The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-10

$flUnttarp ano Commercial 8cOieM.
BALTIMORE, December 8, 1858

pregate value of the transactions being less than
S25 900. The market, although quiet, gene
rally frmer. Northern Central Railway, which fell
off yesterday 81, reacted again to-day, and note
an Improvement in it of 2s to Z a dollar per share.
The operations at the Board were principally in this
stock. The sales embrace 900 shares at S2l seller
60; S2l42l4, buyer 30; S2l15@2l%, buyer 80;
and S2lh92l13, buyer 60 days. 1t left off at S2l2s
bid S2l5s asked regular way. There was nothing
done in Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, but it closed
firm at S5634 bid S57 asked regular way, these fig
ures being an advance of i to q on the closing
quotations of yesterday. City Gs and Railroad
bonds remain firm The sales include 500 Baltimore
6's 1890 at 994 81, 900 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
1880 bonds at SCI, 81 500 do. 1885 do at Si3, and
$1,000 Northern Central do. 1855 bonds at "A, an
advance of i. The only other transaction at
the Board a sale of so shares Howard Bank at
S91E.
The tone of the New York stock market to-day
was decidedly better. Missouri 6's advanced =;
Erie Railroad q; New York Central =; Reading
=; Cleveland and Toledo q; Michigan Southern
8; Galena and Chicago lg and the market closed
firm.
In our statement yesterday of the comparative
receipts of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for No
vember, 1857 and 1855 the compostor made
say that there had been decrease this year of S2l,-
7l5.S4, instead of increase of that amount,
intended.
The Cunard steamer Africa left New York on
Wednesday morning for Liverpool with SlsI, 900 in
specie. The Foreign Exchange market had closed
with tirmness on the part of sellers at 1897 on
London. Owing to the scarcity of Southern Bills
at New Orleans the rate for co day bills London
had advanced last week from to S24 per cent. pre-
MUM.
ErniubtS No, Nor hon
very few vessels in berth. To Liverpool 800
bbls. -four at Is 3D. $50 tierces beef at IS. 3D. so
bbls. pork at 2s. Sd. To Antwerp: l,5OO bbls
Spirits private terms; the nominal rate is 4 cts
per gall; accidentally reported few days since
London. To Bremen $50 bbls rosin at IS. Cd
To Rotterdam 30 hhds. tobacco at 27s. Cd. A
schooner with lumber from Pensacola to north side
of Cuba at Sl0.75 brig from Philadelphia to
Galveston at S. per ton. vessel to Frankfort
with -four at 20 cts.
Messrs. Thompson Bros, bankers, New York,
quote Land Warrants as follows:
Buy Sell. Buy. Sell
50 So sS Si6o I5O aSrss:. acres s. So
BosToN BANKs.-A comparison of the footings of
the weekly bank statement of the Boston banks,
with those of the statement for the previous week.
exhibits increase of SSl3, ,G95 in the item of loans
and discounts S25O,273 in circulation, SOL 500 in
specie, and SlGO,O53 in deposits
Date Loans and Specie in Denosits Crcula-
Discounts. Bank. N'Po'i's' ton.
Nov 29.... 56S652l 9.5l3026 22721 295 6 500 513
Dec. o.. 5767S 912 9,5G47l6 22SSl ,S4s 7,I497S6
The State Treasurer Of Pennsy ylvania invites pro-
posals for the sale of 100000 of the State per
cent. loans, the purchase by the State Treasurer
being behalf of the Sinking Fu&. Proposals
will be received till December &c. and the stocks are
to be bought from the lowest bidder
The Treasurer of Ohio is buying exchange to re-
nit for the January interest the State debt and
the whole amount needed will be placed in New
lork before the 18th prox, free of expense to the
State. Last year the exchange cost IL per cent.
The market for exchange in Cincinnati is firm and
active.
The receipts of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad for November compare as fol-
lows:
November 1855. 677 50
do 1871. "a .s9l SO
Increase 1858 S7s5 so
The receipts Of the Little Miami, Cincinnati and
Xenia Railroad for November were:
5o5 "
Gain... s29,521 So
The business of the Illinois Central Railroad for
November, 1858, was:
LAND DEPARTMENT
Acres Construction Lands sold lG7 IL for S24 S65 43
Acres Interest Fund Lands sod.... .... for ....
Acres Free Lands s0id... 435 81 for 5jul.0 .0l ]
Total sales during the month eOsOs for ssOses47
To which add Town Lot e"leS--.....-... e52 45 |
Acre. sold 0h6 nce Go, ian s5s 1897 IS for sSSa
Acres sold previously 200 9387s for 1851 44O4o
TotaI...........1 25O, SCI. IA for SIS ISL 26s 90
Construction Bonds cancd in Nov,
Construction Bonds cancelled prev
OuSY SSA 600 1912
Free Land Bonds Cancelled in Nov.
1898. 5000
Free Land Bonds Cancelled previ-
ously.. ....................ll6ooO $4,000 90
Total Bonds Cancelled up Nov. go 1858 O34 coo 90
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT.
Receipts from Passengers s62l65 $3
Receipts from Mails 6,35S 33
Receipts from Rent of Road Observation-Disclosures. 2,194 90
Total Receipts in month of Nov 1885, s151 19o IS
Total Receipts in month of Nov, 1857. 1S7, ,O5S 10
Total Receipts in corresponding period of 1857 %
The earnings of the Ohio and Mississippi Rail
road for November, compare as follows:
oct. 1858. Oct. 1857.
Passengers. 500 963 80 slO225S sc
Freights NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. II ,436.Ol S7.679 y
Express Freights........... 3,57500 3,1725O
NAIL b5S34l 5,l6l SO
sl8l55992 sl48,27486 ,
Total increase business of 1857 80. .s2s5O6
The Louisville Journal says of the Southern Pacific
Railroad We happy to learn from the Messrs Burk
hard that the stockholders are promptly paying their
dues the inStament stock and that others literally
advancing the Fifty cents loan each share There is
doubt that the whole 1927 900 required discharge the
liabilities of the company under the compromise is
be raised and its property and franchises will
the President and Directors before the first day of
February This of affairs is cheering the extreme
and by Spring there will be large made
pushing the work
RAILROAD TO DE SoLD.-The property and francli |
of the Dauphin and Susquehanna Coal Company
to be sold in Philadelphia the 1s Of March The
property includes 81 miles of railroad, extending from
the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Rockville, miles above
Harrisburg, to the Reading Railroad at Auburn 10 miles
below Potsvile. This Company is New York specula
ton which has failed and the sale has been ordered by
decree of the Supreme Court in the suit in equity of May
Humphres and others against the Company The proper
ty will be sold subject the lien of mortgage S97,
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SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD