£jtT The Pacific Railway. This
great work is moving forward at a
giant’s speed. The Union Pacific
have completed 100 miles west of
Omaha, and the Central Pacific 500
east of Sacramento. Tho Union Pa
cific has 110 miles more to complete;
the Central Pacific 157 miles. The
roads are to unite their iron bars at
Monument Point, at tho head of Sal l
Lake. Both tracks will be comple
ted by the 15th of April, and it is
quite certain that the first train of
cars will go through from Omaha to
Sacramento, a distance of 1,767 miles,
by the first of May, 1869. It will be
the grandest commercial event of the
century, and exalt the American
name through the world almost as
proudly and graudly as did the vict- i
oiy of the nation over the great re
bel lion. —Daily Wisconsi *i.
Letters of President Lincoln to
be Published.—Judge Davis of the
Supreme Court, the executor of
President Lincoln, has been request"
ed by several prominent Republicans
to publish the papers left by the
Martyr President. Prominentamong
these documents are the copies which
Mr. Lincoln made himself of the offi
cial letters which ho wrote himself to
the Generals in the field in his quaint
way, many of them giving orders
and making suggestions prompted
by the Secretary of War. Mr. Lin
coln used to keep the copies of his
letters to his Generals in a book-case
in his office, arranged in pigeon
holes, and the pigeon-hole that con
tained the most pages was that de
voted to the copies of letters sent to
Major General N. P. Banks. It is
said some of these letters freely crit
icise the action of other Generals.
