The things that for ages it had to keep, It broke the seal of the silent tomb!- It made their ashes their fire resume, And touched them with beauty, and life, and bloom, Whose pen with the sands of thy glass could run, A HISTORY OF KING'S CHAPEL, BOSTON, by F. W.||seems to be the motto of all, come with a refresh- EARLY LESSONS FOR LEARNING FRENCH-selected from approved authors: Boston, ALLEN & TICK. NOR.-A well imagined and well executed little work, intended for children of from eight to ten years of age, learning French, and for whom the ordinary class books, such as Telemachus and Charles XII., are uninteresting, and, for the most part, unintelligible. The selections are of little incidents and stories fitted to arrest the attention of the child, and give the zest of curiosity to the labor of translation. The compiler proposes to continue the series for those of more mature years. We hope he may be encouraged by the success of this first part to do so. FINDEN'S LANDSCAPE ILLUSTRATIONS OF LORD BY. RON'S WORKS: Part IX.: London, Murray; New York, Disturnell, No. 155 Broadway.-The present number of this beautiful publication excels if anything those that have preceded it. Cape Leucadia is the subject of the first plate, which is a picture of much spirit. The cliffs in the back ground are wrapped in heavy mist, and the light of a troubled sky strikes from a single quarter upon the famous rock whence the "blue-eyed Lesbian" made her fatal leap. A couple of polacres acudding before the breeze in the foreground, and a brig with another craft bearing away in the distance, give animation to the scene. "Venice from the entrance of the Grand Canal," is the title of the next engraving, which is executed with delicacy and finish, "Cork Convent near Cintra," which follows, is not so good. But the effect of light and shade is beautifully shown in the bold architectural features of the Castle of Ferara, on the next leaf. The most interesting plate of all, how ever, is IANTUE, from the original picture painted at the request of Lord Byron. The face of the noble child has all that poetic expression which the poet so glowingly attributes to it in his introduction to the second canto of Childe Harold: the chiselled nose, the curved and beautifully parted lips, and above all "The eye, which wild as the gazelle's, Wins where it wanders, dazzles where it dwells." * IMPROVED ARITHMETIC, newly arranged, &c. by Daniel ParkeR, A. M. New York: R. Bartlett & 8. Raynor.-A larger treatise by the same author on the science of numbers, was received with so much favor, as to induce him to make an effort to extend its usefulness by diminishing the bulk of the volume. Hence the little school book now before us, which is well stereotyped, and well recommended by Teachers. POEMS, by Miss H. F. Gould. Second Edition, with Additions. Boston: Hilliard, Gray & Co.They who have been charmed with the freshness, delicacy, and vivacity of imagination displayed in Miss Gould's fugitive verses, when travelling through the country in the corners of newspapers, will not be the less pleased with them when read anew as collected here. There is a youthful sensibility of heart, a juvenescence of feeling, a keen susceptibility to whatever is beautiful and striking in nature, about these poems, that in this ennuyant age, when nil admirari|| But we are cut short in our observations when but THE SNOW-FLAKE. It seemed in mid air suspended. "Oh! no," said the Earth," thou shalt not lie For, thou wilt be safe in my keeping. "Then I will drop," said the trusting Flake; Nor the mist, that shall pass with the morning. THE SIAMESE TWINS. Mysterious tie by the Hand above, Firm union of heart and heart; To scan the twain that must still be one; The beat of this bosom forbears to reach Yet, the stream that empurples the veins of each, O wonder to baffle poor human skill In clay of the human mould! But a greater mystery of all must still, In the union of souls, behold. Ye are living harps, by your silken strings DAWN ON THE SEASIDE. THE GENIUS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. And brought up to light from that fearful deep, SURVEYORS' INSTRUMENTS. Compasses of various sizes and of superior quality, warranted. Leveling Instruments, large and small sizes, with high magnifying powers with glasses made by Troughton, together with a large assortment of Engineering Instruments, E. & G. W. BLUNT, j31 6t 154 Water-street, corner of Maidenlane. TOWNSEND & DURFEE, of Palmyra, Manulishment to Hudson, under the name of Durfee & May facturers of Railroad Rope, having removed their estaboffer to supply Rope of any required length (without splice) for inclined planes of Railroads at the shortest notice, and deliver them in any of the principal cities in the U. States. As to the quality of Rope, the public are referred to J. B. JERVIS, Eng. M. & H. R. R. Co., Albany; or JAMES ARCHIBALD, Engineer Hudson and Delaware Canal and Railroad Company, Carbondale, Luzerne County, Pennsyl vania. Hudson, Columbia County, New-York, PAPER. f31 of THE SUBSCRIBERS, Agents for the Saugerties Paper Manufacturing Company, have constantly on hand an extensive assortment of Royal, Medium, and Imperial Printing Paper, all made from first quality Leghorn and Trieste Rags. All contracts made after this date, will be furnished with 480 perfect sheets to the ream; and all sales amounting to over $100, of Medium or Royal, out of tha part of the stock which includes cassia quires, the purchasers will be allowed an extra quire of perfect paper to each double ream, with