I 8 6 C p . Georgia. Musepgee .R.zilroa.d.-—Tliis road commences at the town of Columbus, and is 50 miles in length. Of this distance, miles was located in the latter part of the year 1848; and there had been finished, at theelosc of 1849, work to the value of $36,843 33. The location of the remaining 25 miles was completed by, about the 1st March, 1850. The maximum grade is 396 feet. I The length of curve on the whole work is 8.} miles. Of straight line there are 411} miles. The graduation and mason- ry of the last 25 miles has been let to contractors, under stipulation for its completion by the 1st of November next. The superstructure for the road has been con- tracted for at $31,500 per mile. The value of work three years, commencing in 1849. The company have received the full ainount-—‘3:540,000—oi‘ the Lawrenceburgh city bonds, and $30,000 of those of Decatur county. The residue of the latter will be delivered as the work further progresses. The only debts of the company are $5,000 for loans——— which are not yet due. For the purchase of iron for rails, etc., the city and county bonds are pro- posed-to be set apart. The company propose to have, by the 1st of next December, 20 miles of road in operation, and 43 more ready for the superstruc- ture. This company was chartered in 1848, and, at that time, bore the name of the Rushville and Lawrenceburgh company. The amount of capital stock authorised is $100,000 ; although right is possessed to increase it to any amount desired. done to January 6, 1851, is_ $366,474 59. The cost of {he road, including equipment, is estimated at $497,979 71, and is _made up of the following items: graduation, masonry and bridging, $161,- 979 '71; 52 miles superstructure, including turn- outs, :{$7B,00O; iron, (50 tons to the mile) plates and spikes, $122,000; right of way, $86,000 ; real estate, depots,-shops and water stations, $20,000; engin- eering, etc., $925,000; and equipment, $85,000.- The estimated receipts of the first year’s business are $116,000; estimated expenses of working the road, 3'$46,000--leaving a balance of $370,000, or 14 per cent. on the capital stock ($500,000). The operation ol this road is expected to secure to Co- lumbus all the benefits expected to be reaped from the trade of Upper Georgia and Tennessee, by her connection with the Macon and Western railroad at Barnesville, as also those arising from a relia- ble Outlet, such as this line connected with Mont- gomery and the Alabama river presents. Indiana. Lawtrevncelzurgh and Upper llfississippi Railroad. --This road extends from Lawrenceburgh, on the Ohio river, 20 miles below Cincinnati, to Indiana- polis‘, a ' distance of 90; miles; passing through Greensburgh, in Decatur, and Shelbyville, in Shel- by counties-—of which these two towns, are county seats. It intersects at the latter place,'the Shelby- ville, the Shelbyville and Kniglitstown, and the Shelbyville and Rushville railroads; for these it will open a direct outlet to Cincinnati. At India- napolis it will form a junction with the principal roads‘ now constructing in the State. The compa- ny have also the right to construct a road from Greenburgh, by Evinsburgh and Martinsville, to any point on the western boundary of the State they may choose. The whole cost of the road, in- cluding equipment, is estimated at $1,050,210; at which rate, the averagecost per mile would be $311,573. About 63 miles of the work are under eogitract, and 20 miles will be ready for the iron by the time it can be delivered. The payments to be made for contracts already entered into for its con- struction, arc $151,941 in cash, and $117,884 in stock" and real estate. Some $70,000 has been ex- pended on the work; but this sum does not cover the expense of the real amount of work done, the contractors not having, in all instances, called for thestock and real estate portions of their work; as they" intend to wait until the final estimate is made. The‘ resources of thecompany are, in cash $130,- 000; in real estate, $125,000; in work and mater- ials, $37,000; in city of Lawrenceburghti per cent bonds,'$40,000; and in county of Decatur 6 per cent bonds, $s100,000-—making a. total of $432,000. Subscriptions are constantly being made, payable in cash, timber and real estate. The cash’ sub- . in the world. This road will traverse avery fertile region, and it_ will connect the central part of Indiana with Cincinnati by the shortest practicable route. lts stock cannot fail to be a very profitable investment. The distance from Cincinnati to Lawrenceburgh will be constructed by the Ohio and Mississippi railroad company. Quecnston Suspousfon Bridge. This second structure which spans Niagara River has recently been open to the public. The