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Bank Robbery .—The Connecticut River Bank
lit Cliarlesto w n , N. II. wa* rohK d dun g the ni"ht
of Tuesday, 12l h inst., —o f SI 1.750, viz: $28Oo"in
¦rol d coin , mosil y American ; SlpOO iu silver; S-5,-
5U 0 111 bills ol' the. Connecticut River Hank: 'S30C
in liilis ol the Cbiienimit Bati k , mid 1550 in bills of
oilier banks. The. door of the banking room was
opened by means of false keys , as was also the outer
>!oor of the safe ; but gunpowder was successfully
app lied to the inner door of the safe. About 5 o'clock
in the inorninc of Wednesday, a Mr. Gee, living in
Tvla rlow , (t he second town eafalsel y chaiged. We never desire it—we al-
ways dread it. ! But we have never yet shrunk from
it, when we were attacked , belied , traduced and vil-
lified , (as we are , almost constantl y) by one or the
other of the newspapers on either hand , or by
some villanous mousing scoundrel in the service of
some of the various political cliques or monied cor-
porations by which we are surrounded , and to
whom our independent course, as a publisher , is an
annoyance. And however unp leasant it may be to
us, they may allsbe well assured , that they shall
never abuse and misrepresent and defame us, and
toe remain silent ;—and when we are forced to f ight ,
we always have , and shall hereafter continue to
consider it a perfectly legitimate part of such war-
fare to carry it into their own camp. We do not
forget intkntional abuse of ourself—nor for give
it , until some evidence is given us, that it will not
be renewed upon the first opportunity.
So much , preliminary to our consideration of the
renewal of the attacks upon us now , by t he Regis-
ter on one hand , and the Observer on the. other ,with
reference to the subj ects at the head of this article.
In giving its readers the doings at the Rail Road
meeting last week , the Register sees fit to make the
following assertion :
''Mr. Sturgis full y and unequivocall y denied the
correctness of the report, that had been circulated
in the public prints or elsewhere , that he was or had
been guaranteed or paid six per cent, interest on
his stock."
There can be no mi stake that the Register in-
tended its readers to apply this assertion to the Pal-
riot —that they should believe that "Mr. Sturg is/tu/-
ly and unequivocally denied the correctness of the re-
p ort'' as the Patriot had "circulated '1 it. If that
was the Register 's intent—then we declare its assei-
t ion , above , a direct and absolute FALSE-
HOOD ! And if that was not its intention— then
(whatever it did intend) we declare the above par-
agraph to be.positively and wholly fa lse.—having no
foundat ion whatever , in truth .
' Mr. Sturg is made
no such denial ! He did not state that he was notj
or had not been guaranteed on his stock ! Mr.
Sturgis ' statement , as far as it went , teas "une quiv-
ocal"—It nped not have been misunderstood ;—and ,
as the editor of the Register was present , and heard
it , it requires a large share of charity to believe ,that
his grossly false version of it , quoted above , was not
made thus false with deliberation , and with intent
lo misrepresent the Patriot.
The Patriot has stated , repeatedl y, that Mr. Stur-
gis was guarantied —and Mr. Sturg is has never deni-
ed it. The Patriot lias stated , that the Use made of
the subscri ption of Mr. Sturg is for so large a number
of shares , without , at the same tim e Mating the con-
ditions upon which he so subscribed—was a FRAUD
upon tub people; of tfi f. Capk and upon an-
other Boston stockholder , practiced by those making
such use of it , while knowin g those conditions !—
That, the Patriot now reasserts. The Patriot has
repeatedl y asserted , that one of ihe,present Directors
of the Road , did make app lication to a then co-Di-
rector , stating in substance , that the "Rail Road
Company was to make him good—was to assume the
guaranty —or words to that effect "—and that "that
co-Director promptly declined to entertain the prop o-
sition—and therefor incurred the hostility of the pro-
poser."
All this the Patriot now reasserts , and defies con.
tradiction I Mr. Slurg is has not contradicted o word
o
f it! Mr. President Page in hi* furious disp lay of
his eloquent indignatio n upon this subj ect, never de-
nied a word of it-— dared not deny a word of it! We
therefore pronounce the whole of the Register's
statement above quoted FALSE I And we await
its explanation
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There is a way in which the Rag"-
Tliat " tiuaiiiHt y" Those " Freight
rn rs.
