The Portland daily press., 1870-11-11

The change Of gauge ON that part Of the
Maine Central Railroad between Kendall's
Mills and Bangor, so that train was run last
Monday from the latter place to Portland on
the narrow gauge track is an event of consid-
erable Importance in the railroad history of the
State. The change was not a clandestihe
enterprise, like corresponding work on Inc
Androscoggin road ten years ago, by means OF
which that road was made to connect WIN
the Portland and Kennebec at brunswick IN
instead of the Maine Central at Leeds, but
was made openly in pursuance of the console
daton scheme. The fact that the change is
made indicates that the officers of the consol-
idated lines do not regard the pending legal
proceedings as likely to thwart their purposes.
The hearing on the new bill in equity, pray
ing for an injunction to prevent the consolda-
ton, is assigned for next Tuesday. We shall
then, perhaps, be able to get an idea of what
the result of the litigation will be. Mean
while the feeling OF opposition to the scheme
is as strong as ever with many of our Port
land merchants. AS for the rest of the State,
public sentiment is divided. The Bangor
Whig regards the change of gauge as altoeeth-
er desirable and comments on its completion
under the heading, "The Blockade Raisei"-
The Kennebec Journal is also inclined to re-
gard the change as apublic benefit.
Another event Of importance is the refusal
of the Maine Central to leave the Belfast and
Moosehead Lake railroad, which is now COM
pleted to Burnham. The ground of the re-
fusal is that the work is not done as required
in the specifications of the contract between
the two corporations. This unexpected action
of the Maine Central is of course a great dis
appointment to the projectors of the new
road. A correspondent says that regret is
not the only feeling excited by the disap
pointment. and that in their anger the man
ayers of the Belfast road threaten to take up
the rails between Burnham and Brooks, and
run the road from the latter point toward
Bangor. The building of the section of the
Penobscot Bay and River road between Bel
fast and Rockland, with the completion of the
Knox and Lincoln road, would then consti
tute new route from Bangor to the Kenne.
bee river. We predict, however, that the Bel
fast road will be put in better condition and
the Burnham connection retained.
The large subscription of the town of Con
way, N, H., to aid in the construction of the
Portland ami Ogdensburg railroad, is an en-.
couraging circumstance indicating that this
road, which is now rapidly approaching the
State line at Fryeburg, will make rapid pro
gress through New Hampshire as well as
Vermont.
We notice that the subject of the much
needed railroad from Bangor or Buckspor
through the towns in Eastern Maine is agair
agitated by the Ellsworth and Machias papers
They ought to keep the subject before thep peo
pie till the work is undertaken in earnest
Nothing like perpetual s.hammering" to
start railroad enterprise.
REPLY OF THE DAILY SCIssoRs.--Ah
Mr.. Scissors (by courtesy, Don Caesar de Ia
Shears We knew you would do it! When
sharply attacked you seek the gutter and roll
in the mud, of course. Driven to a place
where your scissors are of no use, you natur-
ally have recourse to obscenity, that being the
only dialect of which your culture and natur-
al taste have given you any command in writ
ing. 1t is vain to present yourself with a
somewhat decent and modest phraseology on
one page, while on the next you give free
range to your native amor imn1unditie and
"wallow in all manner of filthy conversation, p
hoping that your readers will believe that the
only Enthusiastically original production you
have laid before them for months is COM
municatioD from some inebriated horse, jock
ey, or "nameless hireling" of reporter. If
you suppose that we shall follow you into the
sewer, dear Mr.. Scissors, you are doomed to
disappointment. Montaigne tells in his
quaint way of tribe where, if man is Bit
ten by louise, che is bound, in magnanimity,
to bite it again." But in modern times men
do not thus find exercise for their greatness
of soul; and so we leave the editor of the
Daily Scissors, happy in his monopoly Of filth
as he has been for many years in his monop-
oily of antiquated ideas, advocacy of wrong
and unlailing denunciation of progress and of
right.
PRINCE ERIE I'M A NEW RnTE-Tim Fisk