The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-27
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BALTIMORE. Anril 26. 1s6

BALTIMORE, April 26, 1861.
There was very little business done at the Stock Boart
oaay the only sale made being one Of 100 shares Nortl
'ate aiming Company at 10 cts, but the market fo
STOCKS generally considerably rmer than on yester
uay For Baltimore and Ohio Railroad sl2 was bid bu
none was offered under $4S regular way and Northern
central do for which offer has been made for severa
DAYS left of to day 50 bid s13 asked the price
oeng 81 above that asked yesterday State and Give
were all frmer. Virginas closed 81 bid an advance
OF per cent the price bid yesterday Mssonris at
bid so asked and for Baltimore city ls9O's which sold
yesterday at So So bid today and declined Railroad
ponds were also better particularly Baltimore and Ohios
% oelng bid for 1858 for which only was yester
day. and do for lS62 Northern Central 1858 closed Al
on yesterday at 30 bid AZ asked The Mining stocks were
all heavy For Gardner Hill 81 was asked but only 62
CTS. was bid, Springfield closed 81 90 bid 81 so as ked
and Guilford at rs cts bid IS cts asked
oommerc al and financial affairs continue in very un
settled ana depressed condition Trade Of all descriptions
"' S'and'still, our merchants getting remit
'ahees IN consequence Of our mail facilities being in
great degree cut Off and eight ten of our dry
goods houses have hear within the last day or two
stopped payment or asked extensions There absolute
y no currency for paper except such as rarely nd
It's way upon the street and reliable quotations can be
given for loans The brokers selling NewYor and Phil
adephia exchange at per cent premium they are
buying at only to per cent premium Virginia money
is selling at 12Gl5 and North Carolina do at IS per
discount
The foreign exports this week larger than we have
ever before known them to be- the value Of them for the
week ending on Thursday being s79S 2l6 The export
include 1854 bbls. -four 9S S34 bushels corn: " oOo
bushels wheat 64l9 hhds tobacco; 72l tons coal and
$4,000 lbs copper ngots. The imports were however
hight the total value of them for the week being s17J
147 OF which $l24Ol were free, and $50 346 were duty
paying goods.
SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD
FRIDAY, April Goth, 1861.
100 shs. North State Mining Co. ...... ...,,,,,. 10
The New York Herald of yesterday saws:
There is very little doing in money CaptaIists oro
not anxious to part with their funds except on the vev
highest security, and long paper, even good names
moves win Ghculty An impression prevails that the
war IN which we are now plunged is likely to last some
time, and that the extensive preparatIons which the
South mas been making for months past will give
e te advantage over US at the start The banks have
revived the arrangement of November last by which the
"hoIe OF their enormous specie reserve is thrown into
one fund to be used for the support of the oarnne IN
such way may be deemed safest and best sin,iIar
arrangement is likely to be carried out between the banE
IN rhiiadeipha The news from Europe per Asia rem
uers II pretty certain that specie will ere long beoin
again to How TO this side from Europe The Rank of
England has reduced the rate of discount to five per
cent American stocks higher, and so is cotton
france is reported to be about enter the market for
loan OF lGO0OOUO2 and Italy for loan of s4 oOo 600
Inc nank oil England is gaining, the Bank of France
Nothing 3a was done In foreign bills to-day. Bankers
h IOo ana merchants about los for their bills but there
are no purchasers for either At the present rates
profit. 7' a'
The Stock Exchange active TODAY and nrices
elrreguiar At the morning board Mssours declined
per cent; North Carolnas q Vrgnias K the common
SKIES OF the federal government likewise declined
me speculative stocks which have been generally over
SOFA ny the street. better New York Central omen
g at W decline OF per cent from yesterday rose to
h at the first board 73% between the boads sold in
the r afternoon at 5 and closed 72E bid Illinois Cen
asna era. advanced at the first board, Rock Island 4
uptn
band Pa Erie declined X, Pacific Mail Vi" ~
fana%s igan ceD,r, T. Michigan guaranteed X Mich
the scarcity of stock led general improvement bih
was naray sustained at the second Board though the
rized quotations United States IS lS7. 75i T
nessee 6s 4SaiS; Virginia 6s 42 Il Missouri s's 400
5o 5 GahIGn; M I%4io; New York Central 72K@4 Erie,
81 (d$2E Michigan Southern 13%0%; do Guarantee
ZoGGA; Panama, lC0G4; Illinois Central 581GT
Gaena and Chicago, 574@X Cleveland and ToIed9'
23BiG24; Chicago and Rock Island 37YI5T. IHini
Central bonds, s9G9O %|a' 1'''noiS
The Philadelphia Ledger of yesterday saws:
it ma aTe aeen several failures among merchants
arrangement of business and utter inability IN ata I
econs Two three of the houses that have been com
Peed suspend we understand, show large excess of
means over all their respective abitiesin one instance
me means are set down three to one of liabilities
BUSINESS OF every description except such as is mmedi
eunn9utea @ win war preparations, is just ex-
Vu"el! H,lted but the want of buyers for present
stocks of goods would cause much difficulty if the or
uhay efforts at collection could be made Travel how
ever oelng much obstruced in various directions mt
only cuts off mail facilities, but narrows Individual ef
forts at collections. There is then no aIternatya
ior ule merchant, shut in as he is, but to saw
" ms creditors, as his maturing notes come
oue, Il cannot pay Public sentiment which ia the
ESSENCE O. !aw sustans and justifes the act and
OF payment as if statute law No man
thinks of calling to his aid legal machinery for the col
lection of debts and most of the dismissed
their jurors and officers to await such adjustment of war
difficulties will allow of the resumption of trade
through the usual channels. In the stock money
kets we have little TO report and changes any
moment. The operations in the former afford no eyi
dencc of the value of stock securities any more than the
rate OF paper tests the abundance scarcity money
OF loans referrng to keep their surplus capital in that
shape than to holding it in coin there is no market
for stocks just
The New Orleans Picayune, of Sunday, says:
The bank statement for the week shows the following
changes as compared with the previous return:
April 90 April l3.
Short Loans. .sl3,79776S $l4143746 Dec 34597S
Specie. 163l5S0l l6 627 S55 Dec 81 964
Deposs........ 90, ,65s 925 2I747 6S7 peel os8,712
EAchange. ...'.. S5lS,5cO 9549,267 Dec ! ,O3O 767
Distant Balances. l.375,l33 I664760 Dec $50 627
Total Loans...... l,945,525 2l,2l923l Inc l26 S04
each having run down upwards of million. The dis
count line has increased very slightly thus showing
the taking Of the loan has rot disturbed market in
the slightest degree The ratio of specie ab
ty is % 93O0 per cent against 81 64O0 last week Moth.
ing of consequence done in Money matters TODAY
A few outside discounts were made at l2G15 but as
general rule there is an aversion to do anything
Exchanges are next to nominal. What little was done
yesterday at the low rates could be repeated today
we heard Of three sales Of sterling them eXen-
slye at 1852 los and 100. Bill of lading drafts are not
taken at all Nothing was done in francs SiXty.day
bills the North unsaleable Indeed nobody offers
to draw Sight is very fiat without any demand Brokers
cannot get offer. We heard of sale per cent dis.
count