"
iiter can be fair and candid , and just towards the
Patriot. It may be so, or it may not , as it pleases.
Now , for Those "Freight Cars."
We are obli ged lo copy the whole of the following
article from the Sandwich Observer :—
"We were not so fortunate as to be present at the
late meetin g of the. stockholders of _ the Cape Cod
Branch Rail Road , and of course in jud ging of the
proceedings we are obli ged to depend upon the tes
timony of others. From the accounts which we
have heard , however , we cannot but regret our ab-
sence . AVe wish that all the stockholders , ami all
that in any degree sympathize in the feelings of the
w riters for the Patriot , had been there, They would
have seen and been convinced who were the. au-
thors of the hundred and one. slanders that have ap-
peared in that paper. However , there was a goodl y
number of witnesses present , and for this we cannot
>ul be th ankful.
We are assured , too, that our own course has been
sustained ; that all we have said in regard .to the
Road has proved lo be true ; that it needs no quali-
fication, no exp lanation. Tins is gratif y ing, inasmuch
as the positi ve manner in which our statements were
called in question , undoubtedl y h d some lo suspect
;he correctness of our position ; thoug h probabl y
having a contrary effect on the minds of thu major-
ity of readers."
We are grieved to have fo notice the Observer at
all. We had hoped to have no further controversy
with it , for various reasons. And now , in consider-
ation that its editor confesses he was absent from the
meeting, we are disposed onl y to chide his impru-
dence , in venturing to write the above upon hearsay
evidence—to thus refer to "the writers for the Pat-
riot." We. never feel under any obli gation to de-
fend our coiTespondents. So far as the Observer
refers to them therefore , we have onl y lo reniatk ,
that we listened attentivel y to all tha t was said and
done , at the meeting—and we did not observe that
any important statement of any of them , was contra-
dicted by a ny bod y. If the Observer knew of any
such thing, it was bound lo particularize ,and not in-
clude all "the writers for the Patriot 1' among the au-
thors of "the hundred and one slanders " which it
modestly says have appeared in this paper.
Bu t we will set the mistaken young man right
about his "own course being sustained ," so far as the
'•Frei ght Car " controversy was concerned.
The statement we made respecting the purchase
of Cars at Worcester by Mr. President Page, was .so
often repeated by us—so elaboratel y anil speci ficall y
set forth—and the issue with that gent leman and
wit h the Observer was so distinctl y made up, that it
can hardl y have, been forgotten by any reader of
t his paper. We slatW that "he went to Worcester
and boug ht cars , pay ing f i
fty dollars more each car,
t han he could have bought the Sandwich built Cars
for on his own Road." Upon this state ment the
Observer gave us the lie direct —and said it had Mr.
Page 's authority for doing so. ,- We called on Mr.
Page, repeatedl y to acknowled ge that ; and invited
him to make the statement himself if he dared , and
wo would fasten the lie upon him, by proof which he
cou ld not resist ! We could never hear from Mr. Page
direct—but the Observer quibbled , and squirmed ,
and at last dropped the subject.
At the meeting last Wednesday, the "prompter''
of the day, Capt. Walter , called u p Mr. President
Page on the subject of the purchase of Cars. And
t hen , we expected , of course, he would meet the
question of veracity between himself and the Patriot
—and we were prepared for it. Had he made a sin-
gle contradict ion of what we had stated and the Ob-
server had pretended to give us the lie upon , on Jiis
authority, we had the proofs in our pocket lo have
fastened the lie. up on him—and we would have done
it—and we will do it now, at. any time, when he will
deny what we stated respecting the purchase1 of t hose
Cars !
lie did not touch the issue we made. He did
not contradict any statement we had made—He did
not«*-'snsta in " t he, .Observer 's statement about the
Cars. He was awfull y denu nciatory of "the rumors'1
—fur iousl y severe upon "certain newspapers"—but
he was particularl y careful not to contradict our
statement about his purchase of Cars, in the least I—
He seriousl y belabored the deacon 's seat , in front ol
him , with his knuckles , and pompously related the
stor y of his going to Won ester to buy cars ; and
was most especiall y carefu l to tel l how much less he
bought t hem for,than Cars had been bought at Sand-
wi< h two years before
—but he was as particularl y
careful not to deny that he cou ld have boug ht
them then, at Sandwich , for $50 less each car than
he paid at Worcester !
