The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-01-11
Atlantic Terminus Of the South.
- ern Pacific Rail Road.

In the New York Stakeholder and Mining an1
Railway Record, of a late issue, we find q lengthy
and interesting communication from Col. T.
Hurlbert, General Superintendent of the Bruins
wick and Albany Railroad, which, starting from
Brunswick on the seacoast of Georgia with its
connections, runs westward through the States OF
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. The object
of the communication is to set forth the advantages
which the city of Brunswick offers as the eastern
terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad, soon
to be built, and of which San Diego will be the
terminus on the Pacific side.
Brunswick is laid out on a peninsula or tongue
of land, bounded ON the east and south by st.
Simon's Sound and 0glethorpe Bay, and ON the
west by Turtle River. 1t has a water frontage
of ten or more miles, with from sixteen to forty
feet water at the wharves. The harbor Is well
sheltered and capacious enough for the accommo-
dation of q commerce of equal magnitude with
that Of any other port in the world. The climate
is represented as peculiarly salubrious, tide water
flowing on each side of the peninsula, and there
being no fresh water ponds to produce miasmatic
exhalations, and an entire exemption from all
local causes of sickness.
The distance from New York to San Diego, via
Kansas city and the 35th parallel, the shortest
attainable between the two cities, is 1927 miles.
The shortest line between Brunswick and San
Diego, 33d parallel, Is 2,17O miles, showing an
advantage in favor = of the latter route of 757 miles.
The Brunswick and Albany Railroad, and its
direct westerly connection, crosses the Cotton
Belt OF the world. These and two new lines, and
others that ramify the entire cotton region, max
inD m al IN rpoNo& &c I Dn0 Ill .C -nsl-~-
have tributary to them q country which produced
over one million seven hundred thousand bales of
cotton (4OOlbs. each) in 1860, or almost one-third
of the crop of that year. ~
Ali these facts demonstrate that Brunswick is
without a superior on the eastern coast line of
the United States, and point her out az the
Atlantic terminus of ocean-steam and Southern
Trans-contlnental Rail communication between
China, japan and the East Indies, and the United
States and Europe. A great future is in store
for those W now obscure ports-San Diego on
the Pacific and Brunswick on the Atlantic,-and
at the rate at which the world moves in these
days, thatfuture il near at hand. 3 1 ~ ~
A USEFUL REoEIPT.-The Scientific American
says: The unpleasant odorr produced by perspHs
ton is frequentlya subject OF Vexation % pess3ns.
"HO 1872 4NObulIA ~ bAu1ptEt 11A -
remove this odor much more eReetasiiy than by
the application OF such sunguents aud perfames a.
are now in use. 1t b only necessary procdte
some compound spirits OF -anhaohia aaa place
about two teaspoonfqls in = basin: Of xatery Nash.
ing the face. hands and arms WIN This leaves the
skin as clean. neat and fresh as one could wish.
The washls gerry harmlesz "a very sesapy liz
recommended on the authority Of an experienced
physician. and thought TO DO tried at least by all
those whose persons are SO offensive in this re-
spect,
EAEMFF =
SERIYa Is DEcEIyING-Here 10 q row OF ordinary
capital letters and figures:
Observation-Disclosures = -
They are such as are made of two parts OF equal
shape. Look carefully at these. and you will per-
6eige that the upper halves OF the characters are Q
very little smaller than the lower haives-so little
that an ordinary eye will declare them to be OF
eqaal aize. Now turn the page upside down. and
without any careful looking you VII see that this
difference in size il very much exaggerated-that
the real top halt Of the letter Is very much smaller
than the bottom half. It will be seen from this
hat thereis q tendency In the eye to enlarge the
upper part Of any object upoa which il looks. We
might draw two circles Of unequal size, and 20
place them thai they should appear equal.