North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-02-19
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In addition to this list of steamers there Is also
engaged in navigating the rivers and the pay S!o
craft of various kinds. There is also now lying In
port, many of them abandoned and others used as
store-ships, between five and six hundred vessels,
not few of them of the largest class that can be
found in any of the waters OF the globe.
! The auction business of San Francisco bears no
unmportan relation the trade OF the city and the
State. The number which we propose to name as
the principal individuals and firms legitlmaely en-
gagged in this branch, is seventeen.
| In addition to what has already been mentioned,
we will add that San Francisco, with population
of over IS, 900, sustans seuen daily papers, while
New York, numbering half q million, can boast CT
only double that number: We have eight Express
Companies, the princ pal ones being Adams q Co.,
and ]. w. Gregory; srty brick buildings where
six months ago there eight or ten hrst
class hotels, the head of which stands the Union,
just erected by Selover g. Co., and under the manage
ment of Isaac NJ. Hall, the ST. Francis Demonlco s.
the Revere, and the National.
But few months since, the boundaries even OF
San Francisco were hardly defined with sufficient
defniteness guide the inquirer IN his search. NOW
we have hundred and seren miles OF street iaid
out one quarter of which is built upon and occupied
and over seuen miles of it substantially planked, and
most of that distance properly severed. we nave
now a semi-monthly mail, where year ago IL was
only occasional one-reachlng our shores no.o ao
then, and half the time not as often One marine
Insurance Company has already been formed, with
capital of $500, OOO and another in progress OF or
ganization.
Such IS BIRDS eye SIdnCe dI Aodh -
the close of :. Eighteen Hundred and Fifty
The MONEY MARKET. The amount of uncoIned
gold in the mint present we understand exceeds
eleven millions of dollars including some 100000
which belongs 10 the treasury of the United States
An application has been made, learn, to the Sec
retary of the Treasury, on behalf OF the banks OF
this city and New York, requesting him TO order
two millions of dollars of the Al millions now In
the hards of she Assistant Treasurer OF Now ork,
to be applied to the payment of a portion OF the mint
certificates issued in January, thus anticipating the
coinage of the mint that amount. This would, II
complied with, be great advantage to the banks and
the public, as it would once throw that amount into
the channels of circulation and of business and tend
to prevent any strngency in the money market. AS
the MINT in consequence ofts increased ability, Will
now be able to coin between six and millions OF
dollars per month"; the coin thus temporarily advanced
by the treasurer would be replaced therein by the LIST
day of March ensuing. We are glad to learn that
the officers of the mint here determined to push
its operations with the greatest vgor, and that 1t VIII
be long BEFORE in consequence of its increased
capabilities, it will be able to furnish dePositors OF
gold bullion with their coin in ten days after the same
shall have been assayed
At New York, the premium specie hasa down.
ward tendency. Some parcels of silver are coming
from the West, which supplies the demand. In ex-
change there good business done and the rates
were without change. Philadelphia Ledger