The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-23
BOARD OF TRADE.
Committee of Arbitration for December
EDWARD SLADE,
W. GUNTHER, H. C. MAGRUDER,
r. MATTHEW'S, JR., JOHN r. SEEMULLFR
;flonetarp and Commercial 3ebiem.
BALTIMORE. December %. 1888,

Stocks continues very quiet, although there wa.
rather business done at the Board to-day thar
on yesterday. Stocks were generally steady, anG
in City 6's we note slight improvement. The
sales of City 6's include 81, 300, 1905, at the
Board, and $4,000 do. after the Board at 9834
There was also some little movement in Railroad
bonds, and we note sales of So, 500 Northern Cen
trail 1855 at AZ, a decline of a. and SIS, SOC
Northwestern Virginia lst mortgage bonds at 9315 3
The operations in Railroad shares were very light
There was nothing whatever done in Northern Cen
tral, and of Baltimore and Ohio l52 shares only
were sold, at S56@564 cash. S5614 seller go days
and S56% buyer 60 days, the market for it closing
at S561s bid, S56H asked regular way. Northern
Central Railway left off, yesterday, at S2lH
Did, S2l% asked regular way. There sales
also at the Board of 100 shares Springfield Mining
!! Company at S1.94, and of 40 shares Bank of Com
merce at S2534.
The Associated Firemen's Insurance Company
has declared dividend of six and a quarter per
cent. for the last six months payable the Sd Janu-
ary next.
The New York Stock market continues dull, but
rates to-day rather irregular Missouri Gs
declined at the first Board %, but they advanced
again at the second u; Erie Railroad declined 4;
Cleveland and Toledo Is; New York Central ad-
vanced =; and Reading, and Galena and Chicago
sold at yesterdays prices. Michigan Southern
sold at the first Board at Sl97s and at the second
at $40.
The New York Tribune of to-day says:
We hear of further sales of 5000 900 Treasury Notes
4hg42 per cents all at and few ~ cents, old
at slight discount Much dissatisfaction is felt at the
wording of the Treasury proposals for the loan 1t
appears that the July coupon is to be cut Off and the
bonds will bear interest till July. 1t is thought that
the issue would be much desirable if the July
pons remained the bond and the takers paid
the January to the date of the payment
Treasury the principal The result would be for the
Government precisely the uuder the adop
ted by the Secretary while the new bonds wouId then he
uniform with the previous ten million, and with the 9TH
State and Government Securities dealt in at the Stock
Exchange.
The following is comparative statement of ex-
ports, exclusive of specie, from New ork to for
eign ports for the week and since JAM l:
Total for week 9428O4 s1o838 846 s1,l37 ,713
Previously reported. II 47O94o HO451So 55,73O,s2O
Since Jan. =. .s7e,48,24 s72o78 525 $56,868, ,5a3
Messrs Thompson Bros, Bankers, New York,
quote Land Warrants as follows:
Buy. Sell. Buy Sell
40 acres....$ $1oo siio12o acres...... 76 81
The bills for 100000 City 6 per cent Central
Park Improvement Stock were opened yesterday by
the Controller, and were as follows:
l. Amasa Wright for S5 900. 25
2 H. Meigs Smith, for $50 900 0O............1O1.O .O5
g. j. l.. Lewis, for SO ,000.. l0I 90
A. Ward Co. for $500 600. 00...................lOO7 76
s. II. Meigs Smith, for $4,000. OO............1 100 60
g. ?. Harmonys Nephews Co., for $55 0O0. 100 so
T. Charles H. Russell, for 100000 ......... 100 40
s. .. Hendricks and others, for S25 1OO13
g. Marines Savings Inst, for $4,000 100 90
TO- Brooklyn Savings Bank for $50 600 100 90
IL. J. L. Lewis for 10000. 100 90
T. Continental Insurance Company for S25 oOO. 90
l3. j. G. Kings Sons, for $500 900. 1Ol 25
The stock awarded to the first fournamed bidders
The proposal Of Messrs Kings Sons not accepted
their bid receive and pay the money at once
considered be in accordance with the terms of
the advertisement
We annex statement of the earnings Of the New York
Central Railroad for the month of November 1855 com
pared with its earnings for the corresponding months of
the previous year:
lS5S... S59521S. 90
1oo''..'.''... ...........'........... bl5,367 OF
Decrease. $40 1880
The following gives the receipts and expenditures c the
Little Mama, Columbus and Xenia Railroad Companes
for the year ending Nov. 80, 1858:
PASSENGERS receipts. S532 673 o.
