New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-18

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The Directors of the Bank of New-York have de-
sded to increase their capital stock from 600 eoo to
s3,Oo0,oeO. o
The business of the Clearing House was $3 l2I oo'
The Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Road has de-
elared semi annual dividend of 3! y cent, payable
10 New York stockholders Oh the 18th May
On call money is very abundant and loans on current
securities are made with greater ease than for some
slime past. Paper of fret class is in demand at y
cent, and occasionally is passed at lower figures.
The Washington steamer tomorrow, will proba-
bly take $780, GOO in gold The Circassian, from Port
land, took $4,000. The Empire City, for Havana
Today, took $500, 600 in douboons. Mr. Trautwine,
and the remainder Of the Engineer Corps of the Inter-
oceanic Honduras Railroad, sailed to-day for Omoa,
Honduras.
The earnings of the Chicago and Rock Island Road
tor the FIRST weeks Of April Se9as
Increase ,'''.'''''' pooiN
The earnings of the Cleveland Columbus ana ~ Cil, u
sinnati Road for the 1856 a'd 90
Expenditures for all purposes. goo seI go
Net earnings.
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gn which $lI7 903 90 has been expended in baasting
new eoupape. &C. The entire debt Of the Company,
floating and funded, is $l03 4S9. OF the receipts,
39S 1853 were for passengers aud $S ,3ll for freight
.Ihe increase over last year is S39 45S 3d. The ex-
penses Of working the Road including interest and
faxes, was AZ 3O-l00 y cent on the income
The recepts of the Morris Canal Company for the
week ending April IL were $4sS5 81. At the same
aime last year the canal had not earned anything
The contrast between the business of the Boston
Board Of Brokers and the New-YOrk Board Is very
marked At our Board it is not unusual to do daily
business Of 2 600 to 80 600 shares stock and SlOO OOo
TO $500 600 of railroad and State bonds The average
business of the Boston Board is 500 to ,OOO shares
daily Yesterday the entire transactions added up 40o
shares Of various stocks while during the past six
days one house, members Of the New-York Board,
have bought and sold 40, 900 shares of stock.
The private letters by the steamer speak of the ad-
vance in interest by the Bank having been taken to
check speculation and to arrest measurably the drain
of gold to the continent The writers think the adj
vance will not be permanent. fair amount of orders
have come for our Securities mainly for Illinois Cen
tral The advice of the increased capital of this Com
pany was favorably received, aud the market ad-
yanced, but was after depressed by the bears, who
sod abort on the expectation that their shorts could be
6led in this market at profit The Circular of Messrs
Berenburg Gossler g. Co. of Hamburg says:
"A restrictive measure on the part of the Bank OF
Hamburg about further loans silver and gold coins
and gold bars called forth by the increasing dram OF
bar silver has created sort of pane IN our money
market and discount has gradually advanced to Z =
cent for best paper, with corresponding decline OF
cur principal exchanges, which close firm. The busi-
ness in stocks and shares is almost parayzed for the
moment
On the day following the Isl April the gentle
men write private letter, stating that money had
become again easier, exchange lower on England and
the Bank of Hamburg had reduced its rate again to
q y cent.
The Domestic commission houses have not done the
usual business of the during the past week,
The obbers not actively engaged with the nearby
trade. Payments from the West continue to be re-
ported very unsatisfactory and the buyers of that
tiou being unwilling TO meet their creditors here with
empty hands, buying in other cities Cotton
Yarns have continued to be well supported in price
a general thing, but with only very moderate de-
napd. though trade has revived little within the last
day or two We give the following details of the
state of the market for Cotton fabrics; Brown Sheet
incs and Shirtings have been in moderate request al
SIC for light; 9ic. for heavy for export, 'sc IL
Beaehed Sheetngs and Shirtngs little has been done
and irregular makes continue TO accumulate. Dnu'
have sold TO some extent partly for export and may be
uoted firm at &C. for Brown; Bleaehed De. Blue lOlc
(,snaburghs have been quiet, and rather depressed
hut without quotable change in price. We quote
Lowell No. A. 3O-inch, at &c. Denims were n lit
Ale improyed; prices Of Columbian, Oxford and Pa
ei6c. IOIc; Pearl River, Isle. York, l5lc.; Amos
tesc Ice Stripes ADD Ticks we're taken about as re-
eeiyed, though the business is only moderate, We