The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-03-30
FINANCIAL AND CONNIE r CiAl
mon EY MARK . p.


The stock market was not so favoraby affected by
the foreign news as anticipated. There was more
activity at the board, and prices generally were
shade or two BETTER but there appears to be no
speculation and no operations on the part of out
siders At the first board to-day Nicaragua Transit
advanced per cent? Reading Railroad 8; Hudson
River Railroad, 3; Michigan Southern, /; Cleveland
and Pttsburg, !; Cleveland and Toledo, 1. Harlem
fell of l per cent? Galena and Chicago, Railroad
bonds are not offered very freely. They are we'll
held and are looked upon as permanent invest.
ments. The absence Of all speculative operations
keeps the market GULL but prices are not depressed
There is healthy tone in the market. Nearly
every stock on the list represents productive pro-
perry, and the payment Of dividends is likely to
tnue in each uninterrupted.
AT the second board the market was quiet, and
prices without material change. Nicaragua Tran
sit closed at IA per cent. Illinois Central bonds ad.
vanced per cent
The steamship Fulton, from Havre, brings $780,
600 in specie.
The following are to-days transactions at the As
sstant Treasurer's offce
Paid Treasury account, ............. s177,1ss IS
Received " ............... 357,210 90
Balance g ............... 7,o4l'1s0 81
Paid for Assay office. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 95 005 4S
Paid on sbnrsing cheokS,.... ......... 99.658 93
Balance creoit all accounts l3 200, 772 II
The receipts include $1,000 from Chicago
The warrants entered at the Treasury Depart
ment, Washington, on the 25th inst, were as fol-
lows -
For the Treasury Department. .$32 9as 60
For he Interior Department. IA .sSS 20
War warrants received and sntsrsd 1884 10
en- account nsuy Of tn: - 50
From ~iscellanseus sources. 10 10 -
ircAn OusOo -
The Legislature of Tennessee have passed 9 law
to regulate banking. This law requires the presi-
dent or cashier, on oath, to publish twice in each
year statement OF the condition of each bank, in
which shall be set forth the name and residence
and the amount Of stock held by each stakeholder.
This law is intended to have the effect to kill off
Exiting banks" as the statement required to be
published is very full and explicit giving the people
all the information necessary to determine whether
bank is solvent or not. Another provision Of this
law prohibits any bank in the State, except the
Bank Of Tennessee, after the first of September,
from issuing or paying out notes Of less denomi-
patton than five dollars.
The annual meeting Of the Illinois Central Rail.
road was held at Chicago on the 10th inst. Ebene.
ger Lane, Thomas E. Walker and William H. Os-
born were reelected directors Abraham s. Hewitt,
of New York, was elected in place Of David A.
Neal, who declined reelection The board now
stands as acknowledgements Matteson, er offsio,
Jonathan Sturgis, J. w. Asop, James F. Joy, Frede
rick Gebbard, Thomas E. Walker, LIE Roy NJ. Wiley,
J. F. Sanford, Franklin Haven j. N. A. Griswold,
Ebenezer Lane, William H. Osborn, Abraham s.
Hewitt.
The last annual report Of the Delaware and Hud-
son Canal Company gives the annexed exhibit of
operations during the past year.
DE1AwARE HUDSON CANAL COMPANY
Income from ecal ending March 1856 81 844 485
Value Of coal on hand Observation-Disclosures. SOL 1871