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Persons in want of Ilills.lllrinks or any thing, In the Jobbing ,line will /Ind it their in tore tto give us ft tall:. Every variety - of BLANKS cod- Ma i ntly on hand. .. . . -,, , ' in- All letters en bUsiness must be post-paid to se- . sato attehtion. -i' , . 7 , ~' ''.' ' • ificiterni cC Coca(' 'Thlformation. S. dovrausizzENT. PradfI9IIt—FRANIZLIN PIEILCE, Pico Peesidelit —Mr( Eicto), D. fe. kicitESo:l. 4ocrptary of SClite--AVm. L. Almon!, Secretary of Intotior—RoimitT mcci.ELTAND. Set:Tut:try of Trivisory—.l.oOlS S.(mrctitry War—JelTutsoY Serectary of Nuyy—.l%. C. Donors. -Oist.AinAtor I:otioral—Jeoins Atto'rney ersit(No. 01110f - (inertice e f liuito l States-11.--11. TANFL STATE -GOVERIstINIENT. liiwerner—J.kuts Penner Secretary of State--A.Nortmr 0. CURTIN. Surveyor (lonoral--J. I'. 1311AWLET. Autlitur General—E. 'rre4surer--Jesr:ru - JudgUs of the Voprome Cnurt—E. LEWIS, J. S. 111,:ten O. W. WOODWARD, J.. 9. - lily ox. COUNTY orrirdiens. PreSidinit Olt-illA3l. Asa . oeiate turn. District At t•trnity—Julin M. Shearer. Ty,tittmetary--Daniel R. Noell. Recorder. At tt M. Gregg. ' ' I.Ytle. 'De - pirty, Wainer, County Treasurer—N. W. Woodtt. t• Crtroner—.l with C. Tlatinpstin. . County (At/nulls:4o mint—Jam Bubb, James Armstrong, Geoi•ge M. (Nalitm.. Clerk to Continisajoners, Itilay. Directors rtf the Pour—Ceorge SlatatTer, George Bri n die. 'John C. Brown. Superinteinlent or robr Josaph BOROUGH orrrolms. Chief ti—tirgess—Col. AtrTto)NO Nom& Asgistant itur;tess--Charles , Co : anvil—John a Parker, (Preslll6lo F.. Beatty', lioury Nfyers. 1,-S. ligheit.r David Ithouaa.(!ind.tian huff, John ciutshall, Peter 31,,nrur. Uco. 7.. Blllth. Clerk to Connell—James' Mullin. Constables—,loseph 6towart, High Constable; Robert McCartney, IVard Constable. CHURCHES. First Presbyterian Church, northwest angle Of Centre B [lntro. Roy. CoNw to'r P. \Viso, Pastor.—Servlc9.•,every Sunday Wonting, at 11 o'clock, A. M., and 7 o'clock, P. ;I. . . • Sad PreAbyterian Church,mrtier of South rtanover and l'aturret streets. No pastor at prosent,, hitt pulja ill led by Presbyt erlal appal ntments. lt.:ervices conunencit at 11 o'eloak; A. M., anti 7 . o'clock,.P. M. Chur:lt, (Prot.. lipiseopal) northeast angle of Cent lit 4jnut. Hey. J Aeon 11. Muss, Rector. Services at 11 o'clock, A.M., and 3 o'clock, P. M. English Lut heron Church, Bedford between Main and Luther titrottts. Rev.: JACOB pastor. Serviced at 11 o'clock, A. M., and orniait Iteforinc..l I. , ,utlirr,f)etuvon fianover air! L'itt Ray. A. EL ha L?lril, Pastor. t:rvires at 1(0.1 o'clirk. A. 11.. and 13 1 ,:, P. M. E.Clturclr, (nr6t..c Largo) r , .rner of Maiu and Pitt sCructk ger. S. L. 11. l!”4: , EIA. Pa , tor. Sur% ices at 11 o'clock. .1. :kl., o'cirwk, P. M. MothodiNt E. l'hor,ll, v..o.ed t'llar i zej .14. r. J. m . JoNtts, Srrvlros in 011,40 chap e l, at i l o•dm.k. A. M., 1111;1 :I o'clock, P. 11. Ponarrt. near Ea,d strret.— SorOces iv-Rev, Mr. lioN.kisuo, t!rery second Sunday. , - - A .dernia n Lutheran Church , ii•cin oltlrse of er, e ti,,,, cra thi) erner or Pomfret and ,lietit'erd t:treets. con gregation, which Ilan yet uo held their cervlees in Ed uoation I Lail. airW ion changes in tho above are nreesFary the pro per persons aro to notify is. W)LL]EG-E• Rev. Charles , CoWas, Prenhlont. and Professor of Moral Bcfieneff. Kos. Herman M. Johnson, Professor of Philosophy anJfigliffif Literature. .hones W. Marshall, Professor of A nrient Languages. Hoe. Otis IL Tiffany, Professor lA, Mathematics. William Lorturer on Natural Science and Curator of the Musouin. Alex:twits. ,'chum, Professor of Ilubmw and 3ludern Laugnau•es. MAW:I.MM Arbogast, Tutor in Languages. -- ' Samuel P. Hillman, Principal of tlie(;rammar School. A. Suirely, Assistant In the Grammar School CORPORATIONS. C 11LL , Lt: D::Posir 111Nit,—Prosident, Richard Parker; Cashier. Wm. M. Iteetoin; Clerks, Henry A: Sturgeon. Joseph t'.ll,,lfer. , - Directors, litehard Parker, teary &tx ton, bolt S. :terrett, Jolla Zug, Ilepry Logan, Robert Moore, Samuel NVlthriy, Fanderson, Hugh gnarl. C;:iNan:al..rd, VALLEY HAIL COMPANY.