Locomotive, Volume 33, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1855 — Page 1

:T lV'i:i-i-;-t-t-i-i' Y' i i i r ii wiuLj JL jinn i tateaam"f ui&tiimM JOHN R. ELDER, Editor. 'The Chariots shall rage in the streets," they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. "Kuhum,i, 4. ELDER & HARKNESS, Publisher.

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THY TO MESSENGER'S Steam Rellned Confectionary, & where we can Eat the worth of our money. jSrenh Cocoamit Cukes and Cream Bonbons, Crenin Fruits andlerysUllized Fruits. Also all other kinds of Confectionary. Do not forget the place, I Vaiiblaricum's Block. Meridian Street, ' oct21-tf Indianapolis, Ind. To Cabinet Maker. JUST received and for sale at Cincinnati prices, for cash, a large lot of Mahogany and Walnut Vaneors; alto. Drawer Locks, Bed and Table Castors, Table Butts and Screws at the sign of the big padlock, No. 28 West Washington street. nov4 HENRY S. KELLOGG. AIMK OF THE CA FITOE. .-Interest paid on money deposited for a specified time. Bills of Exchange, Join and Uncurrent Money dealt in generally. lan20-tf JUni wuui.j,r.r, lasmer. g?r?l VENETIAN BLINDS, j! jl , MADS AND REPAIRED, lipi Beconddoor North ofPlalningmill,on Alabamast. IfeSl : J. 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All kinds of Tin, Copper, and Shoe ron work done to order. Those wanting auy.hing in our lino, will do well to give us a call before purchasing elsewhere, at the sign of the Gilt Ball, south aide of Washington Street, near the Masonic Hull. octl-y . R.L. &A. W. McOUAT. ITEW ARRANGEMENT TO TAKE EFFECT 'ION DAT, July it, 18S4V. fTrr at!JW.Mli;W8J l.llJlAArUJjllS AftUUUUl.rtll fjjfwl2: RAILROAD, Connecting with the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, by Special Train. No detention on this route by waiting for other trains! Through to Cincinnati in 4 hours. The only direct route to Cincinnati, being 30 miles shorter and 1 hours quicker than any other route. , Lightning Repress Train leaves Union Depot at 11 A. M., and arrives at Cincinnati at 3i P. M., only stopping at Shelbyville, Greensburgh and Lawroncebtirgh; dine atShelbyville. Chicago Mail Train leaves at 4 P. M., aftr the arrival of the Chicago' train and arrives at Cincinnati at 9 P. M., supper at Greensburgh. Fare to Cincinnati, $3 00 Baggage checked through. Through tickets can be procured at Union Depot, over this route to New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Columbus, O., and Wheoliug, via the Little Miami Railroad. Passengers taking the 11 A. M. train, arrive in Cincinnati in time to take the 5 P.M. trains lor the East. Jul 29 T. A. MORRIS, Pres't. GREAT CENTRAL AND EASTERN ROUTE. INDIANA CENTKAE RAILWAY. i AND CINCINNATI f$rttWSS5 1855.. mWMi 1855. NEW ARRANGEMENT. few Route to Cincinnati and Dayton, Co. Inmbasi Cleveland:, l'lttNDuririi , I'll i InlelDkiaand New Vork. On and after Thursday, August 17, 1854, Passenger Trainswill run as follows, Sundays excepted: Two Trains daily, each way. Morning Express leave Indianapolis at 5.45, A. 'M. Passengers leaving in 5.45 A. M. train arrive in Cinoinnnti at 11.45 A.M., in Davton at 10.40 A. M., in Columbus at 2.30 P. M., in Cleveland at 6.45 P. M. Mail train Leaves Indianapolis at 12 M. Passengersleaving in 12 M. train arrive in Cincinnati at IS. 30 P.M., in Dayton in 5.00 P. M. Passengers for Columbus, Newark, and Zanesville,by taking the 12 M. train arrive in Dayton at 5.00; in Columbus at 9.45 P. M., being six hours in aavance of all other Routes. Pussongers tuking 12 M. train arrive in Cincinnati at 6.30 P.M. Passengers leaving Indianapolis at 12 M. for Dayton, Columbas, Crestline, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and New York, arrive in Dayton at 5.00 P. M., in Columbus at 9.45 P. M., at Crestline 12 at night, in time to connect with the night train on Ohio and Pennsylvania Road, for Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and N. York. No change of guage or cars to Dayton. Passengers save by this route 28 miles to Dayton, and 50 miles to Columbus, Pittsburg, or Wheeling, over any other Railroad route. Through tickets can be procured at the office. in the Depot. TjEastorn Baggage Checked to Buffalo; Pittsburg, Philadelphia and New York Baggage to Pittsburg. JAMES M. SMITH, Supt. As regards Freight. Inquire of jau7 W. A. BRADSHaW, Freight Agent. THE GREAT EASTERN ROUTE. 1855 1855. INDIANAPOLIS, BFLLEFONTA1NE AND CLEVELAND RAILROAD. CONNNECTING at this place with trains from Lafayette. Torre Haute, Jeffersonville, and Madison. Passengers will find this the cheapest, shortest, quickest and inojt comfortable route to Dayton, Springfield, Urbunna, BjUefontaine, Columbus, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Dunkirk Buffalo, Albanv, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore. and Washington. , . Two Trainsleave Indianapolis daily(Sundays excepted). 