RATES OF POSTAGE, Between Offices in the United States, and to and from Canada, from and after June 30, 1851. Time of Closing Mails at the New York Post-office. NORTH.-5 A. M., and 3.30 P. M., by way of Hudson River and Central Railroad to Buffalo and Canada. SOUTH.-5 A. M., and 4.30 P. M., and 10.30 P. M. EAST. 5 A. M., 2 P. M., 6.30 P. M. (railroad), and 3 P. M. (Fall River Steamboat). WEST. 5 A. M., and 3.30 P. M., by Erie Railroad, via Dunkirk, Cincinnati, &c. Mails are Duc at New York Post-office. NORTH.-Due 12.30 A. M., and 10 P. M. SOUTH.-Due 4.30 A. M., 1.30 P. M., 6.30 P. M., and 10.40 P. M. EAST.-Due (Steamboat) 7 A. M., Railroad (way mail) 10.45 A. M.; (Boston Express), 6.30 A. M., 5.30 P. M., and 12 Midnight. WEST-Due 12 M., and 10.30 P. M. Dates of Departures and Arrivals of Mails at London. United States Exchange Offices for Foreign Mails. New York is an office of exchange for British, French, Prussian, Belgian, Bremen, and Hamburg mails. Boston is an office of exchange for British, French, Prussian, and Belgian mails. Philadelphia is an office of exchange for British and French mails. Portland, Detroit, and Chicago are offices of exchange for British, Prussian, and French mails. NEW YORK GAS-LIGHT COMPANY. Chartered 26th of March-unlimited in duration. Capital $1,000,000. J. H. Adam, President. OFFICERS. John Mowton, Manager. C. L. Everitt, Secretary. The pipes have been laid in all of the streets of the district south of Grand street, under its contract with the Corporation of the city, requiring about 130 miles of mains of various sizes, from eighteen-inch to threeinch diameter. The works are situated on Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets, from First avenue to East River, with buildings and suitable apparatus for manufacturing, washing, purifying, and distributing the gas. The Company are about putting up additional buildings, with the requisite apparatus, appertaining thereto. There are now in operation six large telescopic gasholders at that station, and there are seven smaller gasometers, for storage of gas in different parts of the city. MANHATTAN GAS LIGHT COMPANY. Office, corner Irving place and Fifteenth street. OFFICERS. Charles Roome, President. Floyd Smith, Vice-President. Samuel H. Howard, Secretary. Joseph A. Sabbatton, Engineer. Walter Roome, Superintendent of Gas-works in 18th street. William Combe, Superintendent of Gas-works in 14th street. This Company supplies that portion of the city which lies north of Grand street. South of Seventy-ninth street they have two stations or works; one at the foot of Eighteenth street, near the North River, containing four large gas-holders and six hundred retorts, and capable of supplying two millions cubic feet of gas in twenty-four hours; and one station at the foot of Fourteenth street, East River. The Fourteenth street works are now producing four hundred thousand feet of gas per day; when finished, they will contain six large gas-holders and nine hundred retorts, equal to a production of three millions cubic feet of gas in twenty-four hours. This company have 400 miles of street mains; light 20,000 street lamps, and supply gas to over 50,000 stores and dwellings. In 1861, they manufactured 1,500,000,000 feet of gas. HARLEM GAS-LIGHT COMPANY. Incorporated February 8th, 1855. Capital $250,000. Offices, corner First avenue and One Hundred and Eleventh street; also No. 80 Nassau street. Works located between First avenue and Harlem River, and One Hundred and Tenth and One Hundred and Eleventh streets. B. M. Wakeman, President. Henry P. McGowan, Sec'y and Treasurer. |