The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-14
CO N d L CIAL AFFAIRS.
blONEY MARKET.
FRIDAY. AnrlI l3-N u. y

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| The stock market opened heavy this morning, and
nearly every security in the list fell Off fraction The
money market has again become very tight, and the
rate of pteses rules ut the highest points Good short
business paper is plenty and shavos at Dor cent
month freely Solong this state of things lasts
fancy stocks cannot improve under the
is astonishing that they well sustained At tho
first board to-day Treasury notes declined per cent
Pennsylvania SIS "a, Reading Bonds %, Harlem Canton
Company 4, Farmers Loan a. Long Island X Erie
| Railroad new, "a, Reading Railroad l.
Between the boards reaction realized but it was
partially lost in the afternoon At the second board
Pcnnsylvania SIS declined a, Kentucky SIS Y C.nt.a
Company went up Il, Farmers's Loan 4, Long Island
| "a, Erie Railroad u.
The steamship Falcon has arrived from Cbsor.s
which port she left the I'd inst The steamer Cali.
fornia from San Francisco not having arrived at Pa
mama when the Falcon left Cbssres she does not bring
anything later from the gold regions Our next 20.
counts from Chagres will probably be by the steamer
lstbmus via New Orleans
The Harrisburg Railroad Company has declared a
semannual dividend of three per cent. payable on
demand
The Pennsylvania Railroad c ON pany has called in
the last two instruments the stock of the COMPANY
payable So per share at the office the COMPANY on
the LIST OF May and rs per share the LIST of July
Tho steamship Hermann, from SOUTHAMPTON has Ar
rived with two days later from London and the
Continent She brings nothing Of any Importance of
financial or commercial character. Money was very
easy In London and call could be placed at more
than Ia per cent interest, and first class paper WAS
dear al per cent, and the same rate ruled at tho
Stock Exchange There Is nothing later relative 10 tho
Liverpool cotton market, The Hermann bring largo
and valuable cargo
Gold is stated to have been discovered in France in
the haI nf fho IL
made it found that piece of freestone contained
"rge incrustatons of yellow, ductile metal which
turned out to BIO massive gold with little silver and
some other metal, probably iron copper The gold
was not In thin flakes, like those which goldseekers
find in the sand of the Rhine but in dense. massive
bits, and In large quantities in proportion to the
quartz.
The receipts Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company for tho month Of March, in each Of the psst
two years. were a. annexed -
BALrIsioEs AND Ono RAupo.n
ReceiptsJor Ms,@ Is4s 1910
Main ~ stem. 80. .s12e449 50 sI2sSTI 40
Washington Branch. 2s,59o ~ 4s,opa os
Totals. .......,... $4,000 80 $l7Ose3 "a
The large increase in the receipts from the Washing
ton branch "afrom Passengers attracted scat Of
government by tho presidential Inauguration There
has been IN increase in the receipts from passenges
in the main stem Comparing With March, 1873 we 500
All no'e"dc III Ihe mann sten IN Passengers of Sl675S
Go, and decrease in freight Of SI4335 TO- making an
ultimate increase of S243l ST. Upos, the Wasbjnyto,
branch the increase passengers has been sl777s II
and on freight STg' lI-toal increase sls5ol 20, and
increase upon both roads s2ooJ3 H.
since the beginning OF the present fiscal year there
has been an increase OF $3.50 In the revenue of tho
nam STEM ana an inorease Of ss0i Is In that of tho
Washington branch, making total incressc oomparcd
WIN inc corresponding FIRST sSmonths oflsaS of sat DIS
"a upon both road. The transportation of live stock
has amounted IT, 63ll hogs 1iO sheep So horses and
mus, ana yi3 cattle Tho number Of hogs h oSo Ioss