AMERICAN_~_RAILROAD JOURNAL.

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Co., 81@90 ; Rijdhmond and Danville 1st mort., 75
@75V2 ; Orange and Alexandria 1st mort. 6s, 92@
96; do., 2d mort. 6s, 851/2@87; do., 3d mort. 8s,
90@91; do.. 4th mort. 8s, 79%@797/3; Orange,
Alex. and Manassas 7s, 80@81%; Virginia and
Tennessee 1st mort. 6s, 95@—-; do., 6s, 2d mort.,

. -—@76k{; do. 8s, 3d mort., 87%@88;l Baltimore

es 1875, 98%@99; do., 1884, 98%@991/3; do.
1886, 983/,.@09; do. 1890, 981/4@98%; do., 1893,
100@l00; do. 1893, exempt, 101@103; do., 1900,
exempt, 98@99; do. 1900, new, 98@981/.,.’_ ; do.
1902, 973/,@98; Memphis City 65, 51@53; Mary-
land Defense Loan, 1883, 104@104; Virginia. (is,
old, 37@-—; do. coupon old, 36}§@38; do. consol.
(is, 5l%@52}/5; do. coupons, 79}'§@79}§; West
Virginia, 12@13; City Passenger R. R., 17@
18‘/.2’ ; George’s Creek Coal, 120@l40.
OFFICE OF FISK on HATCI-I, g

No. 5 Nassau-s'r., New YORK, Sept. 1, 1873.

@ The CHESAPEAKE AND ‘OHIO RAIL-
ROAD, is now completed and in regular operation.
To increase its Equipment, and perfect its Termi-
nal facilities, and Deep-water connections with
European Steam-ship Lines, and to accommodate
the heavy Coal and l‘lIi‘ncral Traflic to-
gether with the growing [Iron and lVIiscel-
laneons Local and 'I‘lu'0u;;h Busi—
ncss r.ow pressing upon the Line, we are selling,
on behalfofthe Company, a limited. amount of their
SEVEN PER CENT. GOLD BONDS,
secured by mortgage liens on the whole valuable
property at 90 and accrued interest; $1,000 each,
either coupon or registered, payable in gold coin,
in New York City, principal and interest; interest
Jan. 1 and July 1.

We also have a small amount of the OLD SIX
PER CENT. GOLD BONDS 013‘ THE
CIIESAl’l3AK.E AND OHIO ; the price of
these is 88-’: and accrued interest. They are
issued in denominations of $100, $500, and $1,000,
interest payable May and November.

The property has cost already upward of $38,-
000,000, and is constantly increasing in value.
We can .recomn1c-nzl both classes of the Bonds,
which are selling rapidly, with great confidence.

We also continue to deal in Govcnnnent,
and Central Pacilic, and \Vcstcrn
Pacilic Bonds, execute orders at the Stock

A Exchangelfor investment Stocks and Bonds, re-

ceive Deposits, on which we allow interest at the
rate of 4 per cent. per annum, and conduct a
general Banking business.

FISK & HATCH.

 The Pcuuhkeepsie News says : ‘.‘ We learn
that several European capitalists (engaged in the
manufacture of iron in England), associated with
some of our citizens, have about completed their
arrangements for the establishing in this city one
of the largest iron manufacturing establishments
in the United States. The capital employed will
be several millions of dollars. It is proposed by
the company to enter largely into the manufac-
turing of steel rails and other iron work for rail-
road and bridge purposes.”

fi;‘_f§“ The earnings of the Erie Railway Com-
pany for the week ending Aug. 23, 1873, were
$479,287, and since July 1, $3,018,373-—an increase
over the corresponding period of l3116P1‘0Vi0115y°5«1‘
of $223,514.

Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The following is a copy of an act passed by
Congress to prevent cruelty to animals while in
transit by railroad or other means of transporta-
tion within the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives of the United States of America in 00ng7'€ss
assemisled, That no railroad company within the
United States whose road forms any part of a line
of road over which cattle, sheep, swine, or other
animals shall be conveyed from one State to
another, or the owners or masters of steam, sail-
ing, or other vessels carrying or transporting’ cat-
tle, sheep, swine, or other animals from one State
to another, shall confine the same in cars, boats,
or vessels of any description, for a longer period
than twenty eight consecutive hours, without un-
loading the same for rest, water, and feeding, for
a period of at least five consecutive hours, unless
prevented from so unloading by storm or other
accidental causes. In estimating such confine-‘
ment the time during which the animals have
been confined without such rest on connecting
roads from which they are received shall be in-
cluded, it being the intent of this act to prohibit
their continuous confinement beyond the period
of twenty-eight hours, except upon contingencies
hereinlbefore stated. Animals so unloaded shall
be properly fed and watered during such rest by
the owner or person having the custody thereof,
or in case of his default in so doing then by the
railroad company or owners or masters of boats
or vessels transporting the same at the expense of
said owner or person in custody thereof; and said
company, owners or masters sha1l.in such cases
have a lien upon such animals for food, care, and
custody furnished, and shall not be liable for any
detention of such animals authorized by this act.
Any company, owner or custodian of such ani-
mals who shall xnowingly and wilfully fail to
comply with the provisions of this act shall, for
each and every such failure to comply with the
provisions of this act, be liable for and forfeit and
pay a penalty of not less than one hundred nor
more than five hundred dollars: Provicled, however,
That when animals shall be carried in cars, boats,
or other vessels in which they can and do have
proper food, water, space, and opportunity for
rest, the foregoing provisions in regard to their
being unloaded shall not apply.

