MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. Statement of the Lines of Magnetic Telegraph in Operation or in Progress on September 1st, 1848. THE Lines in operation were as follows: 1. From Boston to New York, via Worcester, Springfield, in Mass., Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Stamford, in Conn., White Plains, and Harlem, in N. Y., under one company, distance 240 miles. 2. From New York to Washington, via Jersey City, New Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton, in N. J., Philadelphia, in Pa., Wilmington, in Del., Havre de Grace, and Baltimore, in Md., under one company, distance 240 miles. 3. From Washington to New Orleans, via Richmond, Petersburg, Va., Raleigh, Fayetteville, N. C., Cheraw, Camden, Columbia, Charleston, S. C., Augusta, Savannah, Macon, Columbus, Ga., Montgomery, and Mobile, Ala., under one company, distance 1,716 miles. 4. From New York to Buffalo, via Carmel, Poughkeepsie, Hudson, Troy, Albany, Schenectady, Little Falls, Utica, Rome, Syracuse, Auburn, Geneva, Canandaigua, and Rochester, under one company, distance 509 miles. 5. From Buffalo to Milwaukie, Wis., via Fredonia, in N. Y., Erie, in Pa., Painesville, Cleveland, Milan, Sandusky City, Toledo, in Ohio, Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Jackson, Albion, Marshall, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Niles, South Bend, Michigan City, in Mich., Chicago, Ill., Southport, and Racine, in Wisconsin, under one company, distance 812 miles. 6. From Troy to Montreal, C. E., via Bennington, Manchester, Rutland, Vt., Whitehall, N. Y., Orwell, Middlebury, Vergennes, Burlington, and St. Albans, Vt., under one company; to St. Johns and Montreal under another company; distances as follows: - from Troy to Canada line 228 miles; thence to Montreal 50 miles; total 278 miles. 7. From Worcester, Mass., via Providence, R. I., Taunton, Fall River, to New Bedford, Mass., under one company, distance 97 miles. 8. From Worcester, Mass., via Norwich, to New London, Conn., under one company, distance 74 miles. 9. From Boston, via Salem, to Newburyport, under one company, distance 34 miles. 10. From Boston, via Dover, N. H., to Portland, Me., under one company, distance 110 miles. 11. From Binghampton, via Owego, to Ithaca, in N. Y., under one company, distance 48 miles. 12. From Auburn, via Ithaca, to Elmira, in N. Y., under one company, distance 75 miles. 13. From Syracuse to Oswego, in N. Y., under one company, distance 38 miles. 14. From Buffalo, via Lockport, to Queenstown, in Canada, under one company, 48 miles, thence via St. Catherine's, Toronto, Port Hope, Coburg, Bellville, Kingston, Brockville, Prescott, to Montreal, 48 miles under one company in the U. S. 15. From Philadelphia to Pittsburg, via Lancaster, Harrisburg, Chambersburg, Pa., and Wheeling, Va., distance 309 miles. 16. From Pittsburg, Pa., via Washington, Pa., Wheeling, Va., Zanesville, Columbus, and Dayton, Oh., to Cincinnati, distance 310 miles. 17. From Cincinnati, via Louisville, Ky., Vincennes, Ind., to St. Louis, distance 410 miles. 18. From Pittsburg, Pa., via Washington, Pa, Wheeling, Va., Marietta, Oh., Athens, Pomroy, Gallipolis, Portsmouth, Maysville, Paris, Lexington, Frankfort, Louisville, Ky., Bardstown, Glasgow, Nashville, Tenn., to Columbia, Tenn., distance 680 miles. [This is part of the Great Western Line to New Orleans.] 19. From Maysville, via Ripley, to Cincinnati, distance 60 miles. 20. From Columbia, Tenn., to Memphis, distance 205 miles. 21. From Philadelphia, via Pottsville, to Reading, distance 98 miles. 22. From Wilmington, Del., to Trenton, distance 50 miles. 23. From Baltimore, Md., via York, Pa., to Harrisburg, distance 72 miles. 24. From York, Pa., to Lancaster, distance 22 miles. 25. From Harrisburg, Pa.,to Reading, distance 51 miles. 26. From Columbus, Ohio, to Chillicothe, distance 45 miles. 27. From New York, on Long Island, Offing Line, 98 miles. Total length of lines of Telegraph, 6,679 miles. There are several lines in the Western States, amounting to several hundred miles, of which the organization will be completed in the course of the year 1848. A line is under construction, to be completed in January, 1849, from Fredonia, in N. Y., via Ellicottville, Angelica, Hornellsville, Bath, Hammonsport, Jefferson, Ithaca, Owego, Montrose, Carbondale, Port Jarvis, Goshen, Newburg, West Point, Peekskill, Sing Sing, White Plains, to the city of New York, a distance of 500 miles, making a continuous line from New York city to Milwaukie. A line is also under construction from Bennington, via Pittsfield and Litchfield, to connect with the New York and Boston line at New Haven, forming a continuous line from Bath, New York, and Boston, to Montreal. This will be at work in the fall of 1848. A line will likewise be completed during the same period, from Portland, via Brunswick, Bath, Thomaston, Belfast, Bangor, Calais, Me., St. Stephen's, N. B., to St. John's, and to be extended by Fort Cumberland, on the head of the Bay of Fundy, to Halifax, N. S., early in 1849. The extension of the Southwestern Line from Columbia, Tenn., via Natchez, Miss., to New Orleans, La., is well advanced, and will be completed, probably, in the fall of 1848, as is most of the connecting section already, and the eastern extremity, from Wheeling, via Cumberland, to Baltimore, forming one interior and one Atlantic line from the latter city to New Orleans. A line from Troy to Whitehall was also in a state of great forwardness on the 1st of September, to be in operation early thereafter. Several of the lines named, although, with the whole system, but in their infancy, have already paid dividends exceeding those of ordinary stock, while some have been almost entirely reconstructed from the proceeds of their earnings. We subjoin the rates of charge from Boston to New Orleans. Tariff of Charges from Boston to New Orleans on first 10 words, and each additional word, not counting the address or signature of the parties. A GENERAL INDEX To the Ten Volumes of the American Almanac, for the Years As the numbers of the volumes are not inserted on the title-pages of the Almanac, it The Index embraces such matters as are not common to all the volumes of the Almanac; Each volume is furnished with its own Index. *** A full Index of the Obituary Notices follows this General Index of other matters. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVIL. XVIII. XIX. XX. Bank of the State of Missouri, xi. 272 xiv. 163 xiii. 271 Banks in the U. S. in 1840, xii. 134 xii. 268 Banks in Rhode Island, xviii. 230 xiii. 272 Banks in the United States, 1846, xix. 154 Banks of Massachusetts, XV. 216 xviii. 226 xix. 231 of New Hampshire, XX. 229 87 Banks, Suspension of Specie Pay- xii. 137 Bills of Exchange (Protested), Dam- ages on, XV. 145 xi. 136 Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Massachusetts, xvii. 152 xii. 79 Blind, Deaf, and Dumb Persons in |