ft' :!c No. 2547, A .NEW STOCK OF Cloths, Cassimeres AND VEST! N C S, Has just been received at the Lewistown Emporium of Fashion, which will be made up la order by experienced workmen. grGent!emen art requested to call. W.VI. LIND. Lewistown, April 31, 1859. Itcaiaved to the staml lately occupied by Kennedy ck Junkin. 2AP*CrAIITSi \ VfjUs Credit to Uespousible -Men ! The ! iner having now on /TV..-, 'F hand 'me of the best and largest i!j ' sleeks between Philadelphia and ~- Pitt-bui gh, in order to accom modate busine-s to the times, offers for sale a complete assortment ol Saddles. Haraes.q B. idles, Collars, Trunks. Whips, Hames, Valises, Carpet Bags, ami other irlh l' S in ui- line, which will he ili-|ni- ! n:. when purchases are marl tod fie amoui' $lO >r more, on the above terms for appr.n ' . r -.\ Am -k - s'-.ck will be found some highly finish.' . -of light Harness equal to any nian- I.- . ol in want of good articles, made by ex "ier"• i-.! workmen, gi e iinn a call. JOHN DAVIB. I.e-n-down, A-ril 7, 1859. N3W Fall a.id Winter Goods. > LL'S, of the late firm of McCoy it , is, n is just returned from the city wlii -■ assortment of loads and Groceries, s' vith care and purchased for cash, ,F i'i'l to the p.itdie at a small ad van a cos.. The stock of Dry Goods em hr-' • - all descriptions of I-ALL AND WINTER GOODS • r Ladies, Gentlemen and Children, wi.ti e . • new patterns. His £* l'Q££Vit3 comprise Cnoire Sugars, MJ] I.S, Java. Rio and I.a e vra Co.T:-', superi r Teas, &e. Also, '. •- Sii i's, t leeo.-.ware, tend all oilier n'vi ■ a.so dly found in stores —all which . ' the 1 tte firm and the public in gen ra! are invited to examine. R. F. ELLIS. ' jh, Salt, Plaster and Coal always on i Br lu.'e received as usual and the •e allowed therefor, v .pt. 22, 1859. it 0 11 W. RATION, -y ■ rjfWN; ) :, y^ SIuTU SIDE OF lIAISKKT STIttF.T, i.i.h isiOlVS, |.\. 5 i A- ' iv ..I and opened at his es -11 '. t a new supply of Clocks, watches, Jewelry, Fancy Articles, &c., wiiicli i.e will disp. se of at reasonable prices. H • iniit' - all t i give him a call and examine : . which embraces all articles in his - sufficiently large to enable all to 1111 •' bums who desire to purchase. C=g n'PAIRING neatly and expeditiously ii.il ail work warranted. Fa-; i f-■ the patronage heretofore re r ivfi, h r> pert folly asks a continuance of ' '' ; n an i v.'•! endeavor to please all who may favor hitn with their custom. foL2 EDV/ARD FRYSINGER, WHOLESALE DKALtiI & JIAAI FAtTI RER OF iiMiixiiißumsMrr. &e., &e., IFiio Orders promptly attended to. jelG SEC. 7T. ELDER, Attorney at Law, Office Market Square, Lewistown, will at tend to business in Mifflin, Centre and Hunting don counties. my 26 JNO. R. WEEKES, Justice of the Peace, Sfrttirtur N SURVEYOR, { R 1 iCF. West Market street,l.ewistown, next ' / dew io Irwin's grocery. ap29 REMOVAL. ftflx. S. 3. CUIYUVXINGS Begs leave to announce that he has re moved his office to .Mrs. Mary Marks' shug and Variety Store, on east Market street, ' few doors below the Union House. rhe Post Office has also been removed to the S'nsvif lace. mh3l '/ Wanted! Wanted! I J | || w t PERSONS of both sexes to V" -M J make money by buying cheap •..n.'s-rir >, Baskets, Tubs, Buckets, Churns, hat r Cans, Brooms, Brushes, &c. &c. at '•"g4 ZERBE'S. I | OXLT, by the gallon, for sale by decJs A. FELIX, ILI&WnSTOWSSa SfISIFIFIEaHKr (BHNBrOTFSfc W£±q THE lIiITEIL <;OI>'S IMtOVIDSANT! Al, CARE. The eye that sees the sparrow's full— l li" oar that hears the raven's call— The voice that bids the sun to rise— The hand that areh'd the starry skie: That eye present everywhere, Vnd sees the burdens mortals hear: lb sard- contrition's every t-ar, And pttie- every rising l'car. That ear i- evermore uttent To humble soul- in wor-hip bent: It hear- the erics of those who plead For Heaven's as-istance in their need. That voice pronounces words <>r p.-a -e. And bids despairing sorrow- cease; Awakens hope of joys above. Secured by Heaven's unchanging love. 1 l.at hand defends from every snare. \ud makes each tru-ting souf its care: Four- radiance o'er the darksome tomb, And leads the dying Christian home. That eye, that ear. that voice, that hand. The powers of hell ean ne'er with-t.md; And aH are pledged my soul to keep, liy day, by night- awake, asleep:— In every place, at home,abroad. Alu.ivs and cvervwhere, mv Hod. I-'-.r .i.