POETRY. [FOR THE NEW YORK AMERICAN.] From Loves of the Shell-Fishes.-Extract 2. Are tears poured out from burning founts before thee. I know thou hast thy pleasures, but how fleeting. Or like the perfumed poison flower, most willing Thou hast enough of worshippers above. No; like thy votarion, thou dost love to rove NEW-YORK AMERICAN, TRI-WEEKLY. Jan. 26.-The fee of lot corner of Wall and Broad-streets, 16 All letters relating to the TRI-WEEKLY AMERICAN may MARRIAGES. MARRIED-In Savannah, on the 31st December last, Mr. At New Brunswick, N.J. on Tuesday morning, Jan. 31, by DEATHS. 1 lot on Madison street, running through to Grand st., with large brick and frame building. The three story brick house and lot No. 43 Roosevelt street, lot 25 by 70 teet. 3 lots on Water street, corner of Cuviers alley, 57 feet by 85, with 2 brick and 2 frame stores. Frame house and lot 136 Greene street, lot 25 feet by 100. $17,750 3.100 3,100 3,050 5,700, 3,400 -8,150 32,300 2,700 DIED-On Friday morning, the 27th January, Charles Rug. Last evening, 27th inst. of a lingering illness, Mr. Wm. Van At 9 o'clock, on the evening of Jan. 26th, after a short but inhabitants. In the village of Kingston, Ulster Co., on the 25th Jan., Mrs. In her were united, in a remarkable degree, exemplary piety, January 30th, after a short illness, Agnes, daughter of Hugh January 30th, James, only son of Dr. Abm. L. Cox, aged 10 On Sunday morning, 29th instant, Phoebe B., only child of At Ulster, Jan. 24th, Mary, daughter of the late Rov. Dr. John At Paterson, N. J. on Sunday, 29th Jan., of a short illness Departure of the Revolutionary Fathers! In Paris, Oneida . on the 17th ult. of the influenza, Captain In Stow, Massachusetts, Caft. Judah Wetherbee,, a Revo In Lynn, Dr. James Gardner, aged 60 years. He served in AMERICAN RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL. The subscriber a now publishing a weekly paper, called the AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL. A princi-the army of the Revolution pal object in offering the proposed work to the Public, is to diftionary pensioner. fuse a more general knowledge of this important mode of inter nal communication, which, at this time, appears to engage the atention of almost every section of our country. In Perrysburg, Cattaraugus co. Mr. Stephenson, 75, a Revo WEEKLY REPORT OF DEATHS. 1 do. 1 do. on Concord street... do. 2 do. on Liberty street, each $575... 1 do. on Washington st... do. do. each $1,025. 1,03 .2,050 1,000 .1,050 .1,335 !' 2,250 ..1,130 ......1,000, .2,100 ..... .......... I do. corner Nassau and Liberty streets...............1.215 1 do. on Nassau street....... Jan. 30-The four story store and lot No. 278 Pearl st. lot 20 The two story brick front house No. 131 East Broadway, THE AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL is printed on a sheet of the largest size, (mammoth) and put up in a coave-tion.-[Wayne Sentinel.] nient form for binding, each number containing sixteen large octavo pages of three columns each. The selections, upon the sul The City Inspector reports the death of 186 persons during the week ending on Saturday last, viz:-Of whom 38 were of the ject of railroads and other works of internal improvement, will age of 1 year and under, 10 between 1 and 2, 21 between 2 and be from the best authors, both of Europe and America, and will 5, 9 between 5 and 10, 5 between 10 and 20, 12 between 20 and be occasionally illustrated by engravings. A part of this Jour. 30, 11 between 30 and 40, 12 between 40 and 50, 5 between 30 No. 7 York street, a two story brick front house and lot of and 60, 6 between 0 and 70, 6 between 70 and S0, and 1 between nal will be devoted to the subject of internal improvement-giv-90 and 100. Diseases-Apoplexv 2, burned or scalded 1, cancer No. 49 Sullivan street, a two story brick front house and lot, ground, lot 21 by 80, house 21 by 38 ing a history of the first introduction of railroads into England 1, casualty 1, consumption 31, convulsions 9, cramp in the sto house 21 by 38, lot 21 by 90 and their improvements to the present day. It will also notice mach 1, diarrhea 2, dropsy 1, dropsy in the chest 1, dropsy in the meetings, in different sections of the country, upon the sub the head 6, drowned 1, dysentery 1, fever, fever scarlet 6, fe ver typhus 2, hives or croup 1, inflammation of the bowels 3, jost of railroads. The remaining part of the paper will contain inflammation of the brain 1, inflammation of the chest 2, inflamthe LITERARY, MISCELLANEOUS AND NEWS matte mation of the liver 1, influenza 1, insanity 1, intemperance 2, of the NEW-YORK AMERICAN, as prepared for that marasmus 1. measles 13, mortification 1, ohl age 3. petipneumony 4, pleurisy 2, pneumonia typhodes 5, small pox 5, sprue vaper, omitting all political subjects, except such as are of gene-1, stillborn 13, teething 1, whooping cough 2, worms 1. ABRAHAM D. STEPHENS. City Inspector. ral concern. SALES OF REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. By James Bleecke & Sons. Nos. 47 & 45 Sullivan street, 2 two story brick front houses No. 43 Sullivan street, adjoining the above house, a two Jan. 24.-The three story brick house and lot No. 61 Chambers The terms of the American Railroad Journal are THREE The two story brick house and lease of lot No. 70 Murray street - TOWNSEND & DURFEE, Rope ManufactuOne lot, 24 by 103 feet, rera, having machinery for making ropes to any required length Three lots, 22 by 103 feet, (without splice), offer to supply full length Ropes for the in-One gore, on do, 22 ft. 8 in. front, and 86 ft. deep one side clined planes on Rail-roads at the shortest notice, and deliver One gore, corner 11th street and 6th avenue, 34 ft. 6 in. on them in the City of New-York, if requested. As to the quality the avenue, and 44 ft. 10 in. on 11th-st. and 117 ft. on the of the Rope, the public are referred to J. B. Jervis, Eng. M. & H. R. R. Co., Albany; or James Archibald, Engineer Hudson & Delaware Canal &R. R. Co., Carbondale, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. 3,100 2,726 2,728 2,725 4,470 No. 408 Hudson street, a three story house and lot, adjoin. 4,470 4,470 No. 412 Hudson-st. a three story brick house and lot, house 22 by 36, lot 70 ft. 4,470 on Hudson-st. 2,400 No. 120 Amos-st, a large two story brick house and lot, 6,000 No. 118 Amos-st. a two story house, adjoining the above house. 19 by 38, lot 19 by 64 4.300 3,200 3,200 1,400 " 5,200 22 by 38 4,900 900 19,000 One three story brick house and lot No. 197 Chambers-st. next to corner West-st. 5,000 1,800 3,750 By R. R. Minturn & Co. 14,000 Jan. 25-One house and lot in 14th street POSTSCRIPT. A letter from Capt. Chadwiek says his deck was As doubts have been expressed at a distance as to the conSTILL LATER.