The New York herald., 1864-01-07

The Cleveland, Pa:nesyille and Ashtabula (Lake
Shore) road has declared cash dividend of five
per cent and scrip dividend of eleven per cent;
the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad,
a dividend of five per cent cash and twenty per
cent in stock, payable February l at the Office Of
the New York Trust Company; and the Indian
apos, Pittsburg and Cleveland Railroad Company,
a dividend Of thirty per cent in stock and three
per cent cash. These scrip dividends represent
the surplus of previous years invested in the per-
manent property of the roads. In the case Of the
Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati the scrip Of
twenty per cent raises the capital to the limit Of
the charter of $4,000, 900.
The stockholders of the following railroad COM
panics will hold their annual meetings in Philadel
phia on the 18th :-Philadclphia and Reading
| Lehigh Valley, Mine Hill and Schuykill Haven,
Little Schuykill. North Pennsylvania, Philadel-
phia and Trenton, East Mahoney, Western Penn
syfvania. Tyrone and Cicar6eid. Philadelphia and
Darby, Philadelphia and Montgomery, Mosque
honing Valley, and the Belefonte and Snow Shoe.
The Schuylkill Navigation Company will also hold
their annual meeting on the same day.
The following comparative statement shows the
average condition of the leading items OF the
Philadelphia banks for the past and previous
week.
Loans. .$35 ,650954 $35, ,52S sos
Specie. ................... 9,lG4,643 s,l5S5s5
Legal tenders ............. 6,023, 100 6i0o0,2ll
Deposts. ts.................... ~ yoS2s3o 2xe.oyZo
Sircuiaton.s. Z.Voi,ol -'ooo,oAo
The loans show some little increase, as do the
amount of legal tender notes and deposits. The
| specie and the circulation declined.
| One of the first acts of the Pennsylvania Legis.
lature, which met the 9th inst will be to make
| the necessary provision for the payment of the
February semi annual interest ON the State debt.
Thus far during the war it has been paid in coin,
and II is supposed the same policy will be con-
| tinued, though as yet it is undetermined, there
being no special law for it,
| For the year ending December 1 1868, the in.
come ofsth} Boston and Fitchburg Railroad was
1892 ,262; expenses $404 2l9 The net receipts are
s73,s96 in advance of those of 1862. After pay
ing all liabilities and the January dividend there Is
| surplus of $l3s, 200.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company has de.
clared dividend of per cent. payable on the LIST
| of February. The transfer books are to be closed
on the afternoon Of the 18th inst
The debt of the city of Boston on the 3lst Of De.
cember was sll 1872, against sl0,5se,907 in
1862, showing an increase of s65s,s2
| The exports of gold from California from the lst
of January to the 9TH Of December, 1868, were as
| follows, compared with the amount exported dur
| ing the same time in 1897
1862 10 Dec Observation-Disclosures. 3gy35s,510
Excess in 1865 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. &3,411 ass
Colemans San FRANCISCO Circular Of the nth
of December has the following in relation to
| fnances:-
Money continues In good demand, but without any
pressure change Of rates, bank accommodations st
ruling a per cent leading cause o the pr esent
activity arises from desire Of merchants and others