New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-18


Isss5s 557s 5Ilsst 10 rs u. n 90
Lat ur.s. 2t2 gs5 i64.ii0 SO 81 D"UA llso 80
Lat yesr... 2lJ 20, as I2Ol'sJ 9JiJ2is7 lsalSsSs
TIE amount Of coal shipped by the Delaware aud
Hudson CaGsl Company, this season, lac reached
els tuus being thsn 2iO 600 over last yekr
shipment 70 this time, and more than any previous
season's business.
Pending the proceedings In the United State,
Court, before Judge Miller 10 the caso Of the La
Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad, some parties,
holders Of the Helienslsn mortgage, and, As such,
special parties in these proceedings, have quietly
carried case TO judgment 10 the State Courts, and
procured an order 70 sell out the road under their
mortgage.
| The Pennsylvania Railroad Company have de-
clared their usual semi-suuusI dividend Of . cent,
clear Of State tax, payable 10 stockholders on and
after November Is 1861. Their surplus earnings,
which DOW amount to upward Of bali million Of
dollars, will be appropriated toward building their
new extension, the bridge over the SchuylkiI and
the grain elevator These improvements are expected
70 DO completed early next year.
We report an increased activity In general Dry
Goods for the week and moe spirit and tone has
been given to the market Thk may be attributed
10 the facts that the country merchants, who give
such an impetus TO the trade Ia August and Septem-
ber are sending duplicate orders for goods and uDy
who have not previously visited this market have
arrived, and are buying moderately but with spirit
IL is not strange that the trade should DO late this
season. and dissppoiB. 50 many. The great wonder
il that many Of the Western States should have tie
means 10 purchase at ALL for, amid Nil the enesrrass
ments which the East has suffered 10 incidental 70
the wsr-destroying our commerce, stopping our IN
dusiria enterprises and disturbing the ehssnels Of
trade, they have bad arrangement In currency
which has left them in q more PROSTATE condition
than the great revulon Of 1857 even, notwthsiand-
ing their immense crops The great States Of IL
LIMOS, Iowa, and Wisconsin have local currency OF
nearly seventeen millions Of dollars, which proved 30
much deprecated, that the osees which were wide
spread and extended, amounted 70 nearly eight mil
Lions Of dollars. Their crops, which have been
large, and which appear well in Statistics, en-
riching our common country, regulating the
exchanges in absence Of the cotton, which has
hitherto performed 80 important part in that
relation, will not prove 30 generally remunerative
TO the grower ~ is supposed. For while corn is
ceiling in this market al 60 cents per bushe trans
portation and other expenses from The most remote
lclQo hfO ScLtpJ eouo y'NiAHb w. f'N
simply ten cents per bushel. We anticipate, how
ever higher prices for cereals If the accounts from
Europe can be relied upon. Not only viii Great
Britain be great customer bat France will require
unusual quantities. The ECglisr papers state that
large quantities Of -four have already been shipped
from Liverpool to the various ports In France ana
that the deficit in that Empire will require an i'm
portalion of grain valued at overtwo hundred millions
Of dollars. Already large sums have been sent 10
Russia to provide for the deficiency. aside from tue
heavy orders from this country which will be
increased, probably, beyond precedent. How
ever this may be the stocks Of goods IN the
Western interior are known TO be small, and
the necessities large. We shall have regular
demand from that section all through the season,
which, in the aggregate viii be large and result 10
reducing stocks at the chief centers and carry inc
marks--for cotton goOds-to point more III proper,
ton TO the price Of the raw material. In view oil
this and the tendency Of the cotton marset holders