additional allowances to the publishers and the trade, who buy largely. The terms will be liberal. Apply to GRACIE, PRIME, & CO., J31 22 Broad Street. GARDEN SEEDS, &c. WM. PRINCE & SONS, Flushing, near New-York, have imported by the last arrivals several thousand dollars worth of Seeds of the choicest varieties of Vegetables known in the different countries of Europe, and will furnish supplies to venders at very reasonable rates. These seeds are of a quality not to be surpassed. They have also 200 pounds Yellow Locust, or Robinia Pseudacacia seeds, of the fine Long Island variety, so celebrated for ship timber, at a low price. Priced Catalogues will be furnished on application direct, per mail, or otherwise. Catalogues of Fruit Trees, Greenhouse Plants, &c. with the reduced prices, will also be sent feb20 gratis to every applicant. GRACIE, PRIME & CO., 22 Broad street, have on hand the following Goods, which they offer for sale on the most favorable terms, viz. 200 qr casks Marseilles Madeira, entitled to debenture 100 cases White Hermitage; 50 do. Bordeaux Grave 4 cases Gum Arabic 2 cans Oil of Orange 8 casks French Madder, ESFF 1 5 and 10-2 1 do 2 and 5-11 1 do 1 do 2 | Inflammatior of chest.... 3 1 do 1 do 1 Intemperance ........ 1 Marasmus MARRIAGES. At Weathersfield, (Vt.) on the 14th instant, by the Rev. J. Wheeler, D. EVERETT WHEELER, Esq. of this city, to ELIZA BETH B., daughter of the Hon. William Jarvis, of Vermont. DEATHS. This morning, after a short illness, ELLEN, consort of Henry Marshall, aged 30 years. This morning, ELIZA ANN, wife of Joseph A. Perry, in the 28th year of her age. On Thurday evening, Mrs. MARY ROBINS, in her 90th year. REPORT OF DEATHS-WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEB'Y 23. 90 and 100-150 and 60 8 10 and 20-3 Apoplexy... Casualty Childbed Consumption Cramp in the stomach Dropsy Dropsy in the chest..... Dropsy in the head .27 Measles........ 8 Mortification.. 1 Old age.... .... 9 Pneumonia typhodes 1 Peripnumony. 2 Pleurisy 3 Spina bifida .... 1 Stillborn... 1 Suicide... 3 Unknown 7 Worms..... Lease of property corner of Oliver and Henry streets Store and lots on West and Wash'n sts. 22 by 215 Estate of Thomas Burling, deceased. A piece of ground on Union place, 48 8 in. front, 83 2 in. rear, and 141 feet 10 in. on 16th street.... gore lot on Union Place, 22 9 in front and 100 3 on 16th street, running to a point in rear... 1 lot on 16th street, 25 feet by about 175.. 19,200 4,325 4,250 4 do on 109th street, near Harlem road, each $1024 8 do on 112th street, each $95.. 410 760 2,000 4 do on 109th street, near 5th avenue, each $85... 4 do on 109th street, each $75.. 340 300 4 do on 110th street, each $75........ 4 do on 110th street, near Harlem road, each $75. 24 do on 2d av. and 110th and 111th sts. each $100. 11 do on corner 5th avenue and 102d st. each $125.. 4 do on 118th street, between 4th and 5th avenues, each 840.... 4 lots on 10th avenue and 109th st. each $52) ......... Two story brick front house and lot 84 John street, lot 25 by 100... 300 300 2,400 1,375 100 920 $10,540 Two story brick front house and lot 27 Muar street, 2,400 25 by 100.. 7,050 1,250 Do. 7,500 do do 25 25 do 91........... 1,250 do 170, with a piece out of the centre... 1,750 2 Lots on Avenue A, near 3d street, each 22 by 120.. Lot and 2 houses No. 137 Cherry street, extending to Water street... 2,250 7,250 House and lot 197 Adams street, Brooklyn, 25 by 63. Two story brick house and lot 246 Division street, lot 24 by about 80..... 3,800 4,725 do 25 do 193. 2,150 3 front lots on 16th st. 39 6 in front, 75 rear by 103, together.... Two story brick front house and lot, on lease of 7 years, 529 Broome street....... 1,000 4,150 3 front lots on 15th st. 29 9 in front, 75 rear by 103, together..... 4 lots on 42d street, Hermitage, each 25 by 100..... 4 do on 41st street, 735 do do do... 660 3,200 1 lot on 15th st. 25 feet by 103.. 1,600 1 lot, cor. 5th avenne and 15th st. 26 by 100. 2,600 5 lots on 5th avenue, each 26 by 100, each $2200, is gore lot on 5th avenue. 11,000 2,850 1 lot cor. 5th avenue and 16th st. 25 3 by 100... 2,700 2 lots on 5th avenue and a house, 52 2 by 100. 7,350 12 years lease of house and lot 45 Crosby street... 1 lot on Forsyth street, near Stanton street, 30 by 100 9,000 acres of land in Hamilton county, township N. 38, varying in price from 15 to 25 cents per acre... 12 years lease of a lot in the Bowery near Bayard st. Farm of the late Geo. Codwise, Jamaica, L. Island, (60 acres).... 2,300 2,250 825 8,000 1 lot on 5th avenue, 25 10 by 100... 2,400 1 piece of ground on 5th avenue, 42 3 front, 82 10 rear, by 100......... 3,225 of ground, without a front. 440 1 lot on 15th street, 25 by 103....... 1,800 ABRAHAM D. STEPHENS, City Inspector. SALES AT AUCTION OF REAL ESTATE. JAMES BLEBOKER & SONS. 1 do do do.... 1,650 Brick front house and lot 141 Delancey street....... 11 years of a house and lot 120 Cherry street.. Lot on East Broadway, near Rutgers street, 25 by 60 House and lot 59 Thompson street, 33 by 100.. Two story brick front house and lot 188 Duane street 25 by 54. 3,300 1,600 3,350 4,400 3,200 2 lots on 15th st. and stable, 50 ft by about 100.... 3,050 Do do 1 lot do 25 do 95..... 1,400 1,175 1,000 Do do 289 Duane street, House and lot 442 Pearl street, 25 by 108. House and lot 86 Mulberry street, 25 by 100.. do 76 do do... 2,800 13,250 4,100 do... 3,125 The 3 story house and lot, No. 5 St. Marks Place, lot 26 by 120.. 1 do 925 4 lots on 60th street, (Mt. Vernon,) 25 by 100.. 480 1 lot on 59th street, Hermitage, 25 by 100.. 