The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

THE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN ita
ROAD. —lt is stated that $2,000,000 have been sPi
by Robert B. Potter, receiver of this railroad, dur
the past 16 months in placing its track, road bi
and rolling stock in the most perfect conditii
Important improvements and renewals have be
during the period named, continually in proge
Two hundred miles of new rails, weighing 65Ihs,
the yard, of the best quality and most improf
pattern, laid with the celebrated fish-plate jot
have taken the place of old ones, rendering
track like one continuous rail, and preventing
jarring and noise so exhausting and disagre:abLe,
passengers. Five hundred thousand new oak eel
ties have been laid ; new bridges, durable and sup
stantial, have been built ; trestle works have bel
replaced by solid earth and stone embankments, ao
new day cars and sleeping coaches have been plod
upon the line. The formal transfer of this railsfl
to the control of the Erie Railway Company le!
male on December 12th, at Meadville, Penuol
vania, The road is to be known as the Atlaol
and Great Western Division of the Erie Railse:
Messrs. Gould and Riddle represented the Erie I
taking possession. Messrs. L. D. Rucker is retaioe
as superintendent of this division. No other of,
pointments or changes have yet been annonneel
The Erie officials started for Cincinnati to-day.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY STOCK. —Chief Justice Chas!
at the present term of the United States Cireol
Court, sitting at Richmond, it is reported, has de
livered an important decision, establishing the rigbl
of stockholders in the loyal States to dividends de.
dared during the war upon stock held by them If
Southern railways, notwithstanding the confise's
tion of such stock and its dividends by the Code,
derate Government. The opinion enters at log°
into the question what is meant by the term de la/
government, and lays down the rule that Confede
rate notes received in the rebel States by the repte'
sentatives of persons in the loyal States must
accounted for in lawful money, equal in value ti
the Confederate notes at the time of their receipt'.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company 0
pay a net dividend of 5 per cent. to those entitle
thereto on the Ist of February.
The " Selma, Rome, and Dawton Railroad," e$
tending nearly 200 miles from Selma, Alabaule
to Rome, Georgia, was opened on the 31st e
October. It is a combination of several unfinishe:
roads projected and begun before the late war,
which were nearly destroyed during that period
t
It forms the shortest line of road connecting
larger cities of the Atlantic with those of the Gel
of Mexico. The old portions have been thorougbll
rebuilt, and the new line has been constructed 11
the most substantial manner.

The Great Indian Peninsular Railway Compini
paid £1,070,136 into the Bank, to the credit of tba
Secretary of State for India on account of th
£2,000,000 stock just issuel upon tender.
The joint traffic return of the Cale lonian allj
North British Railway Companies shows an ifr
crease of £2,354.

JOURNALISM.--The New Jersey Enterprise i. 3
now four-page weekly paper, published at Burlington!
N.J. It contains 32 columns of reading matter and adfar:
tisements, and presents a very attractive appearance.
paper called the Daily World has bean established in rro:
route, Canada, devoted to the interests of the workin?
men. There is a newspaper in Maine which bears the flr
niarkable title of the Presque Isle Loyal Sunrise. The N(li
York. Herald calls Theodore Tilton the molasses of jour
nalism, and Wendell Phillips the vinegar. There is are'
ligious newspaper at Shanghae, China, called Kian Kid
Sing Ban, which is edited by the Rev. Young J. Allen. n 1
American missionary. The preface and dedication °I
General the Hon. Sir Edward Cost's forthcoming ivoro
4, Lives of the Wonders of the 17th Century," to which l!
alluded in our last issue, is, we now see, printed for Pct.,'
veto circulation only, and addressed to Brigadier- Genet'
Watts de Peyster Tivoli, New York.
JAPANESE NEW TESTAMENT.—The Philadelp9
Puldie Ledger says a Japanese. New Testament, translated
and edited by the American missionaries, is now in coal.°
of publication in Japan. The English and Japanese are
printed in parallel columns and in Roman type, an arrane
ment which will facilitate the mastery of both languae'
enabling the natives to learn English and foreigners Jar
nese. There is no sound in the Japanese tongue whiell
corresponds to either the letter lor th. The former is c%
pressed by substituting r, and the latter by s.
A colossal bronze statue of Bishop Brownell!,
designed by Randolph Rogers, and intended for Trinit/
College, has just arrived at llarCord, Connecticut, fro°
Munich.