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Next is the plan of Mr. Gwin, of Cali-

fornia, now under discussion in the

Senate. He proposes to have the read

fork at each end—one branch running to

the Gulf of Mexico, and another to Towa at

the Eastern extremity and one to California

more favorably, and to oppose the Emperor of and another 16 Oregon at the Western. The

Hayti more rigidly than France and England, work is te be given to the highest bidders; the

Contractors so be a Corporation, and to carry

on tle road for thirty years after it is completed

when it reverts to the United States, The

Government is to give them alternate sections

of land along the line, and to fix the rates

w lich they shall charge for freighs and passage.

They are to carry the mails, military forces and

official agents of the goverument free of cost.

The road is to be completed in ten years at the

farthest.

A plan exciting a good deal of attention is

that fathered by Messrs. Levi S. Chatfield,

Erastus Corning, Simeon Draper and others,

who are now before the Legislature of this

State, asking for a charter with a capital of

one hundred millions, and before Congress

asking for a grant of $15,000 a mile to help in

the construction of the work. They propose

to build the road on such a route as after due

examination shall appear best for the public,

with a single track, complete by the Ist of

April, 1559, and with a magnetic telegraph

along the entire line. In Congress it seems

that Mr. Hamlin, of Maine, has taken up this

scheme. He has moved an amendment to

Mr. Gwin's bill, by which thirty millions are

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New-York daily tribune. (1853). New-York [N.Y.], 1853-01-22. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030213/1853-01-22/ed-1/?sp=4

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York daily tribune, 1853-01-22.