200 $12,000 Three lots on West street, near Troy street each 1200, oach 22 by 80.. The frame house and 15 years lease of lot, No. 15 Eldridge street.... 775 16 years lease of N. W. corner of Madison and Rutgers streets.. . 4,250 635 House and lot No. 158 15th street, between 7th and 8th Avenues.. 2,000 3,600 Five lots S.W. corner 4th and M'Dougal streets, each 26 by 109... One lot on Troy street, near West street, 22 by 89.. 1,100 1,410 1 lot on Pierpont street, Brooklyn. 1,650 1 gore lot on 15th st. 146 ft. 4 by about 54, running thence to a point... 2,775 1,250 1 gore lot on 15th st. 46 feet front, 107 deep, running to a point.. 1 lot on Lewis street, between Broome and Delancey 2 lots, with bulk head, between 18th and 19th streets 1 lot in the rear on 18th street.. 2,000 2,000 700 1,050 1 do adjoining... 700 4,875 1 lot on 15th street, 25 feet by about 136.... 1,250 1 do do 25 do do 166.. 17,700 1,825 One lot in rear on M'Dougal street, 23 by 78.. 160.. 2,000 1,825 4 lots S. W. corner of 7th Avenue and 42d street.... 1 lot on Elizabeth street, between Prince and Spring 4 lots on 4th Avenue, near 117th street, each $122.. 7 do on 117th street, each $75.... 900 630 488 525 154.... 9,900 1,800 2 do on 118th street, each $62 50. 143.. 1,700 5 do on 119th street, each $60.... 300 137. 1,625 5 do on 4th Avenue, each $150.. 1 do 5,000 1,525 6 do on 119th street, each $90.. 540 1 do 1,475 6 do on 120th street, each $90. 540 1 do do 8,950 1,425 A piece of ground, 25 feet on Washington, 50 feet on West and extending on Hubert street 195 feet, with the bulk head of 50 feet on West street.......... Four lots on 8th Avenue, corner of 42d street, hermitage, each 25 by 100.. 5 do on 120th and 121st streets, each $105... 9 do on do 525 do do.... 945 1,400 6 do on 116th street, each $70.. 420 17,900 1,350 1 do on 114th street.. 70 1,225 4 do on 115th street, each $90. 360 1,280 1,125 4 do on 114th street, each $80.. 320 One lot on 8th Avenue, near 36th street, hermitage, 25 by 100... 380 1,050 1,000 6 do on 115th street, each $75.. 450 8 do on 116th street, each $75.............. 600 Two story house and lot No. 103 Mott street..... Two story house, and 12 years lease of lot 22 Clarkson street........ 1 do 3,800 72.. 926 3 do on 5th Avenue, each $75... 225 1 do 4 do on 116th street, each $65 50 1 do 61. 2,200 800 1 lot S. E. corner Chambers and Chapel sts, 25 by 100, 12,700 1 lot on Monroe, near Clinton street, 26 by 100. do. do. 1 do 750 1 do adjoining, on Chambers street........... 11,000 3,225 do. Do. 1 Frame building and lot 62 Pitt street, 25 by 100.. do. 191 Elizabeth st., 26 by 100.. do 3,200 625 1 do do do do..... 11,550 1,900 do........... 10,300 2,300 4 lots on 4th Avenue, Harlaem, each 25 by 110.. 370 1 gore on 15th street, 148 7 front, and 34 9 deep, running to a point... 1,275 Sale of Real Estate, situate at Brooklyn, (late the farm of SaJah Strong, Esqr.) at the Merchants' Exchange, Feb. 25th, 1833. 6 years lease of No. 131 Anthony street... A gore lot on Chambers street, near Chatham, with buildings No. 14, 16, and 18, lot 51 by 40, running to a point... 760 $121,325 1 Map numbers, made by Wм.28 130, 20, F. PELL & Co., Auctioneers, 29 400, 28, 130 400 8,890 1 lease lot on 8th street, corner of Mercer, 25 by 80.. 425 1 do. do. adjoining, do..... do. do..... 300 290 300 The 4 story store 142 Pearl street, and the store in the rear, 108 Water street, lot 21 ft. on Pearl street 101 ft. in depth to Water at..... Two story brick front house and lot on 18th street, near Union Place, lot 25 by 92 ft...... $5,000 375,28,26,25,24,23,22,21, 375 30 575, 8. 575 420" 425, 9, 425 3 520, 91, 3,000 "475, 92, 93, 94, 520" 425, 10, 475 425 "425, 11, 425 do. do. Three story house and lot, No. 161 Greenwich st. lot 22 by 55 10....... 4 440, 95, 440" 400, 12, 400 6,550 "435, 96, 97, 435350, 13, 350 do..... on Mercer, do..... 400 260 290 Three acres of land fronting on the 3d avenue opposite Hamilton square, between 66th and 68th street The two story house and lot, No. 1 Carlisle street, lot 33 by 60 6..... "440,98,99, 100, ....... 440" 300, 14,. 300 7,600 "430, 101, 430 31 300, 15, and 16-one lot. 300 5 335, 102, 103, 104,. 335 32 410, 4, 410 4,600 6 420, 105, 420 "405, 5, 67, 405 1 lot on Stanton street, neap Chrystie, 24 by 100.... 1,800 1 do. do. do. do 1,750 In Chancery, under the direction of F. Depeyster, Jr., Esq. 7 275, 106, 275 33 260, 3, 260 5,100 8 305,107, 305 34 455, 184, 455 Do do do 59 do.... 4,900 9 380, 108, 380 "395, 185, 186, 187, 395 do... 1,800 do Two story house and lot No. 50 North st., 25 by 70. 61 do.... 4,600 63 do... "370, 109, 370 "365, 188, 189, 190, 191,.. 365 4,900 10 530,121, 530 34 360, 192, 360 Do. Do. Store and lot 5 Exchange street, 25 by 56.. Lot No. 2 Laurens st. subject to a lease.... Three story house and lot 55 Bleecker st. 27 by 100. 2 lots on 9th street, between 2d and 3d avenues,cach 21 by 75.. 52 54 do. do.... 3,500 do. do.... 3,350 Two story house and lot cor. avenue D. and 4th st. "460, 122 2,000 "410, 123, 124,· 460 35 340, 193, 194, 195, 196,.. 340 410" 335, 197, 198,. 335 14,300 Two story house and lot adjoining on Av. D, 22 by 80 1,950 11 495, 125, 495 36 420, 19, 420 1,675 Do do do do 1,900 470, 470325, 202, 201, 200, 199,.. 325 1,950 "450, 128, 6,500 Do do do do 1,975 15 310, 135, 13 do do do 6,900 Do do do, cor. 6th street, 19 by 80.... 2,150 "310, 136, Harlem Property Feb. 14. 16 350, 137, Lot on Fourth street, 334 by 964. 1,900 6 lots on Sullivan st. near Bleecker, 25 by 95 each.. House and lot S. E. corner Bowery and Bayard st. 20 by 75...... 