-The North America, from Liver. swept Dec. 5th, five days out from New-York. Dec.tinuance of the RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL, it is but justice to those who are subscribers to say that its permanency is certain. pool, brings dates to the 1st ult., ten days later than 9th, while scudding, a sea wrung off the rudder by The publisher is permitted to refer to the following gentlernen: the counter, and carried away all the braces from those received yesterday. The chief subject, as to the stern post. On the 13 weather moderated; ship England, is the rapid and unparalleled extension of the Cholera in the town of Gateshead, a suburb of ped a rudder by which the ship steered well. On the 20th, during a hail storm, was struck with light. Newcastle, and connected with it by a bridge over ning at the foremast head. The fluid eame down the Tyne; where it seemed to burst forth at once with fearful mortality-40 or 50 cases occurring through both decks into the lower hold, where it en-ed to give the above six insertions. tered several boxes and set fire to a bale of cotton, bration of the Christmas holidays. It had also appeared in Scotland, at Haddington, near Edinburgh, WILLIAM A. DUER. Esq. President of Columbia College. For the New-York American. FROM 16th TO 31st JANUARY. each day. This is, in part, ascribed to the excess. among the lower classes, consequent upon the cele- which lay near the foremast. Succeeded in getting RANGE OF THE THERMOMETER AND BAROMETER off the fore hatch, and removing the cargo so as to extinguish the fire. Weather thick until 25th. The Sampson had a large quantity of specie on board. January 16. The ship and cargo were worth $700,000. Seldom has a ship been overtaken with such a series of dis and in Wales. The law for the abolition of an hereditary Peerage in France, had passed the House of Peers. The ef. fect of this law will be more felt in England, where so many are already disposed to question the necessity or use of an hereditary peerage, than in France, where that branch of the legislature was much less influential. An absurd report, received in Paris by the way of Corsica, of an insurrection in Rome, in which the Pope was said to be killed, and the Castle of St. Angelo taken, excited momentary attention, but was soon perceived to be wholly unfounded. asters. A letter from Capt. Holdridge, of the Silas Rich. ards, says, he was nine days in getting to the Banks, when he took a hurricane from the west, and reached Holyhead, a distance of 2000 miles, in eight and half days,- -all safe. a Highest. Lowest. Barometer. Highest. Lowest. 39 30 30.80 30.17 LONDON, Dec. 30.-The Cholera is getting rather serious in the North of England, say at New-Castle and its immediate vicinity, and we make no doubt In the packet ship Columbia, sailed Tuesday, for London:that folks abroad will be apprehensive for their Chevalier Huygens, Minister from the Netherlands, lady, twó friends here, much more so indeed than is any occa-daughters and two servants. sion for. And we can only say, that while every In ship North America, from Liverpool:-Mrs Macy, Mr E Gen. Torrijos, who has been so long conspiring proper precaution at the same time is taken, no fear Post, Wm I Babcock, Mr John S Tooker, Mr C D Fisher, New against Ferdinand, has at last been taken and exe- is entertained here of its spreading, or if it should, Capt Wm Gorham, of Portland; Mr Jas Kershaw, Mr Robert York; Mr J Robinson, of England; Mr S Doggett, of Boston; cuted. He was thrown, with some fifty companions of its being of that dangerous consequence people Kershaw, of England. upon the coast near Malaga, and preferred, it seems are at first apt to suppose. Small-pox and scarlet by surrendering with arms in his hands, to lose his fever are as bad disorders, and yet, although always prevailing, keep up no alarm. As to your yellow life by execution, to dying sword in hand for a cause fever, it is ten times worse than anything that has hopeless, but which he deemed just. thorized the execution of the others. In the ship Canada, from Liverpool:-Mr G Gossip and ser Per ship Lafayette, from Charleston-W Elder and Mrs COMMERCIAL RECORD. LIVERPOOL MARKET, Dec. 31." The English papers are very angry because an Hereditary Peerage abolished in France! LONDON, Dec. 30th. (evening.)-An Hereditary Englishman, named Boyd, who accompanied Torrijos was executed like the rest. The right however, Peerage has ceased to exist in France, in that to execute him must be the same as that which au-lish shores. The Paris papers mention that the country which is within three hours sail of the Eng. questios was brought to a conclusion on Wednesday The King of Holland's obstinacy is now openly evening (Dec. 28th) when the entire law was put charged to the connivance of the Emperor of Rus- to the vote, and passed by a majority of 33, the num ber for the abolition being 103; against it 70! The Nia. Some troubles had occurred in Luxemburg, final settlement of this great question has created, which the treaty agreed on by the Five Powers leaves comparatively speaking, but little sensation in the partly Dutch and partly Belgian. This anomalous French capital; for it had long since been deter-Wright and son. condition led to the occurrences we cannot detail. mined by the people that the Hereditary Peerage dolph, U. 5. Navy, R H Brooke, and Capt. M'Mullen, lady It seems less probable than heretofore that this ques-Ministers was looked on merely as a matter of should go; consequently the majority in favor of the and child. tion of Holland and Belgium will be amicably set- course. tled. It is not doubted that a treaty was signed, or at least agreed upon for the marriage of King CONGRESSIONAL ANALYSIS.-In the Senate, Mr. Cotton. The import this week is 6100, and the sales are 13,Leopold with one of the daughters of King Philip, Wilkins presented some resolutions of the President 720 bags at full prices, viz. 180 Sea Islande, at 103d to 14d; 40 stained do, 5 to 7d; 5,980 Boweds, 4 to 6fd; 960 NOrleans, St an arrangement acquiesced in, as we infer by the and Directors of the Pittsburgh bank, in favor of the to 74d; 2,000 Alabamas, 44 to 64d; 970 Pernams, 78 to 73; 1,030 renewal of the charter of the U. S. Bank. The bill Bahias and Maccios. 