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

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCR.

The New Yolk and Oswego Midland Railroad
is being rapidly pushed through a section of New
York State, which before was comparatively with-
out railroads. Coining clown from Oswego, along
the north shore of Oneida Lake, south-eastwardly
through Madison Cuuuty, 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 corning
season to the first-class steamers already navigating
these waters. —A rail way from Saratoga Springs is
pushing its way into the sources of the Hudson
River, in the Great Northern Wildernes.. Reach-
ing the Hudson at Luzerne, in attiorltNhraeirrlyendcito.eucntitoyt:
from Saratoga, it is already iu working order as far
up the river as Warrensburg, i
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
Company, 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 and 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-
mont. Before this winter set in a large num-
Ler of piles were driven at Nyack for the track.
More will be added when the weather opens.—
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inor,3 than 1,500 miles in operation, with nearly a
dczm roads building or extending, and some half
a-dezui more in immediate prospect.-Work on the
CLesapeakeand Ohio Railroad, between Covington
and White Sulphur Springs, is progressing rapidly,
and will be completed in July next. A force of 75U
men is now engaged.— Vall-street Journal.
'l' be 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-
deineacour, and subjects the employe collecting it
to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and im-
prisonment not exceeding one 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 ago 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 to 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 mail 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 tko most prolonged
and most extraordinary wars on record has at
length come to an end. When the Brazilian troops
entered Assumption, on the 2d of January, they
found that Lopez had left behind him 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• fobs.
However, whon fill hope of further resistance was
abandoned, Lopez appears to have also abandoned his
intention of dying by his own hand or by the
hand 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 five 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 Sun tells how 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 in 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 hia only. But no sooner bad 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 him :—" 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 ballet 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. Pll 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 au 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. Ile threw himself from the window of his
lodgings into the street at half-past 11 ou Monday night,
breaking his arm and injuring himself seriously in eifferent
parts of the body. A person passing by went forward to
offer assistance, but the man, who had gut up by himself,
declared that lie was not much hurt, and that he bad
fallen by accident. He then ascended to his room, and
again flung himself out; this time he fell on his head and
fractured his skull dangerously. lie was removed to an
hospital.
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