4 lots on 3d Avenue and 112th street, each $170.... "350, 138, 139, 140, 680 2,756 6 do on 112th street, each $90.. 17 520, 145, 540 8,000 16 do on 113th street and Railroad, each $100.. 420, 144, 1,600 Lot on Gouverneur st. near Monroe, 24 by 102... Lot on East Broadway near utgers st. 25 by 85.... Two story house and lot 184 Prince st. 20 by 77. 1,600 1,550 4 do on 115th street and Railroad, each $110.. 18 550, 29,. 440 2,950 4 do on 110th street, each $70.... 500, 30, 31, 32, 280 6,350 5 do on 111th street, each $100.. 19 600, 33, 34, 500 Do do 115 Fourth st. (small lot).. 4,500 Do do 182 Forsyth st. 30 by 100.. 10 do on 114th street, each $1074. 20 515, 35, 36, 37, 38, 3,000 17 do on 114th and 115th streets, each $105. 1,075 21 445, 39, "250, 208,. .... 350 42 230, 211, 520210, 215, 214, 213, 212,.. 210 550 45 425, 54, 53, 52, 51, 520 ..... 425 500 46 405, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86.... 404 600 47 405, 75 a 81, inclusive,.. 405 515 48 420, 71 a 74, 450 37 320,219, 320 .... 395 530 39 350, 206, 205, 4, 350 410 ...... 255 250 .... 250 230 180 5,200 3lots and two story houses corner Laight street and 30 do on 111th and 112th streets, each $115. St. John's lane, each 25 by 99.... Two story house and lot 101 Delancy st. 22 by 664.. 2 two-story houses and lease of lot 250 E. Broadway, near Montgomery street.... 4 do on 109th street, each $120... 19,500 3,075 4 do on 110th street, in the rear, each $110.. 6,750 Two story house and lot 146 Elm street, 25 by 100.. 4,300|| 10 do on 11th street and Railroad, each $127). "210, 45, 24 280, 42. 210 54 340, 18, 170 a 165, and 17, 340355,whole of the parcel 1,275 26 340, 46, 47-one lot,.... 340 55 380, 175 a 179, 420 355 330 395 385 375 380 10 lots, at 355 AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, AND ADVOCATE OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT No. 35 WALL STREET, NEW-YORK, AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. .145 Report of the Paterson and Hudson River Railroad Co.. 147 Controversy between the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co.. 148 Danville and Pottsville Railroad; On the Probable Advantages of Steam Power; Cape Fear and Yadkin Railroad; Railroad Accident; Illinois Canal; Canal Tolls; Great Canal of Goetha; Extraordinary Railway Performances.... 149 .150 HARLAEM RAILROAD CONTROVERSY. In this that a few years will render them as popular number of the Journal will be found "a state- with a vast majority, as they are now unpopular ment of facts," made by the Directors of the with a part of our inhabitants. Harlaem Railroad Company, in reply to a By a reference to the acts of the Legislature publication of the proceedings of a meeting of and the Common Council, it will be seen that citizens held at Tammany Hall, sometime since, the railroad is to be entirely under the control for the purpose of expressing their disapproba- of the city authorities, and may be removed by tion of the continuation of the Railroad through them in one month-even after it is completed the streets of our city. Efforts have been made should it be found dangerous or to interpose by some of our most respectable citizens to with the privileges of the citizens. the continuance of this road below, and prevent 155 even to, its present termination. We pretend to doubt their right or their candor in doing 160 so; although we cannot feel the force of their reasons, for opposing a measure which, we Agricultural School-State Agricultural Society. Poetry Summary Home Affairs-Congress, &c. Marriages and Deaths; Advertisements .153 ib. 156 153 AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, &c. believe, will tend greatly to the convenience NEW-YORK, MARCH 9, 1833. and prosperity of a large portion of our citizens. This being a subject, however, like most others, which will admit of strong arguments on both sides--our columns are open to both parties. And we are as ready to publish the proceedings of the opponents as of the friends of the railroad. The annexed diagrams show the space which PATERSON RAILROAD.-In our columns to- without endangering the lives, or interfering would be required, both for a double and single day will be found the Report of a Committee of with the convenience of the inhabitants, we track, as well as that which would remain for the Paterson Railroad Company. From this have not a doubt, nor do we hesitate to predict ordinary uses. report, it appears that the prospects of the company are in truth, as we have ever believed them to be, very flattering to those who have engaged in the enterprise. We have no doubt but that the work will prove equally as profitable to the Stockholders as convenient to the public. The Engineer's Report will appear in our next. We have received, and shall publish in our next, the Report of the Ohio Canal Commis. sioners. We acknowledge the receipt of a description of the Carbondale Railroad, for which we are indebted to J. B. JERVIS, Esq. Engineer of the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad Company. It will appear in our next. For the Information of Travellers.-We are requested to state, that there has not been a day since the opening of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, that the Philadelphia and New York passengers have not been taken over the Road, each way, with the exception of Saturday and Monday last, notwithOn those standing the recent heavy falls of snow. days, there were no passengers from Philadelphia, owing to the Company's not being able to procure coaches to convey passengers from Philadelphia to the Railroad. The passengers that left New York on the above-mentioned days, were taken over the Railroad in cars, and forwarded to Philadelphia the same evening in sleighs. The stage arrangements being now completed, passengers will be conveyed from the Railroad to Philadelphia in coaches, until the River Delaware opens.