—Pre:IIIIIIIIt, Pretlorit•lt - Wait!: ; Secretary and Treasurer, Edward 31. Biddle; Saperintendant, A. F. Smith.. Passenger trains twice a day I:astward, leaving Carlisle at 10.15 o'clock, A. M. unit 1,411.;c10ck,e, AI, Two trains every day West ward. le t via:: Carlisle at 9 o'clock, A. 31.. and 2.20, P. 31. CAltELiLlt 11A; ANI , WATER CYolPNY,—President, Fred eick Watts; Secretary, Lemuel Todd; Treasurer, 'Wm, 14. llovtom ; Direct,Qrs, F. Watts, Richard Parker, Loath.' lhdd, Win. 11. 110 , :tem, Dr. W. W. Dale, Franklin Gard ner. Henry Wass. RilavES or POSTAGE• Lzirru l'.'rtnr..—PoHtuge on all letters of nne-hel. nco Wei.ol t ur 1111111.1., 3 Grote lore-puitt, fir ti Vila, (t)gella to Calif./11113 311,i .01.0g011, which are G vents rl-pai.l, 4n. In cents Impala.) • te.alti.—Postago on the it 1.:11. tho •itnty, the Rate I:; cents per year. Tu . 6..2 Y Olt of tllO Baited St-it 26 vents. • Pouta4'.• on all truculent papers under 3 purees lu weitht, I NW or '2 route nripal4l. ti-A.SL & JOB 1,-'.II,INI { I NU OFFICE, IN. TUN REA.Ii OP Tilt; coma !must:. svary .• r p qi of Book awl .101, Printing, oxouctod notlqo a . nsl on rensonnblute,rms. I • ..... • • • - 4 , . • ,• •• • . .. 4 .• • ~.. . ,•. . , • ~,'„,..,, , u t.or „ 'r ti.: . • . 4' .• . ' I I- . • I '''''', : • " • ..,. , i . ‘ -• , , I -4.. - P ,• . 4 ... tr • . VOL. LV. 1 - IE 4 SALD AND EEPOSIEOR. AGRICULT UNAIL SOCIETY MEETING REPORT Of DISCUSSION. Tne Society met nt the Court House, on Tuesday, the Oth of March. The members weit - gensrally present, and the meeting was of a ,highly interesting character. The Presi dent, C4:o. 11. BUCHER, Esq , in the chair, and ROBORT Moony, Secretary. The object of the , meeting wag to disc'uss and compare the expe rience of the members on agricultural sub.: jests. Hon.' F. WATTS enquired for the .experi once _of ..any member. as to the most success• ful mode of raising_ wheat: whether upon fallow, clover soil, or oats stubble manured. llr STAYMAN, of the ioinity of Carlisle, re . plied that each had their advantages, but - that he thought fallow ground, in equally good condition, was most likely to . succeed. Prob ably the cause wits,jt4t. in dint- condition of •the g,r - ound, the manare 1v:0;1 - Imre intimately mixed with it, and better adapted as the plant than it would be in .n raw state, 'as - When put upon oats stubble, when it was too gross for SQ. cl_e_lkelioo _pinaLas_wlea t— • Mr. WATTS. said there may be another rem son. Much depends in the raising of any crop, in having the ground in good order when the seed is put in. Fallow ground is in a condition to be put in much better order for seed than any_other,_When ploughed, it be comes inure mellow and open, and is alwoys in better order than stubble.gronnd. Mr. W. CitatunEAD,• of South Middleton, suggested the idea whether the exposure. of the Mire ground to the hot sun of the summer hod nut the effect to improve it. Mr. STAYMAN thought that experience had not shown such to -be the result. • . Mr. Cri.vca, of North Middleton, here in troducA"the subject of Clover, and remarked that the clover of two or more years standing had the. appearance of being in very bad con dition, that it was ver,t , much thrown out of the ground by the .ttfect of the winter. Upon being enquired, of for the cause of this, i , Lo said that old clover always suffered more frotn the effect of winter than, that which was of but one year's growth, and the older the plant the more it