Freight receipts ................ GA .65S IS
Express and mail receipts So 97-s1 200 499 90
Expenses. ..................... 569 9S7 y
Net earnings. $500, ,5l2Os
Add dividends on Columbus and Xena stock
December, 1857 and June 1858. 43 900 rs
Total. s673, ,S02 SO
Deduct interest account. ........ S1O5. .S3S rs
Payments last years business. IS SS1153- $50 IS
Net profits of the country ,........... s529l52 s.
The Little Miami Company's proportion
being ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1852 76S.37
And the Columbus and Xenis Com
panies proportions being....... 176 1884 IS
gross receipts from the Canals of Ohio for 1858
s3os SAB s5 Last the s3S 972 TO- show
ing decrease of gross receipts for 1858 S4OO2S S5
The receipts at Cleveland and Toledo last year and this
will be seen below
1857 1853
Cleveland. .s24el1 il s7oe4es7
Ioledo. ........... 25,552 81 1866 so
tba
Canal exhibits decrease of $43 3l5 81.
Among the new railway enterprises Of the State of i
nois in progress is the Illinois River Road which
will form extension OF the Chicago Rock Island
from Chicago the Bureavalley Road Jacksonville
where it meets the Alton and St. Louis Road The entire
region of country from Peoria to ST. Louis among the
richest most populous and best developed interior por
ons of the State The northern thirds of this road
are ready for the rails and the residue will be ready by
the time the rails delivered the line. Nearly the
" hole of the work has been done within the year.
and paid for exclusively with local subscriptions
the hard times, and the residue will be paid
or in the same The first mortgage bonds are to be
lsed only to pay for iron freight track laying and roll
stock. All the iron has been purchased at the pres
nt low prices with the cash of the mort
gage bonds.
The New York Herald says The following table shows
great falling off in the exports Of breadstufs from this
the September last compared with the same
period for the three previous years
Flour bbls. Wheat bus Corn ,bus
Total from Sept. l, 1885,. 77,7sS 412425 3l9352
1856 .4ssoO2 5,75e,s2o 2,077,sSS 77,9S
-" 1855. :4os,o24 2,55O,O92 1olS,549
ihere mas Deen large railing oil this season in the
,eipts and shipments of Canadian Wheat and Flour
his port compared with the three previous years
here having been considerable diversion in shipments
iirect by way Of the st. Lawrence we assume that
The price of the -four exported been SIS per
barrel, Wheat sl25 per bushei and Corn so cents Der
oushel shall find the following comparison in value
IS well as in quantity of the two years, follows
Flour, Wheat, Corn,
barrels, bushels. bushels. Value
i Do. do '57.36l ,o9O 2,7SS.753 575.S5O 56S7 '4SO
Dec in '5S....2s ,sO2 2371, 1,82s 196O25 ASS, ,269
The Courier and Enquirer of Wednesday says: Foreign
Exchange is firm at the high prices asked by the leading
irawers, and the amount sold for the Persias Mail to.
is light. The best Bankers Bills command lOe%
% 1094, and Commercial names are but little lower
The shimment Of Specie will be about twothirds of
million.
Messrs. Dennstoun, Wood Co.'s name appear among
he drawers by the Persia and after saacory settle
nent will be i'll increased favor.
The Post says that the Boston banks are heavily IN
lebted to New York. ard that the New York banks are
rdersg back portion of their overgrown balances
oin
The SUsoUEHANNA CANAL CoMpANY-A large and re-
pectabe meeting Of the stock and bond holders Of the
'usquehanna Canal Company held yesterday pursu.
mt to published call in the Exchange. Mr.. j. r. Fry
vas made Chairman, and Mr. ]. B. Oke, Secretary Mr.
s. T. Ford one of the Board of Directors made state
OF the circumstances under which the meeting was
alled, and introduced Mr.. G. w. Dobbin Baltimore
President of the Company who before the meeting an
Informal report of its financial condition 1t appeared from
he Report that the cash in the treasury is insufficient
or the obligations accruing the first of January
ext necessltatng some expedents the Company
rom embarrassment at the hands of its creditors After
much discussion from which elected that the future
the Company is full of encouragement il present di
ultles be surmouned it was resolved to appoint
nttee to meet the Directors and decide upon the course
o be adopted, and report to adjourned meeting The
hair appointed Messrs. S. Parke of Lancaster, G H.
Abbott, Franklin Patt, Charles Cambos and H. !. Bid
Nf SNitt to thn T%