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MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE.

Hi; NT'S

REPRRSENTING THE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS OF THE

YOL.

NEW

26.

YORK, :\IARCH

National Bank-Note
(INCORPORATED NOVEMBER,
1

WAU^

Cenrrale

Co.,

STREET,
^

Fh.

(MIchielsLoos).
^L•HliM^N^, .Jit. (.Job. Dan. Fuhrmann).
i.oui8 Wtij E (Kd. *^ cber & cle.)
Jules ItAt'TENSTaAt cii (C. Rebuild & Cle.)
i>u.,.M.s

J.'U.

Dan

TRANSACTS
GENERAL BANKING

^

the highest stjle of the art with tpteUtl tuft^nardt devUed and patented, to prevent connttr

J. N.

Petty.

—

Pcttv

tovcmmeuts and Banking Institations South
;!Jiierlcan, European, West India Islands, Japan, ate.

13

<,tmmunleation» may he addreeeed to tM4
tiOmpany in any language,

H. VAN ANTTTEHP, Pres't'.
raACDONOVGU, Vlce.Pres't.

A. D.

SHEPARD,

Treasurer.

JNO. E. CURBISII, Secret«rr.
ASA

P.

Potter,

Sau'l Phillips, Cashier.

Pre»t.

Maverick National Bank

BOSTON
Capital,

9400,000
300,000

Surplus,
Special

attention

given

to

COLLECTIONS, and

prompt remittances made on day of payment.
Boston business paper discounted. Correspondence
I

Bostwick.

Member N. V. Stock Excbange.

^ Bostwick,

B.\NKER9 AND BROliERS,

66 Broadivay, Nevr York.
^oaiHJiUS AND MISCKLLaNKOCSSECDRITIKS
Boufcht and 3->id ou Commission.

VIKOIVIA STATU

AND UAILItOAD SKCU31TIi8
A

liOniin

Specially.

Gwynne & Day,
lEsUblUhed

1SJ4.1

No.

1

6 Wall Street.

Transact a general banking and brokerage business
In Railway shares and bonds. Government Securities
and.GoId.
Interest allowed on deposits.
Investments carefully attended to.

Charles G. Johnsen,
inEBCIIA.\T

AKD BAJXKER,

HBW OBLEANS,

M£W VOKK,
I'ear!

The Bank of California, San Francisco.
Capital, Paid up is G ld. $5,000,000.
D. O. MILLS, Presiden'.

WM. ALVOiiD, VIce-Pres't.

THOMAS BKOW.v,

Cashier.

Laid law & Co.
BANKERS,
AGENTS FOR THE BANK OP CAU.OIiNIA,
No. 12 Pine St., New^ York.
Receive deposits and transact a general banking
business execute orders at the N. Y. Mock Excbange
for Stocks, Government, State, Municipal and Kailroad Bonds and Gold.

Particular attention eiveu lothepuraud sale of Mlnlns; Stocks lu San
Francisco, rur wlilck we kave the best

BOSTON,

Street.

7c:

&

GOSSLER

Sta,.e Streei

Oi>BRK-'*PO.V DENTS O/
Ititeriiatloiial IlaiiU of esamburs:

aud

Loiidou, (Limited.)

UOU8K

IN

Hatch

EUHOPK,

GOVERNMENT

6c

Foote,

No. 13 ^VALI.

STREET

BUY AND SELL
BONDS, GOLD, STOCKS

AND

MISCELLANEOUS 8KC0KIT1KS,

&

NEW

Banking Business.
STOCKS, BONDS and GOLD Bought and Sotd on
Commission, and carried on Margins.
Deposits deceived and Inte; est Allowed.
l^~ Accounts of Country Banks and Bankers re
oelved on favorable terms.

Hilmers,McGowan&Co
BROKERS IN

FOREIGN EXCHANGE ANO GOLD,
03 Wall Street, New York.
(P. O.

sold on commission, for cash or on
margin.
MATUI'.IN BALLOU.
CH.XS. GREGORY,
Member N. Y. stock Exchange.

TIES bought and

Bonner &

mercial

BANKEBS.

Per Ccat Bonds,

13

City Centnil Park Quarterly Gs, due 1887.
Loulsbma Mate 7 Per Cent Con»ol. Bonds.
Ohio & Ml»9. I!I!. I9t Mori. Consol. sterllug Ponds,
lUI, i

Poc Cent l:;uavrBed

Co.,

Kountze Brothers,

& Vincenne* itii. Ist and 3il Mort Bonds,
cm. itlrhmond & Fort Wayne lili. t«t .Mort. Bonds.

Saraunab

&

nrVKSTMENT SECURITIES.

Indianapolis

&

Com

bills.

Special attention to btwlness of country banks.

New York.
AVANTEDt

Charleston

2.847.)

Bankers and brokers,
7 W^all St., Cor. New, New York.

So, 30 Broad sireet,

t

BOX

A. H. Brown

Co.,

BBOKER!^,

Kansas l"»ciac R«. 1st Mort. 6 aud
Mobile & Ohio llallroad Bonds.

STREET, NEYV YORK.

Special atteatlon paid to the negstlatlon of

6 AVall Street, New York.
STOCKS. BONDS and (iOVEUNMENT SECUHI

BANKERS AM)

No. 7

Ballon.

STOCK AND l!OND BROKEiiS,

G. T.

oc Francis.
BANKERS AND BROKERS,

Tratjsact a General

foHn URRKNBE11U,GO»iSI.ERacCO

BANKERS,

Trask

Co.,

New York
LA.

and Bonds.

facilities; also all other California Securities.
Issue Bills of Exchange. Letters of Credit and Telegraphic Transfer.* on London, Yokohama, Shanghai,
Hong Kong, Honolulu, Virginia Citj and San Fran-

FOR SALEi

166 GRAVIER STREET

Special attention

Southern and Western State, Municipal and I'.all
road Securities made a specialty.
Milling Stocks bought and sold at New York and
San Francisco Exchanges.
Correspondence solicited.

Gregory

Nesotlated.

Deposits received In Currency or Gold,

cltase

HaMHI'it;

Co.,

6c

in

;

BRO.AD STREET, NEfT IfORK.

gvlted.

R. A. Lancaster

sold

and for-

£tock«, Bonds, Gold and Government Securities
bought and sold for cash or on marg!n.

114
|

and

paid to Investment Orders for Miscellaneous Stocks

BVSINES<^.

8. B.

This Company eograTee and prints bonds, postage
•ramps and paper money for various foreign

NETT YORK.
bought

to suit Investors; also Gold, Silver,

eign coins.

A

COItUESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

and alterations.

amounts

ST.,
Bonds

and Interest allowed on Balances.

:

Aug. XoTTKBonM (Nottebohm Freres).

oi»K-NOTES, STATE AND RAILROAD BONDS,
POSTAGE AND REVENUE STAMPS,
-JiRTIPICATES, DRAFTS. BILLS OP EXCHANGS,
AND COMMERCIAL PAPERS,

J.
J.

0,000,000 Francs.

ALrRED MiQurXAT (Oralt & Msqulnsy), VIcePres.
J. H. Von tbk Becke (IJ. Vou der beclce,'.
Otto Uu.mher (CorDcUIe-Davld).
KhT»K UK (Jott^l.
i\v. Kraxk (Frank, Model i Cie.)

Enoratino jlkd Pbistino or

teitin^

U. S. Government

Fklix Grs\b, President.

Jnltsd States Bonds, Notes, Cnrrenoy
aud National Bank Notes.

NASSAU

No. 5

BOARD OF DIRECTOKS

CSSBATXItg OP IH«

BANKERS.

Anversoise,

Pald-Up Capital,

NEW YORK.

HATCH,

FISK &

Antwerp.

1859.)

666.

Financial.

Binque

THE

OFFICE, No.

NO.

30, 1878.

Financial.

Fiuancia).

UMTED STATES

i)d4.

WALL

STREET, NBW^ YORK,

Issue Letters of Credit, available In

Torld;

BASK

all

parts of tha

Time and Sight BUIa on the UKIOH
or LONDON. Cabl« Irantf en nude.
also.

,

THE CHRONICLE.

11

&

Co.

Bank

STUEET,

WAIiI.
Drexel
31

&

Drexel, Harjes

Co.,

SocTB Third

31

St..

North America,

&

Co

No. 52

Boulevard Haussmann

DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN BANKERS.
DepOBlts received subject to Draft. Securities. Gold.
Ac, Dou^ht and sold on Coinniisgion. iulerept slloweo
on Deposit*. Foreign Kxciiange. Commercial Credits.
Circular Letters for -IravelerB,
Cable Transfers.
available in all parts of the world.

OLD BROAD

Brown

ST..

&

AVALL

No. 59

ST., N.

Co.,

&

Surplus,
Bnvs and

Sells Sterling

Commercial Credits available everywhere.
J.
.1.

C AX A D

G. C. Ward,'

Stuart

J.

NASSAU

{
(

Affenta
Agents.

Bank

Capital,

.\

80,200,000, Paid Up.

-

HE.4D OFFICE, MONTRE.AL.
GEOt.GE HAGUE, General Manager.

BANKEaS.
LONDON, ENG —The Clydesdale Banking Co.
liank
of New VorK, N. B. A.
NEW YOKK— The

;

mANCHESTER & COUNTY BANK,
"LIMITED";
York
JOHN STUART ic CO., Banker*, New
with Mosrs. JESUP, P.4TON & CO.
MANCHESTER, PAYABLE IN LONDON
UIiSTER B.ANKING COMPANY,
Bank of Montreal.
BELFAST, IRELAND;
;

ALSO,

& Co.,

$12,0O!>,000, Gold.

5,500,000, Gold.

R. B.

HEAD

;

BANKKK

make telegraphic

Nos.

&

Phila.

the

munroe: &

Dominion

London

Exchange

CiKCDLAB Notes and CsspiTa fob Tkate lebs

HEAD

.

Knoblauch
Lichtenstein,

BANKERS,
Excbanse Place,

YORK.

Make Telegraphic Money Transfers.
Draw Bills of Exchange and Issue Letters oi
all principal cities of

Credit

Europe.

SPECIAL PARTNER,
Berlin.

DBUTSCHK BANK.

G. Amsinck

&

Street, New
AGENTS TOE THE

160 Pearl

Co.,
York,

LONDON AND HANSEATIC BA.NK
OJJUTEDJK-LONDOB.

Bank

OF CAVADA.

M. H.

NEW

Co.,

Correspondence

and

solicited

information

«

COHRBSPONDieNTW— KtcKtTTi Rmtharo »

N. V.

fur-

*'-;

Austin,

J.
STOCK BROKER,
i03 WALNUT PL.\CS (316 WALNUT
PHII.ADEI.FHIA.

ST.),

Orders In stocks and Bonds promptly executed at
l\e Philadelphia and New Stork Boards.