suffered. This, it was suggested, was contrary to the analogy to be derived from other plants, wh,se age enabled them better to endure hardship ; but all present agreed to the fact established by Mr. Culver. He also assigned as a reason why the clover was injur ed more then usual this winter, that the drought of the last year caused a heavy pas• turage in the fall ; and the clover was tramp ed ionic by cattle, which lie deemed injurious to it. Mr. Culver illustrated this slew by say ing that he had,, observed that n path hardly trodden through one of his fields had thrown all its clover out of root where the ground was Here a conversation ensued in which Messrs. Kerr, Graham, Ileikes, J. W. Craighead, Bu cher, Sheaffer, Line, McKee, and others took part, on the subject of the proper time and Wetst, mode of sowing clover seed, plautingscorn end preparing onts,ground, width was very in teresting to farmers, but which we cannot correctly report, tt. having been prepared to note it at the time. The meeting before - it adjourned passed the following-resolutions. • Resolved, That the Recording Secretory, by letter, call the attention °teach of the Vice Presidents to their duty of procuring the,sub seriptiou of Life, Eight-years and' Annual mem bers, as provided by a resolution ut the last meeting. Resolved, That Messrs. Watts, Sheaffer, and Robert Moore be a committee to select a site which way be purchased and fenced as a per manent location for exhibition grounds, and make report to the next meeting of the Soci— ety for their adoption. The Society then adjourned to meet at the Court house, en Tuesday, the lith• of April next. . FIRAT OF A ITlL.—Toilm subscribers to the lb:raid - who contemplate chunffing their residences on the first or April, will please notify our cariers of the fact. Mail subscri bers who intend removing, will please in• form us of flier new directions uf' their pa- halo by Christian Hass, of North Middleton township, on Tuesday the 20th of March. Sale by Lafityeite Moore, of .SOutli - Mid dleton township, on Friday the 23d of March ,)itlitt fur tie c fitutilti -(Eirtvlt. WEDNESDAY, MARCH I'4,' 1855. lqnttEnsoAr . , Mat'ch Tti the' State 'Legislature,. yesterday, the Senate took up and passed finally, the supple mentary ant 'relative to insolvents,. .ome pro posed atneinlinefita the United States Cott stitutiori Ward .cansiderecl and postponed. In the limn& a number' of private bills were finally,and a large number of other 4 passed Committee of the Whole.. i . • A Veiyde,structive storm. occurred in Elmira -on Monday ,much damage in blowing down •ohinineyi; Sze. The Massachu setts town elections took • place on °Monday, and offift, towns heard from, the KnowJ,ioth lugs lave carried forty. A municipal pleotion, in Detroit has resulted- in the 'choice of ,the Democratic candidate for Mayor by 1100 ma jority. • The documents connected ' :with • the Ostend Conference have berm made public, and the official report of that famous diploma. tic Meeting Will be 'found in our paper to-day. The conference recommended the offer of a very largo sum of money for Cuba; which is not named in the report., biit conjectured, de. lie onelinuared and twenty millions of dollars. In the State Legislature, yesterday, three bills passed the Senate finally among 'which -was-tme- to iLsterre — the --- enpital—of - the Penn Township Bank. The House- passed a bill relative to the Union Canal,:another, appro priating $50,000 to _pay for iron. furnished for the Portage Railroad. 