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239.250. Decrease this year A very flattering annual statement of the situa tion of the Commercial Bank of Natchez has been received at the North. An invoice of Sugar has been received at Buffal from New Orleans via the Mississippi and the Internal It provements. The cost of transportation is about 75 cents per 100 lbs. The Rhode-Island Agricultural Bank of Johns ton has been placed in the hands of a Receiver, by the Bank Commissioners of that State, and it appears that there has bee a fraudulent issue: for more of the notes have already been deemed than the Cashier reported to be in circulation. The outstanding notes are not redeemed, and it is probable they never will be, A writer in the Philadelphia Ledger, speaking it the Schuylkill Navigation. says: The absolute necessity of an enlarged Canal on the Schuyl. kill Navigation is not clearly shown by the Coal Trade upon la 1811 there passed down the Schuylkill Navig'n SN 693 tons. 1813 49160 .. 417,058 1843 " 888,413 1844 000,000 In 1841 there passed over the Reading Railroad 49,290 1842 .. 230.237 *1813 " 441,491 1844 It would therefore seem that the necessity for an enlargement existed on the Railroad-which has been done by laying is double track-and not in the Canal. learn that the estimates for the present year, 1845. are150,000 tops. By Schuylkill Navigation 850.0.0 Reading Rairoad I air also informed that the Cost dealers acknowledge an ad. vantare in the use of care-despatch, less waste, &c. &C. from 25 to 37% cents perton by Railroad over the Cahal, at the same charges for freight and toll on both. If this 18 80, may we not fear that any additional capital, invested with a view to enlarge the Canal. will be sunk?-particularly when wa find that Messrs. Baldwin & Whitney are now building for the Reading Co. six wheeled engines, of the first class, that with ease will draw one hundred five.ton iron coal cars from Potis. yille to Richmond in twelve hours, containing 500 tons of coal,