Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-04-09

Spent on new track Columbia
Road, locomotives, motive pow
er, repairs, Iock-keepers, coIIec-
tors, damages and Canal Com
missioners, Sl,4e2, ls5 81
Receipts from Main Line l,02l ,47o II
Balance against the line, $3.50, us Al
To secure the alleged profits, the Canal
Board exclude from expenditures the money
required for re-layiDg the track of the Col
iumbia Road, for new locomotives, for DANA
ges incurred, 6e., &c.
In 1852 the Canal Commissioners reported
the profits of the Main Line at S4S5 sci Is,
and fixed the expenditures at S906, ,0SS 26.
These the Auditor Generals Report shows to
have been 81 ,480,340 20, or S968, ,551 OF, ex-
elusive of the entire construction account.
Including the amount paid for re-laying the
track of the Columbia Railroad,
The expenditures were SI,199, ,I54 90
Receipts of the line, l,39I,647 A
Apparent profits, $I92. .494 50
Against which are to be charged suBdry
debts created and not paid. On page seven
of their Report for 1853, the Canal Board
ask for an appropriation to pay So, ,677 50
of debts contracted in 1852; and others were
developed IN subsequent years. In addition,
no estimate is made for deterioration of
stock, for replacing which heavy payments
were made necessary. though always omitted
by the Board; and ali reference to interest
PAID Is emitted. Including these offsets, the
apparent profits dwindle to nething and a
heavy account rises against the line
REA- The MCnfnur RaIlfpo MIL or narr:ITn
made ll6 tons of railroad iron in one day last
week.
s9-The editor of the Holiday Stan
dard calls S400 small payment He is the
frstprinter we ever knew that considered it So
E1The Americans Of this county who are
hot up " for sale OF charter" are referred to
the speech of John C. Kunkle of Harrisburg.
in to-day's paper.
|Charies B. Penrose, for many years q
prominent politician and 4 member of the
Senate, died suddenly at Harrisburg on Mon
day morning
E1Col. Curtin il is reported was bitten by
dog in Philadelphia last week, and had the
wounds cauterized under an apprehension
that the dog was mad
David Mitchell Esq, of Perry county,
has been appointed Superintendent: of the
Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, in the
place of Col. j. B. Baker.
Declined the democratic nomination for
Judge-Hon. Ellis Lewis. Judge Wilson is
urged in different quarters as suitable can
ditate in his place.
EgThe Governor has appointed James
Armstrong, of Williamsport. Lycoming cour-
ty, Judge of the Supreme Court, in place of
Jeremiah 5. Black, resigned.
s@The census takers in Kansas are said
to avoid many free state settlements, so as 10
deprive them Of votes, the law. requiring a
registry on or before the lst April.
sg@A collision occurred on the Columbia
railroad on Monday between two freight
trains, by which fireman named Samuel
Huston was killed.
E4-A new paper called the Weekly Tri-
bune has been started at Middeburg, Suvder
cOunty-M. T. Heinezlman proprietor, Jno.
4. Ettinger editor. It appears well, but is
too large for the town.
EgThe Iocofocos of Bedford have been
holding two elections to choose postmaster.
As the office is now held by democratic
widow, bachelor Back may not see proper to
advise and consent to her removal.
Mob La,r in NeJraska-The officers of the
steamer 81. Mary, from Council Bluffs, report
that four men were shot at Platt's Mouth,
Nebraska, on March l9, by order of a vigi-
lance committee. Five others had been ban
ished the territory and forbidden to return
on pain of death. The offence committed
was claim jumping"
sAAmong the dissatisfied in this State
are the Philadelphia Daily News, John X.
Zeilin, II. B. Swoope Of Clearfeld, aud prob
ably few others. All these last fail played
into the hands Of Buchanan. The News,
Lewistown Aurora and Perry Freeman are
the only exchanges on our list that are not
the Union ticket.
EF Buchanan's Cabinet is yery rich one
if not a very able one. Gen. Cass is set down
as worth s., 600, 900; Cobb $500. 900; Thomp-
sen $1,000, 600; Floyd $500, 900, and Toucy,
Black and Brown 100000, making a total Of
s., 100000. The ST. Louis Intelligeneer saws:
at is worthy of remark in this connection,
that the richest man among the Federal Office
holders in ST. Louis is the only one that has
been re-appointed. Money is power. A
poor man Is no where Such is Democra-
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