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COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS. MONEY MARKET. Tuesday, Feb. 29-6 P.M. The stock market opened heavy this morning, and prices receded a fraction. There was not much done at either board, and operators appear little disposed to do much until the arrival of the steamer from Europe, now due, and more definite into ligence from Washington relative to the treaty. At the first board to-day' Treasury notes fell off 1/a per cent, U. S 6s, 1867, 1/m Farmers'Loan 36, Morris Canal 1/2, Canton 3/1, Long Island 1/4, Reading Railroad Reading Bonds and Harlem closed at prices current yesterday. At the second board there were very few sales, without any material alteration in prices. It is stated that the banks have bid as high as one per cent premium for the five millions Treasury notes advertised by the government, as they are more favorable to that mode of making a loan than by an issue of stock. There is no doubt but that Treasury notes will be issued for the full amount, as higher bids will be made for them than for a six.per cent stock. The new loan bill has not yet been acted upon in the Senate, and it is possible the treaty may be disposed of before a vote is taken upon the bill as a ratification or rejection of the treaty may have some influence upon the insertion of the clause authorising an issue of Treasury notes. If the treaty is ratified, a six per cent stock can be easily negotiated at par or above; but if it is rejected, the privilege of issuing Treasury notes, if necessary, may be required to raise the money. The Bank of Cayugs Lake has resumed payment, and its bills are but one per cent discount. The transfer books of the North American Trust and Banking Company have been opened at the American Exchange Bank, and fifty cents are charged for every transfer made. This will be a source of considerable revenue to the company, as it is estimated that more than five thousand dollars will be paid by the stockholders and speculatore into the hands of the receiver, for transfers made every year. This will pay the recoiver's salary, and give him a chance to earn it, which the business of the company has never before enabled him to do. If the stockholders and bondholders of this concern could be brought together, a compromise could be easily and speedily arranged, and its affairs satisfactorily settled. We learn that a proposition from the bondholders has been received by the receiver, but for some reason is withheld from the stockholders. The quantity of certain articles imported into this district, ineach of the past three years, was as annexed. The domestic, as well as the foreign, imports of the articles named, are included in the table:-
