The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-03-09

computedin document the subject ordered TO b
printed by the United States Senate that the net value
Of the trade ofhe western rivers in Is40 $3.50
The value Of vessels employed In this trade stated in
The samc paper, to be slS,6Ct,5o0.
There entered the port Of Baltimore from foreign ports
during the month Of February at the Baltimore Custom
House, ships Is baIks Is brgs, and fchooners-
total Al yesses OF these vessels 81 had cagoes subject
to duty had free cargoes and were in ballast and
they under tho following flags viz American a.
Lsitifh frernen 3 ard Sweden l. The clearances at
tho Cuftom House. for foreign ports during the same
ported, embraced fhips 10 barks, IL briggs and II
choorcrctal 81 vessels; with aggregate tonnage
1851 tons and naygatea with Oil OF these vessels
:7 were American Bremen, British, and Danish and
they were hound for the following destinations viz the
West indies and british Provinces, 2s Bremen A. Mon
cvGeo, q Rotterdam z Liverpool q; Rio De Janeiro
aio Grande, Il Spanish Main l. Laguaya l; and Mica
agua, The total value Of the exports by these vessels
S5TS797 H. which Is much larger than in any one
month since lat October The receipts for duties during
the month up sG763l TO- The balance in the depo-
STORY Baltimore the first of February was s24
and on the first Of March $40 ols 0s-showng the dis
burssmenta durns the month Of February to have been
but "a 9sS 90 less than the receipts
The Western Vermont Railroad Company will sell at
auction in the Merchants Exchange, Wednesday, the
10th inst three hundred thousand dollars OF bonds
turing in 1860 1865 and 1870 il of 81 600 bearing
interest at the rate Of per cent per annu payable
semi-apnualy, at the Mechanics Bank in this city
There bonds part Of AN Issue of 100000 secured by
the first and only mortgage the entire road placed in
the hands Of trustees This road ia intimately connected
with this city We directly Interested in it. rs it
opens and the trade of the western part of Yer
mont forms important link in the great chain Of
roads running north east and wet II extends south
from Rutland fftythree miles wholly within the State
Of Vermont to the northwest corner Of Bennington
where it untcs with the Troy and Bennington Railroad
under q favorable arrangement for mutual traffic AT
Rutland it branches off from the Rutland and Burling
Railroad at point where the latter road after con
Meeting with the Rutland and whitehall Saratoga and
Schenectady roads DIVORCES from its north and south
curvng to the eastward to cross the Green Noun
tain Taken in connection with the Rutland and Bur
ngt0n Railroad. from Burlington south through Otter
Creek Valley to Rutland the Western Vermont Railroad
continuing on through the southern part of the valley
Of the same stream and through the valley of the Bat
tenk to the Troy and Bennington and other southern
rodfw) not only open the traifc OF these valleys, rich
in marble irOn lumber aud agricultural produce but it
will complete the railroad communication between Lower
Canada and New York by route considerably shorter
OF far more favorable grades than any in existence
From North Bennington 1t sends oil branch FIVE miles in
length south, to Bennington from whence the railroad
under survey via Lebanon Springs to the Harlem
Railrcad at Chatham Four Corners will when completed
expected early in 1858 perfect with the Western YER
mont Railroad and its branches the best and short
est route that be made between New York city and
Canada The work on the Western Vermont Railroad has
been done in the best manner with and grades Of
stockholders and directors it has been prosecuted with
speed but more particularly with regard to economy and
it is confidently believed that the whole will
peted by the first of May next exceeding
SIT 600 per mile including furniture This road will cost
when completed more than double the amount Of bonds
issued The security therefore unquestonabc and
investment believe it to be undoubted The sale Of
bonds will be peremptory. There is large amount Of
capital idle seeking investment and the above
nishes much better method of employing it than in
purchasing fancy stocks at prices much above their
real value as those ruling
There was little more activity than usual last week
in cotton and breadstus but the movement continues
limited 1t is long time since have had active ship
ments Of any Of staple products and from the
pexon Of advces received from Europe by every
steamer the prospect lie by encouraging. BY
the last accountshose received by the Arctic the
26th Of Februaryquotatons for cotton had not
taned and the market dull and depressed. Bread
stufs were heavy, and the demand confined strictly to
the trade There indications Of speculation in
any Of the European markets. notwithstanding the low
price for and abundance Of money and it looks though
must for period, content ourselves with demand
for our products merely for immediate consumption.