6 to 6d; 1,130 Maranhams, 6 to 78d; 10 language of the London Courier, by the British Gofor the relief of certain revolutionary officers and sol common West Indies, 68d; 170 Egyptians, 7 to 8d, and 500 Surats 3 to 4 per lb. vernment. In that, or probably any, event, France diers of the Virginia line, was reported without a. Sugar. There is some inquiry for Brazils for export, and awill sustain Leopold against Holland. mendment. The resolution respecting the Tariff,bout 100 cases have been sold at 158 for good brown to 188 6d The President's message is published at length in submitted by Mr. Clay, was discussed by Mr. Smith for low white Bahias. There have been no public sales of Coffee during the week, most of the London papers of the 29th December. of Md. and Mr. Holmes of Maine. Mr. Holmes had and the transactions are confined to 70 cka Jamaica, at former not concluded his remarks when the Senate adj. rates. In Cocoa, Ginger, Pepper, or Pimento, nothing has been and warmly and deservedly praised. The Courier Among the numerous memorials presented in the done: 100 bags good white Bengal Rice have been sold at 15 to 16. The business done in Ashes, is on a very confined scale. thus speaks of it: House of Representatives, was one by the Speaker, at about last week's prices. In Dye Woods the sales are also The President's Message is altogether a gratify. from the Free Trade Convention recently assembled limited at 8 158 for Campeachy Logwood. In East ludia proing document, from the pacific and moderate tone in Philadelphia, on the subject of the Tariff. It was duce small sales have been made in Shellac, at 1s per tb.; and 600 bags Saltpetre have changed hands at 378 to 398 6d. The adopted towards this country; but what will excite laid on the table, and 5000 copies, in addition to the spirited demand for Olive Oils noticed in our last has somepeculiar gratification to the friends of American in. the usual number, ordered to be printed. Mr. John- what abated, and the sales do not reach 100 tns, at the highest dependence, is the allusion to the prosperous condi- son of Kentucky, from the Committee on the Post point of last week's prices, which holders find little difficulty in obtaining. The general sales under this head are not worthy tion of the finances, it being announced that the Office and Post Roads, reported a bill to reduce the of notice, with the exception of about 500 bags Sumac, at 8s 6d whole debt of the country may be extinguished with- postage on periodicals and pamphlets. Mr. Wilde, or Verona, and 13s for Sicily. In Naval Stores the only sale is in four years of the administration of the present from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported 1900 bris. Turpentine (900 to arrive,) at 11s 2d to 11s 3d. Palm Oil.-We have experienced rather a limited demand for this ar President. There can be little doubt, we think, of a bill making an appropriation to carry into effect ucle, the transactions of the week being confined to the supply a perfectly satisfactory termination to the question the second article of the treaty at Fort Wilkinson. of consumers, at our quotations. Tallow-The market has of boundaries. The two Governments are, by Mr. W. B. Shepherd, from the Committee on Terri-been more quiet, but holders will not give way in price, and interest as well as good feeling, influenced in their tories, reported a bill to fix the salaries of the Go. are still obtaining 44s 6d to 458. December 27. view of that question, and it is not likely that they vernor, Secretary and Judges, of the territory of ArCorn Exchange.-With a fair arrival of Wheat, Oats, Flour will allow any little difference of opinion to prevail kansas. The House resumed the consideration of and Oatineal from Ireland, for this day's market, only a very against the important conviction that, for the sake of the Apportionment Bill. Mr. Wickliffe's motion to moderate business was done in Wheats, at a decline of 1 to 24 independence and freedom, it is essential to have a recommit the bill to a select committee, to consist of per 70 lbs. on new Irish. For Oate the demand was also limited, and prices may be noted to id per 45 lb. dearer. Barley and cordial understanding between constitutional coun-one member from each State, was lost-yeas 76, Malt each 18 per qr. and Beans 2s per qr. lower. In other artiMr. Wickliffe then moved to strike from cles no alteration. tries. It is very important that Great Britain, France nays 115. and America, should be cordially disposed towards the bill 48,000 as the ratio, but before the question each other, in order to counteract the effect of a was taken the House adjourned. Holy Alliance league which now exists in force of its predecessor, although it is not convenient to acknowledge a determination to enforce its doctrines and extend its power. LONDON, December 29.-American Stocks.-American 43 per cent. 1832, 891; do. 5 per cent. 1832, 891. New York 5 per cent. 1837, 99 100; do. 5 per cent. 1945, 106; do 6 per cent. 1837, 105 6-Dividends from 1st October. Pennsylvania 5 per cent. 1856, 106-Dividends from 1st August. Ohio 6 per cent. 1850, 1144. Virginia 6 per cent. 1944, 110. Louisiana, Wilson's, 1834, 104; do. 1839, 104: do. 1844, 104; do. 1849, 104. Louisiana, Barings', 1838, 105; do. 1843, 1054. Mississippi 6 per cent. 1811, 105; do. 1846, 105; do. 1951, 105; do. 1856, 106.— On the 1st inst., at 4 o'clock, Mr. Abraham Brouwer, In the Louisiana Bank Shares, £25 10s. Bank Shares £278.-Dividends from 1st July. In Philadelphia, on Tuesday evening, Alfred Langdon El wyn, M. D., to Mary Middleton, daughter of Doctor Mease, of that city. CONTENTS. RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL. Report upon Rail-roads, | NEW-YORK AMERICAN Persiflage...... 97 Gen. Santander. made to the Assembly of New-York Baltiinore and Ohio Railroad.. .97, 98 View of the Commercial advantages of three grand artificial avenues between the Atlantic and Western Waters... Bail-road from New-York to Albany... Bail-road from New-York in Lake Erie ..100 Mohawk and Hudson Railroad Bail-roads in Ohio... 100 101 .101 Rail-road in Virginia......10 Home Affairs-Dinner to Congress... Appointments .10 Foreign Intelligence.. .10 J. Wilson Croker. SAMUEL SWARTWOUT, Esq. Collector of the Port. ed to give the above six insertions. AMERICAN RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL. NEW-YORK, FEBRUARY 11, 1832. .109 course of four years more, and the state will then be E. Thomas, Esq. which will be followed, as we may leriving a large income from that source. Hence have space, by that of Jonathan Knight, Esq. Chief .10it is said no financial obstacles present themselves Engineer, and Caspar W. Weaver, Esq. Superintend. ..10 to the State's becoming, in the manner above sug. ent of Graduation and Masonry, with such others New York Legislature..10 gested, a copartner in Rail-roads with the enterpri- as may give additional information as to the detail 10sing individuals who are ready to construct them.