Southern Bankers.
THOS. F. MILLKK,

WIIMAMS. JNU. W. UlLLSS

.

&

Thus. P. Miller

Co.,

BANKERS,
Special atienljon paid to collections, with prompt
reinUtan;esai current rates of exclmnge on dt*y of
jayment.
German American Bant, >ew
Correnpondents.
fork; Louleiaua Nation-il Bauk. New Orleans Banic
>f Liverpool. Llvprpool

—

James Hunter,
Bos

GAULT,

Savanuali, Georgia,

81.

AND

Up

26 Pine

Street,

Neiv York,

Broker and Dealer In Southern Securities. Loans
Negotiated. Advances made on Securities placed IQ
my hands for sale at current rates.
Kkfebkncks.—Henry Taluiadge & Co., and Eugene
Kelly & Co.. New York; Southern Bank. Savannah, Ga

THE CITY BANK OF HOUSTON,

Houston,

_

alble points.

MDRRAY, Cashier-

.,

,

W. House,

T.

BANKER,
41

MAIN

ST.,

BEAXCHES:

IIOCSTON, TEXAS.

DEALE!! IN

Hamiltos, Okt.; Atlmir, Ont.; Pake Hill, Oht.;
Bedford, P. Q.

AGEyTS:
QUEBEC (CITY).— Owen Murphy.
NOVA SCOTI.\.-McrchanU' Bank of Halifax.
FORK! a N AGENTS:
LONDON.— The Alliance Bank (Limited).

NEW YOUK.—The National Bank of

„

DiBEcrona.— Benjamin A. Botts. Pres't: C. S. Longcone, W. .1. llutihins. P. A. Uice, C.C. Baldwin, W. U.
BENJ. A. BOTTS, Pres't.
Bolts, Rob't Brewster.
B. F. VVEK.MS. Cashier.

81,000,000.

C. R.

Texas.

We give special attention to collections on all acces-

OFFICE, MONTREAL.
Pres't.

HWiVTER,

JAItlES

Capital, $i;00,000,

OfHce, No. 9 BIrcliln Lane.

Capital Paid

St., cor.

&

tpeclalty.

of Can.nda.

CO., PARIS.
STERLING CHEQUES AND BILLS AT SIXTY
DAYS' SIGHT ON
AliEXANDERS & CO., LONDON.

&

Baltimore Bankers.

8l

BANKERS AND BKOKKUS,
BAI.TIir.OKE.
INVESTMENT and VIRGINIA SKCUKIT.'ES

)

;

Co.

No. 8 Wall Street, New York,
No. 4 Post Office Square, Boston.
CHEQUES AND CABLE TRANSFERS ON

89 William

Smitheks,

A ™_,.
Walteb Watson, J ^*e""-

C. F.

Buy and fell Sterling Exchange, Francs and Cable
Transfers; grant Commercial and Travelers' Credissue drafts
its, available in any part of the world
on and make collections in Chicago and throughout

trans-

fers of monp.v on Knmn*> and CAHtnrnla.

John Munroe

:

Collectionsmade on the best terms.

ANGUS, tSeneral Manager

of Europe, Asia, Africa, AustrallB

of Excliange and

S

London, Engi.ani>.— The City Bank.
vT.,.., -(-„«.. i National Bank of Commerce,
NBW
\ ORK. j,_ p smitliers and W. Watson.
J

President

NKW YORK OFFICE,
59 &: 61 AVALL STREET.

Issno Letters of Credit for Travelers,

Draw Bills

$1,000,000.

TORONTO.

office:,

Duncan Coulson. Cashier Hron Lkach, Aast. Cash
Branches at Montreal, Peterboro.Cobourg, Fort Uope
Barrle, St. Catharines, Collingwood.

P. O.

59 EXCII.AN6B PL.ACB,
CORNER BROAD STREET, HEW YORK.

p.'vrt

Reserve,

$2,000,000.

;

GEORGE STEPHEN,

BANKERS,

Payable in any
tnd America.

street.

MOBILE^ Al^ABAiHA.
CAPITAL,
SURPLUS,

CABLE TRANSFERS AND LETTERS OF CREDIT

Seligman

SSWall

CANADA.

Capital,

AND Oy THE

NATIONAL BANK OF SCOTLAND.

& W.
J.

Agents

street.

Bell

National Bank of tlic UcpuUlic.
The New York Agency buys and sells Sterling Exchange, cable Transfers and Gold, Issues Credits
avalfable in all parts of the world, mikes coUeclions
In Canada iiud elsewhere, aid issues Drafts payable
Uemiind
at any of the olllces of tlte bank in Canada
drafts issued pas'able in Scotland and Ireland, and
every description of foreign banking Ijusiaess undertaken.
-\gcucy, No. 52 William St.,

BILLS OF EXCHAXQE ON
SniTH, PAYNE ^k SMITH'S,

Lombard

ilshed.

W.M. J. INUitA.M, Astt. General Manjger.

& C o.,

In New York:
Bank of Mostrkax^

Agents In London:
BosANQUKT, Salt & Co.,

Wilson, Colston
.

President, the Hon. JOHN H iMILTON.
Vice President, JOHM McLENN.\N, Esq.

STREIirr.

BANKERS, LONDON

HARPER,
GOADBY.

OF

i

52 WALL STREET, NEW YORK.
28 STATE STREET, BOSTON.

33

U.
H.

Merchants'

I

AGENTS rOK

&

Exchange, and makes Cable

Transfers of Money,

BARING BROTHEKS & COMPAJfY

J.

STREET.
$6,000,000 Gold.
$1,900,000 Gold.

Capital,

THEY ALSO ISSUE COMMERCTiL CREDITS

G.

THOMAS, LNGEKSOLL, WELLAND.

ST,

Dealers In American Currency and Sterling Exchange-

rhe Bank of Toronto,

issues

S.

Casble;

OFFICE, TORONTO.

The Canadian
No. 50 AV.ALL

MAKE CABLE TllAXSFERS OF MOXET BETWEEN THIS COUNTRY AND ENGLAND, AND
DRAW BILLS OF EXCHANGE ON GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

HEAD

Promptest attention paid to collections payable In
any part of Canada.
Approved Canadian business paper, payable In gold
or currency, dlSLOunted on reasonable terms, and
proceeds remitted to any part of the United States by
eold nr currency draft on New Vork.

Bank of Commerce,

dollars for use In the United States and adjacent
countries, and In pounds gurltpg for use in any part
of the world.

Capital, $1,000,000.
K. WILKIE,

ROWLAND, President; D.

Drafts on Scotland and Ireland, also on
Canada, British Columbia and San Francisco. Blils
Collected and other Banking Business transacted.
D. A. MacTAVISH.Sj-agcnis.
Aeents
G. M. MOlilllS,

If.,

iBsne, against cash depoBlid, or satisfactory guarantee of repayment, Circular Credits for Travelers, in

S.

93

Demand

LONDON.

Brothers

H.

BBiNCHKS:-ST. CATHERINES, FORT COLBORNfi,

rates; also Cable Transfers.

Attorneys axd Agbn'ts of
miessrs. J. S. inoRGAN & CO.
No. ii

AVALL STREET.

Commercial Credits issued for use in Europe, China,
Japan, the East and West Indies, and South America.
Demand and Time Bills of Exchange, payable In
London and elsewhere, bought and sold at current

Paris.

p]iilade]pUIa.

Bank of Canada

Imperial

of British

CORNER OF BROAD, NEW YORK.

No.

Canadian Banks

Canadian Eanks
.4GEXCI OF THE

Foreign Exchange.

Drexel, Morgan

6 Vol. XXVI.

Commerce.

Messrs. Ullmers, McGowan &
CHICAGO.—Union National Bank.
BUFFALO.-Bank of Buffalo.

Giold, Silver

COLLECTIOSS

MADE TUROVQUOVl TME
blATE

BUYS AND SELLS EXCHANG ON ALL
PKINCIPAL CITIES OF THE UNITED
'.

THJS

STATES AND EUROPE.
A. K. Walsbb, Cashier.

Co.

Sterling and American Exchange bought and sold.
Interest allowed on Deposits,
Collections mado promptly aad remitted for at lowest rates.

aud Negotiable Securities.

^

B. K. BORBDSS, Pres't.

First

National
WILMSNtiTON,

CoUectionB made on

ill

Bank,
N. C.

paita of the Cuited States

.

March

THE CHRONK^.E.

80, 1878J

Oommercial Cards.

Financial.

E.R.Miidge,Sawyer&Co

Dakota Southern RR.

Soutbern Bankers.

Adams &

k

Leonard,

AOK N
B A

N'.K

K

S

Atlanllo

Western Banks.

«

AND
Iloalerf. Klil'ti nn<1 drawers
From Viirloua Mills.
KKW yoKh.
BOSTON.

WulTK SmaST.
ISCBAtJKOJT ^T
PH1L.\UKLPH1A,
W. DATTON. 'L^y (HKB-fvirr8TR''^v.

Anglo-Californian Bank
LONDON, IlcadOnice, 3 Angel Court.
SAN FKANrlSCO Office, 422 California St.
NE%V YOHK A^Qts, J. ifcW. Seb^rman & Co.
Authorized rapttal, •
Paid-up aud Hearrve,

$6,000,000.
1,55 0,000.

•
•

Traiuact a general Bauktng i>n«lne«. latue Com
merclal Credlta and Dills of Excbange, available In all
parta of llie worM. CollectioDg and orders for llondp
Stocka, etc. executed uoon tho inoot favorable lernit

P. N.

l.'LIKNTHAL

LOW,

{

Boston AKoncy,

•

Head

Manaaer.

8250,000
185,000

^nn2 Koiia,

OLVrilAlNT &

FLOOD,

Vice-President.
H. W. GLENN Y, CaaUer

SI

Niw

or

J
(

STATE BANK,
Incorporated

l3i5.

(

C. t.

»

>\o. 11
dootiinr

SimpLus
Prompt attention given

Old

to

all

business In our line.
± Co. and

D.

Bennet

L.

&

Co.,

GENERAL

GonmssioN merchants,
131 Pearl Street,

St.,

New

Vnrli

53

»illi>,

.^c\v

Vork.

Paton

C.^.,

8c

BVNKERS,
IVllUam Street, New

Tork.

R. T. Wilson

&z

Co.,

for the Dorchaae or sale of Contracts for Future

BaANKERS and commission MERCn.\NTS
2 Exchange Court, New York.

Delivery.

-VOTICE.-TIIE

Brinckerhoft, Turner

Co.,

8c

MauQfaclnrers aad Dealers lo

COTTONSAILDUCK
And

all

kinds of

OTTO/J CANVAt. FELTING DUCK, CAUCOVKR
IKG, BAGGING. RAVENS DUCK, SAIL TWIN K8
*C. " ONTARIO" SEAMLESS BAGS,
•

AWNJKO

STI'.IPES."

