The New York herald., 1850-09-18
N ON EY MARKEr.

i9rsnAr, Sept l7-sPM.
The stock market was very active this uorn,n,
government and State stocks, and railroad bonds we're
in better demand, at an improvement in prices. At
the first board Erie Income Bonds advanced 4 mar
cent, Farmers Loan y, Morris Canal 4, Harlem Y.
Reading R. R. 1. There large sales Of Penu'a ss
at an improvement Of y per cent from the opening
The market appears to be nrm and many Of the trans
actions on time were sellers option. 1t is the i'm
preston In the street that after the Adjournment Of
Congress, Sept 3oth, there will be an upward move
ment in prices to extent and holders Of stocks
generally disposed to wait patiently for that good
time. October Ia likely to be very active month in
the stock market. If nothing transpres TO tighten
the market and the receipts OF gold are As large as
anticipated there must be some outlet for the spseu
lating propepsties Of the public.
The receipts at the oos of the Assistant Treasurer
of this port, to-day, amounted to $s4 072 90; pay
ments, Ss29,450 IS; balance, So, 1853 3S6 15.
We learn that new institution, under the name o.
the Empire City Bank will soon be established In this
city. 1t will be located In the neighborhood Of Hud-
and Canal streets The directors will be posed
Ct some of our most active business men, and bu-
siness is very rapidly concentrating in that vicinity
the enterprise will, no doubt be successful.
Beware Of all fve dollar notes answering to the fol-
lowing dsscripton:-Centrs vignette, a female Jus
tice) resting on short column holding q sword and
scales in her hands each side of the vguetts square
die, containing large letter "" each end
gin female holding a rake In one hand, and spriE
Of grain in the other, with the figure 81 in each
Of the note the word Ave FIVE tim the
top and Eve times the bottom margin. 1t bears
the imprint OF" Draper, Underwood, Bald Spencer
This plate in the hands Of counterfeit srs is we'll
calc cuated to deceive the unwary and originally
got up to counterfeit the Harrisburg Eve dollar note
Of which it is good imitation. 1t afterwards.
10 rha nap Gar IN thaV Vor Ran
q FIVE end ten: then to the Princeton Bank as
Ave; and new see It again the Union Bank, Ha-
verhll This plate can, and WILL doubtless be altered
to other banks and other denominations andws there
fore advise subscribers TO bear the above descrp
tion in mind that they may be prepared to meet it
under any guise it may
Never have we known before such combination ot
cirsumstanees to relieve g road from peeunsry en-
barrassments and to place 1t in position which pro
mises to be of permanent prosperity those which
have occurred this year in behalf of the Reading Rail-
road The services of the elements legislators have
equally been enlisted in its behalf Through extravs.
gaHce and mismsnagement, It's stock dsindled away,
in few years, from " to 2s; and at the commence
ment of this year the 1850 bondhollsrs
swallow up the whole work. In this emergency, the
psDy secured the passage of most iniquitous law
By the Legislature Of Pennsylvania, which, at one
dash Of the pen removed and provided Tor debt that
threatened to cripple, II not crush them This diff
fculty out of the way. the company won't 10 work
il they really In earnest TO make money for the
bond ard stockholders. Tho construction account
was closed at once; ana ss the receipts slowly in
creased, the gross expenditures were reduced some
thirty per cent We told that dividend Of from
four to Eve per cent the stosk will be de-
clsred in January next aud that regular semannusl
dividends OF three per cent will he eater be declared
Our faith particularly where railroads concernedy
is not of the largest knd but IL the statements and
estimates OF the pany are of reliable character
Ito say nothing of their good Lucky the common stock
promises to be one of the few productive railroac
stocks in the country The net earnings OF the road
last year about million, six per cent OBJ
the investment Of sixteen millions This year the net
earnings necessarily must be much larger
The quantity Of -four wheat corn and barley, left
at tide water during the second week in September
In the years 1919 ana 1850, vas as follows -
Flour, bhs. Wheat bR Corn. bu. Barl,y sn.
Iess. 1881 bIS1s l3! 1se $50
1850. .n5,S25 lSs,Ss2 1887 l?i,aie