The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-04-11
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We take what fl bws ION an article \ |
the Chicago Railr1r Roies: 81
Mr.. Ph. Lee Anthony, of Little Rock,
Ark. in q letter Addressed to the San Anto-
MO Herald, gives the ouflires Of scheme
with which he is connected as President Of
the Company
The preieet h that OF an air line narrow
gauge railway from St. Louis to Alexandra
and Alsien in Lo0isiaDs; via NARle Rock
aud Pine Bluff, With a branch from Little
Rock eastward 10 Osceola, and an air line
to Washington City, New York and Bos.
ton; westward BY Hor Spring., and Ultsma
Thule 10 the thirty-eecond pa,aiiel Of Texas
Pac;6c railway to San Diego-a distance OF
2, 800 miles from Washington to the Pacific.
This is ella med as the shortest line that can
be built in the territory OF the United States
from ocean to OCEAN. A nearer line can,
however. be had through Mexico to Mazat-
Ian, the best harbor Oh the Pacific coast.
The line proposed is continuance of the
route from near Fort Townsend TO Clarks-
vile in Red River County, Texas; thence by
Canton, in Van Zeldt Marlin in Falls, Aus
tin in Travil, San Antonio in Bsrar, and
Laredo in Webb; thence to Monclova in
Coahuilla, and through the States o. Duran
20 and Sinsola to Matazlan. The distance
through Texas will be about $50 miles, over
a splendid country for railways, and about
the same distance in Mexico.
Texas has made liberal donation 10 the
32d parallel Of Texas Pacific railway, and
Mr.. Anthony is of the opinion that if this
road were properly presented, Texas would
be equally disposed 10 be liberal to 4 railway
L. eel nd tb. haa rf ~
the country. Mexico has been liberal to
railway enterprises, through her territory,
and no doubt is entertained that the States Of
Coahuilla, Durango and Sinaola would also
give liberal encouragement to road that
would compete for Atiatic trade and carry the
rich productions of Japan, China, and the
East Indies over her soil.
Carl srhurx at Home.
''Gs,h," the Washington ;rre p,a!s Mt
the Chicago Tribune, gives this interesting,
though slightly faoe,ious account OF an
evening with Carl Schurz, at his home in
Washington, which he entities
A VISIT TO A WRETCH.
From this sort OF supreme happiness,
turned, few nights ago, to the home Of
one Of those miserable. railing Senators, who
get up investigations. 1t was missionary
visit, with no other object than to help the
poor man concerned eat his porridge, and
console him on the termination Of his career
The lights were streaming from the windows
of the good, bulky house Of. Carl Schurz
There were lights in the first story, and the
second story and the third story. Light.
burned at the door-steIs, and carriages wers
rumbling and crowding all round about.
Heavens ~ said !, show the wretch
brazens it out! He hires these carriages Il
come here, and runs an extravagant gas bill
to make people think he has gaests.'' ~
When catered negro took my coat snt
hat. 5000 i5 O." 3.- 'L
"Here, said ], sis hypocracy in another
| form. This enemy Of the interests OF th,
black man, has found one chap of that rae,
degraded enough to enter his service. II i
. put-up job p - E-Esi.ss --'.
catering the parlors, ! saw pictures, anC
reflected ON the power of art to remain with
| us after ambition is gone, and we ar,
busted" The house belonged to Mrs
Dahlgren, the widow of the g,in-makinl
Admiral, and her paintings were scattered
amongst Mr.. Schurz's. The emissary of all tn,
monarchs Of Europe played it very fine in
the matter Of pictures. He had some o
Kaulbach's drawings of Marguerite at Tn,
we'll, Mephistopkites counting old Martha, -
and which probably Mr.. Mast saw when her,
on visit to this house, and carried away a.
| an idea for cartoon. The deceased Repub
lican Admiral, however, did have a pretty
heavy taste'for dignitaries, and noticed ont
enormous portrait of Marshal Soult, covered
all over with blazonry. 1t was almost as big
as that fre-board picture Of the illimitablt
Executive Dent family at the White House
In the back room, met the ruined mar
He was playing a duet with his wife, and
although ] know but little about music
somebody told me it was an extraordinary
good performance.
"Alas!" said |, 80, woman, when pair
and anguish wiring the brow, a minisiering
angel thou" or words to that effect
The man Who had missed his career got ~
and shook hands with me, and then we shook
hands all round with the children. Tears
We're nearly in my ewes; but those deserted
folks played their part superbly, giving the
best imitation of laughter 81 ever heard in
all my life,"- Ssmuel Pepys might say.
There was Agatha, the eldest, q fine young
lady, educated at Hamburg, speaking English
with that marvellous ease and skill which dis.
tinguishes her father. There was Marianns
another pretty girl, not far up in her teens,
whose flOrid hair and profile were as spiritual
as Schillers; and was told that, up stairs,
was new baby, aged Is months, bearing the
name of Carl Lincoln Schurz. I could
scarcely believe my ears when the mother
said:
81 hope he will be as good as his names.' "
Alter a while,-evidently on the same mis-.
sion of consolation came for, "a large mum
Der of people dropped in, as if they had
been in the habit of doing SO. There were a
couple of Senators, two or three artists, and
as many musicians, all known TO the country
as well as in Washington. These were ac-
companied BY ladies Of different ages, some
young and handsome, and others bearing
evidence Of quiet, serene, reposed lives; and
at lzst-I knew should find him out =
came nearly all Of the Foreign Legations at
the Capital. There was Kurd Won Schlozer,
of the German Empire,-a fine, energetic
perfectly Democratic little man, below the
middle agc,-life and animation all over
him, and making the most courageous at.
tempts to speak English, and laughing at
his own failures. knew il was all done to
keep up the spirits of this "recaIcitrant"
Senator, and was about to ask the depth Of
Won Schlozer's sympathies for Schurz, when
he opened his mouth and told me that he
was from Lube, whence Schurz started, after
the rescue Of his old College Professor, to
cross the North Sea; and l knew at once
that il was conspiracy between these two
to make things appear easy and harmonious
Next, there was Baron Charles Lederer, the
Austrian Envoy,-a fine, quiet superb man,
of the middle age with beautiful round
head, iron-gray hair, and profile like
biooded Kings. He also seemed 10 be -af.
fable, and in the habit of coming TO this house;
and attributed this to the fact that he did
not know our intitutiOns and the horrible col
lapse which Schurz had experienced. Then,
We had four or five young chaps belonging
to these Legations,--one Of whom, Won Ar
MIN, was indicated as scion Of one OF the
Oldest families in Europe. The officer in
charge of the Russian Legation; Count Corti,
the Italian Minister, and several Spanish at
taches, also came in with ladies' and there
we're less form and ceremony than l have
ever seen at American parties.
Here" said an American to me, "you
see Sthurz en- tdmitIe. He opens his house
this way every other Saturday,
Really, hardly knew whether stood on
ma head or my heels, to find man driven
from the face of power comforted in adversi-
~ by so many people. Plenty of Americans
were present, amongst them some folks who |
ought to have been with the President set,