New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-09-16
Commercial and Money Matters.

D- For Commercial. and JiOncv Matters. Last Page
SATURDAY p. NJ.
At the First Board to-day Stocks were heavy, but
the Second Board there much better feeling anu
press improved.
The market for Exchanges iorthe Steamer closed
Hat with good supply of bills The rates for leading Sterling
kept up 10 10 with few sales only, III the higher aie
Francs were So ac. Amsterdam iO iOac. Bremen ~
80 c Hamburg 35as S5ic The demand Tor the Great
Western has not been large Some Fem'ances have
been postponed until the supply OF bills from the coming Cot
crop shall reduce the rates. Another cause OF the mode
rate dcnand that consequence OF The system oil cash
many the importers have not the means TO make re-
m,t;nnces the difficulty Of making sales Just now OF imported
goods o,s. operating to keep the goods in the ware
houses and lock W a:gc amount of means advanced
duties.
The Great Western did not take out a dollar Of
Specie an for the next Have packet only $4,000 silver
are engaged The fac! that the Steamer took no Specie and
that Exchanges were fiat the close had quite effect in
improving matters ct the Second Board.
The following the earnings OF The SYRACUSE
and UTlc, RAILROAD for August, 1913 aud 1871;
sN,..................,.......... 22,GS7 10
Excsss IL z
For so' from l March to Is; Sept lsd s s sS e =
Excess in Eli. s35V'o 70
Equal TO % per cent.
rh. very large gain for road which before doing
well.
Receipts over the Buffalo aud Niagara Falls Rail
road 70! August is3i IS g
fNce IN iSi4 10 20
rhe receipts first months in 1871, SO y
1913. .............. lU.oto 20
Excess in Is4. l.7S5 81
| . d per cent.
A dividend OF twenty per cent. upon all claims
against the Commercial Bank of Buffalo, which have been
psen,cd ad allowed BY the Receiver has been declared
payable the first day OF October next. at the office of the
Re ceiver IN Buffalo.
The Boston Post in some remarks few DAYS
since said thu, the Geenbush Road would save people
of passing the Hudson the ice ferry
boa forced through drift ice. One o: the Albany paper IL
culcs idea IL well known that the only drc, road 10
the by the WAY OF 5any and that Troy neaIy thirty
miles o the Intact when over the W
terra Road hive ~ Troy their West; Is Just
ioT them 10 back Albany 20 60 West over
the Troy ana Schenectady Road. To the river at Troy
you pass old rckey bridge that is extremely
DANGEROUS and has to years been considered unsafe The
crossing Albany s'e all the winter round
convey cd from East Albany segis.
Doary bridge constructed with boats The and rendered
safe and secure from ali danger. L. pretty well established
th. one of the bridge which
have to cross ct Troy parity carried by the ice last
spring und stand. proppcd up like old rnan cGdng into
the grave.
a Committee appointed 10 cause the route for the
Providence and Worcester Railroad 10 be surveyed have
made report According their estimate The cost ny one
route, being directly through 10 Worcester " be slvpV
including motive power by the Other 10 The Boston
and Worcester Road Grafton sa00O nnd they are con-
.dered favorable The estimates Of The business of the rond
nre larger than anticipated Tho mst,er referred 10
COMMITTEE with power 10 subscription books AID Collect
iuforma,ion.
All the interes, due on the Alabama State Bonds
m the current year been provided for and the short Bonds
which fell due in ls4i have been extended.
Counterfeit Ten Dollar Bills of the Bank OF The
State Of South Carolina circulaon the figure at the
head of the BILL being extracted by chemical process and
lbs, Of 10 substituted The easily be detected
by close inspection Of the word Dollars in the body OF The
bill the letter s. which added, being rather cumy eHecu.
ted with the PEN