New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-14


Total erpenditure Sl December 1853 50 Os' 81
Afier the report had been read the President maize
statement to the effect that the real floating debt to
be DOW provided for, in round numbers, Is s1Ooo0,
with the line completed and OPEN a. compared with an
Indebtedness when the present Board assumed their
duties, of 8, 900, and indispensable outlay TO
complete and stock the line Of about $S5O0O0.
A resolution was adopted authorizing the President
and Directors to issue stock, eGed to not more than
10 y cent per anuum dividend, to the amount Of
81 c0OtG0 in conformity with the authority conferred
by the Legislature. The old Board of Directors we're
reelected.
The business OF the Clearing House was sl2 lo7 800
The supply Of money continues to be very abundant
and the movement to put up the rates Of interest has
only been successful in changing the lowest rates.
LEAFS which were out at 3, al y cent have been put
up to cent in many cases, and q cent now gener-
ally asked on demand loans. Some transactions still
take place at a = cent Pepper is without maers 81
change but long paper goes with greaterd cuty Gilt
edged signatures are Y cent Mr.. Little proposes to
settle his outstanding contracts at the prices of to-day
He has already settled considerable number al the
prices Of yesterday and to-day. The amount Of his diff
ferences II estimated does not much exceed 500 900.
There appears to be hitch to-day in the negotia-
,ior. going on between the Pacific Mail Company
and Mr.. Vanderbilt, but arrangement will probably
be concluded The representative of the Pennsy
Central the Erie and some of the Western Roads have
been in session to-day with fair promise of coming to
au understanding by which rates Of freight and pas
sepgertrac will be raised to remunerative points.
The meeting adjourned without arriving at any results
Another session will be held to-day at which, is be-
leved, a satisfactory arrangement will be made.
Il 1ata Nay All n
ten Of the suits for damages against the Rock Island
Bridge have been dismissed the cost of the plain
tifs.
The New-Jersey Railroad Company have COM
menced laying their double track from Railway, New
Bruns wick and already considerable portion of it Is
completed. The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the New-Jersey Railroad and transportation Com
pany for the election Of Directors and the transaction
Of burness relating to the interests Of the company,
will be held in the depot building at Jersey City, on
the 4th of June next, at II o'clock a. IN.
Crup adyices from the West continue very favorable,
and everything thus far indicates a large and early
harvest. In the Southern part of Illinois, wheat is
almost ready for the reapers and the Goth of May will
see harvest in progress In sixty days from this, the
harvest will be in progress far north Central Wis
consip The West is full of hope upon the crop pros
poets and should present expectations be reasonably
realized there will soon be amount of business upon
Western roads sufficient to turn speculative attention
oward them.
We have been requested to publish the annexed
| card:
| AxEncN ATLANTIC AND PacIflc CANAL CoNPNY}
wYoRg, 18th May, 1889.
An article having appeared III thr mornings Herad
setting forth that the for carrying the mails semi
monthly between N-wYork and San Francisco, and New
San Francisco for period Of nine months from the
s October the M Of July has been awarded by the
Ofce Department Mr.. Daniel H. johnson Of this city
ep,s the Nicaragua I-thmus interest have
M. my duty publicly 10 that rs far This Com
concsrneo offer bid been made directly in
directly by authority with ia knowledge consent, for
said mail service, aud that the said johnson has
ton whatever with this Company any authority derived
| frum 1t. JOHN r. fELNERTON President
| The movement in Breadstuffs and Provisions con-
tinues TO be large and the market is still advancing
| The Cincinnati Gazette Of Monday, says
The leading railroad agents arrived at the sensible
conclusion Saturday, that it was about time To ct
loose from the runous policy that has prevailed for
several weeks past the freight market, and in order
10 conform to this view of the case, they put their
| heads together aud adopted, by mutual agreement,
the annexed tariff to take effect to-day on Eastern
| freight