New-York tribune., 1878-10-23

Philadelphia and Baltimore are nearly a. or... -
the receipts at New-York by the railroads. inolnS
ing the deliveries which the Pennsylvao,s
Railroad makes here. For last week th.
receipts at Philadelphia were 5O,O19 bush.ls
more than the receipts by railroads al New-Yo,I
and at Baltimore they were only 1S4, 4,G14 bushsls
less. The total receipts by railroads at the fon.
cities-New-York, Boston, Philadelphia and Balg.
mOre-were 2,60S, ,423 bushels, against 2,6OO.7ae
bushels delivered at New-York by the canal. IA
the intermediate port of Buffalo, last week shows
gain over the corresponding week Of last year for
the receipts by Lake of 637,570 bushels ana
for the shipments by canal Of 7s7.O70
bushels; while there was a decline Of
9S,1S0 bushels in the receipts bv railroads
and of 377, ,9OS bushels in the shipments thence bv
railroads. At the Western ports, Chicago continues
to show large receipts and for the week exhibits
gain over last year of 64s 502 because Of the large
movement of Winter wheat and corn but "A
Milwaukee the receipts the smallest in several
weeks being 204, 700 bushels less than for the pre-
cedng week. and 691 800 bushels less than for tho
same week of 1877.
Deducting from 13S 800, thetotal number of shares
of stocks recorded as the transactions Of to-day,
the As, ,664 reported sales of Western Union eayes
93235 shares for the total Of all other stOcks and
represents dull STOCK market. Inc enllTe lst
inclined to lower prices during the best portion Of
the day, Lake Shore and Western UniOn perhaps,
being the exceptions In maintaining their prices.
Western Union dld decline to $685. but
soon recovered to 90, where il was firmly
held until after o'clock without any
unusual amount of transactions. Indeed, the move
ment of which we write did not begin until after
230 O'clock. AT that time the price was 90ss. Tha
competitive bidding of two prominent brokers and
the fright of q few Shorts" rapidly advanced tbe
price to 93, from which there was a reaction 20
02l2G925s, aud 90 again bid for the stock in the
street after the Board had adjourned. The
nature of the entire movement can but
be judged by a reference to the official
list Of sales, where it may be seen
that out OF the total transactions of IS 600 shares
for the whole day. 27, 800 recorded after 2:30
o'clock. 1t is proper however, to remark that after
the price had touched 93. the "pOiut was freely
distributed that an extra dividend in the shape Of
q division of the cOmpanys stock was " on the
cards" BE this report q reality or a speculative
canard, it is evident even to the casual observer
that the last annual report of the cOmpany-a re-
port which covers an entire year which was FREQ
from all competition of opposition lines-dOes not
warrant any such disposal of the TG0OO,000 Of
stock held by the company.
Lake Shore was dull, but steady in price between
GIL and G67s finally rallylng 20 67l2DG7Ss on ae-
count of the Western Unions strength The remain-
der of the list, which had been sagging and nac-
tive for the same reason, showed some Improvement
at the close but the market closed dazed at the
dacity OF the Western Union movement, rather than
strong.