Also, Agents

United States BuntInK Companr.

A full supply all

Widths and Colors always

No. 109 Itnane Street.

In stock.

ELEVENTH WAKD

NATIONAL BANK,

located at BOSTON. In the
State of Mas acliusctte, Is closing up Its afflalrs. All
note-holders und otKer^. creditors of satd association
are, therefore, hereby nntlftel to present the notes
and other claEms aicalnst ihc association for paj'inent.
GEO. S. WHEELWJlliGHT, Ca:hier.
Eoiton. March 20, 1873.
~'

WANTED.

~-

N-irlhorn Paclflc ItR. rrcferrei • lock and Bond*.
Oregon Steam NavlKnti' n Co. Stock.
Claims on .Jay Cooke & to.

KK. Land Grant Coupon Bon-*t.
& Ini. Kit. Ist and 2>1 Mort. Bonds
Pandusky -Mansfleld & Newark KK. Bonds.
City. County and Town Boiida of Ohio. Iowa & Wis.
Loiil>vliie& Nashvi le I'.tl. Stock.
Fort Wnyrc .JacK. & Soglnaw HK. Itonds.
Interest-paying Bonds of bouihern l.'allroadi.
T.-xfls Pftclflc

Jefferson. Mailson

Cairo

&

Kansas

BKOWN &

34 Pine

BRO.,

Str.-et.

Alabama, South Carolina

Louisiana

&.

State B4>iids;

Orleans Jackson

Northern,

ic (it.

and

ITIoblle

Ohio Railroad Bonds ;
City of New Orleans Bouda.
LEVY &: BORCi,
86 WALL STREET.
in

McPLim Brothers

6c

Co.,

BAIVKEBS,
47

Wall StrMd,

«<»%v Vorlr.

Fulton

U

.

Bonds, all Issnes.
Honda, all issues.

iraclflc lialLroud

FOU SALE.

New Brunswick Tperct bonds, 1897.
Will, a, CJTLiEV, 31 Plue »t., N. \,

Jersey City and

r.N,» OTHEIIS, defeudarits.— By virtue of and pursuant to a juiignient and dccrue of foreclosure and
sale, rendered a-id entered at a Specijl Tcnu of the
said .Supreme Court in the above-eutIt!ed action, on
the seventh day of November, A. 1). ISVi, I, Oeorge

TIcknur Curtis, fieferee. ap:>ointed tncrein to sell all
and filUKuI iib^l'S nif)rt,^agcd premises, franchises
and property, both reil. per^.inal and mixed, mentioned In the cumpUlnt In this action and mentioned la
the said judg'neut and decree, bclnir the same mor(gaced, or Inten-ied so to be. to the pliUiulIT, the
FariKcrs' Loan it Tru t Coinpauy, Ly a ntortgiige bearing date on the fo rth day of February, A. D. 1874, do
herehv give notice that on the twemy-flfih day of
March, In the yt-ar 15":<, at 12 o'clock noon, at the
Merchants' Exchringe Salesroom, No. Ill Broadway.

In the City of New Yorii, by Bernard Smyth, Auc1 &hall proceed to tteW and shall sell at public
auction, to the highest blilder. for cush. the following
f'escrltied prupeity: All and singular the railways of
tlie said company, from and Including Piermont on the
Hudaon I Iver toand Including the tlnal terniinusof
thesaid railway on Lake Ene, and the railway known
as the Newbury Branch, fn-m Nowburg lo the main
line and also all that part of the railway designated
as the Buffeilo Branch of the Erie hallway, extendlDg
trom HornelUvilli: to Attica, la the tiMti of New
York; andaUo all ot'ier railways beloniflng to the
company In the Slatesof New York, I*ennsylviinla and
New Jer!*ey,orany of them, together with all (he lands,
tracks, lines, rain, bridges, ways, buiU'-Ings, piers,
wharves, struciurea, erections. lences, wall*, fixtures,
franchises, privileges aud rights of tlie said company ; ann also all ilie locouiotives. engines, tcnderi!,
cars, cjrrlagcs. tools, mactilnery, manufactured or
unmanufactured materials, coal, wood and supplies
of every kind belonclug onippertalnl gtothefald
company; and ali loUs, Income, l-sues and profits
irlflng out of »^ald profcrty, and all rights to receive
or recover the same; also all the esiaie, right, title
and Iniercs'. terms and remainder of terms, franclilfcs, privileges anl rights of action of wliatsoever
mime or nature, in law or In equity, conveyed or aaeigned unto the New York & Erie t a.lroad Company,
or unto th'; Krlo lltil. way Company, by the Union
lallroad ompany, by t>)e Builalo New York dc Erlo
l^aiiroad Company, by the Buffalo Bradford 4 Pitts*
b;ng tlailrt ad Company, by the fochesterA Uene.ee
Valley Kaiiroud Comi'any an! by the Long JDock
Compauy ; al.'io all ani singular the choie» in action,
bonds, book accounts,
stocks,
bills
receivable
and other evidences of Indebtedness, lease<told estates, contracts and
other property In tlie said

tioneer,

and dividends, also as transfer agents.
Bonds, stocks and securities bjught and sold on
commission.
Sound railroad and municipal bonds negotiated.
Funds carefully Investeit In Western farm mortgages, and the Intere-t collected.

-L^

H.

r-SALK.— fcu;'reme Court of The State of Kew York.
LO VN & Tr.UST COMPANV,
plaintlfT. against THE EIUE KAILWAY COMPANY

Accounts and Agency of Banks, Corpor.itlons,
tlrma and ludlvIdniUs received npon favorable t?rm^.

New York.

Special attention given to the execution of orders

WALSTON

Co..

8c

Dividends and Interest collected and remitted.
Act as agents for corporations In paylug coupons

Commercial Cards.

cent interest.

Co., or China,

Ficancial.

Jesup,

N. Y. CoRRKBPovDEN-Ts. Donnell. Lawaon
the Metropolitan National Bank.

eiclit per

Foocbotv A

TriidoONLY Supplied

WaLKKB

$75,000.
35,000.

(Paidix)

The ioSS.OOO first m jrtgagj bai.ds are the only Indebtedness of the compa::y. We have sold during
the past two months over |3 '0.0
of these bonds.
When the balance is sold the company will be
entirely free from II ating debt. We are antborixed
to sell the remaining bonds at 90 per cent and
accrued interest, at which rate thuy yield nearly

misslSKlpuI Central,

Cashier,

LITTLE ROCK, AHK.

Mortgage Bonds, while the

net earnings f.T IS?,' were two and a-half times
greater thin the intere-t on itsenti'e bonded debt.

VRIR RAILWAY.-FOHECLOSCRE

N.B.A
rj.e

Fiist

its

more

lo pay the

—THK eAHMEKV

German Bank,
CAPITAL

on

interest

amount required

per cent, the

flriy

New

SODA.

of Sew York, N. B. A., Is prepared to Issne
Telegraphic Transfers, Letters of Credit and Drafts
on The Nevada Bank of San Franclseo.
C. F. PaxziL,
Preeldent.

than

*VAXTED:

op
Toek,

these years of business depression tiu n£t earnings

over all expennei have each year exceeded, by

PEJl-CAHBONATE

Patnk & SMiTua.

The Bank

of {9,0 :0;»r mile of road.

ale

Dakota Soaibern Railroad runs from Sionx
City, lorra. to Yankton, the capital of Dakota, s
distance of 6'i miles.
Tiie road his been completed and
running five years; and during

MANCKACTL'REKS OF

CORKHSPOXDENTS:
1J.IKK

N. Y.

Co.,

8c

John Dwight

2,500,000

^

Amount new OuUlandlng %'JSiJXfi,

ISie

Cliiua

Wall

1114

IjOUIB HoLANE, President.

Thb

being at the

KKPSEPENTKD BT

Capital, fully paid In coin, $10,000,000

........

$IS.0CO.

S.(»«.

Sliniiuhal.

4'.>i>ton,

OF SAN FRANCISCO.

Smith,

St.,

ooM^nssIQN merchants,
Be

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

LONDON
KEW VOUK

Water

Olyphant

The Nevada Bank

J. C.

Jp.. 105

Post Office Box

Hank.
Bank.

mlttances promptly made.

Reserve,

Hong Kong.

Office,

W.POMEUOY

Co.'s

Eapeclal attention given to Collections, and

Fund,

COMMISSION MERCHANT,
14 Excliause Plane,
BOSTON.

CORHESroXDF.XTS.

Ban FBANcrsco— Wells, Fargo &

Watkk

105

j

Jr..
St., N. Y.

Charles E. Parker,

A.J. WILLI.\MS, Vlce-Pres't.

N«w ToBK— Tradesmen's National

W. I"l>MEUOY

I'epresentcd by
S.

G. COLLINS. Cashier.

S.

S.

Shanghai
Banking Corporation,

DENVER, COLORADO.

F.J. EBERT, Preat.

Uepre«ented by

.

Hong K' ng &

I'nthl"-

.....

Co.,

merchants

J

J. MUKIIAY KHillE.'*.
oO Centbal stkkkt.

Exchange Bank,
Capital Stock,
Capital Paid-in,

&

Russell

c on inissioN
AND SHIP AGENTS,
Hone Kons. Canton, Anioy, Foocliotv,
Shanglial and IIanko%v, China.

Cancelled by the Sinking

Original lisue, $600,000.

4S

J

(LIMITED),

lTIORT«i.lGE 7 PER CENT
UOLD SINKINU FL'ND BONDS.

FIRST

ton mils,

«'o

Saraio::a Victory Kirs Co.,

MoodvA Jemlion

I*#*w Vni'>r (V>rT»»«nnn<1«nt

F.

'•

Iliirllnetoii Woolen t'o.,
Ellertoii New Itllila,

,

DALLAS, TKXA8.

FKKO'K

iro

r-i

IVasblnetitii mills, Clilcopee yitg Co.,

B

Ill

;

(.

judgment mentioned.
Olven under my han

' at the City of New
York,tliU
twentj-flrst t'ay of .lanuary, A. 1). 187S.

OE'OKUK TICKNOU CUUTU*. ReferM.

TUHNEE, LEK * MCCUKE,

Plaintiff's Attorney*,
au Xassau street. Now York.
sile of the abovc-Jescrlbed poperty heretofore a lYcrtlsed to lake place on ttoe twenty-flrd day
of January. 187'?, at 12 o'clock noon, at the Mcrchtnta*
Eichangt? ^alc^irJora. No. Ill Broa way. In the City of
New Ycrk, was th-n and th'^re adjourned to th«

The

twf>nt)-afth d y of March,
place.

19. S, at

tho same hour and

OEOKUE TlCKNOIt CUBTIS.

Roforce.
The sale of the above-described property U hcrcbj
adjouri cd to the t* enty-fourth day oi April, W.B, a ^
the same hour and p^ace.

