The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-20 00:00:00

RA IL IVA Y INTEL LIG EN CE.

The New York and Oswego Midland Railroad
is being rapidly pushed through a section of New
York State, which before was comparatively with-
out railroads. Corning down from Oswego, along
the north shore of Oneida Lake, south-eastwardly
through Madison County, east through Chenango,
Delaware, Sullivan, and Orange, with important
branches at several points, along the line will soon be
created a thrift heretofore unknown to its inhabi-
tants. The business on Lake Champlain is increasing
so rapidly that additions are to be made the coining
season to the first-class steamers already navigating
these waters. --A railway from Saratoga Springs is
pushing its way into the sources of the Hudson
River, in the Great Northern Wilderness. Reach-
ing the Hudson at Luzerne, in a northerly direction
from Saratoga, it is already in working order as far
up the river as Warrensburg, in 'Warren county,
and may be expected in time to make a connection
with the roads already constructed through the
northern tier of counties.—The annual meeting of
the shareholders of the Union Pacific Railroad Com-
pany will be held at the office, 20, Nassau-street,
on March 10th next., and of the Quicksilver Mining
Compaiay, at 19, Nassau-street, on Feb. 24th next.
The West Shore Hudson River Railroad Company
have at last obtained the means of building a part
of their line, which is intended ultimately to con-
tinue from Jersey City to Newburgh. They have
contracted for the completion of a section run-
ning from Jersey City to Fort Lee by next
June. Two miles awl a quarter of the grading
is finished from the former point, and the work
progresses rapidly. In addition to this a mile
of grading exists between Fort Lee and Pier-
wont. Before this winter set in a large num-
ber of piles were driven at Nyack for the track.
More will be addled when the wea;her opens.—
In 1860 there were less than 600 miles of railroad
in lowa, with only two roads making any 1 rogress
whatever, the disastrous effects of the financial crisis
of 1837 not having yet passed away. Now i here are
more than 1,500 miles in operation, with nearly a
dozen roads building or extending, and some half-
a-dozen more in immediate prospect.—Work on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, between Covington
and White Sulphur Springs, is progressing rapidly,
and will be completed in July next. A force of 750
men is now engaged.— IVall-street Journal.
The Legislature of Illinois has passed a bill which
now awaits the signature of Governor Palmer, re-
stricting all railroads in the State to a charge .of
three cents per mile for passengers. No provision
is made relative to freights, though the feeling of the
people throughout the State calls for an act limiting
freights as strongly as for one regulating fares. The
collection of a higher rate of fare is declared a mis-
demeanour, and subjects the employe collecting it
to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and im-
prisonment not exceedingone year,while the company
is required to repay four times the excess of fare,
besides costs and counsel fees. Roads not yet con-
structed will not be affected by the law, until they
have been running ten years. An attempt to pass
a similar bill two years aga was defeated by show-
ing that the rates of railroad freights and fares
throughout the State had not risen on the prices
of 1860 more than would be necessarily caused by
the decline in our currency and the rise in the cost
of running the roads. But the demand for restric-
tion of fares in the North-West is deep-seated, and
the law will do good if the people succeed in enforc-
ing it.— Tribune.
The railroad bridge over the Mississippi River
from Dunleith, Illinois, which connects the Illinois
Central with the Dubuque and Sioux City Rail-
road and forms direct railroad connection with all
the northern part of lowa, has been completed,
and is now in successful operation.

The intelligence brought from the River Plate
by the snail steamer Galileo confirms the
previous reports
of the crushing defeat of Paraguay at all points, and
leaves no room to doubt that, although not one
of the largest, certainly one of tke most prolonged
and most extraordinary wars on record has at
length come to an end. When the Brazilian troops
entered Assumpcion, on the 2d of January, they
found that Lopez had left behind hint his will, in
which he named Madame Linch his heiress and the
American Minister his executor. It is asserted that
Lopez had resolved to die at Angostura, and with
that view gave his adjutant a revolver with which to
shoot him should he escape the weapons of his foes.
However, when all hope of further resistance was
abandoned, Lopez appears to have also abandoned his
intention of dying by his own hand or by the
baud of a friend, and he fled with 30 of his most devoted
followers. When the allies took possession of Angos-
tura they found there 44 guns and a large quantity of
small aims and other munitions of war. The number
of Paraguayan troops which surrendered at Angostura
was 1,300, beside fivo hundred sick and wounded,
and 400 women. A detachment of cavalry was sent in
pursuit of Lopez. An English surgeon, who was in at-
tendance on Lopez, asserts that during the war the popu-
lation of Paraguay has been reduced from 500,000 to about
100,000.
The New York San tells bow Mr. Glenn's vote
was lost to Morgan, and cast for Fenton, and it is not a
bad instance of how a man who is incorruptible himself
may be jockeyed into the purposes of the lobby. "The
caucus took place at half-past 7 hi the evening, and at
half-past 5 Mr. Glenn waited upon Mr. Morgan in person
to assure him that whatever else might happen, the vote
of Glenn was his, and his only. But no sooner had he left
the presence of the senator than he was taken in hand by
three shrewd friends of Governor Fenton, who, with be-
coming seriousness, said to hint :—" Mr. Glenn, do you
know that these scoundrels about here have been selling
your vote to Morgan ?" "No!" said Glenn, opening all
his eyes; "you don't tell me?" "Yes, indeed,' was the
answer, "and Morgan's hounds have paid them five
thousand dollars on condition that your ballot should be
cast for their candidate." " Well, well," responded the
unsuspecting and excited legislator, "if they have sold me,
they shall find that lam hard to deliver. I'll take care
that this trick is never tried on me again, I can tell you."
The result was that, in his indignation, Mr. Glenn wont
into the caucus and ostentatiously cast an open ballot for
Mr. Fenton.
An extraordinary instance of attempt at suicide
has occurred in Paris, of a rag picker, whose mind had
been somewhat deranged from violent grief at the death
of his wife. lie threw himself from the window of his
lodgings into the street at half-past 11 on Monday night,
breaking his arm and injuring himself seriously in aifferont
parts of the body. A person passing by went forward to
offer assistance, but the man, who had got up by himself,
declared that he was not much hurt, and that he had
fallen by accident. Ile then ascended to his room, and
again flung himself out; this time ho fell on his head and
fractured his skull dangerously. He was removed to an
hospital.
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holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re-
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
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tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co.
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