New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-17

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A new effort is being made to secure the CON-
struction of the Plain6eld Railroad through to
Willimantc and Hartford to the Naugatuc Valley
The business of the Connecticut River Railroad
for 1850, was as follows: Transportation of pas
sengers, $ll2,9l7 IS; merchandise, 81, 500 20 ;
mails, 4,254 so; express, $3.50 rent, &c. 81
ST. &c; total, sl9l, 537 10; deduct current ex
penses, s93927 40; net receipts, s97,659 60, or
81 per cent. of gross receipts. The damages OBJ
tanned Of the Road by Ezra Corning (slo.22l ~
make the full actual expenses of the year slO4,-
l49 ls, and leave the net earnings about $4,000
or As per cent of the receipts.
The Say5roOk Mirror understands that the cash
subscriptions to the stock Of the New.Hayen and
New London Railroad amounts to over 100000
A large meeting has been held to adopt mea
sures to memorabilia the New-Jersey Legislature
to grant charter to construct a railroad from the
City of Camden, in the County of Camden, through
Burlington Ocean and Monmouth to Keyport, or
some point east of it ON the Raritan Bay.
The Governor of Indiana in his message gives
the annexed information in regard TO the Wabash
aud Erie Canal
1.-THE work on the Wabash and Erie Canal,
has been prosecuted steadily toward completion.
BY the contracts which they have made, the Ca
nal will be finished to Evansville within the
time fixed. Beginning the work at Coal Creek
where the State left it, they have finished and
brought into use 20 miles from that place to Point
Commerce The Newbury and Maysyille div
sion, extending from Point Commerce TO Mays
vile, AZ miles, is nearly finished.
"The entire balance Of the line from Maysvle
to Evansville is under contract, and the work In
progress TO be completed by the first day OF No
vember 1882.
The length of the line now under work from
Point Commerce to Evansville is one hundred and
eleven and q half miles upon which there has
been employed, during the past season, an ell
cient force Of near two thousand men.
1.-The actual cost of the completion will not ma
terially exceed the estimates which were made
in ls45 prior to the transfer.
"The cost according to contract prices, from Coal
Creek 10 Evansville, one hundred and ninety and
hall miles, Exclusive oil damages Tor the rlght
OF way will not vary much from -, 0l2,O0O.
The certain and speedy completion OF this ca
nal the longest in the United States, through the
territory OF Indiana TO the Ohio rivera work
which has ever been regarded with such interest
by our citizens and the partial completion OF
which has already conferred such direct Dement'S
upon so large portion Of those living along and
near to it, and upon the whole state in the add
ton which it has been the means OF making 70 its
population aud taxable prOperty-iE subject OF
sincere congratulstion.
And when we consider that the result has been
attained by the agency Of the holders OF our bonds,
and BY means advanced by them at time Of great
embarrassment il would seem to add to the obi
cation resting upon u.s. if anything can add TO the
sscredness Of State faith and State honor, add
tional reason for maintaining with scrupulOus
fidelity the arrangements with them, and throw
ing around them every possible security as their
only reliance fer protection and indemnity rest
upon it. The revenues Of the finished portion of
the canal show gratifying increase in its traffic
and usefulness. The tolls received for the year
ending November l, 1850, are reported at $751;
l5s 3s being an increase Of So, 499 IS over the
tolls for the previous year. The trustees report
the sale of IS 46s 22l01 acres Of land in the Vim
cennes district; and 3,i, $50 25l0O acres in the
Logsnsport Office, during the year exhibiting an
increasing demand of canal lands for settlement,
for nearly Sll0,0O0 in CASH