The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-29
3flOnttarp m0 Commercial 8sbism.
BALTIMORE. December 2S. 1858

BALTIMORE, December 2S, 1858.
We again without transactions to note in Stocks nc
session of the Board having been held to-day
In New York the market weaker, and most of the
fancies lower Erie fell off as New York Central
Michigan Southern 4; Cleveland and Toledo y; and Ga
lena and Chicago Reading Railroad and Missouri 6's
sold yesterdays but Virginia 6 advanced per
cent.
The Custom House will, understand, be closed on
Saturday next, the first of January. Persons having
claims against the Government, payable on that day can
have them paid Friday, the 3lst inst.
The following is comparative statement of the condi-
ton of the New York Banks for the weeks ending Dee Is
and 25
2sS Ss5gle y sss!l%s s? Dec szsss,
Sf3aof Ssfi%n b:5,:. sSs S s5 $s lee lee loS5S S;s
following aggregates compared with that of the pre-
vious week
Capital 9ls g sl!ss,s55 IS Inc y a5s 5
specie G,$53l5i 625l5l5 Dec ,8,s39
Bas Ras {2m t5r nE qs iis is do do s553ss sss
l%$Ss$ s l@7a9 s.5sI 1S 1S s2ssS g So
The New York Tribune of today, says
The Bank ayeEei for the week show va CONTRACTED moTs
o @ fS a o@%e1Sr @ the week included T % hoSS Il 2 mpo
Bile to ascertain the exact changes which have taken place
that in specie Is ess tlan generally anticipated But lit
M M any & specie & has been Lost to the south duhg the week
able have added to Phil
antcpatsd that the south viii require any further large
:hiPmgnss Another California arrival is nearly due and
ment win doubtless show increase the specie
mostly in bank balances.
M G e'fesa hYsangs market az New York open, dn n
1oaons ns y Sgpy 10 e y for nc anaa
and 4 for banker Francs 3 are Eery da Rnld has
caed cash dividend of per cent and another Of 10 per
The Peoples Bank of New York has declared a semi
annual dividend of3 per cent e Bank Of North America
ir cent payable jan 3 The COUPONS on the Jersey City
Waterworks Bonds Will be paid the Continental Bank,
intie Bank will pay the interest the s2o0 per cents
Bank s & o a e5 d the
The interest coupons on the bonds issued h the Gomm
Company also the bonds issued by the Corporation of New
NeaaR Plank R Road CanPny and ao ON te bonds d M E
sued by the Trustees Of Newark Township the
aH ohio ssaed to the '
and Cincinnati Railroad Company and falling due on the
the remaining interest warrant attached at the Ocean Bank
and Of the state Of MichiFan maturing on the ist Of
January, M Eid VII aYpl BE paid M at the Ar@an, Bank
sit Company Niearagua) adyertises for the stockholders
The Cincinnati GsSf the aars Of 5e the Gho Life and
rqs P Company are to he COMPROMISED the attorneys for
upon general basis for compromise of the matters in dis
further interference Of the Courts far as the now in
the hands of the Sheriff involved The details have
yet been arranged but the propositions submitted at the last
will the expense of litigation, prevent further
conflict of the Courts and insure the creditors at least
small dividend upon the originally deposited within
reasonable time.
FoREIGvThe London Daily city article of Friday
evening scarcely has made
Yesterday morning the minimum rate for first class bills
ten and quarter per cent and today it the same,
though the demand in Lombard and elsewhere
active the discount department the Bank Eng
decided accession of business The symptoms observed yes
teray i'll the Stock Exchange have disappeared to-day
but the various markets queter in the afternoon than
in the morning.
obtained fresh rise of Il per The clock quo
taons however, still cent above those of yester
day
In British railway stocks fresh advance established
investments have to-day decidedly increased and the
neyed public evidently becoming desrOus of taking
good securities that the obainabe for deposits
are extremely low The Lombard discount houses
announced this morning that their henceorward will
be per cent for money at call, and Ia per cent at days
notice
Of the f6O,0O0 in Australian gold the Marco Polo re-
naming unsod yesterday, 900 to-day into the
bank, the rest being purchased for the Continent
The Times that the funds closed fsrm and ap-
pheatons for discount at the Bank rather
AMERICAN SECURITIES.MesSFs H. Bell, Son Co report
as follows During the past week there decided
proveent in the market for American securities The de
mad has been active for every description Of State stock
way bonds to the exclusion Of many which doubtful
ana speculative Character The Panama per sterling
ponds continue to be much sought for both the mort
gaze edeemabe 1865, and the second ditto redeemable
sI2 the more 50 the fact is known that the company
ries of bonds falling due in 1859