-of that noble work, from which a more correct idea 10 A Rail-road through the southern tier of counties is of the construction of a Rail-road may be derived, 99 M.scellany-U.S. Bank...10s considered as particularly entitled to the favorable than from almost any other work we have seen. ..10 regard of the Legislature. In reference to the We have been frequently asked why the only From Foreign papers......116 Prices Current, &c........111 route of such a road we find the following anecdote Rail-road in successful opperation in this stato PoetryTo Bachelors, the respecting the father of the late De Witt Clinton. the Hudson and Mohawk Rail-road, has not been Belle of the Ball-Meditations on the Sea Shore, 112 It is new to us; and is interesting both in itself, and more particularly referred to? to which we Marriages, Deaths, &c... 112 as proving an additional claim for the name of Clin-reply,want of materials. We hope, howev. As doubts have been expressed at a distance as to the conton, on the gratitude of a state, which has so much or, to be able soon to give something further up. tinuance of the RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL, it is but justice benefited as this has, by the system of internal im- on the subject, and rely upon those who are fa. those who are subscribers to say that its permanency is certain provements with which that name is identified. miliar with its details, prosent condition and prosThe publisher is permitted to refer to the following gentlemen: WILLIAM A. DUER. Esq. President of Columbia College the Revolutionary War, and father of the late Go"Gen. James Clinton, a distinguished officer in pect, for information. JAMES RENWICK, Professor in Columbia College. ROBERT L. STEVENS, Esq. Engineer. vernor Clinton, explored this route, (one for con- The annexed extract, taken from an Ohio paper, JAMES G. KING. Esq. necting the Hudson with the head waters of the Al shows the enterprize of the inhabitants of that comleghany,) while the country was yet a wilderness, It is, probably, the inten. ***Editors who have published the Prospectus, are request pian Way, to unite the Hudson with the fertile re-tion of its projectors to continue it on to Dayton, and advocated the construction of a National Ap. paratively yeung state. gions of the West." in the adjoining county of Montgonery, and there BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAIL-ROAD.-In the second to conuect with the Mad river and Sandusky Pail. number of this Journal we published the letter of the road and the Miami Canal. The distance from Chi. licothe to Lebanon is about miles, and from there President of the Baltimore Rail-road Company to miles. REPORT UPON RAIL-ROADS, MADE TO THE ASSEMBLY the Legislature of Maryland, accompanying the to Dayton COLUMBUS, JAN. 26, 1832. OF THIS STATE. We are indebted to Mr. Stillwell fifth Annual Report of that company. We now Dear Sir: The Chilicothe and Lebanon Raii-road for a proof copy of the Report, which, as Chairman publish that Report, of which the letter in question Bill passed the House of Representatives to-day, of the committee, he made on 30th ult. It reached us only took a very brief notice, being rather confined and I think will pass the Senate. at too late a period to be embodied in this number of to a summary of what had been done altogether [This bill provides for the incorporation of a company, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, divided the Journal. We shall, however, lay it before our since the commencement of the work. into shares of 10 dollars each, which may be inreaders in the next, and ask their attention to it as There is one faet disclosed by this Report, which creased to such farther sun as the President and Dicanvassing the subject of Rail-roads in a discreet we are glad to see stated with so much confidence, rectors shall deem necessary, to enable them to caryet liberal spirit, and as estimating justly the im-viz., that at the Point of Rocks-a pass concerning fy its provisions into full effect; said eorporation to be authorized to construct a Rail-road, not exceeding menee benefits likely to be derived from all well con- the right to occupy which, a long and mutually in- one hundred feet in width, with as many sets of sidered and well conducted enterprises of this sort. jurious dispute has existed between this Company tracts as they may deem expedient, from some point It takes the ground, that as to any direct agency and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company-" it in the town of Chilicothe, in the county of Ross, to of the State in constructing Rail-roads, it would is fully ascertained that there is ample space both extend through the counties of Ross and Highland, by way of Wilmington in Clintou county, to Lebabe inexpedient, because of the peculiarity incident for the Rail-road and the Canal, at a very inconsi- non in the county of Warren, with all the rights, to this mode of conveyance, that it can only be derable additional expense." Sinco this Report was privileges and immunities usually granted to compaused with vehicles expressly provided for and adapt-made, a final decision, favorable to the Canal Com.nies incorporated for similar purposes.] ed to it, which must belong to the proprietors of the pany, and, therefore, adverse to the claim of the We would ask attentive perusal of the communiRoad; differing in this from canals, where every one Rail-road to use that pass, has been made. We may have his own boat if he chooses. The report trust that "a spirit of accommodation" will incation signed Observer,in this number of the Journal. reasons very justly, that the State could not, with duce the Canal Company, as there is room enough It is from a source which, if known, would ensure it any advantage or propriety, thus undertake to be for both, to allow the Rail-road to pass by its side not only an attentive pesusal but also confidence in the carriers for the public. But though the State at this point. its suggestions. an error occurred in the captionshould not construct Rail-roads on its own account, it should read "three" instead of "these grand Believing that we cannot give more interesting it is insisted that it ought, and is well able, to aid matter than is found in the "Fifth Annual Report artificial avenues." The communications upon the such enter prises as are considered of sufficient prom. of the President and Directors to the Stockholders subject of the termination of the Hudson and Erie ise, by subscriptions to their stock. The canal debt, of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-road Company," we Rail-road, and the Rail-road to Albany, will also be it is averred, may easily be extinguished in the have commenced with that of the President, Philip read with interest. 