The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-15
COM NJ ERCIAL AFFAIRS.
MONEY MARKET.

The stock market continues quiet The most active
fancy the list to-day Erie Railroad and prices de-
cned in the face Of large transactions Quotations for
most of the leading railroad stocks fell of fraction At
the first board Harlem dc cned 4 per cent; Erie Rail
road III Reading Railroad 81 Canton Company Il Nor
ris Canal Vi Norwich and Worcester 4; Rochester and
Syracuse u; stonington u; New Haven a. Dauphn
advanced x per cent; Nicaragua al Erie bonds, FIRST
mortgage, x; Harlem Railroad, first mortgage, x;
Northern Indiana Railroad At the second board there
altogether better feeling and active. buoy
ant market. Nicaragua Transit Company advanced 2
per cent, with large sales; Canton Company "a New
Jersey Zinc u; Harlem IL Erie Railroad ~; Erie bonds
1865 "a Erie bonds second mortgage, Z. The move
ment in Nicaragua has been just what anticipated
The bears will find it difficult if they not careful to
get in their shorts without serious losses
The demand for foreign exchange for remittance by
the steamship Atlantic tomorrow Saturday. for Liver
pool has been pretty active and drawers have not made
the slightest concessions in rates. We quote bills
London at 90 10 per cent premium Paris 81 Tx
ST Is Amsterdam 4o3s 407s Bremen, IS 1914; Ham,
burg. SO 26h
The receipts the office Of the Assistant Treasurer Of
this port, to-day amounted to $63.0S4 40; payments
S57.3 S3-balance, SO, 59o723 "A.
The receipts of the Cleveland, Columbus and Cncin-
natl Railroad Company during the month Of April 1852
amounted to s52544 "A, against s2s7o1 for the
month last year Increase "A for the month this
year-equal to about eighty per cent
The Galena lead mines have not been productive this
year last According to reports from the upper mines
the shipments in March and April. 1851 amounted to
es 535 pigs; for the months this year. 23 pigs
decrease pigs We have mines in this section of
the country which will when properly worked not only
supply any deficiency in the Galena mines, but will prove
highly productive The mineral wealth Of the Atlantic
slope has hardly yet been touched. Coal and iron are
the only minerals which have been brought out in any
quantity Others, equally if not more valuable must,
in time be developed We have the mines Of lead and
zinc only want capital and knowledge to make them
profitable These clements will in time be forthcoming,
to any extent required.
The annual meeting Of the Canton Land Company Of
Baltimore will take place in less than month. and pr
vate letters state that the directors report will be more
favorable and satisfactory than any of the preceding
ones The corporation proposes to sell the detached por
ton Of the property called South Baltimore, the op
poe side Of the habor the proceeds Of which, 1t is e
mated will warrant the payment Of large dividend,
besides enabling the company to complete the contem-
plated improvements of ts valuable wharf property.
Split gold dollar pieces rapidly multiplying and
the caution cannot be too often repeated to be the
look for them The piece by fine and ingenious
machinery, is split In two, about onehaf of the coin
distracted and the pundeed sides stuck together again
n
little care will readily detect the fraud. The milling
the edge will be found broken and very generally
pewter coored cement may be observed proruding from
It, The coin too, is thin in the middle.
The Attorney General Of this State has deter ned to
compel the banks issuing notes upon canal
fcatcs deposit other stocks with the Comptroller and
withdraw the certificates in his hands The Comp
troer has decided that under the decision of the
SQUIRT of Appeals he cannot pay the interest on the cana
certificates, when due
The bills of the ST. Narys Bank quoted at 60 or 10
cents the dollar at Columbus the 18th inst This
applies presume to notes of the larger denomina
tons, those below Eve dollars redeemed by Mr..
Winter At par.
The receipts Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany during the month Of April amounted to sl9 4O5 81
Of which 500 coo rs was from the main stem, and
S28,7g9 81 from the Washington branch
The amount Of tolls collected all the New York
State Canals TO the close Of the first week in May In each
OF the past seven years. was annexed
NEw YoRK STATE CANALs-ToLLs COLLECTED.