Ft. Wayne Railroad. The following is n statement of the .enritlogs of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne sod Chiang° RAU pssl, for July, 'compared with the same month last year, viz..: 1869. DIM Inn. Dec. ,From 16reIghte, $69,870 78 61-680 71 11,88857 renege, 69 231.04 61,185 56 8.096 49 61a! , ' 7 ; 84 00 1,482.29 8;842.7 ..1 61144;1., 126.00 60627 1110,061.77 107,789,8 r/ 22,28190 Railroad Investment in New York. The rFae , rt annual report of the State. Engineer .of New York shows that the stook, capital, and debt. of the railroads of that State amount to the sum of nearly nue hundred and fifty millions of dollars, of Web nearly eighty Sve millions is debt hanging over the property. Deducting the city railroads. and the total earnings of all the others amount to but a little more than the half of one per cent. per annum, Only eight railroads in operation have declared dividends, and most of the others have been running at an actual loss. About eixty-tbree per cent is swallowed up in trauspartation expenses. The evil of building wallroade on credit is likely to cure itself very Boon, If this In the legitimate fruit of it. Markets. Prxreetqles, Tusaday. digest 2Fh. inelnea continues dull. Thetuanufsolories have nearly all suspended operations for the purpose or making repairs But we lean that ihiy are Preparing for anodise business in the fall. In metier mattes we have but little change to vote. There la not much paper offering. at Bank, and Ruch as does offer there, le placed at about nine per cent., and other nialitios,at :about twolve - per 'cent. and upwards. Madmen Exchange is scarce. , Asust—Pota, 4W015. Pearls, 6014 Soda Ash, 8 1 4. Arnie-1.260a 00 per . 11 # 1 1, • Ilains--1 00 at' end 1 .9701.60 for prime small white. 11,tootrip (or *astern Shemiders. and 73.507 1 1,4 for city do ; 9%0 4, for Endes ; 10 for Western Hams; 11% for city do ; and I.' ,4018 for linger Cured do. Ottirsa—nalei in smell lots to the country trade at 734a8. Dam Reir-46018%. Inoue—Sales were made yesterday of 200 bbls. superfine And extra at depot, at 41.0004.80, and from store, 490 bbl s . In round lots at 4 90 for supernal,. 610 for extra and 5.00 for White Wheat Bunny extra. The Pearl Mill is turning -out, we understand, about 800 bbls. a day, manufactured partly from Spring Wheat, le blob is of very superior quality this year, but the figures are not quoted. As most of this flour, however, is sold in this market, It has considerable infinenee in regulating prices. Prom store, in small lots to suite the waste of retail dealers, the sales ranged at $5 for superfine,6.l2os 26 for extra, and 6 4606.6006 70 for faintly e xtra, the lateen' for White Wheat. Rye Flour: sales from store at 41004,76. Corn ideal: sales at 8.7508.87 I bid. in lots, Ai1d4.00014.25 in the small way. Ottani—Cate sold on auto:slat 38, and we quote at 88042 Corn, TroBo from first hands, add' 86088 from store. Wheat t 1..12 for Inferior Red $1.1601.18 for prime do., and 1.20a1 26 ihr Some 2 1100 bush. sold at depot, at 1...12a 1.15 for Red, and 1.20 for White. Hey-1 0007.00 per too. M MEW P08.X.-4 nab to the trade, and to the country 17.00 aIT 60 Woot-89a450. INTIORNSTING DINCOVNRINB IN AFRICA.—Cap- Wes Barton and Spoke, the intrepid and Bolen tido Buglieh travelers, says the London Exam iner, conquering a thousand diffioultiee, Boo eeeded in penetrating the African continent he tween Latitudes four and eight degrees south, to the depth °C6OO miles, over laud that the foot of an European never trod before. The most re markable discoveries they made consisted d two vast fresh water lake., those of Ujiji and Nyanza the bare eilstentie of the first of which only had been known, while that of the latter, by far the largest, had not even been enepeoted. We shall (whine our notice to the lake Nyanza, the most import:ant. It was found to be 8,700 feet above the.level of the sea and hence above three timee higher, than the lake of Geneva. Its breadth was estlinated from 40 to 90 miles, and length con jectured at 800 which would live it an area equal to that Of `ievro.thirda of Ireland. This mighty . inlaid. Sea conjectured by Captain Spoke to be the true and long sought for dome of the Nile, a qdeition which' has puzzled civilized men for 2,000 years, and is still unsettled.