New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-16

Inclined to be prudent. and money cannot DO quoted
easy in any direction.
Exchange is firm and dearer, and quoted; London,
60 days, 1O9a01O9l, sight, 1lOt0iiOt; Paris long,
SIS, short, 512i; Antwerp, 51890517i Swiss, o.lot
0517i Hamburg, SCI Amsterdam, All Frank
fort, 4Ia<04Ef; Bremen 79B079t; Berlin, 72l@72s.
The following prices are bid for Bank shares to-day:
New-York, 116; Mechanics III; Tradesmen's, 142i;
Dry Dock 2O1 Greenwich, 1870; National, 100; Sew
enth Ward, 10; State of New-York, 105; Commerce,
49, Mechanics Association, no. American Exchange,
ia; Pacific, 1861 Chatham, 40; Bank of the Repub-
lie, 49, Bank Of North America, 1917 Irving, 1C2;
Metropolitan, 1875 Peoples, lis; Shoe and Leather,
l10I; Corn Exchange, 120 Commonwealth. 1O6; Cen
trail National 10; Fourth National 1919 Ninth Ma
tional, 10.
The Chicago Republican of Saturday says:
The demand for money continues fairly active the prn.
aso1s m nroy6ps The country banks are drawing
largely and the market is reported close aud firm In
daons asked for and only frstclass names are passed
The Of interest is 10 per cent ON The street
loans are quoted at SOLO per cent The market for East
ern exchange s quiet and steadyf anything, easier:
Tho supply making IA improving, owing TO the snpnent
Of provisions The buying rate to-day was LILO on ana
sales were made at par. Small drafts were onarseu
premium.
Wall-st. is quiet, and operations are wholly con-
troed by brokers and the large circle Of professona
spectators brought into life by the financial opera
tons of the Treasury in connection with the Re
bellion. Successful beyond expectation by shaping
their dealings in harmony with the movements OF
the Treasury, while it expanding the currency,
and with it the prices of all commodities, they are
now attempting TO repeat their profits by opposing
the Treasury and by combinations attempting to de-
feat not only the Department in its course toward
solyency but the natural basis of finance The waning
fortunes of the trading community the stagnatOn in
manufactures, the declining tendency in wages, and
the constant scrambling of banks to keep within the
limits of the law upon their reserve, are alike lost
upon them, as they pursue course which can have
but one ending The shares of transportation COM
panes unproductve of income, are steadily moving
from bad to worse may through the manipulation OF
the street. be temporarily forced to higher prices,
but the reaction will surely be followed by lower
rates than have recently been touched. The street
was never so heavily loaded with unproducve stocks
as colaterals for loans CALL and tho foundation
has been laid for panic fierce as has ever ragged
in that stormy region.
The trouble between Commodore Vanderbilt repre-
senting the Hudson and Harlem roads, and the New
York Central Managers will in all probability result
inithe early construction OF road on the west bank
of the Hudson from Athens to apoint opposite New
York The Central people are confident that the
through Winter traffic will be better accommodated
by route which will place its freight depot where
transportation by horse power through the city viii
be saved. The Central Road will in future DC run
for the benefit of its shareholders asking no fayoE
OF connecting lines while ready at all times to make
equitable arrangements with any connecting route
whether by Land or water
People are wondering how the Cumberland pool
will get out Of their stock. In fact they have done
so already TO a great extent The pool has borrowed
80 or 90 on several thousand shares from Leading
houses turning the stock with them ut tal per
ceI!V for 20 days and STIMULATING that the lenders
must keep and return the same certificates. ms
stipulation of renders the transaction usurouS
and when the crash comes the assgnees OF the pooh
which will probably announce itself insolvent VIII
feel bonnd in duty to other creditors to plead usury
and refuse To taSo the stock.
The Continental Insurance Company has declared
a cm-annual dividend Of per cent.
The business of the Sub-Treasury was Receipts,
Al 9S3 2J9 2j--for Customs, $4,000; Payments, ST.
fSCll o6 Balance. slOi,lHSA JO-COn Notes,
$4,000.
The following IL an official statement Of the bust
ness OF the Western Union Telegraph Company for
tho month oS November 1866 Receipts from ali
sources sj7 0S6 Or expenses and payments 20 other
lines. ss2 sos CO. net earnings, $2lS,5% 30; expended
for construction S97,937 49,