The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-04


The Corn Exchange Insurance Company has declared
semi annual dividend Of six per cent The Atlantic Fire
Insurance Company semiannual dividend Of five per
cent.
At MEETING Of the managers Of the Morris Canal Com
pany held this week. It resolved 10 pay and after
the 10th inst, the Ave per cent dividend due prefer
red stock, in cash. to all holders under twenty shares
Those holding twenty shares win receive ONE share Of the
preferred 10 per cent stock and all shares TWEEN
ty and nnder forty, the dividend in cash. In word for
every twenty harcs Of stock share OF preferred 10
per cent stock win be issued and cash will paid on all
parts OF twenty shares. The canal il represented to be
doing large and very profitable business and though
portion Of the present lost by the very unu-
sual circumstance this preacn, which chcch-
cd receipts and prevented the prompt payment OF dv
dends in the beginning Of August the action of the
gers a. noticed above is calculated to re assure hoders
in the value of the security,
The anthracite coal trade for the past week reached
BY the three principal lines 1l5,a47 tons, making an
aggregate tonnage for the Of 2712 tons The
iehigh Navigation Company shipped for the week ending
on saturday last 9o2 TONS and for the
tons The schuykin Navigation shipped for the week
ending on Thursday 25,507 tons, and for the season
6sa,sa4 TONS The Reading Railroad Company brought
down for the week ending Thursday 5O47s TOMS and
Tor the year PA TONS The tonnage for the season
Is several hundred tons ahead OF the shipments to the
same time last year. AMI yet far behind the demand
that dealers again seriously contemplate advancing the
prices
The Arkansas newspapers discussing the .tlement
Of the State debt Including large number Of Eve and
Fix per cent bonds. which interest has bien paid
for twelve years. this deb. amounts to 81 esq., oi5 the
annual interest Of which about $3.50 000 and the prn
cpal Is annually augmented by $3.50 Oo0 the amount OF
the coupons falling due The Little Rock Grses pro.
pores the following plan for its Liquidation The issue
Of bonds for the whole indebtedness principal and
interest, the bonds for the principal payable say in
twenty five years. with interest from date the State OBJ
hgaDg herself to the payment OF the inter
est thereon in FIVE years after the issuing of the new
bonds and to pay it regularly thereafter 1t accrues
The bonds for the interest due to be payable thirty
years after date the payment of the interest CON-
mence after the expiration OF ten years. after which
time to be paid annually as II accrucs.
The Revenue collected at the Boston Custom House for the
month Of August, 1854, amounted to- .... $9lSs3s 81
Collected for the month Of August 1852. S6l 303 10
increase, .......................... 957,4S5 Is
Collected for thy months of July and August,
Collected for the months Of July and August,
1893. IA Go3 90
increase, VIZ, IA ~
The amount Of cash in the Boston Sub Treasury At IL
o'clock NJ, Aug 81, 1854 was "a, 4O5, 100 OF.
The following table shows the quantity Of some of the
principal articles Of produce lett at tide water from the
elusive during the 1852 1913 days. 1853 49, days.