New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-05


~, 70 uava has issued his directory Of the members
Of the NewYork Stock Exchange for the year l0'''o
Comics may be had on application at the board room III
BrOad-st
were:
The shipments OF PittstOn coal for the week ending
July 81 1862 we're BY railway 104s tunsi previously
5a5O52 tuns by canal previously 9On tuns; total 1862
5545Sl tuns to same date, 1868, Sls tuns increase
1869, s5,64S tuns
Considerable excitement exists IN certain circles IN
Albany concerning the election Of Directors OF the sus
quehanna Railroad in September There are two parties
seeking control and each after stock TO such an ex
tent that has appreciated 100 per cent within week
II understood the Erie Railway Directors want control
of the road Mr. Ramsey has enoned the transfer OF the
stock Of OneOnta on the ground that 1t had
been sold at less than par The Erie party claim they
have secured majority of the stock, while MI Ramsey
insists that he has 1t.
The Marine and Fire Insurance Company OF Peoria,
Ill., suspended yesterday, being unable to de-
post 100000 with the State Treasurer required by
law.
call for Trans-eOntinenta Railroad Convention. to
be held at Oswego the 9th Of October will be issued in
few days 1t is expected that all the principal rail-
roads on the line from the Pacific coast to Nova Scotia
will be represented.
An Omaha dispatch says that the freight tariff
went into operation the Union Pacific Railroad yester-
day The from 30 to 90 per cent lower than the
previous ones.
The ST. Louis Democrat OF July %, says:
The Erie Railroad will shortly into ST. louis on
A track OF It's own, without passing through Cincinnati
So we infer the statement that j. Gould and his as
sociates will have places In the directory OF the Toledo
and Wabash Company 1t appears probable that another
grand consolidation will result, and the roads now Duld
ing Akron Toledo, and from Decatur 70 81 LOUIS
will give combination control % direct routes from
New.YOrk via Salamanca. Akron, Toledo, and laiaIee
20 KeOkuk Quincy, ald ST. Louis and from each OF these
points westward and to Cincinnati and thence 10 the
southwark. The Erie, Atlantic and Great WESTERN aud
Ohio and Mississippi are already practically one railroad
and II the consolidation with the Toledo and wabash Is
Mississippi The Vanderbilt combination includes
that Vanderbilt is making efforts 20 get
control OF the Union Pacific from Omaha on the ohor
hand the Iowa State line, running west from KeOkuk
will presently give the Toledo and Wabash connection
by very direct route with the Union Pacific, while the
me road will have another western connection via St.
Louis and the Missouri Pacific. II Is rumored also
whether with truth do not knOwthRt the Erie Is try
ing TO secure consolidation with control OF the missouri
Pacific thus extending its line still further westward
On the other hand the OppOsing
the Pennsylvania Central Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and
Chicago, Bellcfontane, indianapolis and st. Louis, Chi
cagoand Rock Island and sundry other roads-already
has its direct connection with Omaha st. Louis, and Cin
cnnat and its arrangements with the North MISSOURI
and Kansas Pacific give through trains 20 Sheridan from
this city. This consolidation and combination or great
railroad lines is progressing with remarkable rapidly
aud Is one Of the significant events OF the age