The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-14

loading at Gan Francisco for New York About twelve
hundred tons Of cargo had already been engaged, IN
GLIDING SEINE 1000 bbls salmon, 1000 bbl sour aour
$500 hides besides large quantity Of old ron copper
&C. The ship Thomas Watson also loading hides
horns wool, salmon &C., for Philadelphia.
During the week ending March IL there redeemed
at the Treasury Department $685. of the public debt
Of the United States
An order has been granted by the Supreme Court ON
the application of Freeman Clarke, requiring Azariah
Body T. f. Smith, Joshua Conkey, and Allen Ayralt, to
show cause this day why their appointment directors
in the Valley Railroad by the City Council of Rochester
should not be declared void and meanwhile enjoning
them from acting a. directors. The Rochester Union
says
The ground upon which this proceeding is based far
having sold it's interest in the stock Of the road to Mr.
the right Of control before vesed in the Common
tors whom that body has assumed to appoint are not en-
titled by law to act as such. 1t is further alleged that
the law authorizing the issue Of bonds by the
taches to that feature Of the law which makes its bind
ing force contngen. vote Of the people-the same
be held unconstitutional by our highest court.
The sixth annual report of the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road Company gives the annexed exhibit Of receipts up to
the LIST of February 1864 compared with those to the
same date last year.
MOBILE AND ONO RAILROAD.
From Es . W ssSs f sa 1854 q
Company's freight charged
construction account.... 1902 90
Total passenger and freight
Expenses pse,es' running 60. q ass s. asss 81
Of the table show thu. .ss
1854 increased IS per cent or including the Com
creased per cent And the entire traffic running as
the road did thus far into almost wilderness, may be
winchester must materiaiiy increase the business Of this
division The gross receipts Of the Company to Febru
ary 1854 were in round numbers q expend
fuded in the expenditures and putting low estimate
the total investment Of the company thus win not fan
far short Of 81 COO O00 Advices Of the shipment of
Remainder win soon be forwarded. The Columbus 1Ms
sssippD Branch Road 1S1 miles) is nearly ready for
the from from furnished by the city and county
iron to that point so that track laying forward
simultaneously from thence southward, thus greatly
facilitating the progress Of the work.
The cost Of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad in
GLIDING everything has been s27la,s6s. OF the road
proper the cost is stated to be Its receipts
-. eox aYo M. p.,.
p' ~oo,oo lug irosiuen' concludes me- Aasc report
by saying 1.-THE Directors have every confidence in the
ability of the road to nav rood dvidends ma hecomes
.4,s - - -. -, Do-0'
setteu anu permanent, tnat IL Will greatly more than
pay the interest the whole fifteen hundred thousand
dollars of bonds the next year. and that the increase in
its business will be very rapid
The Miners ottsville) Journal of the 18th inst gives
the Of the poson and Of the
-, 80. ro.,,,r, -. w.
coai 'raae OF Scnuykni county
ANTHRACITE Coal TRADE.
The quantity sent by railroad this week is Is
against 90 for the corresponding week last year
Iota Dy ia;oac SOS zio IL against 1oSSo W tons to
The canal il in nayrable order throuobout the whole
line Boats commenced loading on Wednesday, and
NUMBER cargoes have already been despatched to mar