OEOlRtiE

TICKNOU CUBTI3,

TcBNBn, Lkk & McClcbb.
Plaintiff's

Attorpeys.

Ref«r4i.

;

THE CHRONICLE.

IV

Finaucial.

inanciaJ.

ir

COUPONS OF THE FIRST

THE

OFFICE OF

MiJBTGAGE BONDS of Ihe CENTBAL PACIFIC
RAILROAD COMPANY (SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY
BRANCH), and

LAND BONDS,

of tUe

be paid at ihe
Nassau street.

187S. will

No.

3

due April

MORTGAGE BONDS
RAILROAD

of the

OP THE

1.

Vlce-Prefldcnt.

rpHE COUPONS OF THE FIRST
CIFIC

THE RECEIVER

FISK & HATCH,

office of

HUNTINGTON,

C. P.

fVoL. XXVI.

SODTHEUK

Central Railroad Co. of

PA-

CO. (of California), due April

]Vo.

1,

wlllbc paid at the office of the Company, Nos. 9
Nassau and 11 Pine streets. New York.

119 Liberty

St.,

New

INew

Jersey,

"iToi'li.

1378,

C. p.

HUNTINGTOy.

CHICAGO ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC
RAILROAD COMPANY.
A DIVIDEND
a,

TWO PER CENT

of

has been de-

the

unanimously adopted the plan set forth in the agreement for the equitible
adjustment of the affairs of that company, dated February 23, 1878.
This agreemeut was approved by the Cuurt of Chancery of New Jersey, by its
ord r bearing date March 2d, 1878, whereby the Receiver and the company wer&
year, have

May

clared, payable

Bondholders and S.oehholders of the dntral Railroad Company of New Jersey,
and the Bondholders ofthi LshighiS: WUk:»-Barre Goal Company, and the American
Dock & Improvement Company :
The committees representing all classes of perjone iaterestfld in the re-organization
of the Central Railroad Company, after a careful examination of all schemes proposed
in view of the results of the business of the liiilroad and Coal companies for the past

To

1st,

Transfer books close April

FRANCIS

lS-3.

li.

TOWS,

Treasurer.

authoriz-d to carry out its provisions.
It has also been uuinimously adopted by the directors of both companies.
Its provisions are fubstautially as follows
CONSOLIDATED BONDS
Stockholders of the Railroal pay ten per cent in cash, and for this cash receive a
OF THE
new Seven Per C.-ut Mortgage Bond at par. Those stockholders who make this cash
Houston & Texas Central Railway payment have the privilege of converting ten per cent of their stock into seven per
cent income bonds at par.
WILL BE PAID BY
Holders of ihe consolidated and convertible bonds of the Railroad, fund their
J. CISCO A: SON,
coupons for two and a half years, and ri-ceiva therefor new mortgage bonds at par,
bearinjt seven per cent interest, of the same kind issued to the Stockholders for their
No. 59 Wall Street.
cash payment.
Holders of the bonds of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, guaranteed by
"VrOTICE IS
GIVEN
the Central Kailroad Company, fund three years' coupons into incoma bonds o' the
the undtrslgned, as Trustees and Receivers of the
Coal Company, and cancel their guarante? in consideration of whicli their bonds,
COLUMBUS CHICAGO & INDIANA CENTRAL amounting to $.5,384,0;!0, are preferred as t) interest to the b uds held by the comRAILWAY COMPANY, will pay on behalf of said canies, amounting to $6,110,000 on which last-mentioned bonds the guarantee is alsorailway company, on presentation at the office of A. to be canceled.
Holders of the bonds of the American Dock & Improvement Company, guaranISELIN &. CO., No. 48 Wall street. New York City, the
teed by the Railroad Company, give up nothing, but timply agree to forbear prosecuting
following-named interest coupons In arrears on mortthe Railroad Company on their guarantee until July, 1883, without releasing it, in congage bonds secured on portions of said ompany's
sideration of which they receive the additional security of the $600,000 Docts Bonds
railroad line, viz.: Coupons due October 1, :877, on7
held by the Railroad Company.
per cent bonds of Union & Logansport Railroad ComThe new mortgage bonds given to stockholders for their cash subscriptions and to
pany Coupons due January 1, 1873, on 10 per cent bondholders of the Railroad Company for their funded coupons do not exceed $5,550,000 in amount, and besides being secured by the whole railroad, subject to the consolibonds of Indiana Central Railway Company.
dated mortgage, are a first lien upon assets worth, in the opinion of the Receiver, at

THE COUPONS DUE APRIL

I8T8,

1,

FROM

:

JOHN

HEREBY

THAT

;

—

^

;

JAMES A. ROOSEVELT,
WILLIAM R. rOSDICK,
Trustees, &c.. and Receivers of C. C. &
New York, March 2S, 1878.

C.

I.

RR. Co.

Centbal Depot, New Y'ork
TRANSFER BOOKS OF THI^

CO.MP.\^ Y

will be closed at Three o'clock, P. M., on
Saturday, the 30lh Inst, (preparatory to the Annual
Election for Directors, to be held on the first oay of
May next), and will be re-opened on the morning of
Thursday, the second day of May next.
E. D. WOIiCESTEi*, Treasurer.

MISSOURI
CO.MPANY

PACIFIC KAILW^AY

BowLIXG Qeeex, New
York, March 27, 1878.— The Coupons duo April 1, 1878,
on the First Mortgage Bonds of the Carondelet
Branch Railroad (Missouri', that have been presentel
and stamped In conformity with the plan approved by
thcCommlitce or Hondholders, will be paid on and
liFFICE, No. 5

after that dale at this oUIce.
C. K. GARRISON, President.

TTNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPAN Y.— A Dividend
will be paid

of

Union

capital stock of the

TWO PER CENT

Paciflo Railroad

on and after April

March 22, 1878.
New York stockholders

!,

1878,

on the

Company

to stockholders

of record

Union Trust Company,
Boston stockholders

73

will

be paid at

Broadway,

at the

New

Company's

office of

York, and

office, 44

Eqult.

able Building, Boston.

Stock books

will

be closed March

HENRY
April 2.
Boston, March 20, 1878.

TYT-ESTERN UNION
' '

2'i

and re-opened

McFARLAND,

Treasurer.

TELEGRAPH

CO.MPANY, TEKASUBHE'a Office, New Yoek,

March

13,

iSV.

DIVIDEND No. 43.
of Directors have declared a Quarterly
Dividend of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER CENT upon
the Capital Stock of the Company, from the net earnings of the three months ending March 31st Instant,
payable at the office of the Treasurer on and after the
15th day of April next, to shareholders of record on
the 20th day of March.
The transfer books will be closed at 3 o'clock on the
afternoon of the SDth Inst, and opcnedon themorulne
The Board

^

of the 16th of April.

a. n.

ROCHESTER,

Communipaw and Port Johnston, $3,000,099 20
stock of the New York & Long Branch Railroad Comp^iny unencumbered, $1,500,000
$0,116,000 Consolidated Botds and $0,000,000 stock of the Lehigh & Wil,;es-Barre
Coal Company; $o, 000,000 stock of the American Dock & Improvement Company;
$800,000 Btocii of the High Bridge Railroad Company $200,000 stock of the Longwood
Valley Railroad Company, both unencumbered equipment behmging to Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, $1,000,000, besides the lease nf the Lehigh & Susquehanna Railroad and other leases.
The income bonds given to stockholders in exchange f r ten per cent of their stock
at par, are substantially equivalent to a preferred seven per cent stock payable at par
in thirty years, and give those who subscribe a corrresponding advantage over those

;

LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN
THE
SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO-MPANY, TekasukEH's Office, Grand
March iS, 1878.-The

least $8,000,000.
These assets include real estate at

Treasurer

;

;

who do

not.

As Receiver of the railroad, I have been in constant communication with the
various committees during their labors, and have carefully considered all plans of
re-organizaiion suggested. The one adopted has my most hearty approval.
It preserves intact all tie valuable properties hitherto controlled by the Central
Railroad, thereby developing their joint earning capacity to the fullest extent.
It
gives no undue advantage to any one class of securiti-s over any other, but benefits all
alike, and under it, witli even a small part of the revival in coal business which is
anticipated, the railroad can meet all fixed charges and still have something to divide
among its stockholders.
The net receipts of the road during the past year, so disastrous to coal interests,
disorganized as it has been by the fin;incial difficulties wliich ctilminated in my appointment, and l)y frequent strikes, have been $1,838,335; deducting fixed charges prior to
consolidated mortgage, $032,948, leaves a balance of $1,215,387.
The annual interest
on the coneolidated and convertible bonds is'f 1,358,000, only a little more than the net
earnings.
Copies of the agreement and of the statement showing the effect of its adoption,
and the considerations which recommended it, can be ob'ained at my office, 119 Liberty
ftreet; from Messrs. J. S. Kennedy & Co., 41 Cedar street, N. Y. and from Messrs.
Brown, ^h^pley & Co., London, who will also furnish any information that maybe
,

desired.

I'rompt action

is

eesential for all

who

desire to obtain the full benefit of its provi-

sions.

This is especial'y atid peculiarly go on the part of the stockholders. A foreclosure of the $20,000,000 mortgage is now going on, and unless that suit can be stopped
by carrying out the proposed scheme, I can not see how anything is to ba saved for the
stockholders.
It is hoped and believed that the proposed scheme, it carried into effect, will save
to the stockholders what they have heretofore invested ,^in this company.
Surely their
interest in such a property is worth an effort to save it.
To save it will need the prompt co-operation of nearly every stockholder, and no
one of them should make the mistake of supposing or believing that, without their
contributing anything, others will furnish money enough to carry through the scheme.
To ensure succees, each one should and must do his share.

Yours respectfully,

FRANCIS

S.

L,ATHROP,

Biceiver of the Central Railroad of New Jersey.

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It contains

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is

two familiar conwould open a possible market
for United States bonds to the extent of the legal
tender reserves, say 100 millions, and that it would be of
advantage to the banks y enabling them to turn that
amount of idle money into an investment netting, say, 4
there are the

bill

siderations urged: that

it

'

per cent interest.

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION-PAYABLE

it brielly.

666.

" It shall be lawful for any as?ociation organized under the
provisions of the national banking act to sell or dispose of the
legal-tender notes which they are now required lo liold as a
reserve fund, and to invest the same in any of the bonds of the
United States which are now issued or may hereafter be issued;
and such bonds so held s all constitute the reserve fund of said
associations."

In favor of this

THE COMMERCIAL TIMES.
Commercial Epitome

\

1

we

and

STATES.

NO.