1st day Telegraph Express leaves the Union Depot at 6 A. M.; connect at Union with Train for Dayton and Cincinnati; at Bellelontaine with Train for Sandusky, Toledo, and Detroit; at Gallion with Train for Columbus; and arrive in Cleveland at 7 same evening, in time to connect at Cleveland with the Lake Shore Railroad ExpressTraiu, connecting at Dunkirk and Buffalo with the day Express Train, and arrive in New York early same evening. Passengers by this train breakfastbefore leaving Indianapolis. 2d. Express Mail Train leaves the Union Depot at 12 M. making the way-connections arriving in Cleveland next morning Ui time for the Express Trains for Dunkirk, Buffalo and ew York als for Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Baltimore r Through Tickets can be procured at the office in the Depot. Tp,passengers for Columbus, bv taking 6 A. M. train via. Bellefontaine, arrive at Columbus at 5 same afternoon. FareThrough $4.00 S. A. FLETCHER, Superintendant. , .. O'nce nearthe Union Depot, lndianpoIis 1853. oct?9-tf

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THE WAR IN THE EAST. The arrival of the Ballio brings additional news of the progress of the Crimean War, from which we extract the following: WHAT THB ALLIES ARE OUT OF, AND WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. The Paris correspondent of the N". Y. Times writes: The allies are out of amunition, out of men, out of luck, out of spirits, and out of sorts. Their terrible bombardment, which was to be followed by the assault in five days, was prolonged to eleven, and then "provissionally suspended." They are waiting for more reinforcements. They are waiting for more powder, and for more food for powder. They want both sulphur and men. Lord Raglan is clamorous for the Sardinian convoy. The allies are disappearing fast, while the Russians are forever gathering faster, and faster, into and around the beleaguered city. The invaders' guns are sprung, and could not be safely fired, even if there was ball to load them. These guns must have repose. The Russians merely replace theirs by new ones drawn from those marvellous arsenals, which form one of the revelations of this war. The Allies have completed their telegraph from London and Paris to Balaklava, nnd have used it to forward complaints and ill-tidings over, ever since it was opened. Gortschakotf, a successful continuer of the Meschikoffian traditions, dispatches daily bulletins to his master, conceived in the same curt, precise, imperturbable vein, as those of his predecessor. He is preparing a terrible and combined attack on the enfeebled enemy. The allies lately decimated by snow and frost, are now in dread of the heat of returning summer. They are wondering whether they cannot get rid of their corpses by some more speedy and effectual way than burial. They are talking of the employment (f chemical substances; of the reduction and consumption of the dead by the agency of acids. They live in fear of putrifaction, decomposition, miasma, pestilence, and death, by a worse scourge than war. In the meantime, they have made no breach of sufficient importance to admit of an assault, and have not the men to try it, or the pluck to risk it. More men and more powder are called for there ; more money and more heart-breaking is called for here. . Fathers and cartridges, sons and congreve rockets, husbands, hearts, gunpowder, human life, sulphuric . acid, blood, love, bombs, industry, peace, commerce, hope, prosperity, home, happiness, fireside, country, France must furnish all this, and sacrifice all this, to satisfy the ambition of one man. Louis Napoleon has risked his throne upon Sevastopol. WHAT THE RUSSIANS SAY OF THE SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL. " The Invalide JRusse publishes Prince Gortschakoff's account of the bombardment to the 15th, and by telegraph the Russian official accounts are brought down to the 24th of April. Prince Gortschakoff describes the cannonade which was opened by the Allies on the 9th, as tremendous; its object being evidently to dismount the Russian guns. The beseiged replied with success, and on the 10th, in less than lour hours, silenced 50 of their opponents' guns. From this circumstance Prince Gortschakoff judges that the loss of the enemy must have been considerable. Some of the Russian guns and gun carriages were dismounted, but were immediately replaced by others, and all the