[Homer_J_Simpson]

Cold-The Lodger Out – 2, 4
Our Special Paris Correspondence – 3
Editorials – 4-5
The Lounger – 5-7
Fact, Fancy, and Fun, By a Southern Lawyer – 8-9
How Royal Youths Enjoy Themselves in Europe – 10-12
Dr. Horace Green and His Method – 13-18
The Sunlight In Her Hair – 19
The Residuary Legatee – 19-20
The Weekly Farmer – 20-22
On a Tear – 22
Hon. John Cochrane, of New York – 22-23
A Story of Our Family – 22, 24-26
Robert Burns – 26-27
How Memorials For the Increase of the Pay of the Navy Are Treated at Washington – 29

[BroJoeK]

In “End of the Pacific Railroad Scheme” the editors say it will cost about 18 months of federal revenues, an amount not then affordable.

The estimate was pretty close, actual cost appears to have been $65 million or roughly 18 months of 1858 revenues.
But as a percentage of Civil War costs, that was a drop in the bucket.

The cost estimate presumably does not include $10 million already spent on the Gasden Purchase in support of the Southern route.
That may help explain why Southern lawmakers insisted it must be the Southern route or nothing.

[Tax-chick]

John H. W. Hawkins, b. 1797, Washingtonian temperance advocate. Amazon.com has a facsimile-reprint edition of the book advertised on Page 7.

[Tax-chick]

If anyone ever fancied a return to the picturesque past, he should read “Dr. Horace Green and His Method,” pp. 13-18.

EEEEEEEEWWWWW!!!!!

[Tax-chick]

The report of the Paris correspondent, page 3, makes me happy to live in the United States.