, 1873-03-21
WASHINGTON.
Railroad Points---Wew Chances
for Trunk Lines.
Senator Stookton's Position in the
Case Of Oaldwoll.
Logan rs Mctnnlor4, --- Ozro j.
Dodtlg---C0llnx.
From Our O,c1i Correspondent.
NAs1s1SuToE, March 10, 1879.

From Our O.c,, Correspondent,
NAsn1NuToE, March 10, 1879. |
RAILROAD li1STs.
Since tho Chesapeake Il Ohio Railroad has |
been completed, public attention is called to |
three lines which hayo penetrated tho country |
from tho aea-ooast, and may be mndo available.
BY their extensions, for threo new trunk-liuos to
the heart Of tho Woet. Those arc tho RoHding |
Railroad OF Pennsylvania, with outlotn nt New
York, Philadelphia, nna Chester; tho Western
Maryland Railroad, which Is completed to l1a-
-yorstown, with IN outlot to Baltimore md tho
Washington & Ohio Railroad, with outlets at
Alexandria aud Washington, md ultimately ut
Annapolis md Point Lookout. To ta}o
these rouds rcvorsoly, rs / havo stated
thom, tile Washington Il Ohio oxtonda woll
along towa:a tue 6hnnandoal,, or about 50 milos
from deep Underwater. It's liabilities aro about
100000. II extended, It's whole longth would
be TO miloa to Chicago. Its proposed terminus
at prescut is Tho mouth OF tho Kauawl,a Nivor,
1876 lnilos from Washington. Coaf, iron, oil,
aoti timber ayo rich On the proposed limo Of this
extension; thoro is good wntor OH tile Potomac ;
, and, if tho limo wcre developed to tho CaoBa-
poake Mt Annapolis OF Point Lookout, those
points would experience q rojuvonation.
Experience shows TINT tho trunk-nca
which grow richcat with tho Ecnst
snlurgo aro those Which pcrrnoato
fuel a,ld mineral bolts, whereby tho railroad digR
its n,otiyo-powor out Of its own cuttings md
makus traffic on tho limo Of Nny M manufactures
spring up. The Now York Central Road, lying
outside Of the mineral belt, coats worry much
moro to operate than tho Pennsylvania nlll tho
Baltimore d Ohio. Nobody doubts in this
quarter that tic Chesapeake & Ohio Road will
bo sterling auccoRs, because, aftor It leaves tho
Ohio River coming eastward, 1t will operate It,
SELF. It's President, Huntington, is Of the same
opinion, for Ito is willing to part with his Contral
Pacific stock in ordor to keep Ills Chesapeake.
I havo Expressed tho opinion, in your columns,
Yor five years, TINT the Chesapeake
Bay is destined to DO the great port OF tho in-
terror; and bolioye, ut tho present momcnt,
thut tho Baltimore & Ohio Road, notwithstanding
its ponurious management, is on safer fonnda-
tiona than any trrnk-lino in the country, and
most nblo to outlivc = great financial crash. Tho
little beginning called tho Washington l. Ohio
Road will yet attract tho attention Of capitalists,
who will rout tho present provincial MANAGE
1nent, and carry this limo on to tho Ohio. Thoro
is no harbor In tho country superior to Annap-
oils, which is tllo natural port Of Washington
Round Bay, o pool Of the sevorn River, 7
miles from Annapolis, IL O natural
pool for slips, III safe us Now York harbor. In
tlleso days, when thore is demand for increased
transportation to tho East, lot these n,attcra DO
looked into.
