New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-26
COMMERCIAL AND MONEY MATTERS.
WEDNESDAY,. Dec. I'm.

There was no session OF the Board to-day aad
no business doing ia Wall st or in mercantile cir
cles.
Within few days there have been freight en-
gagements beside those reported, of; To Liver
pool 1900 bushels of Corn and 5000 Wheat, at
4Jd; 600 bxs Cheese, EOS 2j tuns Tallow lbs ;
3oO bbls Resin, Isl 50ogs Cedar, 23d so hhds
Tobacco, 2Osi 80 bxs Tobacco, IS; and ITO bbls
Pork, Is To London-7O bxs Tobacco IS; 100
bbls Pork, IS; 100 bales Bacon and 80 casks
Lard, 25s Cheese, 30s; Is hhds Tobacco, 25s
and 100 bales Hair ard 100 bxs Clothes Pins, on
private terms. To Glasgow-270 bbls Resin and
200 bbls Apples at 2s; 1000 bbls Flour Is Cd 40
kegs Butter and 20 tuns Oil, with other Heavy
Goods, 2Os; and 35 tuns Fustc private terms
To Havre-Cotton at of cent-there is little
else Offering To New Orleans and other South
ern Ports there is but little going forward. The
new bark Black Squat was sold for $40, 900, cash.
for the California trade
The London letters speak of fair business DO
ing in American Stocks at the following quota
tons. The chief sales have been in Inscriptions
of 1867: U. S. Skies, 1867, 1861 0l07; do, 1863,
1921 0lO93; New. York State Fives 95; Ohio
Skies 1O50l06; Pennsylvania Elves, 82084 Il
Boston City Elves, 92 Kentucky Skies, 98090;
Massachusetts Sterling F1ves, 1050l06; Mary
land Sterling Elves, 9O091; Canada Skies l03
In another column will be found an advertisement
asking for bids for One Hundred and Ninety
Thousand Dollars Of the six p cent. First Mort
gage Bonds OF the Rutland and Washington Rail
road Co. This road extends from Rutland, Yer
mont to Troy, New York. and will probably be
extended on the West bank of the River to AL
banv Arrangements for such an extension are
nearly completed The Rutland and Washing
ton Road are under contract for the whole distance
so miles, and II miles, from Rutland to Castleton,
is completed and in operation. The remainder Of
the Road to Salem will be completed next Sum-
mer by the time the other end of the Road from
Salem to Troy is ready. The road covered by the
mortgage extends from Rutland to Salem, and Is
pnder contract at $4,000 p mile, or million OF
dollars for the entire road. The mortgage Is Tor
Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars, OF
which One Hundred and Ninety Thousand Dol
lars are now offered, andis first and only lien on
road costing million of dollars, certainly an
unusually large margin for Railroad Bonds. For
the information OF capitalists who may De disposed
to bidfor these Bonds we give below some extracts
from an exhibit published by the Company giving
their views of the prospects of the Road and the
sources from which it's traffic will be derived:
The Charter of the Rutland and Washington
Railroad Company was granted in 1s47, organized
in l848 and amended in l849. The grant is per
petual with only one condition After SO yenrs
the State has the right to purchase the Road aud
its franchise a. its cost, adding such sum as will
make the income equal to said Company to 10 y
cent. p annum The provisions are liberal, CAPT
tai unlimited, and nc right of repeal is reserved
to the State, the length of the Road in Vermont
is about IS miles. The Company have contract
and Bond in the sum Of $4,000, for lease of
about II miles of the Troy and Rutland Railroad
in the State of New.York, making about 40 miles
of Road exclusive OF turnouts, represented and
controlled by the Company
The present capital is one million of dollars.
About $500 GOO have been expended, and the work
is rapidly going forward 20 completion. This
Road commences at Rutland Vermont, at az in
terseetion Of the Rutland and Burlington Road,
aHd terminates at Salem n. Y Independent Of