damages done to the epaulements and batteries were successfully repaired. "From the 11th to the 15th," he says, "notwithstanding that the enemy continued to canuonade the fortress with the greatest energy during the day, and to bombard during the night, we have not had many guns dismonnted, owing to the fortification having a sufficient number of traverses and to the batteries being sheltered by blindages. All our damage is actively repaired during the night ; the dismounted guns are replaced by new ones, and the losses of the garrison made good by reinforcements: so that on the 15th Sevastopol was as strong as before the bombardment." The Allies, he states, mount 350 guns, of of which 80 are mortars. He also states that the skirmishes undertaken to defeat the trench and mining operations of the besiegers, have been generally successful, and that they are "quite to the taste" of the Russian volunteers, as they offer them an opportunity of displaying their valor. The garrison, he says, is intrepid, and even gay. The loss sustained by the garrison from the 11th to the 15th of April, is set down at 7 subalterns and 436 men killed, and 6 superior and 34 subaltern officers, and 1,899 men wounded. "In the night between the 18th and 19th of April, 100 volunteers and three companies of the Tobolsh Infantry Regiment, commanded by the brave and intelligent Major Prikots, made a sortie, which was crowned with the most complete success; a section of the detachment rushed upon the nearest entonnoir caused by the explosion, another on the approaches to it, and the others remained in reserve. The first two sections shot down and put to the bayonet the enemy, who, three companies strong, occupied the entonnoir and the approaches leading to it, and destroyed the works erected ; when the enemy's reserve came up they left the entonnoir, joined their re serves, and drew the r rench under a very heavy fire of grape from Bastion 4. "The loss of the enemy on this occasion was very considerable; our loss on the contrary, was comparatively unimportant." In Ins dispatch of the 24th, Prince Gortscha koff says: -"The fire of the enemy coutinues, but is slacker. The damage done to our fortifications, and the losses of the garrison are also less in proportion." THE ACCOUNTS BY THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH. The official dispatches to Lord Raglan are to the 17th April only, and from General Canrobert to the 16th. Lord Raglan states that the con dition of the army before Sevastopol continued to improve, and mortality from disease to de crease. The. fire of both the English and French armies had been continued upon Sevastopol; but though superior to that of the enemy, Lord Raglan admits that it had not produced that effect which might have been anticipated from its constancy, power and accuracy. The list of casualties is not heavy. The correspondence

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which has come to hand since our last gives a 1 description of the furious sortie from the Flagstaff Battery upon the French lines on the 13th. A long and desperate struggle took place. Twice the Russians succeeded in entering the parallel in advance of the battery, and twice they were repulsed the second time with such loss as to compel an immediate retreat. The French made no attempt at pursuit, as the enemy were within a stone's throw of their own batteries. General Bizot was wounded in this affair, and having been struck also with a chance bullet after the close of the fight, has since died. In this sortie the French lost between fifty and sixty killed and wounded, the Russians a far greater number. On the 14th the French fired three mines, under the Flagstaff Battery, with partial success. The Russians, fearing an assault opened a furious cannonade along the whole line. On the the night of the 17ih the French succeeded in making a lodgment in one portion of the battery, but on the 27th they were compelled to yield their position. SUSPENSION OF THE SIEGE, Telegraphs from Sevastopol to the 28th ult., state that on that day the Allied commanders had suspended their fire so as not to ex-haust their ammunition, and that they were awaiting reinforcements which were hourly expected. A Russian dispatch, however, dated the evening of the 28th says: "The firo of the enemy is moderate. Their approaches progress slowly. We have established at 100 yards from bastion No. 4 a row of rifle pits which serve to form a continuous branch of communication." The information with regard to the gathering of the Russian reinforcements is obtained from a telegraphic dispatch from Lord Raglan. The dispatch itself has