Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1855-03-07
Commercial Record.

New YoRK.-Ohio, Michigan and Indiana
-four bringing ss,94@$9.3l4 Oh the 9th ult 4
CHICAGO Feb. 9th: not so many horses in
market as usual: cattle bringing So, 5O@$4.2
and the Press speaks of "a lot of ii steers sci.
ling at SIS head for shipment east: sheep,
scarce at 81 per cwt: hogs steady At 4,a5.
! Money matters are easier. Indiana Free
Bank paper being nearly all out Of market aud
the State Auditor Of Illinois having issued
many bonds. in exchange for notes Of suspen-
ded banks, the latter being now boaght up
freely at 10 per cent discount. and The bonds
sent to New York for sale.
| -Four $5@S7 so for extra: wheat $l,l2J@
81. 20 for common>to choice sprng-$l 20@
| $i,55 for common winter to choice white: corn
50@5lc.
! Sr Louls.-.Page 4 Bacon publish card to
the effect that their house would resume bus.
mess on the 10th ult.
Land, sixteen miles from St. Louis was sold
on the 18th ult.. at $40 per acre. Its on the
Pacific R. r. and the Herald thinks it would
have brought $50, had it been properly adver.
tsed.
FAc1s.-The steamboat fleet of the West is
estimated at 800 steamboats,. Of nearly zoe. 900
tons, traversing $4,000 miles of coast. and
moving commerce of three hundred and thirts
millions Of dollars.
The railroads in the United States now use
annually $4,000 tons Of iron, less than one
third Of which is manufactured in this coun-
try.
In 1887 the area Of the United States was
2055. 60 acres:in 1854 it. is $40 572; our pop.
ula,ion was nearly Is millions; i: il now near
ly trenty sir: our yield OF gold $70O. 600; now
So. 0OO.t00: specie in circulation, thirty foe
millions; now one Hundred and eighty one mil.
lions: railroads l4OO miles: now 1926; emil
grafton 70 900 and nov 100000
Insurance companies east appear to be doing
poorly. The Atlas at New York, offsets its
earnings Of $7l9.s52 by losses and expenses
Of $685.. 422. leaving net pr6t of some IS. 900
dollars. while the Union Mutual, comes out
minus about Sill .700!!
The Canada. at Halifax Mar !st from Liver.
pool, reports -four. wheat and com, . little
lower, and provisions dull.
BuaLIScros. 3d.--Flour$7.-wheat
s4@Sl.0 5 corn 3O---Hay 50 eggs i2A.
DAvESrokr st, Mar. 3.--Fiour So. 50@$7. wheat,
| fall 81. winter 30, corn 80, IN the eas IS.
HoGs.--In Burlington. says the Harkeye
there have been killed and packed during the
past season, $4,000 hogs. Of which Law d Co..
slaughtered II 500 all averaging better than
any previous year.
| lin the runs Of the furniture factory ci
Ferris q Boyd. which was recently burned at
Chicago. the remains OF a workman, Joseph
| NJ. Arnold, have been discovered. He leaves
wife and three children.
There was destructive fire in Freeport
Ill, on the 10Th ult. on Main st. among the
business houses. Loss $4,000 to- $4,000.
| About twelve tons Of qualls have beeo
shipped from Wisconsin east, during the past
season.
Green, the Chicago Suicide. willed all his
property. some $4,000. to his youngest son
Albert, and in case of his death, to the Fire
mems Benevolent and the Young Mems, Asso
Citations of that city.
No SENAroR.-The Joint Convention Of tina
Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned on the
9th ult. to the first Tuesday in October, by a
vote of 66 to "a, after three unsuccessful bal
lettings for U. s. Senator.
Nav HAMpsRiRE.-A Democratic mass meet.
ing was held at Manchester on the 27t
presided over by ex Governor Steele. at which
the Knownothing organization was denoun.
ced as unconstitutional, and much confidence
manifested in the success Of the Democrats Al