. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . e following is a statement of the amountof Revenue collected at this port in Augustand for the previous seven months. REVENUE FROM CUSTOMS. 1B5S. 1859. 1860. August S 3,545,119 01 4,243,010 43 4, 10 Previs 7 Mths. 14,476,417 92 24,363,428 83 2i,893,745 34 Total since Jan.$18,021,537 91 2S,606,439 31 27,389,988 44 —Economist. Covington and Lexington Railroad.—Th»work of filling up the track of this road,north of Paris, is rapidly progressing. Theentire cost will probably not be less than $45,000, and when
. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . e following is a statement of the amountof Revenue collected at this port in Augustand for the previous seven months. REVENUE FROM CUSTOMS. 1B5S. 1859. 1860. August S 3,545,119 01 4,243,010 43 4, 10 Previs 7 Mths. 14,476,417 92 24,363,428 83 2i,893,745 34 Total since Jan.$18,021,537 91 2S,606,439 31 27,389,988 44 —Economist. Covington and Lexington Railroad.—Th»work of filling up the track of this road,north of Paris, is rapidly progressing. Theentire cost will probably not be less than $45,000, and when completed will be one of thefinest improvements which has been made up-on the line of any road in the country. Theframe work for renewing two or three of themost important bridges has also been prepar-ed, and will soon be put in place. The pro-prietor, Mr. Bowler, and the Superintendent,Colonel Withers, are exerting themselves toput the road in better condition than it everhas been since its opening. THE RAILROAD RECORD. 365 BRAMAN & COS COMBINED STEAM AND WATFR As steam has now become almost as ne-cessary to the comfort, convenience and, wemight say, the very existence of man in a civi-lized state, whatever tends to render its usemore economical or safe must be regarded asa real benefaction. The guages representedabove are said to possess advantages over allothers heretofore constructed, in the accuracywith which ihey indicate the precise conditionof both water and steam, and are so made asto give a sufficient alarm in case of can be adapted to use on railroad loco-motives, as well as stationary engines, and arenot liable to get out of order. We give belowthe inventors description, from which MasterMechanics and engineers will readily compre-hend its construction, Fig. 1 represents a front view of the dials,and the connection of the apparatus with theboiler. Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 5 show the operativeparts in detail, and that all may readily under-stand the
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