'The bribery bill was also amended and passed finally. • , The Indiana Legislature has adjourned sine die, without electing a U. S. Senator or State ()deers. The litter - cannot be appointed,by. the Governor. The ice in the Ohio river, at -Pittsburg, has given away, and nevigtitionAuti opened. Municipal election in Salem, Mass., and Chicago, Illinois, have resulted in -.tho election-,of tho American party candidates:— The Treasuser of Mhinhula county, : Ohio, having yesterday atternpted to - force operi'the' doors of the Farmers' Planet) Bank 'Ashta bula to collect the taxes, the payment of which hpd been refused, the Cashier resisted him., The Treasurer 'summoned the Sheriff to his assistance, and much excitement' was raiSed.. The New Jersey Legislature - yeat.erday.wits'it scene of much excitement, a struggle being made over the Mount Melly Bank bill, and charges of bribery being freely bandied about,, to investigate which committees' were'appoint ed. - In the State Legislature, yesterday, the Senate agreed to the proposed amendments to the State Constitution. A number of bills, of no general importance, passed the same body. In the House, a resolution was adopt ed exempting witnesses from punishment or penalty for anything they may bo required to testify before the investigating committee in reference to the improper use of the public funds The house also passed finally the bill to erect the new comity of Penn, out of the upper wards of the city of Philadelphia. A murderer named Phelps, confined at Al bany, under sentence of death for the murder of his wife, escaped from jail by overpowering his,jailor and locking him in. He was, how; ever, retaken. Anthony Burns, the liberated slave, whose rendition at Boston. caused such an excitement, bias returned there and been honored with a public meeting by way of "re ception. The Know Nothings of Chicago are rejoicing greatly over their municipal victory. They had ft publiti parade, headed by a Ger man Band. General Cuss has heenoeceived at Detroit with a,salute of thirty-two guns A firs at St. Mary's, Georgia, has destroyed the whole of the business part of that town. A fire at Detroit has burned a largo livery stable and front fifteen t..) twenty horses. The loss is about $20,000. The adjournment of the Indiana Legislature without filling the State offices, has caused math excitement at Indianapolis. The Governor has appointed persons to fill the posts left vacant, but the Secretary of State has refused to qualify them. Bill Poole, the pugilist, who was desperately wounded in the recent affray in New York, has died, and warrants have been issued for the arrest of his murderers. In the State Legislature, yAterday„ the Senate passed dually a bill to extend the juris diction of the Courts in cases of divorce, 'and an appropriation of $BO,OOO for new work on the Portage Railroad. The House ficietl through second reading the tavern license re peatbill,'rejected the bill relating to the revi: val of judgments, 'concurred in the Senate amendmentS,,appropriating $50,900 for iron used on the new . Portage RaProad Company. and passed finally the bill placing the flag of the, second Pennsylvania regiment of the U. S. army of •Mexico, into the custody of the,Ninjc.r lleneral of the Ist Division of Militia of this State for the use of the Scott Legion. Two elderly ladies, sisters of the late Abner Kneeland, were murdered lit their residence in South Cardiner, ,Mass' — on Wednesday night, by some plundering vagabond, who ransacked the house for valuables. A reward of $50.0 is offered for the arrest of Baker, the murderer of 11111 Poole. • A charter election in Milwau MIEN LEGISLATIVE: PROCEEDINGS, .s t r,ws.. ; TnratspAy, March 8 FRIDAY, March 9 SATURDAY, MaTell 10. t . . ' -.' l , ''.!' ' .t, t 1 li . • , ' . , ' _,;#o4 15 41 WI: . , : • ! , ~, : . j'' ) , : ''':. + '. '1 1: t• 1 I MoNtio - , l ,Morcit , 'ln the rennSYivania Legislature,, on Satur day', the Senate'did a large amount of bust.: nt4s of a"Pritete character. A nuinber of Bank Cliartet•s•passed second reading. ' In the House, also, touch business of n'private char actor wasiransaoted., ; A fire at ,Toutkinsrille, Staten Island,;on Friday night, 'destroyed four dwellings and three stores, the most substantial in the town, Losit about $30,000. The :fire caught in a groc,ery.store, from..tho explosion of 'a cam phene , A fire at Princeton, N. ;J., on Saturilay night, destroyed ,the 6:Oleg& knoWn as Nassau Ilan; wish' all:, the 'filrol tare, books, clOthes,:&o', of the studenti - The loss is about $50,000. -I.