-stis- ? Kr end shall t>e, ■ us of love on nie. uSGEkMIEOiiS, A GOOD DEED IN SEASON. 'Get away with you, you dirty beggar boy '. I d like to know what, right you have to look over the fence at our flowers i i he .speaker was a little boy, not more than eleven years old, and though people souie tiints tailed him handsome, his face looked very harsh and disagreeable just then. LL stood in a beautiful garden just in the suburbs of the city: and it was -June time, and the tulips were just opening themselves to the sunshine. Oh, it was a great jov to look at them, as they bowe 1 gracefully to the light wind their necks of crimson, of yellow, and carnation. The beds flanked either side on the path that curled around a small arbor, where the young clusters that lay hidden among the large leaves wrote a beautiful prophecy for the autumn. A white paling ran in front of the gar den, over this the little beggar boy so rude ly addressed was leaning. He was very lean, very dirty, very ragged. lam afraid, little children, yon would have turned away in di.-gu.st from so repulsive a spectacle, and yet God and the angels loved him. He was looking, with all his soul in his eyes, oil the blossoms, as they swayed to and fro in the summer wind, and his heart softened while he leaned his arm on the fence railing, and forgot every hingin that long, absorbed gaze. Ah! it was seldom the beggar boy saw anything good or beau tiful, and his sad dream should have such a rude awakening. i lie blood rushed up to his face, and a glance full of evil and defian e flushed into his eyes. ]>ut, before the bo : could retort, a little girl sprang out from t e arbor, and looked very eagerly from one child to the other. She was very fair, with soft hazel eyes, over which dropped long shining lash es. llich curls hung over her bare white shoulders, and her hps were the color of the crimson full blossoms. ' 1 iow could you speak so cross to the bov, lliuton ; she asked with a toneol sad reproach quivering tlarough the -weetness of her voice. '1 am sure it doesn't do us any harm to have him look at the flowers as long as lie wants to.' 'Well, Helen,' urged the brother, slight ly nullified, and slightly ashamed, ' I d n't like to have beggars gaping over the fence, it looks so low.' 'Now, that's all a notion of yours, lliu ton; I'm sure if the flowers can do anybody anv good, we ought to be very glad. Little buy,'—and the child turned to the beggar boy and addressed him as courteously as though be had been a prince—' I'll pick you some of the tulips if you'll wait a mo ment.' 'Helen, i do believe you arc the fun niest girl that ever lived?' ejaculated the child's brother, as he turned away, and with a low whistle sauntered down the path — feeling very uncomfortable—for her conduct was a stronger reproof to him than any words could have been. Iklen plucked one of each specimen of the tulips, and there was a great variety of them, and gave them to this child. His face brightened as lie received them, and thanked her. (Jh ! the little girl had dropped a ' pearl of great price' into the black, turbid bil lows of the boy's life, and the after years should bring it up, beautilul and bright agiin. Twelve years had passed. '1 he little blue eyed <rirl had grown into a tall, graceful wo man. One bright June afternoon, she walked with her husband through the gar don, lbr she was on a visit to her parents. The place was little changed, and the tul ips had opened their lips of crimson and gold to the sunshine, just as they had done twelve years belore. Suddenly they observed a young man in workman's blue overalls, leaning over the fence, his eyes wandering eagerly from the beautiful flow ers to herself, lie had a frank pleasant countenance, and there was something in his manner that interested the gentleman and lady. 1 Look here, Edward.' she said, ' 111 pluck him some of the flowers; it always d'.es me good to see people admiring them; and releasing her husband's arm she ap proached the paling, saying—and the smile round her lips was very like the old, child one —'Are you fond of flowers, sir .' It will give me great pleasure to gather you some.' THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1860. i lie young workman looked a moment very earnestly into the sweet face.