The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

Pennsylvania claims to possess a greater length
of railroad than any other State in the Union. In
round numbers she possesses four thousand miles
to New York's three thousand, or one mile of rail to
every square mile of her territory.

The San Francisco Balletin says :—The railroad
race for Salt Lake is becoming exciting. The Union
Pacific has reached a point 700 miles west of Omaha,
and has 20,000 men at work on the line to Salt
Lake. The Central Pacific is completed over 200
miles east of Sacramento, and has over 9,000 men
at work, with the advantage of a more level coun-
try. Gdner.d Case, chief engineer of the Union
Pacific Railroad, is now making the final survey
and location of the north end of the line.

There has been filed in the Secretary of State's
office the resolutions and order of increase of the
capital stock of the Central Pacial Railroad Com-
pany, from $10,000,000 to $100,000,000.
The iron bridge on the line of the Catasauqua and
Foglesville Railroad is the longest iron structure of
the kind in the United States, the extreme length
being 1,165 ft., and height 90ft.

The stockholders of the Atlantic and Great Wes-
tern Railway will hold a special meeting at the
office, 40, Broadway, on the 21st inst., to receive a
report from the board of directors, and to take such
action upon the subjects touched on in said report
as may be deemed advisable.
The annexed shows the gross earnings of the
following-named railroads during the first seven
months of the present and preceding year :

1--Seven Months ---,
Railroads. 1867. 1865.•
Atlantic and Great Western 82,860,346 $2,578,166
Chicago and Alton
Chicago and North-western 5,476,623 6,933,089
Chicago, Rock Is., and Pacific 1,857,601 2,221,891
Cleveland and Pittsburgh
Illinois Central 3,548,075 3,501,521
Marietta and Cincinnati 624,187 680,728

Michigan Central 2,257,709 2,406,411
Michigan South and North Indiana 2,363,581 2,613,793
Milwaukee and St. Paul 2,355,657 2,935,300
Ohio and Mississippi

Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, & Chicago 3,917,717 4,338,734
Toledo, Wabash, and Western 1,969.628 1,937,85
Western Union 321,119 382,807

Total $32,585,217 $35,709,211
The gross earnings per mile of the same roads in
the first seven months of the same years were as
follows :

arnin
Railroads. 1867. 1868. 1867. 1868.
Atlan. and Great Western 507 507 $5,642 $5,085
Chicago and Alton 2BO 210 6,971 7,866
Chicago and North- wes tra 1,152 1,152 4,754 6,019
Chic., Rock Isld., & Patio 4lO 452 4,531 4,916
Cleveland and Pittsburgh 229 229 5,661 6,083
Illinois Central
Marietta and Cincinnati 251 251 2,488 2,712
Michigan Central
Mich. South & North Ind 524 524 4,507 4,984
Milwaukee and St. Paul 827 827 2,861 3,549
Ohio and Mississippi 340 340 5,?46 4,637
Pitts., Ft. Wayne, & Chic. 468 468 8,371 9,271
Tol., Wabh., and Westrn 521 521 3,778 3,719
Western Union lBO 180 1,784 2,128

Total 6,682 6,742 $4,891 $5,311
Wall-Street Journal.

The extension of the Chicago, Rock Island, and
Pacific Railroad, from Des Moines, is being pushed
rapidly. By the Ist of September the road will be
in operation 52 miles west of Des Moines, and,
with good weather in November, the managers ex-
pect to have the road graded to Omaha. It is said
that the large earnings of the company will pay a
great proportion of the expense of the extension
and its equipment, and leave them with two mil-
lions of dollars on hand to be divided among stock-
holders.

The Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana
Railroad Company report for the year ending
February 29th, 1868, their net earnings to be
$1,880,831. After payment of interest, rent, taxes,
sinking funds, &c., there remains $849,751, which
would yield 71 per cent. to the common stock, after
paying 10 per cent. on 5,868 shares of the gu ►ran-
teed. The expenses have been reduced from 651
per cent. in 1866 and 1867 to 601 per cent. in
1867 and 1868, while, during the same time, the
supplies have been increased to $78,809, a result
quite unusual in railway reports when expenses
are reduced. The road is in fine order, its track
and equipment being equal to any road in the
West.

The new line of railway between Suez and Alex-
andria Via Izazteh was opened last Tuesday, and
passengers by the next Indian wad will proeeed by
;hat foatk-, will o&y tea jut:lad-
ing stoppage.-.

Railroads are making good progress throughout
Maine. The contracts for the grading of the Knox
and Lincoln Road have been made, and the work

is tb.be finished by the middle of June, 1870. The
European and North American Railway is pushed
rapidly, and trains will be running to Lincoln by
January next.

