Show CAPTAIN EADS of jetty lame is more than in carnest in his scheme I for transporting ships acio the isthmus isth-mus by rail He is enthusiastic He has gone to Tehauntepco for the purpose pur-pose of making surveys and estimates of the cst of construction If a man of lees notoriety than Etdt should put forward eucli apUu we fear he would be promptly laughed into silence hut Captain Eats having done tome things on a big fcoile his scheme gathers a degree of respect and a little consideration on the part of engineers and thinking men The S last number to hand of the Scientific American illustrates and describes the proposed railway The plan is to construct a marine railway for drawing draw-ing the ships out of the water when it could be transported across the country oa a 1 rlcr < iy to comprise twelve track The car for carrying the ship ii to have 1200 wheels of three feet in diameter and powerful engines are to do the pulling The ship wouid pass into the water on the other side over another marine railway rail-way On paper it looks very pretty and in print the feasibility of the plan is demonstrated to a nicety but bow it would work in practice S is another thing Ends claims i S that the cost of his railway would be I much less than the ce jt of a canal across the ithmos that the exact outlay can be ascertained before ground is broken that ships could be moved much faster than through a canal that the expense for carrying them would be less than the necessary canal tolls and llIt altogether and I in every way tnt railway would be preferable to a canal if the distinguished dis-tinguished gentleman can succeed in causing moneyed men to ties I tbrougb his eyes and think with his mind the practicability or inprao ticability of his plan may be teeted one of these years b |