BOSTON AND WORCESTER RAILROAD.

Incorporated in 1831. Opened in 1835. Length, 66 miles, (including branches.) Cost, January 1, 1849, $4,650,400.

A dividend of 6 per cent was declared in 1849. Number of passengers carried in the cars during the six years, 2,548,000. Passengers killed, 8. Employées killed, 7. Other persons killed, 6. The cost of the road, January 1, 1843, was $2,764,400. Increase in six years, $1,886,000. Increase of net income, $153,671.

BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD.

Incorporated in 1835. Opened (through) in 1843. Length, 81 miles, (including branches.) Cost, January 21, 1849, $3,571,800.

A dividend of 5 per cent was declared in 1849. Number of passengers carried in the cars during the last three years, (no report having been made of those carried the three previous years,) 2,246,302. Passengers killed, 2. Employées killed, 3. Other persons killed, 3. The cost of the road, January 1, 1843, was $1,260,286. Increase in six years, $2,311,514. Increase of net income, $179,214.

EASTERN RAILROAD.

Incorporated in 1836. Opened in 1841. Length, 58 miles. Cost, January 1, 1849, $3,095,400.

Total..

$2,242,286 $780,656 $1,461,630 46

A dividend of 8 per cent was declared in 1849. Number of passengers carried in the cars during the six years, 4,378,400. Passengers killed, 6. Employée killed, none reported. Other persons killed, 2. The cost of the road, January 1, 1848, was $2,299,400. Increase is six years, $796,000. Increase of net income, $146,814.

BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE RAILROAD.

Incorporated in 1831. Opened in 1835. Length, 47 miles, (including branches.) Cost, January 1, 1849, $3,031,100.

A dividend of 6 per cent was declared in 1849. Number of passengers carried in the cars during the last three years, (no report having been made of those carried the three previous years,) 1,533,100. Passengers killed, 2. Employées killed, 1. Other persons killed, 8. The cost of the road, January 1, 1843, was $1,892,800. Increase in six years, $1,138,300. Increase of net income, $48,443.

NORWICH AND WORCESTER RAILROAD.

Incorporated in 1832. Opened in 1839. Length, 66 miles. Cost, January 1, 1849,

No dividend was declared in 1849. Number of passengers carried in the cars in 1847 and 1848, 309,587. No report made of those carried the four previous years, and no report of any accidents on the road during the six years. The cost of the road, January 1, 1848, was $2,458,500. Increase in six year, $29,300. Increase of net income, $4,786.

BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD.

Incorporated in 1830. Opened in 1835. Length, 26 miles. Cost, January 1, 1849 $2,013,600.

A dividend of 8 per cent was declared in 1849. Number of passengers carried in the cars during the last three years, 1,411,333. Passengers killed, none reported.. Employées killed, 1. Other persons killed, 6. The cost of the road, January 1, 1843, was $1,978,300. Increase in six years, $35,300. Increase of net income, $47,526.

NASHUA AND LOWELL RAILROAD.

Incorporated in 1836. Opened in 1838. Length, 14 miles. Cost, January 1, 1849, $525,000.

Number of passengers carried in the cars during the last three years, 673,222. Passengers killed, none reported. Employées killed, 1. Other persons killed, 2. The cost of the road, January 1, 1843, was $380,000. Increase in six years, $145,000Increase of net income, $19,976.

NEW BEDFORD RAILROAD.

Incorporated in 1839. Opened in 1840. Length, 20 miles. Cost, January 1, 1849

$500,000.

Number of passengers carried in the cars during the last three years, 286,648. Passengers killed, none reported. Employées, none. Other persons, 1. The cost of the road, January 1, 1843, was $426,100. Increase in six years, $73,900. Increase of net income, $7,506.

TAUNTON BRANCH RAILROAD.

Incorporated in 1835. Opened in 1836. Length, 11 miles. Cost, January 1, 1849,

$305,000.

A dividend of 8 per cent was declared in 1849. Number of passengers carried in the cars during the last three years, 327,946. Passengers killed, none reported. Employées, 1. The cost of the road, January 1, 1843, was 250,000. Increase in six years, $55,000. Decrease of net income, $435.

The foregoing statistics furnish accounts of the operations of the roads that have been completed and in use during the past six years. The following relate to those that have been opened within that period:

FITCHBURG RAILROAD.

Incorporated in 1842, Opened, March 5, 1845. Length, 55 miles, (including branches.) Cost, January 1, 1849, $2,945,600.

A dividend of 8 per cent was declared in 1849. Number of passengers carried in the cars, 1,763,563. Passengers killed, 1. Employées, 4. Other persons, 5. The cost of the road, January 1, 1846, was $1,477,500. Increase in three years, $1,468,100. Increase of net income, $74,556.

