then, out of the comparison, we have an increase in the other States of $1,757,787, which is equal to a shade over 40 per cent, and if Tennessee is included, the increase is equal to slightly over 40 per cent. This is very remarkable, and exceeds the estimate we made last January by over 160,000 head, for we did not include Tennessee in that estimate.

With regard to the average weight and the yield of lard, we have the following result by States, though we failed, as usual, to get the average weights in many cases, and the yield of lard in a still greater number of cases, but both were given more generally than they were last season:

The aggregate weights of similar numbers of hogs, packed at each point from whence the average weights were furnished last season and this, compare as follows:

This is equal to about 7 per cent, and which may be regarded as correct an indicator, as is necessary, of the per centage of decrease in weight of the entire packing, and this being deducted from the increase in number, not including Tennessee, makes the net increase slightly over 33 per

cent.

The yield of lard per hog last season was 34 pounds; this season it was 29 pounds, showing a decrease of five pounds per hog; but the number of hogs being vastly greater this than last season, this falling off is more than made up, which will be seen by taking the whole number of hogs packed both seasons, and multiplying them with the yield of lard, each season respectively, as follows, not including the Tennessee packing last season:

Here, then, we find there is an actual increase of 27 per cent. We will here remark that the yield of lard given above, as well as in previous years, does not include head and gut lard or grease, as in all cases where the head and gut is added, we exclude it from our tables.

We expected to have been able to give the number of hogs sent from the West to the Eastern cities, by the various railways, during the packing season, but have not yet been furnished with the number received at Buffalo, or the number shipped through Canada. The following are the compara

tive shipments by the New York and Erie Railway, from Dunkirk, and the Pennsylvania Central, from Pittsburg, from November 1st to February 1st, this and last season:

We understand that there is a marked increase in the shipments through Canada and the receipts at Buffalo. We will give the exports by these routes as soon as we get them.

We have to acknowledge ourselves under renewed obligations to our friends for the promptness with which they have furnished us the information we asked for.

BOSTON COMPETING FOR THE WESTERN TRADE.

Boston is taking advantage of the special interest now felt in Western transportation, to improve her facilities for accommodating the trade of the Northwestern States. In March, at the annual meeting of the Boston Corn Exchange, a report was made, urging the importance of enhancing the advantages of that city" as a shipping point for the productions of the West, by affording every possible facility to deliver flour and other produce at as low a rate of freight in Boston as it can be sent to New York or Portland."

Probably in reference to this demand, the Boston Commercial Bulletin of March 14th says:

"A convention of the representatives of our Northern railroads, connecting with lake navigation, has lately been held at the Revere House in this city, at which (though the fact of the meeting is not generally known to the public) it is understood arrangements were made for largely increased facilities for the accommodation of Western trade. Several hundred new freight cars are to be placed immediately on these routes, and a scale of tariff was agreed upon which cannot fail to be satisfactory to shippers and vastly enhance the volume as well as the profits of this trade. Not only this, but so far as Boston is concerned, we are happy to be able to say, that arrangements (which we are not as yet at liberty to detail) have been perfected, by which Western railroad transportation will connect directly with deep water navigation at this port, bringing cars and ships into the most intimate possible juxtaposition. This is a commercial desideratum much needed and long desired, in bringing the cost of freightage within the smallest practicable limits, and may now be considered un fait accompli.

Our railroad corporations have not moved too soon in this matter for their own or the public interest; and we may be allowed to congratulate our fellow citizens upon the increased business and prosperity which these important arrangements cannot fail to give this commercial metropolis.

RAILWAY, CANAL, AND TELEGRAPH STATISTICS.

THE BROADWAY RAILROAD-ACTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL.