98 ciprocally giving to each other a cordial and efficient Fifth Annual Report of the President and Directors of the company with an efficient force has for some operate in the advancement of the work, and in retime boen engaged. of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. The Legislature of Maryland, during the last ses- aid and support in the discharge of their several du. The President and Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-road Company, in presenting their fifth sion passed an act which, among other provisions, ties. This disposition has greatly facilitated the annual report, feel highty gratified in being able to authorized the Baltimore and Washington Turnpike operations of the company, and very much abated congratulate the stockholders upon the increasing Road Company to subscribe $100,000 to the stock the labors of the Board. success, which has thus far attended the operations of the proposed road to Washington, and reserving Upon reference to the report of the Chief Engineer of the Company. The construction of the road, dur. to the state the right to subscribe for five-eighths of of the Company, and to the reports of the Superining the interval which has elapsed since the last an- the cost of the road, from its intersection with the tendent of graduation and masonry, and of the Sucumstantial exhibit of all the operations of the Com nual report of the Board, has been steadily advancing Baltimore and Ohio Rail-road to the line of the Dis. perintendent of construction, which are hereto an. with great activity; and there now remains no doubt, trict of Columbia, amounting, perhaps, to a moiety nexed, the Stockholders will find a minute and cir. The Directors being desirous of procuring their pany, in relation to the location and construction of but that the first five divisions, extending from the of the whole proposed expenditure. city of Baltimore to the Potomac river, a distance of 67 1.2 miles, as well as the lateral road to Fre. steam machinery, as far as practicable, of American the road, subsequent to the time of the last annual derick, will be opened for travelling during the pres. workmanship, and anxious to direct the mechanical report, down to this date, as well as of several high. genius of this country to its further improvement, ly valuable improvements which have, within the ent year. down as the public property south of Jones' Fails, Under the authority given by the City Council of offered a premium for the best constructed Locomo. same period, been made in the machinery and mo. Baltimore, a line of Rail-way has also been laid tive Engine, which should be placed upon the road on ving power employed upon it. By these reports it from the termination of the main stem of the Road, or before the 1st of June, 1831, limiting the perfor- appears that the actual cost of graduation and mason. at the Depot, near Pratt street, down that street to mance to a certain rate of speed and power of trac- ry upon the 71 miles between Baltimore and the the Basin, whence it is now under construction to tion. Only one engine has yet been offered, which, Point of Rocks, including the lateral road to Frede. the City Block, running parallel with the entire on trial, appeared to be adapted to the structure of rick, will not exceed $1,101,615 or $15,500 per on the lateral road to Frederick will not exceed water front of the City, communicating with all the the road-this engine it is believed, taking into con- mile;* aud that the cost of a double set of tracks wharves, and intersecting all the principal streets sideration its weight, is, in point of efficiency, near. upon the main stem of the road, and of a single set From the experiments which the Board have been $805,238 or $11,628, per mile of road with a double which extend northwardly and southwardly, as farly if not quite equal to any locomotive yet tried. at which place there have been conveyed to the enabled to make with it, they have fully ascertained set of tracks, thus making the total cost of gradua Company, by the Corporation of Baltimore, two that steam power may be used, on the Baltimore ting the entire line of these portions of the road and squares of the ground, favorably situated for the con- and Ohio Rail-road, at a rate of speed and economy of laying the rails upon them $1,906,853 or $27,128 venient and economical transaction of an extensive of cost, which will fully realize the most sanguine per mile. About one-third of this line will be laid In this charge is included the heavy expenditures commerce. An uninterrupted communication will anticipations of the company; arrangements are with stone Rails, and the remaining two-thirds with thus, within a few weeks, be opened along the whole accordingly now in train to procure a sufficient wood. extent of the Road, between the Port of Baltimore, number of Locomotive Engines of a weight and the Potomac river at the Point of Rocks, and the construction suitable for the travel and transporta- incurred on the first division of the road. Accord. tion on the road. These, it is expected, will be in ing to the report of the Superintendent of graduation City of Frederick. Upon this line a double set of tracks are nearly readiness by the time the two sets of tracks shall be and masonry, herein before referred to, it appears line between Ellicotts' Mills and the Potomac river, completed over a distance of twenty-seven miles; completed to the Potomac river, and until then the that the graduation and masonry of the 2d, 3d, 4th and a single set of tracks is also so nearly finished transportation on the western divisions of the road and 5th divisions of the road embracing the entire over the remaining forty-six miles, as to leave no will be effected by horse power. The graduation of the inclined planes at Parr and extending over a distance of 54 1-2 miles, will The requisite ardoubt of its early completion. rangements have likewise been made to secure the Ridge is nearly finished, and they will very soon be cost $465,443 or $8,540 per mile; if to this be ad. construction of the second track, along the whole in readiness to receive the Rails. It is contemplated ded 11,628, the average cost of laying a double set line, to the Potomac river, during the ensuing to place the necessary stationary engines with their of tracks, on the entire line between Baltimore and appropriate fixtures there, as early as possible, and the Point of Rocks, the actual cost, of graduation, road between Ellicotts' Mills and the Potomac, will spring. When the work shall have been finished to the in the mean time horse power will be employed in masonry and laying a double track of rails on the Point of Rocks, the operations of the Company, passing them. Considerable progress has been made in the im- be 20,168 per mile, and this district, it is believed, which have heretofore been interdicted beyond that place, by the injunction issued at the suit of the Che. provements of several of the depots of the company may be assumed as affording a fair specimen of the sapeake and Ohio Canal Company, must necessa- by the construction of substantial and appropriate labor and expense which will be incurred on the rerily be suspended, unless a decision of the question of buildings, and other requisite accommodations, maining line of the road from the Point of Rocks to right should, in the mean time take place, or the adapted to the commerce of the road; and from the the coal mines in Allegany county. The entire line of the road, from the Depot of the Canal Company agree to compromise the dispute.