Captain Fads' Ship Railway

The ScientiBc American of this week contains two full page illu.strations of Captain Eads' proposed railway for transporting fliips, with their eargo, aeross the conti nont. Captain Eads claims by his plan to bo able to tako loaded ships of the largest tonnage f'rom one ocean to the other across the Lsthmus of Panama, as readily a.s can be done by a canal after the Lesseps plan, and at a much less cost for engineering construction. The project is certainly bold and ingenious, and the projector anticipates no seri ous difficulties in carrying forward bis enterprise. The engravings referred to in the Scientific American show the proposed concoDstruction of not ooly the railroad, but the appliances for transferring the ships froui the water to the rail. In addition to the large number of eogravings, illustrative of engineering works, inventions and new diewveries which appear weekly, the Seientific American haü, during the past year, devoted considerable space to illustrating and describing leading establishments devoted to different uianufacturing industries. This feature bas added very much to tlie attractiveness and usefulness of the the paper. More than fif'ty of the most important industrial establishments of our country have been illustrated, and the processes of the different manufactures described in its columns. J'he Scieutific American has been published for more than thirty four years by iMunii & ('o , 37 Park Kow, New York, and has attained a lurger weekly circulation than all similar papers published in the country. The publishers assure the public that they have not printed less than 5U.0UU copiea a week for several nionths. Every one is not ealled upon to be a martyr for truth. It is perfectly true that wherever there is a great soul pouring out its utterances to the world there will De a calvary ; but before we pour out our utterteranees we should be quite sure we are great souls, that the truth is important eoough to suffer for, and that the persons we speak to are worth the illumination. -