His eloquent sneers at the Sandwich Car manufac-
turers—and his comparison of the Worcester Cars of
18i9, with the. first cars built at Sandwich , years be-
fore, were worthy of him—and they served his pur-
pose—but he didn 't dare compare his Worcester Cars
of 1849, with the Sandwich Cars of 1849, wh ich he
could hav e bought f or 850 less.
The Observer may endorse those sneers ; approve
his lawyer-like quibbling, and the mean disparage-
ment of its own , Sandwich , manufacturers bv a New
Bedford lawyer , if it will. So long as he dare not
deny what we asserted , and the Observer said he
"author ized" it to contradict —it need not say that it
"has been sustained" by Mr. President Page.
Much ol the foregoing will answer for reply also
to the Register upon this same subject—if that paper
had any reference to that subject, in the following :
"Mr. Page,also,in behalf of the Directors, promptl y
met and nailed to the counter a brood of calumn ies
that have been industriousl y circulated in certain
quarters for the past year."
In closing this article—which we intended to have
made much more brivf—we will onl y add , that , as
Mr. Sturg is knew how far it was proper for him to
go in his statement — in order as he said to put him-
self in right position before the stockholders —we
have no comp laint to ma ke that he went no farther.
But we know how far he did go—and our statement
of it is confirmed to us, by three honorable men , to
whom Mr. S. has repeated the statement, since the
meeting at Middleboro'. For his reall y comp liment -
ary mention of the Patriot , at the meeting ; and for
his correct ascri ption to ourself of a sincere and earn-
est desire for the pro sperity of the Road , he shall re-
ceive our than ks.
I^-The packet sloop Mail , Capt. Crocker, will
leave this harbor on the morning of the Fourth of
Jul y, to ta ke a party of ladies and gentlemen to
Provincetown ,'affording an opportunity to all who
desire it , for a pleasant excursion.
Cabk Cod Express.— Every body speaks in
the highest terms of praise of the promp t and effi-
cient manner with which all the business of the
Cape Cod Express is accomp lished. Whenever
an y t hing is committed to its care , it is sure to be
done,faithfully as well as promptl y, and we hope
our cit izens will not fail to give it what it so richl y
deserves—a liberal patronage. AVe speak because.
we do know.
Robbery of tub Charlestown, N.H. Bank
It is stated that the reason wh y the Larneds left
their horse and wagon in the road at Marlowj was
to hide some of t heir burg lar tools. The mare
strayed away. and they borrowed lights of the resi-
dents to find her, but did not succeed
Clam Bake.—The Temperance Meeting and
Clam Bake at Cohasset Narrows last Friday, wa s a
grand affair. Win. A. White , Esq., of Wareham ,
was President of the day. The meeting was abl y
addressed by Phili p S. White , of Ponnsy lvania ;
Rev. M r. Stearns , of Barnstable ; M r. Hatfield , of
New Bedford ; Messrs. Wells and Sanger , of Sand-
wich , and Rev. R. S. Pope, of Hyannis. The Sand-
wich Brass Band furnished most excellent music—
and the day passed off' with great satisfaction to the
numerous assembl y present.
Mr. King, the efficient Conductor of the Cape
Cod cars, was as gentlemgnl y as ever on this occa-
sion , and all who were placed under his care were
satisfied that there was not his equal in the Old
Colony.
S3TA gran': Rail Road Jubilee will come off at
Burlington , Vt. to- day, under the diiection of fifty
citizens ol Burlington. An immense procession is
expected to be present , which will move at 2 o'clock
P. M. from the Park , to the Public grounds of the
Encampment where the spacious Pavilion of Mr. Jno.
Wri ght of Boston has been erected. On the arrival
of the procession at the Pavilion a National salute will
be fired at the Battery. Mr. Wri ght has prepared in
his usual sumptuous manner , sufficient accommoda-
tions to seat 4000 persons at the tables. We regret
that we could not accept of the polite invitation
which has been extended to us, to be present on
this occasion. Mr. Wtight too , has our thanks for
his comp limentar y ticket to attend the ball in- the
evenitiL '.
