The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-07-04


anxiously awaiting the result; and still believe
that the public voice in the city in favor Of this
great road will constrain the Council 10 make the
subscrpton. 2.
The Great Illinois Railroad - Col. Mason, En-
Rineer. in Chief of the Illinois Central Railroad,
has lately been engaged in visiting the line from
Springfield 10 Cairo, and has directed party to
commence work near the former place. Through
his energetic efforts, it is expected that the road
will soon be in progress at several points between
the centre of the Sa'e and its southern terminus
The Boston and Maine Railroad Company has
declared dividend Of 81 per cent, payable July l.
The Oswego and Syracuse Railroad Company, of
NewYork, has declared a dividend Of 81 per cent.
The South Reading Branch Railroad Company
has declared dividend Of per cent, payable
July l. The Boston, Concord and Montreal Rail
road Company has declared dividend of per
cent. payable in stock to holders June 10.
The Northern Railroad of France has cost the |
sum of 203 600 900 francs. The receipts the pas:
year were 23,5OO,OOO, and the expenses only |
{, SOC, 900, leaving dividend of per cent.
A railroad from Nashville is now completed to |
within TWO miles Of Murfreesboro, a distance of
thirty miles.
The subscriptions TO the stock of the Cincinnati
and B. lore Railroad amount to 81 400 600, the
whole of which has been subscribed by six coua
ties, including the city of Cincinnati and private
subscriptions, $500 900 This road connects with
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
| The increased receipts in the Burlington and
| Rutland Railroad, the past year, have been 80
| per cent
Proposals have recently opened in Wall street for
the taking Of $500 600, per cent. stock, in the
Panama Railroad, and the whole was taken at
par-Sl50 600 being reserved by request of the
| Royal Mail (English) Steam Packet Company.
| Twenty seven miles Of this road, from Navy Bay
to Gorgona, are 10 be completed by Sept !, and
twenty miles will be in operation in July. This
Company has the exclusive privilege across The
Isthmus, for forty,nine years.
Railroad Mattsrs.--We learn that the commit.
| tees of conference on the part o. the Michigan Cen
trail and Southern Railroads. have not resulted in
any arrangemA4k the latter claiming the exclusive
right through ihdlhs and expressing the deter
minaton to ouild separate track under the Rock
Island charter, to Chicago, forming the connection
about ten miles south OF the city boundaries, while
the Michigan Central Road proposed also to build a
track to this city, to be used jointly by the two
companies, which proposition was not accepted.
| This leaves matters, far these roads con-
strife will now be between them, "by hook by
crook" which shall first reach the city. 1t to be
hoped that both may doso at early day.
The Illinois Central, 1, is understood, had enter
! taned idea of striking the Indiana State line
with their Shelbyville branch, some thirty.one
miles south, and thenceso Chicago.
| The letter Of Judge Douglas in our columns
to-day, denying that the legal right Of the company
thus to diverge, and expressing the opinion that il
they do so, they will forfeit the grant Of land, will
be read with interest 1t is an emphatic rebuke
upon the action Of the members of the Legislature
from this city, who by their votes permitted so wide
range in the line, thus seeming to concur in the
opinion of the Chairman Of the Railroad Commit
tee, that "Chicago was large enough without
l further State legislation for her benefit"
We still entertain the hope that by straight
line of conduct the best interests Of all concerned
will be consulted in the settlement Of the varied
difficulties and differences of the parties to a result
which will be acceptable and best promotve Of the
general welfare. [Chicago Journal.
f Progress of Railroads Eighteen years ago there
A | was not mile of railway leading out of Boston
f | but at the present time the metropolis Of New
| England has railway communication with The
n States adjoining Massachusetts, measuring, in va
h rious directions, 1859 miles in length. The nun
# ber of miles of railway in the United States at th
d present time is about 10000; the numb of mile
% in Great Britain, 62S4 in France, 1881; in Bel
GUM, $50; in Germany, 4542. The number Q
miles of railway in Massachusetts is ll42 if W
add to this the portions Of other roads lying il
Massachusetts. and deduct from that total the pol
VI ioeu IyHS "ituih hth'te VI tuC az
:, joining States, it will leave the sum Of l047 mile
- of railway within the geographical limits
~ Massachusetts The State has geographical sui
face Of 1900 square miles there is, therefore,
'e one mile of railway 10 each seven square miles
u her surface. The Lowell Railroad was chartere
CT in 1890; the Worcester and Providence in 1881
The Western and the Boston and the Maine, (fir
'n called the Andover and Wimington,) in 1888; II
Eastern in 1886; the Fitchburg in 1912 the o
he Colony, the Fall River and The Vermont and Ma
iy sachusets in lS44.
IN The Great Western Railroad.-The conten
Ill plated railroad through Canada West is excitn
1t, great interest among the people Of Michiga
an The Mayor of Detroit in pursuance Of resolutit
!. | of the Common Council has called meeting
NC the citizens to consider such measures shs
CO the cooperation Of the city 1t is the
on Meeting link in great line Of road running throut
he the heart of the country, connecting the Atant
nj, with the plain of the lakes and the lakes with Il
"a great valley of the Mississippi, as the folowir
'ur table will show:
ST. The Western R. R., from Boston TO Albany 1888 mil
ely From Y. to Albany. Hudson River X. R......H "
From Albany to Niagara Falls. BIO -
In From N,agaa Falls 10 Detroit. .8 .'
H. ATohs,. d D n