`he, U. - S2 Supreme Court has chised its term, having disposed of 78 eases dining its'seSsion. A terrific gale at Sanity Hook,' otr Saturday, cruised' an . utiknoWn schooner to ,founder, :with. all; on botird.• A despatch from Wilmington,• Dol., says that three 'buildings, belonging to Gauretsche's powder mill, exploded on Saturday, killing. two 'Men, and fatally wounding two others A_llestructive fire-is raging- in the woods-be= ' tweet/ Ilillville„akct.illalaga.,,N, J. MR. BRATTY:—.II(LyiIIg beard that• an, ex amination of Hie scholars of Mr. J. S. Ilostet % ter's school in Silver Spring, was to take place on Saturday last, I thought I would,drop ~in and see how things would move off,,i,,,Atjen o'clock, the exercises commenced by reading-a :portion or Scripture and shiging . ,:after, which WO had spelling r i nd reading, and exercises in Geography and Arithmetic until 12 o'clock IThe good ladies of the district, (" God,bless. themn had prepared a good 'cold dinner,ex,: cept " hot coffee,." which Was then served up and we were 011, filled; and there were taken up of the fragments big " baskets In he afternoon, the exercises *ere:introduced by reading and singing, after which examina tions of classes were had in Reading, Arith metic, Geography,•Grammay;lNatural Philos ophy, and Astronomy, and .a. lecture. on -each of the two last named sciences by the young ladies; also, a lecture on Botany by a young lady. A lecture on Elactribity, with some ex periments was given by MI6 of the " Wheys:: the shocked quite a number, amongst whom were some old ladies, whOscreamed as though they wore not more than seventeen years of age. After the exercises had closed, a young !' Lad" mounted the stage, made a very ap propriate address to the Directors and citizens. and presented to the County Superintendent a silver-headed Cane, which he was to use as staff to rest upon when weary; and also to employ it in beating back the powers of dark ness which are trying to crush our "Common School System." Several boys left the room, and in a few minutes returned rolling a barrel. upon which was placed a young " Lass," `who said it was a barrel of flour, Which the schol ars were about to present to their.Teneher, us a token of their. regard for his indefatigable exertions in their behalf. The Rev, Mr. Col- , der, of Harrisburg, then delivtreda short ad dress to the scholars, after which the County Superintendent addressed the 'citizens and scholars. Too much praiSe cannot he meted out, to the Teacher and citizens for. their exer tions on this occasion, and they were no doubt well rewarded by the smiling countenances 01 So many of the friends of Education, especial ly of the " fair sex." A FILIEND TO COMMON SCHOOL EDUCATION March 10, 1855. EXECUTION OF A EESPIMATE negro Artis, who was sentenced. to death for murdering his daughter, was executed at Sid ney,'Shelby county, Ohio, .on the 23d ultimo. He fought - desperately with the officers, on hit way to the gallows, and tore the coat, com pletely off the Deputy Sheriff in endeavoring to resist the efforts made in putting the rept' around his neck. It took six men tti'iecure him upon the scaffold, and. when at*, last he was swung off, ho managed to. got hold of flit rope with his hands, which prevented the fall from breaking his