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STATEMENT SHOWING THE DAY OF SAILING, MUMBER OF DAYS PASSAGE, PASSENGERS AND SPECIE OF THE BREMEN LINE out of the port of new york during tHE YEAR 1851.

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STATEMENT SHOWING THE DAY OF ARRIVAL, NUMBER OF DAYS PASSAGE, PASSENGERS AND AMOUNT OF DUTIES OF THE BREMEN LINE INTO THE PORT OF NEW YORK DURING THE YEAR 1851.

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STATEMENT SHOWING THE DAY OF SAILING AND NUMBER OF PASSENGERS OF VANDERBILT'S LINE, OUT OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK DURING THE YEAR 1851.

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STATEMENT SHOWING THE DAY OF ARRIVAL, NUMBER OF PASSENGERS AND SPECIE OF VANDERBILT'S LINE INTO THE PORT OF NEW YORK DURING THE YEAR 1851.

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STATEMENT SHOWING THE DAY OF SAILING AND NUMBER OF PASSENGERS OF THE UNITED STATES AND PACIFIC MAIL STEANSHIP COMPANIES, OUT OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK DURING THE YEAR 1851.

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STATEMENT SHOWING THE DAY OF SAILING AND NUMBER OF PASSENGERS OF MILLS' LINE OUT OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK DURING THE YEAR 1851.

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STATEMENT SHOWING THE DAY OF ARRIVAL AND NUMBER OF PASSENGERS OF MILLS' LINE, OUT OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK, DURING THE YEAR 1851.

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EFFECT OF RAILROADS ON COMMERCIAL CITIES.

MR. POOR, of the American Railroad Journal, in a brief editorial, gives a most striking as well as correct illustration of the effect of railroads in enlarging the circle of business of cities, as follows:

The city of New York is now accessible from every part of New England (with the exception of the eastern part of Maine) and the State of New York, by one day's journey on railroads. A traveler may leave Waterville, Me., which is 430 miles distant from New York; Montreal, Canada, which is 400; and Dunkirk and Buffalo, which are about 470, in the morning, and reach this city the same evening by continuous lines of railroad, at an average charge of two cents per mile. Light articles of freight, newspapers, etc., are forwarded to, and received from the same points with equal dispatch; so that the six millions of people residing within the States named, are within one day's time of this city. And in the evening, the most remote parts of it are, in the ordinary course of the mail, put into possession of our morning news; and, on the other hand, our shops and the stands in our markets display the delicacies and dainties which the morning light shone upon some 400 miles distant. The whole country within this distance, by means of railroads, is made the market garden of the city, and every inhabitant is brought into as intimate relation to it, as was the person who lived within 30 miles a few years since. A trip of a day is now sufficient to bring nearly every inhabitant of New York and New England to this city, and who if they choose, return home the next.

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These facts will serve to show the influence that railroads are exerting, in the facilities they give in the movement of persons and property. To a city they increase the area of country tributary to it in a much a greater ratio than the length of their lines. To give a clearer idea, we will briefly illustrate this proposition. We will assume that the speed of the ordinary loaded team on common roads is 24 miles per hour, for 12 hours, which will give 30 miles as the extent of a day's travel, and 60 miles as the diameter of the circle from which a city without railroads could draw its daily supplies of food, etc. This would give an area of country of not far from 2,700 quare miles.

The freight train on a railroad moves at an average rate of 12 miles an hour, or 288 miles in 24 hours. The circle within daily reach of a city by freight trains on railroads would be 576 miles, embracing an area of 124,416 square miles, or more than 46 times greater than the circle within reach of the same point by the ordinary wagon! By the use of railroads, therefore, a city increases its capacity for business, as well as its supplies of food, and all the articles used in the economy of life, 4,600 per cent!

It will be found upon calculation that the difference in cost of the two modes of carriage supposed, is in about the same ratio as the above distances.

The above statements are a most striking, as well as correct illustration, of the value of railroads, and demonstrate most clearly their importance in increasing the business of commercial, or trading points, and proves how necessary they are to farming communities, in creating a value for their products, in opening a market for them. They explain the rapid growth of cities, that are the termini of a large number of railroads, and the rapid appreciation in the value of the country they traverse. With an ordinary road, a farmer living sixty miles from a city may be without a market for many of his most important articles of produce from the cost of transportation, while another living upon a railroad but 400 miles from the same point, finds a ready sale for all he can raise at remunerating rates.

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Average cost of repairs per 100 miles run on Pennsylvania Railroad Average cost of repairs per 100 miles run on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad...

Formerly the Porter-Rebuilt this year, 1851.

Engines marked (a) were built by M. W. Baldwin, the remainder by Norris & Brother.

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