RAILROAD, CANAL, AND STEAMBOAT STATISTICS.

EFFECTS OF RAILROADS UPON THE VALUE OF PROPERTY.

The influence of railroads in enhancing the value of real property will not be questioned. Even the cities and villages on the margin of the Hudson River, with its fast and beautiful steamers touching at every point, begin to feel this influence in the enhanced value of their real estate, since the completion of the Hudson River Railroad to Poughkeepsie. Some idea of the effects of railroads upon the value of property, says the Knoxville (Tennessee) Register, may be gathered from a fact stated in the report of V. K. Stevenson, Esq., President of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad. From the books of the Controller of the State, the following table, showing the value of property in four counties, is taken :—

The whole cost of building the road through these counties (including a tunnel) is about $1,457,000. It will thus be seen that the road, although not yet completed, has enhanced the value of property in a single year to a greater amount than it will cost to construct the road.

It would not be difficult to show that a similar result has followed in the train of the railroad movement on every line throughout the New England States.

STATISTICS OF THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD, 1849.

Number of miles in operation, including Washington Branch......

179

The “City of Glasgow," the first of a line of steamships intended to ply between Glasgow and New York, was launched from the yard of Messrs. Tod & McGregor, the eminent ship-builders of Scotland, in February last. She is to be commanded by Captain B. R. Mathews, late of the "Great Western,” and was advertised to sail on the 16th of April, 1850. The following account of her is copied from Wilmer and Smith's European Times :

The "City of Glasgow" is a screw steamer, and is the first of a line of vessels of a similar description intended to ply between Glasgow and New York. She is an iron three-decker, of about 1,610 tons measurement over all, and is to be propelled by a screw 13 feet in diameter and 18 feet pitch, which will be worked by two lever-beam engines of 350 horse power. The machinery, &c., will all be placed so low as to leave the sweep of the decks clear without encumbrance. The spar-deck will form a magnificent promenade in fine weather, and in foul weather the main-deck affords ample space for recreation, perfectly lighted and ventilated, and protected from rain or spray. The total length of the main deck is 237 feet, and the breadth 34 feet. On each side are ranged the state-rooms, leaving 16 feet clear in the center. The hight between decks is seven feet. The accommodation of each class of passengers is admirable and most complete. She will carry 52 cabin or first-class passengers, 85 second-class, and could carry an immense number of steerage emigrants; but the latter are not to be taken in the meantime. The crew, including officers, engineers, firemen, stewards, sailors, &c., will probably number about 70. By means of five water-tight bulk-heads the vessel is divided into six compartments, so that she would float although several of these divisions were filled. She will be furnished with six capacious life-boats, having copper tanks under the seats to render them bouyant. Danger from fire has likewise been carefully guarded against. The lamps which light the state-cabins can only be opened by the officers of the ship; and powerful pumps, to be worked by the engines, are supplied so as to extinguish at once any fire which might break out. In the bottom of the hold are placed iron tanks to contain 13,000 gallons of fresh water. There will be ample stowage for 1,200 tons of goods. In addition to the screw motive-power, the "City of Glasgow" is bark-rigged, and will carry an enormous press

of canvass.

* The Memphis Branch, 17 miles in length, is included in this number.

A COMPLETE STATISTICAL VIEW OF THE RAILWAYS OF NEW YORK IN 1849-CONTINUED.

SHOWING THE MILES RUN, NUMBER OF PASSENGERS, RATE OF FARE PER MILE ON THE SEVERAL ROADS, AND AMOUNT RECEIVED FROM ALL SOURCES.

MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS OF THE RAILROADS OF NEW YORK.

The following table shows the weight of rail per yard, the average speed on the several railways, the number of men employed, and the number of persons killed and injured in 1849 :—

The Albany and West Stockbridge Railroad is leased to the Western Railroad of Massachusetts, and the Chemung Railroad to the New York and Erie Railroad. No reports were received by the Legislature of New York from the following roads; namely, the Buffalo and Black Rock Railroad, the Lockport and Niagara Falls Railroad, the New York and Harlem Railroad, and the New York and New Haven Railroad. The Northern Railroad and the Watertown and Rome Railroad were not opened, which accounts for the blanks in the tables. Some method should be adopted to induce negligent corporations to comply with the requisition of the Legislature in this respect.

BOSTON AND WORCESTER RAILROAD.

The late report of the Directors of this road gives the following exhibit of its operations for the past year:

The income during the year ending Nov. 30th 1849 is $703,361-the total expenses, $499,443, and the net income for the year, $278,408; of this, $270,000 has been divided in two semi-annual dividends.

The increase of the construction account, from Nov. 30th, 1848, to 1849, is $257,939, nearly all on contracts made previous to the 1st of June last. The income for fright is less than the year previous. This is attributed to the depressed state of manufactures. The reduction of fares also decreased the passenger receipts, although the number carried exceeded that of any former year by $1,604,840 passengers carried one mile.

An account is given of the cost of its six branches, the expense of running, and the