Section 2. That the penalty created by the first
section of this act shall be recovered by civil
action in the name of the United States, in the
circuit or district court of the United States,
holden within the district where the violation of
this act may have been committed, or the person
or corporation resides or carries on its business;
and it shall be the duty of all United States
marshals, their ‘deputies and subordinates, to
prosecute all violations of this act which shall
come to their notice or knowledge.

Section 3. That any person or corporation en-
titled to lien under the first section of this act
may enforce the same byvpetition filed in the dis-
trict court of the United States holden within the
district where the food, care, and custody shall
have been furnished, or the owner or custodian
of the property resides; _and said court shall have
power to issues all suitable process for the en-
forcement of such lien by sale or otherwise, and
to compel the payment of all costs, penalties,
charges, and expenses of proceedings under this
act.

Section 4. That this act shall not go into effect
until the first day of October, eighteen hundred
and seventy-two.

Approved, March 3, 1873.

@." The Pittsburg 0o;mneraz'al, of the 28d ult.,
says: “We learn, incidently, of two lots of Lake
Superior pig iron, one of 2,000 tons, and one of
3,000, ordered at the furnaces for shipment to

England. One of the lots is ordered nominally
for‘Montreal, but it is understood to be for English
consumption. Ourinformation is so nearly direct

that we entertain no doubt of the facts as stated,”

51?‘ We have been requested by Mr. Isaac
Hinckley, President of the Philadelphia, Wilming-
ton and Baltimore Railroad Cmnpanygtn comra-
dict the following statement which appeared on
the first page of our last issue:

“A committee of the directors of the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad have
awarded to the Baltimore Bridge Company the
contract to replace the present wooden bride!‘ DOW
spanning the Susquehanna river at llavre do
Grace by an iron structure. In all there are
twelve spans in the bridge, each two lll1ll('.ll'£'d feet
in length.”

In a postscript to his letter Mr Hinckley siys:

“ You may have heard that I autliori'/.e(l our
Engineer to contract for one span of 250 feet in
length to replace a span injured by a tornado-—
but how it should grow into twelve spans of 200
feet contracted for by a Committee of Directors I
cannot conceive.”

@ Direct railroad communication hr-uvren
Hagerstown and Martinsburg is being rapidly con-
summated. The Hagerstown Daz'l_z/ says that the
advance gang of workmen engaged inlaying the
track of the extension of the Cumberland Valley
Railroad are now within four miles of Martins-
burg, and are progressing at the rate of about one
half mile per day. Other gangs engaged in
ballasting the road are following closely, and it is
the intention of the company to open the road to

trade and travel on the 8th of September.

@" The Philadelphia lieziger reports the total
anthracite coal tonnage for the week ending

12,329,258 tons, against l2.024,801 tons to "cor-
responding time last year, being an increase of

294,452 tons. The bituminous tonnage for the
Week is 57,133 tons, and for the yea!‘ 1,998,266
tons, giving :4. total of all kinds for the week of
513,490 tons, and for the year of 13,327,674
tons, against 13,803,479 to same time last year,
being an increase of 524,195 tons.

@“' There are now constructed on the Northern
Pacific Railroad five hundred and seventeen miles,
including four hundred and fifty-two miles from
Duluth to Bismarck at the eastern end, and sixty
five miles from Kalama to Teri-ino at the Pacific

struction immediately.

@ The Erie Railway Company has declared
a dividend of 3} per cent on the preferred stock
and one per cent on the common stock, payable
on the‘ 1st of October. The books will be closed
from the 13th of this month to the 2nd of Octo-
ber. ’

@ The estimated earnings of the Kansas
Pacific Railway for the week ending Aug. 22, are :
freight, $49,348 74; passengers,» 830,113 38-—
total, $79,462 12.

@ The estimated earnings of the Denver and
Rio Grande Railway for the week ending August
7th 1873, Were: freight, $4,050 42; passengers, $4,-
802‘ 97—total, $8,853 39. .

 

53" The Portland Company, besides repairing
the shops injured by the late fire, is building. a
car-shop of brick 170 by 60 feet, with an addition

{S0 by 20 feet, to be finished in a month or two,

August 23, at 456,357 tons, and for the coal year »

end. Another portion of the road two hundred .
and five miles in length is to be placed under con- 7