New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-04

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- 20 5 o o5 4ii4?3 80 R ISS $3.50 $3.50
nc following shows tla acllti1n between tho
total r .crre aad the total dopD't liabilities;
. .A4ns,1ee e, ,,7h!gf F Dec ' e! 5s$
To-. .. ' 7 5553 703!I5S5 De-. l5Soo
NON, r,auis-i ,.,,.,,. cys-..,o ~. Oh =,
-l5d n' r.os,s Is3S5.5 ti7o;0 Dec 2;5ia5
COMPARED with that of The corresponding date OF
1850 The preset statement shows: Loans increased,
s0.Gis. 800; specie increased, %3,0ll,7Oo; legal
tenlefs increased, ~ $4,000; deposits Increased
el6IsS $40: circulation dcereAsedS LOO 100. The
,o;ii reserve t7O32l 500 now is 1872 p"r cent Of
e to.al deposits against 1867 last week AID PASS
to- Ap.il 9. 1850.
Money during last week naturally worked firmer,
ana Ter thu carly days the common rate was per
cent! with exceptions n ono day rs high As iSa per
cent commission added. Daring the week ended
F.,sy ihe Assay Oire paid its check, 10 the amount
a. to5B3sa for imported gold but all of this SUN.
..rpt tho small payment OF Friday, is included In
the Sbrreasury operations before referred 20. The
A.say Oaiee has about 81 100000 additional Of
gold for which checks will be- due early in the COM
ING week Tic shipments OF funds to the interior
during the week weTc made TO nearby points the
exchanges al none of the largo cities being suiii-
citutly against Ncw-YOrk to warrant movements to
them until Friday when at Chicago the rate sud-
denly fell 10 81 discount. The latest quotations Mt
the places named are rs follows: Savannah, lsG' y
prcu,,nm; Charleston. lsali premium; New
Orleans. II u 81 premium; -. Louis, 2J cents dis
count; Chicago. s0a75 cents discount: Boston,
ptr Foreign exchanges were dull and irregular the
week through bat rates were rather hrmer, and by
some il is anticipated that further advances are
.nmiuen ecar.c of the free flow Of securities this
4 t,.rft attaIIa Vsra saH,a-
port.on- during last week. Nevertheless, shipments
OF poll continue to be made from Europ', and it is
e.t,naicl tha. there now is from S3,j00.O0O 10
>! 900 OOJ en- route.
Tn. commercial situation i, unchanged from a
Vcrl ago and trade movements are slow. In some
If the speculative merchandise markets. there have
hceu sp1smodic movements. but principally because
of partial corners contracts for Immediate deN-
ora. 4 Milwaukee circular Of March 81 b0ls
down ~ formation. which bcfoIe has been printed IN
drillcts. cone, rninR the general situation at the
X,rtbvest as follow: with the exception of
very few spots. the entire Northwest-from Central
Iowa north and froIh Lake Michigan wost to the
confines Of civilz ltion-ls covered with an average
Of two feet Of ice and snow, and with drifts from
t,yo 70 thirty feet high; and at present writing
there Is a storm OF wind aud snow prevailing III
Western Wisconsin. Iowa and Minnesota There
thermometer has been above freezing IN that great
h.lt az country called the Northwest. Several gen
tlerr en from Minnesota. who buy largely along tho
ti.,s west arc here to-day. and report
tbat on hill,idc9 and high ground, with
the III. u favorable weather. seeding IN MIN
uesota may commence by the l5th OF APRIL
bn will not be general until the 20.h or 3Oth-hn-
,sh,ng by thu 1Osh Of May; while Northern Iowa
and " i.consin viii be iiys TO ten days later The
cold weather came upon the Northwest about the
9th Of October. and froze everything solid. sus-
nendina all farm work upon tbs land; and heavy
.,ovaf.w DAYS later covered the stacks Of whoat
and prevented threshing, aud tho sroat bulk OF
,bcat Attacks an corniolds are still almost entirely
buried IN snow The winter coming on so early pre-
vented plou ching and It is estimated BY those best
advised that not over - per cent of the land was
,Ionghed Last fall" The movement OF dry goods at
this MONT is slow and unsatisfactory, and liberal
concession in prices has failed to induce speculative
buviug OF the iron market the trade JOURNALS
while continuing to predict nh Improvement soon'
report nothing doing no change from iast week.
with admissions that sales are made " at much
Iocr pces thaO have been quoted Tor the past Three
month,D Tho coal companies have agreed TO
S,,,,o restriction Of the output. with an intmaton
,hat eyen a farther curtailment Will be made. aud
nricc. advanced at a much earlier date than many
slowly to be drifting iuto the Same policy that led
no 20 the companies embarrassment IN ls78-that
ofdiscouraging consumption By high prices, Such
a policy is much less likely to succeed now than 1t
vas then because the extent of the opened bitumi-
.uous coal fields much greater. the transportation
facilities are much larger, aud the expenses are
less than they were before 1915.
Tho stock speculation during tho week. while
generally toward higher figures was irregular
spasu,odic and feverish Prices moved up when
forced. and fell away when left alone. There was
lack of confidence in values whenever the market
WA unsupported, and there was very little trading
that was not between the professional operator and
| their habftual followers. The burden OF the argu-
ent In support of prices is she admitted future
of money and the estimates Of gold which Is TO arrive
hero before July those estimates seeming TO grow
larger az fast as earlier estimates como to be partly
accepted as probable. 1t also has como to DO O COM
mon saying that the large operators arc oil loaded
ND with stocks and, therefore. must advance prices
sr ordor 10 selIU The assumption in regard TO the