- warehouses of the company upon Camden street, a The delay which this litigation has already occasion. Rail-way will be laid up that street for the conven- Company, near the intersection of Pratt street and distance thence to the eastern termination of the ed, is the more to be regretted, as there is no reason ience of the return trade. These arrangements will the Washington road, at Baltimore, to the Point of whatever to doubt, but that if a spirit of accommo. it is believed, secure to the public in the use of the Rocks is 67 1-2 miles, to which is to be added for the dation existed on the part of the Canal Company, road, every necessary facility and convenience. As it was early foreseen that a very considerable Rail-way at the City Block 2 miles, and for the sufficient room would be found, for both works along The excavation, embankment and masonry the ground in dispute, even should that Company commerce would be attracted to the city of Frede. Branch road to Frederick 3 1.2 miles, making the still adhere to the idea of extending their work to Cum rick, when the road should be completed to that whole distance finished and under construction 73 berland; indeed, so far as the examinations have been place, the interests, both of the public and of miles. made by the Engineers of the two Companies, it is this company, required that a sufficient extent of upon nearly 46 1.2 miles of which have been com. fully ascertained that there is ample space for both ground should be procured, and the improvements pleted within the last twelve months; and upon the Rail-road and the Canal at a very inconsiderable necessary for the operations of the Company erect- which there has also been laid 45 1.2 miles of single cd there. The municipal authorities of that city tracks of Rails within the same time. In deciding upon the materials of which the Rails additional expense. The very great improvements which, within a few with a liberality not less honorable to themselves years past, have been made in the construction of than gratifying to this Board, generously offered to should be formed, the Board have continued to par. Rail-roads, and in the machinery employed upon convey to this Company, free of cost, six acres of sue the determination adopted soon after the eomthem, have given to this system of transportation, so land, immediately adjoining to that city for a De- mencement of the undertaking, which was in all decided an advantage over all the other artificial pot: several of the citizens of Frederick also of cases where stone Rails could be procured, to use means of intercommunication heretofore attempted, fered to obtain, without any charge to this Compa-thom, and in those districts where stone of a suitable as to have inspired an almost universal confidence in ny, the right of way for the lateral road leading kind could not be obtained, to use wood of the best it, both in our own country and in Europe. A Rail- from the main stem to this Depot-these valuable and most durable quality the country afforded.— and Potomac at the Point of Rocks, no stone of a way is now constructing batween New-York and grants were accepted by the Board, and the necessa- Throughout the district intermediate to the Pataps. Philadelphia, and another across the peninsula be. ry conveyances have been duly executed. The Depot at Frederick is so situated as to secure qualtity suitable for Rails has been discovered, and tween the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, to con. nect with the steam boat travelling between Balti- from it, an easy communication by lateral Rail-ways consequently upon this district wooden rails have, more and Philadelphia: these works are fast ap. into all parts of that city; the Company will there of necessity, been substituted. For the same reason proaching towards completion; aad will, when fin. fore be enabled to receive produce or deliver freight a wooden viaduct, supported by substantial stone ished, ensure an easy and rapid communication be. upon any street where the inhabitants may extend piors aud abutments, has been constructed across the Although the first track on the 2d division of the tween those three great commercial emporiums, re- the Rail-way, and open suitable warehouses for the Monocacy river. ciprocally beneficial to them all, and vastly increas-accommodation of the trade. The system organized for the regulation of the road was completed several months since, yet as ing the travel and intercourse between them. By constructing a Rail-way from Baltimore to Wash- business of the Company, and for the government of both tracks on this section will be of stone, and the ington, this line of communication would be extend- its agents, has, in its operation, been found to be ef- second one had not yet been finished, it was found ed from New-York to the Capital of the United ficient and practical, clearly defining the duties of that the running of passenger cars upon this part of the several officers and maintaining a strict respon- the road greatly interrupted the work, and would States. Impressed with the importance of accomplishing sibility in every department. It is also with sincere considerably retard its completion; the general trathis last object, in which the convenience of the satisfaction, the Board can inform the Stockholders velling has, therefore, not been extended beyond the whole community is so deeply interested, and belie- that notwithstanding the complicated operations of first division of the road, a distance of 13 miles. Upon reference to the report of the Superintend. ving that the road so judiciously located and con- the Company, requiring numerous agents, whose structed, would afford a fair remuneration to the duties rendered it necessary they should be dispersed ent of Transportation, bereto annexed, it will be seen Stockholders, the Board have directed that during over an extensive district of country, the utmost har- that 81,905 passengers have passed on this division the present season the necessary examinations and mony and fidelity, with the exception of a single in- since 1st Jan. last, and that within the same period surveys should be made, for the purpose of ascertain- stance referred to in the accompanying documents, 5931 tons have been transported upon it, yielding an ing the facilities which the intermediate country of have pervaded all the departments; and a most laud- income of $31,405 24-000 and involving an exfers for a Rail-road, and the approximate expense of able disposition has every where been manifested by penditure of $10,994 87-000. its construction. In this duty the Chief Engineer the officers and agents employed, zealously to co With the foregoing results bofore them, the Board have no hesitation in assuring the Stockholders of intend at this time to enter into any particulars in Philadelphia, if it only sought the cheapest channel their entire confidence, that when the legal obstruc- reference