we change with the times" says the
Latin pToverb. Not the least interesting
feature connected with the CO mpletion of
the Pacific Railroad IS the fact. that the
Gentleman from whom, in its inception, and
for long time as it slowly grew, it met with
the bitterest opposition, should undertake
the duty Of carrying the last tie to its destin-
atom All, how amply 1.-The Dutch Flat
swindle has been avenged,
''For,une favors the brave :" and,
i. may be added, Success is the mea-
snse of appreciation" 1t may be tina,
those of US who fought against the
Henness Pass Route-presering, as
!. was natural We should, the Johnson
Pass Route-and who now willing to
accord the just need Of praise to the
-adouitab!e workers and feG.less cap
i.alists who have made the Central
Pacific what it is (the browning triumph
o. American erterpise) have Justly come
uader the ban of criticism at the hands
q certain papers and parties that have
pursued another course. Eut every
man is the keeper of his own conscience;
a1d i. seems difficult to explain why
.hose who ventured out with the
I. Dutch Flat Swindle" aud stood BY
tie Central Company while they were
asking aid from San Francisco, Saera-
.nento, Ell Dorado and other California
counties at the hands os the Legislature
CT that State, and seeking the use of
e l. Tar
-itory of Nevada, are NJ CIV that that COM
pany las proven itself worthy of such ex
traordinary assistance ss it did receive,
persistentiy and without apparent cause,
hsbitually villifying its conductors, and
casting aspersions upon those who
have, of late. spoken appro7ingly of the
Central Pacific Road. After quoting
some remarks by the San Francisco
Bulletin, ia which McCrellish and Mayor
McCoppin are sneered Il. for the very
gracious part which those gentlemen
a-e takiuS in behalf of q prepar celebra-
'on of the finishing Of the railway, the
Sacramento Union proceeds to say:
This is in accordance with the eternal TT
ness of things. a company which has
treated those people Of California, who were
It's friends in adversely and set it upon good
legs when it had none of Us own, with il
gratitude, is the very creature to invite those
who were then its enemies now to become its
Sattere-s and it is lust as natural tina. the
cppressors of The weak thing called Che
50 Dutch Flat SwinGle" in 1854, should be
among the loudest to pipe the praises Of the
big monopoly of 1869.
This may be styled self justification,
with a vengeance for, b. it remem-
hered, that when the Central Company |
vs-e doing all that ever ma6a them
amenable to public censure, the Union
zas their most servile npologist. 1t
would seem, taking an opposite view to /
The Union s, that it is s!jist rs natu 1al'
hat the advocate of a scheme, which
eeded the use Of its columns in 1861,
SHOULD be loud routhed in denuncia-
ion of the st-ong, successful thing
-hich, in 1858, no longer needs its
,elp and which has outgrown the power
# its dictation. We eannc: dives; ou-
e.yes Of an old opinion that whenever
M thing or party ee;s strength enough