The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-05-12
PEN AND SCISSORS.

road, of which 80 are completed and tho
track laid.
Russia is talking of building line
of telegraph across Siberia and Bhering's
| Straits to this continent.
One hundred andtwclve locomotives
arc iii use on the Illinois Central Road, Of
which twcnty-ono burn cole.
--Fillibuster Walker is id to be at
New Orleans preparing for another do
scent upon Ncaraugua.
The proprietors Of The I.eyiathan, is
appears, tro anxious to dispose Of that
monster ship and she is now in the mar
kot.
The squatters in Kansas arc com
planning bitterly of the President, for or
dering the public lands to DO sold in July.
-Bentoa's Thirty Years View is said
to have already attained the sale Of seven
ty thousand volumes!
An Italian in Chicago, worth $40,
900, who also owns five houses on Mil
waukee avenue, has seven or eight girls
in his employ, begging and stealing.
By doing good with his money, q
man, as it were, stamps the image Of God
upon it, and makes it pass current for the
merchandise of heaven.
The Herald published in Texas, says
the young ladies thereabouts arc making
great rayages on tho grape vines, taking
them for hoops.
Tho new Constitution of Kansas,
framed at Leaycnworth, is to be submit
to vote of the people, ON the third day
of the present month.
Richard Ten Brock, the champion
of American horses in England, has gone
to Europe, intending to follow up the Eng
fish turflnen until he coaquers them.
The movement in Russia for the
emancipation of the surEs is receiving the
cordial approval Of the nobility and land
owners throughout the Empire.
-Orson Hyde, one Of the Mormon
apostles, boasts that if he lives ten years
and thrives as he has been thriving, he
Will have "sons enough to make a regi-
ment by themselves"
Mr.. Cass, being applied to for his
autograph, sent it with his card, having
his name engraved on it as key to the
hieroglyphic, the Sec of State writing,
like Mr.. Choate, "a shocking bad hand"
Ono thousand SIX undred and nine-
ty-six emigrants passed over the Pennssl-
yania Railroad during the month Of March
last, most Of them emigrants to Kansas,
and other parts West.
One Of our finest writer's says that
"the nightly dcws come down upon US
like blessings" How very different the
duly dues como down upon us in these
hard times.
Upwards of rs, persons visited
the hall in which the corpse Of Col. Ben
ton lay in state. The coffin was wrapped
in the national fag-a fitting winding
sheet for the noble old patriot,
Tho Atlantic cable was being taken
on board the Niagara and Agamemnon
rapidly, and will be finished about the 10th
of May. Some deep sea experiments arc
to be made before the final attempt.
-A.last accounts l $50 hands were at
work on the steamship Leyiathan, Her
machinery is already IN, ana everything
is being driven rs fast as man can do it.
Capt. Harrison, her commander, thinks
sac viii be ready for sea in July.
An attempt is on foot to introduce
Northern or Yankee shad into the rivers
of Alabama. The fre-eaters are terribly
indignant, as they may well be. Eli
Thayer's abolition scheme is nothing to
this.
California has been brought nearer
to us. The latest California Steamer
landed in New York with San Francisco
passengers and mails, twenty one days
and fourteen hours out, the quickest time
on record. Even this time will soon be
abridged.
The st. Louis Democrat charges
/ that Col. johnson, whose eminent militia
ry capacity and prudence are undisputed,
has been superseded in the command OF
the Utah Army, simply because he is a
warm personal friend of Sen. Crittenden,
and as affirmed in the Kentucky papers,
'sbecause of Senator Crittenden's opposi-
ton to the Le,onapton villsiny.'