RATES OF TOLLS ON THE CANALS OF NEW YORK. The Canal Board of the State of New York, have adopted the following rates of toll for the season of 1852. TOLLS PER 1,000 POUNDS PER MILE IS CHANGED. On butter, tallow, beer, cider, and vinegar. From. cts. m. fr. 148484 100000 To. cts. m. fr. 030 015 0 1 5 0 4 On salted pork, bacon, lard, and lard-oil. On grease... On bloom iron ("going towards tide-water," struck out,).... On pot and pearl ashes and window glass ("manufactured in On pig copper... On broken casting, scrap and pig iron. On barilla and bleaching powders, (not enumerated heretofore,) On stoves, ("cast" erased,) iron car wheels, ("and car axles added,) bed plates for steam engines, plough castings, and all other iron castings except machines and parts thereof. On stove pipe and furniture for stoves, not cast iron, ("going from tide-water," struck out) On timber, squared and round, if carried in rafts, if cleared On white pine, white wood, bass wood and cedar. On shingles carried in boats. On cotton.... On rags and junk... On manufactured tobacco, going towards tide-water. On flour starting and going from tide-water. On rosin, tar, pitch, turpentine, oil, manufactured tobacco, On railroad iron...... On railroad chairs (not enumerated before). 0 0 010 0 3 0 0 1 0 030 01 0 On all articles not enumerated or excepted, passing from tide-water.. THE PROPOSED HUDSON RIVER TUNNEL. A diagram and description of the proposed tunnel under the Hudson River at Albany, made by R. HIGHAM, civil engineer, has been published in the Albany Argus. The tunnel it appears is to commence at Quackenbush-street and descend southerly with an open cut as far as Columbia-street, with a grade of 150 feet to the mile. At the latter street it will enter the earth, and passing under lands belonging to the Albany and Schenectady Railroad, will curve to the right and enter under the river near the foot of Steuben-street, the street on the south side of the Delavan House. Thence it passes under the basin and river, crossing Green Island with an open cut and emerging at the buildings of the Boston and Hudson River Railroads on the east side of the river. The tunnel is to be of brick, 27 inches thick; the form, two circles connected together by a range of cast iron pillars, extending through the centre of the tunnel. There is to be a double railway track, sidewalks, a chimney of 150 feet on the pier for ventilation, a lateral tunnel opening on Broadway between Maiden Lane and Steu ben streets, &c.: the whole work estimated to cost $517,720. It is to be built part of the way by means of coffer-dams, but under the channel of the river by dredging out a place and then sinking iron tubes, temporarily closed at the ends, within which the workman are to build the arch, the materials being passed down through perpendicular pipes. Then the connections of the tubes are to be made water tight, the ends removed, and the arches joined. POSTAGE BY OCEAN STEAMERS. F. W. Farrelly, Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, has furnished the subjoined statement of the amount of postage on letters and papers received and sent by ocean steamers, during the year which ended 30th June, 1851, and also during the quarter ending on 30th September, 1851, for— The total amount of United States postages during the fifteen months comprised in this statement is, it will be seen, $1,131,776 87; or assuming the different quarters to have been equal, $905,421 48 and a fraction, for twelve months. CANALS AND OTHER PUBLIC WORKS OF OHIO. The annual report of the Board of Public Works of Ohio, has been published. In the absence of a copy of the official document, which has usually been furnished for our use by a correspondent of the Merchants' Magazine, we adopt the carefully condensed summary of the Cincinnati Atlas: The amount collected on the canals for the last five years, excluding fractions, sums up as follows: 1847, Gross sum collected on all the Canals, $805,019 785,882 739,377 759,852 856,352 The greatest amount of tolls collected in any one year previous to 1847, was $612,302. The excess of collections in 1851, over any preceding year, is more than $50,000, and that, too, at a lower scale of tolls than ever before prevailed. On the Ohio Canal but little increase is shown, while on the southern end of the Miami Canal, business has steadily increased, notwithstanding the railway and other competition. The tolls collected last year were: On the Ohio Canal...... Amount paid for repairs.. Net receipts...... $486,009 128,218 $307,791 The number of Superintendents on this canal have been reduced from sixteen to thirteen. The receipts for 1851 amounted to 2 per cent on the cost of this work. WALHONDING CANAL.-A serious breach in this canal in May last, affected very seriously the revenue anticipated from this work. WESTERN RESERVE AND MAUMEE ROAD.-The receipts on this road were $12,745' being an increase of $1,177,01. It is suggested that the excess of tolls over expendi tures on this road be expended in extending the road to the Miami and Erie Canal which would add much to its usefulness. NATIONAL ROAD.