excited by this passage, and some iiersons

conceived it was intended to have a splj tiai reference to one or two particular rail roads, whereas it was simply an enunciation of a clear and general policy of vast impor- . tance. It is believed that Mr. Stevens will in troduce a bill for a direct line between Wash ■ ington and New York—so direct and level as to avoid every local interest of any diversion