The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-03-18

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Total Tor February 1850. 1888 04
$3.50 o.
Showing increase Of receipts this year of about
10 per cent over last year; and it will be perceived
that large proportion OF the earnings are from the
local business of the road.
The Wabash and Erie canal Is now completed be-
tween Toledo Ohio, and Point Comm cree Indiana,
giving a continuous line Of canal of 362 miles-2oe'
miles in Indiana and 81 miles in Ohio The continue
ton OF the line from Point Commerce to Evansville,
the Ohio river defiance Of 1l1h miles s al under
contract effective force Of two thousand men has
been employed upon it the past season, and its anal
completion in the fall Of 1852 placed beyond doubt
This great work soon 70 be completed will be 483
miles in length-th largest work of the kind ever
dertsken by any State of the American Union; the
largest continuous artificial channel Of communities
tion on the European or American continents.
Georgia paper accounts for fact of the increase
of the receipts the crop of 1850 that 1S49the
increase being more apparent than rsal-from the
tended of gunny cloth instead Of bagging In the
table of receipts published, the number and not
the weight of the bales Is given. The high prices
this have induced many planters to reduce the
weight Of the bales to realize profit on the bagging
Ne increase nomnally, according to the latest
turns, equal to one hundred and thirtytwo thou
sand bales upon the receipts Of the period las
year. and, allowing ten per cent to be the average
falling in the weight of the bales 1t will require
increase of receipts Of 0 coo bales or coo In all to
make the crop Of 1850 equal to that of lS4s.
new coinage law has been adopted by the govern
ment OF Chilli We copy from the Mercantile porter
the provisions relative to gold and silver
Article l. Three classes of gold to be coined, o.
the standard OF nine tenths ane to be dsnominatsd
spectively;-Condor, dosbloon (doblon) and escudo
The condor TO weigh three and five 500 1000 grains
and to correspond in value With ten silver dollars
The douboon to weigh one hundred and fftyt two
no 1000 grains and to correspond in value with vs
silver dollars
The e.cudo to weigh sixty. lo8 1000 grains aud
/ to be Of the value OF two silver dollars.
Art. There shRll be I'VE classes of silver money
also, of the standard of nine tenths fine namely
collar. weighing five hundred 76S 1000 grains.
fifty cents tanning two hundred and fifty 5S4 100c
/ grains
/ One of twenty cents, with on. hundred 1855 Ioec
| grains.
One Of ten cents With fifty $4,000 grains
One OF five cents, with twenty five $1,000 grains
The Mrcvio, time ago, stated the proportion
between gold and silver according to the mint regua
tions hitherto in force In Chilli being 1911
the doubloon being issued at the value of sixteen hare
dollars By the currency BILL the proportion be
tween geld and silver will be to 1852 conss-
quently the dellsr will be exactly equivalent to the
five franc piece OF France both in weight 25 grammss
and in quality o 900.
The annexed table exhibits the aggregate value OF
mercb andre exported from this pert during
OF February; also the amount of shipments to each
county
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