— ' I wclve years ago, this very month,' he said, in a voice deep, and yet tremulous with feeling, * I stood here, leaning on this rail ing, a dirty, ragged, little beggar boy, and you asked me this very question. Twelve years ago you placed the bright flowers in my hand, and they made me a new bov — aye, and they have made a man of me, too. \ our face lias been light, ma'am, all along the dark hours ot lite, and this day that little beggar boy can stand in the old place and say to you, though lie's an humble and hard working man, thank God, he's an hon est one.' Tear drops trembled like morning dew on the shining lashes of the lady, as Hie turned to her husband, who had joined her, and ''-tened in absorbed astonishment to the workman's words. 'God,' she said 'put it into my child heart to do that little deed of kindness, and see now how great is the reward that He has given me.' A Lady Freemason. Ladies whose lieg - have annoyingly fre quent occasion to go to the lodge this evening,' may be interested in the follow ing curious story of the only lady eveneg ularly admitted into a Freemason's Lodge: The Hon. Elizabeth St. Leger was the only female ever initiated into the ancient mystery of Freemasonry. How she ob tained this honor we shall lay before our readers. Lord Doneraile, Miss St. Legor's father, a very zealous mason, held a war rant, and occasionally opened a lodge at Doneraile House, his sons and some intimate friends assisting; and it is .-aid never were the Masonic duties more rigidly performed than by them. Previous to the ini:iation of a gentleman to the first steps in mason ry, Miss St. Leger, who was a young girl, happened to be in an apartment, adjoining the room generally used as a lodge room. This room at the time was undergoing some alterations; among other things the wall was considerably reduced in one part. The young lady having heard the voices of the Freemasons, and prompted by curiosity to .-ee the mystery so long and so secretly locked up from public view, she had the courage to pick a brick from ihe wall with her scissors, and witnessed the ceremony through the first two steps. Curiosity .-at isfied, fear at once took possession ol her mind. 1 here was no mode of escape except through the very room where the eonclu ''ing part of the second step wa; still being solemnized, and that being at the far end, and the room a very large one, she had res olution sufficient to attempt her escape that way, and with light trembling steps glided along unobserved, laid her hand on the han dle of the door, and gently opening it, be fore her stood, to her dismay, a grim and surly Tyler, wAh his long sword unsheath ed. A shriek tiiat pierced through the apartment alarmed the members of the lodge, who rushed to the door, and finding that Miss St. Leger had been in the room during the ceremony, in the first paroxysm of rage her death was resolved on, but from tlie moving supplication of her younger brother, her life was saved on condition of her going through the whole of the solemn ceremony she had unlawfully witnessed. This she consented to, and they conducted the beautiful and terrified young lady through those trials which are sometimes more than enough for masculine resolution, little thinking they were taking into the bosom ot their craft a member that would afterwards reflect a lustre on the annals of masonry. The lady was cousin to General Anthony St. Leger, of St. Lucia, who instituted the celebrated Doncaster St. Leger Stakes. Miss St. Leger married Richard Aldworth, Esq., of Newmarket. Whenever a benefit was given at the theaters in Dublin or Cork For the Masonic Female Orphan Asylum, sbe walked at the head of the Freemasons with her apron and other insignia of Free masonry, and sat in the front row of the stage box. The house was always crowded on these occasions. Her portrait is in the lodge-room of almost every lodge in Ire land. True Courage. A company of boys in street, Roston, one day after school were engaged in snow balling. William had made a good hard snow ball. Tn throwing it, he ' put in too much powder,' as the boys say —lie threw it too hard —and it went farther than he in tended, right through a parlor window. All the boys shouted, 'There, you'll catch it now, Bill. Run Bill, run.' They took to their hecL. ' I .shall not run.' He then sr.Gteu directly for the house where the window had been broken, lie rang at the door, acknowledging what he had done, and expressing his regret. He