30, 1878.

single section,

'

money

If, in

the present condition of the

markets, there

is

not sufficient inquiry for United

make

it

wholly unnecessary to tamper

States bonds to

with the bank reserves in order to enlarge the market for

them, the reasons for the fact ought to receive earnest
Better find out and removS the obstructions
in the natural market, than cast about to manufacture
an artificial one.
With regard to the profit to the
banks, no conservative institution can desire the law.
attention.

would be rather surprising if some of them
were not found, under the severe pressure which
DANA
banking has suffered since 1873, to be in favor of
NEW
this bill.
It is true, as we have frequently urged, that
the pressure of government upon the banks ought to be
Qi^ A neat file-cover is furnished at SO cents postage on the same is 18
cents. Volumes bound for subscribers at %\ f^.
lightened; but if it is desired to do something for them,
%j& For a coniplv_-te set of the Coxmbrcial and Financial Chronicle—
July, \*6i, to data— or of Hunt's Merchants' Masazine, liUS to lull. Inquire
a much more appropriate and effectual method, as well
at the olHce.
as one free from objections, would be to simply abolish
^SBT The Bnsiness Department of the Chronicle is represented among
the tax on deposits, which yielded in 1877 nearly as
Financial Interests In New York City by Mr. Fred. W. Jones.
much as 4 per cent on a 100 million reserve would bring.
THE INTEGRITY OF BANKING RESERVES. This relief, moreover, would be felt by every bank,
The current opinion that no further attempts at cur- whereas very few of them would consent to use the perrency legishition will be successful during the present mission of this bill.
"ssion of Congress has been so strongly justified during
Reserve is a guaranty, maintained at expense, and
the past week by the failure of several efforts to intro- that expense is a part of the cost of banking.
Its necesduce new bills in the House, under a parliamentary sity is conceded and, that being the fact, any step which
requirement of a two-thirds vote, that fear on this may impair its efiiciency by lowering its quality may
particular account may be considered at an end.
The work an injury only second to reducing its amount or
Still, it

;

Senate had aire idy plainly shown a determination to
oncede no further experiments, at least until a consid-

it altogether.
Tho truth of this is seen by
simply remembering what are reserves, and for what
purpose they are required. In military affairs it is

abolishing

i-able trial has been given the Silver bill; and now it
appears that the House has taken a similar ponition. the most effective portion of the army ; this is kept
Bu'^iness circles will felicitate themselves upon this rest unused and is brought up at the critical moment, to
from agitation. Our legislative bodies, of late years, save the day ; the samej thonght applies in banking,
•

are so

much

something which is best suited and kept for emergencies.
Unless reserve will be effectual in tho emergency, it
A bill, however, was introduced in the House on the might as well not be kept ; but, of course, the sort of
14th, and has obtained tho approval of the Committee value which obtains acceptance in ordinary ciroumstances
on Banking and Currency, which is so radically wrong is not good enough. It must be the choicest and best;
of the nature of irritants that often their

most soothing act

is

their adjournment.

THE CHRONICLE.

302

and ultimate value be greater than that
must possess a greater present acceptit must be what everybody wants at just that
The value of ready money, and the general fren-

whether

its real

of other assets,
ability

time.

it

—

zied rush for

it

the fact that

in a panic, consist in

its

LVoL. XXVI.

"The Northern
why should not

railroad

was helped by (he Government:

the Southern road, in like manner, be
helped?" Such is the brief but effective argument which

quickly oversets every sentiment of economy, of policy,
of principle.

We do not wonder, however, at the prevalence and
any power of some such idea. It is perfectly natural for one
when a man, in panic time, gets section to desire governmental assistance, in the develophold of it, he is satisfied. The fear of not being able to ment of its resources, similar to that extended to another
get it constitutes the pan'c; hence, getting it, cools section and if it is right in the one case, it is right in
down the panic. There is no excuse for disregarding every other. But it should be remembered that it was
Bonds are good, during the war that the Pacific Railroad Act was passed,
this fact, which is known beforehand.
particularly government bonds; but they are no' the and it was only justified at that time on the claim of its
because everybody being a military necessity. Very many opposed it even
thing just then in a panic time
Hence, a pLan to do away wiih then but that was a period when our Constitution was
wants money.
the money reserve, which everybody rushes for found to be, or made to be, quite elastic, and many
when reserve is needed, in favor of what is ordi- things were winked at which would not bear the light
narily go "d but becomes unavailable the moment it is to day; nor can they f;iirly be used as precedents for
most sharply wanted, is as fatuitous as it would be to present action. We hold that Congress has no right,
possession ends

all

and is not subject
form of security

questions;

it

has not got to be sold,

to fluctuations, as is the case with

;

;

—

—

;

sail and diminish draught, for the sake of speed. under our Constitution, to subsidize a railroad, bolsterUnless the reserve kept is to be the sort which is ing up private enterprises by guaranteeing bonds or
wanted, the pretense of keeping any is idle; in fact, the lending money or credit In any form; and this was
bill in question, instead of bting entitled "a bi.l regu- always the prevailing opinion among our best statesmen
lating the reserve fund of national banks" should be in the attewar period, not a few of whom came from
For such it really is. the Souih, To repea'. the objections urged to a contrary
entitled " a bill to abolish" them.

increase

and carried out by the voluntary action of the policy seems almost a primer exercise. Besides, repetibanks, there will be no legal reserves remaining, and, so tion is especially unnecessary now, with such recent
far as compulsion of law affects the matter, the fright- illustrations of the aggressiveness in the assumption of
ened depositor who demands his money may be told that power and of the corruption which always accompanies
*'
Certainly no
there is iio money on hand, but we can give you some the stretching of constitutional limits.
Surely Congress cannot intend to part of the country has suffered more, from a loose
excellent bonds."
produce such results.
interpretation of the Constitution, or is more interested
in the recovery of the old landmarks, thau the South
If passed

THE TEXAS PACIFIC SUBSIDY.

We

have la ely been looking over a series of maps
These illustraissued by the Texas Pacific Railioad.
tions show how thoroughly tlie conductors of tbat
enterprise have become possessed with the idea of the
In
efficacy of pictures for influencing men's minds.
examining the maps, we have e.\perienced great pleasure,
One of
and, we must admit also, some little amusement.
them makes St. Louis almost in a direct lin- with San
Diego, through the St. Louis & Iron Mountain road.

itself.

—

But passing by such considerations why should the
South e.xpect any special benefit from this road, pressed
as it is by the head of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
To be sure the maps (object-teaching) we have referred
to above indicate that there must be, and look with their
if there might be some benefits;
but as there are so many maps, the teaching finally
becomes quite diffusive and hence rather impersonalTexas will be opened up to a certain extent but that must

red and blue streaks as

;

anyway, for it is a State growing so
own development forces railroad growth;
Another and besides she is sure to get it in a better form by

In looking at it, a friend innocently questioned its come soon
accuracy, never having supposed that St. Louis was ou rapidly, its
or near the thirty-second parallel of latitude.
map of the series, however, relieved this friend's mind,

another corporation, as

for there he found that Cairo, Louisville and Cincinnati

giving

had arranged themselves on the sme old line, and St.
Louis was put off one side. Going deeper still into our
collection, another map gave us Memphis, Little Rock
»nd Norfolk toeing the mark with the precision of a

any

company of infantry; but this time
and Cincinnati were all decidedly

St.

Louis, Louisville

away

principle.

new road
of the

will

Texas

we

shall

soon

see,

without the

and without the sacrifice of
Aside from the Western half of Texas no
be opened in any State under the auspices

of public credit

Pacific, except as

may

be necessary to make

an air line to the Pennsylvania organization of roads;
and when St. Louis spends its money in manufacturing

In the public opinion by public meetings in favor of Mr. Scott's
next maj) Shreveport, Vicksburg and Savannah have little scheme, unless her people get some of the bonds,
risen up into the places just occupied by Little Rock, they are spending their money for that which profiteth
Memphis and Norfolk; while in the last map of all, not. lie will no more direct his enterprise to St. Louis
New Orleans has become the objective point, and appar- than he will to New Orleans or Galveston,
Then again, if it is desirable to build the road, why
ently the only point worth considering in the building
should the Government be called on to pay Mr. Scott and
of this new Pacific railroad.
What is all this for ? Why, clearly enougl>. Congress- his friends so much money for doing a woik anyone would
off stations.

A blue streak

running direct- be glad to undertake for a less consideration. In addition to a land grant of 18,000,000 acres, they modestly
for manufacturing p iblic opinion in Missouri; and as the ask for a guaranty by the Government of twenty-five
road is not to cost anyone anything, the unbidden thousand dollars per mile for the easier and fortj thou-

men's votes were wanted.

ly from San Diego to St. Louis

is

a wonderful instrument

thought is, why not tell our Congressmen to vote for
In the same way, Tennessee, Arkansas,
the bonds?
Mississippi and Louisiana are captured, until the cry
becomes a Southern one, and the question sectional.

sand dollars for the heavier portions of the road. As in
it cannot honestly cost so much to build it,
what possible excuse can be made for so loosely and

these times

lavishly voting

away

the public credit

?

Could there

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THE CHRONICLR

so, 1878.1

303

be any better illustration of the viciousness of the whole
made too
Bubsitly system than this very proposition,
even before the scandals with regard to the Union

disadvantageous to the Southern Road. Besides, the
p rlion between Arizona and San Francisco is already

Pacific have lost their freshness?

many

But

this

proposition of the Texas Pacific

is

coupled

comwith the further peculiar feature, that another
work
same
tiie
to
do
offers
Pacific,
pany, the Southern
without any guaranty or any subsidy except the land
trraut.

As our

readers are aware, the Southern Pacific

a Califor ia corporation of good credit, with about
720 miles of road already built to the southwesterly

is

corner of the Territory of Arizona, wheie it was to form
It has
a connection with the proposed Texas Pacific.
seeking
is
but
never asked for any Government guaranty,

and

built

in

the hands of this management, and for

for the Texas Pacific
must come over their road from San Francisco, as it
will take time to build up a trade through San Diego.
Hence, if there is any connection between the Southern
and the Central Pacific, they have the ability already,
if they had the will, to block in large part the movement
over the Texas Pacific, by whomsoever built. Does not
this power therefore even now have control of the road's
future business ? San Diego will grow into a command-

years most of the business

ing position with regard to the trade of the Pacific coast

—

any other port grows in importance very slowly
and until that end is attained, San Franwe repeat, must be the objective point in the West,

just as

simply with its own money to obtain an outlet through
It has reached a point wliere
the Southern States.

for a long time;

it expected to find the other road constructed, and finds
instead no road and no movement to build any, for that

and the Southern Pacific the feeder.
We have not room to pursue this subject

other road, having spent all it could beg or borrow, like
many individuals and corporations similarly situated,

is

has betaken

itself to

Washington

as its headquarters

and

lobbying as its business. Why should there be any hesitation between two such applicants and two such propositions. On the one side we have a company of good credit,

cisco,

further.

It

one of so much importance that we give up considerable space to-day to a reproduction of the minority
reports made by the Congressional committee having the
matter in charge. Any one who wishes to act wisely
upin the subject should study them closely.