KJg 'irorC Joseph Grinnell , our very attent ive M.
C. from this Distric t , has our acknowledgments for
the recei pt of a copy of Mr. Benton 's ant i-comprom-
ise, speech in the TJ.£. Senate on the 10th iust.
The Charlestown Robbery.—We are in-
formed by officer Churchill , says the Boston Bee ol
Monday, that the brot hers Learned were arrested in
Worcester , on Saturday , on susp icion of being the
robbers of the Charlestown , N. II., Bank.
Anothet "Guaranty . ''— Barker is the fellow
for fun. He told the meeling at Middleb oro' of a
new guaranty. He said that "Zeno Scudder had
guarant ied Freeman C. Tobey six per cent interest
on one share" of the Rail Road stock.
Launch.—The beautiful shi p Revenue, of 550
tons burthen , now on the stoc ks at East Dennis ,will
be launched on the lllh day of Jul y, at 12 o'clock
M. She is decidedl y one of the most elegant
shi ps ever bu ilt in this County, and does great cred-
it lo her builders , Messrs. David and Asa Shiverick.
She is owned by t hat prince of shi pmasters, Capt.
Christop her Hall , and will be commanded by Capt,
Seth Crowull , Jr., of Dennis.
Oak Hall.— Summer Garments , of every sty le
and quality, are sel ling at the lowest prices at this
establishment. An opportun ity is presented for the
best of bargains . Our readers will find it for their
interest to visit this oreat establishment.
Picture Frames.—Al l who want plain and or-
namental Picture Frames, will find at the establish-
ment of Mr. W. Y. Baleh , 10 Tremont Row, Bos-
ton , one of the richest and best assortments in the
city. His patterns are of the most improved kind ,
and none can fail to be satisfied who patronize him.
Fie devotes much of his time to the making of
frames for the Art Union Engravings , and also
keeps Paintings for sale, done by some of the best
Artists in the country. Call upon him.
liiTHigh Constable Hayes died in New York on
Friday last.
Union of the N. Y. Democracy.—The Alba-
ny Atlas of Monday contains a call for a Democrat-
ic Stale. Convention , lobe held a< Syracuse on the
11t h of September next , for the purpose of nomin-
at ing a ticket for State Officers which shall receive
the sup port of both branches of the party. The call
is signed by t he Hunker Chairman of the State com-
mittee , and the Barnburner Chairman of the last
Legislative Caucus. •
The New York Herald says that Mr. Paine is
now at t he Astor House , in that city, and has de-
clared , in direct and unequivocal tetuis , t hat he will
light that estab lishment , by means of his new in-
vent ion , by the Fourth of Jul y next.
The New Orleans Picayune gives accoun ts of
muc h destruction of property by var ious crevasses.
A young lad y thus writes anonymous ly in the
columns of nu Irish paper: "For my own part , 1
con fess that the desiie of my heart and my con-
stant prayer is, that I may be blessed with a good
and affectionate husband , and thai I may be a good
and affectionate wife and molher . Should I be de-
n ied this , I hope for grace to resign myself—but I
fear it will be a hard trial to me."
We,learn from the Edgartown Gazette that the
County Commissioners have nearl y com pleted the
survey for a new road between Edgartown and
Holmes Hole. They will shortl y present a report
as to the most feasable route.
Dr. I. II. Lucas, of Edgartown , has been appoint-
ed one of the Counsellors of the Massachusetts Med-
ical Society.
Edward Lockwood was drowned while bathing at
Hunt 's Falls, Lowell. He was 30 years old , and
leaves a famil y in Eng land .
The population of Nantuckef , as ascertained by
the new Census , is 8,779 ,showing a decrease the. last
ten years of 233. We are sorry to find our island
neighbors diminishin g in number , notwithstandin g
that it has probabl y proved a gain to other portions
of the State. We should not be greatl y surprised
at t he enactment of a By-Law by "the fathers" at
Nan tuekct , prohibiting the transmission of her
daug hters as wives to other parts.
The yellow fever still continu es to prevail at Rio
and hundreds die dail y; the. shops are closed , and
business is suspended. A great many of the most
distinguished citizen s have been carried off.
The Belfast Journal says: By a letter from Capt.
