The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-16
PRICES AND SALES or sTocks IN NsEwrORx
The New York Herald of Saturday saws


The New York Herald Of Saturday says:
There is decidedly more ease in the money market to
day There is less inquiry for money, and of it
fering We cannot however yet quote any change in
rates; the brokers quite willing to pay seven, and
still the minimum rate for the very choicest short
acceptances while undoubtedly first class business
at eight Todays is generally regarded
the end of the stringency, however, but
ton from yesterdays coseness. 1t is not believed that
money can rule again until Congress organizes and
the SubTreasury dsburses half of the odd millions
which now lie idle in its vaults
The foreign exchange market works very irreguarly
and bills are selling at all kinds of rates The leading
banking houses ask 108H for 60 day sterling bills and
lsa for francs but some frstclass city bills have
been sold to-day at 10S4 d0S for sterling and 52 for
francs Some houses which have received Southern bills
to cover sight drafts have forced of the bills at anything
they could get for them hear of sales of undoubted
bills At lO7k This is obviously extreme price-pro.
badly the lowest of the Telegraphc advces from
the South state they will sell bills at such rates
The domestic exchanges continue to work in the same
irectionthat is in favor of the city At Chicago bills
al quoted at * premium; at New Orleans the rate
seems fuctuate between h@4 discount The follow
are the quotations of sight bills New York at the
cities mentioned the rates being in all cases for the
rency of the cities at which the bills are drawn =
The December earnings Of the Macon and Western Rail
ISIS ISIS "e'e'' $500 eaO 40
understand that quasi receiver has bcen ssS 81
ed for the La Crosse and Milwaukee road and the fore
closure of the first mortgage bonds stopped The second
mortgage foreclosure is to be prosecuted and receipts
IN the meanwhile to he distributed accordance with an
agreement made by Mr. Palmer, of the Broadway Bank
VINO has visited Wisconsin upon this business
The following the business of the SubTreasury
to-day
1olal receipts tS'''..''.'......,.... .....SSsl67 81
ror customs As, 900 90
baance''.'... 7,732, 10y 30
The New York Tribune of Saturday says:
We see ii stated that the Court of Appeals has decided
that the Erie Railroad Company is responsible dana
ges growing out of the delay in the transportation Of
freight caused by the strike of the Engineers few years
since. The opinion holds ''That although the superior
officers without the slightest fault corporation
responsible for the damages caused by DELAY in
transporting property which ulted from strike
The earnings of the pacific Railroad in December were
1858. 1859.
Passengers. 4,515.49 S23, ,233 SO
Freight ................ "a, ,53l % 2s,7i3O5
Mails.......... .......,... 2037.50 2100OO
S51 ,0S4.27 S54,076.57
Increase. se.......................... 2,99230
The ea nings of the Central Railroad Company of New
Jersey for the month of
December, 1859, were $50, ,70604
Same month last year. r..,............... 79,6169S
The Richmond Dispatch of Saturday states that at the
recent meeting of the stockholders the Bank of Virgin
ia in Richmond, resolution adopted authorizing the
stockholders at the various bran ches nominate the
directors for each branch instead of in the mode which