towers are built on each side, and it is 1043 feet from tower to tower, and it seems quite fitting that this great work should tic together with iron ca- bles the great dominions of the two greatest na- tions in the world. There are to be ten cables in all, each cable made of 250 wires, each wire war- ranted to bear 11500 lbs. The wires are not twist- ed but lie together straight, and are kept together by a strong wire that is wound around them, the same as you would winda thread around a bonnet wire. The cables are firmly anchored in the rock, and pass over two rnassive stone towers, some 14- fect high. On the top of these towers are solid iron plates, and rollers on these, upon which are other plates with groovings ior each of the cables, so that there is no horizontal strain upon the towers, but all the pressure is perpendicular on the same principle with the pressure on the bridge under the strings of a Viol. The cables when extended have the shape ofa rainbow turned upside down, and to the uninitiated it would seem that a bridge built on these cables would give a merry run down to the centre, and then be up hill to the opposite side. But instead of the planking and pathway being over the cables it is under them, and is to be per- fectly level. The centre of the bridge will nearly touch the centre of the cables, While at either end it will be 60 or 70 feet below them, and the work to be sustained by iron rods suspended from the cables. A road has been cut along the side of the mountain to either terminus of the bridge, where solid walls of masonry have been built. The planking is to be twenty feet wide, intended at pre- sent for teams; but the towers and iron plates are constructed so that extra cables can be run over them. It is said to be the greatest suspension bridge Bridge at Rouse’: Point: We are sorry to see the opposition in the Legis- lature of this state to the project for bridging Lake Champlain at Rouse’s Point. We can see no good reason for it. The refusal of the charter would be a direct violation of the spirit of the pre- sent railroad law of this state, which allows every section to build such roads, and in such direction as shall best promote its interests-—~New York having thus set an example worthy of all imitation, by her sister states. Should not this practically repudiate the principle which lies at the foundation of this aw. We’ hold that no one state hasa right to in- terfere for its own benefit, with the trade between other states, neither has it the right to refuse to one portion of its citizens, privileges which are scriptionifare payable, generally, in mic, two and granted’ to another. Any“ assertion which is based AMERICAN RAILROAI) JOURNAL. upon a wrong, cannot be sustained, and ifa large number of the inhabitants of the northern part of this state would be benefited by this bridge, it must be built in spite 01 the present opposit1on——-the right in the end is sure to prevail over all selfish consi. derations. But we think that the people of this state would generally be benelitted by the bridge proposed, they could not be injured by it. Allow. ing that a large amount or produce would come over the Ogdensburgh railroad to Lake Champlain, all such produce would come to New York instead of going to Boston, except what would he wanted there for domestic consumption, and this petty prj. vilege we should grudge to any 01 our sister states. Rousc’s Point is commercially much nearer to this city than Boston, and of course any avenues Open. ed to that point should secure an encouragement, New York would retain her position as the great shipping port of the produce of the north and west, with as much certainty, it the Ogdensburgh rail- road should becomc the sole route of this produce to a market, instead of the Erie Canal. A barrel of flour can be taken from R0use’s Point and de- livered in New York, for one half of the cost of its transportation to Boston, with all the railroads that can ever be built to the latter city. Let us not in violation of our declared principles reject an appli- cation upon false grounds of expediency, when it can be conclucively shown that we should be be- nefitted rather than injured by granting it. B—;itis1h. Navy. The following is a return made up to July 30 1849, ofthe number 01' Snilitig and Steam Ships ol’ her Majesty’s N avy:—-O1 Satlmg vessels-10 first rates, mounting from 110 to 1:30 guns, and ranging from 2612 tons to 3,o0-1; 52 second-r_atcs, rnounttng from 78 to 104 guns, and ranging lrtmi 1,954 tons to 3,165; 20 third-rate_s, mounting lrom 70 to 72 guns, and averaging from 1,742 tons “to 2,214 ; 40 l'ourth-rates, inounung Irom 50 to 00 guns, and ranging from 1,458 tons to 2,147; 42 l1.lth-rates, m,ountin