The New York herald., 1851-08-18
RECEIPTS OF PnopucE At T,pE War

The increase continues weekly. Nearly every week
this year there has been increase in the receps of
breadstu and the aggregate arrivals Of -four this year
compared with last show a greater increase than in
any previous year except in 1s47 when the receipts
enormous in consequence of the demand for our
breadstufIs in Europe.
It is stated that the Canal Commissioners Of Pennsyl
vania have had interview with the of
large number of transportation companies who desire
further reduction Of tolls to enable them 70 compete
with the New York Canal and Railroad lines The re-
suit Of the meeting has not transpred but there is
doubt proper means will be used to secure to the pub
lie works Of Pennsylvania fair share Of the carrying
trade OF the great West.
We have received copy Of Bartetts Commercial and
Banking Tables embracing time simple interest unex
pred time and interest," interest account current time
and averaging compound interest scientific discount
both sim pie and compound annual income and annuity
tables-equay adapted to the currences of all commer
cia nations the true intrinsic value Of gold aud sl-
yer coins and the standard weights and Of all
countries; also American, English French, end German
exchange; the exchange Of Brazil and the importation
of Flo coffee; This work is extremely comprehensive
embracing the most complete and useful series of tables
ever offered o the commercial world They are entirely
original and designed to obvate the iborous
processes Of mercantile calculaon,-such for instance
as those which show, at glance the interest the
veral items of an account current, &c.
These tables have been spoken of in the most attering
terms in all quarters where they have been examined
Merchants Of the first experience in business do not
hesitate to express themselves in most decided language
on their great merit and being worthy universal pat
ronsge The work is in itself complete labor saving
chine and its is attended with the utmost exactne
by the introduction of the decimal system in the tables
they adapted to all currcncies ana thus the
Of
the mercantile world that has been devised. In
urging the Of the work. therefore, we are urging the
adoption Of uniform and universal system of estimating
accounts This is strikngly manifest in the account
current tables These combine together time inter-
est so as to afford the greatest possible rapdity In the
estimation or averaging Of such accounts In deter
mining the interest or discount upon transactions in
which time is to be reckoned So ready their ,p-
cation that the number fdays which intervene between
the day Of settlement and the day each item due
both backward and forward together with the interest
or discount as the case may be- upon the same be
determined by them at the Of three per mi
mute The importance Of uniform sy stem In render
ing these accounts easily be comprehended by
the business than described II would greatly re-
duce the labor at present required TO test them
would lead all to conform to one standard. Thus the
merchant could comprehend and test any account cur
rent whether English, French German, with equal
facility as his Viewed In this light we deem 4. to
be the duty Of every friend ofcommerce patronse this
work as standard for commercial business It Is evil
IDENTIFY the only that be introduced for such an
ohiec' It's results based upon fundamental prnci
pies in mathematics and they prepared in the only
method Of which exact science is cognzant for their
application to practical purposes.
Nor Is II q volume merely for the merchant It's COM
pound interest, life annuity, income and compound
dcount tables, highly important to every attorney
whose business relates in any degree to securities and
estates involving questions TO be solved only by tables
such as these In this field Of calculations as in all
others this volume Is unsurpassed. We are confident
that, as soon the work becomes known II must be
sought after 1t lie the most splendid Offering industry
and intellect has yet made, in the form volume to
the mercantile world and that bears directly upon
Its daily transactions The advantages which II pre-
sents too great to be overlooked and to, useful to
be neglected Within the field Of mercantile calcula
tons II will avail to establish order cxactness
Dispatch and accuracy Of labor than all other works Of
the Kind combined.