-The total receipts of this road for 1851 were $38,577 11, the amount in 1850 was $42,636 08, showing a decrease of $4,058 97. OHIO AND PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. FREIGHT TARIFF ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, JANUARY, 1852. The company will not undertake to transport freight beyond the capacity of the engines and cars which it may have for that purpose. No car is to carry more than 12,000 pounds, or six tons, which is to be considered a car load. No freight train is to wait to load freight, if that will cause it be behind time so as to delay any other train. Freight is divided into three classes :-Flour in barrels, live stock, and miscellaneous freight. The lowest charge on a barrel of flour will be ten cents, and per car load of 60 barrels, $6; except for distances under ten miles, for which it will be $5. The lowest charge on miscellaneous freight for any distance, however short, will be one dollar per ton. Live stock per Mis. freight. Mis. fr't per 100 lbs. p'r c'r l'd. car load. Dollars. Flour per Flour per To Pittsburg. Cents. Dollars. Cents. Dollars. From Rochester... All freight to or from Pittsburg to be considered as through freight, and charged according to the foregoing table. Through freight to have the preference of way freight. Miscellaneous freight, between way stations, to be charged five certs per ton per mile. Special contracts may be made for the transportation of lumber, &c. TOLLS ON THE JAMES RIVER CANAL IN 1852. The following rate of toll, upon a number of important articles, has been adopted by the above company for the present year, namely : New rate. Old rate. PUBLIC WORKS OF PENNSYLVANIA, A resolution was submitted to the Senate of Pennsylvania, on the 9th of February, 185, calling upon the Auditor General and State Treasurer for information as to the real cost, receipt, and expenditures of the lines and divisions of State Improvements which that gentleman has promptly answered, and which we here subjoin, in connection with a summary view of the cost revenue, and expenditures of the several State works of Pennsylvania. ACCOUNTANT Department, HARRISBURG, Feb. 9, 1852. Hon. Jons H. WALRER, Speaker of the Senate. DEAR SIR:-In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, adopted on the 24th ult., calling upon the Auditor General and State Treasurer, for a Statement relative to the cost, revenue, and expenditures of the several lines, or divisions, of the Public Works of Pennsylvania, we have the honor to transmit herewith the required information, which will be found to comprehend a period from the commencement of our internal improvement system to the close of the last fiscal year. It may be proper to remark in explanation of the statement, that the cost of the works embraces everything in the way of construction proper, as well as all other items properly chargeable to that account. The revenue comprises the amount actually paid into the State Treasury, whilst the expenditures are made up of all disbursements (whether of an ordinary or extraordinary nature) attendant or consequent upon the operation of the works. In short, it is believed that nothing has been omitted or erroneously included in the statement, to render it other than a full, fair, and unreserved exposition. The revenue strictly belonging to a particular line cannot, of course be ascertained, as tolls are paid at the end of one line through to the termination of another. No other mode, therefore, could be adopted, than to apply the tolls to the several divisions, according to the offices at which they were received the amount received at Northumberland being apportioned to the three lines terminating at that point. The course thus pursued, however, although it may affect the details somewhat, as to the question of profit and loss, when applied to a particular line, cannot, in any manner, do so with regard to the aggregate of the lines. The recapitulation may, therefore, be taken as presenting a correct statement of that question, applied to the public works in general. E. BURNS, Auditor General, COST, REVENUE, AND EXPENDITURE OF THE STATE ROADS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Grand total....... $20,768,307 34 $21,119,680 53 $15,151,817 64 817,779 74 512,360 05 5,819 67 38,312 29 143,911 94 210,360 00 $22,093,447 13 $21,163,812 49 $15,506,089 58 7,712,531 69 70,782 67 17,584 93 157,731 14 70,782 66 1,348,384 14 $80,057,077 56 $21,163,812 49 $16,925,256 38 To the above amount of expenditures may be added $6,400 paid for the use of patent rights, and if it be desired to connect with those expenditures the amount paid for interest on the loans pertaining, directly or indirctly, to the public improvements, the aggregate amount of said interest, to the close of the fiscal year 1851, may be stated at $30,735,213 32. GUARANTIED INTEREST. Danville and Pottsville Railroad Company...... Codorus Navigation "Company, (guarantied loan).. Total...... $216,693 57 187,532 47 46,647 15 6,000 00 $406,873 19 |