The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-30
TlOnstaru anh Commercial gsbism.
BALTIMORE, August 90, 1850.

The Stock market here continues quiet but the feeling
in it is nevertheless pretty firm The transactions at the
Board to-day, which quite light, chiefly in
Mining This class of stocks has been improving
for days past and they generally rmer to-day
than on yesterday. Gardner Hill particularly
strong. Nothing done in it, but it closed at s7l9
bid SIN asked regular way and SIX buyer 60 days was
bid for large amount Guilford, Rudsell, and Conso-
dated were also very strong Sales were maue OF oOo
shares Guford 50 cash. 600 shares Rudsell at sly
buyer days an of and 800 shares Consoli
dated at 81 buyer days, advance of ll6 Nothing
was done in Springfield but it closed steady at SAX bid
s4k asked regular way We note however sale of 900
shares Baltimore North Carolina at $1l90I4 cash
and time, 400 shares Silver Hill at 81 O6 time and
shares Silver Valley at s1H@1 10 cash and time Moth
ing done to day in Railroad shares Baltimore and
Ohio closed at S4h bid Ss5 asked buyer 90 days but
bid was made for it regular way. Northern Central
closed at the same figures yesterday, viz $22S
bid, Ss2S asked regular way Railroad bonds and City
Us were firm at yesterdays rates. but nothing done
in the former and of the latter sales of 1852 S7Os only
were made at 101M1014.
The Baltimore Fire Insurance Company has declared
dividend of twelve and half per ent the last six
months ten per cent payable to the stockholders and
two and half per cent to be added the contingent
fund.
In New York today stocks generally lower. Erie
declined y; New York Central 4; Reading s.; Cleveland
and Toledo, Rock Island and Galena and Chicago 4
each; Michigan Southern guaranteed X; Virginia 6s II
and Missouri 6s q. Harlem advanced q and Michigan
Southern 2S.
In the circular Of Messrs Crane and Sanford St. Louis
date August 25h published yesterday find the fol-
lowing
"Freights-All Rail, 4h class per 100 lbs and Flour
per bb to Baltimore 60 cts and los cts Philadelphia
$50 cts and 10 ct New York cts and lis cts Bos
"ton, 20 cts. and 125 cts "
BY the fifth article of the Saratoga which went
into effect on the 10th inst the rates for freight between
New Nork the terminus of the five great East
and West trunk lines represented in the Convention
any point within the field of competition in the Wes are
to be the Each road has exclusive control of
the rates 1t would therefore appear by the above
quotation that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will carry
one hundred pounds of fourth class freight to Phadel
phia at the same rate precisely to Baltimore; New
York for five cents more, and Boston for ten cents
more than to Baltimore On flour the difference between
Baltimore and Philadelphia is five cents per bb Balti
more and New York ten cents; Baltimore and Boston 20
cents The actual rates paid by shippers by
ter to Philadelphia New York and Boston respectively
per bb four Is cents 20 % cents and so cents
showing that the road is here cutting under our mer-
chants from ten to fifteen cents per bbl., and on
other feights in proportion There is the slightest
excuse for this at this time. There is competition
between the great lines rates-these being by the
terms of the Saratoga agreement the by all the
f5utes and highly renumerative. The only competition
is the natural one depending upon the advantages held
out by the respective roads in this particular Bat
more were allowed the full benefit her geographical DO
sition, our road would have the advantage of all the
Others as it is the only which commands all four
tie great seaboard cities. 1t is in fact the proper
ment TO build up the trade of Baltimore for when the
through trade to New York remunerave there cannot
be the slightest preext for increased dsproporonate
local rates We the words through and local in the
sense in which the road them although protest
against all expressions and nferences which assume
that Baltimore is not the Eastern terminus of the Balt
more and Ohio Railroad in hopes that the trip
OF the management to the Springs would result in a
healthier state of trade and believe there has been
some improvement We trust this may become general
and that all determinations like those in the St Louis
rates. and those still existing in the cattle trade will be
purged away by the genial influence of the Congress water
SALES At the BALTiMoRE sToC4 BOARD
S2oU balt os, 70-l014 500 shs. Bait and N.
20 I9-lOl 9. Min. Co. b6O-13
'oo srs' "uhoFo NJ 400 do. lilo |
Co. 3 100 shs Silver Hill
ooo shs. kudsel Mining Co. b30-1 O6 |
Mining Co. b60-1AI 800 shs Silver Valley
500 shs. n. c. Con. NJ Co ~
Mining Co boo IL 500 &" bso-l i