to this comparison; my object being of conveyance. The merchant who resides several tions, which now arrest the progress of the work mainly to call attention to a view of some of the hundred miles from the markets where he may proshall have been removed, the remaining distance prominent comparative advantages, between the cure his goods, will look at the convenience, cz. of the road, between the Point of Rocks and Erie canal and the great avenues that are now con- pense and time required to make the journey, and Cumberland may be completed, with a double suructing between the Atlantic and the western the expectation, as well as the economy, of transset of tracks. within threeyears; and they are states, and which must have an important influence porting his goods; and if one route offers not only fully confirmed in the opinions heretofore ex on the cities of New York, Philadelphia and Balti. a more rapid and easy conveyance for himself, but pressed, "that a Rail-road upon the plan connore. The first communication south of the Erie also the facility of taking with him his light and templated by the citizens of Baltimore, between canal is by the Rail-roads and canals of Pennsylva most valuable goods, there will be an inducement that city and the Ohio river, is easily practi- nia, extending from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in to give it the preference for his whole trade. On cable; that its powers and facilities will be found to that State, estimated to be 320 miles in length, of the whole, the Rail-road will probably have the ad. be equal to all the anticipations that were formed which 120 miles is Rail-road. The Rail.road being vantage, as a general communication between the of its capabilities, when the work was first com. in two different sections three transhipments will Atlantic and the Ohio, over the Pennsylvania im. menced, and that the most sanguine calculations of be necessary between Philadelphia and Pittsburg.-provement. Striking the Ohio at a lower point, its importance and utility, whether the object be re- The Portage summit Rail-road which crosses the and nearer the Ohio Canals, with the advantage of garded with reference to its national and local ad. Allegany ridge is 40 miles in length, and has to being open throughout the year, it will be a mora vantages, or its profits to the Stockholders, will be overcome an elevation of about 2400 feet. On this formidable competitor with the Erie Canal, for the PHILIP E. THOMAS, President. Rail-road several (probably not less than ten or trade of the country between Lake Erie and the Ohio. twelve) inclined planes with machinery, must be It is therefore apparent, the great line of Equilibrio worked by stationary power, which will increase the that will be suspended between the advantages of the *Upon reference to the annexed report of the cost, and produce delay in the transportation of pas. respective routes, at the point opposite the terminaSuperintendent of graduation and masonry, a detail- sengers and goods. The Colombia and Philadelphia tion of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-road, will have ed statement of the separate cost for graduation and Rail-road, which is one of the links in this commu-a deflection towards Lake Erie. This line, from masonry upon the several divisions of the road, in-nication, I believe has no stationary machines: which the trade will diverge to opposite directions, termediate to the city of Baltimore and Potomac consequently all the expedition that may be contem-will be carried westward still farther in the competirivor, as well as of the lateral road to Frederick, wil! plated from Rail-roads may be expected from this tion between the Erie canal and Mississippi. At be found. part of the work. The canals that form a part of some future day, a communication will doubtless be realized." By this report, it appears that the graduation and this route have much more lockage than the Erie made by way of the James River and Great Kenhamasonry upon the first division of the road, embra canal. The route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh is wa in Virginia. This route has great geographical eing 13 miles, and extending from the city of Balti. probably 45 miles shorter than that from Albany advantages, and only awaits an enterprizing people more to Ellicotts' Mills, has cost 46,354 56-100 per (near the head of tide navigation on the Hudson) to to be improved. mile, whilst the graduation and masonry upon the Buffalo on Lake Erie. The route by the Erie canal It will not escape the most superficial observer, other four divisions, embracing 54 1.2 miles, and is not completed when we reach Albany; but we the competition for trade, which is carried forward extending from Ellicotts' Mills to the Potomac, will have arrived at tide navigation, which affords the by the capital and enterprize of the Atlantic States, cost only 8,532 16-100 per mile. means of a cheap and expeditious transportation to while the great commercial cities will be enriched, That the graduation of 12 3.4 miles of the road New York, the commercial centre for this district. will confer incalculable benefits on the citizens of near to Baltimore has cost as much as the graduation In view of all the circumstances connected with the the Western States. of the remaining 54 3.4 miles will cost. route from New York to Lake Erie, by way of the The following questions very naturally arise :That the masonry on 8 3.4 miles of the road near Erie Canal, and that from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh Has New York finished her work? Is there nothing to Baltimore, has cost as much as the masonry on by way of the canals and Rail roads of Pennsylvania, more that she can do to throw the dividing line farthe remaining 58 3-4 miles will cost. it appears fair to conclude there can be no essential ther south and west? Has she the means of avail. And that the graduation and masonry together, difference in the time or expense of transportation ing herself of any advantanges that may be found has cost on the first eleven miles of the road 33,000 between the route from New York to Lake Erie, and unoccupied? It is very clear that New York has dollars more than it will cost on the remaining 56 1-2 that from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. If, then, no the means of extending the facilities of communica miles. improvement is made between Lake Erie and Pitts. tion, in the vicinity of her great thoroughfare: not burgh, or if the two points are connected by a uni. by filling up her Canal and substituting a Rail-road, forin channel of communication, it follows that New as has sometimes been absurdly proposed; but by York and Philadelphia will possess equal advantages constructing a Rail-road as an auxiliary to the canal. in facility of intercourse and transportation, for the Those physical features