The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-23

We have no charge report quotations for foreign
exchange. The demand has been very limited Bills
London we quote at "a % per cent premium.
The imporatons into this port during the week ending
April %, inclusive, have been as follows
Bleaching powder-44l casks 1872 tierces. Butter
"a frkins. Bricks-2e s9l frebricks Beer-570 casks
II half casks. Coal-2 s43 tons s. chaldrons. fee
4334 bags Copper-113 casks sheathing "a oars 2773
barrels extract indigo IS bags yellow berries IS ceroons
cochineal, 800 bags sumac Dyewood-So tons; 81 200
lbs logwood. DIug-2,37s kegs soda, 4ss casks 81
terces ash 756 kegs bcarb soda, 16 barrels
tai soda $50 boxes % casks chemicals $50 kegs EPSON
salts Is kegs aka 452 Of corce 500 cantsrs brm
stone Is boxes borax 33l II casks -four
sulphur 129 Casks tartar 10 packages water
80 casks anthony rs packages sheac 10 baskets
lemon 10 kegs sulphate ammonia rs barrels sugar lead
Dry goods-lO7 packages per American Congress IS per
Northumberland S52 per steamer Washington; 2o2 per
Universe les per z 22e per John Spear 225 per An
Foster per Pacific ITO Hero 1913 per Vanguard
165 per Mesconeas 81 Progress SO per Philadelphia
per Middlesex 926 per steamer Arabia 1854 per Compro
mise, SO per Kosmus; 81 Chas Holmes; 22o per Inca
barrels pantsps; 10 barrels almonds; do fberts;
IL 6gs % barrels 925 boxes rasns 40 900
nuts 600 pine apples 500 punches bananas 2ao boxes
1OS tierces 10 bbs Hides 5as hides 10 casks bbls
Horns1s co. Hair1 os5 bales Hops,6o pockets
cases. Lead-l2,e s5 pigs. Moasses7s2 hosshesds ss
O-100 puncheons 90 pipes s4 SKIS nseed 200 butts
olive 20 casks palm oil casks almond do Pant-lOO
barrels ysnssn red ss csas pan c1s
tons Salt 500 sacks Segars-293 cases ,3S boxes
158 bundles; barrels 80 600 loose spirts9s7 pipes
100 cases brandy 81 cases aesynth; 20 cases aqua
steel4e54 bdlr., 4se cases casks. spices-25 bags
600 mats csssa. Sugars, 1855 bags s,8l7 hhds, SO
tierces AGO boxes sugar. seed-ls5 bags. casks
100 erne plate III nsots tin 600 ps
545 slabs do. Tobacco-s6s bales Wood 3o5 logs ma
hogany 81 do. pieces rosewood lss pieces do ~ des
casks 662 cases 1914 baskets Wool-l45 bales Zinc
$50 casks sheet zinc.
The receipts Office of the Assistant Treasurer of
this port to-day, amounted to sl33, os4 99 payments
S72 102 A-balance SC, S53 $50 60.
The earnings of the Hudson River Railroad Company
for the frs. fifteen days in April 1853 amounted to
S H. against S25 100 for the time in 1882 show
ing this year Of $7 9ean average increase
OF more than one thousand dollars per day.
The Harlem Railroad Company held meeting Of their
stock holders yesterday at their Office which
ousy attended Robert Schuyler Esq, the President Of
the meeting explained TO the stockholders the object of
The meeting be that the directors have the right to
exchange stock for the balance Of the Albany Extension
Certificates to the amount of s640 0O0 this being the
whole amount remaining Of them that company have
The ri hit TO increase the capital (Which is now
s5 600 oO0) 10 IS 600 COO at any future time 1t
were passed unanimously by the stockholders TO that
effect In the course OF Mr. Schuyer's remarks
upon the result of the extension from Dover Plains to
Chatham he said that the Grst six months after the
completion Of this part OF the road the gross receipts
from that part about s5l, 600, being only lit
lie over expenses that they rapidly increasing
in the business Of the part Of the road SO much 50
that the receipts derived thereffom for the sue
ceeding fix months amounted 10 over Sl22 900,
which enough to pay The expenses and the in
terest those certificates 10 cash that the divi
bends those will hereafter be paid in ca h.
lie gave very Hstterng II the increasing bust
of the company and Of their future prospects, which
met with the universal approval Of the stockholders and
their vote unanimous
The Cumberland Telegraph states that total trans
portaon Of cosl Tor the week ending the 10th instant
was ia toDs since the LIT of January last 1902 go
IONS OF which III 500 10 zohs tons Transported over
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and u no 2Ohs de
sceuded the Ches peake and Ohio Canal
A bill has been introduced into the legislature OF
Masssc husetts Tor consolidating the Ftchburg Cae
shire and Burlington Railroad Companies, akng one
railroad company from Boston to lake Champlsn
meeting was held Falls the 18th mat to
promote the construction OF vide gauge railroad from
coat Sodus Bay on Lake TN through oenec, Falls
.0 Htscs. EIastus Partridge. bsq. presoed, sHd VI