The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-13
NANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.


FRIDAY, Au ,ust l2-6 7. III.
Down the wcr in Wall street again to-day, and
down aepisted great number Of anxious coun.
ts1ancs At the frat board IS compared with the sales
yesterday Canton oupany fell OF 81 Florence ana Key
port ~ Nicaragua TT sn.it >! Cusberland Coal Is Par
ker Vein /; IA r-s J. ana Eis RAilrosd 2h per cent.
The latter stock ha gene since the sales Of Monday
last fun ~ Reading Railroad and Pennsylvania Coal
CLOSED at yesterdays prlses.
After the adjourn Of the board the following sales
OF stock were msee a. auction by 5. Draper
$25 600 New JsrseJ Central Railroad bonds 99ss
1000 Cincinnati Hanil'n Dayt'n RR % Mtge 90
100 shares Bark OF Comm on wealth ......... 100
so Suffolk Bank IS . sa1
rs Empire Stone Dressing Co... 10
20 Astor Fire Insurance co......... lily
The receipts at the office of Assistant Treasurer TO-
day amounted to sl2l 262 81; payments sSS.eS7 9o-
balance, IS 6e7 713 SO.
The City Fire Insurance Company has declared diyi-
dend OF ST. share payable demand the Stuyvesaat
insurance Con pany dividend of five per cent payable
on the 18th inst The Bank Of Louisiana five per cent,
parable on the of September at the Merchants Bank
in this city
The officers of the New York Central Railroad have
given notice that books will be opened at Albany
New York and Boston, the 25th inst, at cert
cAtes will be issued in exchange for the certificates OF
the stock in the old companies
Ccn5iuciCu
" tight The banks ia their weekly reports must show
face lenders have cspped the screws, and TIE
unfortunate jobbers their Imagination, the iron
rhroud closing 10 around them They begin to look
npon their chances w.hered they depict panic
In the horizon and ruin in coming events But all this
will be only applicable to few This fortune Of great
city like New York does not hang upon the movements
Of stock SPECTATORS neither does the body corporate
whit whet Their stocks up to-day and down to-mor
row. whether spectators get fat rsing market
and bright prospsc whether they wrihe beneath
avalanche of the f.rces Stocks will only reach THAR
level panic will be avered and ruin is word emily to
be laughed at
There is considerable rivalry existing bstween the
Pen0sylvana Central Railroad and the Baltimore and
Ohio line which is carried the fullest extent in the
senger carrying trade the West and each has advan
possess On the Penns route passengers can be
cketed through from New Yok to Pttsburg subject to
no annoyance INCONVENIENCE while by the way of Bal
1more they have considerable trouble and vexaton in
Phadelphia getting from depot to the other, and
are subject to mean and olbtant tax Of twenty-five
ceuts each and the for the transportation
Of every article Of baggage. On the other hand the Bal
tnoro and Ohio road LANDS one hundred miles
further down the Ohio river in about the same time oc
cuped in yelling Pttsburg, and to this in great
measure may be attributed their superior success. The
Soowng comparative table of the receipts Of the two
roads for the month of July showing also the increase In
NE business of each line over the month In 1sS2
BAra1xoRx AND OHIO ROAD PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL ROAD
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