The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-12-22

We stated. week before last, that the sole
referee rs to the sutliciency of the Somerset
Railroad, in the lease to the Maine Central,
was Col. Wildes. Our informant was mis-
taken about the matter A copy of the con-
tract enclosed to us by }. II. Drummond,
Esq, shows the vote of the Central company
to be that ii will lease the road ''when said
Railroad is to be completed to the acceptance
of this company" Thus the determination
of the matter is left wholly to the Maine Cen
trail. We don't know who made this agree
ment on the part of the Somerset Road, but
its coniidng trust is very touching. We
never before knew the lamb to enter into
compact with the wolf that it should not be
eaten until the wolf became hungry. If our
Somerset friends could resrrrect the wonder
full old fellows who laid the masonry for the
foundations Of Solomon's Temple to do their
stone work and could procure the "tall cedars
of Lebanon" for sleepers, lay them on the
widest entertainments, with gravel three feet
thick underneath, and spike to them Bessemer
steel rails-if this could be done, we say, it
would be interesting so see whether a COM
mittee of directors, armed with crowbars,
augers, hatchets, and cross cut saws would
solemnly proceed to investigate the work.
dig the gravel, chop the sleepers, and finally
resolve that the work, Sin most important
particulars falls far below the requirements
of the contract"
THE NEXT APPoRT1oNMENT. The House
OF Representatives now has Pa members.
BY the new law, Congress, under the next
apporionment, is to have 234 members. The
census returns Indicate that the population is
about 3S,0O0,0O0, an increase of 1000, 900
since 1860. This will give about 1863, 1858
population to a member The New England
States will each lose one member Massachu-
sets losing two. New York will lose four,
Pennsylvania and Ohio three each OF the
Southern States, Virginia, North Carolina,
Louisiana and Kentucky will lose one each
and Texas will gain one. OF the Western
States, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Wiscon-
sin and Kansas gain one each, and Illinois
and Missouri two. New Jersey 1t is thought
may gain one, and is the only State on the
Atlantic coast which will gain. Of the whole
country, New England loses seven, the Mid
die States nine, and the Sou thern States three
while the West gains nine-the Pacific States
remaining as heretofore.
The Philadelphia Age says Gen. Grant is
the agent of a New York company in the eff
fort to annex San Domingo to the United
States. The capital of this congregation of
brokers and jobbers is said to consist of 90
shares, at S15 900 each. To this company
all the mineral lands, mill privileges and
town sites in San Domingo have
been granted. They also have the monopoly
of banking, of building railroads and of run
ming steamboats,. They are authorized in
the event OF annexation, to survey the whole
public domain Of the Republic, and to have
one-titth of the same by way of compensa-
ton. This one-fifth they are to locate for
in any portion Of the island Sc
lected. With such a fine bargain in pro-
spcctiye, ii is no wonder the scheme is pushed
upon the attention Of the Senate with such
pertinacity. The dividends will be larpe
and hence the interest felt in the movement
at the White House
There is trouble brewing between the ne
groes and carpet baggers in the South. The
latter are perfectly willing to hold all the
offices, and to kindly permit the negroes to
vote for them, but when Sambo asks for an
office for himself there is straightway trouble
in the camp. In Georgia, where the radical
voters are almost all negroes, there has been
some pretty plain talk. The Macon Union.
which dispenses law and gospel to the loyal
crowd in chat vicinity, talks to Sambo thus
ly:-
"lf the coored people protest in forcing them
selves before the people for high Offices they will
not only defeat their prospects for such positions
for all time but will blast the hopes of the Repub-
lican party-their only friend"
1t will take a large amount of this kind of
talk to make the negro forget the cndear-
ments lavished on them in times past, as
well as the provisions Of the civil Rights
Bill and the 10Th amendment, There is GER
tainly trouble brewing.
THE FIRST NEGRO IN the HOUSE.
Following the advent of the Mississirpi