Litchfield enquirer., 1868-09-24
Eight Hundred Miles Completed.

World ezclaim, How art thou fallen and l become like unto us. /" W.
 Eight Hundred Miles Completed
 Another hundred-mie post has been reached on l the Union Pacific Railroad not many times more | can we repeat this report, which has comes to us eight times within two years past, before the whole line of the Pacific ocean will be complete and the longest railroad in the world will be in successful operation. Less than one year ago the achieve i ment of five hundred miles was made the occasion for national congratulation that half thousand miles of the national railroad had been built now three hundred miles have been added, and the h. dlan-summer days will see the traci.-layers at or beyond the point which marks ino hundred miles. Such rapidity of construction, unparalleled in the history of railroading has not been attained at the expense of safety or permanence, is testified by the government commissioners appointed to ex- anime and report upon the road, and by multi tude of intelligent eye-witnesses of the condition and working of the road The Union Pacific Rail- road has been frequently referred to as national work. The extent of this nationality has been made strkingly manifest by a report upon army transportation on the Plains, recently made by the
 
 report, it appears that the price paid the railroad for transportation of army freight in only about one-fourth that paid for similar service by wag- ons. The amount paid the railroad in 1S67 for such transportation, about S700O0O, and the same amount of transportation by wagons at the contract price for that year, would have cost 625 536.OO. In other words, the saving to the govern ment by the railroad, in one year with an average Of 3S6 miles in operation almost two million dollars. General Sherman we'll said that govern ment could better afford to build the road entirely at it's own expense than to have it remain unbuilt The Treasurers report shows the net earnings for the year ending June 30 1868, to have been over four million dollars. This, of course, was on way business alone, and gives onlya hint of what the total traffic will be when the road shall be com pete.
 So rapidly is tho road being built, that there now remains no doubt that the whole line to the Pacific will be finished next year. Further in- formation concerning the read and it's popular se- curities, will be found in another column
 bas~ We hope that in November, Litch- field County will improve greatly on her record of last Spring. In order to do so, however, every exertion must be made to carry the town elections on the first Mon day in October Especial attention should be given to the selection of good men for Registrars of Electors, under the new law. As two are chosen in each town, and as no person can vote for more than one, there will necessarily be one from each par ty, and Republicans must put forward their best man. The new Election law will be found in our last weeks issue.
 THE ATLANTIC contains:-Inebriate Asy- l lums, and Visit to One; Petroleum in Burmah; The Man and Brother, IT; The Two Rabbis; Kings Crowns and Fools Caps; St. Michael's Night, V; Edmund Brook; The Face in the Glass, IT; Loves Queen: Bacon, I; Free Produce among the Quakers; The Finances of the United 1 States; Pandora; Reviews and Literary Notices.
 GoDEYs LADY's Book for October con- tains:-Phenie Rowland; Miss Caruther's l " uttU iS it LULU DCSlUC GuO l Sea; The Last Evening in Leap Year; The l Joys of Life; Bonnie Jean McGregor; My l Last Love; Woman's Friendship; Un- rest; Mrs. O'Fogy's Supper Table Talk; Lessons in Drawing; A Memorable Ride; 1 Work Department; Receipts; Editors Ta- ble; Arm Chair; Engraving, Fashion Plate. Fashions; and Music.
 THE GALAXY contains Cipher, Nov ell, I. to VI. ; Vittoria Colonna; Hazard; The History of Tears; An Autumn Song; John Lester Wallack; Few Words about l the Nerves; The Death of Hope; Birch dale; Words and their Uses; Whose Hand; J. Lentor, a Curse; Tides; The Galaxy Miscellany; Literature and Art; Drift Wood; Nebul@.
 OUR YoUNa FOLKS contains:- Second Lee ture on Heat; The Peterkins at the Mena gerie; Corn Harvest; The White Hoods at Ghent; Autumn; The Talk of the Trees that stand in the Village Street; Little Dill iy' or, The Use of Tears; Marjory's Alma nae; Lessons in Magic, XII; Our Little Prince; Cast away in the Cold, XX; Our Fanny; Music-Melody from the Hugue- nots; Round the Evening Lamp; Our Let ter Box.
 na Col Homer B. Sprague, formerly of the 18th Conn.,, lately connected with the Normal School, and member of the Legisla- 1 ture from New Britain, has been elected professor of rhetoric and oratory of the Cornell University. An excellent choice.
 RHr First annual Exhibition of the Win sted Horse Association will take place at |a,oop xuoo<7s Park. Oct 6th and 7tI