The New York herald., 1851-08-06
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TUESDAY, august DO L. NJ.
There slight eaction in the stock market to-day
with increased activity among operators At the first
board Erie Railroad advanced one-half per cent? Read
ng Railroad three quarters Norwich and Worcester
Railroad q Harlem Railroad one-half; Stonngton Rail-
road half Farmers Loan Il Canton Company three
quarters; Erie Income Bonds onehaf Erie Convertible
Bonds declined per cent There were large sales Of
Reading Erie and Harlem. At the second board, Erie
Convertible advanced half per cent; Erie Railroad
one half all others closed prices current in the
ing We have idea that this improvement will
he sustained. II is nothing more than Of those
actions usually realized during falling market, and in
view Of the influences tending to depres financial af
irs generally the probability that II will be but tenn
ycrary. The contest is still going between the bill
brokers in Wall street and the Metrope esn Bank. This
has unfavorable effect upon the money market and
until il is ded must expect greater strngepcy
the market than would otherwise have existed The
Merchants Exchanges Bank has ciaed the resolution
passed days since in relation to taking uncurrent
money and the brunt of the contest falls upon the
Metropolitan. The bill brokers powerful body to
deal with and the charces in their favor The Me-
tropolitap Bank will have peace, and the probability
G that 1t will ultimately abandon the position It has Ia
ken There reports Of failures, in the street, OF
several mercantile houses but they do not amount to
much, If true.
The receipts at the oce of the Assistant Treasure, of
this port to-day amounted to Sl63 lS6 20; payments
$lo40 o3-balance, s27352,2 TO-
The demand foreign exchange for remittance BY the
steamship Atlantic wednesday, has been on
ly TO moderate extent notwithstanding the reduction
IN rates We quote bill on London, 9ts 10 per
cent premium on Paris, 81 1- a5f II Amsterdam
Al Hil Bremen, .s'. a ,'i Hamburg, 35i4 35}E
The steamer will take much specie The scarcity
Of to purchase excl lge has reduced the rates
and partially arrested shipment Of specie The slightest
let up the money market would raise quotations for
foreign exchange and specie would 90 forward with
great rapdity S at any time this season.
The AmesbuIy (Mass.) Flannel Manufacturing Com.
pany declared dividend of four per out OF the
profits Of the last six months, payable on demand
The New York Life Insurance and Trust Company
have declared semi annual dividend Of four and a-hs
] er cent payable on the 11th instant.
The anthracite coal trade continues very active and
he demand for coal Is unabated. month ago, I'M
dsrstand the Reading Railroad Company's wharves at
Port Richmond were blocked up with about one hun
drsd thousand Of coal The weekly tonnage during
the time has averaged about thirty thousand tons
notwithstanding wi!c 1.-The wharves compare.
lively bare and the demand fer coal for the Eastern
ket is pressing ever. There to be doub;
that there viii be market for all the coal that the
echuylkl region produce. and II is nov probable
that the tonnage of the two lines will reach nearly two
and quarter millions u instead Of one million eieh
hundred thousand tons estms u at the opening OF the
eeason.
The receipts Of the New York Harlem aud Albany
Railroad for the first months Of the years isS 40
sc, and 81 follows