The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-28
COM M RCIAL AFFAIRS.
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There wGs net much activity in the street to day
Quotations current OF the close yesterday hardly
sustained The market throughout weak and fever
oh AT the first beard Nicaragua advanced per cent
Canton COMPANY, q. Reading Railroad declined 4 per
cent Norwich and Worcester, Il Cumberland Coal,
Harlem, y. The amount Of stock Offering limited,
and the bears werc not anxious to put out contracts
transactions fer cash numerous which looks
Is though the shorts buying in for delivery.
]! ia our impression that prices have touched bottom
They may remain in tho neghborood of current
for time hut appears though the lowest Level had
been reached Everything, however, connected with
speculation In fancy stocks Of the most uncertain char
scter and one knows what day may bring forth,
The money market is getting easier The outside rate Of
interest fixed at Eve per cent and the supply Of capt.
tai is daily increasing. In the course Of week two
We have doubt the market will be easy it hos
been any tine within the past twelve months.
At The second board there little better feeling
the market but prices remained about the same Erie
Railroad went up per cent. All others closed ct prices
current at the frst board.
The receipts at the Office Of the Assistant Treasurer
this port TO- day, amounted to sI24 13S Sc payments
Sl47,e eos ea-balance So soc. $50 73.
The steamship Rankin, for Havrc to .norrow-sstur
day-wii rot tske cut large amount CT specie. En-
gegemeuts have already been made for shipping about
three hundred thousand dollars There has been only
moderate demand for foreign exchange to day for
D;tapoe by the Heyre psoke. 70 morrow. We have no
alteration to make in our last quotations
Tno earnings Ct the Long Island Rai.rce5 Company
from tbs 18th to the 2Ist instant, Ss-T1 g. against
ss1s5.l sor the period in 1851 increase S572 &C.
tho last annual report learn that the whole
cost OF constructing ard furnishing the Rutland and
Burlington Railroad including interest hes been 81 s4,
4o1 The gross earnings CT the roed the past year
MN n
The grcss expenses were Sl5e45O leaving the net
iDgs at S1653s0.
Up to the Goth Of August inclusive the arrivals at the
to o. Quebec numbered 6a5; tonnage 265 22I against
1Se arrivals and 6e5 tonnage for the corresponding
rorod last year. Decrease in arrivals AZ, tonnage,
u AZ
The chief engineer Las completed els surveys and eti
fe- reed from thouzvie &c Lancaster, Pa for
ehich charters ottened last vine-. The road is
,o to Philadelphia directly with Lebanon aud
H. gch county surrounding that wealtty place. It
t. bull. fo7 s. 2eC,coo.
rcur counties in Mississippi have subscribed 100000
ia tie citizens s2e7 600 atoA &C tie NoLle and
ohio Railroad Company.
An AIRLINE Railroad Is proposed from NcrfeiS Va,
along Tic eastern shore Of Maryland through the States
of Denva-e and New jersey to the town Of Freehold
iie.c e cenreot With The Freehold and Keyport Rail
ed Steamboats, 70 connect the various termini
tie Chesapeake, Delaware aud Ee-tsn bays and
thus passengers will be conveyed to New York from Nor
IL 4, from sunrise to sunset.
The western termination OF the Cincinnati and Zsnss-
vile Railroad is at Morrow. Gbout thirty I'VE miles this
side Of Cincinnati where it connects with the Little
Miami Railroad II Is 125 miles long, and terminates at
Zanesye whore II connects with the Central Ohio Rail
rcad At GAINESVILLE 1t will also connect with the Akron
Branch road being rapidly constructed from Hud-
son. via Akron Ohio, to GAINESVILLE, by Of which
railroad route from Cleveland to Cincinnati will be
created giving to the local business Of this road direct
communication with Cleveland. The road completed
ard fully equipped will cost not to exceed $4,000 per
nile S25e0,ooo. Ninety miles, from Morrow to Ian.
caster under contract to be finished by October
1853
The Treasurer Of tho State Of Ohio gvos notice to al
holders Of State warrants Of any date denomination
that there funds in the treasury to redeem them
The annexed statement exhibits the quantity value
OF foreign dry goods entered at this port fer consump
ton for warehousDg, and the Withdrawals from
house during tho ending the Goth August 1s52
MOVEMENTS IN FOREIGN Day Goops.
Entered for CorSn11yr0n