New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-16
SECOND BOARD.
sAruRpAY. Dec. l.t-P.M.

20 do ..........s30 453l ION u NHaven .b3O. lU3
SATURDAY Dec. l-P.M
In Stocks the market was under little re-
action to-day al the Second Board, but the de-
cline was not large. Erie went to 49, but closed
at EEL. Reading was lower, Farmers Loan was
also heavy. Morris fell off to 2l5 Sales 100000
Of Income Bonds were made at the Second Board
at 95. Government Skies were rather dull
In Exchanges the market is not active, and is
rather unsettled. Sterling is held at l0l for first
class bills, but the sales are moderate. Francs
are SIS for best signatures Amsterdam, d q
Az; Bremen, 792080; Hamburg, 364 d364. There
is Boston demand for Exchange, which has
stifFened the market. Probably some dividends
are going forward.
There has not been much done in Froights and
the markets arc very firm. For Flour 18d is
asked; Grain, 41di Cotton, I'd. To California,
1900 or 1900 bbls, measurement were taken at
81 q foot, in a clipper To London, we notice
engagements Of $500 bbls Four at Is 3D. and 20
hhds Bark, 22s ed. 10 Liverpool 260 logs Cedar,
AID; Apples, rs 6d03s, To Glasgow, so bales
Cotton 3.l6d. To Holland Measurement Goods,
sos. Several vessels have been taken up for Con-
tinental ports on private terms.
There is still demand for Specie for export,
but the supply is nearly exhausted. The rates Of
premium are unsettled but improving. Wequote
Amer god, new. 400 @lo0 rive francs,.... g53 90
Half dollars .10l4 Ol02 Doubloons. D
Spanish dollars. 0G 0lo7 soyevgns :.;.. asa 486
Spanish quarters. 99A1lOO Do!S light. $40 1873
Mexican dollars. .O2j 0lO3 Heavy guineas.. 5000 :
Mexican quarters. 9940l0O Napoeons...... $3.50 38l
The Receipts at the Custom House are $40, 3C7
Payments, sl5,889 Balance, $500, 422
The receipts of the Albany and Schenectady
Railroad for November prove to be, as we stated
few days since, larger than the estimate of the
Directors in their report to the Stockholders in
July last. The earnings are as follows:
ALBANY AND SCHENECTADY RAILRoAD-NovENBER.
passengers 39 40 20
.,u.n,... ~. SI5 3553 9 9
Increase, 10 o cent,.............,....." S2,2lO &C
We have still another new Bank to chronicle
A number OF our business men are about estab-
fishing Bank in the vicinity Of Hudson and Ca.
nal SITS. to be called the Peoples Bank of the
City of Ncw.York' The capital is to be $780,.
900, with the right to increase to q million. The
larger portion OF the stock has been already sub
scrbed. The Bank will probably go into opera.
ton in the course Of two months.
In another column will be found an advertise
ment for letting the contracts for the work on the
Western Division of the Toledo, Norwak aud
Cleveland Railroad This is link in the great
chain of Railroads that is to connect New.York
with Chicago and the Mississippi River. The
Company organized to construct this road have
TN energetic Board of Directors, and we learn
that the remainder Of the road-about 30 miles
will soon be ready for contract, the surveys be-
ing recently completely and that this road will be
finished as as that between Cleveland aud
Dunhirk.
In our Saturdays issue, in the paragraph in re.
iation to the Rochester and Niagara Falls Rail.
road, we were made to say;
1.-THE Railroad projects of New York have gen.
er&ly been very unsuccessful, and this one prom.
ises TO be an exception.
We wrote: 1.-The Railroad projects of New.
York have generally been successful, and this one
promises to be no exception"
The private letters from London speak of a
moderate business doing in American Stocks at
previous rates Holders were steady. There
had been some sales of Pennsylvania Elves The
quotations
United States 5s dollars, l0sS,,..,....... gS a "
United States os dollars, 1862, plO6
United States 6s dollars, 1865, 1921 lOgl
United States bs dollars lS67-6S, .....,.,,lO 7 9l07i
New York 6s, dollars 1865. ....,.....,,,lO5 lpI06
Psnnsyivana os S2td s24
OHIO Gs, dollars lS975. les 0lO6s
Massachusetts IS sterling, 1868 0le6
In Hamburg themarket was very dull. Coupon
Skies were los. The prospects of war in Ger
many had unsettled business. Money was q
cent and scarce on best loans.
The Reading Railroad Company transported
1885 tuns Of coal to tide water, for the week
ending 18th inst; previously, this year, 3Io42
tans-total this year. 63,937 tuns. Same time
last year, 4l,797 tuns. The Lehigh Canal brought
down l255l tuns, Total for the year, 7lS34S
tuns.
The export Of Specie last week was sll7,7S7.
The total amount OF the year is about s., go 600
The earnings of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad for November S47657 IS
sane pel4od as' II
Increase in Il Onihs. $62S5 q
Mnrkcts.... CAEErulLY REPORTED fox TIE TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. Dec. Il.
ASHES-Tbe market is very heavy, and rather lower.
with limited business dong. Sales OF . bb.s al 75Q
81 for Pearls ana > 50 for Pots.
COTTON-ls very dun and prices very heavy. Ony
SIC baIss have been sold today and those t3tc decline
Uplands and Florida and &c on NewOreaus ami No.
bfe
FLOUR AND MEAL-The buoyaucyi yin Western and
State Flour noticed yesterday continues, and the market
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