Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1849-10-31
Panama Railroad.-This importan,

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the route ria Lake Nicaragua or by Te-
huantepec.
The Panama route had been surveyed.
company chartered, aud the stock oil
taken; and now it is announced in the
New York papers that twenty-one Of the
forty six miles between Panama and the
Bay of Limon. has been put under con- /
tract. The work is to be commenced the /,
first Of December proximo, and the con- !
tractors, Messrs. To,ten and Trantwine.
expect 10 complete the communication
within year.
The '.gold diggings" Of California are
now "afar off''-but soon q visit to the
auriferous valley OF the Sacramento, wifi
be mere pleasure trip-a few days res
pitc from the old.fashioned. hard. daily |
industry. to gather "bags Of gold DUST
as an amusement.-[Cin. Gaz.
The Southern Comrention Of IMissis- |
sipp.. which We have before noticed. re-
solved that the passage by Congress Of the
"Wilmot Proviso," would be regarded by
them as an unjust and insulting discrimi-
nation, to which the slave States cannot.
without political degradation, submit, aud
to which "this Convention ciU not sub
NIT
The Convention also resolved that the
passage Of any law abolishing slavery in
the District of Columbia. would Of itself,
make it the duty. as it is the right Of the
slave States ITO take care Of their own
safety" and to treat the free States as en-.
emies.
The Convention also passed a resolu-
ton. requesting the Legislature Of Mis-
sissippi to pass such laws as would best
encourage the emigration Of slave-hold-
ers with their slaves. to the ncc territories
Of the United Nates.-[ Cin. Gaz.
nrOne Of the incidents connected
with the engagement Of John Adams with
Abigail Smith is eminently characteristic
Of the old New Engl land times and peo-
pie. Lawyers were then less numerous
than at present. and in the colony of
Massachusetts the profession was hardly
known at all, and where known the
strongest preludices were engendered
against it. The Pensioners were accus-
toned to reciprocate the Offices Of parson,
and some to push their authority even to
the affairs Of private life. They did not
like to see the parsons daughter welded
TO LAWYER without fortune, or the son of
small farmer. The minister and daugh-
ter had more discernment than the med.
dlcsome people, and from the pulpit the
former answered the complaints Of the
latter in sermon from the text: 'sFor
John came neither eating bread nor
drinking wine, and We say he hath a
devil" The marriage was in 1864; and
when the eldest daug hter. Mary Smith.
was married to Richard Cranch. an ap-
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text, "Mary hath chosen that good part
which shall no. be taken from her.
G-Professor Grant is at present en-.
gagged in arranging his calcium Light"
for the use of the Camden and Amboy
and New Jersey Railroads, to be placed
upon the front Of the locomotives. Should
this prove successful, and Of the utility
Professor Grant supposes, it will render
travelling by railroad as safe by night as
by day. This light is discovery by
Professor Grant. and is said to combine
the several qualities Of both the electric
and the Drummond lights, end can be
furnished at a comparatively much cheap
er rate than the ordinary lights.-[Phila.
Ledger.
@The New York letter Of Monday
evening, 10 the Philadelphia American,
says:
"The contract for grading the Panama
Railroad from Gorgona, the present ter
minus, to Panama, has been awarded to
Messrs. Follin & -, of Philadelphia.
The price; understand is somewhere in
the neighborhood Of 100000, being
within the estimate of the Engineers.
.At present. Gas the common saying here
ISL there are but TWO things really in de.
mand, viz: women and lumber; the for.
mer being exceedingly rare, and the lat
ter bringing from $3.50 to s4oo per thou
sand feet"
o. The directors Of the public schools
in Pittsburgh have passed a resolution
which provides for the establishment of a
school for colored children in that city
The school tax derived from the colored
inhabitants Of the city is to be devoted to
that object hereafter.
~Abby Hutchinson, who has been
undergoing q course Of water treatment,
at Boston, lived 81 days without taking a
particle of food. She drank only cold
water in that time.
! @Maj. Wood. late of Darion, Ga, at
his death. freed all his slaves, $50 in num-
Der, and left $1,000 for the purpose of
paying their expenses to Liberia
~The Republic states that COL FIRE.
mont has accepted the appointment Of
chief Of the Mexican Boundary Survey,
in the place of Col. Weller, removed.
@The Milwaukee Sentinel estimates
that 10000 bushels Of wheat were receiv.
ed there on that DISTRIBUTING seven
hundred teams to draw them.
TGov. Shannon, Of Ohio, ex.minis-
ter to Mexico. is now working in the mines
Of the Rio de los Americanos.
@The late skirmishes and Indian
difficulties in Florida, have cost the Uni.
ted States three hundred thousand dol
lars