Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-01-05

There IS no Disgusting II. that the discovery
Of the gold mines IN California IS creating an
excitement in the Atlantic cities, which al
but resembles the feeling in Spain, when it
WAS known th9' Columbus had discovered the
gold mines Of St Domingo. Ships, briggs,
and steamers, are fitting out IN New York.
Boston. Baltimore. &c, for this promised
land, " lille companies Of Adventures are OF
ganizing IN nearly every city In the Union:
but the most eStrao1dinary movements which
we have seen, and which shows that the ma
MIA has reached tie cold and calculating cam
talIsts efNew y drk, is their Determination 10
build q Railroad acToss the Isthmus If Pana-
ma. An association OF merchants have made
proposition to tie Government to build this
Railroad, in oTdsi to facilitate business with
California. They offer to finish il in two
years. That this Is not mere speculation. Is
manifest from tn. fact that Col. Benton has
introduced the following bill in the Senate:
hr. Benton's u Il gives the. contract to As
pinwell, Stevens & Co. Of New York, PLACES
bracing the ansportatien by steam CT naval
AID army supplies, Including troops, uluni-
tons of war and naval and public stores the
mail of the Umtfd States and ali persons n.
It's employment The sum to be paid not to
exceed tlroe-iotrths of The amount now stip-
ulated by law fo1 the transportation of the
mails from New Fork to Liverpool 10 DCz,-
4HrA ttfttF CtftFG@i maze TIL the road
shall be SO far adTanced as 70 permit rliIroad
transportation scr5ss the IsthInus Of Pf.nau,a.
wholly by steam. The road to be CONNER cad p
within enc year from date of contracs. and 10
be completed by June L 9Th, 1882
The gigantic capitalists Of ENGLAND have
been talking about undertaking car al or rail-
way for fifty years. bat as vet nothing has
been done blt or countrymen have get their :
energy aroused and il viii be done. The
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tliat the cost WI. net exceed S3,G0O. 600. TO
iinlsh It completei with engines. cars. &c
Even II the mlres turn out TO be exaoceratad.
the other business. it is supposed. viii INV a
dividend. The completion CT this railway
would bring California within go DAYS of N.
!, \ ork, whereas By the overland route il is at
ieast 10 days. No ore can fail to see that
"heh inc New ork merchants commence
the construction Of this railway. even the
most sober viii think that California must be
all that is reported.
he shortest 6Istanse across, from sea to
sea Is only . miles, according to Humboldt
commencing on the Atlantic side at Chaores
and ending on the Pacific at Panama. Here
- harbor suftlclert for thousand gun Sims.
ne route IS as feasible for railroad, accord
ing to several sarYeys made for canal. as the p
road from Springfield to Albany. o,er r.
mountains 1t IS nearly level, except eIobt g
miles on the Paciac side, through which deem
cutung IS neces say with little tunnellinc-
a mile or so. Tbs country. lsavs 7 .,,-d,s o.
port, abounds with timber ard abn,-d,st, 90 80
cheap labor.
'fSeveral canal estimates have hoo, r,.s.-
Si1 cost OF rom tfn TO fifteen millions of dol
e, = Iaiircad, IT is supposed, can be made
~ . tiiiIa Of tlle amount, as the canal est
t.idteS dle MADE ~ long and extensive feeders
from rivers in tle'inteTior. '.-D E-yseo,,e;, =
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PRESIDENTS AiessAGE.-Mr. A. RI. Ste
Phehs Of georgia. made speech before the
1'oHgh and Ready Club Of Wasbinrtoo. 70
Gently. In which he made the follovino rroo9
hit at the President Message: d.
struck with the remark Of friend in the
House, while the elaborate and ill-fined "a
well as iil-tenpefed document was beino read
by the Clerk. Seine one said Mr. ID = IL
a lawyer arguing : case after il it Is decided
This tnend whom you all know, fAr. Cola
Inef') SAD ne was rather like a LAWYER he
hearq OF In Nelmont, who upon being repri-
manded oy the Judge fer speaking alter The
judgment OF the Court was pronounced. re-
piled that be was not bv any means a-Tr',;,.r 4
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