New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-16
COMMERCIAL AND MONEY MATTERS.
~ For Sales of Stocks, &C. see Fourth Page


SATURDAY P. NJ.
There was very little doing in the street today
and nr;ces generally were without material change Har
sr, went up per cent; Reading l! Farmers Lean
Illinois 6s Long Island, Canton Norwich and "or'
cester Morris Canal and Pennsylvania Sc closed at yes
,erdays prices The sales of Morris Canal at the Sec
ond Board were very large and at decline OF and :
per cent on the prices at the First Board
We have no alteration to report in Domestic Elk
changes There is no demand worth noticing Tor oils
on any point and quotations merely nominal: oils
on London los0l0si Amsterdam 39t 639.; Hamburg
35t035s Bremen 7at075i
The Columbus Fire Insurance Company OF Phlla
depha has established agency Office in this City al u
Wall.st-Mr B. $ Whitney formerly attached TO one
of City Companies. is the The company has
declared dividend OF five per cent payable on 10th inst
a; Philadelphia,
At auction, this morning, by Dumont & Hosack,
25 shares of the Nevasota Cexas) Association sold al,
Sl2 per share and shares of The New Washington
Texa Association s32 per share Par value in each
instance 500 Both are land associations
The rates for domestic bills on the most important
points are without doub! low they well be car
red On the principal Southern cities the rates range
from par to per cent discount
We learn tina; the Bank of the Stale OF Missouri,
which had suspended the purchase OF exchange on the
South and East in consequence Of some restriction in
its charter dehng in exchange, has again resumed the
purchase of bills to limited extent.
"A bill has been introduced into the Legislature OF
this State tor the regulation Of the auconeers The
duties enforced by the new bill are as foows
On wines and ardent spirits dollar upon every
hundred.
Q Goods wares SC the growth of the United States,
and all STOCKS IS cents per every hundred dollars
Manufactures of cotton, WOOL hemp, flax or elk the
production OF any country not beyond the Cape oil pooo
! Hope 10 cents on every hundred dollars -
A. All other goods wares, merchandise, and ehects oV
! cents every hundred dollars.
5 For real estate tuueas sold undera judgment or de.
! cree) oDr-eghth OF one per cent,
! 6 Requires scmi.unnual reports from auctoneers
! As the law now stands whstever duties placed
upon certain goods sold charged to the OF the
goods and do not make the slightest difference in the
auctoneer's charges.
The N j. Senate bill relative 10 the aud transit
duty of the New.Jersey Railroad passed to third read
ing in the Assembly yesterday 1t fixes the tax on the
capital at quarter OF one per cent on 81 6OoOoo until
lsi9; and the transit duty passengers at per cent
on the amount Of the fare. The former provision is
asked for that the company convert part OF its debt
into stock and the latter in contemplation OF reducti
of the fare The bill to incorporate the Delaware and
Hanover Railroad Company passed the Senate on Wed,
nesday.
The Philadelphia City Councils have before them
proposition contemplating subscription OF two mil
lions by the city, to the stock of the company proposed
for the construction of the Harrisburg and Pittsburgh
Railroad.
At Boston money is toerably plenty while there
is good business paper enough offering at the banks to
employ all their Nothing but paper OF this des
crpon can be readily passed the banks. There seems
good why money may not continue sui-
fciently plentiful, good securities for long time
A failure occurred on Iuda-st. Boston, day or
two 1t is said that the house involved is of that
class that grow up here and there during times such
we have had for the past two years Becoming too much
extended for small capital and limited means they break
down from more tonheaviness.