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Monday, August 25-0 r. M.


Quotations for stocks are steadily improving. The
sales were to-day to some extent Norwich Worces-
ter went up per cent; Reading !; Farmers Loan, /;
Harlem, I; stonington, Psnnsylvania S. Ohio es Lsng
Island and vcksburg closed firm at Saturdays prices
Morris Canal fell OF per cent; Csnton,l.


The amount Of duties received at the custom house Of
this port for the week ending the 10th inst $634794
and for the week ending the 2sd nst $500 sso Total
for the two weeks 81, ,l95,474.


The Franklin Bank of Cincinnati has declared a diyi
dend of five per cent payable to New York
at the Bank of America on the lst of September.


We statement showing the amount of tolls
paid by each article transported the canals of this
State in the years is4l s42 and is44 The tolls
received in 1874, from each and every source were
larger than in any previous ear and the greatest in
crease was in the tolls agricultural products About
onehird Of the total amount Of tolls received in 1874 on
agricultural products, -four alone. Corn paid but
$4,742 in tolls in ls44 The rate of toll upon this i'm
portant grain almost completely shuts out from
portation canals. Immense quantities of this
article reach the seaboard New Orleans and finds its
way to the Eastern Atlantic markets in the holds Of
packet ships running between New York and New Or
leans Millions Of bushels in this way reach markets,
which would at reasonable rate Of TOLL be transported
on our canals. More bushels OF annually
raised in the Staes than all the other grains
put together aud the absence of cheap modes of trans
portaton to market compels the producer to
in some way upon his plantation farm In ls43 there
were produced in the United States according the
report of the Commissioner Of Patents bush
els of corn and in ls44 the production amounted to
AL 900 bushels very large per CT this quan
tity raised in the Western States. In ls43 Ohio
produced 65l 2s bushels, Kentucky SO 1885, ndi.
ana 36677l7l and Illinois 3276o,434. In 1914, Ohio
produced sOO00 900 bushels, Kentucky 4750OO00 Indi
ana 24,500OoO and Illinois l96s0O0O. These States
being West of the Western extremity Of the Erie canal
immense quantities of this grain would, were the tolls
on the canal reduced seek Eastern market by that
route At present it is driven in other directions and


finds market through other channels. The transporta-
ton of tobacco might be increased very much by
moderate reduction in the of tolls This article now
pays toll Of two dollars per The receipts of tolls
from potatoes might be materially increased by reducing
the present The tolls from coal have been within
the past two years than doubled in consequence
Of the reduction in the rates.


AMOUNT OF Tolls PAID EACH ARTICLE TRANSPORTED


ON THE CANALS STATE FOR THE YEARS l84i,


1842, 1843 1884,