About Railroads

fjtopy the folloiving from a late numLittte Adrián limes: LD Mattkus - A Good Prospect. .,, livny, Ks]., lias hamled us a lettttffl Jolui Lee, wlio Is President of tliu insport, OrawfordsvUJe & St. Louis U(J. The lefter has such a jrenuine nlness that we copy it asfollows : cloinü ui; we can to reach KoL)jt tlie tnvlicst possible day. The ;:ratt for building lliat división was ;. last wenk, ai:d we expect to push , aí you set thtre we will be Uréd to mafce satlsfactory arraneeLuivith you, glve mul rect'ive frcighls k-iriniitua! iiitorcst reqoires. We ili to the coal ficMs, au3 eomicct. Ílvansvllle and St. Louis. Wish vou great success, Í remaln your i, " John Lek." hlsthe road wlth whicll connection ,tire(l ds tin Adrián and Saline1, and i ly witli the ürand Tniuk via he and Romeo. Tó Insure the confciffl our citizens must give moro cntnRmont to tiie committee appolated ick dubscrtpUftiia and get up .iioii. It wouid be a through -Tbc lüüo-n-liiar 8 from Üic Toledo VnmUoTtbeSOth inst. Tiie bridge spokiis the one over wMch the Toledo, kt!i Rallfoad la to tniiiicctiüii wltli a!l creation: Important arrangement has !rt-u whicii the lvist Side Rlver ny have fjr-iutwl the r:izh' !ny to Hu1 IViiiisylvania Central H.:i.:iy to one lul!' the rilit of wav dto thefiret Datncd eojnpany condim thst tlie Peiinsylvaniü Ooinpauy Uaee work tbr the Improvement of IiUi tlilrty days. 'Jlie tenns ikenagreed apon and the work of bi? wüi comonence at once and be irard as last as laborera cía Ue ad. irus locatcs tlie road upon the rlver h.wlll gratl please tlie citi ■::tlif sixth wnrd, and Insures the wnction of the bridge at :i polnt beiow Br the Cberry stivet bridge. ■:r Üecreationt in Popular Scikiithe title of a neat little monthly kuael by Messrs. Lee & SHEPABD, ka, the llr.st threc nuinbers of whloh ffforeus. These nutnbera or pirts are : We Discoveries respecting the Anrora, kReeeiit solai Rcsoaruhes. By Uien hA. Pbocïoh, B. A , F. H A. 8., auÍ of "The Siin," "Olher Worlds than :UI,"tiC. A.fflnitles, (ir Man uirl the Ape. liuo Virchow, auiiior of "Oell■J'Paiholoy," &c. in Analysis Expiained. ülnstrit■i to Science, and Includiug the '■wry of SoiDid, Heat, Ligiit, and Col 'iv I'rof. .S(:h]íiji,!'..n. iftlio )uli'ii'mrs is to put scienl 1 ii the hands of the general "'3 public, and so 8 u persode mtre se'Won. Tliere is a growlaj ddmand fJIM and scliíiitiii;:, and tha Idea af ■■' '!fmrs" is a %'rvjd one. f3.00 a ata. ■"ursile by üicmoiik & Fiske. '■' mtie MuUhhj hus nnother inpwof Hawthorne'a story, Septimius ÍWrthe Eüxir of Life, waich is to be 'Win the August nnmber; Iri, a bJ Bayard Taylor ; Red Remlolscen'ii'-h.vest, by Williurn K. 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