RAILROAD, CANAL, AND STEAMBOAT STATISTICS. MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD. This road extends from Monroe to Laporte, a distance of 188 miles. The stock is principally owned, we believe, by eastern capitalists. The President of the company, GEORGE BLISS, Esq., resides in Springfield, Massachusetts. The managers of this company have issued a brief statement of the condition of that company and its business of last year. When it connects directly with Chicago, which will be during the spring, the traffic must be very largely increased. The earnings for the year 1851 were as follows: The earnings for 1851 were upon a longer line than was open for use in 1850-25 miles of new road having been opened in March, and about 20 more in September, 1851. The expenses for repairs and operating and managing the road, including taxes and rents of the Erie and Kalamazoo Road for the year 1851, were $137,404 19. Two dividends of 7 per cent each, upon the amount of capital stock paid in, have been declared as follows: 1st July, 1851, upon $712,600, being amount paid in upon stock at that date..... $49,882 00 63,141 40 $113,023 40 The total amount expended in construction and for equipment to 1st ...... The indebtedness of the company at that date was as follows:7 per cent mortgage bonds due in 1860-total amount issued $2,378,082 05 Less amount unsold $1,000,000 $906,000 00 Balance of debt due to the State of Michigan, payable $50,000 per annum, with interest at 6 per cent... 8 per cent bonds due in 1853 200,000 00 31,614 00 All other indebtedness, after applying cash and available means on hand..... 187,068 79 Capital stock subscribed. Less amount unpaid. The main line of the road is all built with a heavy rail, except about twenty miles at the eastern end, the iron for which is now at Dunkirk, and will be laid down early in the ensuing spring. The equipment of the road on the 1st January, 1852, consisted of twenty-five locomotives, (including four purchased and delivered at Buffalo, which cannot reach Michigan until the opening of lake navigation,) sixteen passenger cars, four hundred and twenty-six freight cars, equal to cars of four wheels, and ninety-two repairing and lumber cars. The preceding statement is exclusive of the Northern Indiana Railroad, the expenditures upon which, up to 1st January, 1852, for all purposes of construction and equipment, had been $1,553,133 38. This road was opened for use to Laporte (187 miles from Lake Erie) in December last; and from Michigan City to Chicago on the 20th inst. A continuous line is thus formed by the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Roads from Lake Erie to Chicago, with the exception of thirteen miles between Laporte and Michigan City, which is now supplied by a plank-road. It is expected that the entire line will be completed in April next, when the trains can pass without interruption from Lake Erie to Chicago. Further expenditures will be required for completing the stations and depot accommodations, and for covering advances by the company for their steamboat connections upon the Lakes. The work of construction upon the road will be substantially completed previous to the issuing of the annual report in June next, by which time the cost of the work can be definitely ascertained. STATISTICS OF OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. COLLINS LINE-CUNARD LINE-HAVRE LINE-BREMEN LINE-CALIFORNIA LINES: VANDERBILT'S-PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANIES-MILLS' LINE, &C. In the Merchants' Magazine for September, 1851, (vol. xxv., pages 377-379,) we published a comparative statement of the amount of duties paid on merchandise by the Cunard steamers arriving at New York and Boston, from their commencement to the year 1851; and in the number for November, 1851, same volume, Merchants' Magazine, we gave a tabular detail showing the value of, and the amount of duties paid on imports into the port of New York by the vessels belonging to the "Steam Navigation Company" and the "United States Mail Steamship Company," since the establishment of these lines. In the Merchants' Magazine for March, (vol. xxvi., pp. 379-381,) we gave the passages of the Cunard and Collins line from June, 1851, also the amount of specie taken to Liverpool on each voyage, and the passengers carried from port to port to the close of the year 1851. The subjoined tables, furnished by the Courier and Enquirer, give some additional particulars of the Collins and Cunard lines, and also of the Havre, Bremen, and Pacific steamers: By the first table it will be seen that the shortest passage from New York to Liverpool in 1851, by the Collins line, was performed by the Pacific, in May; time 9 days 20 hours the longest (of the same line) was made by the Atlantic in October; time 12 days 15 hours. The passages average 10 days 21 hours and 10 minutes, the year through. The largest amount of specie shipped on any occasion was $1,096,644, by the Baltic, in November last. The total amount of specie exported during the year by this line was $10,520,341. The Pacific took out 238 passengers in May, being the largest number hence during the year. Total number of passengers carried to Liverpool from New York 2,129. The second statement shows the average passages of the return voyages from Liverpool during the year to have been 11 days 17 hours and 30 minutes. The Pacific brought out the largest number of passengers (192) in September. The total number brought by this fleet from Liverpool to New York in 1851, amounts to 2,027. The duties paid at the Custom-House for goods imported during the year amount to $2,122.537 56. By the third statement the Cunard steamers are shown to have performed twentythree passages from New York to Liverpool, at an average speed of 11 days 4 hours and 13 minutes per trip; they carried over 2,012 passengers-the largest passenger list numbering 175, per the Africa, in April. The total amount of specie exported by these vessels was $16,726,675; the heaviest sum on freight per any voyage was $1,425,992, taken out by the Africa in December last. The fourth table gives the passages of the Cunard steamers from Liverpool to this port, which averaged 12 days 15 hours and 7 minutes per trip. The Asia took out the largest passenger list in August, numbering 163. Total passengers from Liverpool to New York, per Cunard steamers, in 1851, 2,106. The duties paid count up to $2,829,001 31. The fifth and subsequent tables of similar character relate to other lines of steam navigation connected with the port of New York. STATEMENT SHOWING THE DAY OF SAILING, NUMBER OF DAYS PASSAGE, PASSENGERS AND SPECIE, OF THE COLLINS LINE, OUT OF THE Port of NEW YORK, DURING THE YEAR 1851. STATEMENT SHOWING THE DAY OF ARRIVAL, NUMBER OF DAYS PASSAGE, PASSENGERS AND AMOUNT OF DUTIES OF THE COLLINS LINE INTO THE PORT OF NEW YORK, DURING THE YEAR 1851. Date. January 1..... 66 27.. February 19. 66 23 Arctic. STATEMENT SHOWING THE DAY OF SAILING, NUMBER OF DAYS PASSAGE, PASSENGERS AND SPECIE OF THE CUNARD LINE OUT OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK, DURING THE YEAR 1851. STATEMENT SHOWING THE DAY OF ARRIVAL, NUMBER OF DAYS PASSAGE, PASSENGERS, AND AMOUNT OF DUTIES OF THE CUNARD LINE INTO THE PORT OF NEW YORK DURING THE YEAR 1851. STATEMENT SHOWING THE DAY OF SAILING, NUMBER OF DAYS PASSAGE, PASSENGERS AND SPECIE OF THE HAVRE LINE OUT OF NEW YORK, DURING THE YEAR 1851. 791 STATEMENT SHOWING THE DAY OF ARRIVAL, NUMBER OF DAYS PASSAGE, PASSENGERS AND AMOUNT OF DUTIES OF THE HAVRE LINE INTO PORT OF NEW YORK DURING THE YEAR '51. Name. Franklin... 137 2 $6,704,891 ... |