of country that gave to New trade of the country between Pittsburg and Lake York the opportunity of constructing a continuous Erie. canal, with very moderate elevation, will give her A brief comparative view of the commercial advantages of these grand artificial avenues, completed or in progress of construction between the Atlantic and Western waters. The State of New York enjoys, in the Erie canal, The most southern of the three grand avenues un- great superiority in the construction and utility of a the only uninterrupted canal navigation between the der consideratian, is the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Rail.road. It is often mentioned as a point of supetide of the Atlantic and Lake Eric, and from sur. road. This improvement is less advanced towards riority claimed for Rail-roads over Canals, that the completion, than that through Pennsylvania. The former are applicable to uneven or mountainous dis. veys that have as yet been made, there is no prospect city of Baltimore is deeply interested in its success-tricts, while the latter are confined to comparatively of a continuous second canal, that can successfully ful accomplishment, and if we may judge from the level routes. This is no doubt true; but it should rival this, in the trade of Lake Erie. The spirit of bold and enlightened enterprize with which this work not be forgotten that, a Rail-road over a level district the age does not, however, permit us to say, the Erie has hitherto been prosecuted by the company incor- is very superior to one over a mountainous district; porated for its construction, there can be little doubt and hence the superiority of a Rail-read from Alba. canal has no prominent competitor for the western the city and the country will in a few years reap the ny on the Hudson to Buffalo on Lake Erie, over any trade. When this noble improvement, the just pride rich reward that awaits its entire completion.-that may be constructed across the Alleghany range of New-York, was completed, the subject of Rail. We may, therefore, for all the purposes of compa. of mountains. With the exception of two inclined roads, as a means of effecting easy communication rison, consider this work as completed. The loca- planes on the route between Albany and Schenectation of the western section is not yet established. dy, the entire line may be effected withont a resort suitable for extensive lines, was but little understood It appears probable, however, that it will terminate to stationary power, or encountering in any instance and less heeded as a competitor with canals. Sub- on the Ohio river, at or near the town of Wheeling, an elevation of more than twelve feet in the mile; sequent improvements in the construction of Rail and that its length will be about 300 miles. The and probably this angle of graduation will only ocroads and locomotive steam engines have not only distance will be from twenty to thirty miles in favor cur in two or three instances. A very moderate de. of this route, to the Ohio river, over that through gree of curvature may be maintained, where changdemonstrated their superiority for the conveyance Pennsylvania. It is intended to use Locomotive ing in the direction will be required, and a large proof passengers and goods requiring celerity, but that Steam Engines, generally, on this road; but its cur- portion of the course, without heavy expenditure, in many instances they successfully compete with vatures and the inclinations of its graduation will may be made in straight lines. We have therefore, canals, in the transportation of freight, without re. not allow the most advantageous use of this power, in the directness of the line and the small amount of Between Baltimore and the Point of Rocks, on the elevation, a route presenting peculiar advantages for ference to speed. It is not my intention to enter Potomac, there are inclined planes to be worked by the expeditious and economical application of locointo a general investigation of the comparative mer. stationary power, and in passing the Alleghany motive steam-power. By affording ease and celerity its of Rail-roads and Canals. They have their re- ridge several more will undoubtedly be required. in the conveyance of passengers, and such goods as spective advantages, and a preference can only be It is a settled question, that the maximum advanta- require despatch, it would carry the dividing line of determined in view of the local circumstances which ges of a Rail-road will be obtained on a level gradu- advantages, that must otherwise separate the disation, or a slight inclination, uniformly descending tricts trading with New-York on the one hand, and will be very various. In my view of the subject, with the greatest trade. The character of the trade Philadelphia, Baltimore and New.Orleans on the the State of New York has no cause to regret the will determine which is preferable. These circum. other, farther west, and consequently, increase the construction of her canals, or to fear (in reference stances are mentioned to give a general view of the importance of the thoroughfare, already established facilities that may be expected from this improve- through the state, and greatly enlarge the trade of to the Erie canal) the influence of any Rail-road that ment. This route will avoid the transhipments, its commercial emporium. Such a work would be a may be constructed on its borders. If this canal is and have less length to the Ohio, than that from powerful auxiliary to the Erie Canal in securing to maintained in a good state of repair, and the dimen. Philadelphia; but the latter will have a large pro- New-York the trade of an extensive, a rich, and sions on which it was constructed fully preserved, portion of Canal navigation, which, in the con- growing country. With a canal well adapted to the the transportation of goods not requiring particular veyance of heavy freight, will, I believe, have an most economical transportation of heavy freight, celerity, will be effected at less expense than can be advantage over a Rail-road of the character of that and a Rail.road possessing peculiar advantages for done on a Rail-road on its margin. This is the re- under consideration. In the conveyance of passon the conveyance of passengers and light goods, who sult of the latest comparisons which have been made gers and goods requiring celerity, there can be no will venture to predict the importance of this grand in England, of which we have any authentic ac. doubt of the superior advantages of the route from thoroughfare through the heart of the state? Will counts, taken in comparison with the circumstances Baltimore. This advantage will lead a large amount the intelligent enterprize of New-York, which so of the two countries. As before observed, I do not of heavy freight to Baltimore, which would go to nobly put forward the example of internal improve. |