The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-18
FINANCIAL AND NUMERICAL.

SAIrRDAY. Nay IL

SATURDAY. May iT-6 r NJ
The stock market continues without much change.
There we're large operations this morning at the ars
boAid M prices the close yesterday. Canton
Company advanced y per cent; Pennaylvsnis Coal y.
Erie tell Cd per cent; Michigan Southern, " Psusma
Railroad declined per cent The diaastsr At PanamA to
the train Of Is the whole Of this decline
few days this stock sold st LOB per cent showing
decline OF three and half per cent ia about taree
days. Railroad bends gradually improving In mar
ket There very few Of the first class on the
market We notss sals Of Michigan Southern Sinking
Fund bonds at "a per cent and also email sale Of the
Indiana 1st mortgage Goshen line bonds at s3l per
cent. The sinking fund bonds must ultimately take
precedence Of all others of this company As the other
saes become converted, the sinking fund bonds must
steadily appreciate, until they reach points high as
sny othsr bonds on the market
At the second board the market weaker and more
depressed Erie Railroad fell of i per cent Panama
Railroad, Il; Reading, Il hudson Railroad, u; New
York Central, Il.
The steamship Hermann, from this port for southAmp
to Bremen to-day carried ont Sis $50 in American
gold
The Bowsry Fire Insurance Company have declared
oivderd Of ten per cent, and extra dvi
cend per The Fire Insuran
Company, o seminar dividend ofeight per cent.
The Assistant Treasurer reports to-day as follows
PAID on Treasury Account $lol l47 Y
Received g ................ 176130 90
Balance /" ................ 10, 1882 IS
PAid for Assay Office .................... 1898 81
Paid on dis bursting checks. S2,661 20
Balance TO creditor Of all accounts Is 467 1855 Is
The payments today include $50 600 In California
drafts.
The warrants entered at the Treasury Department,
wsshin gtoD on the 18th inst, were IS follows
For the Treasury p4rtmsnt ............. S5aS rs
For the Interior De partment. 6,Ie5 10
War warrants received and entered ..... Is 100 90
On account Ct the Navy 1856 44S 81
Repay ment account of the NAvy...... 17s 643 "a
From miscellaneous sources. 34S 81
The James mill, NewburJport, has declared q semi
annual dividend Of three per cent the Bartlett mills
three and = half per cent; the Saunders cotton mills
Grafton, Eve per cent
The Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Eastern DIVISION has
been newly zed BY the election OF Joseph W. Asop
President s. L. NJ Barlow Vice President; Henry Gould
Treasurer l. Parsons Financial Commissioner Samuel
Trevor, Secretary ard AndreE Tacot Chief Engineer
ano Superintendent. The management have gone
vigorously to work; the old contracts have BEEN can
ceued and entered into the immediate CON-
mencemsnt of the work the road its completion
for the passage of trains before the lt January
prox;no.
The Indiana Central Railroad Company's earnings
we're
- april, 1856. April, 1856.
Passer gers ..............$23 255 90 ST. 22 SO
Mail and express. ........ 1851 o4 1851 "a
Total sss, 7le 81 s2e851 81
increase April 1856. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1851 81
The receipts Of the CstawissA Railroad Company for
April were
From freight IL iOS 80
Total. SEA, 46s IS
The Milvaulie Sentinel says
We Mt n of directors of Mil