The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-10
Talk on Change.

The foreign considered favorable to bread
stus but it produced advance in prices here though
-four closed firm at 81 81 for common State brands
Cotton closed steady with sales of 800 bales Pork
6rmer and sold high SIS per Dbl for Sugars
continued active the chief sales made 60 out
market.
The bill before the Legislature requiring the banks in
addition to their quarterly returns to make weekly
ports considered excellent measure. It was be
leved that quarterly returns useless, and were
rather calculated to msesd than to enghten the people
in reference to their condition With good weekly publ
cations, quarterly returns would be unnecessary Banks
towards the close OF each quarter prepared their returns
with view of rendering the most favorable showing
they could even if it at the temporary inconve
nience of their best customers and at the risk Of
rousy deranging the money market; whereas,
regular weekly accounts published, they would be
PEELED to move forward in a uniform channel.
The Anti Bribery bin considered good measure,
and it thought that it should embrace the bribery
with breaches Of trust of all public officers of every de-
scrption, throughout the State and not be confined
members or officers of the Legislature.
The bill regarding vag'ant children in the streets Of
New York, considered first rate measure. The
largest number of rogues and burglars were juvenile
offenders varying in age from twelve to twenty who
had commenced their tuition in crime in street vagrancy
and petty theft Various parts of the city infested
with idle and predatory vsgrant Children who followed
little beyond petty street pilferDg They often became
the too willing tools and associates Of older expert
enced and hardened rogues and in the end adopts in oil
the arts Of the profession. In Boston, under recent
Jaw it the duty of policemen 10 take up vagrant
boys and carry them first to their parents guardians
and they had nome they provided for at the pub
expense by giving them schooling and trade. If pa
rents friends refused look after them, send
them to school, abandoned them to vagrancy, they
taken Of by the public, just though they
had neither parents friends. Such law was much
needed in New York. and hopes expressed tina. it
would be adopted.
shipping merchant complained that much inconve
nience experienced, and especially by strangers in
finding the numbers Of the piers the East river. II
that the figures representing the numbers of
piers attached to the sides Of large bulk heads at the
front Of the wharves; hut they daily pasered
with quack doctors advertisements that nobody can
zee them. On the North river side the numbers are
painted metal plates and nailed to the top of the bulk
heads which answered better.
Another suggested that the Corporation should put
both the numbers OF the piers and the of the slips
large figures and letters and have them secured in
elevated positions that they could be readily
all times.
Inquiries again made regarding the progress
making for the establishment Of the United States Assay
Office, but seemed able to give any satisfactory
information As the legislature had passed bill through
branch exemptins il from taxation, thought
that movement in regard to it would be made soon.