The New York herald., 1871-01-11
THE EXTREME FLUCTUATIONS.
The following table shows the highest and lowest
prices of the leading stocks during the day.
THE SOUTHERN STATE BONDS STRONG.

THE SOUTHERN STATE BONDS STRONG
The Southern list was frm with q general i'm
provement In prices. Again have the coincidence
OF a rise in cotton which to-day advanced u q &c.
pound. The following were the final street
prices Of the Southern State. municipal and lead.
ing railway bonds:-Tennessee, ex coupon, c414 q
64X; do., new, o4A q 64h; Virginia, ex coupon,
6e 8s; do, new 62 6S; do, registered stock old,
601s 81; Georgia skies, IS 80; do. sevens, "a
q ss; do. sevens, old, ss n 90; North Carolina,
ex coupon, AK AK; do, funding, 1865, 36h
S71k; do. do, 1858, 20 o 2s; do., new, % q "a;
do, special tay, 1S 10; Missouri skies,
SO 90; do, Hannibal and ST. Joseph, Ssa so5s;
Louisiana skies, 65H Q es; do, new, O. q 85;
do, levce skies, II 70; do. do, eights, So
81; do, Penitcntary sevens, IS 78; do, railroad
eights, 81 "a; Alabama nves. II 72; do eights,
97 o.; do railroad eights 90 a o.; South carolina
sixes 81 S5; do, new. January and July, cox q
So; do do, Aprn and October 81 q 81; do, regis
tered stock, old. 03 10; Arkansas sxes 81 81; do.
sevens 90 81; Mobile and Ohio Railroad sterling 7s
80; do. interest eights 7SK AJAX; do second mort
gage eights 64 55 Mississippi Central Railroad first
mortgage sevens, 70 so; do. do. second do. eights
6s 70; New Orleans and Jackson first, So IS;
do. do. second, 70 73; Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad first So IS; do. DO. second, "a Is;
Greenvile and Columbia Railroad, guaranteed by
South Carolina, 90 o.; Macon and Brunswick Rail-
road, guaranteed by Georgia, 7s o rs; Wilmington
Charlotte and Rutherford eights, AK 81; Memphis
City skies, so 81; Savannah City sevens SO a s5;
New Orleans consols old, rs 70; do. issued rail-
roads, skies, 10 a II; do. new, sevens esh a 7Oh.
THE PACIFIC RAILROADS.
recent circular Issued by the financial agents OF
tho Central and Western Pacific Railroad companies
contains the following interesting and important
statements
The sayn0 to the governments In money nv the
existence OF the Pacific Railroad is enormous. IRON
the settlement OF California TO the time of the OPEN
ing the mails to aud from the Pacific coast had
been very large, and during the last year Of Its
Co. for transporting across the gap between the
approaching ends OF the two roads was at the rate
matter BY the Pacific Railroad Is less than 5000, 900
per annnm. For many years the cost to the gov.
piles, for the maintenance or peace upon the from
tier and Plains, from $1,000 900 TO $4,000 0Oo
IS, 100000. WV ~ ~ s'''"''' 'NO'Su
The earnings Of the Central Pacific Railroad for
December were greater by $62S05 than the estimate
published before the clese Of the month. The earn.
ings In December, 1869, were $4e7 and the earn.
ings In December, 1870, $el2, ,soS, an increase OF
$145,l4s.
The total earnings for the year compare as FOL.
lows:-
1S69.. IS, go, 8S2
Increase .$2, ,8lS 63l
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE READING RAILROAD.
The telegraph has given an outline OF the proceed
ings at the annual meeting OF the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company, held on Monday last
The Philadelphia papers OF this morning give de-
tails. The Ledger says:-
The managers of the Reading Railroad COMPANY