New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-23

These receipts show gain of nearly 25 per cent the
CORE poldng period of last year The made
up the 3Oth Nov and two half yearly dividends of 50
per share lave been declared within the yeai payable out
of tie earnings of tic road after carrying surplus
the contingent fund
Mr. j. B. Jervis has been elected President OF the Chca
90 and Rock Island Railroad Co, and Mr. A. c. Flagg.
Treasurer The Directors are John b Jervis New York
Azmiah c. Flagg, New Yo,k William Wacott, Utica Ru.
fus H. King Albany; Gec-ge Bliss Spnnfeld Mass, John
STR ker Rome ID Excud, Joliet Isaac Cook Chicago
Il Judd Chicago T Il Brewster, Peru Lemuel An
drew, Rock Island James Grant, Davenport f. Cook,
Davenport l. Cook, Assistant Treasurer N d. Elwood
Secretary.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the following
Circular 10 Collectors:
TREAsuRI DEPARTMENT Dec. Is, 1853
SIR: have reason to believe that there material
def cts in the forms and times of rendering the returns
required Of Collectors by The act of the goth February
1870 well in the node of entering keeping and
exhibiting the matter contained in the same in the Regis
ters Office and desire to introduce such improvements
may be practicable and may secure greater exactness
and rOmlt ude in the exhibits required by the act. My
object in addressing you is to obtain such information and
cid ms may be conducive so that end
There is now much diversity the part of Collectors
in reporting tie articles imported and consequently delay
and difficulty in the Registers Office in ass nilatng and
distributing such articles t. recognized species classes
To rome dy this evil it TO to be necessary for
this Department TO frame nomenclature of articles TO
tify te list to all Collectors for their observance, AMI for
importation of articles TO be reported by Collectors
other circumstances shall ender expedient To enable
the Department to construct aprOper nomenclature will
thank You as may be- TO transmit 10 this Depart
meyt table in alphabetical ctder showing: l. The names
of all articles imported whether enumerated emu
meTated subject to duty i.ee. ? The commercial or
scientific demonstration of the general class f. which such
variety belongs 3. The place of growth manufacture
The rate Of duty, if any, Rsueh article s. Such nfOr
nation of the character Of articles not in use and
Of the purposes TO which they usually applied as
/ may be in your power to furnish Appended to this
list you will add list Of such articles in your opinion
may be aggregated or classified for the contained
in lie proviso the third section OF the ect referred to-
and similar list and appendix Of the articles exported
Al the same time may be proper TO revise and re
range tie lt of countries 10 and from which our com
merce passes. And | will thank you to look into this
brand of the subject also and favor with table in
alphabetical orde Of the places proper in your opinion
to be recognized and established the place of trade
contemplated by the actin these returns The same in re-
speet to the time whenit assumed the exports take place
am not aware that any change, except in the time of
dion required in the present mode of returning regis
terne or exhibiting the unnage, but if any defect in
ours To and you suggest Improvement. IL viii
be acceptable 10 the Department for yen to do so.
IS proposed that 9 returns of commerce naviga
non sna be made as at present Toy quarters but that
iney hal be made as possible after the close of
the quarter to which the return refers instead Of being
delayed as at sis time. or weeks and months to
fetie r louwM please Iioq if the business cannot
b condueter your off from day day so that the
reurns nay be h ade with period Of from one to five
az according TO he bssnss of your district The last
PoA VIII he TO secere the anst ready and mode of
keel ms ane rendering those returns in tie several dis
tn o. and Of registering and exhibiting the results at the
Tres sgy The probability Is ma n diversity in tho varior
us ]m Houses in this particular. Also YOU viii please
explain 80 mode observed in yon Office sending copies OF
tho forms used AID the reasons that In your Jude uent re-
conpend s'h forms shers. very respectfully
JAS Cyrsf1
t. SorTsfs and Daabury Railroad a dividend OF
the earnings Of me last Eve months The diyi
dend declared the end of FIVE months on account OF
the change Of time which the Company has adopted IN
making up its semi annual accounts which will hereafter be
in June and December. surplus to the account Is
still retained after paying the dividend.
In relation to the in which the explosion Of Mr.
Pearce took place TIE Norrich Courier says
at Is now said that the operations AT Pearoe
were wound up rather suddenly in consequence Of
event which happened few weeks previous 10 bis fight
from Norwich. Ii seems that among the puri6ts paper
which he had discounted here there was a note agsis
Henry g. Nichols iron dealer d Nsw-Yerk. This note
having been forwarded by ths Norwich Bsak 10 Nov