New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-12-27
Public Stock kxchange-Drc. %.

The Stock Market remains very inactive with tie
exception Of Pennsylvania IS, in which there speculative
action bringing probabilities ofthe payment Feb
ruary interest To-day the snes consideaba-some
ass UOat an Improvement OF IL cent the opening
price The from Harrisburg MI favor the impression
that the whole neres, w ba paid but there .t some
believers principally the ground Of the uncertainty IN rela
ton To the August dividend should the Treasury be exhausted
TO the February interest That there Will be que OF very
nearly the needed amount of Funds the Treasury Febn
~ is admitted but ignorance of S Shunks policy still cal
cuaed 10 little doubt the matter. In other tocSsbe
variations were tfng The sales limited ard probably
confined lots upon which loans have been called IN wcn
could not be met of nntued contracts which the buyer
could not receive Until The Board gets settled after the holy
days. and tho Banks and private lenders adop, les stringent
policy there will net be marked activity IN the stock market
There are few sterling bills coming forward irom
the South but the feeling regard 10 Southern Cotton
bills that they do vciy little tow0d relieving the market Re-
mtsrs drlkc touch them, and nch low rates must be ac
ceped for them that probably not will seek this market
CITY drawers enabled 70 command high rates. aud av0rte
bills are 10 lo4: Etancs 22a 2li4 TRc enquiry not
large the purchase, he having scarcely
ced The demand for remittance by this steamer viii be IN
creased ony By the fact that there other steamer
I'll k Feb but co By the JAM dividends State ind other
stocks railroad bonds bonds and mortgages, &c consider
able amount Government, NewYoIk ONO md Kentucky
stocks held abroad well two and halt millions oil
Reading Railroad bonds held other SIDE and
siderable portion Of the interest will undoubtedly be reDied
y
The subject Of Il sale OF III, public works Of The
State of Michigan again under consideration by the people
Of the state The of the main line present such
tba, prom,es DC future Of revenue il retained by
the state On the other hand Sold the works would be
completed much Eastern capitalists wiln. pay
TO the state the and Of every public work Mich
zan-provded they absolutely conveyed thenand far.
Their they will obgate themselves to complete the central
railroad to II. Josephs whiv years,
DIR. John &. Holland, iatspurssr in the Navy, has
been elected President of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad
ill the vacancy occasoned by the resignation OF Mr. Tyer
vino has been appointed President Of the 1lous Canal.
The Fremen's IasuraGce Company OF Baltimore
has declared dividend of and quarter cent for the
lastsx nontls.
The Chicago papers caution the people against
the notes the Grant County Insuunce Company, Mich
The Report Of the Petersburg Railroad for rhe
year ending Goth September 1874. shows good condition Of
the Conpany The expenses of tie Company have been redu
ced and of the State converted into stock The
cepts FOR transportation sla)aJ3 and the OF
transportation 81 6 The whole account standsss follows
Rece5ps and Disbursements the Pers5srg Railroad
C0mpGng fer inc year eaGiFg SEPT. ~, loH