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The Steamboats Canada, and North America, are employed in towing. Steamboats running on the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, and the Rideau Canal. Steamers of a small class ply regularly, during the season of navigation, between Montreal and Kingston, Canada; landing at all the intermediate places, on the Ottawa and Rideau Canals, upwards, and on the St. Lawrence downwards, passing over the several rapids in the latter river.

CANAL PACKETS.

ERIE CANAL.

Two lines of commodious Canal Packets run daily, between Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo. A boat usually leaves the above places in the morning, and another in the evening, or on the arrival of the rail road cars, during the season of navigation.

OSWEGO CANAL.

A line of Packet boats for the conveyance of passengers, run daily between Syracuse and Oswego, connecting with lines of steamboats on Lake Ontario, and with canal packets and rail road cars at Syracuse.

CAYUGA AND SENECA CANAL.

A line of Packet boats run daily, during the season of navigation, between Montezuma on the Erie canal and Geneva, where they connect with steamboats on Seneca Lake and rail road cars.

GENESEE VALLEY CANAL.

A line of Packet boats run daily, between Rochester Mt. Morris and Dansville.

CHAMPLAIN CANAL.

Troy and Whitehall Packet Line, for the conveyance of passengers and light freight. A boat runs daily, during the season of navigation, between Troy and Whitehall, and another boat runs daily between Mechanicsville and Whitehall, connecting at the former place with the Rensselaer and Saratoga rail road, which terminates at Troy. L. A. Carlton, Agent, Troy. Isaac V. Baker, Agent, Whitehall.

The Northern Line run two passage boats between Troy and Whitehall, daily, Sundays excepted. Hiram Eddy, Agent, Troy.

Travis, Eddy & Co. Agents, Whitehall.

Transportation Lines,-to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Union Transportation Company, transports merchandize between New-York and Philadelphia, via Camden and Amboy Rail road. Office in West st., near Battery Place. A. Decker, Agent.

Merchant's Canal Line, transports merchandize between New-York and Philadelphia, via Delaware and Raritan Canal. Barges leave Pier No. 2 North River, New-York, and 46 South Wharves, Philadelphia. Office 9 West street, New-York, Thompson & Neilson, Agents.

Bingham's Line, transports merchandize to Pittsburg, Penn. via canal and rail road. Wm. Tyson Agent, 10 West street, N. Y.

D. Leach & Co.'s Line, transports merchandize to Pittsburg, via canal and rail road. L. Robinson, Agent, 13 West st., N. Y.

Steam Tow-Boat Companies.

ALBANY AND NEW-YORK LINE.-Run 11 boats, amounting to 2,900 tons. Isaac Newton, Agent, 16 South street, New-York. Charles Olmstead & Co. 66 Quay street, Albany.

SWIFTSURE LINE STEAM TOW-BOATS.-Run 12 boats amounting to 3,000 tons. A. Van Santvoord, Agent, foot of Cortland & Broad sts.

M. Barnes, Agent, Albany.

ALBANY AND CANAL LINE.-Run 11 Boats, amounting to 2,900 tons.
Joy & Monteith, Agents, 3 State street, Albany.
Alfred Hoyt, Agent, 16 South street, New-York.

TROY TOW-BOAT COMPANY.-Run 9 boats, amounting to 2,700 tons.
James H. Hooker, Agent, Troy.

Pope Catlin, Agent, 33 Coenties Slip, New-York.

NEW-YORK AND TROY TOW-BOAT COMPANY.-Run 5 boats, amounting to G. P. Griffith, Agent, Troy.

1,500 tons.

Walter S. Griffith, Agent, 22 South street, N. Y.

Canal Transportation Lines.

(Running between New-York, Albany and Buffalo.)

American Transportation Company.-Agents, H. Miles, Broad street, NewYork; J. M. Hughs, Albany; H. Wright, Rochester; P. L. Parsons & Co., and S. Drullard, Buffalo.

Buffalo Line.-Agents, Hiram Joy, New-York; T. Joy & Co. Albany; Joy & Webster, Buffalo.

