THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



311 



unlucky error, by the transposition of the 12lh, 

 13iii and llih lines, (ns they there stand,") 2d col. 

 p. 205. The order oi these three linep, numbered 

 as they now stand, should have been, after the 

 11th line, (and may be so corrected by placin<r the 

 numbers opposite to them in the margin,) 13, 14, 

 12, when they will read thus : 



"will amount to 612.\ lbs.; and as lime can bo 

 " broun;ht to us at 75 cFs. per hundred pounds, 61 2 J 

 "lbs. will cost$4.59 the acre. I am not," &-c. 



This, and all similar errors of transposition, are 

 made m the final correction, when, in correcting 

 a single word in a line, two or three lines of types 

 are taken out, .and then, by carelessness, returned 

 to a wrong place. The small error which had 

 been marked, is Ibund by the reviser of the press 

 to have been properly corrected ; but the much 

 more important and newly made error of transpo- 

 sition of two adjacent lines thereby caused, may 

 eometimes escape the notice of the most careful 

 reviser. 



North Branch Division. 

 Total cost, . 1,491,894 G7 



Total revenue, G^.f^.W 03 



Total expenditures, 3SK),G24 11 



JVesiern Branch Division 

 Total cost, 1,708,579 82 



Total revenue, ' G0,859 9.5 



Total expenditures, 333,738 36 



French Creek Division and Feeder. 

 Total cost (esl'd.) 784,750 Gl 

 Total revenue, 

 Total expenditures, 



Beaver Division. 

 Total cost (est'd.) 522,258 98 

 Total revenue, 

 Total expenditures, 



Columbia and Philadelphia Railway 

 Total cost, 3,983,302 05 



4,7G7 42 

 133,979 26 



10,924 02 

 139,082 21 



Total rev. — tolls 

 Motive power. 



toll 



Total es-pend's 

 Motive power, 

 Locomotive's ropes, 



1,205, 419 91 

 S24.919 79 



: 2,030,339 70 



585.343 88 

 862.074 76 

 436,519 51 

 1,883,998 15 



COST AND RECEIPTS OF ALL THE PUBLIC 

 WORKS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



From the Philadelpliia National Gazette. 



When a man's living exceeds his income, he is 

 generally considered in the high road to beggary. 

 A community from like causes must experience 

 like efiects. The Slate of Pennsylvania is on 

 the high road to beggary. Or, what is worscj 

 she has been spending more than her earnings, 

 and has begged until her story has become stale, 

 and no sensible person will give her a sous. The 

 precious truth is just revealed, that all the public 

 works of the state yield a less aggregate sum 

 per annum under this present administration, 

 than is required to use them and keep them in 

 repair. In homely phrase, ihey cost more than 

 they come to by about half a million of dollars a 

 year. ***** 



Eastern Division Pennsylvania Canal. 

 Total cost, ^1,734,658 61 



Total revenue, 1,047,826 08 



Total expenditures, 422, 805 20 



Juniata Division. 

 Total cost, 3,437,334 99 



Total revenue, 491,104 91 



Total expenditures, 592,180 49 



Western Division. 

 Total cost, 2,964 882 67 



Total revenue, 887,018 65 



Total expenditures, 889^834 46 



Delaware Division. 

 Total cost, 1,374,774 42 



Total revenue, 586,515 01 



Total expenditures, 638,381 11 



Susquehanna Division. 

 Totffl cost, 867,874 37 



Total revenue, 141,730 05 



Total expenditures, 314,253 69 



Allegheny Portage Railroad 

 Total cost, 1.783,176 45 

 Total rev.— tolls, 413,504 71 



Motive power, 443,480 29 



Total expend's— tolls 

 Motive power, 

 Locom's ropes, &c. 



293.135 40 

 539..507 44 

 122.266 92 



856,985 GO 



- 954,879 76 



20.658,791 64 



6,181.624 81 



6,694,206 80 



Total cost of all finished lines, 

 Total revenue, 

 Total expenditure, 



A glance at this table shows that not only do 

 the public works afford no means of paying an 

 interest upon the original outlay, or of providing 

 as they should lor a sinking fund to pay off that 

 outlay, but that the daily use of them greatly ex- 

 ceeds in cost the daily income. 



NEW^ AFRICAN FRUIT. 



From the Year-Boole of Facts. 



Sir James Alexander, during his recent expe- 

 ditioia in Africa, saw the naras growing on little 

 knolls of sand ; the bushes being ibur or five fiset 

 high, without leaves, with thorns on the light and 

 dark green striped branches. The Iruii has a 

 coriaceous rind, rough with prickles, is twice the 

 size of an orange, or fifteen or eighteen inches in 

 circumference, and its seed and pulp resemble 

 those of a melon. When unripe it burns the 

 tongue and palate exceedingly, but when ripe 

 it has a luscious, subacid taste. Sir James brought 

 home some seeds of this fruit; from which plants 

 were growing in March last : they were then a 

 loot high, and beginning to branch, having two 

 thorns at each articulation, and a stipule scarcely 

 to be called a leaf between them, on the axis" of 

 which was the bud, but no leaves. 