D. D. Carl ton , of bri g San Jacinto , dated at Val pa-
raiso , we learn that on his passage from Rio to that
port , the 10th day out , on the 13th of February, Mr.
Cobb, his mate , was lost overboard. He was stand-
'ng on the martingale backropes , in the act of har-
pooning a porpoise , when the line tri pped him ; the
bri g was hove to , the boat lowered , but nothing af-
terwards was seen of him. Mr. Cobb was a native
of North Bncksport.
Capt. Carlton spoke !he Win. O. Alden off Cape
Horn , and took one of her seamen on board.
The new Wire Lattice Brid ge at Mempris ,Tenn.,
fell on the 12th inst., with a tremendous crash .killin g
six span of horses, and seriousl y injuring two men.
Loss $13,000.
The Law—asain '
The Yarmouth Register is "authorized to s
Mr. Bacon never asked the appointme nt of p.. *'
Niekerson E.-q. to the office of Inspector ,
>'
appointed Mr. N. InspectoMoirtou* asking
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nn,^"'
"by letter to the Secretary of the Treasury date,] 1"*"
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28th 1843," in
formed the Secretary that he had **
po inted Mr. Niekerson ! That is the.di
ffere
*° °P>
M r. Bacon , Deputy Small , and Deputy Small
''"^
gan , the Register , are entitled to the advani
'^
their statement over ours ! AVe cheerfully f' ^
fore make the foregoing, most im
portant coi-
' t
1
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in order to give them the full advantage of it I
l0il
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Our readers will see what small, and quibbV
sorts , ihe Register and its backers ,in its attack
8*
"the late Collector "—w hich it was expectp<] " ¦
create such a terrible sensation hereabout
cornered into 1 r
°
The astounding discovery, of the fact tllat ,1
was an "additional Inspector '' appointed by tl '* '
Collector—that the salaries of the Officers of *
'
District were raised by him , or through his ao
to something like half what similar officers havp I ^'
received in other Districts—which discovery "i ?
said ,caused our friend the Cashier to jump and sK *
and froth and actuall y to lurn a summerset , for - '
that now the. time had coine for him and his t>in,n ^ '
"write Phinney down at any rate ;"—this wonder
0
development , has dwindled down now , to one or
very, very simp le points of controversy ; nn(i ,
poor Amos,and his associate plotters against uSv
much in the condition of Ihe over-zealous old h(i t • >•
when he found out after cuttin g up very sjln -i ',
shines, that he hadn 't been listening to the i»r
Wh itefield' s preaching, but had rolled himself h« '-
in the filth for nothing, after all !
The precious confessions of Mr. Collector Bnp0
or Mr. Deputy Small , or both of them , or whie), s
'
ever of them "authorized" ihe Register to pnM" 1
those confessions , will hel p us very briefl y to
Smalt, Pox.—There were thirteen deaths W
small pox in Boston last week.
In Taunton the disease is quite prevalent. O"16
young man died of the disease last week , aftf "
n
illness of two weeks. Several of the children in °
pe
of the public schools, at the Wear Village,have b>'f«
attacke d with the varioloid. One member of '' _
Board of Health has been afflicted with the l'lttel
disease, as we are infoi xnod.— [N. Bedford Sts'1"1
! THE PATRIOT.
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; BARNSTABiS :
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"I Tuesday, June 25, 18-50.
The annual meeting above named was held at
Middleboro ', last Wednesday. A friend at Boston
kindl y forwarded to us by express , the evening
previous , a certificat e of one share of the stock of this
¦
corporation (constitutin g us a member thereof) and ,
; feeling the importance of immediatel y looking after
' ! our new interest , we determ ined to attend the annu-
al meeting next morning ;
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""1 we "ere '"-hl
-v
- gratified with our tr i p, »nd will endeavor to give
' our readers a brief report of proceedings at the
'! meeting. As we are now a stockholder , and shall
[! cont inue to hold our one share until we. have , reason
¦' to appr ehend that an assessment is coming, we hope
i we may find more favor , in the sight of our breth-
ren of the corporation , than we have hitherto , while
'I onl y an "outsider !"—and that we shall be allowed
more freedom of comment upon its proceedings and
- prospects ; considering that our own interest is now
involved in the (ate of the road.