not been published, but it was stated in the House of Commons on the night of the 1st, that it contained an announcement of the Russian army in the neighborhood of Sevastopol between Balaklava and Mackenzie's farm, having been reinforced by two divisions of fresh troops. According to the statement of two Polish deserters, there are 100,000 Russians in the vicinity of Sevastopol, 60,000 of whom were from Simpheropol. IMMENSE EXPENDITURE OF AMMUNITION. . During the first week of the bombardment, the English trenches alone fired away between 15,000 and 17,000 22 and 68 pound shot and shell; 7,800 13 inch shells; and 4,500 10 inch shells; making in all about 2,200 tuns of shot and 500 tuns of powder. The English trenches mounted on the 15th, 104 guns and mortars; the French 230; so that during the first week's bombardment about 6,000 tuns of shot and shell, and 1,500 tuns of poi,' xpeoded. ., - HOW THE RUSSIANS REWARD MERIT. The London Times says: "We believe we can inform our readers whom it was that the English engineers had to contend with. The name of the head engineer at Sevastopol is Todleben. He is thirty-two years of age. His parents are poor shop-keepers at Riga. When the siege commenced, Prince Menchikoff, it is said, asked the then head engineer how long it would take to put the place in a state of defense. He answered "Two months." A young captain, named Todleben, stepped forward and said he would undertake to do it, if he had as many men as he required, in two weeks. He did it in twelve days, and was made Colonel. Since that time he has had the direction of everything in the way of building batteries, defences, &o. The other day the Grand Duke called upon his wifr, who is residing in St. Petersburg, to congratulate her upon her husband's promotion; for he is now General and Aid-de-Camp to the Emperor. Is anything more wanted to explain the painful discrepency between what has been done by the Russians and by the Allies?" AMERICAN RAILROADS. The railroads of the United States embrace an amount of condensed labor, in the form of capital, which is truly astonishing. In 1 828 there were three miles in operation; at the present moment there are twenty thousand. In that year there was only one railroad on our continent, now there are three hundred and thirtynine. We have before us the recently printed and excellent Report of the New York State Engineer, John Clark, Esq., for last year, in which we find it stated that there are 2,723 miles of track in operation, with 803 miles of a double track, making a total of 3,526 in the State of New York. The whole length of railroads completed and projected is 4,436 miles. The amount of stock paid in is 869,473,458; and the funded debt $68,230997, making the total amount expended $137,704,455 a vast sum. There are 668 locomotives in use, and 8,816 passenger and freight cars. The passenger , trains have run 7,024,190 miles on 2,437 miles of road. and the number of passengers carried amounted to about ten millions. . Out of this number, one was killed for every 833,000 who traveled, and one injured out of every 333,000. In 1853, one passenger was killed out of every 750,000, and one injured out of every 425,000. The safety to life in traveling last year, therefore, was greater than the year before. This is pleasing, and the more so, as it is recorded that not one passenger lost his life from' causes beyond bis own control, although the distance traveled by each amounted to 39 miles. . This is high testimony to the safety of New York railroads and their mode of management during the past year. It is certainly for their own interest to be very careful and employ none but competent persons, for we find that the New York and New Haven Railroad paid no less than $297,360 for damages to persons and property. The greatest amount of destruction of life was that of persons run over while walking on the track, the' number of such being no less than 66, and 35 injured. Our railroads, as we have advocated for years, should all be fenced in. Although last year was one of great depression in business, we find that the increase of passengers amounted to 50,000; thus showing that our people come good or bad times must be about, to "push along, keep moving." The expenditures of these roads, last year, rather baffles us to understand. For maintenance of way the increase was 60 per cent., and

for repairs of machinery 25 per cent.; thus showing that there has been a lack of economy somewhere. We commend the subject of contracting with engineers for running the engines, making repairs, &c. This has been found to work economically on English roads during the past year.

