The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-21
MOnttarp an6 Commercial Aebieu.

BALTIMORE, April 20, 1858.
Transactions continue rather light at Stock Board
To-day SIS shares of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stock
sold at yesterdays prices There sale of bonds
of this Company of the shares of the Northern Cen
trail Railroad $4,000 Northern Central Railway bonds of
1885 sold at ssh, Decline Baltimore 6's of $780, adj
vanced \; Maryland 6's of1S70 sold o3 do $780, at
103H; so shares of Howard Bank sold at OK to OK
Maryland 6s, 1870 closed at 103 bid do $780, 1881 bid
Baltimore 6s 1870, 90 bid 92k Asked do, $780, old e3
bid, 93& asked do, new, 93k bid 81 asked Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad bonds 1867 81 bid 81 asked do 1880
rs bid so asked do 1885, II asked North western yr
gnia 1st mortgage SIN bid; do, I'd do 81 bid; do Sd
do, 40 asked Northern Central, 1885, 5sk bid IS
asked Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shares closed at AZ
bid, AK asked against AK bid yesterday Northern
Central Railroad shares, 1873 bid II asked against II
asked yesterday
The money market here is gradually becoming easier
Approved securities readily cashed those in less
estimation continue at high rates of discount
Business operations continue with some spirit and we
believe will prove extensive this season than was
tcipated.
At tie First and Second Boards to-day at New York
there was general advance prices Missouri 6s
rose II Erie n Canton r. New York Central Reading
y; Panama IN; Cumberland y; Hudson q; Cleveland
and Toledo " Michigan q and Illinois Central bonds re-
manned steady at S.
Advices received from Europe 9TH inst per Ara
so, from hdVre VIA southampton Consols remain with
little variation SO 96% slight increase in the demand
for money readily met by private Bread
stufs were very dull leaving expectation of any de-
mand for our cereals unless extreme prices
there be any reasonable hope for favorable change I'M
less the next harvess there should prove deficient and
will be months before this can be scertained Cot
ton had advanced I'D per pound Every improvement in
the price of this article lessons the probability specie
shipments from this side during the coming summer
The New York Tribune of yesterday says:
The business of the Sub Treasury was -Recepts s75
27S33 900 from Customs Payments s115126S ST. Bal
ance s., sol 729 "a
The Weekly Bank statement, was Anticipated is a
favorable although the increase of was uneS
pected, and doubt measuraby due further pur
chases of Treasury nOtescerainly to legitimate
discounts of paper Bank managers exhibit every
disposition to their present large amount of dead
weight, and their inability to find employment for
it is all that keeps the loans below 500 600 OOO-
The lesson Of last fall appears already to have lost all
its influence. The accumulation of unemployed de-
posts continues to be great the interior balances be-
ing large OF the of the money market must
increasing while their cenraizng of capital at this
point continues, and under the circumstances it is not
surprising that banks should be pressing loans upon lead
ing houses at 44% per cent the specie shows
an increase of nearly million and quarter and stands
at the highest point yet touched notwithstanding the large
payments OF the month past into the Sub Treasury In
addition to the California arrival there have been some
ccipts from the interior.
The following is comparative statement the condi
ton of the banks of the city of New York. April 10 and
Am