The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-11-21

Tho total value OF exports from Boston for the week
ending November 10, including specie s3ss. 70l,
against $2l6 s72 for tho corresponding week In 1896
The cash balance In the hands Of the Assistant Treas.
In Boston the close Of business November IT.
el2, 4o9 l4O-so a52 462 Of which In consho wing
Of sat s4 ascomparod with tho close Of
previous week.
The lower house OF the Georgia Legislature has passed
giving tho endorsement Of the State tho bonds
Of the Macon and Georgia Railroad It is presumed that
the upper house will in the In which
case tho enterprise will undoubtedly be pushed forward
rapidly TO compilation. Referring to tho above, the
Macon (0a.I Journal. says
There h another line Of railway, which, II In
ccssiul, will b. no mean tributary 70 the trade and
% Won 70 % the nsS So
Railroad, the grading Of which was completed from
Griffin 10 point seven or eight miles beyond Newman,
Ave years ugo. Grln Ga, and Decatur Ala, arc tho
contemplated serminL The line passes, most Of IL
length through quito productive part Of each State
and where the lands are mot protective, y v rch
u estimated. our memory serves us rightly, that
this way would he At least ono hundred and eleven
mics shorter from Memphis Tenn TO the seacoast than
any that then existed or now exista
The survey OF tho Richmond and Newport News IVA J
Railroad has been completed and the work Of grading
begun The whole length Is sixty. nine miles, with .
maximum grade Of only twenty-five feet. II will be
nearly straight line, and there will he but bridge,
which will DO the Chickahomny and nfccn hun
dred fest long The tunnel for the connection between
the Richmond and fredericksburg and Richmond and
Petersburg railroads 10 progressing satisfactorily
The Corinth (Miss Necs states that a contract has
been completed for building a railroad from Cornth 10
Hamburg the Tennessee river distance OF about
twenty miles Cars 10 be put on the road In eight
months The Negs also s;stcs that the railroad from
Hamburg TO Nashville has been LEI ou and that sborers
will Be at work Il. From Hamburg tho road
passes Mount Picaeant and will nfersect the Decatur
ana Nashville road al Columbia. THIS road, when
psted will greatly shorten the disauce between Nash
vile and Memphis nv this r5ntc II viii be- about two
hundred and twenty miles The present travelled route
via Decatur II three hundred and ten miles.
lis proposed to build q railroad from shclburne Falls
10 WILMINGTON W., connecting the now line 70 New
Haven with the Western Vermont line, thus making the
mos direct route to the Sound
Tho Cincinnati Com m>yeial states that additional
railway route from Cincinnati 10 the East has been In
auguraied TO be known as the Cincinnati, Dayton and
Eastern Railroad.
The company has secured perpetual ilpse. and arc
now operating The old sandusky and Dayton road undr
the name OF the Cincinnati Dayton and Eastern Rail
road. Having secured the sandusky and Dayton road
the new company joins hands with the Marietta and Gin
cinnst. Wilmington and Zsncsvie road TO the
right Of way aud build road from Dayton 10 Tin
clnnai and from Morrow town. The line OF the Little
Miami road To Mndisouville the Marietta and Cincls
natl rad thereby opening Independent route 10 the
city, In order that the chain may be compisted and
three roads that bsvs heretofore been kept out 10 the
cold, may have chance 70 compete with other roads
leading 70 the East and North II expected that the
road viii be completed and trains running through 70
sandusky BY the Slst Of December, 1897.