- Of the country and people seen by our enter prising traveler, we have but few words to say. The landis evidently less favored by nature than that of the,western aide of the continent, and the ii negroes are phydoally and perhaps even men tally inferior, The ' eastern aide possesses no navigable river.leading to the sea, as does the watery!, , nor • has it the gold nor the valuable palm oil of the litter. Its corn (Monists of millet and maize, the latter reoeived from America throughindlet' With apparently abundant fa oilitles for irrigation, not a grsin of rice, the main oereaLof the tropics„.is.grown by the rode and stupid inhabitants.' 'The , only valuable pro duct le coll i cia;'l:olll6We4Or,in a wild state only. This is a , ptiouliertindigensus •plant in this part of Africa, although we oall it Arabian, because We tires deri,yed it in its cultivated state from that country., , • - . The common fowl and oxen, the latter used only for their fleekr and small milk, but not for labor, are tie' only animals which have been domeetioatedt The hOrse is unknown, and so is 1 the hardy,sett, unless to a few. Arabian settlers. Man then has here no helwin•hie toil,. without which toirelipectable thiligreilif I:oilier& civilisa tion is..impeASible. tAphardyl 'coarse 'cotton Le i : grown, and, the art of, weaving fiVritioector responding qualitrinmpderstood. Boils the art of malleable iron, thdliiitierecterdivef P negro• civilisation in this :;leetiere are. unitaiwpto the negroeittai the- eaetekn coast, as indeed , they lore . to . all African negibes. The' staple eipoite'consiot,bodies bents in bopdage, and, of the tusks Of olsoghier-% ed elephants: The imports correspond in value.. It woulffb'ebtirto deceive thepabllo t te - prontise a benefloial .liiinineroo: suob s country-and such a people" - ' —" ' BANADBiII/NNA AND PROYDNLONB.—Upon the ap plication of= the New Yorh Chamber of Com merce, the Secretary of ,the Treasury has fur nished an exhibit of' the aggregate value of Breadstnifti exported to foreign countries from the United States, for each year, 1828-1858; also the export value of Provisions for the same period. This exhibit is published in full in the Report of the Chamber of Ootureeros for the past year. We extract for our columns the Statement for the past seventeen years only, (out of thirty one) commencing with the , year 1842. The im portance of Breadsinffs in our export trade to- Europe, &o :, is thus fully ,shown, as well tie.the part whinhßelted - PioVisions occupy in our for eign export.'" Thir'shipment of Breadstas .in 1855-1867 exceeded that"of the famous famine year, 1847, while that of provisions was larger in 1856-6 thatvat any previous or subsequent period. -If 'vie Could "rely upon such an export (74 to 77 millions annually) for the future, it would giye a, rept,stimulutt.to production iour collatrY.6 a t‘. . xx i et val. of Expl val. of Aggregate of Year. Bread bugs, Prpyieleep, Bread & Pros. 1842 ...... $9, 878, P711i1573247700 )$16,902,876 1848........ 5,249 600 5,064 523 11,204,123 13, : 3 4 17711 9,0384 S M 1 1 r1_ $7Ol 184 .fCda, 19,207; 01 16'#484421. 184.. ..... 16,625,407 11,075,714 , 27,701,121 1847 53,262,437 el - 5089;484 1 / 68,701,921 1848., 22,878,602 14,794.149 87,472,75,1 1 849- 1 ;:ai 2 40.9548,4 1 0,44.0,714