New-York tribune., 1868-08-14

ernment and AL per cent miscellaneous securities
| Commercial paper is unchanged; trst-class names
pass at 6GD7 per cent.
Sterling Exchange was dull and weak at quota
TONS with sales of rstcass bills at 1O9s We quote:
London 60 days. 1O9a01C9l; London sight, 1O9s9lO9s;
London prime commercial, 10sI01G9; Paris, long,
5.17lG5.l6.; Paris, short, 51545133; Antwerp, 5ISt
| G5.17i; Swiss, 5ls295.17l; Hamburg sea BIT; AM
sterdam, 4194lt; Frankfort. 4OI04l; Bremen, 1910
! 79s; Berlin 7ls01s.
| The reports of the crops published this morning
are considered very favorable. West of the lakes
the crop is from 80 TO 80 per cent greater than last
year. and Western railway shares are held with
great confidence by their friends, who are more
sanguine than ever of the value Of their property
and predict much higher prices during the Autumn,
based upon heavy earnings to be made during the
next five months The shipment of currency to
move the crop has already commenced, and the
amount shipped for the week will be fully $25O0OO0
As the banks start to meet the drain with $2OOOOO
less greenbacks and with s220OO0O0 more deposits
than at this time last year, the bank movement will
be watched with much interest both by merchants
and stock -jobbers.
The Boston, Hartford and Erie Railway when
completed to Fishkil, will be one of the most
costly works in the country at the par vaue of stock
and the stock TO the same sum, making a total of
forty Millions ftDOlars for about 800 miles of road,
or at the rate of $4,000 per mile. Even at $25 per
share for the stock the road will cost over $4,000 per
mile for a single track. The Boston and Albany road
Its cOmpetitOT-with more than half the line
dOuble-tracked fny equipped, and with immensely
superior advantages in the way of depot grounds and
buildings, stands to-day at cost of $17OOO,0OO
against the $4OOC0.OOO of the Hartford and Erie. A
very large amount of the stock was sold and hypO-
hecated at from $40 to SIS per share, and the capital
has thus been sweed to proportions far beyond the
value of the property.
The transactions at the Office OF the Assistant
Treasurer were Receipts for Customs, $4,000; for
Gold Notes. $4,000; total Receipts, $l,Ol,f57
total Payments $G73,5S3 9i Balance sS ,24, ll5 13
An important omission occurred in the dividend
notice of the New-York Central Railroad omitting
TO state that the dividend of per cent free of
United States income tax
The weekly report of the condition OF the Bank OF
England, just made public, shows, as we learn by
Atlantic Telegraph that the amount of specie in Its
vaults has decreased E57 600 sterling since the last
report
The earnings of the Marietta and Cincinnati Rail
road Company for the first week in August were;
1868 m S23CO3 776 Decrease. Sl72
The following is an exhibit of the earnings of the
ing the month of July nit, and of the earnings and
expenses for the first months of the fiscal year.
as compared with the same period of the year 1861:
Increase over Decrease
EkSGsPs kSpesss % 5sis77 % sssa Il '''.. .a96i SIS
Yct earn. 2O6,95o 65 le9,5a9 10 a7,h7 5S -.....
Earns from
july! July 81 ~ issio8s IL a9i77sO Ol aac,saO IL
Expls from
July 81 ~ 2,79o159 II 2,s2l,s27 "a ...... a,ec7 %
for mos. l5ca92o Il lO92,9ls ST I7lOOs o. .....
The earnings of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh
Road for July were:
1868 s222973 63 1867 s2IOlS3 sc Increase. sl2sio
1861 2o7i53 1868 81 3931OO As Increase s9Ss4c IS
The directors Of the Chicago and Alton Railroad
have declared dividend of per cent upon the Com
mon and Preferred stock, payable on and after the
lst of September. The transfer books close on the
10th.
The s3s15O in United States 7.S0 Treasury Notes,
sent by the Aquidneck National Bank of Newport,
r. H. in November last. to the Assistant Treasurer of
the United States in New-York for conversion, and
incosed in a registered letter. which was abstracted
from the Post-Ofice have been all recovered excep
ting eco in 73O Treasury Notes and s547 SO in cou
pons which were attached TO the notes. This has
been made good to the Bank. The notes were found
in New-Jersey by Detectives.
The Boston Post OF Wednesday says
Mosi Of report sufficient number Of applications r aeen
mnatou their daily receipts o. currency The loans Nho
nearly on hundred and four millions % l oy shos con
% u sst @ ] % I. % There are ho@eyer QSite nSmbsr
Illustrations pretty supplied With funds which would be readily
etchnge paper 6d6t per and there iud
viiua seeking for signatures atl
finally compelled 70 take up Viii C40ot per
doing borrowers Governments supplied
8 per other parties are charged per cent
The customs OF the Government at the port Of
san Francisco from January TO Jnly 2s. was s,s5s6
The exports Of specie, from January 10 July 49, were
s22ss 2s5 against s24,O94.67O same time last year.