and we cannot see why it may not on our roads. The amount of wealth embraced in 20,000 miles of railroad, at $20,000 per mile for construction, would be $400,000,000; yet it is a fact, that much of this is debt, and owned in Europe. Every effort should be made to liquidate it, for any public work, deep in debt, affords a sorry theme for congratulation, however grand and great the work may be. Thus we find, that the New York and Erie Railroad cost 833,439,431; $25,126,669 of which is debt. The character of our railroads, so far as it relates to their management, suffered greatly last year by enormous lrauds, perpetrated by some of those who had the principal management of them. At the present moment there are but a very few in our whole country which pay their expenses and interest on stock and debt. Our country is well adapted for the building of railroads, at a 6mall cost,. in comparison with the English roads, and yet numerous sums have been thrown away for want of skill and know ledge in construction. The greatest amount of expense is incurred in the building of bridges, tunneling, deep cuts, and the filling of ravines. Improvements will yet be made on machinery to reduce the cost of constructing railroads and also the running expenses. Indeed we are posi tive that the Suspended Purchase of W. 11 Brown, noticed on page 156, this volume Scien tific American, must greatly reduce the cost of many heavy works, such as the building ot piers in coffer dams, fec. We have seen a model of this apparatus, weighing only five ounces, trans port a weight of 75 pounds, with great rapidity over a span of 81 feet, and made to deposit and take it up at any point in the whole span. It is our opinion that it is one of the best engineering inventions of the age, and we have been informed that it is soon to be employed on the Troy and Greenfield Railroad, where the great tunnel is to be cut through the Green Mountains. Our railroads must learn to save more in fuel, oil, and in construction. A great expense of fuel can be saved by substituting coal for woodburning engines. On our railroads west of the Alleganies, especially, there is no good reason whatever why they should not use coke for fuel, as there is such an abundance of coal throughout the West. Those connected with and deeply interested in our railroads should use great efforts to retrieve their character,- A spirit of er'erprie in searching out and adopting new improvements, and a rigid economy in every department, are required to place them upon a proper and paying level. We hope that the present year will be propitious in a bountiful fruitage and harvest, so that prosperity may again beam upon every department of labor and industrial interest, and by great increase of freight and passengers to our railroads, add to their income, and enable them to improve their shattered condition. Scientific Amer. The Legend of the Koh-i-noor. There is a strange and gloomy superstition in India respecting the possession of the Koh-inoor that famous diamond which all the world went mad to see in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, and which the Hindoos say entails ruin and de struction on every dynasty that possesses it. We will endeavor to condense its history, as far back as it can be traced. The earliest years of the Koh-i-noor are lost, like the beginnings of all great things, in tLe ob scurity and mists of time. Meer Joemlah, its first historical possessor, is supposed to have torn it from a native Hindoo prince, and is known to have presented it to Aurungzebe, the Emperor of Hindostan. With him, then, begins its historical existence. At the death of Aurungzebe, the fortunes of his house declined, and the empire consolidated by him with so much skill and power crumbled to pieces so soon as his powerful hand was withdrawn. A complete desolation came over India on the invasion of that tyrantrobber. Nadir Shah, of Persia. He took the Koh-i-noor from Mahomed Shah, the degenerate Emperor of Hindostan; and after plundering Dihlee, and flpating its streets in blood after committing cruelties and excesses that make one blush for humanity, and after gathering up a fabulous amount of spoil from his victims he set out on his return to Persia; but never to reach it. He was assassinated by his chiefs in the mountains of Cabul, and Ahmed Shah Dooranee, the first King of Cabul, secured the Koh-i-noor as his share ot the plunder. His dinasty lasted till our own times ; but a fate hung over it parallel only to that which brooded 60 darkly over the fortunes of Egisthus. Parricide, murder, incest, treason, rebellion, these make up the annals of Ahmed Shah Dooranee's house ; the only alternations being from crime to misfortune, from sorrow to sin. Shah Shooja, driven into exile, sought hospitality as a fugitive king from Runjeet Sing. The fatal Koh-i-noor was still preserved to him almost the only remnant of his former wealth. Runjeet Sing knew that he had the diamond with him, and starved him till he gave it up to him, which the poor weak craven runaway was at last compelled to do. Soon afterward Runjeet Sing entered in to an alliance, offensive and defensive, with our government, one of the objects of which was the absurd one of replacing Shah Shooja on the throne of Cabul. When the alliance was concluded Runjeet Sing died, bequeathing the diamond to the god Juggernaut. His bequest was disregarded ; and after a rapid succession of members of his family had each in turn obtained possession of the Koh-i-noor, and each in turn come to sorrow and ruin, the British government destroyed the Sikh nation, and Lord Dalhousie sent the Koh-i-noor to Queen Victoria. This, then, is the history of this famous diamond, and these are the facts on which are founded the superstition that no dynasty possessing the fatal gem can prosper or continue. This superstition has a material truth. - So many foregone coincidences could not fail of leading 'o a

