The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1871-08-17

dHt evening / read al 0HinaNr Aaete
Rock. and Deer Knoll, and the cool
waters of Batteukiu are more gftat.ul
+ 70 memory and sense than Is tbc mighty
Mississippi now famous in history
/ and song Perhaps ia years TO come
+ shall De able to recognize my birth.
place only by ia name. tut /, for one,
shall welcome every Improvement how
much SO ever / may miss the old
landmarks that were TO my recollection
fastening to decay.
Your Published account Of the Re
Union Of the Seminary Students, ]
read with great interest, sorry, OF
course, that / could not have been
there, but glad Of an opportunity to
observe il through this medium, while
at so great a distance and yet not SD
far. BY the triumphs of art it is al
ready nearer than ever before and
who knows what wonderful invention
may yet enable us to compass the
space between the Green Mountains
aud this great river within the number
Of hours that now separate adjoining
towns Of your country
Greater wonders than this are now
common place matters,
After tribulations and uncertainties
without number, again our railroad ap.
proachcs It's day Of triumph, even now
/ the track.aycrs are ON hand awaiting
the arrival of the first boat load of iron
/ that, when laid, assure the least hope.
I ful among us that the road is an ac-
complishcd fact. Under bonds to have
at least twenty-five miles ofthc road in
running order by the lst of December
Of the present year, it is hoped that
even more than this will be done. But
so much accomplished and according
to the contract, the franchise, road bed
furniture and Cape Girardeau city
bonds, now the property of the Cape
Girardeau & State Line Railroad, be-
come vested in the illinois, Missouri
and Texas Railroad Company" and it
is very probable that this name will
give way to yet another, signifying
further connection east and west, look
/ ing to the establishment Of another
great iron highway spanning the con-
tinent. Besides this road another com
pany has been organized, aud the FIRST
installmeIt paid in, to build a narrow
gauge railroad not to exceed three feet
gauge, to run northwest to Ironton,
thence to Fort Scott, Kansas,
The preliminary survey, reports a
most favorable route, with uncommon
prospects Of paying business and
liberal dividends from the first
Our public school matters have ney-
er looked so lourishing as at present.
In 1867, Board of Education was or
ganized in this city under the statute,
and the first attempts made to move in
the right direction towards establishing
free school. Raised as your cores
pondent was, where free schools are
the glory of the hccommouwealth, he was
much surprised at the bitterness Of OPP
position such establishment called
forth. Withfully one third Of our pop
ulation Roman Catholics and many Of
these Republicans, the free school
men here, generally Republicans, Of
course, shrunk from the hazard TO po-
litical prospects incurred by a too
strong advocacy Of the free school
movement. SO the thing has been
worked along, our free school poIiti-
clans sailing as close to the wind as
possible, till working majority can,
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