CHOICE RAILROAD BONDS.
which has shown its good faith by building up to the
connec
subscriber
of the Chronicle, resident in Switzerneeding
the
absolutely
charter,
its
limit
of
very
tion through Texas to utilize what it has already built, land, in renewing his subscription, requests the publishers
and offering to make the connection if only the right of to "underscore on the Ciironicle quotations first
way and the land grant will be turned over to it. On the " mortgage railroad bonds perfectly safe, paying an
other hand we have a corporation with very poor credit, " actual interest of 6 and 7 per cent." This request
possessing for years the right of way and land grant, yet made with all sincerity and, in fact, a litt'e naivete, is so
failing to fulfil its part of the contract, and now admit- exceedingly comprehensive in its scope, that the oldest
ting itself to be so involved that it cannot do it unless it and most experienced dealer in railroad securities would
hesitate to undertake the task of complying with it.
is guaranteed more money than would cover the whole
Truly, our Congressmen will have The rate per cent of interest which a given stock or
cost of construction.
easily deterto be in a desperate condition indeed when they are able bond will yield at current prices, is
to find arguments strong enough to lead them to vote mined by the table for investors published in our annual
under such conditions for a subsidy of about forty Financial Review; but to ascertain what bonds are
millions of dollars.
safe for a permanent investment is a point which
But one argument is urged against the Southern Pacific purchasers have always been endeavoring to solve, and
which may, and undoubtedly doe?, have some influence; have never yet been able to with complete success. Let
that the road is owned by or under the direc- us see, however, if we cannot in some measure answer
it is this
Central P.acific. The truth of this assertion this inquiry by showing what test can be applied by the
the
tion of
is denied; granting however that it is as stated, why is average investor which will enable him to form an intelRemember that the issue is between ligent opinion.
it not desirable ?
the Pennsylvania Company's management and the CenThe experience furnished by the past ten years, with
remember also that the former a careful observation of the various causes which have
tral Pacific management
company has just had a meeting in Philadelphia, at led to the numerous defaults in railroad bonds, leads us
which the President acknowledged that his management to the conclusion that a solution of this question
had been a failure, and the meeting ended by a forced can only be reached through an examination of the net
borrowing of money from his stockholders at 4 per cent, earnings and their relation to the charges upon the road.
as the only chance of getting his company out of the This point is so essential that it is almost a truism, and

A

—

;

scrape; starting with a magnificent property, such

condition

we

find

Central Pacific

it

lias

On

is

the

yet great prominence

is

often given by

many

to other

hand the features which are, comparatively, of little moment,
been most wisely directed a new such as the amount of bonds issued per mile, the

in to-day.

the other

—

and untried work of unsurpassed

and yet guaranty of another substantial corporation, the large
gross earnings per mile, and various other consideraested in a southern Pacific road would rejoice if the men tions commonly urged as furnishing an assurance of
who have done so well, could on fair terms be prevailed safety; all of them, however, have proved inferior to,
upon to take hold of their new enterprise, for, in that and in fact of little moment compared with the simple
case, great confidence might be felt in its successful test of the amount of surplus net earnings for a serieg
issue.
Nor need we fear that the Central Pacific in of years over and above all the necessary annual charges,
their hands would act as a rival or adverse interest. including interest.

successfully executed;

we should

difficulties,

think everyone inter-

The Central is only 742 miles long, and this new route
will be more than twice that length, and if there is
to be a rivalry, the greater favor would necessarily be
shown the longer line; in this case they would own the

Such

a,

this

single standard as furnishing the only

list

upon which

to

make up any general

of railroad bonds that arc probably safe, a table has

been prepared and is published in the Investors' Supplement, showing those bonds on which the interest has
rivalry as that could never bo been earned in any or all of the past three years, with

whole, while in the other the Union Pacific owns the
larger share.

Taking

practicable basis

.

THE CHRONICLE.

304

XXVI

[Vol.

a clear surplus balance in net earnings, over and above
the annual interest charge, of 25 per cent. The earn-

tatfst fllonetarg anb Commercial

ings are given for the particular road, or section of

RITRS OF BVCHANOB AT LOIVDON AND ON LONDOIf
AT LATEST DATBS.

upon which the bonds are secured, whenever they
can be so obtained, although it is obvious that in the case

road,

of

many

BXCHANOB AT LONDONMARCH 15.

consolidate! lines, such as Central Pacific or

Chicago & Northwestern, the earnings of each section
of road cannot be separately furnished, and when the
surplus

large

is

it is

hardly necessary for our purposes
The basis of 75 per cent of net

that they should be.

earnings as a
is

minimum

to secure the

assumed as a purely arbitrary

payment of

interest

i-tandard, on the supposi-

that roads which, during the recent unfavorable

tion

more than

years, have earned 25 per cent

sufficient to

ON—

TIHS.

Paris
Paris
Berlin

Amsterdam
An'werp
Vienna

ass .35

iO.65

@20.5»

Var.

15.

io.s5
20.55

asoso

Mar.
Mar.

15.
15.

'*

months.
*'

be likely hereafter to earn
less than enough to pay the same.
Qenoa
From these explanations it will be understood that Naples
Vew Vork ....
lease! railroads, on whose bonds the interest has been Eio de Janeiio,
Pernamhuco...
regularly paid by the lessee, but not actually earned on Buenos Ayres.
all

their interest, will not

nor can those roads be
included from which no statements of earnings are ever
received, even in annual reports, however prosperous
are not included;

the road,

they

may

be; but the securities of this latter class can

12.15

"

access to the books of the company.

The table will be continued from month to month in the
Investoes' Supplement, the roads being given in
alphabetical
order.
But while this statement is
presented

number
safe,

a

as

of

general

railroad

classification

bonds

which

of

ought

a

large
to

be

on the single standard of adequate net earnings of

their respective properties,

it is

far

the publishers to intimate that

from the intention of
these bonds are a

all

desir ible purchase, or, on the other hand, that these are

the only safe bonds.
considered

There may be other questions to be
to mort-

— pending litigations, uncertainty as

gage provisions,

peculiarities in the

form of the bonds,

the possibility of floating debts being pressed ahead of

mortgage bonds, the fact that bonds have no place on
any public Stock Exchange, and various other points are
The
all matters to be considered in making a purchase.
list is

furnished rather as a suggestion to investors, with

©12.20

«oJ<f@i53i

*'

SATB.

short

S5

short.
3 mos.

20.41
20.11
li.l2

short
*'

iliT. 15.

H

2D. 41

47>i(a4~K

Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.

15.
15.

Mar.

15.

short.

Mar.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Feb.
Mar.

15

60 days.
93 days.

short.
3 mos.

25.18
119.30

"

12,

86 1-16
47.91

13.

<*

90 days.
S

51Ji@5J

months. 81.80
*•

..

27.80

@«.85

.

Mauri'lus

Bomoay

It.SHd.
U. »H(iU. 8Jid.

30 days.
•*

Calcutta
Hodj; Eong...

"
"

Shanghai
Batavia
AleXAUdris

3«.
B».

iT.25

©27.85

....

10i,d.

3Yd-

....

hardly be wanted by the outside investor, and they
should be held entirely by directors and their friends

who have

TUtB.

l-2.3Ji@lJ.4Ji

S5.35>i@i5.37J«

*'

Petersborg
Madrid
Cadiz
Lisbon

©£0.59

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short.
.3

.

LATEST
DATB.

monthti. 55.30
*'

Hambnrf!
Frankfort ...
Araster'am ...

Netof

EXCHANGE ON LONDON.

Mar. 15

short.
i

St.

pay

KATK.

(Jixglia!)

9.

4. to

24X
Si@24H
tox

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IFrom our own correspondent.]

London, Saturday, March
Another week of

16, 1878.

has been passed, and it is
still regarded as doubtful if th? Congress assembles at BerlinThe proposal of the Eoglish Government to admit Greece is causing some delay, and it is even said that Russia objects to the new
suggestion, as well as to the submission of all arrangements
between her.self and Turkey to the Congress. Today, however,
some reports have been current to the efiect that Russia will
withdraw her objections, assuming them to have been put forward but, unfortunately, since the fall of Plevna and the collapse
of Turkey in Europe, tliere has been so much prevarication on the
part of the Russian Government, that the British public, as well
There
as that of tbe Continent, does not know what to believe.
is, nevertheless, still a hope that the end will be peace; but it is
difficult to assign adequate reason for believing in such a r- suit.
If the saying be true that, to preserve peace, a country should be
prepared for war, then peace should be a certainty, as never were
our preparations or those of other countries on so vast a scale as
they are at the present tinie. These political uncertainties, however, which are of a very grave character, are not only checking
any improvement in o-jr trade, but are, it is believed, producing
considerable anxiety, and, in many districts, much distress. During the greater part of last year, manufacturers wrre large buypolitical anxiety

;

which they may go to reliable and well-informed
brokers, and under their advice, select bonds issued by ers of raw materials, and were producers of large quantities of
railroads that will, in all prob bility, be good for both the goods. Owing to the limited export inquiry, the stocks of goods
but as the cost of manufacture bad been small,
accumulated
Interest and principal of their obligations.
;

St. Louis & Southeasteriii— la Louiaville, Ky,, March 27. 'he
United States Circait Court granted a decree againRt the Kentucky division, formerly tbe Evansville Henderson & Nashville
Bead. The decree provides that tlxe road shall be sold to satisfy
the first mortgage for $998,000, unless all arrears are paid up by
October 1.

Western Union Telegrapli— Atiantic & raciflc— The
Tribune says that the managers of the Western Union Telegraph
decline to pay any more money to the Atlantic & Pacific
Company, in settlement of ba'ianceg due under the pooling agreement.'until the suit of Mr. Benedict against the Western Union to
cancel the compact is decided. The balance on December account.was paid by the Western Uninu a day or two before the Benedict
suit was brought, and no paymeots have since been made.
It was proposed tbit the Western Union should loan the
Atlantic & Pacific the amount due on the January account (a little
over $40,000), as the latter company was in need of funds. A difference arose as to the security for such a loan, but tlie officers
stated that there was little doubt that the matter would be satisfactorily settled, and in such a way as to furnish the Atlantic &
Pacific with the money required.
The case was before Judj?e Lawrence this week.

Company

United Companies of New Jersey.— Bordentown, N. J.,
March 37. Tlie suit of Dr. H. H. Longstreet, of Bordentown,

—

who opposed

the leasing of the United Railroads of New
Jersey to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has been amicably settled in tbe Court of Chancery. The suit was beauu in

N.

