TOLLS ON THE CANALS.

Amount of Tolls received on the several Canals of this State, in each year from the completion of each Canal, to the 31st of December, 1844.

TABLE

Showing the number of Lockages, &c., on the Erie Canal-from 1832 to 1844, inclusive-as ascertained at Lock No. 23, near Schenectady.

The whole amount of expenditures for new work, during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1844, on all the State Canals, was $720.449.93; of which $418,692.06 were expended on the Erie Enlargement.

The whole expenditures, for the same period, for repairs on all the State Canals, amounted to $464,334.49. For the previous year, ending September 30, 1843, the amount for this purpose was $383,079.58, inclus ding, in both cases, pay of Superintendents, Lock-Tenders &c.

By a statement from the collector's office at West Troy, it appears that the average weight of the down cargoes of twelve of the heaviest laden boats of the Buffalo lines, was, in 1841,

And in 1842,.....

The weight of only four of the up cargoes of these boats 1841, showing an average of....

For 1842, the average weight of twelve up cargoes of these boats was,... .

54 9-12 tons.

65 5-12 is given for 53 3-4 tons.

59 8-12 66

Boats have carried as heavy carg es, (says the Annual Report of 1845,) as heretofore, but the great increase of business has materially increased the number of lockages; and if that increase shall continue, it will soon be indispensable to have the double locks brought into use at all places from Albany to Syracuse. Though the number of lockages on any day the past season, may not have been so great as to tax the single locks to their utmost capacity, if boats had arrived regularly both ways, so that no time should be lost, yet the actual and inevitable irregularity of arrivals, in fact, has caused much inconvenient delay at all the single locks east of Syracuse.

No. of days of

navigable season.

THE RIDEAU CANAL, 130 miles long, extends from Kingston, at the foot of Lake Ontario, to Bytown, on the Ottawa River, and has 53 locks, each 134 feet long by 33 feet wide in the chamber. From Bytown to Montreal, 120 miles, the Ottawa is made navigable by a succession of locks and slack-water, which, in connection with the improvements on the St. Lawrence, when completed, will present two lines of communication by navigable water between Montreal, at the head of ship naviga tion on the St. Lawrence, and Kingston, at the foot of Lake Ontario.

THE CHAMBLY CANAL, passing the rapids in the Richelieu river below St. Johns, is 12 miles long. It has 9 locks with a descent of 74 feet, and cost $44,000. This canal, in connection with the Champlain Canal, makes an uninterrupted water communication between New-York and Quebec.

RAILROADS.

ALBANY AND WEST STOCKBRIDGE R. R.-Offices at Stanwix Hall, Maiden Lane, Albany, and Depot, East Albany.

Chartered May 5th, 1836; expires in 1890. Capital $1,000,000. The road is 38 miles long, and connects with the Massachusetts Western R. R. at the State line. The road is managed by the Western Railroad Compa. ny of Massachusetts, and forms one of the links in the great line of travel between Boston and Buffalo. The work was commenced in December, 1840; was completed in December, 1842; whole cost, $1,752,544, or rising $40,000 per mile.

Marcus T. Reynolds, President.

ATTICA AND BUFFALO R. R.-Office at Buffalo.

Chartered May 3d, 1836, for 50 years. Capital $350,000. Shares, $50. This railroad is 31 miles long; was commenced Sept. 1st, 1841; finished Dec. 24th, 1842; whole cost, exclusive of cars, engines and buildings, about $280.000; or about $9,000 per mile.

Oliver Lee, President.

John Langdon, Sec'ry and Treas'r.

Wm. Wallace, Superintendent.

BROOKLYN AND JAMAICA R. R.-Office No. 57 Merchants' Exchange, New-York.

Chartered April 25th, 1832, for 50 years. Capital $300,000. Shares $50. Leased to the Long Island R. R. Co. for 45 years. John A. King, President.

Robert Schuyler, Secretary.

AUBURN AND ROCHESTER R. R.-Office in Canandaigua. Chartered in 1836. Capital $2,000,000. Shares $100. Length 78 miles; completed in November, 1841. Total cost up to January, 1844, $1,727,. 361.

Henry B. Gibson, President.

Charles Seymour, Sec'y and Treas'r.

J. W. Brooks, Superintendent and Engineer.

AUBURN AND SYRACUSE R. R.-Office at Auburn.

Chartered in 1834. Capital $400,000. Shares $100. Length 26 miles. Borrowed $200,000 of State Stock. Total cost. $761,058. A branch of 5 miles extends from this road to Skaneateles village.

J. Philips Phoenix, President.

Thos. Y. Howe, jr., Treasurer.

J. B. Varnum, Secretary.

Chartered in 1833. Capital $100,000. Length 3 miles. Cost about $7,500 per mile.

E. P. Williams, Sup't. and Eng.

BUFFALO AND BLACK Rock R. R.

James Haggart, Sec'y and Agent.

Wm. A. Bird, Treas. and Supt.

LEWISTON R. R.

BUFFALO AND NIAGARA FALLS R. R.-Office at Buffalo. Chartered in 1834. Capital $200,000. Length 22 miles. Albert H. Tracy, President.

Chartered in 1836. Capital $50,000. Length 3 miles. It ascends the Mountain Ridge and intersects the Lockport and Niagara Falls Railroad. Horse power is exclusively used on this road.