The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-21
VOL. T---NO. 155.
stlonttarp ano Commercial 8ebith.
BALTIMORE, August 20, 1858.

BALTIMORE, August 70, 1853
The Stock market has been quite anguid this week AM
the operations have been s.la, amounting to less thai
00OO, not much more than half the business o
last week Baltimore and Ohio Railroad which sold las
Saturday at $50 experienced Decline which continued
until towards the middle of the week, sold dow
to S57; but it has subsequently recovered somewhat
to-day sales of $50 shares made at SS buyer GO
10 days, and $57 cash and seller days. and th
Board 25 shares brought S5S cash. making the decline TO
the week about 81. 1t left Off the Board $57A bid
s5S asked regular way. There 1000 shares
this stock disposed of this week Northern Central ha
been toeraby active and buoyant and advance of fully
so cents per share has been established since last week
The sales to-day comprise 21 buyer 80
90 days the closing sale being $20A cash, with ha
price offered for more, but held at S20B The weeks
transactions in this stock up about 1900 shares.
Bank stocks in good inquiry and firm, with but few
offering. The only sale today was % shares Howard
Bank at S9A There has been movement in Spring
field Mining Company within the past day two and to-
day sales of 1650 shares took place at s2H cash
advance of 25 to 81 cents during the week In Canton
there has been nothing doing; to-day SOY bid
The transactions in Loans and Bonds have been to
very moderate There sales to-day of
Baltimore City 1905 and old, at 9SA, which is
less than yesterday. In Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
bonds very little has been done they and firm
For 1S67s 81 bid to day 1S75s 81 bid, S5H asked
1ssO's 81 asked, and 1855 81 bid S43 asked. The
last sales of Northern Central 1855 e. To
day $4,000 North Western Virginia 1s mortgage brought
9lk and for Sd mortgage unendorsed 35 offered but
they held at 35h.
Money is still very abundant and the Banks nearly
all wanting paper Any amount of good endorsed paper
be negotiated at per cent? at which rate loans
call with good coaterals be easily effected Prime
single placed at per cent while for those
less favorably known 7Gs per cent. is demanded,
The total of foreign exports from the port Bal
tmore for the week ending Thursday 226 1872 in
cluded in which 81 064 bbls -four 1O6l bbs corn
meal 7SS bushels and 101 hhds. tobacco The
total value of foreign imports S17 499 of which s64
OO7 free goods and $50, ,492 dutabe.
AT the New York First Board to-day prices gave way,
but at the Second Board they rallied, and the market
closed steady. Erie advanced y; New York Central ~
Reading p; Cleveland and Toledo u Panama declined
Il and other fances unchanged. State were
pretty steady.
The business of the New York b-Treasury ON Thurs
day was as follows:
1Otal receipts. S24l56 20
OF which from toms. ................. 100000 90
On account of loans. Observation-Disclosures. 10000 90
Balance Ia, ,495, ,239 70
The exchanges the Bank Clearing House Thursday
were s1s, ,952 637s and the balances 81, ,543
The New York Tribune in speaking of money matters
in that city says:
In the discount market the rates are if anything east
again. February paper has been passed to-day at
per cent and the rate for short dates
names is 34d4 per cent. Good Dry Goods signatures
running into November and December pass freely per
cent. The transactions in Groceries have made some
new paper, but the supply is still far below the demand
The attempt to advance the rates of discounts
week and the week previous have had permanent
suit On call money is abundant desirable coaterals
at 3ldl5 per cent
An attempt being made to revive the New Creek coa
Company. payment of 80 cents per share on As 900
shares has been made meeting of share will be
held the 9th of August sale of the property
of the company can be prevented.
In regard to Dry Goods The Independent says:
Advices from France that the orders stil pro
cess of execution for fine tissues American account
have become large The recent arrivals of French
have been considerable and trade has improved We
peat however previous observation that the purcha
smaller than usual Dealers do lay in stocks
large scale The activity of the is yet come
German Wooens are being freely imported and arv
ing to bad market, coming in competition with the Amer
lean manufactures of fancy Cassimeres which
vories OF the market at present. German Cloths dis
placed both French and English goods of like description
but now likely to be displaced by the improv
going forward in domestic manufactures The South
western and Southern buyers not numerous The
Western buyers few and hang back The near by
trade will be good usual Clothers are not buying
yet, and the Woolen trade except in Casimeres dull
There has been fair and increased activity in domestic
Dress Goods. Trade is however, very irregular few
jobbers doing large business while the majority are
dull for the period of the Prices of Cotton Goods
are hardly so firm. There is rather more doing in
Shaws"