New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-28

French packet $4,000 in Silver and French gold,
and $4,000 in American gold, and the London
packet $4,000 in American Halves and Mexican
Dollars The total since first January is about
seven and three.quarter millions of dollars
In Freights there is but little doing and the quo
tations are unchanged. Engagements of Flour
for Liverpool at I'D Cotton IS 6dG4s per BALE
Dead w eight lbs a COS; Grain I'D 10000 bushels
Wheat. To London 1000 bxs Cheese, 30si 200
ties Beef As; Wheat, 3D. and Flour Is I'D
To Glasgow the City of Glasgow has Cheese at
3os and Heavy Goods 22s Cd To Havre the
packet lst Nov is full at for Cotton and Whale
bone; &c for Wax, 81 for Bark, and s. and 81 for
Ashes The packet 9Th is asking higher prices
In addition to the purchases OF Stocks and
Bonds at the Board for investment, there is an
unusually large amount OF business dong at pH-
yate sale for the same purpose. Parties who have
Bonds of good Railroads for sale have made very
large transactions within week or two at adj
vancing prices There seems to be an unusually
large amount of surplus funds seeking safe and
nermanent investments, and as Federal and New
York State Stocks, &c. are high as to yield but
or A. q cent interest," the attention OF investors
Western Companies. The Bonds OF our New
York Roads having been nearly all absorbed we
hear of several propositions made for such Bonus
during the week, partly for foreign account, III
Gliding entire remainders Of loans at advanced
prices, portion of which had been previously
issued. In one case the bid was for exceeding
half million of dollars. sale of $4,000 OF
Chicago and Galena Railroad Bonds was among
the transactions, and the parties offered to take
100000 on the same terms
The Payments at the Sub Treasury were large
to-day, ss41, $40; Receipts s6l,578i Balance
s4,3o7 ,6O2; same day last week, s4,5o0'593 De
crease sl98, 791. The payments from Ihe 0u'
Treasury during the month exceed the payments
IN the Treasury over Twelve Hundred lhousahd
Dollars.
The steamer Arctic took no specie. The sup
,l, If silver is nearly exhausted and the Banks
we understood decline to give their customers
more than SIS in change at one time. The pre-
NUNS for silver coin are high. Foreign gold IS
also scarce and the rates of Exchange are not high
enough for shipments of American gold The re-
GENTS of silver and gold coins from the West,
Canada. &c. are about equal to shipments which
are made The quotations of Specie are as toll
lows;
Amer gold rex cent sds caous dollars los @ Siss
do do new. ..lCO 0lOO Five francs..,... 9540 95}
Portuguese god 100 aOcf do patriot l6 loal6 .
Spanish dollars. .1o5 '0lo6 soyereigns $50 ! 80
Mexican dollars. 1922 0i02l Heavy guincas. Oo9
do quarters. g9I0l0o INapoIeons..... $50 IS
The Greenwich Bank has declared dividend
5 y cent.
Counterfeit Threes on the Bank of Providence
have made their appearance.
The referees in the case of Gilmore & Carpenter
as the Norfolk County Railroad Company have
awarded to the claimants one hundred and fifty
two thousand dollars The claim was for grading,
masonry, &c of the road, for which the claimants
were contractors, damages for non-iultillment OF
contract extra interest paid by the contractors on
notes of the Company shaved, &c
At the meeting of the friends Of the Sacketts
Harbor and Saratoga Railroad, held at Carthage,
Mr. T B Tilden addressed the meeting, giving
history of the routes as far as the survey had pro
crossed at present from Sacketts Harbor to Wolf
Lake, Township No /. Elevation from Sachetts
Harbor to Carthage, 48O feet and in the whole
distance to Wolff AXE 700 feet Distance as fol
lows
Sackers Harbor to Carthage 80 miles
Carthage 10 Dayansvis; ......'..''''.''''''''..'i
DHyansville TO High Fails. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
High Fails 10 w oll Lake. ........,...,..,..,..l8
Total .....,..,..................32
Mr. Tilden gave very satisfactory account of
the route as to its feasibility, also to the resour
ces of the forests in lumber, minerals, &c. The
meeting appointed committee of thirteen to
procure the subscription of funds necessary to
continue the survey.
At Richmond, va. last week, meeting was
held and largely attended, in aid of the Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad, Gen. Peyton presided.
A resolution was offered and adopted, declaring
that tie citizens of Richmond ought to subscribe
100000 to the stock of the company, so soon as
S150,O00 shall have been subscribed by Others
provided the company gives an assurance that no
discrimination shall be made against Richmond in
establishing the connection of the road with any
other railway below Lynchhurg. A large com
mittee was ordered to be appointed to procure the
subscription recommended by the resolution
The iron for the Indianapolis and Peru Railroad
has arrived in Madison, The hands will COM
mence laying it soon after it arrives, and in all
probability train Will run to Noblesyille, 81 miles
North, before New Year Day
The work on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Rail
road, says the Ravenna W1ig, is fast progressing
to completion. There is 40 doubt that ere the
close of the month of November. we shall be in
railroad communication with Cleveland. All the
force that can be used to advantage on the work
is now being placed upon the line
The annual statement of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, shows favorable condi.
ton of the affairs of that immense work. The
property of the Company consists of the Road,
costing. 766 400 SO
Stock In Washington Branch. ........... I68S826 "a
Bonds OF the Company and Stale Of Indiana 2496 267 "a
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