The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-13

The following were the rates Of exchange on New
York to-day ut the aforementioned cities :-Savan-
nah, buying "a discount, selling discount; Charles
ton. plentiful. buying 4. selling % par; New Or
leans. commercial 400 discount. bank $50 discount;
st. Louis par; Chicago. arm Ut par; aud Boston. Is.
y 25c. discount.
The remarkable rise in Chesapeake and Ohio to-
day was due to the statement that the company has
made contract for the extension of Its lines from
Huntington Lexington. KY. where it will connect
with the Southwestern system and northerly to Gin
cinnati to connect with the Northwestern Railway
system.
Tho following despatch from the West gives the
movement OF grain at the leading points there to-
Observation-Disclosures of wheat 81 500 BUSH
els shipments $500 do. receipts OF 1000 do;
shipments. 1000 do. Chicago-No board to-day.
The Governing Committee of the Stock Exchange
admitted to-day the folio wing securities -Exccsior
Water and Mining Company. Slo.0Oo0o0. common
stocks Louisville. New albany and Chicago Railroad.
S3,OOO.OO0 common stock. to be placed on the FREQ
lists Boston Land Company stock. ssOo.Ooo; st.
Paul. Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad.
SIS 900 600 stock and $s.0OO.OOO each of first and
second mortgage bonds. the stock on the free list
and the bonds the regular list; Michigan Gen.
trail Railroad Companys six per cent first general
mortgage bonds OF 1909. $l.SOO.0OO on the
regular list; Chicago, Milwaukee aud st. Paul
bonds Of the Davenport and Northwestern Railroad
Company, S3OOO.000 on the regular list; Chicago
and Northwestern six per cent sinking fund bonds
Of 1879. s2400.000 on the regular list; Wabash. st.
Louis and Pacific. $40 900 900 common and s2ooOoooo
preferred stock on the regular list; Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad first mortgage ak per cent bonds
parkersburg branch issue s3OOo.OOo on the regular
list; Indiana. Bloomington and Western preferred
first mortgage bonds. S1.0O0.OO0; first mortgage
bonds So 500 OO0 second mortgage bonds ST. 100000;
income bonds. 500 OO0 common stock 81. 500 COO;
the stock the free list, the mortgage bonds
on tho regular list aud the income under
the head of income bonds; Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad. 5Oi.027 80 bonded debt.
$50, 726.355 SO common stock and 1851. 800 pre-
ferrcd stock the regular list The Phladelphia and
Reading was readmittod after thcy had agreed to
accept the Farmers Loan and Trust Company rs
their transfer agents in this city.
Tho last stock admitted was that Of the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company (s6.Oo0.0oo, to the
list. This company. which is only four months
DID, has consolidated all the steamship and railroad
lines Of Oregon into o close monopoly. According
to the Official statement the net earnings In October
amounted to s2i7 0O0 and for the last four months
to $63sG57 Out of these earnings quarterly dividend
of two por cent the capital stock OF s6.OO0.OO0
has been declared. payable ON the 18th inst. which
will leave cash surplus Of s50O.00O at tho Farmers
Loan and Trust Company Tho company has four
new ocean steamships plying between San Francisco
and Portland. fleet Of twenty eight steamboats, on
the Columbia River and lines OF railway between
various points. Tho bonded Indebtedness is
$4,000 900 at six per cont. Among tho directors
Henry Willard. william II. starbuck. A. II. Holmes
and General Joseph Il. Fry. OF this city. On the
street lO was offered tor tho stock this afternoon.
Tho following were the sales at the New York Min
ing stock Exchange to-day