Clinton Line.-Agents, Hiram McCollum, 13 Broad st., N. Y.; William Monteith, 100 Pier, Albany; Waring & Stockton, Buffalo.

Erie Transportation Company.-Agents, D. Bromley, New-York; H. Bromley, Albany; J. Maxwell, Buffalo.

Merchant's Transportation Company.-Agents, F. Wilkie, 9 Coenties Slip, N. Y.; R. Hunter & Co. 97 Pier, Albany; H. Hunter, Rochester; Hunter, Palmer & Co. Buffalo.

New-York Transportation Line.-Agents, Thomas A. Jerome, New-York; Chase & Evans, Albany; John R. Evans & Brother, Buffalo.

New-York and Toledo Line.-Agents, J. J. Folts, New-York; Elias Weed, Albany; Beach, Wilkins & Co. Buffalo.

New-York and Ohio Line.-Agents, Noah Cook & Co. New-York; O. M. Tomlinson & Co. Albany; J. Chapman & Co. Rochester; A. R. Cobb & Co. Buffalo.

Ohio and New-York Line.-Agents, H. Meech, No. 15 South st. New-York; Pease & Culver, 66 Quay st. Albany; Kinne, Davis & Co. and Abm. E. Culver, Buffalo.

Merchant's and Miller's Line.-Agents, Emery Pease, New-York; J. H. Pease & Co. Albany; Thomas Pease, & Co. Rochester.

Western Transportation Company.-Agents, S. Card, foot of Broad-street, New-York; E. S. Prosser, Albany; Northrop & Hayward, Rochester; Gelston & Evans, Buffalo.

New-York and Hammondsport Line.-C. Schemerhorn, Agent, Albany. Merchant's Oswego Line.-Agents, M. B. Spaulding, 15 South street, NewYork; R. S. Cushman & Co. 66 Quay st. Albany; Wm. Lewis, Oswego. Oswego Line.-Agents, R. J. Vanderwater, 100 Broad street, New-York; W. H. Vanderwater, Albany; H. Fitzhugh & Co. Oswego.

Ithaca & Elmira Line.-C. P. Williams & Co. Agents, Albany.

New-York and Penn-Yan Line.-B. M. Remer, Agent, Albany.
New-York and Utica Line.-C. V. Clark, Agent, Albany.

Chenango Line.-George Anderson, Agent, Albany.

Chenango Lake Boat Line.-George Anderson, Agent, Albany.

Canal Transportation Lines,

(Running between New-York, Troy, Buffalo, &c.)

Troy and Ohio Line.-Agents, J. H. Wilgus, 27 Coenties Slip, New-York; Pope Catlin, 33 do. do. N. Y.; James H. Hooker, Troy; Camp & Hooker, Buffalo.

Troy and Erie Line.-Agents, Rufus Putnam, New-York; John Ide, Troy; Coit, Kimberly & Co. Buffalo.

Detroit Line.-Agents, Alfred Ringe, 27 Coenties Slip, New-York; James H. Hooker, Troy; Camp & Hooker, Buffalo.

Troy and Michigan Line.-Agents, Allen Wheeler, Broad st. New-York; Gurdon Grant, Troy; G, W. Tift & Co. Buffalo.

New-York and Oswego Line.-Agents, George C. Drew, Conties Slip, NewYork; J. C. Woodward, Troy; C. Comstock & Co. Oswego.

Troy and Oswego Line.-Agents, J. S. Wyckoff, Coenties Slip, New-York; H. C. Rossiter, Troy; Bronson, Crocker & Co. Oswego.

New-York, Utica and Oswego Line.-Agents, W. S. Rossiter, Coenties Slip, N. Y.; H. C. Rossiter, Troy; Bronson, Crocker & Co. Oswego.

Northern Transportation Line.-Agents, C. B. Janes, Coenties Slip, N. Y.; L. A. Carlton, Troy; J. V. Baker, Whitehall.

Northern Line.-Agents, Hiram Eddy, Troy; Travis, Eddy & Co. Whitehall. Vergennes and Troy Line.-Agents, Pope Catlin, 33 Coenties Slip, N. Y.; M. D. Hall, Troy; R. Chapman, Vergennes.