neck. Atter struggling Violently for some tints, ho, was choked - to death, when his body. was taken down aid burned, , THE PURCHASER OF MR. WEBSTER'S FARM, —The name of the gentleman Who purchas ed the Webster farm Franklin, N. 11., is Rufus L. Tay, Esq., and not Fay, as has been announced by the papers. It is only a f e w years since he was an apprentice to a carpenter at Concord, but came to Boston. was successfal in business, and now . retires to his now purchase at Franklin,as his per minent yesidtince. ItErk...SainuorMaxwoll, !Lying at Easton, was strangled by a pieco of roast . beef, while at dinner tho other day, and died in a NW min utes.. kie,..Whmonain. resulted in the sneeese 'of the whole Democratic ticket, by a large .majority. [yet the Herald.] 4t INTERESTING EXHIBITION. OPENIN t of the PANAMA RAILROAD. This irnportnnt - elieptivOs celebrated on the 16th and 17th uli, dry appropriate ceremonies, at Aspinwnll, Mara Chin and Panama. A nu• merous party of 'invitdd gue'strt had gone out from the United - Snap, W.,0, with the.regular passepgers for California, set out on the 16th in a long train of cars,. to cross , the Isthmus by steam. At OittiOhir . , they stopped to lay the eortnr-sti no of a monument to. the projectors of the road.' 'The site ef Alia monument is de scribed as magnificent. . It is one of a series of natiiPiti mounds, Which have alMost the ap pearance of artificial structure. The ground undulates in ,those mounds in the'midst cf nn ampi then ti e of distrintmountains. ' Palm trees surround their. base, and wave grneefullf - to•-,: the cooliti,sg brecie.whiCh tempers the heat of the noonlday tropical- sun. A park like ex-. pause of loiidlopthstretchesloway - on'one side from the base of the no und, with spreading trees, hero and there of India 'rubber and mangrove. Through the palms. at the , base you bid o'd do rarionii, with the:Clingred and • Rio Orbispo, :whose wn'ers unite nt tile point. Here, amid n'enowd of CalifernianS, an'Oration vas delivered by Judge liciwlin, the 'flaked States Minister to New arnnoda, after Which the party resumed their journey. At 'l2l}' A. M t .ey arrived safely ~, at nirvana, having been four and a half hour's-on the way, with a speed of from; twelve to fourteen miles nu hour. 'lie. usual runtipp r ti• Ls to. be four hours. The depiiiiit Panittna. ' at present Playa Prieta—outside of the wal —north of the City Compelly. The passenge efrom Calif( r- • tug ) nia to go in open boats, from t e bench to: two miles in the bay. This is, of course, an in convenience and an °lista of serious import to the conveyance orfreight. To prOide against these ditlienlties, it is;proposeq to con tinue the road through the city to a point op- posite to an is belonging. jointly te•Jhe Pno;fic - Mail Steamship Company and the Pan area Italiro3 , l Company. This island is caller Pingo,- and. is, aticiut. 12,000... feet „long,..otuoi, would neon:re a stone pier of two miles 'nnitir half, involving an kdditticzoil expense of soy - end millienin• -'l.llierens a - gotnt nottrqn- of tiro railroad. sill' _uPoroneltio work, whiai -inter- -, feres with the carriage of heavy freight_-. This, however, is being rapidly, filletl in.- The ' cans and all the appointments_ are like those of the besCrailrePols in the United States. It is it menuirah!e fact that the locomotive first pas sed ham - ) (wean op trin 27th of January, con- veying, the Chief Engineer Col. Totten, and the Deneral Superintendent—a triumphant re-- . suit of which these men of genius nud'enter rr:se deserved the first position, as to then, belongs the glory. The passengers to and from California passed through on thee 30th, ' and, shice_thon the_road has _been open - kl•tu- -- regular travel: . . , . At Panama there were enthusiastic and pro- . longed - festivities; a lonch on board the Brit: ---, ish Mail steamer in the -harbor; a hanipiet given by' the Railroad Directors, on Up. ovvii:,, . ing. of the 17th, to a large party, where i speeches were made ; and finally, a public. breakfast at 'Aspinwall on.