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The earnings of the Concord and Montreal Railroad in May, after deducting the amount paid to the lower roads. $14,618 97 were. 11,588 36 In same months of 1852 $3,035 61 Increase this year. $29, 132 08 First two months of the financial year in 1853. 21,028 as First two months of the financial year in 1352. 25 Increase in 1853 $41,809 00 Paid $3,559,607 60 Balance Edward Macomber, Esq., Receiver of the Astor Bank, has given notice that payments of debts due to the Bank must be made to him, and all claims against the Bank must be filed with him at the office of Varnum & Co., No. 119 Broadway, by the 20th of August next. The amount of dividends payable at Boston on various Corporation Stocks, on and about the 1st prox, is in the neighborhood of two and a quarter millions. The Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad has declared a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent. A letter from Mr. W. H. Stevens, dated Eagle River, June 18, says: Cliff Mine eontinues to produce 110 to 120 tuns copper per month, and will ship this month 300 tuns 90 per cent. ore. Very near 4000 tuns will be shipped this season from the Lake. Copper Falls must soon pay liberal dividends. It is a good mine. Toltee is reported to be equally as good as the Minnesota. Norwich is a good mine, and will soon be classed among the dividend paying concerns. Summit and Manitou are looking very well. North American will ship about 200 tuns mass and barrel copper this season. Copper Falls out the same. The supplies for the Fulton are all on the ground." A billto authorixe the City of Hartford to issue bonds to the amount of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to obtain a supply of water, has passed the Connecticut Le. gislature. It is to be submitted to the people, and if & majority of them vote in its favor, it will become a law. The New Haven Journal contains the following abstract of the reports in regard to the Woodbury and Eastern Banks. Messrs Gideon, Willis, Adams, White, and J. W. Danforth, who were appointed by the Legislature to inquire into the state and condition of the Woodbury and Eastern Banks, have made their report. The stock of the Woodbury Bank, $100,000, was subscribed by twenty eight persons Church and Chittenden took 300 shares and by an arrangement made at the time of the subscription, a majority of the stock was transferred to Mr. Chittenden, who ever afterward exercised & controlling influence in the bank. A large Item of Chittenden's indebtedness is on aecount of this stock, for which he has never paid. The Cashier and Teller of the bank had been in his service, and the President was unacquainted with banking operations, so that Chittenden had no difficulty in doing as he wished. The affairs of the bank, with the exception of its connection with C. have been well managed. As the stock was paid in, a large portion of it was loaned to Chittenden, and he was also intrusted with immense sums as redemption agent. The report contains a very ample statement of the progress of affairs until the Bank stopped, at which time Chittenden's indebtedness was on General Account, 853. 188 91 Circulation Account, $88,682 97 Notes for Collection, $23,252 54; Ledger balance, domestic account, 8498 20 Drafts entered to his credit, $2,113 53; Sandusky City Bank Loan, $8,000. Total, $175,506 15. Securities, of which the Committee do not know the value: Rock River R. R Bonds, $59,000 interest coupons on do. past due, $2,765: Wilkesbarre Coal Co. stock, $4,500; Sandusky City Bank stock, $9,830. Total, $76,095-leaving a balance against Wm. E. Chittenden of $99,411 15. Just before the failure. the President of the Bank became alarmed, and succeeded in obtaining security of C. to the amount of $40 000, and within a short time the Receivers have obtained from Chittenden Woodbury bank bills to the amount of $20,000, and & bond with surety for the payment of $5,000 more, which, if the assurances of Chittenden as to the fulfillment of other agreements are to be relied upon, will, with the assistance of the Koodbury people, relieve the Bank from its difficulties. The history of the Eastern Bank is about the same. Chittenden obtained a written agreement wi h the principal men of Danielsonville that he or the parties he represented should have a majority of the stock, and should nominate the Cashier. Chittenden was to be the Agent of the Bank, and to have money in proportion to his stock, and it was also stipulated that the identical money paid by him to the Commissioners should be returned to him. but objections being made, this clause was stricken out. Chittenden owned 1,735 of the two thousand shares of this Bank. The gentlemen who had signed the agreement above alluded to, became alarmed before the Election of Directors, and wrote to Mason Cleveland, one of the Bank Commissioners, who went to Danielsonville, and had & full and free discussion with them, but, it seems. did not fear any thing further than that the Bank should get under foreign influence. Frederick Chittenden, of New Milford. was chosen President, and John Smith, the father in law of Wm. E. Chittenden, Cashier. Of the Directors, but two were bona fide stockholders. The Committee detail the history of this Bank, charging that false entries and balances have been frequently made. On the first day of last January Frederick Chittendonresigned the Presidency, and Abiel Converse was chosen, who held the office at the time of the failure. The balance of Chittenden's indebtedness to this Instution is stated at $112,395 80, but there is a deficiency unaccounted for of $15,800 in money, and $40,000 in ls. This affair appears to be more rotten and iniquitous than the other, which has enlisted the sympathy of the peopie of Woodbury, who are determined to sustain the credit of their town. The Report recommends no action by the Legislature, but places the facts before it to do as it chooses. Itis stated that six hundred thousand dollars of the bonds of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Company have been negotiated by Messrs. M. Nathan & Co. of New Orleans, at a rate not made public. The Washingten papers announce the arrival there of of Hon. John Slidell,United States Senator from Louisiana, on his way to England, for the purpose of negotiating Louisiana Bonds. An Air-line Railroad under the name of the Cleveland and St. Louis Railroad, according to The Toledo Blade, is in contemplation. The Road, according to the programme, is to run direct to Parisin Indiana, where it will unite with Terre Hante and Alton Railroad. The Blade says that a company under the General Railroad Law is already formed in Indiana, and stock taken, sufficient in amount to secure the construction of the Indiana portion of the work. This Road will cross the State of Ohio, almost midway between the Bellefontaine and Indianapolis Road on South. and the Toledo, Vabash and St. Louis Road on the North, and will intersect with the Dayton and Michigan Road at Lima, making the distance between Toledo and St. Louis by this route 390 miles. At Tiffin it will intersect with the Mad River and Lake Erie Road, thus furnishing & connection between Sandusky and St. Louis over a route of 418 miles, and the length from Cleveland to St. Louis will be 460 miles. It will also intersect with the Toledo and Norwalk Road, and the Sandusky and Mansfield Read. The Pittsburgh and Connelsville Railroad extends from the City of Pittsburgh to Cumberland, Md., 150 miles, where it instersects the Baltimore and Obio Railroad, forming a direct line from Pittsburgh to Baltimore. The estimated cost of the road is about four millions of dollars. Its grades are quite favorable, the maximum through the lost The low cost of this
