Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-29


projects have been so numerous during the
present Congress that it may be wei to sketch
the leading points Of each.
The Select Committees Bill reported in
January nXes san Francisco as the western,
and point on the Missouri river, between the
mouths of the Kansas and Big Sioux. as the
eastern terminus, and provides for its cOnsuuc-
ton by Land Grants and Government Bonds
Senator OWNS bill December, lS57l, pro-
poses three Roads and Telegraphs-one start
ing from Texas, one from Missouri, and one
from Minnes0,a-to be built by Land Grants.
Senator Iverson's project is 10 invite propo-
sails Tor one route south Of the Both parallel,
which would take it through Texas and New
Mexico.
Senator Foote'S bill runs the route from the
Red River of the North, Minnesota 10 Puget
Sound in Washington Territory This is the
shortest Of ALL Thence it is 10 run to San
Francisco.
Senator Dayis's bill provides land grants Of
alternate sections, sixty miles wide. and a
money grant OF SO, 100000 cash. Route not
specified.
Senator Cameron's project is to have a board
Of experienced Engineers select the route, and
the Government to raise the money for its con-
stTucti0n by bonds TedeemabIe in fifty years.
paid by the respective States through which
the road runs.
Senator Wilson's project locates it between
the 34th and 10Th parallels of latitude; leaving
five Engineers TO determine the route, the
funds to be raised by Government loans, which
are to be repaid by the proceeds of the sales Of
the public lands
Senator Rices project is to build two roads,
one through Texas and one from Minnesota,
| emitting the central one altogether.
Mr. Phelps project is to give land grants to
/ California, Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas. Ne
braSka and Kansas, similar to those given to
other States, and TO issue so years bonds in
aid OF the road, which is to have three eastern
branches, one running to Mississippi, and the
other two TO Missouri.
Mr. Smith Tenn offers project that the
United States shall turn in and help the Tex
as Southern Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
Company Of which V. X. Stevenson, Of
Tennessee, is President 10 extend their line
to san Francisco; then to help the ''Northern
Pacific Railroad Company" OF which A. Ram
sey, Of Minnesota, is President. to extend
Their line 10 Puget's Sound, and finally to help
third company mot yet organized to build a
line from the Missouri River to the Pacific
coast.
Mr.. McKibben, of California, proposes two
4o't9' oLAS ~ COulllcilcc north OF the 0CLl par
allel, the other south Of the Both parallel, both
to run to San Francisco with branches to Pu-
gets Sound and San Diego
There have been several other bills intro
duced at the last and the present sessions, but
they were mostly notifications of the above
THE WHEREABOUTS, &C., OF MRs. Gun
NGNGHAM-BURDELL.-" Burleigh," the New
York correspondent Of the Boston journal.
who is understood to be the Rev. Matthew
Hale Smith, Mrs. Cunningham's counsel at
one stage OF her case, corrects = paragraph from
the Rochester Union. He states that Mrs.
Cunningham lives in Forty-eighth street.
She Is not in easy circumstances but is
reduced and poor The elegant mansion" is
house in a poor block on the new upper
street for which she is indebted to the kind
ness of the owner till Spring. Her house is
not entirely furnished; the most of it not at
all and what is, is Of the commonest STYLE.
She has wasted all the property she had, and
Is not able TO take house of comfort. All the
ordinary avenues of employment open to most
women are closed against her. The prejudice
against this woman was never stronger than
now, and, having spent all she had to defend
herself in courts Of law, she is now very Door,
and would keep clearinghouse or do any
honorable thing to get living if she could do
so. Her daughter Augusta has not been
married to a Southern planter" but to a
young man in this city, who has not one dol
lar to rely upon but what he earns from dav to
day; and the rumor about Helen is as apocry
phal as the rest of the story.