New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-06

business, and met with large losses BY the FIRE az
ST, Louis, the Western waters, AID at the L '''
The American Mutual Insurance Com
pany have declared a dividend Of y cent. on the
capital stock, and an interest dividend Of = cent
on the certificates OF profits issued IN 1850 The
Eagle Fire Insurance Company have declared
dividend OF y cent.
The Great Western Railroad of Canada
West, have decided to adopt the Compound Rail,
tpaenied by John F. Wnslow, Esq, of Troy Tor
their entire line Of Dos miles and the order for The
Iron has gone TO England. This the rail to which
we referred few days since a sample of which Is
now exhibited IN font Of the Merchlats' Exchlnge.
The Ohio and Pennsylvania Road was
opened on the 3Oth July last to New-Bnghton. p
miles. The earnings OF August, SEPTEMBER and o.
tober have been OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .Sl9,l21 %
Deduct expenses, 10 + cent i'Oo' -
Net receipts, months ..-.-.-..-..---.sll,t1 40 Al
Being at the rate of 5, cent. annum on the cost
OF that part of the Road in use. The number Of pas
sengers carried was $500. This Road will be ex.
tended to Enon Valley IA miles beyond Brighton.
on the 18th inst.
The collections at the Office Of the Col
lector Of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad In
Philadelphia for the month OF October and for the
year have been as follows:
Amount as per last report ......-.... So 66
Ditto, month ending Oct. 81, ISL 42.3S5 A.
Whole amount since Nov. 80, 1850 -s35s,243 -
Amour, same time last year-.--...-.--s3l1.sg4 oil
Increase ..--.--.-....-.-S iO,3is ~
The Bank of Tennessee. which is owned
and controlled by the State is in very hourishing
condition. According to The Nashville Banner It has
made and paid into the State Treasury within the last
tofe : on al q
Of s23s9,652 81 The circulation of the Bank Is
sl,757,lOs, and the cash on hand s9i5,75O 90. The
Bank deals largely IN exchanges, having furnished
within two years 81, 290,639.
The Winchester and Potomac Railroad
Company has declared a half-y yearly dividend OF
y cent. The revenue of the Company for the year
ending Oct |, 1851, s9s,iS6 o., being sl,623 81
more than that of the preceding year and the largest
ever received by the Road. Out of ths,the annuity
of $4,000 to the State, and two dividends of6 p cent
each amounting to s2O,996, have been met. The
second of these dividends will be payable on the lss
Of November. inst The dividend of l2p cent.
per annum, the President anticipates will be resu
larly kept up.
James Winslow, Esq. has been unanl-
mously elected President OF the Branch of the State
Bank OF Indiana, at Madison, vice J. F. d. Lanler,
resigned. MI. NlnS0W was formerly extensively anu
successfully engaged in the hardware importing and
obbing business in this City from which he retired
some two years since.
The Leggett's Gap Railroad, says The
Binghamton Republican, extending SIS miles from the
Lackawana coal beds, at Scranton, Pa, to Great
Bend on the Erie Railroad, was opened on Monday
last The completion Of this spur to the great
thoroughfares presents new era In the experience
of Western New-York. Coal Will now, In all prob
ability supercede wood, as the ordinary article OF
fuel throughout the whole Of that valuable market.
The supply for the present season, some 41OO tuns
has been ready for shipment for month past AMI Is
now probably on its way to consignees. The Oswsso
Tnes SAYS, the coal is fully equal in quality, If not
SUPERIOR to Lehigh coal train of % cars, loa led
with FIVE tuns each, with superior Anthracite coal
from Scranton made their first trip TO Ithaca on
Saturday last, arriving about O'Clock. 1t is from
this poin, Ithlct that the Railroad IS projected to
run TO Sodus Bay, on the Lake, afioIdDg an Import
ant shipping outlet from the coal mines.
1t is stated that the Directors OF the Troy
and Greenfield Railroad have contracted for the
machine by which tho labor Of tunneling the loose
Mountains Is 10 be performed, and that toflelinre'
are pledged on the part Of the Sompany AMI me
owners. The latter bind Themselves - eX a'ats
twelve feet per day.