The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-30 00:00:00

HORSE RAILROADS.

Length of roads, miles
Cost of roads ... ...
Number of passengers carried

189 k
... $5,284,899
... 37,464,991
... $2,418,624
••• ••• ... 3,410,544

Total expenses
Total receipts
Persons killed or injured
The Senate of Delaware, previous to its fins
adjournment, rejected the bill to incorporate the
Maryland Canal and Railroad Company.
In San Francisco, it is reported, there has been
tried, with success, a machine intended to level rail-
way tracks, lay ties, deposit rails, lay them in their
places, " and almost construct a railroad."
The amounts which the western Vermont towns
will be required to contribute in aid of the lately-
-400 0 ; Manchester,iallicgford, $25,000 ; $lO,OOO ; Dorset,
lately-
chartered railroad from Bennington to Chatham,
New York, have been divided as follows :—Ben-
nington, 2
5,
o 0o D
$ 12a5r
b 0 Oy
s;
0
Tinmoutb; $B,OOO ; Clarendon, slo,ooo.—Total,
$273,600.
We hear that the railroads centreing in Spring-
field, and nearly all the rest in New England,
began on Monday, April 1, the weighing of all
the mails carried by them, at every station
where they are received, the mail cars were
provided with scales for that purpose. This is
done, and will be continued through this month, in
conformity with a circular from the post-office de-
partment. The idea was doubtless suggested by
the general demand of the railrords for more pay
for mail carrying. For several years the Western
Railroad has bad no contract with the post-office
department, but has carried the mails and received
under protest what the department has paid for the
service, trusting -to a future day of reckoning.
The railroads say that the post-office wants twice as
much room as the expresses, but is willing to pay
only half as much for it. The department will
probably offer to
Pay the roads according to the
weight of mail matter carried, but the ro.tds will
insist that room and bulk form the proper basis for
payment.

The mails are to be restored to the railroad be-
tween Boston and Lowell, and the slow coach busi-
ness given up.

The Philadelphia Ledger, of the 29th inst., states
that the Pennsylvania Railway Company have
bought and possess the Columbus and Indiana Cen-
tral Railroad, giving the company a continuous
line from Philadelphia to Indianapolis. The bar-
gaining for the Pacific Railroad of Missouri has
already been commenced. That concluded, it will
remain to acquire the line from Indianapolis through
Terre haute and Alton to St. Louis, and then the
company will control a line extending from Phila-
delphia to the western terminus of the eastern divi-
sion of the Union Pacific Railroad, wherever that

may be.
The Union Pacific Railroad, Kansas branch, wag
opened to-day for the commissioner to examine the
seventh section of the road, extending to Saline
River, 45 miles west of Fort Riley track. They
are laying rails and progres,sing at the rate of a
mile and a half a day, and the cars will reach the
town of Salina, 50 miles beyond Fort Riley, and
468 miles west of St. Lewis on Saturday.

One-half of the business portion of Carbondale,
Pennsylvania, has been. burned. The fire began in the
post-office. In all 60 buildings were consumed. The fire
is believjcl to have bee❑ incendiary.

THE BURNING OF THE LARGEST HOTEL IN AME-
RICA.—The St. Loui; Republican gives a full account
of the total destruction by fire of the Linnell Hotel in that
city. The fire broke out in one of tho servants' rooms on
the seventh (the highest) storey, and rapidly spread down-
wards until the whole building was a heap of ruins. The
engines were powerless to stay its progress, the great height
of the building rendering it almost impossible to throw
water fairly on the roof; and when this ITPI accomplished