Page:Some History about the Village of Berlin.pdf/82

RAIL ROAD AND CANAL COMPROMISE.

RAIL ROAD TO WASHINGTON. The results of the Rail Road meeting at the Exchange yesterday, is a just subject for congratulation to the city and the State. There is no doubt that the Compromise law, to which the Rail Road has acceded, will be accepted with equal promptness by the Canal Company, at their meeting in Washington today. The difficulties and embarrassments which have heretofore brought the two companies into collision, retarding the advance of each, and checking the growth of public prosperity so warmly anticipated in the completion of these great national works of improvement, may be now considered as removed. Henceforth the only controversy between them, will we trust be that of mutual good offices, and the generous rivalry of competitors for public confidence. Both will be pushed forward with new energy - and will soon commence making returns for the vast toil and expenditure they have cost, in a rapid increase of income to the spirited proprietors, and the accumulating benefits which they will spread more and more widely as they extend through the country. The City of Baltimore will especially feel, and that soon the advantages of the new impulse which this settlement must give to her trade with the west, and which cannot fail to go on steadily increasing. We indulge sanguine expectations of the future progress of the city connected with this stupendous improvement, and others which are in progress around us. It now presents an extraordinary appearance of bustle and business, in our ship-yards, on the wharves, in our streets, and in the multitude of new buildings springing up in all quarters of the city. With the prospects before us, we have great reason to think that this is solid prosperity and will go on increasing. It will also be seen that the Stockholders of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company have adopted the law of the last session of the Legislature for the construction of the Washington Rail Road. This is also an important matter, both to the Company and the citizens of both cities. The Ohio Company anticipate justly an appreciation of the value of their own stock, proper, by uniting it at an early period with this other valuable improvement. Eight miles of the Road, or one fifth of its entire extent, are already the property of the Ohio Company - the new road branching off from the Ohio road at that distance from the city. This, independent of the other general 1