New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-03-15
COMMERCIAL AND MONEY MATTERS.

(For Commercial and Money Matters see Last Pdge.)
FRIDAY, p. NJ.
The market was heavy to-day, and at the Second
Board especially there considerable desire to sell
The decline In the fancies from to per cent The
weather NAV possibly have had effect in giving opc
rators the bluos but the speculative feeling
outside buyers the principal reason Cor the decline
There is fair supply Of Foreign Bills, and the
market is dull at previous rates-Sterlng 81 TO- Francs
S25a52 3i.
There is no change to notice in the Money mar
kc Tho Banks taking paper freely at per cent for
short and per for long. Stock leans are 81 per
cent and easily obtained In the street.
Theincreased earnings of the Mohawk and Hud-
SON Road continue to be very large For the week ending
It'll March, they three times as large as during the
zane week Of last year. and without through freight
twice, show excess of one hundred per cent.
Receipts of he H9oisor and NosaTk Railroad.
Week ending 2sth Feb. Do 9TH March
Passengers. $500 IS 7i0 20
Freght-local ..-.......... so IL 81 40
' through .......... 3cs IS 500 90
Total ....Se ss % 1884 10
Same time last yeur............ S525 90 4s9 90
Excess in lsl5 S46S - s45 10
Mr. Corning, OF the Senate Bank Committee, has
Introduced biand il has been made the special order
Z
Banks shall be taxed the amount Of their capitals, in
Guiding the amount of stocks deposited with the comptrol
err This Is in fact tax the circulation Of the Free
Ranks ffum which the Chartered Banks exempted and
justice In such measure, II Bank capital
TO be taxed very well: II Is fair object OF taxa
ion. Perhaps any other description of property but
surely injustice TO the circulation well ms the
ap,a OF the Free Banks, while only the capital OF the
horered Banks taxed Tho stocks deposited with the
Comptroller bought with portion of the capital OF
hose Banks, and thus double tax is paid Mr. Corning
large stakeholder in chartered Banks. and he should
set lend the influence OF his position 10 hamper and en-
arrass the Free Banks. We have In this State
os Banking system and the safest currency In the world
md yet Legislators continually tnksrnS II, and
will al last reduce tho profits the banker that the best
Banks Will be forced TO wind up and the vacuum occa
doned by their withdrawal will be Allied up by the of
ether States issued by Banks about which nothing be
known sand on which the discount will he much larger
than our own Country money. The best policy is 20
/. !et well enough alone.
RATES or DISCOUNT AT THoMrsoS's OFFICE 50 WAlL-sr
tacwYsn' Honey. Broken Bank Money.
Eastern hSnkable In bost Bank OF Oswcgo. IS
Albany Troy. science &c Commercial. oswcso %
Western New-lork. j sConmercial, Buffalo. IS
Jersey Observation-Disclosures. sClnton County. .-.......a5
: hiadeiphIa Waterveit ...... -
Baltimore United States, Phslsacl 80
Virginia ..-......... Brcekport, n. I........25
Ohio, Indiana and Hamilton, y
Wisconsin and Iowa.--.--s Bank OF Lyons .-....,.25
Michigan ....3 Tx. OF H. a: Shawnectown go
Carolina & Georcia Illinois State Bank. so
South Carolina ... II Union, Florida.
Mobile u Southern Life and Trust :. SIS
Sew-oglsans .....--..-..l
At New-O.leans Exchange Is IN talr demand al
q Sterling and 1894 $50 for Francs Sight
SewYork dis Al Charleston there is very little doing
ScrIng 81; Francs $50; sight on NewYork par to
Hcn.
Sales al Boston Stock and Exchange Board,
March 10. si5-swcs.su Railroad 9ei do 9ss; 10 L..
Island Railroad, ms TO- Boston and Providence r.
r loSi % {. Boston Stock 49, 100 DO b o 8 s -
Charles,own Branch e. r. So IS Boston and Worcester
ER ll6i.
A Report recently made by Hon. ]. A. NcCIer-
ard Of Illinois, in relation to the Illinois and Michigan Ca
@ states among other startling facts tha, the lake trade
ksncreased years. between 1885 and lsil from III
acver four millions upwards OF sixty millions OF dol
h That the internal and external trade OF the Western
States was S235 600 In 1892 and that during the same
the whole foreign trade Of the United States imports
md exports. amounted to S204 ,s53,62i.
This trade OF the West is made up as follows:
Between its own ports, being entirely an In
sln2l trade ou,VVV,VOu
~ the way OF the lakes, with the East 6SoooOo0
isoash New Orleans exports and imports iOOooo.ooo
( MAKING s2oo'VVo'Voe