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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
May
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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The freight of flour from Albany to Boston 13 35 cents a barrel. From Detroit to New York, by way of the Erie Canal, $1,05- by the Weiland Canal and Oawego, 92 cents. It is said the ofiicers of the Bank of Illinois ara making preparations to resume'speciepayments ut soon as the Kentucky Banks resume. At Chicago the bilis ofthat bank sell at 50 per cent. discount. The Bos:onians are determined to secure plenty of business on their Western Railroad. They have sent agents te Bremen and Havre, to secure the landing of emigrants at Boston, ofTc.-ingió-"" carry them for $2,50 with a liberal allowance of baggage. 1400 live hogs passed over tho rond last week, in a single train of freight cars, on their way to Brighton market. Flour sold in Liverpool, April Jst, duty paid, $0,22 per ba rrel. The duty there was $3,55 per barrel, but it was expected, that under the ncw Bil!, should it become a law, it would be reduced to $1,65. Under the proposed reduction, beef and pork would pay a duty of $1,76, ber barrel, instead of $2,04. It is expected this reduction will raise the price to some extent in the west, and produce groator activity in the mar k et. Thé N. Y. Courier says: "We are assured that orders for the purchase of pork on English account have gone forward to Cincinnati." The Baltimore Banks were to resume the firei of May. Several resumed sorne days eince.- There was no run upon them. It is said that It. Crichton Wylie has come ove? from England to watch the sale of the Morris Canal, which is to be sold in Ñew Yoik at auction, on a mortgage of 753,000, held by some Dutch capitalists. He is to buy it in for certain Eng. lish creitors, if necessary to secure the debts the compnny owes in England.

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Signal of Liberty
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