New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-14
COMMERCIAL AND MONEY MATTERS.
For Sales of Stocks see Fourth Pa.qt.

The Stock Market was rather heavy - day with
only fair amount of sales After tho board there
saes still lower rates There is constituencies in the
market in relation the operation of the Treasury
Of which the bears take advantage, and permanent
rise can take place until the Secretary shows his hand
or the actual operation of the law proves dsproves
the fears entertained
In Bills the transactions are very moderate and
the rates are heavy. Sterling ia quoted at 5i9Gi.-
France 42i as 40.
Freigbts are steady Mt 40 40 for Flour. Grain
lJ0lGd, Cotton 7-lGd. ship taken up for Cork
snd market at 17td and the Geneva for Ireland al
l6id Heavy goods 50s TO Liverpool and Cos to
London Some vessels have been taken up for Sligo at
Sc AID 05s cd. for Flour.
The Committee of Arbitration of the Chamber
Of Commerce for December, consists of Messr James
Lee. Jacob Harvey WIN. II. Macy VIM. Chamberlain
aud Caleb Barstow.
There is good demand for Treasury Notes, as
alter the LIST January they will be needed to make pay
men,s for Government dues. Specie then being requir
ed these notes will furnish much less troublesome
dunn Of payment and viii be in demand at par One
bid of 9gl was made for 100000 to-day either of the
lmi or S 2 per cent kind.
Col Pratt informs US that TO the best of his know
ledge the Prattsvle Bank has of the forged paper
spoke of yesterday.
There are now loading in this port 20 ships,
bark and brgs for Liverpool, chips and barks for
London ship for Bristol bark for Gloucester, brig
for Hull ship and banks for Glasgow bark for Sligo,
ships for Havre ship, barks and l brig for Mar
settles ships and brigs for Antwerp ships Tor Bre
men end ships and / brig for Hamburg The above
probably does not include all for the ports named.
The Merrimack Manufacturing Co at Lowell
have declared semi annual dividend OF per cent.
The Directors OF the \. Y. and Ere r r. Co.
have called for an instamen OF SO pcy share, all
shares which che payments on each do not already
exceed sos
The following is O comparative statement OF the
business the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
during the week ending December 1876, and for the
corresponding weeks in each OF the two preceding
years: ls4i 1916. 1916
Travel ...--. ...-....S ,277 - SLIGO 90 S249i AZ
Freight on Goods 992 as l760 SIS 2624 50
Coal -. s46s 10 1919 10 $3.50 81
Total ....-. siO73S 20 S7,434 "a $4,000 so
Coa transported, tons -s620;l3 30730l 26.40215
The total amour, shipped from the various Coa re.
gions in Pennsylvania during the present up to
the ates, dates, have been as follows, viz
Frpm tons. ctot
The Schuylkill Coal MINIS .ll7979i OF
Lehig -......-.....--.,....-.--. 5SeOi, 10
Lackawsnna. ..-......... 2s5,45a l6
Ni,kesbarre. -...........--- ls9,5s2 Co
Pine Grove .....,..-......-...... 6s,7le 10
Grand total. 49, ,2,2i5,595 10
The Message of Gov BARLEY of Ohio has been
received. He gives favorable account OF the financial
affairs of the state The new system oil taxation has
brought large OF property on the duplicate
subject to tax and the ample and rapid growth
aud prosperity OF the State all apprehension OF
The ability OF Ohio to pay her interest and discharge
1ok;l III Tho rpcpiDts
the State during the last fiscal year for general pur
poses were dncuding balance in Treasury 18th Nov.
is.5,. S2l9 $50
The disbursements were ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. l9210l
Balance in Treasury observation-disclosures s2''ssS
The receipts into the Canal Fund for payment OF in
;srest on debt .Sli56e13
Pd for repairs superintendent interest sc li7&f2l
The amount psd for interest on foreign aud domestic
debt was.............. .--..-.-.-..... .sl,9l0os9
The amount of tolls reed on the Canal was 9s24'"
The following is the whole amount OF State debt
Total amount OF foreign debt. SlbeoiaS2 %
Amount of domestic deb'-..-.--.-. . 10 - -
School and uust fund Lie.,oe- "
Tot. am, OF State debt Nov Is 1916. Sl92ls.ul 30
OF the foregn debt the OF S59ls66s 40 will fall
iae the year 1850 the OF S3365'79 "a IN the
yeal 1856 the sum OF s7O27sl in the year 1860 the
ct S667O6S 80 in the year 1870
The Governor says. Tho time has arrived when deci-
Give and eaectua should be tdoped TO raise
the means for the discharge OF the debt which will tsi
duc in 1850.
The following statement shows the effect OF the
system of taxation The valuation OF property tor
stion on the grand duplicate in the year lsl5
follows Lands $S59l6l69; Real Estste in cities and
towns. $4,000 SIS; Chst,els, Money al Interest &c
<Sas74725 tots, valuation, Sll+l60469. The val
nation eroush, upon the duplicate. under the new
viz. Ianis SO lklktSk Resi-
Estate in cities and towns S6530S37S; Chs,,els
Money at Interest &C $40 l774Sl total valuation on
tie grand duplicate SlGS6734SS. The increase in the
fetal valuation OF real for The purposes OF s
ION is S2l63io260 and the increase in the total vsus
ion OF chat,els and money at interest, SC is S43s ~
There are now twenty.six banks in operation under
The system OF which seventeen are branches OF tue
State Bank. and nine independent The aggregate
mount OF capital OF the Branches OF the State bsk IS
ai9S;57 IL and the amount OF their circulation on
Lee ed isy of November lsi6, was Ss,6S65+6 %. The
aggregate of capital OF the independent Banks is
S6l1o; and their circ ulaton at the period last
toned, WAS S6la465 There arc yo, eight bsnks doing
aencss under charters granted under she cid banking
gs'em in this State whose aggregate cais at the time
the last reports on the ID day Of Noveuber 1876 was
2s52,75a; and circulation, S2,+o6,95s The whole
AMOUNT of banking capital. therefore Employed in the
State 81 this time by the hirtyfour banks amounts 10
SSaS677 - and the whole circulation Is $56si.:6.
is stated that some Stockholders of the Morris
Canal Company have employed counselto ale a bill in
Chsncsry to show that the debt OF the Company,
which the $4,000 mortgage was executed secure,
wa usur!ousy contracted and that usqry q per Gently
has actually been paid and therefore show that the
bonds and mortgages given 70 secure that debt should De
sfren up and cancelled
The Planters Bank Savannah Ga have de.
sased dividend OF four per cent for the pas, six
men,hs
We understand that the receivers :of the Manu-
aetaFcrs aud Mechanics Bank OF Nsnsusket intend 70
Rss ssoasr dividend sooa To b entitled to this the