The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-07

The New York Shaping List gives the following state
ment of the export of Quicksilver from California in 1852
To Fasks. To Flasks
New York............ $50 Peru ............... 571
Mexico .......... lo3 Other Countries......1 ,OS2
AnStrala .....-........ 523 -
China ................l,OG ,OGS Toal...........339 399
The exports previously for six years, follows
1858 TASKS IS 500 1856 TASKS % 740
20 1863 1857 ............272 262
1853 ,1G5 1858 .............24l3 49,
The immense falling of in the of this metal the
past year above shown is attributable the suspen
sion in the operations of the New Almaden mines which
took place in November 1858 in consequence of an in
junction being placed the works. and the litigation as
topropretorshpwhich still continues Other mines the
State including the New Idra Enr0uetta Aurora and
Guadalupe, the Santa Clara, have supplied the de-
mand for home consumption and afforded surplus the
barrier the export of which has been the enhanced mar
ket price. Some Of the mines named known to be
valuable in the extent Of their resources until
within the past year have NOT been worked on scaIa 81
all commensurate with their value and importance.
We copy also from the journal the sulioned Off
cal statement of the yield of Quicksilver the Santa
Clara, formerly the Gaudaloupe California for the
following months in 1859:
Juy..........lbs. 9,129 October Sc. lbs II 9O4
August...............12,I 2,I77 November 49,. Is 59l
September .16,379 December 24 227
The New York Tribune of yesterday states that since
the election Of Speaker an event which had been looked
to shrink in proportions and business instead taking
lively impulse from that event, has become even less
active than before We may, however, except Govern
ment and State securities which only ad ance
but have had decidedly spirited market The
ueanSs nave Deen IN MlSSOurlS and Ten
nessees but the Improvement in prices has been quite
general through the list of State stocks.
The following is a comparative statement of the i'm
ports Of foreign dry goods and general merchandise the
port of New York for the week and since January l:
1858. 1850 1860
Dry Goods 81 GIL 62S S37l0,149 $3563 1877
General Merchandise. GO2,2ls 2,767,592 247O6O7
Total for the week: s45 s647774 s6oss 984
Previously reported. .679O6l4 l6,63212O 1883 235
Since jan SO OO4 AGO S23 100 SCI s24 567 l69
The imports continue to he large and the
gate for january is about S5OO0OOO against $40 900
in 1859.
Land Warrants quite active We quote a further
advance of cents per in the buying lar
ger sizes, viz:
Buying, Selling.
40-acre Warrants, per acre.......... $1OO S11O
SOacre warrants S......................4 90
lIo-acfe warrants. S.....,...,.............b rs
160-acre Warrants. nts.......................70 rs
We learn from the Cincinnati Gd=ette Saturday that
the following is comparative statement of the earnings
of the Little Miami and Columbus and Xena Railroad
Company for the month of January, 1859 and 1860:
January, looS.'''' SS4,5l2 90
looO.....'......, .,...,............ S3,457.O9
becItdse SlU55.4l
The following were the shipments by way of the Grand
Trunk Railroad from Detroit TO Liverpool during the
month of January;
1854 packages of meat, weighing. 1887
l,12l lard. ..,,.... .... 33h Os3
80 pork ..............:. .'2S,G65 2S,GS5
2465 packages. IO1O,745
Or equal to fUe hundred tons per or not far
from eighteen tons day. direct from the West to Lv