ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

346
. CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER· DIGEST JAN. I TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 2077 - 2080
RAILROADS (Cont'd)
2077 - H&G Feb. 6; ed: 2/3 - A meeting wi 11 be held at the court house
this evening for the purpose of appointing delegates to the Harrisburgh
convention and transacting other important business regarding the proposed
Cleveland and Pittsburgh railroad.
"The meeting tonight, we hope, will be fully attended; and as the
mere appointment of delegates to the Harrisburgh Convention may not be
deemed a matter of sufficient importance to require a general turn out,
it is, perhaps, not improper to say, that we are informed another object
of deeper interest will be presented. The bill authorizing a loan
of money by the City, having passed the House, is now before the Senate,
and according to the latest advices meets with unexpected opposition in
that body; at all events, its passage is delayed, and unless measures are
taken at once to remove whatever obstacles may be in the way, the
authority asked, if obtained at all, will not be vested in the commissioners
at a day sufficiently early to be used at the Convention, which
meets in Harrisburgh, on the 6th of March next. ••.
"The measure contemplated is strictly local belonging exclusively
to the citizens of Cleveland, and all the legislature will require before
granting the privilege sought, is knowledge of the fact, as a
fact undoubtedly it is, that a majority of those interested in the passage
of the law and who are in any event to be effected by it, desire
its adoption." (6)
2078 - H&G Feb. 6; adv: 2/5 - Notice - The directors of the Cleveland
and Newburgh railroad are requested to meet at the office of Gordon
Fitch, Esq., on Friday next, ninth instant, at two 0' clock p.m. William
Milford, president. (l)
2079 - H&G Feb. 7; ed:2/2 - The rai lroad meeting last night went off
with spirit, and judging from the proceedings, there will be no flagging
on the part of our citizens in this matter.
"W i th a road already completed from Phi ladelphia to Chambersburg,
more than one-third the distance from that ci ty to Cleveland, and the
people throughout that part of the route which is yet to be improved, fully
awake to the importance of the object in view, and ready to exert themselves
to the utmost in its behalf; it will be strange, indeed, if Philadelphia
fails to render the necessary assistance on her part, assistance she is
well able to give, and which will secure so rich a harvest to herself."
2080 - H&G Feb. 7: 2/3 - At a meeting of the citizens of Cleveland,
assembled in pursuance of previous public notice, at the court house on
Feb. 6 for the purpose of considering the expediency of appointing delegates
to a railroad convention to be holden at Harrisburgh on Mar. 6
next, and for other purposes, Nicholas Dockstader, Esq., was appointed
president; Gen. Ahaz Merchant and Melancthon Barnet, vice presidents;
and Samuel Williamson and Samuel Starkweather, secretaries.-
(5)