The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-03-28

The transactions at the Assistant Treasurer's Of
flee to-day, we're as follows
Paid on Treasury account 1894 SS2 90
Received on CO. ................ eSBl 10
Paid Assay Office. ................... $4,000 80
PAID on discussing checks. 95,Ts7 IS
The warrants entered st The Treasury Department
on the 24th inst, were:--
For the payment of Treasury debts $is7s5 IL
For the Interior Department. 3s,79s %
For the Customs. Observation-Disclosures. 69ls5 20
For the War Department. 1888 80
For the Navy Department. .............. 326l9
Covering into Treasury from mis-. sources... 1901 5
For covering INFO tbs Treasury from lands. y 203 ~
For covering into the Treasury from customs. 2029 81
TIE redemption of the puo.i, debt at che Treasury
Depsr, mens, Washington, for the week ending 10
oath inst, wss:-Loan of 1912, s2l 900; loan of
1913, 81, 800; loan Of 1876. $500; loan of 1917
s4s, 400; loan Of l84s. &c. 100. Total, ss5, 500.
The steamship Atlantic, a. this port from Liver
pool, biings eeven days later intelligence from al
parts of Europe. Her dates are to the 10th instant
inclusive. Tie Commercial accounts srs NOT Of
very favorable character. The markets for our
staple exports inactive aud prices barely sus-
tanned In the early part of the week sales Of CO...
ton were brisk at an Improvements in prices, but TO-
wards the close transactions became quite limited,
and quotations closed at rates current by the pre-
vious steamer, with downward tendency. Broad.
stuffs have fallen eff and the market was much de-
pressed. The manufacturing districts remain with
cut material Improvement. The prospects of peace
were not so bright at the departure Of the Atlantic
rs On the departure OF the Africa. This IN.
favorably affected the markets for msrchau-
disc, without much depressing prices for
stocks. vigorous prosecution of the war
would be more likely to help stocks than hurt them
Whatever tends to check the extension OF business
aids the accumulation Of capital and creates de-
mand for investment securities. Any important
revival OF business would produce an active de nand
for money, and the presen. abundance would ra-
pidy disappear I.is therefore, for the interest Of
holders Of and spectators in stock securities that
the war should continue and il is question In our
mind it ia not for the interest Of this country at
large that the war should be protra ted indefinitely.
Our exports are likely to be az large, while our im-
portations are likely to continue limited, and the
inactivity oftrade or reduced importation may cause
car not be attended with disastrous consequences.
II must follow that any great commercial nation
not at all involved in the general Euro
pesn war, must derive all the advantages
Of such position over those imme iiately
engaged. Our commercial intercourse with
European nations is Of greater benei. to them
than Us. We give them articles Of the first necss-
sity in trade, and take from them Principally luxa-
ries. We give the raw material TO cloths and feed
them, and take in return silks and satins. They
must have what we have to sell, AID we can, for
time at least, dispense with the extravagant uxa.
res taken in payment. II the war reduces this
branch Of cur foreign trade, we must csrtAinly be
gamers by 1t As it stands now, we have nothing
TO complain Of, and hope that In the shaping of Ea.
ropean politics nothing will occur to arrest the pro.
gress we are now making in establishing our COM
mercial ana financial affsirs on q sound basis. We
attribute tho Improvement already made to the ex.
istence Of the war. The effect at first was rather
disastrous, and for q time we had apprehsnsions
of very serious ievulsion but our resources were
immense, ard the community was able to contract
and sustain the mselves much better than artcipat-
ed. The war was talked Of so long before hostili-
ties actually commenced, that we were 10 msasure
prepared for the movements which followed. We
are now in position to turn everything TO advantage.
the war continues, we shall be gaining commercial
and financial strength ct home; and II peace should
be proclaimed, We shall be in condition to engage
in the active business operations which would i'm
mediately spring up with renewed energy, with in
creased capital and with al old entangements re-
moved. With power Of consumption greater than
ever before existed-with means unlimted-vith
an accumulation Of wealth from contraction and
economy never before realized, 1t Is out belief tina.
whsn we do start again into activity. 1t viii be
upon scale, and to an extent precedented In our
history. We trust. however, thst the time is not
yet We require little more repose, aud shall lose
nothing by a little more contraction. While the
nations of ths Old World are exhsussng themselves
by csnyirg on useless, fruitess war; we are like
giant refreshed, rising in full strength, ready to
dispute supremacy with the most formidable. Never
within our history have We occupied such proud
position in the commercial and financial world and
1t should be our sole object to hold It. We can only
do 90 by retaining our great mineral wealth, and
circulating il through all the channels OF trade,
that currency will not only maintain It's value,
but its uniformity, and not become again subject TO
such violent fluctuations.
The advance in consols In London upon the re
ceipt CT TIE Cars death, was not sustained. The
closing prices show an adyarcs OF II per cent on
prices current by the previous steamer The return
from the Back CT England for the week ending the
Sd of March, gives the folio wing results, when
pared with the previous week
Public deposits .f5 033 1874 increase. E167, T29
Other deposits 10 6O7 057. nci 157,s75
Rest. 1894 5ai. .Increa,e.. 33l ,2s3
On the other side Of the account
Government securities eli e2e ae increase fs6s23
Other securities. l5ol2,Ih2.. Increase 4BO25O
Notes unemployed... 74ls,I30 Increase III, 55j
d The amount Of notes in circulation was sl9,O9s
255, being increase Of fa6,3s5, and the stock Of
lpullion in both departments fl3,ls9,s34, showing
I'm increase Of f145 ,20s, when compared with TIE
preceding return.
The London Times Of the 9th inst. says
The Board Of Trade returns for the month ending the
Eth of February were issued this morning and show
falling of Of f22T TAG in the declared value of
portatons compared with the corresponding month
lof last year This difference Is not than TO