The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-20

Total ISL o84 489 81 Total. 81 1884, 489 81
Subscriptions to nov stock to tho amount Of $685..
600 have been taken to raise funds for the compile
ton Of the Hackettstown extension. No further
steps have been taken to extend the road west Of
Hsckettstown, and the directors think 1t inexpe.
dent to do 80 at present.
A resolution was adopted by the stockholders,
requesting the directors, if they deem 1t expsdent
to survey route for railroad from some point on
the Morris road, between Hackettstowa and Dover,
to the Delaware river, at or near Philipsbu-g and
estimate the cost, &c.
The total receipts Of the Cleveland, Columbus and
Cincinnati Railrosd Company for the first Ave
months Of the present year, amounted to $3.50 626 a.
against % for the Same time last year. The
expenses this year in the same time were $2o5 $50
67, being the net income Of the company applicable
to dividend, at the close Of the five months, $780,
07S 81 Amount required 10 pay July dividend,
about 1925 900.
Thu Canton Company Of Baltimore received last
year from sales OF lands, rents, g., $4s,57k 81,
which with the balance on hand June l, 1854, make
a total Of $50, $40 62. The expenditures for the
year ending May 81, 1866, were $59,697 SO, which
left in the treasury June 1856 $40 liz 70. During
the year there has been added to the wharf property
2,l42 front feet.
The Wabash Valley road will be opened ninety.
three miles from Toledo to Fort Wayne on the LIST Of
July and twenty five miles further in about ten ays
afterwards.
The Lake Superior Journal peaks in strong terms
of condemnation Of the tricks to which Wall street
and State street spectators have resorted to fleece
the publ: by the sale of stocks Of an imaginary
value only, by means Of false aud exaggerated 10
ports, newspaper putting, sham diviaends, and the
imitation Of the stock market by the ars best known
to Operators, ON Change. Though mining opera
tions have thus been brought into discedit It is yst
insisted that there is solid basis for confidence In
well mat aged mining companies; that there Ia no
place in the known world where such rich and abun
dA1t deposits Of copper and iron ore can be found
as In the Lake Superior country; and that the sue
Gees Of several companies Is even now astonishing
considering through what difficulties they have had
to work their way. In the future everything ID en-
souIagipg.
The receipts of the susqushanna and ridewatsr
Canal from the opening Of navigation to the 10th
inst, amount to $74l70 67, against $59,97O 80 In
the corresponding period last year, showing an in.
crease Of $l4. 200 linear rs per cent
We learn from the Pittsburg Gazette that the
committee appointed to investigate the affairs aud
accounts of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, by the stockholders, at the meeting in
January, have completed their labors, and pub
lished the result In pamphlet FORM After spending
about two months, and examining all the transsc
tiops of the officers from the inception OF the enter
prise, the committee report that there 10 nothing
affecting tbs honor integrity and fidelity Of any
officer of the company, excepting the defacation of
the late treasurer.
The Park Fire insurance Company have decar cd
semi annual dividend Of FIVE per cent.
The returns of the banks Of New Orleans for the
week ending juno 9th, compared with those for the
week previous, present the annexed result -