, Well , our meeting was organized in the usual
) manner , our worth y President Page in the chair.—
> The Annual Report of our Directors was submitte d ;
it had been previousl y printed and circulated , and
without leadin g, it was accepted by ihe meeting.
1 [Wemust defe r an abstract of il till another week.]
Elkction of Diuectous.—The company very
. wisel y adopted our recommendatio n, of the two or
, three wee ks past , and re-elected the old board of
s Directors—thus securing the comp letion of the
" mea.Mircs of reform so abl y comnieni o-d and so suc-
, cessfully prosecuted during the last year !
Then conimenceil , what some of our cotempora-
ries call "a desultory debate on top ics suggested by
the report of the Directors "—as also on some other
"to pics ," su ggeste d by our friend Barker ('rocker ,
ihe general agent ol the Dy ke Corporation ; and
by our other friend Capt. Walter Crocker ; which
"top ics" were not treated of in the Report ! But it
all hel ped to keep the company in the best of humor.
Barker 's hits were , some of them cap ital . Ca pt.
Walter 's too, were characterized by his usual exhi-
bition of civility and profu ndity—particular l y his
refe rence to the "newspapers ;"—and had we not
been present , it mi ght have been thoug ht that he
aimed some of his sallies at ihe Patriot. And even
as it was , his sneer at the editors who publish "much
merel y to fill up their- paper s " t hat "nobody lakes
pains to read "—even this very smart sarcasm , we
not iced , threw a peculiar smile over the meeting, as
if each was say ing, to himself , "we do remember
some thin gs the Patriot has published , by order of
the gallant . Captain (which he had to pay the Patriot
for publishing too, beside some other smart pay ing
in the same connexion) such as hh public confession
ihat he had "slandered one of his worthy neighbors !"
It was plain that the audience had taken pains to
read so much of what the Patriot had published 1
Beside this sort of ep isodical by-play—carried on
chiefl y by the two Messrs. Crocker from West Barn-
stable—there was some oilier desultory debate ,more
instructive. Hon. Win. Slurg is from Boston [alter
having "defined his position ," particularl y with refer-
ence lo the famous "guaranty '' topic; which we have
noticed in a separate article] gave some very intelli-
gible and instructive statements respecting the cost
of transportation of freight over the road—demon
atmling, very clearl y, that the Directors last year
had run their frei ght traiws 17,400 miles for noth-
ing ! And indeed , we believe , eve ry bod y was sat-
isfied from his statements , .that all ihe frei ghting ol
last year had been done for less than nothing—every
bod y but our worth y President , who seemed to be
terribl y oblivious on this and sundry other matters ,
on which he was called on for inform ation not fur-
nished in the Report , and for ex
p lanations of what
was in it ! He couldn 't tell what it did cost to run
(he. fieig ht (rains per mile , althou g h the Repoi t jjre-
tends to give it. He excused himself , on the groimd-
that the time was tao short (from the 1st to the 19th
of June) to find out certain particulars of considera-
ble consequence. Some questions he pretended to
a nswer, and some he refused to;—some papers, he,
couldn 't fin d (thoug h he rummaged his green bag in
apparent search for them) but preferred to give his
nolion of their dates and content.-, from recollec-
tion !—which recollection proved a traitor some-
times ; as w hen he snapp ishl y gave the contradic-
tion to a true statement relative to the amount paid
by our road to other roads, made by a stockholder
who owns over 100 shares of our stock (and who was
anxiousl y inqu iring lor information , as he (leclared ,
with a view to ascertain if possible the value of his
property) and which contradi ction he had subse-
quentl y to contradict , himsel
f. And here we take the
liberty lo say, that the tetchy , snarlish treatment of
the large stockholder aforesaid , by our President ,
was , in our own vie.w, more befittin g a petlifogg ing
lawyer in a contest with one o
f his own class, in a Po-
lice Court, than a gentleman President of a corpora-
tion , towards one of its largest stockholders and ear-
liest and constant friends. A President who can 't
put off the quibble and contenti on of the lawyer for
the dignity and fairness becoming a presiding officer ,
at a corporation meeting, had better let the oldest
Director take the chair next lime *
But , on the whole , barling the exceptions we
have named , it was a very decent "mutual admira-
tion" meeting. The. large majority seemed to feel
very much as they did at the annual meeting of last
year , as if they were going home much rich er than
they came ! Perfectl y satisfied , they were last year ,
that their slock was worth par —and that in issuing
the untaken balance of it , at 850 per share , to them-
selves, they were each one. going to put at least $25
per share net prof its into his own pocket , by the
speculation ! And thoug h it isn 't all taken yet at
350—and is selling in Boston at $38, still Captain
Walter insisted now that it would have all been tak-
en last year if they had issued it at $75 instead ol
$50 ! And this logic they generall y seemed lo
SHHil low , as perfectl y sound I Who could think of
quarrelling with a company in such a happy mood.
