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and by the first of November the water will be let in as far as The damage from to Lord's dam, above Port Pottsville up Reading Clinton, will be repaired by the first of December, and no doubt is entertained of the ability of the Company to have all the repairs completed so as to resume business at the of in opening navigation Hornellsville the Spring. The Directors of the Attica and Railroad met at Warsaw last Tuesday Mr. Wallace reported that he had completed the survey from Attica as far as Portageville. Several of Contractors were present, some who companies proposed to build the whole road and take a quarter or more stock. The Directors heard the proposals of Contractors, but as they were not then in a situation to let the contracts, the proposals have not been made public. The Directors are to meet at Portageville, on Wednesday, the 30th inst. of the to The opening Pennsylvania Railroad Johnstown, in Cambria County, was the occasion of a celebration at Johnstown on the 17th. the month of September 360 During spirited vessels passed through the Welland Canal, being a larger number than in the corresponding month of any previous year. Of this number 133 went up and 93 down for ports on the American side, and 68 up and 65 down for Canadian ports. Cumberland Canal is completed the first arrived at Alexandria from The boat Cumberland and on Tuesday last. The " Freeman Rawdon," belonging to a New-York Company, was the first to reach the basin and was closely followed by the of Southampton" Cumberland. The Common Council of Cincinnati have voted meet the wishes of the people, and issue a milto lion of City bonds to the various railroads in the neighborhood. The Concord Railroad has leased the Manchester and Lawrence road for a term of five years.The Concord road agrees to pay the Lawrence, upon its capital, two per cent. less than it divides upon its own. Twenty-six miles of the Vermont and Canada Railway, reaching from Essex to St. Albans, were to be open on the 18th inst. Only nineteen miles remain to be finished, which will be completed as early as the 15th of November. Parties in New-Orleaus are pushing the Tehuantepee project of a connection with the Pacific with energy The Stockholders of the Indiana Junction Railroad met at Connersville, Ia. a few days since and elected a Board of Directors. Henry C. Moore was appointed Engineer of the Company, and ordered to proceed at once to survey and locate Rash- the road and prepare the line for lettings from ville to the State line. About one-half amount of stock required to grade and bride the road and prepare it for the iron, has been subscribed. Ve learn by the Oswego Journal that a sale of 1,000 barrels of Flour was made in that city on Tuesday, to go to Boston via Ogdensburgh. To induce shipments by that route the company have wisely fixed the tariff of rates low, being from very Oswego to Ogdensburgh 10c, from Ogdens- By burgh to Boston 60c, total to Boston 70c. 40c.canal the present rates are, to Albany, Western Railroad freight to Boston 35c.; total 75c, making a difference in favor of the former route of 5c to barrel. There has been much produce diverted to this route from Cleveland and Sandusky this season. Within the past few days the St. Louis bankers have detected a new and very dangerous coun- of terfeit. It is a $50 bill on the State Bank Missouri. It is an excellent imitation of the genvine. At Boston the Money market is becoming still easier. The Contractors on the Alton and Sangamon and Railroad have commenced the graduation, in the city of Alton, at Brighton, em- at masonry Creek, and at Carlinville, and are now which is Coup's a force of 350 men and 60 horses, the end of ploying daily, and which will, before force of 500 increasing the present month, reach to a constant for the and 100 horses ; besides this, contracts are men are in rapid execution, and 20,000 Novemcross-ties to be delivered at Alton early in and expected and contracts for all the engines, cars, necesber: tuns of iron, and 2,000 tuns of spikes, entered 6,000 sary for the whole road, have also been into. friends of a railroad from Geneva 28th inst. and Sodus The Bey, hold a Convention on the At Baltimore Money is in more active demand can commercial purposes, though the market for for be regarded as at all tight. The rate good not ranges from 6@9 ₽ cent. The recent Ohio dividend securities declared by the Baltimore and annual reRailroad Company. together with the to be of the President, which is understood of the port flattering as to the future prosperity of the quite has favorably affected the price of 82 ₽ Road, and a further advance of upward The foreign Stock, WAS realized during the week. Thursday share during the week, ending on in the exports were again quite large, amounting the articles evening to $235,444.42. Among and 9,745 aggregate exported were 1,700 hhds. of Tobacco, barrels of Flour. Supreme Court of Rhode Island Mechan has ap. The Lewis P. Child Receiver of the The pointed and Manufacturers' Bank of Providence. the Bank, ics' Commissioners, upon examining appropriated to to discovered Bank that the Cashier $80,000 had of the funds of his private Bank. use He $75,000 gave up all his property indemnity to the Receiver, the the which it is hoped will Bank nearly is $186,150, and the Bank. personal The property capital of of the stockholders of Commissioners is liable the ...debts. It is the opinion lose anything