-[Communicated.] CEDAR HARLAEM RAILROAD.-The Board of Direct- Again-the city has another deep interest in]] "1st, Be it ordained, &c. that the New-York ors of the Harlaem Railroad Company have maintaining this road. The great object of and Harlem Railroad Company be, and they published a statement of facts in relation to supplying our citizens with pure water from are hereby permitted to construct and lay down, the county of Westchester is rapidly approach-in pursuance of their act of incorporation, a their undertaking, in which they endeavor to ing its final execution. The recent able report double or single track or railroad, or railway, answer all the objections made by the oppo-made by the committee of the Common Council, along the Fourth avenue, from Twenty-third nents of its introduction into the more crowded places it beyond a doubt that the necessary street to the Harlæm river, in conformity to a parts of the city. After giving a detailed ac- aqueduct across the Harlaem river must be map now on file in the Register's office, and a west of the Fourth avenue. In that event its branch thereof along One hundred and twentycount of the progress they have made, they channel, by means of pipes, may be easily and fifth street, from the Fourth avenue to the Hudthus proceed: cheaply laid under the surface of this avenue, son river, provided that the width of such douwhich will be greatly preferred by reason of ble railroad or way shall not exceed twenty-four its great uniformity of graduation. feet. Again-this company are bound to keep "2d, And be it further ordained, that at any more than half of the carriage-way in the time after the construction of the aforesaid streets through which their rails may be laid railways, by the said New-York and Harlæm in constant repair, and the city treasury will Railroad Company, it shall appear to the May. thereby annually save a large sum now dis-or, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the city of bursed in repairing the ravages committed by New-York, that the said railways, or any part the heavy loaded omnibus coaches. thereof, shall constitute an obstruction or im 66 The frightful predictions of steam-carriages furiously propelled through the street upon rails elevated above its service, overturning and demolishing travellers and carriages, had all proved to be groundless and visionary. The people can examine this for themselves, and will rind only a thin plate of iron, lying so near the surface of the pavement as to be hardly visible. They will find the street newly paved, newly graded, every impediment removed, the fre- To our mechanics the railroad will yield the pediment to the future regulation of the city, or quent cross-gutters, formerly so inconvenient most valuable facilities. The upper part of the ordinary uses of any street or avenue, of and uncomfortable, now arched over and co- our island, being speedily and cheaply ap- which the said Mayor, Aldermen, and the Comvered; and, in fact, the whole carriage-way in- proached, will become the seat of numerous monalty, shall be the sole judges, the said Rail comparably improved in ease, comfort, and and extensive manufacturing establishments; road Company, or the Directors thereof, shall, safety. Upon these thin rails they find only a and the labor and capital now employed at on the requisition of the said Mayor, Alderfew beautiful carriages, moving without dust Newark and other neighboring villages, will be men, and Commonalty, forthwith provide a or danger, and occupying less space than is concentrated in our own city. remedy for the same, satisfactory to the said now required for the same purpose by the om- But the advantages of this railroad do not Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty; they shall nibus coaches. After this practical exhibition, stop here; it opens other and wider prospects within one month after the requisition proceed the company did hope that they would be allow. of incalculable value to our metropolis. We to remove such railway, or other obstruction ed to finish their enterprise without further mo- take pride in predicting that it is to form the or impediment, and to replace the street or lestation; but their just expectations have been main trunk of a mighty system of internal avenue in as good condition as it was before disappointed. For several weeks an anony-communication, whose branches are to extend the said railway was laid down; and should mous map or diagram has been most industri- throughout our own state, throughout New- the said Directors decline or neglect to obey ously circulated, fraught with the most palpa- England, and the whole interior of the West. such requisition, the said Mayor, Aldermen, ble misrepresentations. Instead of the space, Already the great plan is beginning to develope and Commonalty, may, upon the expiration of actually less than five feet, lying between the itself. Branches commencing at Albany have the time limited in such notices, cause the obrails, this fanciful picture represents the com- already extended to Saratoga, and are to be struction or impediment to be removed, and the pany as monopolizing twenty-three feet of the forthwith continued