The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

Rights to the new shares in the Western Railroad
were sold at Boston on Wednesday, June 26, for
$l6 to $l7 a tenth.
Under the new management of Alvah Crocker, of
Fitchburg, the monthly expenses at the Hoosac tun-
nel have been reduced $20,000.
The Portland and Kennebec Railroad, which has
been in operation twenty years, declared its first
dividend, 3 per cent., on Saturday, June 22.
The plan of selling mileage tickets at a reduc-
tion from regular rates has been adopted by the
Rutland and Burlington Railroad. These tickets
are good at any time, the conductor punching out
only the number of milea travelled on each journey
until the entire ticket is consumed.

Judge Peckham, of the Supreme Court, has de-
cided that a railroad company is not responsible for
the criminal conduct of their conductors. The de-
cision was given in a case in which a ma❑ brought
a snit against the Forty second and Grand-street
Railroad for injuries he suffered from being cut with
a knife in the hands of a conductor of a car he was
riding in, who was at the time furious from delirium
tremens. Drunken and raving conductors would
make a new clement of annoyance which the rail-
roads might thus introduce without fear of damage
to their pockets. The suggestion will probably not
be lost on them.

The Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company
has purchased the Susquehanna and West Branch
Canals. It is the intention of the Company to
deepen and improve this l;ne, and use it to assist
the railroads in getting the immense lumber trade
to market. The lumbermen of Williamsport are
hampered, and their business curtailed to some ex-
tent, in consequence of the inability of the railroads
to supply cars enough to ship their lumber.
The act of the Pennsylvania Legislature, passed
at its last session, authorising the Allegheny Rail-
road Company to issue additional stock and bonds,
and to repeal the act entitled " An act to authorise
the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company to mort-
gage its road and branches to complete the same,"
was accepted last week by a stock vote of 19,464
to 1,377.
THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. —The Ellis Loco-
motive Works at Schenectady now employ 480
men, and turn out a finished locomotive every week,
having a contract for twelve from the Union Pacific
Railroad Company. Track-laying on the Eastern
Division of this road is progressing at the rate of
two and one-half miles per day. The road was
completed to Fort Harker, and graded fifty miles
beyond, on the Ist of June. The business of the
road last month was $lOO,OOO, and the earnings for
the first week in May $35,000. Rolling stock is
being largely increased to meet the public demands,
while the work of construction goes on with energy.
The citizens of Texas interested in the project
are urging the importance of the railroad chartered
by the last Legislature of that State connecting
Columbus via San Antonia with the Rio Grande.
The railroad from Boston via llartford to Fish-
kill, N.Y., opposite Newburg, on the Hudson, to
connect with the Erie Railroad to and from the
West, is soon to be completed. The State of Mas-
sachusetts has loaned three millions of dollars to the
enterprise, which is to be known as the Boston and
Erie Railroad.

At an election held June 3, at the office of the
South Side Railroad Company, of Long Island, the
following gentlemen were unanimously elected di-
rectors for the ensuing year, viz. :—Charles Fox,
William Floyd Jones, J. Boorman Johnston, Daniel
T. Willets, Alex. J. Bergen, Robert 0. Cult, John
A. Dix, Alex. M'Cue, William C. It Ruchmore,
Martin Willets, Vaudewater Smith, F. B. Baldwin,
and John Tappin. At a meeting of the Board sub-
sequently held, Charles Fox was re-elected Presi-
dent ; Alexander M'Cue, Secretary ; and William C.
Ruchmore, Treasurer. This road is now complete
as to its location, and contracts for construction
from the East River to Islip have been made.

A project of great importance to the business and
travelling public, in connection with the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, is reported to be on foot. It
contemplates the extension of the track of this road
from Columbus, Kentucky (its present terminus),
to a point opposite Cairo, on the south side of the
Ohio, and a bridge over the Ohio is even talked of.
It is stated that work is to be commenced at both
ends simultaneously, and pushed forward as rapidly
as possible.
This will render railroad communication from
Chicago with Memphis, New Orleans, Mobile, and
other southern cities continuous, and thus remove a
great source of annoyance and delay in the trans-
portation of passengers and freight. Cairo aspires
to become an important railroad centre, being about
to vote on a proposition to take $lOO,OOO stock in
a railroad projected between that place and Vin-
cennes.

According to a Washington despatch, among the
assets turned over by Mr. T. P. May to make good
the defalcation in the sub-treasury at New Orleans
is the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad, seven
miles in length, which is now operated by horse or
mule power. Mr. May had a lease of it for thirty
years, at $20,000 per year, with an increase of $5OO
each year. Certain friends of General Beauregard
now desire to purchase it, and offer $240,000 for it,
which the Government declines, and will offer it at
public auction soon to the highest bidder. The new
assistant-treasurer has not yet perfected his bonds,
and Mr. Knox, the treasury agent, is still in charge.

THE HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY.—At
the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Hud-
son River Railroad Company, held at the office of
the company in the City of New York, on Monday,
June 10th, 1867, the following named gentlemen
were elected directors for the ensuing year :—C.
Vanderbilt, W. IL Vanderbilt, Ilorace E. Clark,
Augustus Schell, Juo. M. Tobin, D. Thos. Vail,
J. H. Banker, Oliver Charlick, W. A. liissain, J.
Harker, M. 11. Sandford, Walter S. Gurnee, and
Samuel Barton. The board is the same as last year,
with the exception of Messrs. Gurnee and Barton,
elected in place of Smith Barker, juu., and John
Steward, who resigned in consequence of being ab-
sent in Europe. Upon the organisation of the
board, Cornelius Vanderbilt was re-elected presi-
dent, Win. H. Vanderbilt vice-president, and
Augustus Schell secretary.
ANOTHER RAILROAD ENTERPRISE IN NEW YORK
STATE.—It is proposed to build a new railroad from
Chatham Four Corners, in this State, to Benning-
ton, or North Bennington, Vermont, where it will
connect with the Western Vermont and other rail-
roads, and thus in conjunction with the New York,
Harlem and Albany Railroad, a new and very direct
line of railroad communication between New York
and Montreal (30 miles shorter than any other
route). The stock bas all been subscribed for, and
proposals will at once be advertised for and received
for the construction of the new road; and the work
is to be pushed forward with the utmost vigour.
The new connecting link will be about fifty miles
long.
THE MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAILROAD.—The
Augusta (Georgia) Chroniclesays :—" We are pleased
to learn, on what we consider good authority, that
the President of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad
has succeeded in making arrangements with per-
sons at the North which will secure the completion
of the road in a very short time. The road is al-
ready finished, and the cars running over it daily
from Macon to Hawkinsville, some 53 miles. The
grading is also finished on the lower end of the
line from Brunswick to the " Initial Point " on the
Savannah and Gulf Road, some 47 milesfrom
Brunswick. The intermediate portion of the line
has been located, and some progress made in the
work of grading and grubbing.
Charleston papers say that a railroad is projected
from Atlanta, Georgia, to De e..ttur, Alabama, for
betweenth
e
purpose of straightening the line of travel
the termini of the Memphis and Charleston road.
The reasons given are—an economy of more than 100
miles would be effected, freights could be shipped
between Memphis and Charleston without breaking
bulk, and between the former city and New York
via that port in four days.

The Dorset Chronicle says that the crops in the
neighbourhood of Taunton, in Somersotshire, aro now in
very capital condition. The wheat and barley have never
looked more promising than at the present time, and such
an abundant bay harvest has not beeu known for some
years.