New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-27

Exchange is firm and not abundant. The rates are
London, 60 days 1904 1921 do. sight 100 nos
Paris, long SLOT Is; do. short 5l3i S5l2i; Antwerp,
$40; Swiss, 500 Hamburg 96l s36li Amsterdam 4ll:
Frankfort, alt ailI; Bremen 70 879ii Berlin, ~
The business the SubTreasury Receipts S. 49,
7I9 i2-for Customs, 100000; Payments, si,S45,sl9;
Balance, slO3, 2s2, 900 57-Goll Notes, $4,000.
The Chicago Tribune says;
The Union Pacific Railroad Company have laid down all the
iron al their present disposal and finding difficulty obtaining
IL rapidly enough by way Of the Missouri River TO keep their
forces employed have determined to cease further operations
until Spring They have completed the bridge across the
North Fork and laid their track over IT, 50 as TO deliver mails
freight and passengers TO aldays Overland stage Line on
that side awaiting the recommenccment OF operations on
Tae me @ encr aU nnteppSo which have eharae
son 10 doubt tho realization Of the hope * Mr. Durant that
they will have 300 miles completed by the time Of the
grand North Western Railway Excursion In June next
pany carry the iron and other needed material for the
stction OF the Union Pacific oad over the rails OF the
former in owned by hitter very reasonable
finish the road next Spring ot any ratio required By tho Com
point dae north Mr. Duant confident Of reaching in 100
working days from the time Of recommending the westward
movement which win probably be IN the latter part February
the first March From the present terminus Of tho road
to the meridian which Denver Is located is about 800 niles
that make that distance In the allotted time the unparn
eed spectacle will DO afforded Of steadily and continuously
stuotng railway at the rate Of three miles per diem.
The receipts of the Western Union Railroad Co. for the
week ending Nov. u wero:
1896 6s57 ~ 1865 O93 70 Increase sl74 10
The traffic of the Chicago and Great Eastern Railway
tor the third week of November wasi
$50 70 1865 s264J2 81 Increase tlO95l 10
The Michigan Central Road earned the third week in
Noyember
1876 s5j6H 1865. slO52 Decrease $50 GIG
The Georgia Railroad Co. have declared dividend Of
3, per cent, payable Nov. Is
The Rochester Express says that at the recent meeting
Of Directors OF tho Western Union Telegraph Company
II was resolved that sinking fund be retained from the
future not earnings of the Company for the purposo Of
redeenng the principal of the bonds recently issued for
the purchase of the Russian Extension stock aud for
other purposes.
special agent Of the Pacific Mail Company has just
returned FROM China with tho most favorable evidences
that immense direct trade between the ports Of China
and Japan and San Francisco and New-York will soon
follow the establishment of the Oriental line Of the Com
pany.
An illustration of the revolution which the Atlantic
Cable Is working in the business relations of the country
is afforded by the fact that English orders upon the San
Francisco Market for the no wheats Of California have
passed through this city by Atlantic Cable and hence by
Overland telegraph. We informed that these orders
promptly executed and considerably within limits,
and advice Of purchase returned to and received by
the London merchant who sent tho Orders in the morn
ing the evening Of the day. Orders have also
gone San francisco for grain to be shipped to the New
York market by the steamers oftha Pacific Mail Company