New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-17

The Bowery Fire Insurance Co. seEni-annual divi
dend of 10 T. cen, payable June =
Attention i called to the advertisement OF lost
certificate of stock Of the Breckenridge Coal Co.
The business at the Clearing House was SIS, os7, 600
The money market continues to show increased
ease The supply on call Is large and borrowers nnd
No difficulty in making negotiations at Sal g cent
The Spring payments are now mostly over, and the
demand for accommodations must decrease measura-
by for the next few months. Fistclass paper Is scarce
and wanted. A ine OF short paper was passed To-
dav at = cent and one OF fully six months strictly
4 No. at = cent. Very good paper however Is
still being sold at q cent. The demand for INST
class signatures is inexcess Of the amount offering
Messrs. Durham Il Co.. No. y Wiliam-st.' offer for
the Cumberland Goa Company $500, 900 rsi mortgage
bonds of that Company bearing 2 cent interest and
payable the lst Of January 1896. These bonds arc
secured by frst mortgage to William ID. Thompson
and Edward W. Durham, in trust on the lands of the
Company situate in Allegheny County, Md.-being
about 900 acres ard embracing about 5000 acres Of
the great fourteen feet vein of Coal and the Com
panys railroad connecting their mines with the Bat
more and Ohio Railroad, with the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal and with the town of Cumberland. To
provide for the payment of these bonds at aud before
maturity the Company have agreed to appropriate and
nav into the hands Of Trustees $50 900 annually
sinking fund, in default of the payment of which, or
of the semiannua interest for sixty days after due the
principal sha become due and the Trustees be author
lied TO enter upon and sell the said lands and road
and pay the bonds. Proposals for these bonds will be
received until Saturday 10th inst. Toe proceeds of
these bonds is to pay of the bonds of the Company
due next year.
There has been an active movement in Cotton dur
ing the past seven days, and an advance has been
realized Of quite jc. 2 ib. Midding Is now quoted
at lOI loe The sales of the week were $4,000 bales
Holders are asking further advance. The activity
and advance occssioned partly by the tenor OF the
foreign advices and partly by the unfavorable news
from the South in regard to the rivers and the grow
inc crop which il much in want of rain. Spectators
have been operating freely and much higher prices
are looked for. Mr. Wright in his circular says;
Receipts CsoPs ScThe deficit IN receipts the ports
reduced to bales weeks later adsces By te graph
make probable that week II vii be increased 20 spo
bales nor there much probability that IN three weeks heace
the will be reduced below 900 bales The export 10
Great Britain steadily 70 fall OF and the excess now
only 81 bele stated last week there viii be devl's
before 9Th June To France the EXPORT keeps gaming On A
year and the 1900 The stock on hand 10 th Gun
ry Geo bales less than last year a. same time aud there
are loading Great Britain . vessels e than at same time
s.f while France there = more vessels loading
II being generally conceded that the receipts AZ the
b eq 0i 's ,ey a@.ed on the subject seems BY com
mon consent be transferred the Just put into the
ground and various opinions are expressed a. 20 me probable
chances Of large moderate crop next IL too early
to form any decided views but the season late nd thus TAR
Asotms may SIS tton So, ,b.r syr besr- now
The season 81 the South Is fast drawing 10 close an
air adv many merchants have reached this point on their
Europe this steamer carrying some OF them as pas
The following statement Of the movement of Cotton
since the lt September last compared with the previous