The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-24
BOARD OF TRADE.
Committee of Arbitration for December.
EDWARD SLADE,
L. W. GUNTHER, H. c. MAGRUDER
T. r. MATTHEWS, JR., JOHN r SEEMULLER
BOARD OF TRADE,
sflunetarg anb Commercial 8ebietu.

...-. BALTIMORE, December 90, 1858.
The operations in Stocks to-day were agair
light but most of the stocks on the list were steady
at yesterdays figures. The aggregate value of the
transactions is only about $4,000. There wa:
nothing done in Northern Central Railway, but the
closing quotations for it the same as on yes
terday, viz: S2lH bid, S2l13 asked regular way
For Baltimore and Ohio there was some inquiry
and we note sales of 800 shares, viz: It's regular
way, 100 buyer days. and 25 seller 60 after days.
all at S56M The market for it closed at S56L
bid, S56H asked regular way. There nothing
done in State City 6s, and the only sale of Rail
road bonds one of 81, 900 Northern Central
1855 at Az, decline of Il. The market for
stocks generally, although dull, steady.
The New York stock market to-day was rather
stronger. Erie advanced q; New York Central 4;
Reading Is; Cleveland and Toledo Il; Michigan
Southern u; La Crosse and Milwaukee 1s; and Ga
lena and Chicago per cent. Missouri G's sold at
s9H, yesterdays price, and Virginia do. at
97A.
For foreign exchanges rates remain firm. We
quote rates as follows, viz: On London, bankers
bills, at 1095s @l09A; do. commercial do, at
lO9H @l09%; Paris, short sight at 5f 10; do 60
day bills, at ST. 1877; Antwerp at ST. 49, Bremen at
791@; Amsterdam at Az; Hamburg at 3634; Co.
logne at 70, and Frankfort on the Maine at 4l3l.
The A l Baltimore ship Helen A. Miller, 500 tons,
built by William & George Gardner in 1882 was sold in
New York day or two since for $4,000, cash
The Boston and Providence Railroad Company have
declared dividend of So a share, payable January1
The earnings of the Scotia and Hooking Valley
Railroad for November So o. and the expenses
81 ,664. 81.
The redemption of the notes of the old State Bank of In
diana cannot be legally enforced after January bu.
observe notice in the official paper of the State that the
several branches have made arrangements by which the
circulation of each to be redeemed at whatever time
presented
State Convention of Locomotive Engineers was held
at Chicago, Ill, the l4h and 18th of December
which eleven roads represented The report
Convention for the purpose of memoriaizng the Lee
gature for the enactment of general law for the better
protection of railroad engineers thereby securing to the
public competent set of engineers who shall have passed
examination and received certificate the marine
gineers do now
The Philadelphia Press Of the 22d, says.
The necessity for a Government loan continues to
exert depressing influence upon the stock market and
1T is not likely that any improvement will be sustained
until the loan is taken the specie handed over and bank
loans adjusted to correspond with the new state OF aarS
1t is doubtful whether the Secretary of the Treasury
will be able get good for this loan as he did
for the last The highest takers of the first ten millions
have realized little profit the foreign market failed
to meet their expectations and the loan now can be freely
purchased at I04% New York city six per cents are
heavy at and at recent sale by auction Boston five
per cent stocks, always in high favor, sold at only to
/ & per cent premium With such feelings and views
prevalent in the minds of moneyed and in the
of the expectations of active business and demand
command as high premium as before.
The proprietors of Inlay Bicknelrs Bank Note Re
porter have purchased Vancourts Desctor and consoa
ted it with their own.
The Bucks county InteHigencer says that the North
Pennsylvania Railroad seems to be getting along very
WELL and the future prospects of the road quite
ing 1t is stated that the amount of the first mortgage
bonds of this company is ST. 900, all of which have
been disposed of by the company that present
remain hand unsold The amount of the chatel loan
IS $4,000 yet for disposal The floating debt,
'an be ascetained, is inside of 100000 This year the
company will come within small amount of earning the
interest on their funded debt.
The value of the merchandise warehoused Boston
he last week S4s AL
SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD
THURSDAY, December %, 1858.
sl000N. C .RR. bds 's5. .744 so shs B. &ORR 564
! shs Bank of Bait. .99& % &C s6Oaf5. .564
l25 B&oRR. ..564 SO b3. .564
lext to Tuesday. 2sth instant. -