The Manchester Journal

Rail Road Matters.

We learn from a reliable source that the Harlem extension to North Bennington is a sure thing. A sufficient amount of stock has already been subscribed to ensure the enterprise, and the work is speedily to be put under contract.

Many expressions have been made favoring the project of connecting with Albany, by some new route. Such connection would, perhaps, convenience the people of this locality, but it is thought it would not add to the permanent business of our road like a connection with the Harlem.

Again, no move has been made towards obtaining a charter for the Albany connection, and much legislative scuffling would probably be encountered before a charter would be granted. Whereas a charter for the Harlem extension has already been obtained, and the friends of the enterprise have only to organize and put the work under contract.

From certain developments, it is evident that the Troy & Boston Rail Road Company entertained the hope that, in consequence of their capricious disconnection with the Bennington & Rutland road the latter road would become so depreciated in value, as to enable the Troy & Boston Co. to purchase it at some low figure. But in this magnanimous enterprise they have been foiled.

The people of Western Vermont have several times been sold by the Troy & Boston Co., but they are not so easily bought.

And the Troy & Boston Co. are left again to reflect upon the consequences of their own rash acts, and upon the amiable disposition those acts betray.

To make the sacrifice they have made, to gratify a revengeful spirit—to invoke upon themselves an injury for the sake of injuring an enemy, and even involving their own friends in the injury they inflict—to injure and incommode a whole community for the sake of spiting a single individual, is a new interpretation of the Golden Rule, of which that amiable Company are the originators.

Now when they perceive that the Harlem extension is to be a success as they soon will, they will be making overtures of temporary pacific arrangements—for all pacific arrangements with them have been but temporary.

Arrangements with the Troy & Boston Company, to be reliable, must be legislative and compulsory. When our Legislature meets, as it soon can and may, and the charter of that portion of their road running in Vermont is repealed, and they prohibited from running their trains in Vermont, they will be led to feel their own insignificance and to appreciate more fully than even now, the results of their misguided policy and perverse inclinations.

I.