THE following resolutions permitting the New York and Harlem Railroad Company to extend their railroad through Broadway and other streets were passed by the Common Council April 21, 1863 :

To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the city of New York:

The New York and Harlem Railroad Company apply for permission to extend their railroad from their Fourth Avenue track, near the point of its intersection with Fifteenth-street, southerly through Broadway by a double track to the foot of Whitehall-street, connecting at Park Row with their present track, with liberty to extend a single track around Bowling Green and through State-street to the foot of Whitehall-street, with the switches and turnouts necessary for the convenient transaction of their business; and also to extend their railroad with double track from Fourth Avenue through Twenty-third-street to Madison Avenue, and thence up Madison Avenue to Eighty-sixth-street.

[L. S.]

W. H. EMERSON,

Secretary New York and Harlem Railroad Co.

A resolution permitting the New York and Harlem Railroad Company to extend their railroad through certain streets in the city of New York. Whereas, The Legislature of the State of New York did, by an act passed April 6, 1863, and entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to Incorporate the New York and Harlem Railroad Company, passed 25th April, 1832," authorized and empowered the New York and Harlem Railroad Company to extend their railroad through such streets in the city of New York as the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the city may from time to time permit; and

Whereas, It has become necessary, for the convenience of the public that railroad cars, propelled by horse-power, should be run in Broadway, to and from Union Square to the South and Fulton ferries; and

Whereas, The New York and Harlem Railroad Company have offered to extend their railroad in such manner as to afford to the public the requisite accommodation, and have also proposed to pay into the Treasury of the city, for the relief of the citizens from taxation, ten per cent of the gross receipts received by them for all travel on the extensions of the railroad below Union Square hereinafter authorized.

Now, therefore, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the city of New York, in Common Council convened, do resolve as follows:

I. Permission is hereby granted to the New York and Harlem Railroad Company, and they are hereby required to extend their railroad and to construct a double track of rails from their present Fourth Avenue track, between Seventeenth and Fifteenth streets, through Broadway to the foot of

Whitehall-street, with liberty to extend and construct an additional single track around Bowling Green, and through State-street to the foot of Whitehall-street; and also an additional single track around Union Square; and also with permission to extend and construct a single track from the track in Broadway, through John-street to Burling Slip, thence through Burling Slip to South-street, thence through South-street to Fulton-street, and thence through Fulton-street to the main track in Broadway, with the necessary switches and turnouts for the convenient transaction of their business; and to place cars thereon adapted to the convenience and comfort of passengers, and to run the same as often as the public convenience may require.

II. Permission is also granted to the New York and Harlem Railroad Company, and they are hereby required to extend their railroad and to construct a double track, with the necessary switches and turnouts from their present track in Fourth Avenue through Twenty-third-street to Madison Avenue; thence through Madison Avenue as far as Madison is, or may from time to time be opened; with permission to extend and construct a single or double track from their track on Fourth Avenue through Twenty-fourth street to Madison Avenue; and to place and run their small cars thereon as often as the public convenience may require.

III. Provided, however, that the New York and Harlem Railroad Company shall, within ten days after the first day of each month, render to the Controller of the city, a statement authenticated by their treasurer of the gross receipts derived from all travel upon the extensions of their railroad below Union Square hereinbefore authorized, and shall, at the same time, pay to said Controller, for the benefit of the city, ten per cent of such gross receipts.

IV. Provided further, That the passenger fare shall not exceed the sum of five cents a passenger.

V. Provided further, That said track or tracks shall be laid upon a good foundation, with the most approved rail, the pattern whereof shall be submitted to the Mayor for his approval; and the extension hereby authorized shall be commenced without unnecessary delay, and be completed with all the expedition practicable.

VI. Provided further, That the following provisions of the act of the Legislature of April 6, 1832, shall be observed by and the same are enjoined upon the said the New York and Harlem Railroad Company, viz.:

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"SEC. 4. No carriage or vehicle shall be drawn or propelled by any other than horse power through any street of said city south of Fourteenth-street. 'SEC. 5. Every carriage or vehicle drawn or propelled on said railroad shall be provided with suitable safeguards projecting in a descending direction, near the surface of the rails, in front of each forward wheel in such a manner as to insure the greatest safety against accidents.

"SEC. 6. No such carriage or vehicle shall be drawn or propelled at a greater speed than at the rate of five miles an hour in any street of said city below Fourteenth-street."