Tho Western Maryland Railroad Is built vest
ward from naltloro. alouy the Pennsylvania
line, to HaGeratoUu, h distance or ~
miles. Tho country 1t traTorses is old, frugal,
and very well-to-lo. Now Workers. haYo already
ceat coyctouH eyea 1pon this railway, which
might possibly mako lis eastward continuation
Tho Philadelphia & Baltimore Road. and also
gobblo up tho new lnootcd railway to the mouth
Of tho Patuxcnt. This rona Inns accomplished
Striking distance of oum6srlantl ana tho
coal-tields. Tho Baltimore j. Ohio Road Is 1eal-
o,,h OF it, aud wiyhea to lead it of toward Tho
oil-resiona Of pennsylynnia; Or somewhere to to
got to tho Blue Ridge from tho coast is like
Ii. Denis first step with his head underhis arm !;
1t is half tho journey. Tho great railroad man
In the Enut says: "Let mo build railway
through tho country to tl!o wheat-tlelas, and I
care not who u1a!sos its laws"
POINT.
Thomas Donton introduced o bill in Decembor,
1925, to dispense with the Electoral College, and
James T. Pol. supported it. Thus Mr.. Morton's
recent reform is merely tho revival Of IN old
Democratic proposition.
Amongst the qunai
DEFENDERS OF CALDWELL
was Senator Stockton, Of New Jcrsoy, who was
cruolly rejected from the Senate several years
ago In order to give tho Republican party q
working two-thirds to convict Andrew johnson
In case lo should bo i5npeachcd. There was no
other reaaon ut tho tiiao for thus rejecting d
man legally elected by proper Legislature, aud
the preteao on which Stockton waa deprived Of
his seat was, that ma jority Of tLq Legislature
had not been in their places at tho time tho olcc-
tion wns nlado It being patent that, iu tho
lapse Of tiuo which, lad succeeded liB election,
there was Republican Legislature in Now Jer~
eey, it was thought to be q smart party trick
oput him out, With tho certainty, III the vista,
Of his defeat. To accomplish this result, dis
graceful at law and morals, Senator Lot Morrill,.
Of Maino, VAS mede a,i instrument. Tho conso-
auonco was, tllGt Stockton came back to tho Sem
ate in duo time, and tho matter Of bis rejection
worked lnorbid1y upon lin, so that lle now occu-
pies, on that score chiefly, the anomalous posi-,
fion Of escupn.ing Caldwell on tho ground that
the Senate has no right to 50 back Of the an.
tor Of tho sIato to th aend oaa sSoa1or M
partisan legislation ; they spring up TO-
day to mock yesterday, and therefore
In the interval wo behold thls change to hayt
- PATTERSON an worthy Of expulsion, aud Caldwell
no less guilty, wllilo Stockton, burning under biz
old injuries, makes legal disquisition, ontenai
bly, directed Mt tho case Of Caldwell, but realll
reviewing lis own case. It is understood hor.
/. That, aftor Stockton mado this speech, ha fol
that even Lis anmus would not suffice to excuse
him in lottins Caldwell 60, and therefore, u
s h1 s as Of II "a a1op of o SSxpp
sion OF Caldwell, but not voting.
THE HON. JollS LOGAN
has malo tho great spooch Of Lis life. Fow MOI
new in the Senate would havo conceived liz fin
literary joke, which wab to embrace all thcso lat
tnonatroua defonnoH Of bribery aud corruption
and nurl them upon Tho predominant maiorit
p, In tho form OF splendid satire. haye read al
the speech which did not hear, and. althoug
It REQUIRED sons time to 1unslor tho idea, I al
now convinced that nln the only person vii
has fully apnrollendel 1t. To tho Huperiei1
pyo. it iooka like q defonse Of bribery and col
rnpitlon; aud uomo hayo oyon said TINT
was brief in favor Of Caldwell
A deepcr introspection will convins
tho flno literary mind that this effort was rcn
IN e1quinito paraplraso of tho upooclcg Of Son
tor Nyo, JOHN a. Bingham, Daniel ": Yoorhoe
md othorB who iiati, with such labor aud pain
mndo corruption tlefcnsiblo in tho two llonHoa
Congrobs, Tho manner of 1Ir. Logau, In delivo
u,.o.1. ,ro., fnll. In, onn9otn1Irn wi