The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-24

The receipts at the Office OF the Assistant Trea.
surer Of this port to day amounted to &c., s6 So:
payments. $94594 80; paid Assay Office, SCI GOO
04-balance, $3,5S0,478 81.
The Peoples Bank pay three and half per cent
dividend; the Metropolitan, four per cent; Ameri.
can Life and Trust Company, Eve per cent; Jefferson
County Bank, five per cent; Bank Of whisestown.
Oneida county, four per cent; State Bank Of Troy,
four per cent.
The Beard Of Brokers, by Q unanimous vote, this
morning, gave 81 $50 for charitable purposes as fol-
lows-$l 900 to the Society for the Relic. Of ths
Poor, $500 to che Pease Five Points Society, $3.50
to the society in Brooklyn for the relief Of the poor.
This viii Do very we'll for Christmas. We DO not
care how much they fleece from each other, 10 long
CO they give thus literally to the poor.
There were scld at auction In New Bedford, on
the 21st inst, one share Mechanics Bank stock |.
$102; three shares Bedford Commercial Bank sock,
ct $l04a; nine shares Merchants Bank stock, q.
$l0sA; eight shares Bedford Commercial Insurance.
stock, at $1003; six shares New Bedford and Taun-
ton Railroad stock, at $l05a; and five shares do ct
sos.
The steamship America, at Halifax from Liver.
pool, brings nine days later news from al parts Of
Europe. The advicss are rather favorable, flan.
cially and commercially. Consoh had advanced.
Quotations for cotton and breadstufs remained
without material alteration, with pretty active ma
ksts.
The Williamsburg Times, Of the 22d inst, givsa
the following bit Of financial gossip =
- few day. since, person unknown to the officers OF
the Farmers and Ctzens Bank presented at the coun.
ter Of that institution At early hour in the morning,
three checks for the several Of and
SO OOO The checks were dated some time in November
and December 1863 bearing the signature Of. G. w.
Houghton then President Of the bank and certified In
and o as 70
belonged, answered that It Of his busi-
ness!" Mr.. G. declined returning the checks, when
the gentleman ntiMated very plainly that Mr. c.
better than swindler This led to the summary ejeet-
ment Of the party from the bank, minus the certed
On referring to the books, no memorandum Of the
certifying Of the documents could be discovered, NOE
sum Of money on deposit there At that time The auss
ton naturally arseswho originated the checks, and
why they were kept in hand one year without being
presented Surmise fails to give any satisfactory
It is also rumored that somebody else has been
known schuy lerixing. To what extent this Rnan.
cial uggery has been carried If true) is not yet
known That the bank win ,aner IN its responsible
undoubted
The plan submitted by the directors Of the Parker
Vein Coal Company having failed to be accepted BY
. sufficient number Of stockholders, to retire the
over Issued stock and provide the necessary means
to prevent an immediate sale Of the property an Of
fort u now being made by portion Of the stock.
holders to combine and purchase the property on
Tuesday. Those stockholders who are VII log Ia
aid in raising the necessary amount, are requested
to call and sign IN agreement ct the Office Of Mess
W. ]. O'Brien, SO Wall street, on Tuesday, before
IL o'clock. Unless the stockholders promptly ~
spoud to this proposal, the property win pass ont
Of the hands Of the company whose stock will then
be utterly worthless