New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-17
TUESDAY, Aug. &c, 1861.

Gold opened at 2o6;, Tell 10 zoo, was quooeu
n the Stock Exchange 26i. AT noon the rate was 2
The closing rate was 255i Government Stocks were
hxsher: Coupons Of lssl, the rate vas l0sf 4IOet
$50 Coupons lO9a1ilO; Certificates s4ia95 Michigan
d 100 bid Tennessee Gs 5 1851; vrginia6s 81 Georgia
8, c.; North Carolina 6s CO., Missouri &c 67la6a Cali
fbrna Is l65. 0l65 Canton Co. 37ta3e Mariposa 1@s
e<93; Delaware and Hudson 1904 92l0; Pennsylvania
Cosl 2la026; Cumberland. 6Oi66lt; American Coal,
% asked; Pacific Mail. go G2s2 Atlantic Mall fei 10
,ssa olss;; Central Transit Co. 100 asked; New York
Celr. 1914 al5li; Erie ll39ll3si doPreferred iva
ono; Hudson River. l33i0l33i; Reading, 1910
1871, Michigan Central l39aI40; do. Southern 92'a
s2s, Michigan Southern Guaranteed 1i4. Gl45i rama
mn. 800 asked Illinois Central l3lGl3l4; Ohio and
Mississippi Certifcates 5lid5o Cleveland and Pitts
barsh. lll, North Western. 57,a57i do. Preferred,
elIa9li; Cleveland and Toledo l32Gl32ii Rock Isl
and. lI4ta1l4,; Burlington and Quincy, l@6l~i;
Prairie du Chen. 6es a69s Fort Wayne. ZIG. ll6t;
Terra Raute and Alton. 62Q633; Toledo and wabash,
csa7o
Government Stocks Of all descriptions continue in de
snd at advanced rates The European orders for Five
Iyentes and the Skies of 1851 quite large and are
flied with increasing difficulty The Mobile news will
prodnce in Europe renewed confidence in the final sue
Cess of the Federal armies and advance the credit OF
OR securities The control of the second cotton port OF
the South and the leading city of Alabama is fact
striking in favor of the North, that the duest Rebel
sympathissr will comprehend and be afflicted by IT,
There is more doing in TenForties aud for small bonds
the inquiry il brisk.
Railway and miscellaneous shares are firm at higher
rates upon the general list. Quicksilver Mining Co
vas in demand and higher upon statements in regard
TO its business which viii enable it to commence regu
lar dividends. Atlantic Mail fell to le7 at the Stock
Exchange decline of per cent. There are few oper
ators in town, and the market lacks activity
Money is easy at per cent. on call, andstock
houses have more offered than they can use. Prime
commercial paper quoted 7ds, the former upon the
names Of leading bankers. There large assortment
of county and city bonds upon the market at rates more
tempting than can be made upon commercial bills.
Western railway earnings continue to show a
large advance those Of 1863, and small amounts Of
Stock ore being taken for investment.
The statement that Secretary Fessenden III
tends resignng is without foundation Senator from
Maine to be chosen next winter and it isiunderstool
that he prefers do thepeope Of Maine that he should
be elected for another term At this time he is the best
Secretary Of the Treasury to be had. and be win
eomphsh much for the government before the insugura
ton OF the President to be chosen in November
Sterling Bills are dull. For bankers sterling
the quotations are 1854 1883 in gold, and for mer
chants 27G in currency. Paris firm at SIG, for sight
and 5.l7i for GO days.
Messrs. Muller, Wilkins & Co., will hold
their regular auction sale Of stocks and bonds toor.
row wednesday, ct I2l o'clock, at Exchange Sales.
room No. III Broadway. The list comprises an admin.
strator's sale.
FreightS are not active but rates are firm.
The engagements TO Liverpool 1000 bushels whea
at I'D in bags; 80 tons Oil Cake POS per Neutral %
900 bushels wheat at II a sd; and per steamer 200
boxes cheese 5Os and 1000 bbs flour 2s 3d. to Lon.
don 1000 bbls -four 10 flD private terms 1000 bush.
els wheat I'D and per steamer 1000 boxes cheese and
300 rkns butter SOS. To Antwerp 200 bags coffee 25s
Cd; Italian Bark chartered with $4,000 bushels
wheat at IS ID, If 10 direct port and at 6s if 10 Cork
foT orders.
The following are the operations at the Assistant
Treasures Office to-day:
Total Receipts. ll512 @o5
~ S9stoms IoV,'c
80 Notes, lN3S1W
Sota4 baisBce, IbIO6TIl9'
Tie aggregate exports Of produce and merchandise
<exelosivs OF spece) for the past week amounted to
s6,s0e,l67
The shipments of coal by the Consolidated
Coal Company Of Pennsylvania for the week ending
August 18th we're 937s tons; previously 1872 oae tons
total for the season 10, 6O4 tons
The earnings of the Milwaukee and Prairie
dn Chen Railway for the week ending August 9TH were
In 1854 s272l; 1863, Sl27a5 increase lo2 per cent
s29e6 The increase since the first Of January ls64
10 s43l.s34. or rs per cent
The earnings Of the Cleveland and Toledo
.<.a the frat week N Angnst l. ,aeo 80. ,oo