then gave his name anu the name of his father, and his father's place of business, and said the iujury should be repaired. Was not that noble? That was true courage. It is cowardice that would lead a boy, when he has done an injury like that, to sueak away and run to conceal it. How noble and brave it is to see a boy confess a fault, and not be afraid to face the conse quences. Such a confession, though it cost a good deal of courage, is usually the quick est and surest way of repairing any wrong, and it brings also peace of mind. Funny Attitude. If there ever was a more ludicrous spec tacle than that presented by the Southern Democracy at this moment, history has not recorded. They are raving crazy to destroy the Luion, and all tiic time insisting that the North must save it. 'We icill dissolve the 1 muii,' they say. 'We are bound to do it. We are aching for a chance to be gin. Why don't you Northern men stop us '{ It is your business to save the Union. We can't do it, and we won't think of try ing. Here we arc fairly splitting our breeches to split the Union, and you won't do anything to prevent it. Don't you know if you go on this way the Union must come in two!" This is exactly the attitude of the screamers of secession. Now the North, sitting very sedately in its own place, and looking up at these terrific vcl lers, says, 4 Why I'm not doing anything to the Union. My end of it is going to stick till the last day in the morning. 1 don't see a bit of danger except what you are making. Save your own end, and there will be no trouble.' ' Yes,' says democra cy, 'that's all very well, but if you don't let us have our way you will drive us to disunion. Why don't you give up, and let us do what we please? Don't you see that you endanger the Union every moment that you hinder us ?' ' Oh, yes,' says the North, 'I see. You are like the old Qua ker when his wife caught liiui kissing the servant girl. ' Wife,' said he, if thee does is t quit peeping thee'll make trouble in the family.' So you say ' North, if don't quit, stopping our pranks you will make trouble in the Union. If you want the Union torn in two, tear away. I want it as it is, and I mean that it shall stay so.' Whoever has read the debates in Congress during the present session, must have been struck with the respective attitudes of the parties to the Union, which the above dia logue faintly but accurate!} presents. //<- 11 iannpolls Jovrual. The Jewels of the Months. In I'olantl, according to a superstitious belief, each month of the year is under the influence of some precious stone, which in fluence is attached to the destiny of per sons born during the course of the month. It is, in consequence, customary amongst friends, and more particularly between lov ers, to make, on birthdays, ref'procal pres ents, consisting of some jcur ornamented with the tutelar stone, ft : generally be lieved that this prediction of happiness, or ratlxr ol the future destiny, will be reali- j zed according to the wishes expressed on the occasion. January. —The stone of January is the Jacinth, or Garnet, which deuotesconstan cy and fidelity in any sort of engagement. February. —The Amethyst, a preserva tive against violent passions, and an assu rance of peace of mind and sincerity. Man!i.—The RUodstone is the stone of courage and wisdom in perilous underta kings, and firmness in affection. April. —The Saphire, or Diamond, is the stone of repentance, innocence, and kindli ness of disposition. May. —The Emerald. This stone signi fies happiness in love, and domestic felicity. June.—The Agate is the stone of long life, health, and prosperity. July. —The Ruby, or Cornelian, denotes forgetfulness of, and exemption from, the vexations caused by friendship and love. . I uyusf. —The Sardonyx. This stone de notes conjugal felicity. S'pt'inbir.—The Chrysolite is the stone which preserves and cures madness and de spair. October. —The Aqua-Marine, or Opal, signifies distress and hope. November. —The Topaz signifies fidelity and friendship. Ih'Ci-mber. —The Turquoise is the stone which expresses great sureness and pros perity in love, and in all the circumstances of life. Horizontal Wells. [The following article is so well adapted to this region, that we hope it will lead to the construction of such wells.