to Lake Champlain. Ano-avenue or streets restored as aforesaid, at the road, and excluding from the street all other ther branch from Troy to the state of Ver-expense of the Railroad Company. vehicles, and the most persevering efforts have mont; another from the Harlaem river to Al- 3d, That the right of regulating the debeen made by exhibiting this deceptive repre- bany and Troy; and the New-York and Erie scription of power to be used in propelling sentation, to kindle in the public mind feelings railroad, commencing at the Hudson river near carriages on and along said railways, and the hostile to our enterprise. Let the rail-track now the north end of our island, and extending to speed of the same, as well as all other power, laid down in the Bowery be examined. Let it be Lake Erie, and thence through the valley of reserved to the said Mayor, Aldermen, and measured. Their single rail-track does not ob- the upper lakes. Commonalty, by the act of incorporation of struct any part of the street, and never will. It And where must all the passengers, borne on the said Company, or any part thereof, be, and occupies less than six feet. It does not occu- these gigantic avenues of internal communica- the same are hereby expressly retained and py 23 feet, and never will. A double track tion, be finally concentrated? Is not the whole reserved. would occupy but 13 feet, and will not, if laid of the accumulated wealth of our vast interior 4th, That it shall especially be incumbent down, in the slightest degree obstruct the free to be poured into this its great commercial em-on the said Harlæm Railroad Company, at use of the road, and the cars will occupy much porium? And will not this our city railroad their own cost, to construct stone arches and less space than is now occupied by the unwieldy become the great central conduit through which bridges for all the cross streets now or hereaf omnibus coaches, which virtually monopolize these rich streams of prosperity are destined to ter to be made, (which will be intersected by the street. The company have not laid a dou- flow? the embankment or excavations of the said ble track south of Prince street, and they do Already we are behind the age. Liverpool, railroad,) and which, in the opinion of the not intend to do so until the people themselves, our commercial rival, has brought her railroad Common Council, the public convenience rethrough their representatives in the Common not only into her city, but along her docks. quires to be arched or bridged; and also to Council, shall declare that the public conve- Baltimore, public-spirited, enterprising, and li- make such embankments or excavations as in nience demands it. The Company, therefore, beral, has introduced her railroad into her lead- the opinion of the Common Council may be rerequest only that their track may be measured, ing streets, and has fostered the enterprise by quired, to make the passage over the railroad and compared with the anonymous diagram donation of two blocks of land, and a subscrip- and embankments at the intersected cross now circulated through our city, and will tion to the stock from her city treasury of half streets easy and convenient for all the purcheerfully submit the diagram and its invent- a million of dollars. With noble ardor she has poses for which streets and roads are usually ors to the justice of the public. already marched 70 miles towards the Ohio riv- put to; and also that the said Company shall and is now penetrating the Alleghanies in make, at their own like cost and charges, all quest of the rich commerce of the West. Vir- such drains and sewers as their embankments ginia, too, has commenced a similar work; and or excavations may, in the opinion of the ComSouth Carolina has united her capital with the mon Council, make necessary; all which work Savannah river, by a railroad one hundred and to be done under the like requisitions, and unby the spirited efforts of her sister cities, has this ordinance mentioned. And further, that forty miles in length. Philadelphia, aroused der like liabilities as in the second section of graded her railroad to the Susquehannah river, and, discarding at once all antiquated prejudiway into the heart of her city. ces, has admitted the double tracks of her rail er, a 66 the said Company shall make their railroad path from time to time conform to what may hereafter be the regulation of the avenue and road through which said railroad passes. A large map or diagram of a double and single track of the proposed railway in Broadway accompanies the Report, illustrative of the facts advanced in the pages. The following enumeration of the advantages likely to accrue to the inhabitants of New-York, by the completion of the undertaking, will be perused with interest: The whole body of our citizens has a large pecuniary interest in maintaining this Harlaem 5th, That it shall be incumbent on the said railroad. The city now owns nearly two hun- The charter granting this railroad is entirely Harlæm Railroad Company to commence their dred acres of land in the twelfth ward, inter- under the control of the Corporation, and may said railroad in the respective times allowed sected by the Fourth avenue, and divided into about 2,500 building lots of full size. To ex- at any time—at a month's notice-be removed for that purpose in their act of incorporation, cavate the Fourth avenue and grade it to Har- by it, should it be found to interfere with the same in the periods of time for the said comand unless they commence and complete the lam