Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-02-16
The Tehuantepec Route.
Wednesday. Jan. 10. 1859.


The Tehuantepec Route
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1859.
The news in this mail is important iu itself,
and peculiarly interesting to the travelin o
public All are aware that the only difficulty
OF the transit from the beginning has been the
condition of some ID miles of this end of the
road. 1t will be learned with pleasure,
therefore, that the Company have entered
into contract with responsible parties
Messrs' S. W: Pratt. john K. Stimson and
ID. ;. Bannlster. to put 1t at once In order.
The contract with these gentlemen is, indeed,
of much more extensive character. It is
for the construction of a new road. Or the
perfect repair of the old one; all the wav to
Puerta, % miles. and the construction of
FIVE new bridges. over the Tortugera, Sarabia.
Morgane, Patchsne, and Malateugo rivers.
including also the completion of the one Just
erected over the Jumuapa. The road is to
be finished and ready for travel in so DAYS
dating from the arrival Of the next steamer
from New Orleans, the bridges by the 18th
of July, before which they will not be
needed.
The contractors ehgsge, IN the specified
time to put the road the entire distance,
twenty-thre miles, moro or less, in perfect
order on stage coaches. and to guarantee it
as such, running all risks, whether for rains
or otherwise, for the space of year thereaf-
ter. The road-bed is to be eighteen feet
wide, hard, smooth, and we'll drained, with
the necessary bitches, the bills brought down
to the grade of one foot in fifteen; and the
forests feled the space of fifty feet each side
of the road. Their compensation for this
part of the work is to be SIS, 400 to which
So. 500 is to be added for the twelve months
guarantee, this being the sum at which the
annual expenses Of so much of the road are
estimated
The bridges are all to be what are known
as lattice bridges, each giving roadway of
IA feet, those over the Sarabia and MalateDgo
each 15O feet space, those over the Tortugera
MorgaEe and Patchine, 90 The total a.
mount of trestlework will be about 500 feet,
of lattice $40. The compensation for this
will be SS4, 200 Total for the entire con-
tract, 100000
The contractors are all enterprising men.
experienced in the business, and enter upon
their work with confidence. One of them,
Mr.. Stimson, goes to the States in the pres
ent steamer to make arrangements for me-
ehanics, of whom forty-fve acquainted with
bridge work will be needed; also, to purchase
stores, material, tools, horses mules, what
ever, indeed, may be wanted in the constrnc-
tion of the road and bridges.
As to the rest of the road, it is in excellent
ORDER for horse, mule or stage, all the way to
the Pacific. The cutting through the NAL
atengo Hills is completed, and is indeed an
excellent work The new road from Rio
Verde to Tehauaetepec, whereby some FIVE |
miles of distance will be saved, is also pro |
crossing rapidly'-N' o. Picayune.
A Boy Carried Orer Niagara Falls, II,
Full Vieu Of Many ,Spectators-W learn |
from the railroad men that sou of Mr.. Gibbs, |
foreman in tho Niagara Eals Paper Mill, |
was taken over the cateract on Saturday after |
noon last The victim was a'promislrg little |
boy, about eleven years of age, and general |
favori;e with all who knew him
The Niagara Falls Paper Mill is situated |
on Bath Island, between the Goat Island and |
the main land, aud the machinery is driven |
by water power.
On Saturday afternoon number of men |
were engaged IN clearing away the ice which |
obstructed the flow of the water in the race.
and MIR. Gibbs boy was playing about the |
vicinity
In one place the race is spanned by a mar
row foot bridge of plank. destitute Of /. rail- /
ing or other protection on either side. and |
~ S'oSouS WIZ, uS iOSG MS DaiancS |
and fell into the water. The current was
very strong, and in an instant the child was |
carried out through the bulkbead at the tail |
end of the and percipitated some ten
feet into the foaming flood. a short distance
above the bridge connecting the two islands. |
The rapids were full of floating blocks of
ice, and mingled with these the poor little |
fellow was carried down the stream. Help |
could not be afforded, and the horrifed spec |
tators watched him until he was lost to sight. |
He was observed to raise bis hand once, as if |
to remove something from his face, and that |
was all
Tbe distance from the race to the fall can |
not be over fifty rods. and the fatal leap was |
not long delayed, 1t is not probable that |
any vestige will ever be discovered of the ,
remains. The renorseless vortex beneath |
The falls seldom return to land anything COM
n'tted to its mysterious depths -Rochester
4ne., FEB s''7fs" -
Living at Plies Peak, "A correspondent
'f paper in Council Bluffs. gives the follow