The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-01-20
FINANCIAL AND COMMERClA


MONDAY JAM ly-6 L. M
Tie severity Of the snow storm partially arrested out
door operations and business generally quite limit
ed The trar sao'ons at the Stock Exchange as will be
by the reported sales, were only to q moderate
amount Michigan Southern Railroad luctuated
sdersbly at the first board I. opened SO closed
at SIX per cent. New York Genital Erie and Ole veand
and Toledo liver than at the close Saturday,
with sales OF only few hundred shares Of each, Gale
ma and Chicago sold at l22A l22, in small lots The
variations 10 Gay were folows-New York Central
Railroad declined per cent, Erie II Illinois Central "a
Cleveland Toieio, X Michigan southern fell OIL per
cent at the opening, but closed ut advance Of per
cent on Saturdays prices. Cumberland Goal the
only stock the list that improved from the opening
This stock has advanced about per within
rs,t three or four days without much activity opera
lions.
AT the second board the market well sustained
The upward movement In Cumberland only continued
bui 10 ncres,irg In volume and force. The stock I'D
vsnced n per cent. Reading better II closed ri 30
S Sss 80. :. ,hrs. snpteern advanced x per cent
coun,. are sbou, the same 40 those brought by City
Of Washington. The advance reported in cotton and
braadstuns IN probably The prices brought by
the America are doubtess those current for the week
previous TO her parture There no change In money
matters The steamship Ia the Persia, from Liver
pool to this port direct She will bring seven days later
and win give us advioes up 10 good starting point
The arrivals lately been irregular that The re
ports OF the market run into each other, and becomes
acult TO separate the dates which the returns
made up.
Mr. Ncolays regular semi weekly sale OF stocks and
bonds old no, take this day In consequence Of the
severe storm. has been postponed 10 Thursday his
next regular cay.
The Brooklyn Fire Insurance Company has declared
sem, annual dy end az ten per cent payable the lst
OF February. Tho Bsekmsn Fire Insurance Company
have declared semi annual dividend OF per cent,
pay able on The I'd OF February. The sixth Avenue Rail
road Company have declared semi annual dividend Of
i've per cent payable the I'd Of February. The Now
Jcuty Railroad aud transportation Company, . semi
annual dividend OF Eve per cent, payable February
The Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad, semi annual
dividend Of I've ger cent leaving surplus OF four per
cent which used In the yment OF 600 OF The
bonded debt, which hss matured. Tho Milwaukee and
Mississippi Railroad Company have declared dividend
of Eve per cent payable lat OF February, and the trans
fer books will be closed 10 morrow 10 open the Sd
Of February.
We understand the old established house Of George
Mcbride Co. who with their predecessor the late Jas
Mcbride has for than half century been engaged
in the Iri,h trade Dissolve their connection and retire
from business on the LIST proximo We bllieve James
Mcbride WAS the nrs Irish merchant who engaged in the
whole time, amid all the commercial revutsions Of the
past ,xiy years. this house has paid every dollar Of these
drafts Mr.. q. Mcbride rctres 10 agricultural pursuits In
New Jersey; Mr. Samuel sloan TO tina more active dates
Of the Presidency Of the Hudson River Railroad.