The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-12-28
Railroad MEETING.

haiIroad Meeting.
A meeting of the Directors of the Knox
and Lincoln, the Penobscot Bay and Riv-
er, the Bangor and Winterport, and the
European and North American Railroads
was held in this city last Thursday. The
Knox and Lincoln had full board pres
ent, the Bay and River was represented
| by President Hichborp, p. J. Carleton,
VIM. McGilvery and Mr.. Black; the
European and North American by Arad
Thompson and NJ. s. Drummond, of Ban
gor; but owing to the sickness of Mr.
Gushing, the Winterport road was not
present. There was no public meeting,
but the business was done entirely BY
| committees Of conference After spend
ing the day in interchange Of views, the
following proposition was submitted by
the Knox and Lincoln Company
The Penobscot Bay and River Railroad Com
pany Of the first part and the Knox and Lincoln
railroad Company OF the second part make the
following agreement for the construction of the
| Railroad of the first party, to wit
| Bonds for the amount Of $3.50 per mile of
said road from Rockland to Winterport to be
issued and secured by a first mortgage of said
road, payable to trustees for the benefit of the
parties hereto, one-ha!f of the amount to be re-
| tanned by said trustees till the whole of said
road shall be ready for the iron. when said one
half of said bonds are to be delivered to the
parties of the second part as follows, to wit ::
One-slxth part thereof when iron shall be laid
on ten miles of said road and one-sixth part
| thereof as each ten miles of iron shall be laid
till the whole amount of iron shall be laid and
the whole of said one-half of said bonds shall
be delivered; provided, however, that a part of
SAID one-half of said bonds may be delivered
before the whole of said road shall be ready for
the iron if the parties so mutually agree in
writing, the parties of the second part to take
| lease OF said road as the same shall be com
pleted and furnish rolling stock upon such
terms as may be agreed upon, and provided
further that satisfactory arrangement can he
made with the Winterport r. R. Co.
After this proposition had been submit
ted to the Directors of the Bay and River
Road, and amended at their suggestion in
one or two particulars, it was accepted by
vote in the following language
The Penobscot Bay and River Railroad Com
pany will and do accept the proposition of the
knox and Lincoln Railroad Company so far as
they are authorized to accept, and ask the X.
" l.. Co. to take early action to determine
whether their offer in the premises can be
made valid, and the P. B. Il r. X. r. Go. will
proceed at once to determine whether we can
comply with their proposition, each Co. to keep
the other informed as to progress in the premi-
ses, so that future action may be determined.
We do not understand that the repre-
sentatives Of the European road took any
action, further than to receive q copy of
the votes for the information Of their
board
The Prog. Age, tn reply to our suggestion that it
print the letter we wrote to President johnson in
1906 says" The letter is not In our possessionn
That shall no longer be an excuse. We will place
OF the Age, if he will agree to print it entire his
columns. journal.
oh, don't send your dirty linen for us to
wash. on have paper, why not print it
yourself. However, if you are ue1y anxious
to have US print it, we will do so on condition
that you furnish with it the particulars of that
bargain between you and the Jameson men,
and state exactly how much they gave you for
supporting him. Prog. Age.
This places the matter exactly where
we want it. After having given out that
some fearful disclosures were impending
in the contents of that letter, which was
represented as calamity hanging over
our head, the Age now acknowledges
that its Importance is so small as not to
be worth publication with a copy in its
hands! The wind is pretty we'll taken
out of that bag.
Now in regard to the Jameson matter
1t is we'll known that this paper supported
the war from its outbreak until the pro-
clamation abolishing slavery. Before that
measure was promua gated, President Lin
coin had stated in his message that he had
no right to interfere with that institution,
and no intention 70 do so. CONGRESS had
resolved tnat the .var was prosecuted for
no such object. When both turned their
backs on those declarations we said that
the war so conducted ought not to have
the support Of any Democrat, When the
time for the State Convention of 1861 ar
rived, it became evident that split was
to take place. The editor of this paper
did not attend the Dana Convention. No
one doubted that the journal would adj
vocate the election Of Jameson. Its
course had so maniiestly tended towards
it, that the matter was considered set tied
before the Jameson Convention was held.
The Age itself was SO certain of the posi-
ton which this paper would take, that in
ito 70 oft hn ~
before the appearance of the journal. it
said
The journal, of course will support Jameson
with all its might. 1t has denounced this re-
bellion in unmeasured terms it has eneourag-
en- enlistments with great earnestness, and re-
garded the vigorous prosecution of the war as
of vital Importance. 1t has even accused the
administration of inetficiency in its war policy
The journal has, moreover, always claimed 10
be Constitutional Union paper, ardently de-
voted to the stars and stripes, and ready to
follow them, sink or swim-suryve or per-
ish.'
1t would not if it could and could not if it
would now take the back track, aud show the
white feather in the face @ the enemy.
Now such an extract as this, following
the talk of the Age about being hired to
take the course we did, would oyerwhelm
with shame any one except the shameless
editor of that sheet His attack results
in nothing except as proving that by his
own. Statements he is lying fool, and a
foolish liar
VIII Congress, will the Cabinet, will
Gen. Grant, will everybody to whom is
committed the enactment and enforce
ment of the laws, and especially those
laws which provide for crushing out by
military force armed combinations against