The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-16

BALTIMORE, December Il, 1853.
The Stock operations to-day were quite light
the aggregate value of the transactions at the
Board being only about SIT 900. Northern Cen
tra Railway shade better than on Yesterday.
but for Baltimore and Ohio the market was un-
changed. The sales of Northern Central include
200 shares at $2ll4 sellers option 80 and 60 DAYS
and of Baltimore and Ohio there were 100 shares
sold at $56 regular way, and IS shares at S5Gl4
buyers option so days. The former stock left off
at S2l1s bid, S2l4 asked and the latter at S5G
bid S5614 asked regular way The closing quota
tions for Northern Central are 4 higher than those
of yesterday. Canton closed as on yesterday at
$50 bid, S2012 asked, and Santa Clara Mining at
SIS bid, SlsM asked regular way. We note a sale
OF $500 Maryland 6's for the opening at LOG, but
there was nothing done in city 6's. Northern Cen
tral Railway 1885 bonds dropped of to-day ~
There sale made at the opening $500 of these
bonds at rs, but subsequently $4,000 of them were
sold at 7i34, at which figure they closed. The only
other transaction in Railroad bonds was a sale of
$1,000 Central Ohio second mortgage at S56I@.-
Bank stocks are firm, but very few sales are max
ing. The only reported to-day sale of &
shares Bank of Baltimore at S9934 exdvidend, an
advance Of % on the last sale
The New York stock market to-day was rather
irregular Erie declined IS; La Crosse and Mil
waukic Is; Gaena and Chicago q; Cleveland and
Toledo sold at yesterdays price, and Missouri 6's,
New York Central and Reading advanced q each.
The market closed steady.
The New York Tribune of to-day says:
The market for foreign exchange closed with scarcely
as much frmness shown at the opening. The
transactions have been to ahOnt the usual extent The
explanation OF the scarcity Of bills from the South appears
to he that the banks i'll that section being very strong
purchased them q
ing it to the South for discount sale As it approaches
maturity il will probably come forward with more FREE
dom Sterling is lO9dlO9, the bulk of the transactions
being at lO9% al09h Francs are plenty and dull.
MessrS. Thompson Bros, New York. quote Land
Warrants follows:
Buy. Sell. Buy. Sell
80 80 .slsS ssS1SS SO 1920
The following is a comparative statement of the
exports exclusive of specie) from New York to
foreign ports for the week ending December l3:
Total for the wesk sIsSs2es 1908 siisieae sass
Previously reported 755t7672 SO 9S6o22 5i,66l ,257
Since January1 $77,47oelo $7l,o45lso s55,7ao $40
The earnings of the Erie Railroad for the month Of
November 1898 were. ''....'.'.'..S 36.SsS -
Earnings November, 1857 429gtO 10
Increase. ase...................... s699s e.
This result is quite disappointment after the large
gain in receipts.
Cincinnati Railroad for November were as follows
Passengers. S3l,47S 10
Freight ................... G6 us II
Rents. ....................... 6,279 81
Total........................ s1Ol475 81
December, 1857 so 756 81
Increase. 500 719 20
letter from the office of the Company at CIcve-
land says:
We shall he able to pay per have a surplus
the years business of 900 S75 000 but had
to cut the pretty close in expenses"
The Indianapolis and Cincinnati Road earned in No
vembcr S9 600 increase Of $500 last year The
increase in November the Cleveland p and Ashtabu-
la Road over November, 1887, 81 ,G73.
Respecting the legal difficulties of the creditors
of the Ohio Life and Trust Company the Cincinnati
Gazette of Saturday says:
"In reply to the demand made upon him by James F.
khreath, ESD, the Receiver of the United States Court
the Sheriff yesterday declined to comply but asked
further time, TO enable him to get instructions
Superior Court In other words suppose he may lie
understood saying to the United States he
does not recognize its authority, and that unless he
shall be directed by the Superior Court pay the
into the hands of the Receiver, he will hold to them in
defiance Of the Federal tribunal Should the Superior
Court take this very interesting tim among the
lawyers, the officers and the Courts will follow.
The suit of James Winslow Trustee against the Mari
eta and Cincinnati Railroad Company in the Circuit
Court Of the United States for the southern District OF
Ohio, dismissed Friday last at the of the
plantiT-thc Court of Common Pleas in Ross County
having jurisdiction of the and having appointed
Receiver.
The following will show the invoiced value of
the receipts of foreign Wool and Woolens at all of
the ports of the United States for the last three
fiscal years, ending June 80: