AMERICAN RAILROAD -JOURNAL. 393 The revenue of the Baltimore and Ohio raih‘oad for May was as follows: Main Wash’n Total for Stem. . Branch. both Roads. For Pass’gers. $56,781.09 $26,712.12 $83,430.21 For Freiglit..289,114.96 11,450.67 300,565.63 Total . . . $345,833.05 $38,162.79 $383,995.84 The following table shows tl1e earnings of the road during the past month, as compared with those of the same month last year: Main Wash’n Total. Stem. Branch. May, 1856.$427,466.24 $41,852.01 $479,318.25 May, 1857. 345,833.05 38,162.79 383,995.84 Decrease. $91,623.19 $3,689.22 $95,322.41 The annexed table will show the earnings of the I road for the first eight months of the present fiscal year, as compared with those of the corresponding period of the two previous years: ‘ A 1856. 1855. 1854. October . . $471,391.13 $423,436.84 . $359,610.52 November 424,758.94 399,119.40 347,677.96 December. 466,103.77 441,815.61 -293,014.16 1857. 1856. 1855. Jan’y . .. 301,773.29 191,809.71 370,211.93 Feb’y 355,398.07 211,513.76 216,299.49 March.... 548,262.48 405,820.39 370,455.02 April. 464,948.94 551,811.28 358,202.84 May . 383,995.84 479,318.25 2,711,288.02 Total . . $3,416,643.36 $3,104,634.34 $2,011,288.02 The receipts of the Catawissa, Williamsportand Erie railroad were : May, 1857 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $31,746 65 May, 1856 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .; .. 22,867 31 Increase 40 per cent. . . . . . . .. . . .$8,879 34 The earnings of the Quincy and Chicago R. R. for May, 1857, were as follows : Freight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..$15,848 33 Passengers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 13,474 08 Mail........_....... . . 833 33 Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 00 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 60 17 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $30,540 191 Earnings in May, 1856 . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 22,892 94 Gain in May, 1857 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,647 97 The earnings of the Norwich do Worcester R. B. were: May, .1857 ....................... . $25,378 25 May, 1856 ....................... .. 29,592 20 Decrease.. . . . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . ..$4,213 95 The falling ‘off was last week erroneously printed as $5,780 05. The earnings of the Missouri Pacific railroad for May were: * ‘ May, 1856. May, 1857. Passengers . . . . . . . ..$10,582 77 $39,563 40 Freight . . . . . . . . . . .. 13,817 40 22,626 63 Mail........... .. 1,302 08% 1,302 08% $25,702 25% $63,492 01% _ Increase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$37,789 76 Earnings, March, April, May, 1857 ..$187,582 63 Do. do. 1856 .. 86,949 94 Increase. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $102,632 69 The receipts of the Bellefontaine and Indiana R. R. Company for April were: 1857 .......................... “$31,704 51 1856 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 33,251 05 Decrease. ......$1,546 54 Increase for first 4 months of 1857, com- pared with same months of 1856 . . . . $4,149 67 The earnings of the Indianapolis, Pittsburgh &. Cleveland road for April were : 1857. 1856. . .. .. ....$23,923 80 . 24,544 19 Decrease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $620 39 Increase for first 4 months of 1857, com- pared with same months of 1856 . . . . $1,909 01 During the months of March and April freights were very light, decreasing considerably on last year. The travel shows a handsome increase. The following is a statement of the earnings of the New York Central Railroad for the month of May, 1857, compared with its earnings for the corresponding month of the preceding year: Years. Earnin s. 1857 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $662,488 20 1856 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 710,554 80 Decrease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..$48,066 60 The earnings of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne 89 Chicago Railroad Company, for the month of May were as follows: ‘ From freights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$42,752 56 “ passengers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 82,361 38 “ mail . . .. . . . 4,493 75 Total.... ........... ..$129,607 99 Total earnings of the three Companies owning the line from Pittsburgh to Columbia for same month last year. 103,018 34 Increase, 26 per cent. . . .. $26,586 35 The earnings of the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey were for—— May, 1857 ....................... . $53,887 68 May, 1856 ....................... .. 36,665 02 ._...