The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-19
o0MMERCIAL AFFAIRS.
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MONDAY, Oct. 1852. M.
We have change of Importance to report in the
stock market. At the first board to-day Nicaragua
Transit declined Il per cent Harlem q Norwich and
Worcester z Canton Company u Heading Railroad,
4 Long Island, Erie Railroad q New Jersey Zinc
"a North American Trust a. Cumberland Coal Com
pary, advanced = Hudson River Railroad a. At the
second board the market altogether better Nicars
qua improved q per cent North American Trust u j
Erie Railroad "a. Nicaragua quite active at tho
close and purchases time at buyers optsn made
to extent 1t is difficult to form any opinion rela.
tive to the future of prices The market Is
settled and operators undecided in their movements
that tell from day to day hovstocks will stand
The bears anxiousy looking for the arrival of tia
steamship Crescent City from Havana with the hope that
somethng has occurred to increase the excitement
and create Ill feeling in tie public mind Several large
lots Of stock sold this afternoon anticipation OF
unfayorabe from Cuba within the day two
The receipts at the office Of the Assistant Treasurer OF
this port, to-day, amounted to S66s2l &c. payments
1929 104 sbalanoe, S6312 AT 90. The balance is not
likely 10 exceed this much again this season. By dc.
in the receipts from reduced mportaons in
creased disbursements the accumulaons from this time
to the Of the spring trade will be very
moderate.
The importations into this port to-day October is,
have been asfollovs
Beeswsx, bales cordags 200 coils whale line coffee
136s bags; drugs, 10 ceroons ippecscuana dyewoods
$1,000 lbs logwood dry goods s52 packages per Arctic
fruit, $4,000 oranges; horns 10700 hemp, 1884 bales
bes scsss sss - sas
seg and Is S2s bundles paper segars sugar
257 hhds salt, 1,45o bbls, 1I3f6 bushels; tobacco
wood, ~ sticks rosewood, 1,265 pieces mahogany, l5l
logs dc.
The Union Bank has declared semi annual dividend
Of five per cent American Exchange Bank five per cent
la the Canadian House of Assembly address to the
Queen adopted Friday last asking tho IMPOSITION
Of duties produce Of foreign nations entering English
ports equivalent to those which other nations impose on
the produce OF England and her colonies ALSO repeal
the comforting American which
Canadian vessels do not enjoy in American waters
The Albany .7rgus says that the tolls collected all
the canals of this state to the first Of October
decrease Of 1908 GA of this amount all except about
$4,000 to $4,000 Ii upon up freight There be no
doubt bat that much larger amount of merchandise
has gone forward than at any previous season. but the
and not discriminating reduction Oh pro.
perty ascending the canals has been the cause OF this
result
The earnings Pennsylvania Railroad Company for
the month OF September amounted to $16e AL 81 Of
which Slo557s 81 from passengers and 500 s62 81
from freight In September 1861 the earnings amounted
So Increase in September this year $50 OIL
Previous increase this year $e5o,3OS GO.
The expectation Of cotton goods from Boston during
the week ending the 10th inst to 154l pack
ages; previously since January SO asa packages Total
this year, 81 sos packages; time 10 1861 39s96
packages Increase this year, 1889 packages.
The Boston Courier states that the money market IL
moderately easy in the absence of any unusual demand
Most Of the wants supplied by the banks and very
little good mercantile paper finds its way Into the street
for outside discount In the stock market there been
very little doing and the fluctuations of the pat week
have been tring Vermont Central Rairoad stock has
been most sctive throughout the week About three
Thousand shares sold Saturday prices ranging
from TX TO 16 timecosing at the second board
IT, BAD, and III. sekod. About year ago they were
sold at hundred per cent hghss Arxrgsneuts It Il