The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-07-07
com MERCIAL AFFAIRS.

Thursday, July 8-6 r. NJ.
There was more activity in the stock market to-day,
but prices were not firmly maintained At tae first
board, Long Island fell of per cent Morris Can.l,
Erie Railroad r.
At the second board the sales were confined to Long
Island and Reading Railroad, at prices current in the
mernng.
Money is getting easier. The banks have within the
past day or two received quite accession to their
specie items from the sub-treasury Thirty thousand
dollars in gold deposited in one bank, by an indi
vidual who received it in payment for interest on
government stock
The interest the bonds of the State Of Illinois is
payable at the Office Of Wsdsworth & Sheldon, No. 65
Exchange Place. Instead Of the American Exchange
Bank Wall street. formerly the funds of the state
have been removed to the Bank of Commerce.
We learn that the Erie. Railroad Company have ne
gotated hundred thousand dollars of their seven
per cent bonds in London, at % per cent This with
the exchange at current will net them 1872 per
cent 1t is probable that the company will dispose of
three four hundred thousand dollars worth more
at about the Same rate, in the same market Bills
drawn upon these sales will be among the best in the
street. These bonds selling here daily at two
and two and half per cent below par by parties in
want Of money, and capitalists take them as fast as
they arc offered. They general investment at
par.
The New Orleans Canal and Banking Company have
declared semi-an dividend Of three per cent
payable at the Bank Of Commerce. in this city, on the
9TH of August.
Bonds the city of Bridgeport due the 18th of june
ultmo, are payable at the Bank of America.
The receipts Of the Harlem Railroad Company for the
first five days of July, were as annexed =
NEW YoKK, HARLEM, AND ALBANY RArLRoAp
= sasy lis July 5 ;s Wednesday V"sdis SIG
Total .......... 1926 o.
This is the heaviest amount Of business ever done
this road in the length of time The receipts
would have been larger had the weather been fair
The only really fine day in the five was tho 4h and
the receipts that day than eight hundred
dollars larger than any other II raincd every day in
the five, but Tuesday, the 4th. The income for the
present month will IL is estimated be than thirty
five thousand dollars In June the receipts averaged
about one thousand dollars day; and this month
they will exceed that An increase of thirty three per
cent the income for the month If July last year,
would make the income, this year than thirty
| eight thousand dollars ..t.r,
Surveys three routes the western side
of the Suquehanna have been made for the extension
Of the susquehanna aroad to terminate at the west
end of the Harrisburg bridge. Two OF these routes
commence at York; and at Wrghtsville. Tho
shortest of these routes would not exceed twenty-five
miles, the maximum grade not more than twenty-five
fe, to the mile and the cost not over 100000 The
route by the East bank, by way ofWrightsvie Colum-
| bia Marietta, and Middletown, would make the dis
York to Harrisburg about thirtysix miles,
but the cost Of completing this route would only be
about three hundred thousand dollars
Accounts reach MS from all sectonszof the country,
of the most favorable character regarding the growing
crops and the yield Of those already harvested. The
weather has been every thing that could be desired,
thus far, and unless something happens between this
aud the general harvest to destroy the present pros