New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-06-10
COMMERCIAL AND MONEY MATTERS
For sale. Of Stocks, &c. see Fourth Poge

"WEDNESDAY, L. NJ.
There is very buoyent feeling in Stocks, and
nearly all the Fancies show improvement har-
lem continues to rise and it IL confidently predicted
that il will 20 IS within ten days Long Island Is also
advancing under the favorable negotiations being made
by the new Direction. Treasury Notes were sold al b
per cent and there but few offering on the market
There is considerable speculative feeling in Wsllst and
the excitement in Harlem and Long Island has inuenc
ed all Stocks.
For Sterling there is but moderate demand
and ths supply is increasing Good Bills sell at % Goi
per cent The Freight Market continues active and the
tendency of rates is upward Many shpowners a'k Is
to Liverpool British brig was taken for Ireland at
lid for Grain and another at lid and s. As far as we
can ascertain between $4,000 and 100000 bbls freight
were engaged yesterday for Liverpool and London, a
considerable portion being by the large receivers OF
Flour who are shipping their own account az buyers
for shipment rather hang back To Liverpool the rates
are 3s 6dd3s Cd and I'D and to London IS std4s and
lld0l2d. There is very little doing for other ports.
The business of the Long Island Railroad is
now In very favorable condition The receipts for
May
Passengers .---.--.---.-.>e2 20 VI
Freights. -.--------.--.-----..----- 3-oY W
Total. $ll52i %
May, ls46--PAssengers- .--.s62i2 ~ ...,
Freights. .......... 1874 65-ss,llI ~
Increase .s1'iVo 81
This is without the through travel to Boston which wa'
never of any advantage to the road.
On the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad the
receipts for May were
leiT.-..-. SlSilso -
ls46..... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. OOD1 ~
Excess for lsi7 Equal to &c per cent? $3.50 Il
The Old Colony Railroad has declared semi
annual dividend of So per share.
The Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad
semi annual dividend Of 50 per share.
The Worcester Railroad Annual Report states
receipts for six months ending May 81, thus Ps'sen
gers sl27Osl Freight sl5l,977-Tots, $279,o59. In
period last year the receipts from passengers
were Sill, 7s5 Freight, sll46Ol-Totsl, s2263sI The
gain is $52 Or or more than 20 per cent.
At Boston, Worcester, and Lowell Railroad
shares are held for higher rates with small transactions
at 10 and 2Ot per cent advance. Nashua and Lowell
has been sold at 25 per cent advance dividend OF
per cent for last six months and the Northern Railroad
Co have disposed Of stock in large sums st per
cent advance Vermont Central has been sold at
Oh and o. is offered for Cheshire without accept
ance by holders Portland, Saco and Portsmouth ls
INQUIRED for at a advance East Boston Co stock has
been extensively dealt in by spectators for rise or
fall who have about four thousand shares ahoat IN
consequence of holders preierring to realize "a
Their than wait $40 per share obansbe some years
hence
The business over the Union Pa Canal shews
an increase over last year
The tolls received the Union Canal, from NOV =
1916 TO June :, 1871 were .--------...--Slls2 %
During the same period Of ls456.--...--.. Aolt %
Increase this year i5S 81
The tolls Tor the last week 4USS %
Corresponding week last yesr.---.---.---. Loso -
Excess this year $500 $3.50 %
The Union Canal connects Reading with Middeto"n
and is go miles long
The following shows the amount collected on
the Delaware Division OF the Pennsylvania Canal Tor
the present fiscal year
For the Month Of May .-.-.-..--.-..----sSS.e 20 -
Last Report. .-.....-.---.------. 49, y
TOTAL .--.-- .-.--. --rf''''- -
The last Memphis papers say that the susPen'
pension Of the Farmers and Merchants Bank oil that
place continued. The brokers were reluctant TO buy
the notes though some sales had been made at % to -
per cent discount
The stockholders OF the Richmond and Peters
burg Railroad Co held their annual meeting on Tuesday
last in Peersburgh The receipts upon this road last
wear were so63lO % being increase of sl1,f42 -
over those of the year before
The City Council of New Albany, indiana
have NEGOTIATED loan of $1,000 ten per cent, with