— Eli. GAZETTE.] Why not, in hilly and mountainous re gions have all our wells fountains, by dig ging them horizontally into the hillsides ; Mining after coal in Pennsylvania and gold in California has clearly illustrated the fact that wells may be dug into hillsides or banks, or blufis, as well level or horizontal ly as down perpendicularly; so that every unlucky thing falling into the water be eojnes a portion of the contents of the well. Very many of the dairy farm houses in the Empire SState may be supplied with water from the hills by means of the artificial fountains we are describing. Also dry pas tures may have such wells, and the water gathered in a trough as naturally as if it had always flowed there. Much dangerous and severe labor may also be saved in drawing the dirt by wind lass from the well. Water, so very troub lesome iu common wells, has not to be bail ed in the horizontal, as it takes care of it self. The certainty of discovery or cutting off veins of water is greater with the hor izontal well, than the perpendicular, if it starts in or near the base of a hill or any where as much below the surface as a com mon shaft would be likely to be sunk. llow much labor and cost in bringing springs in logs or pipes from distant fields, and in the end only having scoured scaii eold water of not half the value for the dairy ir had at its - mrce, might have been saved by a trial of the horizontal well. The California fanner endorses their efficiency, and urges farmers to construct them where over practicable. The construction is sim ple and hardly need be described. When the location is chosen, let it be so that the course of the well may rise a few inches as it progresses, that the water, instead of running in, may run out. If it should be sandy or gravelly and the arch incline to fall, plank must be used to support it. — The labor can be performed in a wet. time or in winter, as the water runs away from instead of into the work The dirt i> ea sily removed with a wheelbarrow. The stoning may be with an arch in dimensions sufficient for the entrance of a man or on ly a drain or gutter to conduct the water. J. S Hornby, Steuben county, X. V.— Moore s Rural ATic Yorh< r. TOIISITATIOHi [For the Gazette.] The Adaptation cf the Physical World to the Necessities of Man. Man is born into the world helpless. lie is possessed of a material or corporeal body, which lias been beautifully designated "the house we live in." This physical frame is subject to many wants, the first of which seems to be food or aliment for the sustenance of the human animal. This Nature has kind ly provided for him, of that kind and quality best adapted to the support of his frail, but at the same time "fearfully and wonderfully made" body. Ail animals, man excepted, are provided by Nature with an external protec tion against the inclemency of the seasons, lie alone is left to provide and fashion fur himself this indispensable covering, from the suitable material with which the world around him abounds. Here are called into exercise those faculties or iutellectual powers with which he has been endowed by the wise Au thor of his existence, and which so eminently distinguish and elevate him above the brute creation, and qualify him " to have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over every living thing that creep eth upon the earth." Man, then, seeks in the resources of his own mind for those supplies which Nature gratuitously bestows upon other animals; hence we fiud the savage, in order to defend his body against the rigors of an inhospitable clime, slays the wild beast of th forest and appropriates its furred ■ own behoof, lie construe: ... r o iude and unfashioncd matter wiii uml- Dim a simple shelter from the unoii-en:a! atmos phere—a tenement little better, perhaps, than the den of the wild wolf, yet, even in its sim plicity, displaying evidence of inventive fac ulties never exhibited by the brute creature, llis every work bears the impress of mind. He adapts his clothing and habitation to the vicissitudes of the climate in which he dwells. The native of hyperborean regions wraps his body in the furs of the bear, the ermine, and others of the untamed denizens of his frigid home. lie constructs his domicil of the su perabundant ice and snow of the wintry waste. The philosopher will tell you that no other material would better subserve the purpose I than these apparently incongruous substances. The uncivilized inter-tropical tribes of the , earth find shelter from the vertical rays of the burning sun beneath the impervi us shade of , the super-luxuriant vegetation of their torrid clime. Their scanty clothing is woven from the fibre of the many textile plants which grow spontaneously from the soil, spun from | the filamentous cocoon of the silkworm, or ingeniously wrought from the brilliantly col ' ored plumes of the birds that sport among the dense foliage of the great forests. Their 1 homes, too, are simple and fragile. A tent of cloth, easily erected and quickly .