The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-03-05
SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD.
PRICES AND SALES OF STOCKS IN NEW YORK.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Through WILLIAM FISHER Son, Stock and Bill Brokers

The New York stock market to-day generally firm
The only stock the list which declined was Erie
Railroad, which fell off q. Virginia 6s advanc ed X
Missouri 6s . Illinois Central bonds 81 Michigan South
Z; and New York Central Rock Island, and Galena
and Chicago each. Canton, Reading, Cleveland and
Toledo, and Harlem all sold at yesterdays rates.
The New York Tribune of to-day says
In the Money market there is no important change
First class six months paper, single name is sought
after by the banks at per cent The Bank Offering hse
fallen Off most of the bills receivable held by the mer
chants absorbed fortnight since under the appre
henson that rates would continue to advance. The job
oers are generally discounting their bills legal
rates, and from present appearances, judge will
be no such accumulation of receivable has been
In Exchange there but little doing and the market is
firm at lO9GlG9A for Sterling, and 5.15G5,12h for
Francs
In Treasury Notes there has large business done
within few days, 5000 900 ssOOOOO having been
sold at "a = per cent. discount. The market now
hrmer at about 25d3O cents discount At private sale
lO34 was offered for Government oan the impression
ing very strong that new loan would be needed The
three millions awarded to Messrs Sweeny Rttenhouse
FAINT Co, bankers of Washington. have been placed
where they will not come the market within six to
twelve months if at all in this country and the money
is ready at the call Of the Secretary Treasury Mr.
h. F. Bayne acting attorney for the Washington house
IS the party making the negotiations with banking houses
Boston and Baltimore in gold but with Philadelphia the
trade balance is about even The City Manchester
on Thursday SlS000O in specie.
The commerce of the port of New York for February
shows a large increase of importations the same
merchandise, but in specie. The imports are however
largely behind those of 1857
IMPORTS, NEW YORK FEBRUARY
putiable Merchandise 5OoSSs 58io256 sl52si
Free Merchandise 2I7,S39 l7eSO4 22da222
Rii5i Ni;5iSp H9aP ii %.i;15s:: s .s s; aS
Total; ;...........ss!is isele sl2el2,lss slg75l.3c6
Wareh"g?ed ......... 35i3,996 l,S3o62s l,25t 5o9
Cash Duties 3,32S,GS
EXPORTS, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY
Domestic @ Produce s5s 20 ss5ssS5s saS:s5.?
For gn Dutabe Merchandise. I75,1OS 32G,s45 Iss2lO
Specie and Bull l,Sl3,I26 3TlG,92U 2,S1i27
The complaints of the abundance of low trashy Cotton
in every Southern market the increase, and it
highly probable that factors will be compelled to
hold over the Summer considerable amount of this
description. So great is the difficulty in procuring
Middng Cotton that buyers have to take LISTS of 900
bales in order to half which shall average
Mddng the resale of the makes the better half cost
1Ad& This has been tested on several occasions
lately in New Orleans. There has been some improve
in the condition of the bar New Orleans
OF the vessels detained there have got there is STILL
however, serious obstruction.
The business of the Illinois Central Railroad for Feb
ruary follows:
Traihc on ROAd. .............. Sl40OO0
Cash ON Land Sales ................ 10000
Together. Observation-Disclosures. S1G9 600
Against February, 1858:
IN IaIuc .SllouuO
Land Collection. on................. 10 O00- 1876 600
The Hudson River Road in February will show an
increase of 5000 to $4,000 over 1858.