Glens Falls Line.-Agents, Pope Catlin, 33 Coenties Slip, N. Y.; H. S. Osborn, Troy; Sprague & Co. Glens' Falis.

NEW-YORK CITY STATISTICS.

NEW-YORK CITY FINANCES.

The financial condition of the city of New-York on the 1st May, 1841, was as follows, as will be seen by the Mayor's Message, from which the following statement is taken

"I have requested from the Comptroller and received a statement of the City Debt up to the 1st of May last, from which the following appears:

New-York City Stocks of 1820 and '29 .....

$500,000

Less amount held by the Commissioners of Sinking Fund..

91,200

$408,800

Public Building Stock...

$515,000

Less amount held by the Commissioners of Sinking Fund..

15,000

500,000

Fire Loan Stock, a contingent liability,.....

$882,000

Less an equal amount of bonds and mortgages owned by the
Commissioners of Sinking Fund.

882,000

000,000

Fire Indemnity Stock.

$358,900

Less amount held by the Commissioners of Sinking Fund.. 122,700

236,200

Floating Debt Stock...

$350,000

Less amount held by the Commissioners of Sinking Fund.. 168,210

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Less amount held by the Commissioners of Sinking Fund.. 298,000

7,651,377

Total,

$8,978,167

The City Stocks which will be held by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund at the close of the present fiscal year, will be sufficient to cover, and in effect cancel the stock of 1820 and 29, and the Public Building Stock. The Fire Loan Stock and Corporation Bonds are contingent liabilities of the city, for which bonds and mortgages, and other real estate liens, are held by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, which can be realized and applied to the liquidation of the debt at any time. These, therefore, may be properly considered as no part of the city debt, but rather as a loan of its credit on full and perfect securities.

The Fire Indemnity Stock is, for the most part, payable in twenty-seven years; the provision for its redemption is an annual tax of $25,000 to be levied upon the real and personal estate of the citizens, one-half of which tax would, however, accomplish its redemption in the time fixed.

The Floating Debt Stock is payable at the rate of $50,000 per annum, to meet which, a tax of the like sum is annually to be imposed.

It will be seen, therefore, that the principal of all the stocks here mentioned, (and which constitute the entire debt of the city, except that for the construction of the Croton Aqueduct,) is fully provided for, and capable of being redeemed without resort to the revenues of the Sinking Fund after the present year; or, in other words, the proper income of the Sinking Fund, on and after May next, when the Croton water will be introduced, will be applicable, solely, to the cancelling of the Water Stocks.

The water debt, as estimated, will reach $12,000,000. It is computed that the income of the Sinking Fund, as at present constituted, will alone be sufficient to meet and cancel it in forty years. It is to be remembered, too, that the Sinking Fund will, long before that period, be greatly enlarged from the avails of such real estate as the Corporation may sell from time to time."

FINANCIAL CONDITION OF NEW-YORK CITY-1842.

The financial condition of the city of New-York, on the 7th of May, 1842, was as follows, as will be seen by the Comptroller's Report to the Board of Aldermen, from which the following statement is taken.

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Less by amount of the same Stocks held by the Commis-
sioners of the Sinking Fund

898,522

Total,

$12,536,440

Extract from the Comptroller's Report, (1841):

"The provisions already established by law for the payment of this Debt, are ample; the faith and property of the city are pledged for the redemption of the Water Debt, as well as for the other Stocks of the City; these latter are already secured by active means on hand; the payment of the Water Stock is distributed through a period of forty years; the Sinking Fund, established to redeem the old stocks, is continued and made applicable to the Water Stocks, by repeated enactments of both the state and city governments. This fund alone, without resort to the property of the corporation, is capable of redeeming the debt within that period; its minimum revenue of $200,000, would alone yield in the 40 years $8,000,000, and the compounding through that time would increase it $4,000,000 more."

EXTRACT,

From the Reports of the Marshals for taking the sixth Census, corrected and prepared at the Department of State, by authority of an act of Congress. Aggregate value, and produce, and number of persons, employed in Mines, Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, &c., exhibiting a full view of the pursuits, industry and resources of the City and County of New-York, in 1840.

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