Why Should We Help Build A Railroad?

Persona nexperienced in gotting up iinprovements for the general good can havo but a faint idea of the excuses or pretexta {nol reasons) offorod by different porsons why thoy bliould not beor tlicir sharo of the expenso of eueh mprovements, and though such excusos areofteu niado froni nüt considoring their bearing, yot they are sometimos tho rosult of despicable solfishness. - Eíforts to obtuin the stock nocessary to socuro tho mstruction of the Toledo, Aun Arbor, and Northern Railroad to Aim Arbor, froquontly dovelop traits of illiberality that would Rppear very odious to the exliibitors if shown by othora. Persons owning largo farms or proporties, and having mncli iufluence in society, and who would be most benentod by such a road, and whose truo intereats would bo to encourago othors by their examplo, sometimos resort to very imworthy protexts and dishonorable moans (if not meannessos) to avoíd contributing tnwards such road. For instance, thoy will say-, " Somo railroad company, or city, or eet of men, want tho road and mil build it, and it is not nocessary for us to subscribo. Let those "jrho want the road, or thin.k it will pay, put their money into it, and that "nill help us just as niuch as if we paid." But as they hato to stand alone prominent in íUoir pomirious illiberality, thoy diligently oxort thomsclves to prevent others subscribing, and socure as much company as they can to countenance thoir courso. Such pretensos are oftenost mado in the vicinity of yillages, where the road is noeded to help tho market for farniers' produce, and to aid mechanical business necessary for farmors, and by persons Tvhose property is enhanced in valué by its proximity to such villago. But, suppose it to be as truo as it is false, that a railroad could bo built near 6uch placos without local eubscriptions. Is it probable that tho builders will go out of their own way to benefit such places - to give all the incidental benofits of the railroad to such parsinionious neighborhoods ? No ! - Sucli provocation tyüI load tlio buildcrs to go where they can bc faiiiy dealt with, or to "mate stations where they can most profitably and build up places that vrill soon ovorshadoTF such villages. Tlio projocted lino is got up by and in the interest of tho inhabitaiits along the route, and if thoy do wliat is reasonablo will help tlio villages now on it. If thoy mU not help themsolves, can thoy expoct strangers to help them ? Tho time for securing the road is passing very fast. Othor routes aro anxious to get tho road. Untoss tho farmers near tho routo Tvill tako stock the road will not go on this routo. - They never beforo had it in their power to comniit so great a blunder as failing to securo this road will bo. M. Tuu telegrupli announces tho eatli at the Washington Nnvy Yard, on the morning of the I2th, of the gallant Admiral John A. Daqlgbisn - and r.othing more. Had he been a third-rato Radical politioian, or a chcerful and willng partisan tooi, the same telegrapli would have told off a column of fulsome eulogj'. Admiral Bahloren was boni ia Pennsylvania ; in 1826 he enterod the naval service as Midshipman ; in 1837 he was made Lieutenaut, and iu 1855 Commauder. Bcfore the "last war" he had won a fiüe reputatiön as an ordioanee officer, aod had published ssveral popular works. IIi brilliant ser vioes during the war are too fresh in the miud of the reader to need recounting. An " oíd soldier " who ought to know informa us thit colonel or general or " Judge" Olivkk didu't tiike bis regiment into the battle of Shiloh without c;irtridges, but thát he only went into the Rotiou with offioers and raen in full uniform, with sasbes nnd epnulettes and all the other ius:gnia of dress parade affording a sliining mark wbich was improved by tho rebele. Wo chcerfully tnake theeorrection. Marsh Giddinos, a well-known Kalamazoo politician, of tho anti-ftÍAY Republican wing, has lieeu DOminated and confinned as Cunsul-General to Calcutt:i, rice N. P. Jacobs, of Detroit, rccalled. Mr. Gipdings has beeu one of t lie chief CnANDLEE fuglers iu tbat portiou of the Statj, and is no doubt indebted to that enterprising Senator for this little plum, It is a good thing to Lave " a friend at court." Thb fui] name of the insiguificant Germán irinee wlio is just tiow tho instrument of kicking up guofa a row in all Europo - just because Spain wants ío mako a king of hiin - is : Leopold, ttienuo Charle Antoine Gustavo Edvard Th&eeilo of Ilohenzolk-rn-Sigmaeingen. There'! we hope the reader sreathes fieer. Wa do. Tuk Fr'enob govöi-nment - we mean Louis Napoleon', or rathrer Euqenib - has an enrnost defire that Prince Don Alfonso, son of Isabella oí Spain, who has just graciously abdicated, after huving bi;cn dcposed a ycaror moro, shall ba mado KinL of Spain, and that is why tlie Hohonzollern is opposed and war threatencd. Tin; N. "Y.Evtning Post heada a lead ei' on tho Frencli-ripanisli-Prusfcian inibroglio, with : " Is it War or Mere Bullyinga?" ïo wliieh we utihositatiugiy aasver, T88. Oov. Baidwik hns ordered special clcctions in the sevoral Senatorial and Rcpresentative districts in which vacancics exist. Mr. Som Hing and Miss Gat Qoill, . both froui Flowepy Laod, ero marriod it San l'rnneiscr, last week, by the ]íev. IIr. Dwinncll - tlie first Chinese ] narrfnge ever nerformed in that State. t