The Washington union., 1857-04-22

Missouri $3.50 As In Of 1857 49,. ass3s AZ
During the year seven hundred and forty thousand
copies Of the Scriptures issued being excess OF
hundred and ninety-esht Thousand oytf the pre-.
vious year. The issues were as follows
last year. This year.
Testamens, $4,000 100000
IsrEnocEASIc nALnoAD.-Thc attention OF the govern
ment and of individual enterprise appears just to be
awakened to the necessity Of securing nteroeeac transit
routes The following is the of opera
tons route
"a select corps OF civil engineers and surveyors head
ell by Mr. John G. Trautwinc, left New York oil Friday
on board the brig Favot, for Honduras, for the pur
pose of locating the route of the neroceanc railroad
which is to from Porto Caballos the north the
Gulf of Fonseca the south side of the sthmus the
completion OF which will materially shorten the distance
to California and Oregon. English capitalists prnc
pay interested In the company, Mr. W. Brown Of the
distinguished house of Brown Shiples, Co. OF Liver
pool being its president The expedition comprises over
fifty persons in the different departments. Among the
gentlemen going out in the vessel Sr Don Leon Alv
ado, minister from Honduras to the United States. A
photographic division, under Lieut.. W.'N Jefers Uni
ted States navy sailed the 9Th inst, via Panama for
the bay OF Fonseca The interests in the Honduras com
pany divided between English ana American capital.
lists but all the material and labor for the road is to be
furnished exclusively from the United States"
NEw MgprcNE.' Pure pickercl oil is advertised as
aN - IA postoh feIef,
editor remarks That the acute Of hearing possessed
by this fish probably led to the discovery of the wonder
full properties Of tho oil in the way that notice Of
the fact that goldfish troubled with coughs
colds though exposed to the seyeet vicsstudcs Of the
weather. led to the discovery that cod liver oil most
eficacious remedy for consumption.
Trroon ,rIucAL ASYLUM has been Tor some years
asylum for superannuated printers III London, and We
that is to be founded in Philadelphia, gen.
eman having offered pleasant site the banks Of the
Schuylkill There would he beautiful proprety in To-
eating national building in the city Of Benjamin Frank
lin, whose remains reposc within its precincts
TiIEan ,Pmc ENTERPRISES. We learn from tho New York
Evening Mirror that number OF gentlemen OF that city
who largely interested in the elegraphic business
have project ON foot to connect New York and San
Francisco direct by line Of telegraph The plan win
embrace preliminary expedition under the auspices and
protection OF The government party which is to start
engineering tour for the purpose of laying out
military road to the Pacific The teegraphc party will
probably consist of forty fifty persons, and will
start from Omaha City in Nebraska follow the Platte
river to the South fass, and thence direct to San
Francisco.
BosroS NEwsPAPlRs.--We pleased to learn that the
Boston Post is in ourishng condition that Of
Hoes mammoth lightning presses has been ordered for
the establishment The Times thus speaks Of the i'm
proved appearance Of the Journal
Inc ocstiookns daily newspaper Puoiisnea III ms
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ways first IN matters ~ Can, ROGERS
looks to the appearance of his paper well to what is
n n We are raase n leo flat tho nronret,r ~ tbe
Journal intends that his paper shall continue TO be-
has hitherto been r among the bestcrcuatcd and best
conducted journals in New England
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encroachhg upon 'hc iana on ts coast Az oape isand
the sur mas eaten inward uii mile since the revolution
Along the bay shore at Cape May, the marsh
at the rate OF rod in two wears One of the beaches ipon
Il il mentioned az having showed inward one bundred
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