OLD COLONY RAILROAD.

Incorporated in 1844. Opened, November 10, 1845. Length, 45 miles, (including branches.) Cost, January 1, 1849, $2,080,900.

No dividend was declared in 1849. Number of passengers carried in the cars 1,155,341, Passengers killed, 1. Employées, 3.

CONNECTICUT RIVER RAILROAD.

Incorporated in 1845. Opened (through) in November, 1846. Length, 50 miles Cost, January 1, 1849, $1,588,200.

Years.

1846..

1847.

1848.

Total......

$347,439 $149,853 $197.586 15 66

A semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent was declared in July, 1849. Number of passengers carried in the cars, 722,270. Passengers killed, none. Employees, 1. Other persons, 3.

FALL RIVER RAILROAD.

Incorporated in 1845. Opened in 1847. Length, 42 miles. Cost, January 1, 1849, $1,146,000.

A dividend of 3 per cent was declared in 1849. Number of passengers carried in the cars, 414,241. Passengers killed, 1. Employees, 4. Other persons, 1.

The total cost of the fourteen roads above mentioned amounted, on the first of January, 1849, to $37,540,900. Total net income in 1848, $2,599,220. Whole number of passengers carried, within the six years, (so far as reported,) 19,474,203. Passengers killed, 22. Employees killed, 53. Other persons killed, (by collisions at crossings, or run over while walking on the track,) 42. Whole number of deaths, 117. Total length of roads, (single track,) 737 miles. Length of double track, 208 miles. In all, 945 miles.

In addition to the above may be mentioned the following, all of which, with the exception of the two first enumerated, have been but recently completed.

Pittsfield and North Adams Railroad. Length, 18 miles. Cost, $447,800. Berkshire Railroad, 21 miles. Cost, $600,000. Providence and Worcester Railroad, 43 miles. Cost, $1,878,900. South Shore Railroad, 11 miles. Cost, $255,700. Cape Cod Railroad, 27 miles. Cost, $587,100. Cheshire Railroad, 53 miles. Cost, $1,905,500. Worcester and Nashua Railroad, 45 miles. Cost, $1,010,500. Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad, 59 miles. Cost, $2,196,800. Lowell and Lawrence Railroad, 12 miles. Cost, $283,249. Norfolk County Railroad, 25 miles. Cost, $621,489. Total length of these roads, 314 miles. Total cost, 9,782,038.

There were, therefore, in operation, January 1, 1849, in Massachusetts and the adjoining States, 1,259 miles of railroad, costing $47,322,938.

AMERICAN RAILWAY GUIDE.

CURREN DINSMORE, the proprietor of the New York Pathfinder, is about publishing a complete railway guide for the United States. It is to contain tables showing the time for starting of trains from all stations, distances, fares, &c., on all the railway lines in the United States, together with a complete railway map. It will also include many of the principal steamboat and stage lines running in connection with the railroads. It is to be corrected and published on the first of every month; the first number to be issued early in Arril. We have examined the plan, and seen some of the proof-sheets of the first number, and have no hesitation in expressing our conviction, that the work will meet the wants and the wishes of every man who travels in any part of the United States. It will occupy the same place in the estimation of the people of the United States that the "Pathfinder Railway Guide" cccupies in the New England States.

CANAL BUSINESS OF CINCINNATI AND TOLEDO.

It is interesting to watch the currents of trade, especially as they are forming in the Great Western Valley. The two basins drained by the St. Lawrence and Mississippi Rivers embrace most of this valley, and give not only drainage, but, to a great extent, direction to its trade. The trade outlet of the Mississippi, at New Orleans, and the outlets of the St. Lawrence, at Quebec, Boston, and New York, are the chief rivals for the business of the great valley.

The largest portion would be commanded by New Orleans, if it afforded as good a market for sale and purchase as New York and Boston. The climate and geographical position of the gulf city forbids this, not only at present, but for all future time. For many years we have watched, with interest, the direction which the trade of the great valley has been taking. In previous volumes of the Merchants' Magazine we have given facts to show the tendency of this trade to the lakes. This tendency has continued, in the face of the immense commercial power of Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis, cities of note before the lake route commenced the competition.

Below we giv the canal exports and imports of Cincinnati and Toledo, of leading articles, from 1845 to 1848, inclusive. These commercial points afford the best means of comparison, because they are at the river and lake termini of the same system of canals. The direction of a portion of this canal system is more favorable to Toledo. This is offset by the greater populousness and wealth of the portion nearest Cincinnati. Our figures are from the reports of the Board of Public Works of Ohio. The report for 1849 has not yet been made.