The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-08
CONMERCIAL AFFAIRS.
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Speculation is getting quite active again Ia Wal
etrect There was an active d.mand this morning
Tor all the leading fancics, and in most instances an
advance In prices realized. At the rt board North
American Trust went up a per cent; Morris Canal ii
Cumberland Col, /: Florence and Keyrort. 1; Long
Island, q; Hudson River Railroad n Michigan Central
-. Nicaragua Transit declined y per cent The coal
etocks arc among the frmcst on the lt The Cumber-
land Is properly Of the cheapest offered This i'm
mcnse extent Of coal land and the extensive improve
ments for mining and marketing coal must give AIS
company advantages superior 70 most others The Cum
berAnd coal business is destined 10 he equal 20 hst OF
the Anthracite regions of Pennsylvania Nicaragua
Transit cold day principally for cash. but very lit
Gle stock Was offered The OF the Northern Light
With three hundred ana sixty passengers, who came
through from san Francisco in twenty three days. has
llscd the superiority Of the Ncssgui route in stron
keht before tile public Hudson River Railroad has ad-
shout per since Saturday and the
tsles have been quite large Florence Koyport has
reached prices which will bring great deal stock on
the market and the bears viii be putting out time
contracts We believe this stock started about twelve
months since al twenty and has steadily advanced and
represents village lots ana plank road At the second
bossd the msrket more buoyant, aud specuistors
Sor rice were in good spirits Zinc advanced X
per cent Long leland 4. Erie Railroad 4 Cunber.
land cos firm at - only small lot was offered at
ihst price
The receipts at the Office Of the Assistant Treasurer
ihs pert to day amounted 10 S149 oo4 so Payments
$50 CTS 66-balsnce Sc SIS O63 SO.
The demand for foreign exchange for remt.anc by
Abe steamship Asia for Liverpool morrow (weanes-
day) has thus far been only moderate. We have no
change TO make in our last quotations The steamer
will not take out large OF specie So far as e
can judge from the engagements already made the total
vii I,1oy -
LARS Tie Washington viii leave ,his port for South.
pnpton, Saturday next She viii not take out much
specie
The receipts Of gold at the mint Philadelphia from the
ist 70 the 4th OF September. inclusive about two
millions two humid red aud twenty five thousand dollars
The Northern Light brings about three hundred taou
Eand dollars in gold Gust 10 the hands of passenger
Bids for ninety thousand Of seven per cent mort
gage bonds OF the CHARTERS Coal Company will he ecey-
I'D at the Office o. John Thompson, Of 6rcadwaY
mad Wal street, until "Wednesday the Sth of September
at o'clock ]? NJ These bonds portion of one hun
cred thousand Collar Issued by this company ami secur
ed BY 6rt and only mortgage upon coal and coal
rights under six hundred ana fifty of the best coil
land situated five miles from The Ohio river three miles
below Iittsbwg Pa The mortgage also covers their
railroad five miles in length with ali the necessary equ
page; alo twenty dwelling houses in the to wn of Rem
ington and eight Of land at the terminus of the
road on the Ohio river The mortgage is issued teJ D.
T. Lanier as trustee fo- the bondhoders The company
have demand during the period of navigation for more
coal than they have the capacity transport ana have
ordered new equpnge for the purpose Of increasing that
capacity.
There viii be sold at auction in The Merchants Exchange
on Friday the 10th day of September at IL O'Clock two
hundred ana twentyfou thousand dollars Of the first
mortgage seven per cent coupon bonds of the Buffalo
and New ork City Railroad Company. The principal or
these boad able the lst Of July, 1866 interest
payable semi annually at the Mechanics Bank in this
city These bonds the last of issue Of seven hun
dred thousand dollars secured by the first and only
mortgage the track frem atdca Horncllsvile dis
lance Of sixty miles The cost Of these sixty miles in
GLIDING locomotives and ,ars las been twelve hundred
thousand dollars The company have purchased twcnty
three miles Of the buffalo Rochester Railroad track
from Atics to point eight mile from Buffalo The lat
Ter company building track direc. to Batavia
commencing ut the point just mentioned 1t will be COM
peted bT the LIST OF November when that company
ere to give possession 81 the % miles 10 the Buffalo
New York City Railroad Company The remaining eight
miles terminating at Buffalo building 80 that the
whole road will DC completed in tho month Of November
next and the from Buffalo Hornellsvlle
where it interscts the New York and Erie Railroad 332
miles from New York, making the whole distance be-
tween Buffalo and New York 423 miles being the short
York and Buffalo. At Buffalo the read connects with
railroad now organised between Buffalo ard Lewiston
by means Of which direct communication will be ere
ated between the Eastern cities, Niagara Falls aud
Toronto Canada West, without break at Buffalo. This
road viii form important. connection with the rail.
roads in Canada running westerly to Detroit and
northery TO lakes Huson Superior aud Michigan The
entire line from Lewiston to Buffalo and New York will
he Of the Fix feet gauge best to promote the comfort
of travellers, and economy in the transportation Of
freight
Tho Louisville journal states that the losses Of the
Nashville Insurance Company (the suspension Of tbs
business Of which has b en- previously noticed have
amounted to million and half Of dollars within the
last year Al Investigation of the affairs Of the company
IL now going with view Of sscertning its ability TO
meet its losses.
The annexed statement exhibits the quantity aud value
Of certain articles exported from this port during the
ending and including Saturday September A. 1862
tinguihing the destination extent OF shipments to
each place -
CosniIRoE cy THE PoRT NEW YoRK-WrrKly ES-