They snapped their hngeis at the "Tremont Iron
Co." (at the suggestion of Capt. Waller , also) after a
considerable inquiry into the disturbin g inlluc-nces
which had broken off negotialions with that Co.—but
as our President couldn't f ind the pa.p ers,A\\<\ couldn 't
remember any correspondence which would hel p elu-
cidate the matter , and after mutual prote stations of
good feeling between the two corporations , from in-
dividuals who evidentl y knew but little about the
affairs of either , it was voted , that if no satisfactory
arrangement could be made with the T. I. Co., then
ihe track leading to their works shall be taken np '
There was considerable blind reference , also, to t he
difficulties with the Sandwich Glass Co. ; and after
an interchange nt comp liments between individuals
here too, which gave the meeting no information
whatever—t hat subj ect was also dropped j apdjhe
! meeting seemed perfectly satisfied with their own
ignorance about that matter.
Then ,on the subject of the extension of the, Road ,
on whic h Cap t. Wa lter was, again , extravagantl y
{ eloquent , as well as commendabl y disinterested—be-
in" per fectl y sure that it could ,and must , be extend *
ed
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to bpth Yarmouth Port and Hyannis , and pass
his door in going to both—it was voted lo expend
|$500 for h survey for the most feasible route. This
was something of consequence—done in the right
wa y, with the right sp irit. $500 thus expended , j u-
diciousl y, will be of service—and we sincerely hope
to see this extension comp leted withi n two years.
An excellent dinner was served at Amory Hal l,
and a comfortable ride home completed the doings ol
the first day of our ownershi p,and of our public ser-
vice, in the C. C. B. Rail Road.
*Wc have not noticed here the eloquent furor of our
President on the subject of "Frei ght Cars." We have
also cho->cn to do that in a seperate article.
Buxkk r Hilt..—The celebration of ihe seventy
fift h anniversar y of the bailie of Bunker Hill at
Charlestown on Monday , 17th inst., will be vividl y
remembered by the "oldest inhabitant " seventy-five
years hence , partl y on account of the numbers who
paitic i pated in it , and partl y on account of (he nov-
elty of one of its grand features. The day was warm ,
but not without some qualification of stirrin g air. —
The morning was welcomed in with ihe far-echoing
artillery and the ring ing of bells for miles around ,
awakening far different emotions than did similar
sounds on the mornin g of the seventeent h of June ,
1775. Flags waved , too , in every direction as of
yore , but no longer marking Ihe rendezvous of stern
battalions for the work of destruction ; no longer
betokenin g ihe approaching shock of armies ,arrayed
on the one side for the,defence of the most sacred
ri ghts , and on the other for the mere acquisition of
military glory, without regard "to the cause in which
it was to be obtained.
The military and civil disp lay on the occasion was
ver y imposing. Several of the fire departments ,
Odd Fellows, Order of United Americans, etc., also
hel ped to swell the grand demonstration. Business
in Boston was in a good degree suspended , and holi-
day festivit y ruled supreme. The Procession reached
ihe shi p house at Charlestown at about 3 o'clock,
where were assembled about six or eight thousand
females, wdio together with the procession , when
seated, numbered near fifteen thousand persons.—
The Address was by the Hon. Edward Everett.
®J*The Barnstable County Bible Society held
its annual meeting at the Unitarian Chinch , in this
place, on Thursday Inst. In the absence of the
President , Hon. John Reed , Hon. Zeno Scuddev
presided. The meeting was but thinl y attended.
The Report of the Secretary and Treasurer will be
published hereafter.
I Annual Meetingr of tne C. C. Branch
! Rai l Road Co. !