- ruck an 1 removed, forms a suitable shelter to a people of a roving and unsettled habit, as are many of the nations of this part of the globe. Their structures of a more substantial kind are built ! of the bamboo, or other light materials, and | we might here remark that the architecture ot the nations of the torrid zone, even of those most advanced in civilization, partakes of the conformation of the tent of the nomadic tribes. The adaptation of the food which the all wise Creator lias provided for the sustenance of man, to the circumstances by which ho. is surrounded, is a subject worthy of our pro- ' found admiration. The inhabitant of the frozen zones, where vegetation is sparse and the fruits and cereals of more temperate lands ' are not produced, is abundantly provided with animal food from the sea and the land, and that too of a quality which, although entirely unpalatable to the people of warm countries, is wisely adapted to support his physical sys- I tern against the rigors of his inhospitable clime. The animals of these zones are unable i to endure the heat of more temperate regions, . and by this characteristic of their nature they are prevented from migrating irom their lo- , cation, and thus leaving their "lord and mas j ter" destitute of support. Although left thus totally dependent upon the bounties of nature for the supply of his necessities, and placed in circumstances under which he can do noth ing for his sustenance by the cultivation • the earth, we believe that ho suffers less des titution of food than those frequently do who enjoy many apparent advantages in this point of view. The man of the torrid regions of | | the earth finds a provision made for his wants differing in quality from that of his brother of the higher latitudes, yet equally fitted for i the support of his physical system, fruits of every hue and flavor present themselves to "ratify his appetite. The orange, the lime, : The banana, the tamarind, the date, the pine apple, the cocoa nut, and hundreds of varie ties of which we do not even know the names, are lavished upon him in every forest, all ad j mirably adapted to nourish and invigorate his body to endure the oppressive heat of this " clime of the sun." But enough ; we will not tire your readers with anything further. Suffice it to say that all these wise and benevolent adaptations of New Series— Vol. XIV, No. 15. the material world to the wants and necessi ties of man, bespeak the power, the wisdom and goodness of the all-wise Creator, who saw the end from the beginning, and eloarly prove that he is verily a "fool who hath said in his heart there is no God." TYRO. Annual Report cf the Pennsylvania Rail road Company. OFFICE <:■• HIE FEXXA. RAILROAD CO., ) Pi I.A DELI'II IA, Feb. 4, 1800. j Tu tine Siockh tidets of tfu Pcnttsyhmiua Jut i! - rtxul Con,jiuiitj; In obedience to the requirements of tho Charter of the Company, your Board of Di rectors submit their report of the operations of your road during the past year, and the condition of the Company at its close. The recovery of the manufacturing and agricultural interests of the country from the consequences of the iinancial revulsion of 1857, and the failure of the cereal crops of the West for that as well as the preceding ami succeeding year, lias necessarily been slow. Under these circumstances, we could scarce ly have Loped for any material increase in the traffic of the road during tho year 1850. Hie increased business has, however, been steady, and exhibits a general improvement in the sources from whence the revenue of the Company is derived. rim earnings fi tu freight, owing to the ex -11 erne low rates obtained during a considerable poitioii of the year, consequent on the com p -Union Letwe.