VII. Provided further, That the New York and Harlem Railroad Company shall, at their own expense, keep in good order and sufficient repair the pavement between the curbs of Broadway from Union Square to Bowling Green, and also of those parts of John, South, and Fulton streets through which the extensions herein before authorized shall be constructed. VIII. Provided further, That the New York and Harlem Railroad Com

pany shall pay the city of New York a license fee of twenty-five dollars per annum for each car which they may run upon the extensions hereby authorized; and

IX. Provided further, That the New York and Harlem Railroad Company shall, within ten days from the passage of this resolution, notify the Mayor in writing of their acceptance thereof.

CANADIAN CANAL TOLLS.

The Governor-General in Council has issued a proclamation stating that the canal tolls would be reimposed, commencing to take effect on April 15th. The following are the particulars :

Steam vessels, per ton, 2 cents on the Welland Canal, each way; St. Lawrence Canal, 14 cents; Chambly and St. Ours, 14 cents; Lake Erie to Montreal, 4 cents; Burlington Bay Canal, one-half cent; Ottawa Canal, 5 cents; St. Anne's Lock, one-quarter cent. The same dues will be exacted of sail vessels, with the exception of Burlington Bay Canal, which will be onequarter cent. Passengers 21 years of age and upwards, 10 cents on the Welland, St. Lawrence, and Ottawa Canals; 5 cents on the Chambly and St. Ours; 2 cents on the Burlington, and one-half cent on the St. Anne's.

"Bark, barley, bricks, cement, coal, corn, iron, lime; ores, copper and iron, salt; stone unwrought, and wheat, 20 cents on the Welland Canal, 15 cents on the St. Lawrence, and 10 cents on the Chambly, St. Ours, and Ottawa canals; 35 cents from Lake Erie to Montreal, and 3 cents on the St. Anne's Lock.

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Apples, agricultural products, not enumerated. Ashes, beef, bacon, bran, ship-stuff, broom-corn, cattle, raw cotton, fish, flax, flour, window glass, pressed hay, hams, hogs, hoops, horses, wrought iron in sheets, bars, or forgings; iron castings, lard, lard oil, meal of all kinds, marble, nails, oil in barrels; pork, sheep, stone wrought, manufactured tobacco and tallow, will pay 25 cents on the Welland Canal, 20 cents on the St. Lawrence and Ottawa; 15 cents on the Chambly, St. Ours, and Burlington canals. Through tolls from Lake Erie to Montreal, 45 cents; 5 cents St. Anne's. Agricultural implements, baggage of settlers, beer, butter, biscuit, carts, cheese, cider, coffee, crockery, earthenware, furniture, glassware, hides and raw skins, hemp, molasses, paint, pitch, rosin, ship stores, sleighs, sugar, tar, tin, turpentine, whisky, highwines and spirits, and wool, will pay 30 cents on the Welland Canal, 25 cents on the St. Lawrence and Ottawa canals, and 15 cents on the Chambly and St. Ours canals. Through from Lake Erie to Montreal, 55 cents; Burlington 20 cents, and St. Anne's 5 cents. Firewood, per cord, in vessels, 20 cents on the Welland and St. Lawrence canals; 10 cents on the Chambly, St. Ours, and Burlington. Through from Lake Erie to Montreal, 40 cents, Ottawa, 20 cents, and St. Anne's, 3 cents. Wood in rafts will pay 25 cents on the Welland and St. Lawrence canals, 15 cents on the Chambly, St. Ours, and Burlington. From Lake Erie to Montreal, 50 cents, Ottawa, 28 cents, and St. Anne's, 3 cents. Square timber on vessels per M cubic feet, $3 on the Welland Canal; $1 on the St. Lawrence and Chambly and St. Ours canals. Through from Montreal to Lake Erie, 50 cents, Burlington Canal, 75 cents, Ottawa, 25 cents, St. Anne's, 25 cents. For rafted lumber double rates will be charged on all the canals but St. Anne's, on which the price will be the same."