The Connecticut River Railroad has offered to
establish a railway line between Greenfield and
Turner's Falk running part of the way on the
track of the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad.

FR 40AS IN BROADWAY 7 HEA7 RE.

" FOUL PLAY."

The action of the I)ptity Sh,riffs in New York
city has at least the charm of novelty. On the
night of Monday, the 24th ult., they proceeded to
serve a writ on D. H. Harkins, manager of the
Broadway Theatre, at the suit of J. I). Lloyd, of
the New York Theatre, Foul Play being acted
in both theatres. They forced an entrance by
knocking down the doorkee ,er, and stalked on to the
stage like the " heavy villains" in a tragedy, only
with real bullets in the pistols they did not hesitate
to use in their attempt to capture Mr. Harkins. A
boy was mortally wounded, and a man seriously,
when the police interfered and overpowered the other
slaughtering myrmidons of the law. The Sheriffs of
New York must recruit their deputies from Roe-
buck's " assassinating Italians," as this appears to
be a common method among them of serving a writ.
Not long since, says a reliable authority, one of the
fraternity went to a lawyer's office in New York to
replevin a bill of exchange in a friendly suit, and
not finding the lawyer who held it in the office, re-
fused, even at his partner's request, to wait a few
minutes, and having failed to force the safe, got the
partner on the floor, and proceeded to strangle him,
when his life was only saved by the intervention of
some clients. Then the deputy drew his pistol, but
was over-Flowered and-disarmed, and for .his he got-
the party arrested for assault and battery. How
it fared with the clients who prevented the
murder is not stated ; but the Sheriff took no
notice of the complaint made against his officer.
Regarding the first case, Sheriff O'Brien has writ-
ten an impertinent letter to the police justice, of-
fering to take the blame of the conduct of his
men, whom he justifies, on himself. Generally, says
our authority, the Press exaggerates, but in these
cases, strange to say, it conceals or diminishes, and
the real horrors are only heard in private conversa-
tion. The bar has to bear, for a lawyer who makes
himself obnoxious to the Sheriff's office would
find it so difficult to get his writs executed that his
business would leave him, and there is no use in ap-
pealing to the court, for it would be a mere com-
plaint of the Sheriff to himself. On the following
Wednesday Foul Play received further development,
as an injunction was served by the Deputy-sheriffs
on two of the company when acting and in view of the
audience. This time there was astruggle but no pistol
firing. Those present hissed and threatened to lynch
the intruders. The next night the play was changed
to the version by Boucicault, as brought out at
the Holborn, and on Friday it was withdrawn from
the Broadway, leaving the New . York victorious.
The deputies arrested remain in custody, except
one who was liberated on bail of $5,000. George
Hickey, James Moore, Dennis Leary, James Ward,
and Thomas Quinn, are the names of the deputy-
sheriffs who committed the shooting outrage, and
they sound very Irish, as does that of their
chief. They were taken before Justice Shandley, at
the Jefferson Market Police-court, for examination.
Acting Manager Moore, of the Broadway Theatre,
Mr. De Forest, and others appeared against the
men. The latter offered no testimony in defence,
and were committed without bail to await the re-
sult-of 'the men's ittjarieS. "fhe nick-name-of these
deputies is " O'Brien's Bruisers." One paper as-
serts that " they are not remarkably courteous and
discreet in their manner of proceeding—they seldom
are ; probably they acted like the boisterous ruffians
they too often are." It goes on to say, although
favouring the Irish interest in New York,
" O'Brien's bruisers are usually selected for their
fighting proclivities and political services, but
they are not generally of a murderous character.
The innocent boy who was shot, and the audience
whose lives were jeopardized by the flying bullets
of the combatants, were the parties principally
outraged." Let Drury-lane or the Adelphi, or
any other London theatre, imagine the interruption
in the full performance of a piece by the appearance
of bailiffs with a writ in one hand and a revolver
in the other. Imagine the sham act suddenly
changed into a genuine tragedy, and a fight for life
to take place ou the stage. Imagine the whizz of
the bullet over the heals of the scared audienc3,
and the thud as it struck into the wood-work. Let
them picture a boy mortally, and a man seriously,
wounded before their eyes, and the battle only
stopped by the entrance of the police to secure the
bailiffs. There would be no gallows high enough
in London in such case on which to hang the offen-
ders and to satisfy the outraged public. Let them
further suppose that the next morning the Sheriff
declared his men to be perfectly justified, and that
he desired to take the blame on himself. If there is a
case in which the citizens of London would lynch
a man, it would be that. The Sheriffs, however,
can act with more impunity in New York, for the
attack on the theatre was repeated, and on Friday
the Sheriffs' party finally gainel their point.