The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-03-09
bbons, silks, and millinery Goods Tho
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Inc ftoek market not very active or buoyant
To- day good deal Of Edgeworth changed hands but
prices were well sustained from the opening Reading
Railroad declined y per cent with considerable Sales
principally for cash. Erie and Harlem were quiet
without charge in prices. Canton Company ad
ysrced TX per cent; and Norwich and Worcester y
with sale OF email lot Of each. United States 6s
1862. went up q per cent farmers Loan fell of u
per cent; Stonirgton u. The market closed heavy
The fact that operator Of some Importance had
pounoed his inability to fulfil his contra cts caused
esrre.sion in pricsr certain stocks and heavness
In most others.
The receipts at the Office Of the Assistant Treasurer
of this port day, amounted to S163 422 75 pay
mtnts, sa9 3o4 rs balance, 81 2907 III 81.
Books for subscription to the capital stock of the
Bank Of North America will be kept open until the
18th irst, at the sfce OF Gilbert snd johnson, So
Wall street, to give those who may wi.h, oppor
tunity to subscribe Eight hundred thousand dollars
already secured. The capital is to be million of
dollars. John Fisk, late Cashier Of the American
Exchange Bank is President, and Isaac Seymour,
President Of the Weftchester County Bank is Cashier
The steamship Cembria for Liverpool, takes out
$24 COL in SPECIE and the steamship Merlin for 81.
Thomas taken out $50 10 in specie.
Several large failures In tho cotton trade have
cured In Chsrle,ton 8. G., one Of which Is to the
extent of Ss5o,0co. The house las. alluded to,
concerned, likewise, in the California adventures.
ngton, Esq., engineer, OF Newark, to Col Jas. L
Curtis the Preiident Of the New Jersey Exploring and
ninibg Company, give great des of information
la,ve to the value OF the different from the mines
and articles manufactured the minerals OF the
company =
sir-In answer to your inquiries to the parity Of
The metals and paints manufactured from the red
zinc ores OF Sussex county New Jersey. when con.
pared with similar articles Produced in Europe it will
ba necessary TO premise that zinc is a volatile fetal,
and ir reduced from its ore by subimation requiring
spowerful heat and the white oxide is produced by
sabmation is the rams manner, and cende nsiag the
sublinsd metal in atDos piece Of oxygen You will
Therefore comprehend that the purity Of the article
will depend In the first instance upon the presence
absence Of volatile elements associated with the zinc
in Its ores or that may be used as fux in its
ductton.
The red zinc Of Sussex is associated with iron
and Manganese only, neither OF which volatile ct
the he at which vii, reduce zinc The aux Is either
charcosi coke, the purest anthracite and the
suit IT, metal obtained Of chemical purity, well
the most delicate ehemi ,ai tests The White Is also
pure assistance Ct zinc and oxygen.
The zine ores of Europe either cerbonatss sui
phurets, and in may instances mechanically com.
bined with galsna, arsenic, and anthony. The con-
r.quence IL that We never obtain from Europe any
ailc Of che mcs purity; and all of IL being alleged
In combination with some one of the foregoing impu
Iitss, and oteo rs We lind by analysis with all Of
them, the paint raaI uiactured from such article
cannot lie pure.
Besides tie impurities onained in the white zinc 0.
Europe it comes from the furnace IL lie often aiu-
terated afterwards with carbonate OF lime and othor
substances
selling their paint prepared In oil have In their
power guard against the sduteraton Of their paint
by deaes and therefore with tatety warrant tho
Cencuner a pure Elnc paint
The mines OF the company in Sussex county
New Jestey, midway between Sparta AMI Hamb.:-,,
ard contain immense quantities OF zine ore and
Frsnkline. This latter Is OF great value but the
operaior 81 the company at present are confined to
the manufacture Of white and brown paints from the
zns For this purpose they have erected furnace
bulldogs mills, machine shops, So at Newark where
they owe valuable property Of forty between
the Passaic river and the Morris canal. About fifty
tons Of mined and hauled to the feeder Of the
Norris canal daily. This is transported by the canal
to tho works In Newark. The present furnaces and
machinery equal to the manufacture of about 1000
tons each OF the white and brorl paint annually.
white zinc paint has hereto been imported from
Trance, where it Is manufactured Of zinc metal and
sold Ut l2 cents ger ID Its superiority In color aad
disability Wits lead becoming In fact whittier by
age, &c proved by the high price II bears. The New
Jersey company can nanufacture this pain. cheaper
thar white lead be made and thus mo opolzs the
the sale. The brown pain. is much used for painting
outside work, iron brick So 1t possesses gslvauic
properties and having s.rcng METALS basis, resists
Ere when put upon wood. The sale OF this paint Is
only limited by the facilities Of the company to pro.
ducs II. 1t is nadO simply by crushing and grinding
tbs zlne ore in ell 1t has long been q desidera.um
among the scientific OF the world to and
mineral substance which would possess oil the quail
tee o: superior paint yet be free from any ngre
dent, which might have q tendency to impair tbs
health Of the workmrn.
Bonds OF the Chicago and Galena Railroad Company,
BEARING ten psr ceat intere,t, amounting to $4,000
are offered for sals. Thess bonds are issued undsr
authority nom the Legislature OF Illinois, payable In
New York, and tbs principal convertible into the
stock cfthc company any time within four years.
Tits road forms link In the great chain OF roads
retehiIg the Atlantic to the Missssipp river.
IL Is 81 the cheapest roads In the wo:id having
cost but thousand dollars per mills to Elgp, to
which place it is completed from Chicago 1t hasa
rsiy valuable local traffic TIE last dividend Of the
company Gig per cent from ak months traffic
The fnsh,d portion Ct tie road
The Cincinnati Gsste awe, the annexed account o.
Girosd being con,trueted In the Miami Valley sad
meeting with the valley. They exceed In number
md per those Of any other portion state
4 Ohio;
The trunk line OF these roads Is IN. Cincinnati,
Ismiiton and Dayton Railway. extending from the
o. to the last named city distance o. sixty miles
his road runs north through the great add fertile
1sn Valleys ,ect3n o. country tia IL coon 20 be
- meet denseiy populated in the country. This road
81 b. completed next runner and fall aud will,
ut,tionsby. Be one Of tho most productive roads in
he united states
Dayton me northern termination Of this roai, Il to
the poiat o. radiation of severs other important
ailfoaes, TIE Mao River road IL already extended
ON Springfield to this point % miles. The Colu N
y, and X,nia road is soon to extend from Xsnis TO
hls point-lb miles-thus connecting the Cincinnati
euiiton and Dayton road With roads running to San.
usky City aud 60 Cleveland.
ca the Wet, the Dayton and Western railroad,
ing to Richmond, Indiana aud thence TO Indisuapo-
being rapidly consttgcted-this is on tho Inns Of
be Ohio Central Road. which IL to extend through
Indiana to ST. Louis. The Greenvill and Miami Rail.
fad connects With tie Dayton aud Western road II
lies nom Dayton, running thence 70 Greenviie 20
.e tn. TO th. state line 70 miles thence 20 Win.
tesitr Ihcisna 10 miles where y connects with the
dams polls nd 3el.fonsine road this rosl Is tar
dvanceG a. TO warrant the purchase OF tho rails.
Tie Cincinnati Hamilton sai Day road. Gill
extended north, and after reaching n given poiat,
~ branch oH-oue road Leading to Fort Wayne aud
BE ether TO Toledo From Hamilton, ROAD Is build.
10 Eaton, 20 miles, thence TO the State line and