The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-19 00:00:00

COSTA RICA.

Railroads to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific
seem rapidly to be growing in favour. Simul-
taneously two new ones are started in Central
America, President Jose Maria Medina authorises
the construction of a line through Honduras, and a
loan is brought out on the London market for
£1,000,000 to effect the purpose. If we may judge
from the flourishing prospectus, and the high pre-
mium at which the bonds are quoted, this loan has
been a success. We learn by late news from
New York that Jose Maria Castro, President
of the Republic of Costa Rica, has issued
a decree with reference to the Costa Rica
Railroad Company, which we give below. The
San Francisco Bulletin says that the line is in
the hands of Americans, and that an Eastern firm

has a contract for the first section, from Paccuare,
on the Pacific side, to the interior. Two of its
members were at San Jose, waiting for the chief
engineer to complete the survey from ocean to
ocean. The line will hardly reach 200 miles, but
the interior is very mountainous and difficult to
penetrate, but still we believe feasible. The Hon-
duras line will be 230 miles from the Bay of Fon-
seca on the Pacific, Puerto Cabalos on the Atlantic.
The danger of these enterprises lies in their being
overdone. The Panama Railroad is a success, but
will all be successful when half-a-dozen are con-
structed ?

" J., Jose Castro, President of the Republic of
Costa Rica—By virtue of the authority conferred
upon the Executive by the law of November 9,1865,
and in consideration of the fact, that work has been
actually commenced upon the Inter Oceanic Rail-
road. Hereby decree :
" Art. 1. The Bay of Limon is from this day open
to all trade, foreign and coasting, as the principal
port of the Republic on the Atlantic Coast.
"Art. 2. Vessels, under friendly or neutral flag,
coming from whatever port, may enter or export
merchandise of all descriptions, excepting those
actually prohibited, or may warehouse or transship
the same with all freedom, subject to such regula-
tions as may hereafter be issued.

" Art. 3. All vessels anchoring in the harbour of
Limon are free from all charges of tonnage, an-
chorage, port dues, or custom-house fees of every
kind.

" Art. 4. As soon as the Costa Rica Railroad
Company has constructed its piers and warehouses
no customs duties shall be levied on any articles
intended for consumption in the Republic unti after
they have left the piers and warehouses.

" Art. 5. The Secretary of the Navy will issue
the necessary orders for the prompt transfer of the
authorities and public buildings from Moin to the
new port of Limon.
" Given in the National Palace, San Jose, Sept
20th, 1867. "JOSE MARIA CASTRO.
" The Secretary of the interior, A. Esquivel."

(From the Wall-Street Journal.)

The first meeting of the Boston and Albany Rail-
road Company, formed by the consolidation of the
Boston and Worcester and the Western Railroads,
was held in Boston, on October 21. Judge B. F.
Thomas presided, and the following gentlemen were
chosen directors :—Chester W. Chapin, Josiah
Stickney, Ignatius Sargent, James D. Colt, Daniel
Denny, Ginery Twichell, D. Waldo Lincoln, and
William Claffin. A list of byelaws was adopted,
ordered to be printed, and the clerk instructed to
send a copy to each stockholder.

THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.—Ground was
broken on October 15 on the southern branch of
the Union Pacific Railroad at Junction City, Kan-
sas. Appropriate speeches were made by Colonel
Goss, president of the road, the Mayor of Junction
City, and others. A banquet was given in the
evening by the city authorities, at which Major-
General Grierson, General Blunt, ex-Governor
Carney, Colonel Shomaker, and others spoke. The
work will be pushed forward vigorously. A sur-
veying party, under Major Beach, left Fort Gibson
on the following day to begin work on that part of
the road.

RAILROAD PROJECTS IN MAINE.—The various
railroad enterprises in Maine are progressing finely.
The survey of the Knox and Lincoln Road will be
commenced shortly. The Board of Directors have
been chosen, of which Oliver Moses, of Bath, is
President. The total amount of subscription has
reached nearly $400,000. The Eastern terminus of
this road is at Rockland, and the Western at Bath.
Already one survey of the Belfast and Moose-
bead Lake Road has been made as far as New-
port, and another survey is in progress which is
to intersect the first survey about ;twenty miles
this side of Newport. The survey of the Ban-
gor and Piscataquis Road will be entered upon
in about three weeks. It will go to Dover, con-
necting at Alilford. This road, as well as the pre-
ceding one, penetrates a region rich in material re-
sources. The line from tide-water at Winterport
to Bangor, the necessary link to give Bangor a
winter outlet, has 11,:en subjected to a preliminary
reconnoissance. The work of laying a portion of
the track on the European and North American
Road will be shortly commenced at Bangor, and it
is expected that the road to Milford will be open to
the public before many months. Grading on the
Dexter and Newport Road is rapidly approaching
completion, and the work of laying the rails will be
commenced before many weeks. The survey of the
Portland and Ogdensburg Road is going forward
with activity. The energy and spirit with which
these various subjects are characterised promises an
early success.
THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD.—The United
States Commissioners have completed the inspection
of the section of the Central Pacific Railroad west
of Cisco. They carefully examined the grades, cul-
verts, bridges, &c., which they pronounce to be
twenty-five per cent. better constructed than any
portion of the road before accepted. Over this
section already four miles of roofing had been com-
pleted, and two and a half miles of additional roof-
ing will be built this fall. After a thorough inspec-
tion the commissioners unanimously recommended
the Government to accept the road. The com-
missioners next commence:a primary inspection of
the road two miles east of Cisco. From Coburg's
Station cars are running eastward eight and one
half miles ; and construction trains are laying the
track at the rate of a mile and a half daily. In
thirty days the section will be completed. The in-
termediate section over the summit will not be
finished for transportation purposes until early in
the spring, although the company expect to lay the
track before winter. By August next cars will be
running to Tuckee River, near Crystal Peak, while a
considerable portion of the road will be graded to-
wards Humboldt.