—. Increase, 47 per cent. . . . . $17,222 66 The burning of the Bloomsbury Bridge stopped the Lchigh coal for 3 weeks of the month and materially reduced the i'ecei been running over the bridge since the 1st inst. The earnings of the Lehigh Valley railroad for the month of May, 1857, were . . . . . . . . $43,165 98 The Hoosie Tunnel, and Troy and Green- field Railroad. Gov. Gardner’s veto of the bill loaning State aid for the construction of the Hoosic Tunnel has not dampened the ardor of its friends. At a recent meeting in Boston, it appeared that tl1e contrac- tors, Messrs. I-lnurr & Co., have spent $219,000 on the bore, without receiving any reniuneration. Mr. I-Iaupt stated that “the only disappointment the contractors have met with is the increased cost of boring the tunnel on the west side” a disap- pointment likely to be aggravated rather than di- minished. He was satisfied however that $2,000,- 000 would be ample to excavate the tunnel, and a committee was appointed to solicit subscriptions. If the advocates of this project really desire the completion of their line to a connection with Troy, let them get their $2,000,000, and expend the in- terest in suflicient additional motive power to over- come the extra grade caused by laying the track over the mountain, instead of wasting time, energy, and money in useless attempts to go through it. Crossing Railroad T1-acks. A precisely similar judgment to that reported in our JOURNAL on RAILROAD LAW this week, was rendered by Mr. Justice J OIINSON, of the Court of Appeals, in the case of Brooks vs. the Buffalo and Niagara. Falls Railroad Company. The Justice said: “ To attempt to cross a railroad track with- out looking up and down to see if any train is ap- proaching seems to me to be such an act as a man‘ of ordinary prudence would hardly be guilty of.” And, in concluding, he added that “the plaintiff must be without fault in order to sustain this ac- tion is a well settled rule of law. His negligence having contributed to the accident, he must be non—suited.” In the recent case of Jewett es. Nashua and -Izrowelirailroad the Court gave similar instructions to the Jury, which resulted in their inability to agree upon the question of‘ damages. The 1 importance of this rule of law, as well to For the same month last year . . . . . . . . 20,497 37 Increase equal to 110 per cent.. . .$22,668 61 The transportation earnings of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company this year, up to May 31, were as follows: ’ 1857. 1856. Increase. M’th of May.$133,786.67 $39,117.94 $94,688.7 3 I’revi’s four months . . . 398,593.80 98,268.84 300,326.96 Total. ..$532,380.47 $167,386.78 $394,993.69 Railroad Routes to the North and East. Passengers from‘ St. Louis, going towards the Atlantic, have three routes to the North and East, to choose from. All of them are characterized by promptness, punctuality and regularity. There is the Ohio and Mississippi Road, com- pleted to Cincinnati, and connecting there with other roads leading to Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and the whole Atlantic seaboard. The St. Louis and Terre Haute Railroad con- nects at Terre Haute with roads running through %ndiana and Ohio, to all parts of the North and ast. ' ‘ I On the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad, a. change has just been made. The time table of the road puts passengers through from St. Louis to New York, in 45 hours. Arrangements have been made, which will secure as rapid a passage to Eastern cities as by any other r0'cJ»Cl§--.Z*}'7Je7/n"Izg News. ‘v railroad companies as to the public, should be im- pressed upon every mind. Yet notwithstanding its importance and obvious justice, there is a de- gree of carelessness among people crossing rail- road tracks entirely unaccountable. They seem to regard the railroad company responsible for 2 the lives and safety alike of its own passengers, and of all who chance to run across their tracks. The sooner this false notion is dismissed the better. Railroads in Canada. Previous to the proroguing of the Canadian Par- liament on the '10th inst., His Excellency, the Gov- ernor General, gave his assent to the various rail- way acts passed at that session, in addition to those before sanctioned by him, and already pubé V lished in the JOURNAL. » The titles of the acts -are as follows: 1 An act to incorporate the Toronto and Owen Sound Central Railway Company. An act to incorporate the Strathroy and Port Frank Railway Company. An act to explain an Act, entitled “An Act to amend the Act incorporating the Hamilton and To- ronto Railway Company.” An act to revive and amend a certain Act passed in the" sixteenth year of Her Majesty’s reign, and intitled “ An Act to incorporate the Port ‘Whitby, and Lake Huron Railway Company. An act to incorporate the London and Lake Huron Railway. ' , ‘ ' , ' An act to amend the act, conveying to the My 01‘