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DEPARTED WESTWARD. Groceries, pounds.349,876 Hides pounds. 41,050 Merchandise, do .585,246 Oils, gallons... 4,537 Number of cars cleared, 1816. Amount of tolls received, $10,535 27. This railroad will in a short time be materially injured by the efforts made to attract freight down the canal to Havre de Grace. Merchandise, coming over the Columbian Railroad, on its way from the west, leaves the canal at Columbia, instead of continuing down to Havre de Grace. The enterprising citizens of Havre de Grace are about removing the bar at the entrance of their harbor, that now obstructs navigation, and contemplate building a line of vessels to run between their port, New York and Boston, on the Ericcson-propeller principle, to ensure the rapid transportation of produce to all parts of the Atlantic coast. By perfecting these arrangements, a great deal of the western produce that now finds its way to other markets through Philadelphia, over the Columbian Railroad will be diverted to the port of Havre de Grace. The official report of the Girard Bank of Philadelphia makes one of the richest exposures we have seen for a long time, if we except that made by the receiver of the Commercial Bank in this city. The committee of investigation appointed by the stockholders, say that "they do not consider it within their legitimate province to put a value upon the assets." The debts of the bank do not exceed $338,000, $60,000 of which is disputed. The whole amount of debts due the bank on the 20th of Jan. 1844, was $1,073,999, for the security of which the assignees of the bank hold, besides the responsibilities of the signers and endorsers as collateral, stocks in more than two dozen worthless corporated companies, which were doubtless valued at several millions, but which are not actually worth at this moment more than ten per cent of their first cost; as for the responsibility of the signers or endorsers, it is not worth a rush. Among the assets we notice bonds of the North American Trust Company, for $415,000; certificates of debt of the assignees of the Commercial Railroad Bank, Vicksburg, $403,000; Vicksburg Bank stock, Planters' Bank stock, Texas bonds, and a host of others of a similar sort. All the real estate the bank owns is valued at $62,601. The report of the Commercial Bank of