New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-05-21
COMMERCIAL AND MONEY MATTERS
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SATURDAY, May l9-PM.
The Stock market very buoysnt to day and
ali descriptions advanced the sound Stocks quite as
much az the fancies Government Stocks IN large
demand and the quantity the market being now
much reduced by the purchases for Europe and for ia
vestment holders were enabled to advance the rates
10 per cent The inquiry a. far we could ascer
tain was for Investment There Is no Government
Stock pressing the market while the demand l.
large No supplies be expected from the unssucd
portion of the last loan that IS going abroad under
the indemnity arrangement. The increasing plentiful
ness Of money and the difficulty Of employing II at IN
terest is beginning to have natural effect upon stocks
and capitalists are drawn into the street 10 speculate
The result is seen in general improvement to-day
Harlem Preferred is almost in corner and sold al per
cent premium. The shorts cannot find enough to sup
ply their at resent prices and are endeay
orng to borrow the stock
The Exchange market is quiet to-day, at s9sl
y cent sterling with few sales above 81. Some Bank
bills sold at that figure Francs are ~ %.
In Freights there is nothing doing. -Four or five
vessels were chartered for Ireland at I'd for Belfast and
~ for Cork and a market. To Liverpool Cotton was
shipped at ld03 l6d 6OOO bis Flour s l0i % heavy
freight at o5s 10000 bushels Corn I'd. To London
within few days, 1909 bbls Pork q Cd 5000 do
Turpentnc, 2sd2s Cd 1909 Flour, Is I'd and Heavy
Goods, 3Os for Ireland, 7ddsd bags and bulk 10
Amsterdam Pot Ashes, 3Os and Rice, J7s cd To
Havre Cotton was taken at idi. and $4,000 in
specie at per cent
The French packet of Monday will take 500,
90 OF $4,000 silver coin This export OF silver to
Havre makes no difference to the Banks, it is con
fdered merchandise and is seldom counted IN their
reports. being almost always special deposit
Era late xN4e
not even counted in the Bank reports The steamer
Washington will not probably carry much specie as the
feigh, is q cent more than in the packets and the
insurance is also larger.
Payments at Sub Treasury to-day were s6S,s7J :
Receipts STOOL The receipts and payments into the
Sub Treasury since October, 1916 have reached the
enormous sum of slf0000OO0
Coin continues to pour in from the West at the
rate of about $4,000 q day. The export since let
May have been s5s7s3O
Some Of our Insurance Offices got hit 10y the st.
Louis Fire but the amount impossible to say until
the letters are received Philadelphia will also suffer
some from this cause and the amount insured IN Boston
Is estimated to reach 100000
The specie in the downtown and uptown
Ranks basbeen counted and reaches :, 2Is 600 This
is AN increase of 100000 nearly 100 = cent since
alst March when the amount Si,2OOOO0 There
is also in the sub Treasury to-day S2l0'sO0 making
total of BIO $4,000 in the City The Banks have many
of them more than they want. The Merchants Bank
has 81 100000 ON the ls July next little more than
a month million of dollars will be paid out here from
the sub Treasury for interest on the public debt
which will be added to the amount IN Bank, and tend
10 make money Ell easier.
The Money market to-day is abundsntly sup
Piled and capital cannst be safely used with freedom
~ cent Some loans have been msdo al y q cent,
and large loan was made Tor IL months on Treasury
Notes st 20.
Another new Locomotive has been added to
IN. equipaee of the Erie Railroad Preparations are
being made to open the road to Owego to which point
regular trains will run on the lst proN.
The value Of Merchandise imported into this
District excepting that sent to the Warehouse, and the
amount of duties received during the week ending on
the nth inst in each Of the four years Is as follows
1916 1917 1913. lsp
Dauable Goods. i,O2l457 9s2677 l,1oeois Leoogl
Tosl Merchdise 81 lo.I5l SLoSisS9 siAieeE slA1il9
Spec,e ......... 1885 loSS9o 10 $50
Cash received .... S0.7N 1aal'o S-GSS -slio!'
Re- ~ dpfv s. 10 "a - - -
The drass upn the Assist Treasurer amount 10 >Sioo 10
and the Exports for the week TO S7lAo<I
The value OF Dry. Goods imported and entered
TOR Consumption also, OF DryGcods entered for
waTohousng. Tor the week ending on the l'th INST Is
as follows 49,.
consumption. NAr-h,sS im W.
Manufactures Of Wool. .sil6b slSsS sSsvSS
Cotton. 4Asho lf.elo tls'-9
Sllk......lo9lS9 HISS MO
Flax ..... 25lt eoe H'-1