J.,

1871.

producers naturally expected that with a terminaki./n to tbe war,
an active export inquiry would arise. And it was never expected
when Plevna fell, that three months would ebipse without anyofficial becoming known with rt^gari to tbi terms of peace,
and with many difficulties cropping up with reference to tbe
meeting of a Congress. What appeared, therefore, to be a sound
and legitimate speculation, calculated to yield a liberal profit, is
being shorn of all advantage, as the goods are remaining too long

thing

on hand. There are many who believe that our trade is in
by no means so sound a condition as it was, and they are preparing themselves for numerous failures. The failures reported
from the United States do not, of course, improve matters and
the only hope of an improvement can at tiie moment arise out of
the establishment of a durable peace. It ia, hnwever, some satis;

faction to be able to announce that the agricultural prospect ia
more than usually encouraging. The weather is now cold and
dry, and sniing sowing is progressing rapidly under most favor-

A good harv<?st will prove to be a great boon to
and Continental reports are equally satisfactory.

able conditions.
this country,

Grave and threatening as is the present position of afiairs, there
yet be a sudden change from the existing depression to com-

may

parative,

The

if

not actual, prosperity.

directors of the

Bank of England have made no change
The directors of the Bank now hold

in their rates of discount.

large supplies of public money, for which they pay no interest,
and the open market supply of floating capital having been

.

March

reduced ia propirtlon. ibe Bank bns

money market, and

ia

now

now

likely to exercise

of the shares (parchased at 90 per cent of their par value) of the Syracuse Utnghamton Si New York Railroad Company.
The amount autlior'zed by the mortgage is 2,.'S00,000 dols., of
which 1,750,000 dols. are issued for thH purposes above named;
270,100 dols. are reserved lor the payment of the outstanding
mortgage due in 1887, making a total issue of les*< than 25,0(^
dols, per mllo of main line.
No part of the remaining 479,900
dol^. can be issued except for permanent improvements.
The company has no floating debt. lis share capital is 3,004,000 dols.
The gross earnings of the company for the ten vears ending Ist

There is no doubt tbat had there been more
commercial demand tor money and a larger inquiry for gold for
exportation, an advance in the Bank rate would have been made
Trade, however, is so slack tbat the supply of merthis week.
cantile billa i* very limited, with still no prospect of increase,
while the demand for gold for export is far from pressing. In

week the money market was decidedly firm
and no accommodation was procurable under the Bank
but latterly a somewhat easier tone hag been apparent, and

Ihe early port of Ihe
in tone,

the quotations are

now

Opea-market rates
SO and eoijyx' Mill
J months' bills

,

I

IK®>

Wm

Per ceni

bank bills
6mantbs' bauk bills
4 and 6 montba' trade bills.
4

I

uiuntbs'

2'^(a>iX
ilU'^ifi
a>«Q!|

yield fully 7 per cent.

'•

Payment under discount can be made
annum.

by the joint-Btock banks and

interest allowed

rates of

dUcount houses

Open-marKet raws:

I

3

rate.

The

October, 1877, were 6,009,0:9 dols. net earnings. 2,025,108 dols.,
and the total amount of interest upon the bonded debt for the
same period w»s 1,100,279 dols., showing an excess of net earnings of 328,880 dots., or about seventy per cent more than the
amount required for the interest charge.
At the present rate of exchange on New York, the bonds will

as under.
Per ceot.

Bank

for deposits are subjoined

Professor

Per cent.

—

at

any time

at the rate of

4 per cent per

:

JolntstocK banks
DIecoant honrc^ at call
Dlaconnthoufes with 7 (lays' notice
Discount houses with 14 days' notice

305

Company, which company owns a majority

the control of ihe
until tiie dividends

it

tre paid in April.

rate,

:;

THE CHRONICLE.

1878. j

30,

—

.

Wagner

publishes a statement, compiled from the

returns of the Imperial Statistical OfHce, showing that since the

1
1

termination of the French war the balance of trade has been against
Germany to the following amounts: In 1872, .£4",0C0,000 sterl-

IJi
l^i

Annexed is a stateiiient showing the present position of the
Bank of England, the Bank rate of discount, the price of Consols,

ing

the avorago quotation for English wheat, the price of Middling

allowing for interest and possible errors, leaves Germany with an
excess of imports of at least £200,000.000. which is equal to the

Upland

Mule twist, fair second quality, and
House return, compared with the four

cotton, of No. 40*8

the Bankers' Clearlngf

entire

1875.
1S75.

1S74.

Circnlatlon— inclnding
£
M,487,S4»
bank post bliU
IO.10C.20J
Public deposits
Other deposits...
n,585,457

Other sccurlilei
Kc^crve of notes and

£

£

£

a6,63a,>!6
I0.01J.1B7

26,9;6,5n

17,'j02,470

19,694,5-!7
13,«b:),J15

2T,S}3.505
8,6^5,941
2i,i89.1al

18.B0B,S87
20,871,511

l<),.$10.b6J

Sl,805,85»

ll,312.4fO
•ii,896,li57
1

l.'S.«98.5i-a

19,103,570

IC,583,08i

1J,803,9:5

14,441,048

12,7-5I,4J9

2l,I3I,10(

iS,937,465

26,499,233

2),(23,274

46-21
c.

37 50
2 P.O.

488. 8d.

51s. -Id.

tOs. 2d.

6Xd.

6«d.

6)id.

lid.
IQSid.
return. 128,891,000 I3.J,33J,0C0 116,419,000 10J,2(,5,000

lOd.
90,02S,000

tollablJlIles

Clcarinj:

...

3>< p. c.
i2<^
60?. 8d.
8>id.

4p.

3>^ p. c.
935^

c.

2 p.

7,'id.
1'.

;

048,

and

its

amount

of the

war indemnity exacted from France.

In thi«

and commercial authorities, are gloomier than ever. These
mainly accounting for this Govern,
meni's profound anxiety to further the achievement of peace.
In the grain trade there is a great want of activity, acd prices
are again lower. English supplies are insignificant, but there is
no deficiency of foreign produce. During the last two days
holders have, perhaps, been ratlier firmer in their demands, but
buyers operate with extreme caution.
During the week ended March 9 the sales of hom'j-grown wheat
in the 150 principal markets of England and Wales amounted
to 35,747 quarters, against 42,370 quarters last year; and it is
estimated that in the whole kingdom they were 143,000

There has been a moderate demand for gold for export, and in
the absence of adequate supplies from abroad, a few parcels have
been purchased at the Bank of England but the supply held by
that establishment still amounts to £'24,428,374, being £3,000,000
less than in 1877.

£03,000,000

facts deserve consideration as

95>.'

94,'i

lis. 4d.

Is. lj<d.

House

1875,

cial
13,06i,051

2d quality

;

productive industry, and this year's prospects, accordinc to finan-

',5.56,187

24,C01.8S5

Coin & bulliDD In both
departments
J^llO.saO
Proportion of reserve

itid. I'pland cotton...
No. 40'» mule twistffair

1874, £04,500,000

;

being completed. The excess of imports would probably be between £70,000,000 and £80,000,000 sterling, as last year was an
exceptionally bad one for German manuiaciures in all branches of

187?.

1877.

1876.

£
45,859.583
8,0.S9,411
C0.S9,411

Gi>VLTnment»ec.irltlee. 13,3I«.r.21

Bank-rate
Consols
Kn:,'lish whcat.av.price

£72,7.50.000

estimate the results of 1877 are not included, the returns not yet

previous years:

coin

1873,

;

1876, £71.500.000; total in five years, £319,000,000 sterling, which,

The reserve

quarters,

£12,754,429, against £14,441,.

is

in

proportion to the liabilities of the establishment

the

1.50

against

Since

170,000 quarters.

harvest, the sales

principal markets have been 1,219,902 quarters, against

while they are computed to have been in the
1,334,098 quarters
whole kingdom 4,879,000 quarters, against 5,388,700 quarters
lathe corresponding period of last season. Without reckoning
;

amounts

Owing

to

37'50 per cent.

In silver, very little has been doing.

the increase to £500.000 in the weekly sales of India

to

Council drafts, ibis week's steamer for the East left without any
Germany, however, is not a seller, and, although
silver on board.

the supplies furnished ex-granary.

It

is

estimated that the fol-

lowing quantities of wheat and flour have been placed upon the
British markets since harvest:

little bupinefs has been done, the market is tolerably steady
54i@54fd. per ounce. It is understood that about £180,000
has been purchased for New York, aad, naturally, that
operation has given a better tone to the market. It is believed
that the Indian Government will continue to sell £500.000 in
Council drafts weekly during the remainder of the financial year

very
at

Annexed are the current

rates

1877-8.

Imports of wheat
Imports of flour
bialesof

Total
.
Kxports of wheat and flour.

of discount at the principal

foreign markets:
rate.

P.C.

Pans
Amsterdam.

3

Berlin

4

Frankfort
Leipzig

mark't.

Bank Open

p. c.

Genoa
Geneva

Trieste...

4

4

NcwYork.

5
3

Copenhagen

2%

Bruesele....

VIennsand

Madrid, Cadiz and Barcelona
Lisbon and Oporto..
St. Petersburg

av

4

..

rate,
p.

1

I

..

..

The following

c p. c.
4X 3«(a4
5

4X

2J^

4Ji®5

,708,307

l.C«2,043

t)7J,72l

131,3:ij

66,461,199
198,018

56,J7e,175

46,S6I,591

53.573,982

66,216,081

.

The

53). 3i.

show

is

£'300

Barley

7,8l-0,76«

Oate
Peas
Beans
Indian
Floor

6,l!09,n6
973,544
2,191,943
15,931,171
4,665,313

45s. 9d.

44s. 2d.

Com

....

187fi-7.
19,1,90,9*4

7,5s7,'«»
6,404, ;06
: 61.879
2,406,035
16,609.696
S,11 1,888

1875-6.
31,913.583
5,4^9,420
5,877,7!»4

9U,0I7
!,()86.19J

11,487,5)2
8,7:5,721

1874-5.
20,013,946
S.9JI,»J«
4,679,694
986.S90
1,!56,86S
7,586,756
4,t08,18J

XZPC)BTS.
iVheat
8«rle>

CWI.

Oats
Peas

for |1,000 bond,

1,025,961

(.03.930

I«,tOO

3i,W7

18.823
70,555
16,938
16,766
£69,145
20,741

16,206
156,990
17,813
4,915
25,624
12,125

f.8,0S',

14,6«7
11.5)6
75,530

Beans

£10 per bond being payable on allotment, and the balance

The prospectus savs

Id.

ixroBTs.

I

price of issue

49.^.

the imports and exports of cereal

cwi. 31,629,905

Rose & Co. have issued the prospectus this week of a 7 per
first consolidated mortgage loan for |1,750,000 of the Syracuse Binghamton & New York Railroad Company, principal nud
interest being guaranteed by the Delaware Lackawanna & Western

15.

46.836.312

1877-8.

4>4^

ton,

on April

4^2,043,000

..57.«0,2!8

Calcutta

cent

Railroad Company.

