, 1873-01-24
draft for s10, 600 for Mobiher stock which netted

| SCENE IN ColMITTEE-DooM.
| 10 young man concealed on sofa, ente
| Oakes Ames and John B. Alley, diligontl
! toedied By two newspaper-roporters.
| A1ne5 grunts, and fills . whole leather sofa
Alley takes chair, grunts, and slows away hi
Alley: "Oh, dear! Ames, knew that grea
heart Of yours would get you into trouble.
| knew that great heart Of yours would be ou
ruin told you that your generosity was tot
tell you SOP want these gentlemen TO heal
Anaes: foh, AlEcyl can't remember every.
thing you remind me Of. 7 believe you did Say
something Of that description"
Alley: "You hear him admit it, gentlemen.
Ali Mr.. Ames has a fooliah, noble heart, HI
wants to be doing good, even when it il danger
Gus to do so. That scoundre1 M'Comb nov
gloats in his distress. Mr.. AmcB ia peraecutei
hero, and, as have often said before, deserves
monument high a5 the shaft on Bunker Hill.
Here enters an old, whining Virginia railroad
Old Whinoy: s'Meister Ames, called to see
il you wasn't going to help mo out with your
subscription to tho Catoctin d Occoquau Rail.
road"
Amcs (very grutr): "No. Pretty time tc
ask mo for subscription. Go to ATConb.
Hos got plenty Of money. az running me.
believe hos friend Of yours7"
9ld wh!nsy M MI A%es Aa9ss5 dont III think ink
ElHulf OF MT. i'll CCu1D. At 1tIu5e4 u uEtp Liz
VAN Ame9: ,a9 Sn:eSRl "WRhatss that7 Mcomb's ID
acoundre1, is he? Alley, remember tlat!"
Alley =" Yes, Mr.. Ames, I believed, by look
ing at Nhinoy's intelligent head, that such must
es seoune h eP9a esnemdn eaSf tho sna
Ames: "Whine5, como around and see me to-
night. Maybe can let you have ten thousand
or SO, in your enterprise. But remember to To-
mark to your friends that, in Jour opinion,
M'Comb Is scoundrel."
The cost Of the public printing for 1872 WAS
81, ,802, ,343. OF the Report Of Agriculture, $780,
CTS copies wero issued !; OF the ku-klux Report
40, COO; and Of no other book moro than 5000
The blank books for the use Of tho Government,
printed and bound at this olico, cost alone
81 :03G, ,307.
The new State Department-one Of the most
costly and extensive edidces yet designed in this
country-makes already formidable showing,
and the basement and tirst-story elevations and
walls are up. This edifice will scarcely be we'll
under way before the rising cla1nors for ncT
White House will require an appropriation, and
it is, perhaps, as well to yield gracefully as to
ertlnablo and still submit. If another Executive
Mansion is to be built, let it be home on this
occasion, and not like the present edifce, noith-
er palace nor dwelling.
FRoat CHICAGO TO TIE CAPITAL.
Wo ore in tho midst Of competitive railroad
movements. Tho Baltimore j. Ohio corporation
ia at Georgetown with all it's englneer-corps,
looking for new route to the South, having
been cut OIL from tho Orange d Aozandria Rail
road by the Washington Board OF Public Works;
it proposes to bridge the Potomac at George
town, and make that growing suburb a station
between Baltimore and the South. This great,
Of above sis soc, ,6o6 last yoar, which was an in
crease OF above one million; and the Parkers-
burg Branch took 9827, 900. or twice as much as
tho Washington City Branch. Tho working e1-
panses were about So per cont, and the net earn
900. The sinking fund obliterated 3170, 900 Of
gold loan in London, aud 81, $50, 900 Of Delti-
more City loan, and the Company has
tho gigantic surplus Of $50, $4,000.
Only 9 per cent is divided, and the excess
latter steadily approach Chicago and New York.
Within eighteen months tho 260 miles of rail
will be laid between Plymouth, Ohio, and
Chicago,-thus reducing the di6tanco from Chi
cago to Washington to 784 miles, which will be
still further reduced by extending tile Pitts
About 800 miles Of this road are laid with steel
rails; and second grain-eleTator, with c=pa-
city OF 100000 bushels, is going up at Balti-
more.
politan Branch in the spring, 3 series Of remark
able hotels have just been fnlshed On the line Of
this road. amongst them is hotel at Cumber-
land, lao feet by 81, four stories high, and with
3 dining room for 400 persons the edifico has
already cost 9220, 900. At Deer Park, in the
Alleghenies new railway mounting-house
has been put up, ITO feet by 100. At
Piedmont and at the Relay House also
new hotels are founded, not excel1ed by any
railways in the country. This Company is at
last working in earnest to carry the bulk OF the
Western travel, and its new appointments, meal
stations, ETC., Will amaze any person who has not
recently passed over the road.
The town of Cumberland, Maryland, is assum-
ing an Importance strange to it,; two new rail
Ways are approaching her from the East and
North, and It became the junction OF the Pitts
Durgh Road aud Baltimore & Ohio main stem
only two years ago. GATH