The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-04

cent. The Harmony Fire Insurance Company tsu pr
cent The Chittenango Bank has declared . semi en-
nual dividend of six per cent.
The Hartford and New Haven Railroad, semi annual
dividend OF Eve per cent.
The trustees Of the Mechanics and FarmArs Bank sf
Albany surplus dividend of fourteen per cent on the
old stock.
The Chesapeake Bank FIVE and the Union Farmers and
Planters and Msrcha1 Banks four and half psr cont
all of Baltimore.
Albert II. Ncosys regular semweekly auction sale Of
tocks and bonds viii take place to morrow (rhursdsyl
at 121I O'Clock, st the sierchar ts' Exchange.
The receipts of The Milwaukee and Mississippi RaisssA
Company in December, 1855, amounted to $4,000 and
for the whole year $6ss OOO The the month
is SIT ooo and the year 1928 Ooo The result for tAs
year has much exceeded the directors estimate which
was only s51l 900, being an excess of SIT 900.
The regular St. Louis correspondent of the Boston
Journal writes from hat city under date of Bec IT. 1856
follows
The lopg anticipated sale Of the Ohio and Missss;p,
road took place last wsek, Wednesday, the I2th inst
1t sold a deed of trust. given by the comns
ny, 10 secure isge Bacon the payment Of for
twelve hundred Thousand dlars M H. D. Bacon wa che
purchaser for the small $40 00O The road worth
at moderate estimate, five millions. 1t encumbersd
by first and second mortgage bonds by the deb. TO
Page Bacon in all aroaching thirty five hun
bred thousands sum pggesing caution to any pur-
CHASER other than like Mr. Bacon largely interested
securing debt If his II is understood third
mortgage bonds will b. issued BY Nc Bacon T. an
ex'.nt mewha eding The amount ofhs pecuniaryin
terest ID the road The sale Of these from
then face can undoubtedly be effected When that &
done, you will see the house OF Page Bacon 500, re-
instae, in Its Old position. And In the prospect Of
this there Is much rel icing among merchants and
citizensin every department Of life. When it
nounced that Mr. Bacon bad purchased, and nov
general satisfaction felt, and happy andapatoas
expressed all hands that the house would emerxs
house. confidence in Mr.. BAG IN Stronger than
The RELENTLESS persecution he has suffered at the hands
OF very snail numaer, may have damaged his purse.
| 1t has net all clouded ais reputation.
Mr. Bacon has been annoyed bv suits by injnn, ions.
BY repevins BY chsncery petious In all these suits he
has trum shed he chance suit coumsocec 1T Belle
ye and removed to Carinvle in which tn mi Aols
petitioners asked that receiver be appointi taxa
possession of a1d manage the road, at tn il
quest til eli getting nking of what the esuit
was soen to be-postponed III March. This vas Con
sdered on sll Ia eds an no andonmeut of the suit.
The injunction granted affidavit SO full o. in
credible ega"ns than Mayor led to oath 10
1t In behal OF the city di.so upon trial. aud tbs
parties who signei ,be security bond have been muc I'd
In tamsges to he extent OF eighty Thousand doue ~
This is psyrg pretty cear for the pleasure disce sing
honest man, who has done for the prosperity of
St Louis and IFS true honor than any maa wno ever
affairs, the persecution OF M Bacon may be inexoi
eaoe affair except upon the ground Ct his hsving f-
ton OF the hostility I. Mr. b. Is all uncerst Cd Its
personal Observation-Disclosures for perfectly wen
known here but not necessary o he menu ned and the
hostility elt shared by ten Individuals the oy
But those few happened to have tine of ccea ing
Pupnc ano coe1cipg poi'lle actou which
time threatened 10 ticmph Bu iDjusti:e never does
triumph long, and that Mr.. Bacon triumphs hsrs
is ger ersl Tranquil hu determined Reproduction Of The
rancornus hatred with which he was pursued through
the
1t is one not among the least OF the evidences Of the
integrity of the house of Page Bacon that recently In
order TO from less those Ia March las. to~k
stock Ia the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, in payment
Of the Indebtedness Of p. b. the house Offered {,
deem That stcch, now vsuecss, With valuable real
tate ~ auction prices. No legal moral OBJ igaion
listed for act And 1t wou be d auis TO
4 ci cum
stances would have appropriated 5000 900 save
creditors from less The way of the worl generally L.
to consider settlement made with credors in-
with particular solicude about the future losses
which may TO those whose Claims cancelled
| by an equitable settlement 1t would have been quite
easy 10 r. B. to have kept that 5000 600 Their pay
ment Of it, with no law to enforce it, moral obligation
is fresh evidence or their disposition toward generous
dealing, which has ever been their leading trait.