The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company
completed, on the 15th of September, the connect-
ing link between what was formerly known as the
M'Crregor Western and the Minnesota Central
Railroads. Regular trains of cars will commence
running over this line from M'Gregor to Minnea-
polis and St. Paul on the Ist of November. The
completion of this link connects the Minnesota sys-
tem of railroads with the East, aLd trains of cars
can now run by connected rail, via Milwaukee and
St. Paul Railroad, from the city of New York as
far north-westerly as St. Cloud, in Minnesota, about
1,500 miles.
There is now a continuous railroad communica-
tion between Chicago and St. Paul. The last rail
in the chain was laid at Adams, Mower County,
Minnesota, on Monday. The distances by the new
route are as follows :—Chicago to Prairie du Chien,
235 miles; Prairie du Chien to St. Paul, 482 miles.
OMAHA, Oct. 28.—The five hundredth mile of
the Union Pacific Railroad was made yesterday,
and 17 miles more will carry the track to Che-
yenne, at the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains.

The difference in the settlement of the accounts
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the
Philadelphia and Eric Railroad Company, the for-
mer being the lessee of the latter, was brought to a
conclusion October 29. The amount in dispute was
originally $1,400,000. Committees of the respec-
tive companies have been negotiating the matter
for nine mouths, and their conclusion has at length
been accepted as mutually satisfactory. By the
terms of settlement the Pennsylvania Company
becomes, next to the City, the largest stockholder
in the Philadelphia and Erie Company.
The "Allegheny Valley Railroad" is nearly
completed, and trains will run on it about the
middle of November.
RAILR 0 1D ENTERPRISE IN CONNECTICUT.— A
number of railroad enterprises, which promise to be
of great advantage to Connecticut, are being pushed
just now with an earnestness that indicates success.
The great Air Line route, which shortens the dis-
tance between New York and Boston twenty-seven
miles, is only retarded by a Hartford opposition
that cannot long prevent the consummation of the
enterprise.. It is the most important route in the
State which is yet uubuilt.
On Friday the citizens of Middletown voted, in
town meeting, by 371 yeas to 92 nays, to loan the
road $200,000, and this vote, it is said, will secure
the construction of the road from the New Haven
depot to the east bank of the Conu cticut at Mid-

dletown, where it will wait the action of the next
Legislature, for permission to cross the river and
proceed on its way to Willimantic and Boston.
The Boston and Erie Railroad has also made a
strong point during the last week, by securing a
union with the Erie Railroad by the election of its
own president to be president of that company, and
the guarantee of its bonds to the amount of four
millions of dollars. This ought to insure the con-
tinuation of the Boston and Erie from Waterbury
to Newburgh, and its connection with the Eric,
thus opening a new route through Western Con-
necticut, and developing the resources of Litchfield
County.
The Connecticut Western from Springfield to
Collinsville, and thence to the Hudson, is said to
be in strong hands, and the extension of the Col-
linsville branch of the Canal Road to Lee and
North Adams, Massachusetts, is regarded as almost
certain. These two latter enterprises will be of
mutual benefit to the Canal Railroad, and will draw
a large trade to New Haven that now seeks a
market elsewhere.

English contractors have taken the job of build-
ing a railroad from Indianola, Texas, to San Anto-
nio, and will begin work at once. 1 his road will be
a great benefit to Western Texas.

The following railroad companies in Tennessee
are under mortgage to the State for principal and
interest of the Bonds of Tennessee, issued for the
original construction and relief and extension since
the war, of their respective roads :
Half-yrly
Roads. Bonds. Interest.
East Tennessee and Virginia 52,688,000 $86,193
Memphis and Charleston
Nashville and Decatur
Nashville and Chattanooga
East Tennessee and Georgia 1,690,000 54,484
Cumberland Gap and Charles
Knoxville and Kentucky
M'Mininville and Manchester
*Memphis and Ohio 2,396,100 71,883
*Clarksville and Memphis 1,894,600 56,838
Mobile and Ohio

Nashville and North Western
Mississippi and Tennessee 397,800 9,534
Edgefield and Kentucky 1,079,000 32,105
Mississippi Central
Winchester and Alabama 1,098,250 32,948
Knoxville and Charleston
Rogersville and Jefferson
Memphis and Little Rock

Total Tennessee Bonds to R. IL $25,126,000 $762,985
Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, on October
26th, addressed a circular to the Presidents of the
Railroads in that State, advising them of the
amounts due on account of the January interest of
the State debt incurred for their benefit, and the
amount of arrears ; also notifying them, at the same
time, that if a prompt response is not made, the State
will proceed to take possession of the roads, under the
law. He concludes with the following gentle hint :
" Finally; if the interest due the. State, or a rea-
sonable portion of it, is not met at the time required
by law, I shall certainly appoint receivers on all
defaulting roads. The interest upon the State debt
must be paid, and the credit of the State must be
upheld, and this can only be clone by those compa-
nies paying up their honest dues. I send this cir-
cular to every railroad president and receiver in the
State, that each may know what to expect. Further
indulgence will not be given, and ought not to be
expected.",-- T Vail-Street Journal.