Show a aw daege GAUGE THE tue narrow gauge railroad is growing in favor and projects project 9 for building roads of this description are under consideration in many different countries A company has been formed to build an iron track thirty inches wide from piqua liqua to celina a distance of forty four miles in northwestern ohio on a line parallel to and not far from the miami and erie canal A road of the ordinary gauge would cost and the company are confident that they can build a narrow road for one third of that sum the chicago railway review thus describes the character of this projected road the right of way is to be 15 feet in place of 40 feet wet instead of iron will be required I 1 six tons instead of SO 30 will draw from ten to twenty loaded freight cars each baying having a capacity of two and a half tons under freight freig t and passenger cars alike the latter seating twenty persons four wheel trucks will be placed the ues jes wili will of course lie be nearer than on the wide gauge while finally on account of the lightness of car equipment in comparison with capacity and of thal the central position of tho the trucks both higher gradients and sharper curves are practicable great greatly lr reducing cost coat of excavation and add other important items of construction the review in I 1 the same article speaking about the narrow gauge road says A raad of this kind for transporting i coal is already in operation the only one in this country as yet between akron and alid massillon massalon ohio A system of narrow gauge railways is also projected from toronto canada as feeders to the wide gauge roads now centering that par pan ties interested in the proposed buffalo fralo and ana d road hoad are now examining the canada system with a view to the adoption of the narrow gauge the tho kansas and denver pacific companies also contemplate reaching the mining regions near denver and probably at no distant day penetrating the great mountain peaks and perhaps passing over the entire entera I 1 range by narrow guage roads costin costing 9 only on one ono 0 seventh as much as the present guage where the latter is practicable in all ali these cases the data showing the entire practicability of these roads and giving the cost of construction and operation are such as to reduce the prospect of any such enterprise to a certainty the alta alia california quotes these extracts from the railway hallway review and aud in an article upon the subject of narrow guage roads says if the narrow guage is preferable to td the wide track anywhere it should be in california in that state there are nume numerous ous and iong long valleys some of which only average two and others four miles in width it ibb mentions several places in the state sate where it would be us useful eaul and nd better adapted for the traffie traffic than the wide track indeed it says we suspect that on account of the economy in running expense it might lie be advisable to take up the heavy iron of the wide track in one of our smallest valleys vall vali eyb bys and replace it with lighter iron and a narrow track the wide track does very well for the transcontinental road and for the main coast line that is to connect san ban diego with puget but elsewhere it is needlessly expensive especially in the mountains where grading gra ding is very costly ij arguments which favor the building of rall rali railroads roads on the narrow track plan in in Cali call california califern forn I 1 na apply p ply with equal and greater force to their t ir construction in this territory from all that we have been able to learn about these narrow guage roads they are the kind beet beat adapted for the trammie traffic and travel of utah and w we e hope at some day not far distant to see one running from this part of the territory to its it southern Sout hern herh boundary THE tue senate and adus e of ot representatives at washington are both now graced with the presence of a negro member the former fornier with mr revels of mississippi sip luth the latter with mr J WE W ainey alney of south carolina the admission of f revels bevels into the senate last jast year was one of the events of the session and excited unusual interest and comment the senator being warmly congratulate ed by many of his lis fellow members immediately after taking the oath of office the admission of rainey bainey was a very different affair he was sworn in on the instant and thou though gh many inquiries had been made for the negro member the reception he met mete with was extremely cool positively freez freeze ing maynard of tennessee shook hands with him and two or three of the members from south carolina congratulated him that was all and it is believed that he was ws greatly disappointed at the coolness with which he was treated and felt considerably out of place this gentleman takes the place of Whit whittemore temore teLore the clerical congressman who has gained for himself undying fame by having preaching to the mor mons in the salt lake tabernacle and being expelled expel espel led from congress for venality in selling the nomination to certain cadet ships placed at his disposal through his hia election to the house of representatives whatever rainey kainey may be he can scarcely fill the dignified position he now occupies with less credit or reflect greater dishonor upon his constituents than his predecessor mr rainey bainey is a native of georgetown thirty nine nige years yeats of age is a light mulatto with long dark straight glossy hair bushy gide bide whiskers w with tb decidedly caucasian features and looks more like a cuban than a negro neblo his father and mother were both slaves his first vote wag given in favor of general banks san domingo resolution the presence of negro members in the congressional halls at washington furnishes the strongest possible evidence of the remarkable change that has taken place within the last few years in public ilc ilo 1 feeling g towards the negro race and aiso also inaugurates inaugurated ates a happy ard and propitious era in the history of the defendants of ham some assert that they are equally worthy and capable aitu the white race if this be so with the suffrage in their hands and arid representatives of their own race in the national and state halls of legislation they may soon hope to prove drove it |