The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-11

The indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad Company has
declared cash dividend of per cent payable the
Goth of January. We understand this road has
floating debt, and its whole line finished and in good
working order. 1t has been open little two years,
and has paid and per cent per dividends The
road opened in the latter part of November 1853.
The total earnings for 1854 amounted to 5000 and
for 1855 to $425 OIL showing increase Of $1256s
equal to forytwo per The estimated receipts for
1856 one halt million of dollars. The road has
cost about So Of which 900 is represented
by the stock and 81 900 by bonds and the company
$1,000 of real estate Indianapolis and in
awrenceburg and along its line Of road and In bills
cevabe secured real estate The expenses of running
the road have about As per cent And if the est
mate for 1856 is correct (of $4,000 for earnings
and 1914 600 for interest debt and expenses-net
see oOO) II will leave about $780, 900 for dividend
fund, about equal to 12k per cent for the year.
The following gentlemen have been elected directors of
the Sixth Avenue Rairoad-Messrs. Sidney Mason, FREE
derrick DePeyster John p Yelveron George R. Howell,
John Il. Swift, Samuel S. Bowman, Daniel Van Dusen,
Teunis W. Quick, Waldo Hutchins Gideon De Angels,
John B. Hail. A. N. c. Smith and Hamilton H. Salmon
some time since individual whose residence when at
home, not far from Utica, and who has for time
been industrousy the toady the board
agement of the New York Central Railroad Company
nounced publicly in certain circles in this city that
ing the next session Of the Legislature of this
bill would be put through authorizing the consolidation
of the Hudson River Railroad with the Central
form continuous line, under one management, from
this city to lake Erie. Upon the supposition that this
outsider but would be director in the Central Company
Is pretty well posted may look for movement soon
after the Assembly is organized, to that effect We
should not be ut all surprised to successful effort
made to get legislative sanction for such act Nothing
emanating from such should astonish any
ia n n with
legislative judicial financial and every other species of
corruption that place is Albany. By Of years of
uninterrupted indulgence, the appetite of the hsrpies
niesting that city has become voracious, and can
not be satisfied. So thoroughly is every portion
infected that the stranger compelled to witness 1t and
feel it from the moment he enters the city Wherever
he goes whether in the street in hotels in back parors
in the halls Of legislation, and In the halls justice
political cheating and base maneuvring meet him at
every turn from the outside relatives Of the officers Of
some bank, who shaves your at two per cent q
month, with the banks funds to the very "res-
pec.able and exceedingly influential" member from
the rural districts, stopping at your hotel, who
invites you to his and feeces you out Of
thousand two with his cards; from the poiti-
cal organs parties and the financial organs railroad
corporations satisfied with the party spois in the
shape of political printing, &C., to the avsrcious clerk
who locks up your bill pokes 1t under the nose OF the
Speaker according TO the amount you pay NM from the
spcaker himself who barriers principles and foreswears
friends Cor private purposes; from the snivelling
ary who takes thousand his share of the fee of
an appointment to the fsihless hypccrtica migrate,
his master, who makes the appointment a.
soon as the price is safely pocketed; from the
petty peculator who follows the example set
by those occupying higher positions to the rang thefts
Of the small fryn fact from the highest to the lowest
II grand system of PLUMBER from the beginning
TO the end. No who has any political financial u
dcal Legislative favor to ask business to transact
escapes.
The officials at Albany seem governed by universal
plan for extorting from the public, plumber in some
shape, regardless Of honor, TRUTH honesty patriotism
or even common decency. Honest mea, entering THAT
poltics pandemonium, instncivey button their pock.
eta II requires sign to tell them to beware Of eprc
dators They knavery depicted upon oes they meet
at every turn and feel it in the very atmosphere The
comonest civites Of society avoided by those mi
dated knowing full well that base proposition will
follow. Albany should be avoided by all men who are
politically honest as they would the plague. Washing
ton has generally been considered the worst place in the
country Tor party schemes and political corruption-and
there is doubt that 1t has few equabut in every
respect Albany is much its SUPERIOR and we ven
ture To say that in every species of political in
trgue Of political corruption ard political degradation
stands far In advance Of every other seat of govern
ment on this continent. what grand schemes Of Gnan
cal ra,caty will DO concotcd during the present winter
what huge swnde IN tho way Of railroad consolidation,
no but the invisible wire puers know but they will
all be developed In time The last successful railroad
saAl vas lie Consolidation d asout halfa ioyen .nhs