would have cost the city at least $300,-"future regulations of the city, or the ordinary mencement and completion in said incorpora000. By the continuation of this avenue, to be uses of any street or avenue, of which the said tion specified, that then the consent of the Commade at the sole expense of the company, the 2500 building lots belonging to the city have Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty shall be mon Council and all the powers and privileges been doubled in value, making a present actual the sole judges," as will be seen by the follow-given in the ordinance shall cease and be null Fain of upwards of $200,000, in addition to the ing ordinances and resolutions of the Common $300,000 saved in grading the avenue. Council, and of the Act of the Legislature: and void. "6th, That in case the said railroad should not be completed within the time for that pur pose in their charter mentioned, or if at any||Prince street, until they shall have completed hill to the Hudson river: by which arrangement that part of the road is to be the common protime after the construction of the said railroad, four miles of their road above said street. the same shall be discontinued or not kept up Sec. 4. No carriage or vehicle shall be drawn perty of the two Companies, with equal priviand in repair as a good and sufficient railroad, or propelled by any other than horse power, leges in all respects, and to be constructed under that then the strip of land to be taken for the through any street of said city south of Four- the New-Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company, who have already put the same under said railroad should be thrown open and be- teenth street. come a part of the street or public avenues, Sec. 5. Every carriage or vehicle, drawn or contract, and a strong force is now employed in without any assessment on the owners of the propelled on said railroad, shall be provided its construction, with the hope that it will be with suitable safe-guards, projecting in a de. finished to Jersey City during the next autumn, adjoining lands or the public therefor. "7th, That no building shall be erected on scending direction near the surface of the rails, and with full confidence that its final completion the said strip of land to be taken for the said in front of each forward wheel, in such man-will not be delayed beyond the succeeding spring. The committee have also procured from E. railroad; and that such a railing, or other ner as to ensure the greatest safety against Beach, Esq., the Chief Engineer of that Comerections, shall be made on the outer edges of accidents. Sec. 6. No such carriage or vehicle shall be pany, a statement of the expense of graduating the embankments or railroad path, and also such railing or fences on the edges of the ex-drawn or propelled at a greater speed than at that part of the road, amounting to $115,529 96, cavations, as the Common Council shall, from the rate of five miles an hour in any street of to which must be added the sum of $22,400, for the expense of a double set of tracks on the same, time to time, deem necessary to prevent acci- said city below Fourteenth street. making the amount of $137,929 86; of which dents and loss of lives to our fellow citizens. "8th, That this ordinance shall not be con sidered as binding on the Common Council, "Passed by the Board of Assistants December 19, 1831. Approved by the Mayor December 22, 1831. On the first of February, 1832, the following resolution passed in Common Council: Resolved, That the New-York and Harlem Railroad Company be, and they are hereby authorized, to take possession of the ground owned by the Common Council over which the line of said railroad is ordered to be constructed, and that they be permitted to use the same during the continuance of the present charter, for the purpose of a railroad, and that only; and when they cease so to use it, it shall revert to the Corporation, provided always, that the said land shall be so used as not to interfere with the use of the cross streets, and on condition, however, that if the said Corporation shall not commence the said railroad, and complete the same, within the time limited by their charter, then the privilege hereby granted shall cease and be void. Adopted by the Board of Aldermen and Board of Assistants, January 30, 1832. Approved by the Mayor, February 1, 1832. Upon a subsequent application to the Legis lature, by the New-York and Harlem Railroad Company, the following Act was passed, April 6, 1832. State of New-York, Secretary's Office. on file at this office. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL. I certify the preceding to be a true copy of amount, this Company is bound by the arrangean original Act of the Legislature of this Statement made between the two Companies, to pay two-fifth parts, equal to $55,171 S; which, added to the said sum of $361,818 83, the cost of the road to the point of junction, gives as the total amount of the cost of the road from Paterson to Jersey City, including all the necessary locoReport of a Committee to the President and motive power, cars for passengers and burthen, Directors of the Paterson and Hudson Ri-and land for road and depot, the sum of $416,ver Rail Road Company. Albany, April 6, 1832. The committee appointed to prepare and make an exposition of the present state of the road, and its future prospects, report: 490 81, equal to $26,030 per mile. But of this amount, it is to be observed, that the sum of $88,547 75 is applicable to the building of bridges, and