The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-17
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Tie Cincinnati Gazette of Wednesday $


We We're shown telegraph despatch yesterday from
St Louis to gentleman in this city which states that
contract had been made for several hundred tons of
from Burlington by river Parkersburg, and
steam from Baltimore, at rs cts per hundred lbs OF
this rs cts IA cts for insurance How the balance
divided between the river, the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road and the steamer unable to say, but
that the figures are far below laying rate is quite ev
dent.
The rates on -four from Cincinnati to New York and
Boston were yesterday reduced as follows:
To New York. To Boston
Rail and water ............ 100 llO
This is reduction from the Burnet House schedule of
cts per barrel to New York and 10 to Boston by
rail The alrail Philadelphia and Baltimore
mains for the present at 81 to the former and 90
barrel to the latter.
telegraph despatch from the General Freight Agent
of the New York and Erie Railroad gives the following
of freight, adopted Monday, March 12 by steam
from New ork to Cleveland Sandusky and Toledo:
1s class 90 cts 2nd 70 3rd So cts and 4th IS
The fourth class freight from Cincinnati to
Richmond and steamer from Baltimore Monday
reduced ~ cts per hundred, making the rate 57K
The funded debt of the three great Northern cities COM
pare follows: On December 81, 1859, Philadelphia had
York had debt of S7 sol 4S9 On April So 1862 Boston
had debt of IS 954 64977 OF the funded debt of New
| York, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hold
| S4,714y342.
THE UsURY LAws.-Mr. Hooper in his pamphlet says
The first notice to the public of decline of the specie
in the Bank of England is "a rising rate of discount
leading to reduction in the price of interestpaying
curites, and difficulty of renewing such loans may
be falling due unless on terms less favorable to the
borrower and favorable the capitalist concerned
This is precisely the effect of the curailment bank
loans in this country though the bank rate of discount
is not usually raised because it is rarely reduced much
below the legal rate of interest But the street of
discount Immediately rise, often frghtful point and
by this the exchanges turned in favor
of the banks and specie comes back again their vaults
has been issued by the British Board Trade
of the declared value of British and Irish produce and
manufactures exported from the United Kingdom during
the past year. The totals compared with the preced
ing year, are as follows:
Exported to British Possessions 222457 46i25 O56
GnsS an atSeF eoant;ss 81
Total. COS, 1855 13O 44o APT
Upon this statement the Times remarks:-"The ship
check after the panic of 1857 have recovered point
beyond their former SCALE and than II per
cent of total exports foreign and colonial and 2
per cent of foreign exports alone. 1t is to be
marked that trade with European States is every
year becoming of secondary character compared
with that which have established among colonial
and American progeny 1t is to those quarters that the
magnificent augmentation exhibited in the present total
1855 and which renders of unprecedented
is entirely due The general increase il f13S S3l 67l
while the colonies and the United States f14
424 The balance of our business, carried with
all other parts of the world resulted therefore, in falling
| off,
The following are the imports at Philadelphia during
| the past week:
Entered for consump ton $3l7, 7,S26
warehousing .................. 1880
SSO,6l1
Entered previously ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3,074,S75
Total for the So, ,405,4s6
bill is before the New ork Legislature which pro-
poses that the New York and New Haven Rail
road Company SHALL on or before the 1st of July next
indemnify and harmless the bona de of the
stock rauduently issued by the late Robert Schuyler
| President of the road.
The receipts of the Erie road to the 18th inst show
increase of SAL O00 compared with last year The Feb
ruary earnings of the Central road have not been made
public, but understood to show moderate increase
| on February, 1859
Annexed is the assessed value real and personal
| tate in the State and city of New York. 1S44-1S59
| Years. New York city. Other counties. Total
lS.4... 1886 727 lab S36S, ,464, $50 $5e9 S91 923
1852. $50 OOs,742 s64 ,2s2 O95 1,4l6 29O s37