The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-09
FINANCE AND TRADE
Financial and Commercial Hens.

The coal oil exported from the port
of Philadelphia during 1868 amounted
to 40, SOC, $50 gallons. f'-
California is yet undecided whether
gold, wheat, the grape, wool or silk, is
to be the future king of that State.
The Newfoundlanders are in distress
over the failure of their cod fisheries,
which. last season, was only one-htth
enough to pay expenses.
Canada is puzzling over schemes to
get rid of its silver; the United States
over schemes to get its silver currency
back.
A bill is before the Tennessee Legis'
lature exempting capital employed IN
manufactures from taxation for the
space of ten years.
A paper priAted in Helena, Montana,
saws that in one of the famous mines in
that district there are one thousand
tons of excellent ere ready to be crush
ed, and ten thousand tons of equally
good quartz in sight, and that the ledSe
contains quartz worth s., OOO,O 900.
At the request of the Secretary of the
Interior, Mayor O'Neil has prepared
statement of the amount of capital EN-
ployed in the manufacturing and indus
trial interests of Milwaukee, which foots
up sl9,174,377. The following are the
principal items: Beef and pork pack
ing, 81, lO3, 577; beer, 81, DOC, 600; leather,
81 500, 900; clothing, Sl,5OO,OOO; flour,
81 300, 900; lumber, 81 800, 900; distlller-
les, Sl,OO0,OOO; iron, $4,000; boots and
shoes, S6OO,OO railroad iron, $500, 900;
furniture, $500, 900; cooperage, $500, 1000;
tobacco, 100000.
The reported sale of the routes in
Virginia of the Virginia Express Com
pany to Adams Express Company is, it
is stated, incorrect. The Virginia Ex-
press CompaEy have, it is true, with
drawn their routes from all the railroad
lines in Virginia, but there was no sale
to the Adams Express Company or to
ANYBODY else. The Adams Express
Company, however, did agree, in con-
sideratiOn of this withdrawal, to stop
running their wagon line between
Goshen and Lexington, Va, and to turn
over ell the express matter at stanton
and Lexington to Harmens stage line.
(TG.) Gazette.
A friend just down from st. James
parish assures us that rich planter ia
that region, having planted all the cane
he could obtain this year, found one
hundred and six acres unused. On these
he determined to SOW rice for the use OF
his family and his farm hands, as well
as for sale, if he should succeed in the
attempt. His rice crop filled fourteen
hundred barrels, the greater number OF
which he disposed of on the plantation
ut ST. a barrel; and the entire cost OF
blowing, sowing and preparing the
grain for market was $4,000. If he had
Sold all the barrels, which he could
easily have done, at 81, his clear profit
would have been S25, 40O.--New Orleans
Crescent.
In reply to n communications making
inquiry why interest was paid on only
a portion of the bonds of the State OF
Virginia aud not ON the whole, we would
inform our interrogation that that State
is now paying the interest accrued from
January to July, 1865, leaving the inter
est for the six months ending January
|, 1869, yet to be provided for. In the
years 1866 and 1867 the State of Virgin
ia issued bonds for the payment of back
interest, upon which issue it has not
vet paid any interest. Persons who
complain of not receiving interest must
hold the bonds included in the above
exceptions. We would also remark
that Virginia is only paying two thirds,
or four per cent, on the bonds on which
she is paying interest at all. This ques-
ton has not yet been settled and re-
mains an open one. For this balance of
interest, or one.thrd, on the coupon
bonds, an additional coupon is given,
and in the registered debt of the State
credit is given on the books of the State
to that amount to the party holding the
bonds at the time the two-thirds are
paid.-BaltimOre Gazette.
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