purchasing the lands for and building the deThat, in the execution of their duty, they have pot, and purchasing the moving power; leaving obtained from the Chief Engineer of the Com- a balance of $327,943 06, which is strictly appany a report of the present situation of the road, plicable to the grading and formation of the road, 43 per mile. as to its construction and cost, with a statement including the land for the same, equal to $20,049 of the further amount of money that will be re- This amount exceeds the original estimate of quired for its completion; which report is here-the cost of the road. But when we consider the unto annexed. By this report it appears that there has been expended in the construction of nature of the country traversed by this road, overcoming two hills as formidable as Berry's hill the road, and charges incident thereto, the sum and the Bergen ridge; crossing the Hackensack of $228,252 16, and that it will require the fur-and Passaic rivers, besides other smaller streams, ther sum of $133,066 67 to complete it to its junction with the Newark road; and that it will by a line of bridges, altogether more than 2,100 feet long, and those built in the most permanent be finished to that point in the course of the next manner; passing over about five miles of salt utumn. marsh, and connecting the town of Paterson with required to Jersey City, by a line of road 16 1-8 miles long; finish the exceeding the length of a straight line by only about 513 yards, and securing the use of that road by locomotive engines, without the aid of $57,200 63 19,451 49 stationary power,-it is confidently believed that the work will have been finished with as small comparative expense as any in the country. Of the amount expended, there has For grading the road from Pater son to end of 11th section, dis- Grading road over meadows, in- Constructing road from Patorson Building bridges over Passaic Ri- The People of the State of New-York, rep- For land, including lot for depot in resented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows Sec. 1. The President and Directors of the New-York and Harlem Road Company are hereby authorized and empowered, with the permission of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New-York, to extend their railroad along the fourth avenue to Fourteenth street in said city, and through such other streets in the said city as the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of said city may from time to time permit, subject to such prudential rules as are prescribed by this Act, and as the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty in Common Council convened, may prescribe. Sec. 2. The President and Directors of said Company are hereby authorized to increase their capital stock to such sum as may be necessary for the purpose aforesaid, and to issue scrip therefor; but their capital stock shall not in the whole exceed the sum of five hundred thousand dollars. Paterson,. Surveys and boring on salt marsh- And there is same, 45,578 15 20,378 00 And the novelty of the formation of the road over the salt marshes, and the unexpected intervention of quicksands on Berry's hill, furnish a 45,049 32 27,625 95 satisfactory reason for the difference in the original estimates of the Engineer and the result: and although the cost of the road exceeds the 31,668 81 27,761 23 original estimate, it is highly satisfactory to the committee to be enabled to state with confidence to the board, that a careful investigation has resulted in a firm conviction, that the income of the road will greatly exceed the amount originally 2,000 00 anticipated, so much so as to render it much more productive than was then expected; and upon that subject they submit such facts as have led them to their conclusion, in order that the correctness of those conclusions may be tested by 8,000 00 the judgment of others interested in the success of the road. 15,017 71 12,404 02 5,488 64 850 00 2,000 00 8,000 00 17,000 00 228,252 16 133,066 67 As to the number of passengers, it is to be observed, that the road was finished from Paterson to Acquackanonk, a distance of 4 1-2 miles, and the cars of the Company commenced running over that part of the way early in June last, and have continued so to run until this time. Du228,252 16 ring two months of this period, one half of the Paterson stages withdrew from the road, and $361,318 83 carried their passengers through, from New-York For a more minute detail of those expenditures, to Paterson. The Owego stage, which passes the committee refer the board to the annexed report of the Engineer. from New-York through Paterson three times a week, did not use the rail road, as they probably The committee further report: will when it is finished. And during a consideThat the committees on the part of the New-rable part of the season at which the greatest Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company, travelling is expected, the intercourse between Sec. 3. After obtaining the consent of the and of this Company, have entered into a provi- Paterson and New-York and other towns was said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty, the sional arrangement, subject to the confirmation of nearly suspended by reason of the cholera, which said Company shall not construct any railway the board, as to the forination of the road, from then prevailed in Paterson and New-York.in any street of the City of New-York below the point of junction on the west side of Bergen These facts alone, connected with the increase |