RAILROAD, CANAL, AND STEAMBOAT STATISTICS. STEAM MARINE OF THE UNITED STATES. By the following statement, it appears that the aggregate tonnage of the steam marine of the United States amounts to 153,366 tons, of which 94,111 is owned in New York, and cost $16,231,088 13. The balance, 59.255, belongs to different ports in the United States, the cost of which is not given, and, of course, is not included in that of New York. As far as practicable, the names of different companies, tonnage, cost, and where employed, of all vessels belonging to New York, are first given, then those of other ports, as follows :— NEW YORK-PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. The ships of this line are employed running between Panama, San Francisco, Oregon and Washington Territories. ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY. California service, between New York, New Orleans, Havana, and Aspinwall. Northern Light... North Star.. Ariel.... Champion 1,767 $290,000 Illinois 1,295 200,000 2,124 480,000 285,400 Moses Taylor..... 1,373 250,000 Total...... 9,967 $1,659,400 Screw Propellers-New York, Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk, Savannah, Two-thirds of these ships are owned in New York, the balance in New Orleans. NORTH ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY. New York and Aspinwall--soon to be withdrawn. PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY. Central American coast, in connection with the railroad. Besides the steamers set down above, there are numerous others engaged in the coasting trade or running short passenger trips that we might enumerate if we had space. The aggregate tonnage of these amount to 41,604. Including this latter class, the aggregate tonnage of our commercial steam marine is 153,366 tons, of which 94,111 is owned in New York. The total cost of the vessels in New York hands alone is $16,231.088 13. The aggregate cost of the sea-going steamers of the United States is, as near as can be estimated, $25,000,000. RAILROADS IN CUBA. The Cuba Messenger describes the progress of railroads in that Island as follows-Our readers abroad may be able to form an idea of the progress of our Island by our merely mentioning the fact that the different railroad lines now finished and in the course of construction throughout the country, are 27 in number, and comprise, altogether, 1,315,522 kilometres, (about 818 English miles,) of which at least 500 miles are in operation. The whole amount thus far invested on these railroad lines, up to last year, was $17,027,414 66; and, according to the statistics published, they yielded in 1858 the sum of $3,386,840. The principal line-the first ever constructed, (from this city to Guines, and now extending to La Union,)-was commenced in November, 1835; the line from Cardenas to Macagua was started in 1838, and the Jucaro railroad in 1839. All the others have been traced and commenced since 1840. We append a list of the different lines in the manner they are generally designated in the corresponding sections :— From Havana to Bejucal. From Bejucal to Guines. Branch from San Felipe to Batabano. From Cardenas to Macagua, From Cardenas to Jucaro. From Matanzas to La Isabel. Branch from Navajas to Tramojos, and from Tramojos to Claudio. From Regla to Guanabacoa (horse cars.) Matanzas to Guanabana. to Coliseo. to Tosca. to Delgado. From Caibarrien to Remedios. Continuation from Remedios to S. Andres. From Palmira to Las Cruces. From Las Cruces to Ranchuelo. From Villa Clara to Sagua. From Carahatas to Quemados de los Guines. From Macagua to Trinidad. From Mallorquin to Las Pozas. Sagua la Grande (along the river bank.) From Guanabacoa to Cojemar. Western Railroad. From Havana to Pinar del Rio. From Pinar del Rio to Coloma. Sancti Spiritus to Port Las Tunas. From Nuevitas to Puerto Principe. From Cobre (copper mines) to Punta de Sal (at St. Guantanamo Railroad. From St Jago to Sto. Cristo. Branch from Sto. Cris- From San Miguel to Baga (Puerto Principe.) There are besides two or three other lines in view, but nothing decided yet about them. With the assistance of a good chart of the Island, it will easily be seen at a first glance, that when all these lines are finished and in operation, the principal and most important cities and districts of the Island will form a sort of grand central trunk, extending its branches to both coasts. We are most happy that we are able to state that the work or the prin cipal lines not yet finished is progressing rapidly, and that a system of sclidity and durability in the manner of constructing has been recently adopted, which, unfortunately, was overlooked to a great extent in the earlier part of railroad building in this Island. Some arrangements have been entered into recently, between the Havana and the Regla and Matanzas Railroad Companies, that will tend to avoid great expenditures in a double line running almost parallel to each other in a portion or section between this and Matanzas, and from what we have been able to glean in different directions, we are fully persuaded that the future constructions of railroad lines in this rich and flourishing Island will be conducted in the manner best calculated to promote both public and private con venience. RAILWAY FROM BANGOR TO NEW ORLEANS. There was completed in January the last two links in the great chain of railways from Maine to Louisiana-the first, the last twenty five miles on the Mississippi Central. and the second, of sixty-one miles between Lynchburg and Charlotteville, on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, popularly known as the Lynchburg Extension. This route, as will be seen by the following table of distances, is within a fraction of 2,000 miles in length, from Bangor to New Orleans, of a continuous rail track, with the exception of four short ferries, viz., the Hudson River, the Susquehanna, the Potomac, and the James River at Lynchburg, the last two of which will soon be supplied with bridges :- From New Orleans to Canton, Miss., by the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Canton to Grand Junction, Miss., by the Mississippi Central Railway 206 165 219 38 29 83 130 204 169 6 39 98 87 74 62 98 45 ...... Portland to Bangor, Me., by the Penobscot and Kennebec and Androscoggin and Kennebec Railways.... Boston to Portland, Me., by the Eastern and Portland, Saco, and Portsmouth 107 137 Springfield to Worcester, by the Western Railway.. Total....... 1,996 This vast chain of railways is composed of eighteen independent roads, costing in the aggregate, for 2,394 miles of road, $92,784,084, or nearly one-tenth of the whole railway system of the United States, of which 1.996 miles are used in this continuous line. The roads from Washington City to New Orleans, embracing a distance of 1,249 miles, have had the contract for the great |