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like conclusion for that which is to come after; the dark shadow of such a past must inevitably fall on the pathway of the future. But it has also a spiritual truth, which is, that ill-gotten wealth seldom prospers with those who have gotten it, and that, if justice sleeps for one generation, she wakens up with her naked sword brandished before the eyes of another. Tho Koh-i-noor has been fatal to all its possessors, because they were all men of violence and of crime ; they ruled lawlessly, and they plundered ruthlessly, and that plundered wealth turned to curses, not to blessings, in their hands. If England changes her policy, and rules the people of India in justice and mercy, Victoria may wear the Koh-i-noor on a brow uninjured by its mystical blaze ; but until then until justice and not lawlessness, right and not violence, stand by the Indian throne in British halls of government the fate of the Koh-i-noor may be fulfilled in England as in Hindostan, and ruin may follow robbery, and judgment come after crime. England occupies no very enviable position now. OUR D0LLAR0CRACY. We are not cursed in this country with those hereditary locusts called nobles, but have nevertheless a privileged order the dollarocracy. This order cannot boast of its antecedents. Its members, of the second and subsequent generations, like nothing less than an inquiry into their pedigree. Satisfied with the golden fruit of their genealogical tree, they have no desire to soil their kid gloves by grubbing for its roots among barrels of pork and hogsheads of molasses. Now, if there is anything for which we have a thorough contempt in man or woman, it is parvenu pride. There is a superabundance of it among the present generation of our dollarocracy. Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth Street overflow with it. The scions of aristocracy abroad are generally highly educated, polished, and courteous to their inferiors in social position; these are their chief merits, and in these repects, we are sory to say, the superfine portion of our dollarocracy do not resemble them. They are quite as axtravagant, twice as arrogant, but by no means so well informed as their foreign prototypes. Their penchant for fast horses, fast women, costly apparel, palatial residences and champagne, cannot be surpassed; but they have an ugly knack of affecting to despise decent people of the same trades and callings as their grandfathers and grandmothers. Upstart Uppercrust, Esquire, whose riches were coined from the sweat of his immediate progenitors, would think it horrid to place his soft digits in the horny palm of Trowel, the bricklayer; and his lady wife, lineally descended from the washtub, faints at the smell of suds. Let us not be understood cortemr:pg wealth or any of the luxurious appliances wealth will purchase. To say the truth, our tastes are decidedly Sybaritish; but we detest vulgar affectation. Splendid houses, fine pictures, classic statues, conservatories, elegant equipages, and good dinners are capital things, and he who has the means of procuring thera and has them not is a rfraitor to himself. But your manly republican can enjoy these desirables, without giving himself airs. He is always frank, courteous, hospitable, American. It is only vulgar emptiness that fortune has the power to inflate; and unfortunately, there is a large amount of that light commodity among the superexquisite portion of our dollarocracy. ' N. Y. Leader. Heavy Blow for Chicago. The St. Louis Intelligencer of the 17th announces the completion of the "Joliet with the Northern Indiana Railroad, by an eastern stretch of forty. five miles in length. The Intelligencer says the Joliet "cut-off" is a continuation, almost in a due east line, of the celedrated Rock Island Railroad. The route has been continued eastward from Joliet; it connects now with the Northern Indiana road, far to the east of Chicago and Chicago is effectually "cut off" from the enjoyment of the profits of the mightiest tide of travel that has heretofore swept through her borders. Possibly, her people may think, with Mr. Toots, that it is of "no consequence," but everybody else knows that it will Tiave an incalculable effect in slackening the pulsation in her streets and thorough-, fares. Not only Davenport, Rock Island, Lasalle, Ottawa and Joliet, all most thriving young cities,' and to some extent alien in interest from Chicago, but Burlington, Keokuk, Quincy, Peoria, Blooraington, Springfield, Alton not to mention Sr. Louis are all interested in the success of the Joliet "Cut off," for it affords to all those cities a trip to New York twelve hours shorter than can be obtained by going through Chicago. Will the travel from these cities be found often, henceforth, passing through and paying tribute to Chicago? We think not. Chicogo is "out of the ring," and people will go to see her only when business is not pressing, and travel is not urgent, and they have nothing else to do. Cin. . Commercial. Advice to Youno Ladies. Clandestine courtships are not only dishonorable and uncertain in ' their results, but a base fraud upon the confidence of parents. They are in all aspects discreditable, because, however pure and sincere, the concealment implies a doubt of the integrity of one of the parties. Either tho man is ashamed of the woman, or the woman is ashamed of the ' man, or somebody interested, is ashamed of one or the other of them, or tbey design to deceive a confiding parent or guardian; but look at it in any way, or light, the proceeding is disreputable. The voung woman compromises her reputation for "people will talk," scandal will originate, and society, detesting secrecy in affairs of the heart, is prone to be censorious; and the man, if not re-. strained by some purity of principle, is ever ready to regard the woman with suspicion at least. They think, with Brabantio, that if a girl deceives her parents, she will' deceive others So, girls, have a care that in attempting to deceive others, you are not yourselves deceived. i3?"Well, Alick, how's your brother Ike getting along these hard times?" "Oh, first rate got a good start in the world married a widow who had nine children."