-n the New York and Central Railroad and the transporters on the Erie canal, do not correspond with the increased tonage of the road. Tiie following condensed statement exhib its the results of the operations of your road for the year 1850 : Earnings of the Company frcm the business of the road : From Passengers, 51,420,912 4.'! " U. S. Mails, ' 74,483 00 " Expresses, 75,120 00 " Freights, 3.C5G.111 15 " Miscelianous Sources, 135,728 63 §5,302,355 21 Expenses of operating the Road were: Cost of Conducting Transporta tion, §1,333,041 00 Cost of Motive Power, 804,07G 92 " Maintenance of Road, G71.100 19 " Maintenance of Cars, 190,278 34 " General Expenses, 72,241 70 §3,130,738 15 Net earnings of the Road, §2,231,017 00 The earnings of this road, as compared with those of the preceding year, give an increase increased earnings for the first class passenger amount to §73,355 99, while the earnings from the emigrant business show a decrease of §24,681 71; leaving as the increase fn m the whole passenger traffic the sum of §48,074 28. This increase was mainly deriv ed from the Local travel upon the road, and is due to increased facilities afforded for this character of business. The Philadelphia Division shows an increase equivalent to a passage over the whole Division of front 109,379 in 1858, to 190,488 in 1859, and on the main line of the llarrisburg and Lancas ter Road from 109,481 in 1858, to 124,244 in 1859, nitwithstandingtlie competition betweon llarrisburg and Philadelphia, bv the Phila delphia and lle'ading Railroad and its Leba non Yal!cv Branch. The whole number of passengers transpor ted by the Company during the year was 1,459,110, and the miles traveled amounted to 54,839,691, or an average of 37 5-10 miles per passenger. It affords much gratification to the lloard to renew the statement, made in the last annual report, that notwithstanding the large number of passengers carried over i the road not a single life has been lost. The freight earnings for the year amount -1 e l to the sum of $119,904 94 more than was derived from this source in 1858. The in crease of the freight earnings is entirely due to the local business, exceeding that of 1858 th amount of 110,937 t ns, while the through freight, amounting in all to 233,600 tons, was only increased 12,396 tons. The whole tonnage moved upon the road during 1859 was 1,170,240 tons, exclusive of | 70,875 tons of wood, coal, lumber, &c., for the use of the Company. Embraced in the foregoing tonnage there were transported in the cars of the Company 210,903 tons of coal, and of the same article 210,722 tons in cars 1 of individuals, making the entire movement of coal 121,025 tons, and au increase in this , traffic over the preceding year of 81,087 tons. ' The amount of coal delivered in Pittsburgh during the last year (ail in cars other than ; th<>se of the Comp'aay) was 100,302 tons vary in' hut little from the amount for the year 1858. Eur more full aud precise information in • regard to the earnings and expenses of the road, the kind aid amount of tonnage, and for numerous interesting details, the stock holders are respectfully referred to the am ple tabular statement from the Controller and Auditor, which will he found appended to this . report. The funds furnished to the Trustees of the i Sinking Fund have been invested by them in the shares of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company, and to the amount of more than one half of the capital stock of the Company. This investment, while it yields a full inter est upon the outlay, protects the business of this Company from the undue influence of other interests. The roadway has not only been maintain , ed in complete order during the year, but it has passed ;he period at which railways usu ally attain their maximum cost for " main | tenance of gay." Owing, however, to the quality of the iron used in its construction, the Pennsylvania Railroad has but just reach ed this point. The amount of iron supplied for repairs during the year, is equivalent to fifty miles of track, which, with the present extent of line, is about the quantity that will be annually required to keep the road in a good condition. A lower rate of speed for both passenger and freight trains could ma ; terialiy lessen the wear of the rails and the machinery, and effect important savings in the cost of working the road in nearly every department.
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