Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22
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Baltimore and Potomac Railroad.


Ar. Eaitor:-Having had the pleasure of late
ly viewing the work upon this in portant struc-
ture of internal improvement in our midst,
am glad to be able to give your readers so en-
couraging an account Of its speedy completion
through our county to Pope's Creek on the
Potomac Standing upon the hills surround
ing and overlooking Pope's Creek, where we
were wont to listen, in days gone by, to the
merry cry of the hounds and the sound of the
huntsman's horn reverberating amid these
noted cliffs, we gazed upon the iron horse in
stead, and his snort, as he moved over the track
already laid some two miles from the river,
conveying material admonished me that the
B. & P. R. R. was, indeed, no myth, but liv-
ing, moving thing, which, ere long, would
convey us and all we might wish to transport,
wherever we would, with rather more ease than
plunging through mud to the hub of our four
horse vehicles. The elements do indeed deter,
and what is it they have not deferred the past
severe winter; but can assure you the work
is steadily progressing, and they who would
yet scout the idea of the B. l. P. R. R. ever
running through Charles county, should re-
pair to Pope's Greek and see there what have
seen, and if they still cry, "We don't believe, +"
then all l can say is, "Help Thou their unbe-
lief"
| also hear it intimated that because, for
sooth, the Company may not be able to COM
plete one-half of the road in the county, under
their contract, by the middle of April, from
the causes aforesaid, that our County Commits
sioners will be urged to withhold the balance
of the Internal Improvement Fund loaned the
county by the State of Maryland, and already
granted, under conditions, by them to the Com
pany. Now, from the light have been able
to obtain without further interruption, there
will certainly be nothing to prevent an entire
completion of track-laying by the first or mid
die of May. And hope no one will act so alb
surdly as to try to make our Commissioners
break their plight upon such trivial grounds,
after seeing that all is being done that could be
towards a fulfllment of the contract by the
Company.
| They argue, understand, that the Company
are bound to build the road any how, and 1--WE
can save the balance to appropriate to some
other work" I would ask, that grant the
Commissioners shall, upon this bubble of an
excuse-and it is nothing more-withhold this
balance, where will they put it? Under the
law granting the loan-and it is nothing more
than a loan-we are compelled ITO appropriate
it to some corporate body" which is construct
| ing its work of internal improvement in our
county. Now, where is that other corporation
at work within our limits, or likely to be7 l
hear some say, give it to the Southern Mary
land Railroad. Now there are none who desire
to see the success of this proposed road more
| than do; and if it had been feasible, as was
then urged, portion of this fund would have
been granted to the Southern Maryland at the
time it was given to the B. & P. R. R. But
| can see no better reason now, that the South
ern Maryland will be built; by the parties who
have it in hand than then.
would say to our people again, break not
your plight with those who are trying.to do
us good, yea, and really at no expense to US;
but hold fast to the old adage, "a bird in the
hand is worth two IN the bush;" and what is
far greater and nobler still, preserve the honor,
dignity, purity and plighted faith of our good
old county unsullied. PoToMAc.