New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-17
THURSDAY, July l6-P. N.
The market was very active at the Morning boafa
fsanQ Cf the past lev Gays

The market was very active at the Morning Do"'N
TODAY and the improved feeling Of the past fe" Gays
vss fp,,v Unclaimed. Tie shorts were free buyers
and The advane. has brought in some outside buyers
and such seldom come in excepting after rise
Cash stock remains scarce, but Is less so than LAST
xeek The partie. who have been operating for the
la. few months for the Fall do not appear disposed To
re,is, the market with much energy, ard within two
weeks the street has covered very large proportion
of is shorts and thereby caused much OF the recent
Improvement in prices Prices Of the leading stocks
had touched such low points that the indictment 10
realize bear pro6,s could not be resisted Should the
improyeuert continue to very considerable extent
we shall doubtless zee as usual renewed activity IN
| nu,tinp ont short contracts. At the Second Board
there as an entire change Of feeling and stocks were
freely offered. The quantity exceeded the demand,
and the bears not appearing as buyers, prices fell Oh
IalI a. cent. and closed heavy in the street. Some
offers were also made TO eel Oh long sellers option al
considerable decline but there not much business
transacted. At the morning Board Erie touched 81,
Reading 7s3; Central 81; Southern, -, &c, but az
ter the Sc ,ord Board sales made as low a. 35
for Erie IL, for Reading 500 for Southern and s2S tor
Central Compared with the closing rates yesterday,
the prices show decline of T. ceLt on Reading
cent on Michigan Southern, 2 cent on Erie, and
| cent ON Central SSes of Michigan Southern were
mace at So buyer months The transactions IN Ere
add I'D nearly COO shares In other stocks the mar
ket was less irregular and generally firm Mic iregua
| sold at 81, which is further advance. There was
some activity in Railroad bonds and prices are rner.
State Stocks are in fair demand and steady Califor-
Mas sold at So 53t and 81 600 Missouri Is at 7s d19
In Exchange there is no activity and prices are as
| before.
Freiehts continue dull at nominal rates. To Liver
pool: Flour at ID a 3D.; 100 bales Cotton at IS. y
bale; 10 TO- Sea Issnd at ID. 1900 bush. Grain at
3d., in ships bags. To London COO bbls. Crude Tur-
d ntine at ls I'D 30 bales Hair at Dos; 10 tuns Oh
| Cake al I5s a l7s cd. To Bremen 100 tuns Cedar
| Wood at lOs vessel to Marseies and back, on
trivate terms. bark to Malaga with light pipe
| Slaves at $25. schooner of $50 tuns, to Brazos
and back for 81 800. The bark Fenton 435 tuns,
years old sold for $4,000. new half clipper-ship,
| built at Newburyport, LOO tuns burden, sold for
| $4,000.
| The business of the Sub Treasury was: Receipts,
sjOI, $40 IS; Payments siil 1873 IL Balance sll,-
| 229, 433 90.
The Lebanon steamer day took slii ,3o specie.
At auction to-day Mr.. Muller sold $500 600 new stock
| oftbe Butchers and Drovers' Bank at l2O4l2O4.
The business of the Clearing House to-day was
| $50, $50, OO0.
The Corn Exchange Bank has declared q dividend OF
4 y cent, pay able LIST July
The Trustees of the Seamens bank for Savings have
ordered that interest be paid deposits entitled
thereto for the six months ending June 80 rs follows;
On sums of $500 and under at The rate of y cent y
apnum; and on sums exceeding $500, at the rate OF
y cent y aDnum, payable and afterthe 10Th inst
| The Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and
Amboy Railroad have declared a semi-annual dividend
of T. cent, payable the New-York stockholders at
the office of Ira Bliss, on the DIST inst
The La Fayette Insurance Company has declared a
semi-annual dividend of T. cent payable on the 2oth
The Brooklyn Gas Company has declared divi-
dend Of y cent and an extra dividend Of % cent,
both payable in cash.
One of the evening journals is doing injustice to sew
eral Railroad Companies in its classification OF tnelr
stocks by placing them under the head OF "non'dvi'
depd PAYING" Under this head to day it classes hve
stocks La Crosse and Milwaukee, Southern Michigan,
Erie, Cleveland and Pittsburgh and Southern Michi-
gan guaranteed stocks every one of which has paid
dividend this year excepting the last, which has not
yet reached the dividend period.
At the adjourned meeting, held to-day of the stock
and bondholders Of the Lake Erie and Wabash Road
resolutions passed in favor of the scheme pro-
posed by the officers and Committee appointed to in
duce Inc DOnOnOlucrS 10 Couic tuc
The scheme contempates the division of the earnings
of the road between the floating debt and payments on
the interest coupons of the coming year. The meeting
was harmonious one, there being but little opposition
to the scheme.
The earnings of the Sandusky, Milwaukee and New
ark Road are for
| June, lBoT... H'ooS
| iLoo' ~
The earrings Of the Milwaukee and Mississippi
Road for the first week of July were SOS, 3OO
TIE following is statement of the of the earnings
| of the New-York Central Railroad for the month OF
june 1857, compared with its earnings for the cores
ponding month of the preceding year:
l357........ poIooIu
lat6........................... ool,SI0 ~
Decrease. $I6,op ~
The matters in dispute between the Erie and the
State Line Road have been arranged, and the tickets
of the Erie Road are again received by the State Line.
The Independent Of to day publishes the annexed
list of failures, suspensions, &C., for the week
P.S Benjamin Wolcot, Vt, failed ,,,..,-.,
John H. Boyd Co., Boston, Ma", iaiieai liabilities 'a'a
about f75,0o0 - 49,
Jobn M Boyd Marlboro, Mass, failed.
John Chapman. Marlboro, Mass, gone into insolvency
Aaron Jacobs Co NewYork City and San Francisco sus-
pended liabilities e6lOoooi nominal surplus sl'oooo are
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