The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-21
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Htcoells Ma sonic aistory and Digest
sSiow's Capitalsts Guide and Railway Annual
Mich Cows ana Dairy Fafning
Vt,oro Fieramosca, by Massn DO DAzegho.
Tie Life OF JaDez Bunting, D. ID.
The War in Europe, by j. H. Doganne.
knitting Work, bS MIS- Partngton.
.CoopeT's Novels--rhe Pilot Townsend's ed.loc.
Sparks from = Locomotive, by Belle Bruon
Hartley Normap-A Novel
Boecher on Flowers, Fruits and Trees
Lectures for the People.
Straight Forward.
Walter Thornley--A Novel.
Works Of Sir Walter soott-Peterson's Cheap Edition.
'Peveril Of the Peak-rhe highland Widow.
Gerald Grfln's Works. vol. 9.-The Invasion -Sadeir
Ia Co q edition.
Lost Love, by Ashford Owen
Feuchtwanger's Popular Treatise Gems.
Madame de Sisel's works-Derby Jscksons edition.
Benjsmin's Eight Years in Asia and Africa.
The Mississippi Bubble. Memoir OF George Law.
Chas. Maoksy's Life and Liberty in America.
Ellen Dacre-A Novel
A I4e for Life BY the Author Of John Halifax.
BaTtetts Presidential Candidates.
The Power OF Faith.
Black Diamonds.
The Illustrated Pilgrim Almanac.
Havana Directory.
Annual Report OF tho Chamber Of Commerce, &c.
NEW MUSIC
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The CAPITALISTS GUIDE AND RAILWAY ANNUAL,
for 1859. BY Z. III. Stow. Samuel I'll. Callahan.
This ~ork really what claims to be-a compilation
of great value 10 capitalists. Nowhere will there be
found assembled large OF information IN 30 brief
compass great railway enterprises OF the country
appears from the satstics Of Mr.. Stow that in nine
years. from 1850 to 1852 the railways Of the United
STATES increased from 1885 q ga miles in length In
this period the increase the New England States amount
ed to 624 per cent while eight Of the Western States
che increase 20i Al per cent At the time the
former gained population 1912 per cent aud the latter
1922 The toa Of the roads, up to 1862 amounted
1886 s5l CO. Of which large sum ia supposed one
third been wasted in construction yet by their n0u
ence lands have advanced value and the speed Of
internal communication greatly augmented and the whole
country benefited. There at this time % 900 miles Of
finished roaos in the Uned States and about 900 miles
either under contraction or projected, requiring
4oO,o0Ocoo for their completion. It is estimated,
fore sufficient capital be diverted from
other objects to carry them through. In
the meantime, msny projected in spirit OF rivalry TO
other roads will abandoned II is calculated that
2oc0 miles Of railway sufficient to do all the business
OF the country the present time, and that 5000 miles
have been constructed 10 part in rivalry TO other roads,
which have proved dead oss stockholders and in the
will pass the hands OF the bondhoders. The
average OF railways mile has been $as 1913. In
nae.
and ia the Western States $50 $685. The assigned
for the chepness construction OF railroads at the South
is, that they built On the Cash plan Among the
net eerptpge the Pan.ms the largest returns
Ing $50 5e4 per me those earning the least,
thing to stockholders, found in Mane Vermont Mis-
essippi Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, New York, &c The is
dveead paying roads comprises 49, among which, two
pay annual dividend Of IL per cent; nae 10 cent
two Per cent zen, per cent; SIX per cent thirty
per cent Ave, per cent one, per cent one, IA <nd
one per cent The ss Of delinquent companies stock
bonds amounts 10 33. Tne total bonded debts Of the
American railways az, Of which mature between 1869
aud 1874 amount to SAIL ,l9o,7o2 The total debts Of
tne s.ates including al liabilities, direct and indirect,
including oans IN railroads and expenditures for canal
and banking purposes, amount, according TO Mr. Slows
statement about 1921 s95660 Many Of the liabilities
incurred however for Canals, railroads and banks, can
not be the light Of any direct charge upon
the people they IL most cases pay their interest aud
sinking funds 10 the sate aud in some cases they yield
surpuY The treasury New Jersey has no di-
rect debt but All indirect liability account Of canals and
railroad bonds OF millions, which for ms no
tax upon the people. Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode
Island anc New hampshire have debts at all neither
direct nor indirect The only State omitted In making up
the List is Wisconsin.
This statistical resume will as sample OF the
analytical compsctness with which Mr. Slows facts are
put together The industry and labor which he has be-
slowed on tho cannot fail TO meet their reward in an
extensive sale for 1t.
THK History OF FREEMAsoNRY AND MASONIC
DIGEST. By j. w. S. Mitchell, NJ. D. 2 vols. imp.
oct, I'd edition. Published by the author.
This is IN exceedingly and interesting work, and
FORMS we believe the complete history Of Masonry
Masonic doings that has yet been undertaken. M
action In the eyes Of the brotherhood will be the
immense amount research which brought TO bear In
support OF the antiquity Of the Masonic institution, and
which, proves anything shows that the experience Of
thousands Of years has altered but little the constitution Of
the human mind. In point Of style, the book literary
curiosity, it's quaintness and pedany being singuary in
keeping with a subject which is made up Of forms and
ceremonias Dr. Mitchell, in speaking Of the Morgan ex
element expresses his opinion that Morgan was put
out Of way by who to share in the profits
of his book and by Masons who DESTROYS to pre-
vent expose Of It's secrets There are many things In
these volumes which will interest the unnitated; amongst
others an Of the connection With Freemasonry
che Hon. Mrs Aldworth-the only lady ever known II
have been made freemason.
THE LIFE OF JABEz BUNTING, D. D. BY his Son,
Vol. l. Harper & Brothers.
The subject of this memoir was OF the worthless
and most liberal minded OF the shining lights" Of which
Methodism boasts He 10 every Of the word
good man, pous without ascetcism tolerant not only o.
the faith but Of the fangs Of Others and seadfas
in his Friendships and tender even to fault in his family
relations. The memorials Of such man possens ar
interest outside the pale Of the religious denomination Il
which he belonged. His biographer, whilst he has done
the fullest justice his fathers eminent qualities, has al
the time had the good sense not to conceal biz
weaknesses 10 overlap portrait which, in It's natura
traits sufficiently perfect To render such a indulgence