Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-22
From the New York Evening Pest.
CORRESPONDENCE.
rHE Pan ANA RAILROAD.


Atlantic side of the Isthmus 10 Panama on the Pa
ci6c aide, by the surveyed route Of the railway, i
20 miles. The most elevated point of land crosse,
by the track called the Summit Level, is two hun
dred and seyentysix feet above high tide at Aspin
wall
This is about midway between Gorgona and Pan
anna, and about ten miles from either place. A
there is to be a cutting of from 90 to o5 feet at tn
summit. the elevation Of the railroad track whei
high tide, on the Atlantic side will lie only a,ou
$50 feet. The stecpcst grade upon the road will l.
about 20 feet in mile, but this will Dc confined {,
ono mile on the paRama side. in the descent from
the Summit Level there will be no grade Of mor'
than so feet to the mile.
The general course and direction Of the railroad
from Aspnwall 10 Panama is from northwest tC
southeast This statement is scarcely credited by
most persons unacquantcd with tie Typographical
peculiaries Of this region. Its difficult to under
stand how Aspinwall upon the Atlantic and eastern
side Of the American continent. should DO further
10 the west than Panama, which lies upon the Pa
ciac and western side Of the continent; yet such is
the fact-thc longtudcof Panama west from Green
witch being 20 degrees, 81 minutcs while that Of
Aspinwall is about 20 degrees, jj minutes. Pan
ANA is situated further to the south than Aspinwal
the latter being in about degrees, II minutes north
latitude, while the latitude of Panama is degrees
81 minutes north. The facts arc accounted for by
the shape Of the neck Of land" connecting North
and South America, and which, in this region, in
stead Of running from north 10 south extends nearly
from east 20 west
The breadth Of gungc Of the railroad is feet,
.nI tha - &C
which occurs at Boiio Solado, at a distance of Il
miles from Aspnwall. Preparations arc now max
ing to reduce this to curve of 10 or - degrees.
When the road is completed there iso bcno sharper
curve than one Of II degrees.
By curve of any given number Of degrees, cli-
ginecrs upon railroad tracks intend an are Of a
circle containing the given number of degrees, the
chord of which are is 100 feet in length
The iron rail used in the construction Of the road
Is brought from Wales and is what is called the
heavy rail- weighing 60 lbs. to the yard. The
company are now receiving some heavy T rail,
which will be used in completing the road.
The first approximation of the railroad to tho
Chagres river is at Gatun, native "puebln," or
hamlet, at distance Of seven and half miles from
Aspinwall, thence continuing up said river on its
northeastern side, sometimes following the stream
closely, and at others at distance of two or even
four miles crossing the Gatun river, Ia considerable
stream, emptyng itself into the Chagres,) about
one mile above the Gatun station-on substantial
bridge-and several smaller streams before reaching
Barbacoas, the present terminus.
This (Barbacoas) is the point selected by tho en-.
sineers for the erection of bridge on which the
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makes one of its sudden turns, and for short dis
tance flows nearly from northeast to southwest
After crossing the river the road continues on il
the valley of the Chagres to Gorgona, and som'
miles above that town, where it is to leave The
river, and continues in southcastery course tC
the height of land between the two oceans in di
roction towards Panama.
The bridge across the Chagrcs river, extending
from Barbacoas on the northeastorly bank to San
Pablo on the southwesterly bank, will, when com
pleted be an imposing as well as costly structure
The distance in the clear, between the abutments
is six hundred and twenty-four feet There arc
three piers, beside the abutmcnts, to support the
bridge. These piers, as well as the abutmonts, arc
Of the most substantial mason-work, the store being
laid in hydraulic cement. The FIRST two spans q
the northerly endof tho bridge, will be forty-twC
feet above ordinary low water in the river channel
and the track itself will be five feet higher than tin
bottom Of the bridge Both the abutments and al
the piers are completed, is also the FIRST span o
the bridge.
All the timbers aud woodwork of this bridg
we're constructed at Darien, Georgia, and brough
thence to this country, several months since, wher
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tors who wcro to have put it up. Tho first spa
was nearly completed several months since, whe
sudden rise in the river, cau'ed by heavy rains i
tho mountains, swept away the whole structure
with several men who happened to be upon it @
tho moment when it gave way. The men, however
wore saved, but the span Of the bridge has to
replaced by another, which had to be sent out fror
the States. This disaster was mainly owing to tn
nsufhcioncy of the trusse work or scatfolding o
which the unfinished structure rested, and il wi
retard tho work two or three monthe.
A company Of men placed by Col. Tottcn undo
charge Of Mr.. B. F. Bates, who has been for lon
time one Of the supcrintendents of the railroad
have been carrying forward the work of replacing
the lost bridge with complete success The spac
OF 200 feet now completed has already wthstood tn,
force Of several floods The false work has all beer
removed, and the bridge proves to be what it was
dgsigned for, noble structure, During tho three
months in which Mr., Bates has been employed in
the erection of this bridge, not single man has
been injured by accident, and only few cases Of
ordinary sickness have occurred.
The steamer Falcon, which is to take the passen
gers mails, specie, &C., designed for the Georgia
will leave in a fcw hours, and must close this.
Whether il will ever reach New York under tn
present state Of affairs this line, seems to be
case Of what the natives call, Quiea Sabe FEE.
SrLT SALE INTO SLAyERy.--A singular instanc
Of colOred man selling himself into slavery, wa
brought out in tho Mayors Court, in Richmond, VI
hast week. A man named Jones, a witness in
case of larceny, stated that he was the slave Of
Nr,Corrington while tho Book Of the lIastu)