The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-23
The Imports Of the Week and the
Cotton Movement.
RAILROAD ANNUAL REPORTS.
operations Of the New York Central
Railroad for 1871 and 1872.
Traffic of the Third Avenue and
Other Local Lines.

WALL STREET, |
SATURDAY, Feb. %, 1873
the day has been strictly observed as a holiday
in financial and commercial circles.
THE IMPORTS OF THE WEEK.
The total imports OF foreign goods at the port
of New York during the past week were $685. SIS,
made up OF 1855 Of dry goods and g. 7Ol 100 of
general merchandise.
THE COTTON MOVEMENT.
The total receipts of cotton all the ports for the
past week were O9,l53 bales. against 122 o52
the previous week. The total receipts since Sep
TENDER /. 1872, are $40 bales against 1866 157
for the same period OF last year. showing an in
creasetn
THE PRESENT CROP
or 4la66s bales. The exports from all the ports for
khe week were sO,ls7 bales against ,o55 last
year The total exports for the expired portion Of
the cotton year are e65 bales, against
last year. The stock at all the ports 512 bales
against ,641 at the same date in 1872
THE MARCH INTEREST ON THE PUBLIC DEBT.
The Secretary OF the Treasury announces that
the March interest on the ten-fOrty bonds Of the
United States will be prepaid, without rebate, on
and after Monday next, the oath OF February.
REPORTS, sc.
The annual statement of the Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Company OF Newark shows the total
assets on the 1st OF January, 1873, to have been
$26, 81. ISL. The amount OF money received during
Che year 1872 was SO, S69O55, of which 1894 1853
was for premiums; and the disbursements during
Che same period were s4,573o63. The ratio Of ex-
penses to income excluding taxes) was only s.57
per cent.
STOCK EXCHANGE LIFE INSURANCE.
The plan recently submitted by the joint commit
tee OF the Stock Exchange for a system of life in
surance among the members has been adopted by
more than the requisite two-thirds vote. AS the
death rate, which was less than 10 per cent per
mum several years ago, is steadily decreasing
under the healthful influences of the more recent
regulations Of the Board, combining business to the
Interval between ten O'Clock A. M. and four O'Clock
p. M, and as the membership is over thousand,
1t is lair to INFER that the plan OF insurance. which
pays the family Of deceased broker $40 O60 at his
death, will not cost each individual more than $50
500 year. A life policy for the same amount in
= regular company will not cost less than $3.50 a
$500 year.
NEW YORK CENTRAL AND HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD
The following account of the operations of the
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Is an
abstract OF the report required by law for the year
ending October 81, 1872, and made to the State En-
gineer and Surveyor
The change in the capital account is an increase
OF ST. 264, 301 in the bonded debt. The average rate
ofinterest OF this debt is 81 per cent This capital
account is at the rate Of s143142 per mile OF road
OWucu. lHo ''COSb vi TOdu duu equipment suOWS
an increase in nearly every item, the largest being
275 for freight cars. The total cost Of road
$685. 299, ga increase az per cent? 81, 1856 ,267 The
additions Of the property of the company including
no line road, were equivalent to the cost OF
fairly built and equipped line seventy miles long.
The present construction and equipment account
Is at the rate of $685. $40 per mile There is in
crease OF about II per cent in the passenger train
mileage ana of 1014 per cent in passenger mileage
the increase In passenger earnings having been
2 per cent. The increase in freight train mileage
Is 12Z per cent in the tonnage mileage Is per
cent and in freight earnings II per cent The
average receipts per ton per mile were 1859 cents
against 165 cents the previous year, the decrease
being per cent The earnings of the road were -:
Pr ct.
1871. 1872, Inc. InC,