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

STEAM RAILROADS,

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operating ... •••
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HORSE RAILROADS.

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The Senate of Delaware, previous to its final
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 tics, 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-
chartered railroad from Bennington to Chatham,
New York, have been divided as follows :—Ben-
nington, $125,000 ; Manchester, $40,000 ; Dorset,
$25,000 ; Danby, $40,000 ; Wallingford, $25,000 ;
Tinmouth, $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 had no contract with the post-office
department, but has carried the mails and received
afyorth it.e department
paidr reckoning.
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suenrdv
crep, protesttrusting
what
to the
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day The railroads say that the post-office wants twice as
much room as the expresses, but is willing to pay
only
b halfl yoffer to much
p
as
roads The
accordingdepartment
to willthe
weight of mail matter carried, but the roads will
probably a
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-
tralalready been
Railroad, giving the company a continuous
line from Philadelphia to Indianapolis. The bar-
gaining for the Pacific Railroad of Missouri has
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, was
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 progressing 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 dre began in the
post-office. In all 60 buildings were consumed. The fire
is believed to have been incendiary-
THE BURNING OF THE LARGEST HOTEL IN AME-
RICA.—The St. Louis 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 the 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 rehdering it almost impossible to throw
water fairly on the roof, and when this was accomplished