New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-13

The receipts at the Sub-Ireasury are
s6so25; Payments s25 $751; Balance s3,5S365I FL
The Illinois Central Railroad Co. have.
made further purchase Of forty thousand tuns of rails
at low figure one half cash and one half bonds, at par
This makes fifty thousand tuns purchased, about two
thirds of the entire needed to iron the road
The notes of the South Royalton Bank
of Vermont the first bank organized under the Free
Banking law Of that State, are redeemed In Boston
by the Suffolk IBank, but taken here by oil the
brokers at the same rate as York State money. The
issues of this bank are well secured by deposits of vg
MIA g. and the reason the Suffolk Bank does not take
them Is because the usual arrangements have not been
made.
The WILLIAMSBURG Gas Company have
declared semiannual dividend of FIVE per cent paya
BILE on the Gath inst The Farmers Bank of Hudson.
seven per cent the original and increased capital,
payable on the 10th inst
The earnings of the Macon and Western
Railroad Company for April, 1852, were as follows;
Freight. iS2 ~
Passengers. IS
Mail. 10 -
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 25 50
Corresponding month last year. u
Increase over fifty per cent ..............S7S5s II
A St. Louis paper says: We were shown
large batch of issue of promises to pay styled
the Omnibus Banking Company dated and purporting
to have been issued in the City Of Newyork some time
during the past month, and signed by Case Gore
deemabe at Bellvew Iowa. 1t Is needless TO say there
is no such Bank in New-York.
George S. Dana and John S. Hunt,
Esqs, hare been appointed receivers of the property
and effects of the Utica Insurance Company. insttu
ton which lately suspended business
PENNSYLVANIA Rail RoAp-Tnis great thorouehfsre
commenced in July ls47, and will he completed
with single track and sidngs in August Septc nber
1853 II win extend from Harrsburgh TO Pittsburgh
connecting the Ohio River with the capital Of the State
and, by of the railroads already finished on the
with Philadelphia the second city in point of pCpu
lston the western continent and first in the nsIra
resources of the country tributary 10 1t.
The length Of the Pennsylvania Railroad viii "a 2iS
miles ct which l9l miles Row In successful opera
ton The whole Of the reulsining distance q under
contract and rapidly advancing toward completion; Is
miles more viii be opened In July and the rsnsiader
except that portion crossing the Allegheny Mountains
where the Portage Railroad is temporsry ased fer .
miles, in 81 ptefnber next
The route of this road although it inisrsects In x
course all OF the mountain ranges OF the state highly
favorable. The Allegheny Mountain Is he only not
severed Ia Its base by either the Sus4Cehsnna Iuna-
ia Conemsugh Rsers the valleys Of which are fol-
lowed by the rsrrd through the grss, gaewsys nature
has opent for IL, accommodation.
The crest of the Allegheny Mountain Is passed BY
tunnel $50 f long and al elevation OF = l6l feet
above tide wsnr No stationary power Is required on
any part Of the road The distance from Hsrrfsburgn
to Altoona AZ the foot of the eastern slope OF the noun
tsins IL l? miles and the ascent overcome u e5c tcel
The ste pest ascending gradient on this part Of the
road .sing eastwsrdy Is lOls feet per mile and west
wsrd 81 feet per mile From Altoona 70 Pittsburgh the
steep est gradient 50 $40 feet per mile with the ex
cerf ION Of 93 miles of the eastern slope OF the noun
tar where gradient Of 95 feet per mile upon strgn
pncs-reduced upon curves according 70 their rad-1
encountered, upon which extra locomotive power WIZ
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad overcomss tins
mountain by maximum gradient 10 miies ID Iensli-
| OF Il6 feet per mie,s and descends upon Sne Wa
side the same rate, fer miles 1t also overcsme
Laurel Hid. which il avoided on our route by tunne
AGO feet long, with gradients on each s'ds o. LOB fee
per mle.