Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-01-07

EASTERN DISPATCHES.
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Terrible storm.


Terrible storm.
CHICAGO, Jan. IA terrible storm
Of sleet and snow Is prevailing over
the Middle and Eastern States pros
trating telegraph wires In all direc-
lions, and completely cutting of COM
munlcatlon between the East and
West. Nothing Of any kind was re-
oolved here to-day from any point east
OF Toledo.
Reduction or Expenses.
A Washington special Of the 9Th,
says the House Military Committee to-
day began It's Investigation to ascer-
tain whether military expenses nj be
reduced. Tho Secretary Of War and
General Sherman favored the main
talnence OF 4 full force Of $4,000 men,
and laid that with present needs the
service could not get along with less.
He thought tho staff corps could be
materially reduced, and that a reduc-
ton could tako place In the quarter
master, commlssary and medical force.
The committee expects to DO able to
make very marked reductions both In
the numbers employed In tho civil and
military branch Of the service, aud In
works carried on under the War De-
partment.
New Air Limo Railway.
The proposed Continental Railroad,
for which n charter Ia to DO asked Of
Congress, rs Is marked out OH the map
In the Railroad aud Canal Committee
Room, Is almost M air line from New
York to Omaha. IL starts from Jersey
City and runs due west across New
Jersey, and crossing the Delaware at
Belvidere traverses Pennsylvania with
out devlating from a straight line,
passing through Bloom'burg. Milton
and New Castle, enters Ohio near
Youngstown. aud aus through Akron,
London and Lima, takes Fort Wayne
In Its route through Indiana, and at a
point halfway across Illinois, turns
slightly to the northward, crossing the
Mississippi at Mu,catine. Iowa, and
reaching Omaha by n bee line between
tho Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific,
mud the Chicago, Burlington & Mis-
souri, Railways. The road never goes
ont OF Its way to reach n town or city,
aud the purpose Of Its projectors ap-
pears to be To open a great direct line
between the Far West aud New York
without reference to local traffic. The
project Is not fully matured yet, but a
bill Ia now In course OF preparation,
by competent hands, which will have
a number OF prominent capitalists
as corporators. Tho parties, who In
dictate a willingness to undertake the
enterprise with moderate aid from tho
Government, mention a guarantee OF
bouds bearing 4 to . per cent. interest
to the amount Of about the cost Of COLI
struction. Tho committee have been
In correspondence with n number Of
these capitalists with 4 view to Induce
them to accept a Congress canal char
ter, and under It construct a limo from
the Missouri River to the Atlantic,
agreeing to carry freight ut a stipulat-
ed price brlow the present rates. Re-
sponsible parties stand ready to un-
dertaks the work with Government
aid, but the committee will endeavor
to secure their object without increas-
Ing any expense or responsibility on
the part Of the Government, aud they
have hopes that this can be done.
Whether the committee will agree, "
nothing better can be done to recon-
mend that the Government guarantee
interest at q low rate upon bonds rep
resenting a portion Of the cost Of con-
structlon and take 4 first lien upon the
road for Its security, has not yet been
decided.