Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-05-06

LLANos FsTAcADos.--Thcre is IL high bar
rem tract Of Land in Northern New Mckee.
where neither ''grlss grows nor water runs, -
where the dry sand nff'rds no entertainment
for man or beast" where Indians starvc,
cmigrants die Of thirst, and not evcna wood
chuck can get living The Spaniards call
it the "Llanos E>tacados," which we trans
late the "Stakrd Plans"
Across the desert, Southern pol
iticians have set their hearts upon running
Rail Road to the Pacific. Wit customary
obedience to their orders, the Administration
has been trying To lay it out for them. But
they have II hard time Of it.
The first difficulty they encountered was
that the Stak Plains wero about ii thou
sand feet higher than the top Of the Catskll
Mountains. But this they persuaded them
selves could be overcome by long curve here
and steep grade there, with if need he. an
occasional Inclined Plain or Tunnel. Suthey
got up to the top.
The next serious difficulty was that there
was no wood, either for building or burning.
B I this they surmounted by resolving upon
imported wood-piles, regardless of expense.
The next difficulty was worse yet. There
not drop of water to be had Tor love OF
money. ''Never mind said the Administra-
y
bore" Bore they did. They bored 900 feet
but no water. They bored COO feet. but still
no water They bored 500 feet, until their
auger would't bore any further. and the Ar
tesian Well still remained as dry rs chip.
They are coming home again now, bringing
the auger along. The have gained wisdom,
but no water.
As nothing that the South demands must
be left undone, tho Road must of course be
made. But how ? The Administration will
now have to consider this point. The substi.
tuition of Camels for Locomotives has been
suggested. Water thus 0btlined would not
cost more than Il dollar the pint. and the Ad-
ministration, it is well known, does not stick
at expense, especially .when Democratic con-
tractors are 10 pocket it.
But all this trouble, he it remembered, is
taken 10 escape from n short, cheap level.
easy route through fertile fields, running
streams and thrifty forests, against which the
sole objection IS that it happens to lie north
of Mason's and Dixon's line !-ABany Jour
nal,
DESTRUCTION oE MISSIONARY PREMISES AND
PROPERTY by FIRE. Information has been
received in Hartford Conn. from Rev. Mr.. Van
Iennep, missionary in Tocat, Asia Minor
that on the evening of March the mission
premises were burned to the ground. Mr.
l-ennep only had time to save himself and
family from the flames. None of their pro-
perty was saved. The fire was probably set
by some enemy of the mission. OF his losses
by this calamity, Mr., Lennep says;
- All my books are gone, consisting Of
fomc 1000 volumes. Our bedstead, bedding
sofa, tables and furniture in general. =. All
my papers accumulated for twcnty-eight
years, my lectures in college and at the Sc
minary; the whole commentary of the Old
Testament in French and Armenian Il believe
there is no other copy of the latter) my COM
mentary on Romans. of which eight chapters
were ready for the press; all my sketches and
sketch-books; comprising somo twenty or
thirty volumes; daguerreotypes of all my
friends and the portraits ofmy children, my
very writing materials; all my medicines and
medical books-all, all gone.