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 IN. Y. AND ERIE RAnRoAD.-Over two mill- ions of dollars have been subscribed within the last few weeks by the citizens of New-York to the stock of the Erie Railroad, and no doubt seems to be entertained of the early completion of that most important public work. As soon as another mill ion shall be subscribed the road will be put under contract, and in two years can be completed from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. This road passes through the eleven southern counties of New-Yo and accommodates sectiorPof country greater in extent and equal in population to the whole of New England. No parallel road can be construc- ted for fifty or one hundred miles on either side of it, and at various points it will be intersected by branch roads from the middle counties of New York and the northern counties of Pennsylvania. The freight and travel which will come on to it will be immense-greater than that of any other road in the Union, and the stock could not fail to be profitable investment, even were it to receive the support only of those residing in northern ! Pennsylvania and southern New York; hut it must be the great thoroughfare between New.York and the Great West, and ultimately the eastern link and most profitable section of chain ot railroads extending on to the Mississippi and perhaps to the Rocky Mountains It connects at Clean, or some more important point below, with the Alleghany river. and in the spring ofthe year Ohio merchants will be able to procure goods through this channel of communication month or six weeks before the lake is open at Buffalo. The road terminates at Dunkrk, beautiful site, on capacious harbor, forty miles southwest of Buffalo. branch road will enable passengers to reach the lake at the lat ter place if they prefer.