The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-02-02
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
MON EY MARK f r.
TUESDAY, Feb. l-6 2.

TUESDAY, Feb. 1t T.. M.
There was an animated demand for all the fancies.
At the first board prices pretty well maintained,
and closed firm. Phoenix Coal Company advanced
per cent, with large sales for cash; Delaware and
Hudson, i Long Island, /; Deep River Coal Com
pany, B; Panama Railroad, !. Cumberland Coal dc.
clined per cent? Erie Railroad, /; Nicaragua, 4;
Brunswick Land, /; Florence & Keyport, l. At the
second board Nicaragua fell off 1 per cent; Morris
Canal, J.; Phoenix, l; New Jersey Zinc, /; New
Creek, j.; Cumberland }; Portsmouth, /; Pennsyl-
vania Coal, 4; Harlem, !; Erie Railroad, It up.
pears by this that at the afternoon board the tenden
cy throughout was downward. Nicaragua was sold
freely at the decline. Other stocks were rather
quiet. A new stock made its appearance in the
market to-day at the second board. 1t is called the
Potomac Copper Company. This stock has for some
time past been sold in the street, privately, and
transactions have been made at prices higher than
those it opened at to-day. This company have some
magnificent specimens of copper ore, which have
created quite sensation. The par value Of shares
ten dollars each.
The receipts at the Office Of the Assstant-Trea-
surer of this port to-day amounted to $1S6294 CO;
payments, $sS,328 56-balance, 1857, 6s7 43.
The importatons into this port Monday and Tues
day, January 81 and February /, have been as fol-
lows:-
Butter-l47 kegs. Beer-95 casks Cocoa-247 bars
COfee-1, 7A bags. Cheese-1O0 boxes Dyes-7o casks
madder Dyewood-60 900 pounds logwood 20 tons cam
592 casks corice 802 cantars brmstone SO casks
cream tartar casks madden, S22 bundles corice root
Sal per e., 50 per witchcraft IS per Seamans Bride
boxes lemons, 10000 oranges $500 boxes
do eel boxes $50 half boxes 4e57 quarter boxes, 2o
boxes I02 trails 81 kegs Almonds 16 citr0n Flax
80 bales. Hides-3,22s. Eon-5,S42 bars $50 tons
railroad IRON India rubber-32 boxes, 2073 bales, lis
barrels, 1876 bags Iyory-2S teeth. Lead-2,759 pigs
Mats-5O0 bales 20l bales mating. Marble-46 blocks
oaics casks palm 20 casks rapeseed OIL 20 casks lin
spices;-3C50 mats cnssia sct-ss n.edin, speltsr-
Window glass9 851 boxes. Wine--175 quarter casks
cases, casks
The demand for foreign exchange for remittance
by the steamship Europa, from Boston, tomorrow
wednesday, for Liverpool, has been only mode
rate. There has, however, been slight improve
ment in rates for sterling bills. We now quote bills
on London at % a % per cent premium; on Paris,
ST. l32 ST. l2a; Amsterdam, ALI Az; Bremen,
79l So Hamburg, 36i a 362.
The Lorillard Fire Insurance Company have de-
clarcd q semiannual dividend Of five per cent; the
City Fire Insurance Company, nine dollars per share;
the Citizens Bank, four per cent; the New York
Life and Trust Company, five per cent; the Bank of
Louisiana, five per cent; the Cleveland, gainesville,
and Ashtabula Railroad Company have declared a
dividend of three per cent in cash. and six per cent
in scrip, the latter due on the LIST Of August next,
payable to the Eastern stockholders at the office Of
Winslow, Lanier 4 Co., in this city, on demand.
The Tradesmen's Bank has adopted the uncurrent
money deposit system, on plan similar to those of
the other banks now engaged in the business.
new company is now in the course Of organza
ton in this city, under the title Of the Mechanics
and Traders Fire Insurance Company.
The following is statement Of the coinage at the
United States Mint, in Philadelphia together with
the deposits of gold and silver for the month of
January, 1862