The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-02-08

saturday, Fen. I'd r M.
Stocks little down to-day. The sales only to
limited Reading Railroad fell oG II per cent;
Mohawk and Worcester. 4; stonington, III Harlem, u
Lung Island. /; 8. Bank /. Morris Canal, Farmers
Loan Pennsylvania S. Canton, North American Trust.
closed 6rm Ut yesterdays prices vicksburg went up
Counterfeit So on the State Bank Of Indiana, cir
culating II would be din suit to tell which the
best, the genuine or the counterfeit.
The bill to call in three branches, viz Athens, Coum-
bia and Csrksvils Of the Bank of Tsnasssss has
ssd both Houses Of the Legislature, and ID now law Of
that stats.
The Auditor General of Pa has just cancelled
ofRslief notes. a. follows Bank, 81 300 Exchange
Bank Of Pittsburg $4,000 Bank Of Lswstown, - 800
Manufacturers and Mechanic Bank, N L. So 600 Bank
Of Penn Township. 50 800 Moyamsnsing Bank, 81 500;
Miners Bank Of Pottsvile. $4,000 Bank Of Chambers.
burg, 81 400 Harrisburg Bank, $4,000 Bank Of Mid
dlstown 81 200 Carlisle Bank, -, 100 Farmers Bank
Of Lancaster 81 800 Farmers Bank of Reading 81 400
Lancaster Bank. 81 400; Bank of Northumberland
81 $40 Monongahela Bank Brownsville 81 200; York
Bank, $1,000; Lancaster County Bank, $500 Wyo-
ming Bar at wilkesbarrs, $500 Bank Of Gettysburg
$500 Northampton Bank. $500 Farmers and Drovsrs
Bank Of Waynssburg, $500; Columbia Bank and Bridge
Company, 500 Towanda Bank, s7oo; West Branch
Bank $500 Lebanon Bank, 500 /; Merchants end Ma.
nufacturers Bank Of Phtsburg, 100 Bank of susque
hanna County. $500 Total. $50 900.
The receipts Of the Harlem Railroad Company for the
month of January in each Of the past two years
a. follows:-
Total rscsip. for jsnn.x 1'D IA AL'A'r R.soD
Total receipts for January ls4S. ll,409 %
Increase, January. ls45 ............ 81, se4I 10
This shows an increase Of about fourteen per cent
Had 1t not been for the storm and the distractions
to travel the rails from that cause the receipts would
have been larger and the increase greater per cent
Al shs increase large Tor road only twenty
miles in length and Chords intimation Of what the
income of the company will be when the road Is COM
pstsd to Albany The construction Of this road s pro
crossing with great rapidly. Twenty-sx milss-from
While Plains to the south line Of Putnam county-is
nearly finished, and the will pass the road to
that point some time in June. This section will cost
$4,000. with the H. rails weighing sixty pounds to the
yard. making an average cost Of $l9.4ao per mile.
The section Of twenty eight miles, between the south
line Of Putnam county and Dover in Dutchess county
viii Be put under contract early in May TO be completed
by the spring of lSA7 This section will cost o6ls O00
making an average cost Of $as, 900 per mile.
The maximum grade Of the Harlem Railroad will be
- feet per mils being feet less than the Long Island
on which road the greatest speed been attained The
New York. Harlem and Albany Railroad will thereto
be able TO attain speed of thirty thirtyave miles
hour, which will reduce the travel from New York TO
Albany, and vica usrsa, TO four Eve hours
II 10 in contemplation to connect the Harlem Railroad
with the Albany and Sockbrdge Rai'roa at Chatham
twenty miles this side of Albany leaving but forty one
miles to construct from Dover Chatham The Engi-
neer that will be easy to finish the line to Albany
by the fall Of ls47 provided Chatham If
the section terminating at Dover could be completed
before the close Of navigation this year. this would b
the avors route to and from Albany next winter as the
distance between the two cities could be covered in
eight hours to the extent anda fare much less than
by the route used.