-4 - th'e 26th, clii-sing' , with O ball in the evening at Panama. Most of the party from this City .returned by w:ty of Havana, in.one,ofthe Company's steamers, „ --il'ew rork Tribune. NO., 28 . . It gives us pleasure to copy froroTthe As_ pinwall haily Couaier the following well meri7 ted, tribute to the skill, energy and persever nnoe of Col. Totten, the engituter.of the newly completed Panama Railroad Amohg the Committees appointed by some of the New Granadinn residents of Pariatnn, for preparing and conducting a celebration of the opening of the Panama Railroad is one in structed "to congratulate the Panama Rail road Company, in the person'of Col. Totten, for the conclusion of the important work." Ike. We deem this medium of congratulation the most fitting one, and we are laugh pleased that the New Cirahadians have shown their nprre ciation-of the past and present position of him whom they design to congratulate, After the herculean task which - Col. Ti Iten has accomplished, had been given up by bath Enelish and French engineers, he entered u, on it with true Yankee alacrity and energy; supportel on ono hand by that nobility of confidence which knows no such, word as fail, and on the other by that powerful foresigl t which long and varied experience in the at &tons cultivation of high talent could alto o produce, and by which tho sure accomplisl meta, and the immense consequence of his . 4, 7% . hors were ever kept in view. For four years and a half he has cotairMally preserved the snme-nlacrity and energy that were manife- - ted ut the outset. During the whole of the t. time he has straggled with every variety of oh. steele and discouragement ; his whole tin o and strength, mental and phy ical, snch rs rex men have, or, having, know' how to - give, have been given to the work, of which he h: s h td, during most of the time, the chief supet inteedeuee. 11 bother supported by the presence and counsel of those in joint superintendence with him, or battling alone, ho has been always firm anti faithful ; amid prosperous progress, or seemingly ruinous retardings of the work Of construction, whether"the effect of an unparal leled climate or soil, or the sudden worke f such accumulated force of Nature's elements as could never be calculated - upon—against the unwarantable use and the most y rovokiog p. rrersi :it of their authority, by the lowtr class of udges and rulers, as well as the glar ing neglect and tl o short sighted interprete- - d ons of t h e i r d u i e s by those of the hith. r • grades; upon the Isthmus---nvid sickness re newed and renewable-in thole snapping and rushing forms :with which disease works out • its fatal effects only in tropical clinuttes, break-, ing dowti every class of assistants, and labor ers, and even continually preying upon him. DeSpite these difficulties, he has been always: true, trustful and triumphant. Anti now that the work iv accomplished, wo s have felt it our duty to - declare f , him the knowledge and sentiment of thoso - wito have known and watched, and co-labored With him hero, on the arena of his triumph, But we should not fully complete such declarAtior, without expressing the earnest hope of our 'fellow-residents—that he will immediately be released front his labors, and recruit his shat tered constitution by travel and recreation; . and tl.at he may thus be Brave' to enjoy the full development of the incalitnable results which the Panama Railroad is destined to pro- duce. •'
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