The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

MOVEMENTS OF SPECIE AT NEW YORK.

IMPORTS.—From California, Sept. 19, $1,215,082 • re-
ceived previously, $29,540,843. Since January 1, 1866,
$30,755,425.
EXPORTS.—For week ending Sept. 15, $197,336 ; pre-
viously, $53,552,062. Since Jauuary 1, $53,719,398;
same time 1865, $21,119,463.

(From E. F. Salterthwaile and _ Co.'s Weekly Circular,

October 3.)

From New York our latest advices by the " Scotia" are
to the 19th ult. The favourable nature of the receipts at
the Government Treasury continued; for the week the
payments into the Treasury were, for excise, over ten
millions of dollars, and for customs nearly four and a half
million dollars in gold ; this brings the balance in coin up
to eighty-five millions, and the same rate of interest would
run it up quite one hundred millions before the let
November, when about twenty-three millions will be re-
quired for payment of interest on the 5-20 Bonds.
• -Government securities remained steady at former quo-
tations, with a steady demand. In the Railroad Stock
market the chief interest centred in Erie, which was
bought largely to control proxies at the annual election
for Directors, which is to take place on the 9th inst. It
was anticipated there would be severe opposition to the
re-election of some members of the present board. The
price of the Shares on the large demand had improved
quite $3, and had a strong upward tendency, as will be
seen by the advance in the quotation by telegraph as given
below.

For other descriptions, the market was firm at a slight
rise.

State Stocks especially Tennessee and North Carolina,
were in more demand for investment, but Railroad Mort-
gages were not much inquired for.

Money, notwithstanding the demand for harvest pur-
poses, continued very abundant.

ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
For some time past our attention has been frequently
drawn to the decrease in the earnings of many of the Rail-
roads in the United States, as compared with last year, but
more particularly to the receipts the last few months of
the Atlantic and Great Western.

In reply to these numerous inquiries, we would say that
the decresse is solely owing to the falling off of passenger
(not freight) traffic, and this can be traced to separate
causes.

In the first place, the weather has been so unusually
sultry, even for America, that it has almost put a stop to
travelling, excepting iu cases of urgency. Secondly, the
cholera has, unhappily, visited the western cities with
great severity, while at the same time the people there
have received most exaggerated reports of the ravages of
this fearful disease in New York and Philadelphia, so that
the usual amount of communication between the far West
and the East has been seriously interrupted. The late-
ness of the harvest (although it has been more than usually
abundant) has also had a depressing effect on railway
earnings; and besides these influences, it should be re-
membered that, at even this period of last year, there was
a large amount of traffic due to the lamentable war ; viz.,
the return of soldiers to their homes, the transportation of
stores, &c.
That all these causes should have had no
effect on the receipts of railroads generally would have
been unromionable to expect ; but still we Niastmatly hive