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COMMERCIAL AND MONEY MATTERS. For Sales of Stocks. & see Fourth Page WEDNESDAY. Counterfeit Bank notes. purporting to be 820 bills on the Farmers' Bank of Amsterdam, 83 on the Cumberland Bank and 810billson the Schenectady Bank, of this State have been detected Persons having received such bills are requested to call at the Essex Mar ket Police Office, and make the fact known. The business on the Mohawk Railroad continues to increase. The receipts from the 15th to the 21st of August were $3,174.77. Same time last year, $2,601 It is understood that a loan of $100,000 has been obtained by the Norwich and Worcester Railroad. for the payment of its purchase from the Long Island Road of steamboats, besides the $40,000 paid in cash. The new steamer Atlantic is said to have cost $150,000 and all who have seen. admire and praise her without qualification. Regular trains of cars are now running from Boston to Lexington via Fitchburg Railroad To-day is the first day of running upon the four miles of the Fall River Railroad between South Brain tree and Randolph. The trains will run in connection with the Old Colony Railroad, leaving their dépôt twice a day. A list of subscribers to the Atlantic and St. Law rence Railroad is given in the Portland Bulletin, from which it appears that Bostonians took 177 shares in that enterprise. The charter of another Railroad from Port land, to run through the interior of York County and connect with the Maine, has affected the Portland Saco and Portsmouth stock, but there is great doubt if another line of Railroad can be subscribed for, while that now existing pays so moderate a dividend. The Boston Post says the transactions in divi dend Railroads and Manufacturing Corporations are still very small and prices to a great extent nominal without, however, any indications of yielding on the part of holders to fears that lower rates must be sub mitted to. A lessening of engagements has to a great extent been the rule for some months past, and those who could do so have cut off all speculative operations, 50 88 to be prepared for any reduction of currency or change of Government policy. Lowell Railroad stock is not so much sought for at high rates of premium as before the new Tariff passed. Capital is already devi I ated from trade to a very material extent, by the pay ment for stock in Railroad and Manufacturing Corpora tions, so that, in case of prolonged War with Mexico. 8 revulsion consequent upon the forced withdrawal of these investments might be attended with disastrous consequences. Such revulsion. or any extensive re action, may not take place, but the panic in England from this cause should not be without good effect in preventing excessive and speculative action. Meetings of stockholders in the Nashua and Concord Ronds are called. to ascertain if they favor sub. scriptions to Branch Roads from their own lines, which may, if made, not only aid those now without Railroad facilities, but add to their present large income. There is, however, a doubt with many. who are largely interested, if the extension of Railroads beyond those now in existence or subscribed for. would not be just now an experiment of unfavorable issue. The Suffolk Manufacturing Co. divides eight and the Tremont Mills six per cent. for six months. both payable on the 27th inst. The total receipts of Canal tolls up to 1st August at Geneva, was $24,287.23 same time last year. $16,965 84 excess this year. $7,321.39. The St. Louis Republican of the 19th inst. says For the last ten days, there has been an increased demand for money on good real estate, At ten per cent per annum, without being able to get the loans. Out door rates for good paper from 10 to 15 per annum We have heard of temporary loans as high as one and half ! per cent. per month. Business continues dull, and ne gotiations difficult to make predicated upon shipments of produce to the South. Currency (which constitutes the various Bank notes circulating in this city) has be come quite scarce, and for ordinary purposes is within to 1) of Missouri Bank notes. The Banks and Brokers are drawing freely At per cent. on New-York. Boston and Philadelphia, although the latter cannot be said to be making much at these rates. The amount of property assessed in Lowell for the year 1846, is, real estate, $9,695,346; personal, $5.443.580-total, $15,138,926. being an increase of about half million over 1845. The tax is $115,637 98-70 cents on the $100. Number of polls, 6,437. an increase of 1.040 over 1845. The number of individuals and firms in that city, who pay tax of $50 and upward, is over 140. The total valuation of the Corporations is $9,222,600-INN, $64,558 20. as follows $833 Locks and Canals $3,360 Appleton Company 6,740 Mass. Cotton Mills 6,720 Boott Cotton Mills 11,200 Merrimac o 6,720 Hamilton Company 4,200 Middlesex Co 8,400 Lawrence Company 1,740 588 Prescott Co Lowell Bleachery 3.360 Lowell Machine Shop 2,660 Suffolk Co 3,360 Tremont Mills 3,535 Lowell Company In looking over a Report by the Comptroller. in answer to call from the Convention, we note the follow. ! ing interesting items $17,660,046 June 1, 1846-Canal Debt 1,713,000 Contingent Debt 5,885,549 Treasury Debt $25,258,597 Total liabilities of the State The contingent debt, as above, is for Bonds of the State, loaned to Railroad Companies, which are yet solvent. The largest portion of the Treasury debt madeup by loans to insolvent Railroad Companies. During the year ending June 1. 1846. the State had borrowed $300,000. and paid of principal $2,329,972 and on the 1st of July last, $571,304 more: thus reducing the debt in thirteen months. $2,600,000. In 1842 N law was passed for paying a bounty on salt coal. &c. which has drawn from the Treasury, $377,180 for three years, ending 30th September last. 83 Ordinary expenses of Gov'nt for the year $380.218 Special appropriations and temptry expenses. 368.839.75 Interest on insolvent Railroad stock 237,321.76 The net revenue of the Erie and Champlain Canals, for the last five years, averages a fraction over a million and a half dollars for each year. Unavailable deposits in broken Banks 00 Bk of Brockport $3,715 Lewis Co. Bank 20,000 Bank of Lvons 19,113 S6 Watervliet Bank 42,480 20,912 Bank Co. Clinton Co. Bank 86,200 00 Wayne Lockport Bank 29,700 00 $254,211.6 Total LockptBk&TCo.32,072: 31 The Canal Fund has also in stock issued for I the payment of balances due on account of Ca nal Fund moneys deposited in the Bank of Butfalo, Commercial Bank of Buffalo, and Commercial Bank of Oswego, $314,449.02 Total unavailable loans made to Banks $568,659 [Thompson's Reporter. Carefully reported for The Tribune. Markets WEDNESDAY, August 25. ASHES-The markets for Pots and Pearls is as noticed for long time past: steady at $3 56 for Pots and $4 12) for Pearls. COTTON-The sales to-day have only amounted to some 500 bales at full prices, chiefly to spinners. Export of Cotton from the Ports of the United States, commencing 1st September, IS45. Stock Stock Rec'd