The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-24

paired sad the ssnsa Is sssin n navsHSls d. pssisg
the week ending The nth hast eAs tons Of coal were
rhpped the canal and 27SS tons on the Baltimore
spd Ohio Railroad.
The receipts Of the Cleveland Columbus and cincn-
natl Railroad exclusive Of mails and expresses stated
to be 81 coo per day This Is with incomplete equip
meLt. and but four trains
Az meeting OF the Wilmington and Manchester Rail
road Company held at Wilmington N. c., on the 10th
inst resolution adopted to provide for the CON-
peion Of the road by the ae and negotiation Of bonds
the amount Of eight hundred thousand dollars These
bonds to be redeemab BILE in not twenty to
bear interest at the rate Of per cent payable semi
annually, 10 be secured by mortgage on the road and
to be convertible at par into the stock Of the company
The citizens of Philadelphia making great efforts
to reach the great lakes Of the West by railroad and
they perfectly alive the advantages Of such
n,ction Philadelphia will have advantage New
York distance by the way Of sunbury and tae west
branch Of the Suquehannah shorter route to Lake Erie
exists than New York has within this State From New
York to Buffalo, via Albany thesdsance is five hundred
fftysix miles by the Erie Railroad the distance s
five hundred and seventeen milea saving Of only thirty
nine miles The total distance between Philadelphia and
Erie by the Reading and Mine Hill railroads to Sunbury
and thence by the contemplated Improvement, Is only
four hundred and hrtysis miles being eighyone miles
one hundred twenty miles less than the line by Albany
to Buffalo From Philadelphia to Sunbury by the route
referred to- which through the heart Of the first and
second anthracite fields, hundred and fifty miles
Of which hundred and eighteen constructed and
in operation; leaving gap of thirty two miles to be
built between Coal Castle and Shamokfn. There are
three other routes all through the anthracite region to
sunbury by the Mount Carbon Railroad and sha
mokin which hundred and forty six miles long with
Thirty three miles to be constructed; second by the
Mill Greek Railroad of hundred and fifty two miles,
leaving thin four unfinished and the third by the Little
schuylkill and Catawissa route, which is hundred
and miles in all leaving sixty nine miles Of
road to make-of which, however thirty five already
graded The average length Of the three first named
routes to sunbury is less than hundred and fifty
miles the average Of all four less than hundred and f
your miles From sunbury to Erie by the route survey
cd il but two hundred and eighty six miles in all and it
passes through the great bitunnou coal field of the
north and opens to elected region of
the state of prodigous natural of all kinds
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company push
ing forward the road with great energy. Every section
constructed il Immediately brought into active opera
ton and its income used in the extension of the line.
The financial operations of the company have been
annexed -
PrSSsyLyASIA RAILROAD.
The receipts Of the company on account Of
capital stock have been. S5s22210 90
Disbursements Observation-Disclosures. 509554j Il
Balance ON hand Observation-Disclosures. 726663 IS
Amount of subscription yet unpaid 10136io 90
Available to carry work fl,.6o3o3 IS
single track of the road has been in working order
Harrisburgh to Johntown using the State Portage
for time past and has afforded great facilities for
trade travel The balance Of the work is being pro-
secuted with great energy and skill An additional por-
ton the road the western division will be opened
during the and expected that by the close
Of navigation it will be completed to carry passcn-
gers Pittsburgh with the Of stages only twenty
seven miles
A an indication of what may be expected when the
road is completed, we may state that in the sixteen
months that detached portions Of it have been in opera
ton averaging about ninety miles the receipts for pas
sengers mails and freight, have been S2s6s6o a. When
complete the business must be very heavy, and the in
vestment in the stock become profitable one.
Counterfeit fves, on the Mechanics and Farmers
Bank Of Albany, are in circulation. Paper white and
coarse engraving poor has the appearance of being
struck from plate worn out through much use. The
figures composing the vgnette male and female repre-
sentng agriculture &C. badly done that the fea
scarcely be distinguished So, also, the State
arms Of New York, left margin. This Is undoubtedly,
that FIRST put into circu.
lation two or three years since.
The report Of the Morris Canal and Banking Company
for the year ending April 7th 1851 presents the
statement Of the financial operations during the year
MoRNs Canal BANKING CoNrASY
EXPENDITURES.
Current charges for 1850. SG3239
Floating debt and interest io2l25
Infa Com nm au.a Ial.t