3.7.'5,ia4

aS,059,300

4^5

Notwithstanding the anxiety which prevails in the public mind
regarding their inveslments in American securities, Messrs. Mor

or par,

•3,in,:lj8

21,014,000

31,913.233

produce into and from the United Kingdom since harvest, viz.
from the 1st of September to the close of last week, compared
with the corresponding periods in the three previous years:

6®7

.

figures

1874-6.

4,6tj5,')li

Aver, price of Enir. wheat for season

mark't.

1875-6.

..21.115,000

Result

Bank Open

namburg

cwt.
t'>.690,'J24

..

home-grown produce..

18T6-7.

cwt.
31,J29,9&5

20.012,946
4.oo8,iai

.

Floor

36,03-J

!59,461
16S,C80
88.913
14,918
1,13a
S3,

an

S9.01«

:

There bonds which were issued to replace 1,400,000 dols. of 20year bonds which matured and were (with the exception of 99, -500
dols., which have not yet been presented for payjient) paid in 1870.
and lo provide for additional equipment, are secured by a firet
mortgage upon the 81 miles of road from Syracuse to Binghamton, New York, its franchises and equipment, subject only to an
existing lien of 270,100 dols., and are also guaranteed— principal
and interest— by the Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad

In reference to the public sales of colonial
reps,

i

Messrs. Windeler

& Bowes

wool now

in prog-

report:

The colonial wool auctions opened onthe2Cth ult. with a large
attendance of buyers, and, as we had anticipated, all sound staple
wools were in strong request, fully on a par with last December
This position
rates, while clothing wools were not in equal favor.
gained further strength as the sales ha ve progressed with at times
a fractional advance; during the past week the rates have been
.

H

.

:

,

:

THE CHUONICLE.

ao6

[Vol,.

XXVL

will show the exports ot specie from the port of
the week ending Mar. 23. 1878, and also a comparieon of the total since Jan. 1, 1878, with the corresponding
totals for several previous years

The following

fairly maintained; tbere is, however, little in the state of trade to
warrant the activity here, and as advices from the continental and

New York

centres do not show that those markets have
loUowed the movement here, it is possible that after consumers
have replenished their stocks somewhat of a reaction may set ia.
Tbe (luantiiies catalogued to date amount to 100,322 bales, leav-

home minu'acturiDg

13— Str.
80— Str.
20— Str.
23— Sir.

Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.

ing about 150,000 bales still to come forward; it is probable that
the series will terminate earlier than the 9tU April, the date first
The selection has comprised a good assortment of new clip
fixed.
Australian, with a larger share of last season's scoured wools than
Bubpequent catalogues will probably bring forward. The proportion ot unwasbed has increased, and although some of the best
flocks are remarkably lijtht in grease, the condition in general
varies considerably, and many clips show the effects ot the drought
in a weaknes and poverty of staple; but the prevalence of burr is
certainly lees than in last season's wools.
Cape wools (U not attract the same attention as the deeper-grown
Fleece washed are scarce
claf ses of wool and are relatively cheap.
and do not show much alteration in price good to superior snow
whites are also fairly supported, but extra parcels and ordinary
lots si;ll fractionally below last December rates.

for

Bermuda

Porto Cabello. ...Foreign

Panhia..

Liverpool

Columbus
Weser

Havana

ijold coin.
silver bara.

$3,000

Foreign gold coir.
Southampton.. ..Amer. silver bars.

9.3,600

Amor,

17,100

55,000

Total for the week
PreviouBly reported

$168,700
2,438,837

Total since Jan. 1,1878

$2,601,527

Same time in—

Same time In—
1877
1876
1875
1374
1373
1372

$1,343,006

1871

11.530,969
16,236.316
7.979,013

1870
1869
1868
1867
1856

14.35-.',316

5,2i2,58:

The imports

$11,131,817
6.582,314
8,79T,0!T

14724,399
t.613,641
5.368,304

of specie at this port during the

same periods have

;

been as follows
Mar. 18— Str. Crescent City
:

.Foreign silver...

Aepinwall

Amer.
/>

8u;<ll«U TlurKet Keporta— Per Cable.
The daily closia;? quotations in the markets ol London and Liverpool for the past week have been reported by cable, as shown in
the following summary:
London Money and Stock Market. The directors of the Bank

Silver bars

"
accoant.. 95>i
D.8.«f (6-S06) 1867.... 10-

vnH
WtH

Ne»4XB

107%

lf6'/4

105

irs

lOJji

103^

10V4

im%

— see special
d

"

(C.

White

(r.ew

W.

clut))...

mix.)

Pea! (Cansdlan)

9

•'

6
9 7
10 10

..

Pork (W't. mess)... .¥ bbl
Bacond'gcl. in.).... ipcwt
"
Lird (American)
Caee§e(Am. anel... "

11

3

S5
36

36

Hon.

51
27

51
27
37
66

3

37
66

cwt.

"

fl za!

spirits)

Tallow(prlmeCity)..» cwt
Solrlt* toroentlne..
Clover8eed(4mer. rod)

.

Mon.

Lina'dc'ke(obl).»ti. 8

Unseed

$ quar.
ycwt

(Cat.)

£.

d.

B

B.

SO

S5
3b

3

••

6

11
11

"
"
"

3

it)

"

£6

Whaleoll

2)

83

3

»tnD..71
" .tS

74
85
26

Linseed 011....V ton 86

S

3

6ti6,909
..,

8.

Frl,

d.

c

I",

81
51

81
51

87

87

Tnai.

d.

d.

10

lOX
25

7

lOJi
7

V

V

31

39
85
40

40

rrt.
d.

-iS

d.

83
71
35
26 5

week

at the Sub- Treasury

—

Receipts.

,

Wed.
Thar.
£ 8. d. £ 8. d.
15

SO
23

ft

71
35
10

6
b

29.

—

Company is to pay at the rate of $50,000 per annum.
The business for the year ol 1877 is reported as follows
Earnings for year
Operating expenses

^i'^v^'Hln
3 X,U0 ,919

$158,881
S».403

ConBirnction
Irapiovementa

Frl.

£

B.

8 15

23

2.3

28 18

-4
35
26 10

Actual net

50

*''2;;?'Si
bJ1,4Js

Fixed charges
6

$168,900

Surplus

are given as the earnings and expenses of January and February ol this year as compared with the same
months of 1877:

Tbe following

n

1877.

Operating expenses

$650,019
564,479

Netearnlnjs

$35,530

firo=a earninga

—

Imports and Exports for thb Wbbk. The imoorts last
week showed an increase in both dry goods and general

The total imports were f0,893,801 against
10,770,024 the preceding week and f 6,(508,083 two weeks previous.
The exports for the week ended Mar. 20 amounted to
16,043,985, against ^8,104,874 last week and '{0,438,220 the previoui week. The exports of cotton for the week ending Mar. 27
were 13,354 bales, against 13,701 bales the week before. The following are^lbe Imports at New York tor week ending (foi drj
goods) Mar. 21 and for the week ending (for general merchandise) Mar. 22:
TOREioN luponra at new tork fob the week.
merchandise.

1875.

1875.

1877.

$1,958,0n

$2,0.7,327
3,533,255

$1.9tii,801
5 691,47)

$1,912,845
4,950,956

1878,

General merchandise...

6,168,930

Total for the week.
Previously reported, ..

$7.1 ',0.'9
8»,001,6;i

1,5,610,582

$7,633,871

71.137,612

63,849,7 i4

$6,893,601
63,303,471

t89,:3t,700

$79.798 214

J76,187,995

$70,802,072

,

Since Jan.

1

The following
from
Mar.

2

a statement of the exports (exclusive of specie)
the port of New York to foreign ports for the week endins
is

26:

BXP0ET8 PROM HEW YORK POE TUE WEEK.

Fortheweek
Previously reported....

BlnceJan.

1

„.,,„.
o "."<o

ai,auo—

d.

(EJommerctal an^ M\\5Ct\lanto\is Neius.

DrygoodB

-^

$1,354,994

8 15
60

74
35

Payments.

28.

Taxes and insurance

8

.

have been

40

—

8.

1.796,025
477,310

561,214

The company's interest, rentals, &c., in fixed charges,
and 1878, ou 649 miles of road, including the Hannibal
& Naples leased line are given at 1891,498 in 1877, against
$1,349,303 for the present year. The debt to the equipment
company is the balance due that company for cars, the original
By agreement this was
contract amounting to $1,000,000.
reductd to §.jOO,COO, the principal of which the Wabash Kailway

5
10

lOK

-•w

39

8.

5
10

5

6

4, .372.065

23..
25..
26..
'7..

Wabash.

66

Wed.

3

$2,777,007
5.818,951

1869
1363
1667

for 1877

8

-.a

1871
1870

$1,709,0-0 $:3,131,462 13 $4,124,023 49 $2,291,255 35 $4,747,126 49
Total
106.334,54170 38,231,600 52
Balance, Mar, 22
..107,174,718 43 31,6:8,463 32
Balance. Mar. 29

BD!i;ar(No.l9D'ch8td)

onBpot,
Bpermoil

Same time in—
$4,705.8.53
1,171.723
3,995.857
1,062.838

1377
1876
1875
1874
1873
1372

Mar.
10 10

(:6

d.

$4,428,537

1878.

The transactions for the
as follows:

Frl.

Thnr.

d.

6

8 15
50

8 15

15
19 6

6

81
51
87

Toes.

£

d.

1,

Same time In—

n.

I,

Wed.

lOK
39
25
40

9

Oil Markets.

Sat.

£

6

39
25
4j

11
11

8.

10

7X
6

11
It

SO

ta

9

9 T
10 10

d.
2S 6
9 7
10 10

Toee.
8.

lOJi

42

London Produce and

6

10!i

39
85

"

d.

27
37
66

5
10

10

"

Fetroleaui(re<liied)

C

».

d.

8.

104>i
I'S

Thcr.

d.

3)
36

81
51

Mon,

d.

5

6
3

Tues.

d.

8.

83

8.

V

—

fs

Sat.
. .

U

6

li

Liverpool Product Market. —

BOBic (common).
" (fine)

p.

2-)

6

Sat.
tc.

d.
6
9 7
10 10
11

It

8. d.
tji

fl,

3S

11
11

Liverpool Provisions Market.

Beef (ijrimc raess)

Wed.

88

qnar. 25
Quarter. 36

105X

lO-w

Tnes.

•23

^

lOW

10.3

243,325

$276,302
4,152.536

,

d

R.

6
(R. W. Bpriug).iyctl 9 7
(Red wlntcrt... . " 10 10
(Av. Cat. white).. " It
¥'''>1

Total since -Tan
Fri.
94 7-15
94 7-16

report of couoi).

—

s.

F,onr (extra Hiate)

Coru

94 15-lfl
94 15-:6
107 ji
l(5Ji

io:%

Liverpool Breadstufis Market.
Hon.
sat.

"

Thnr.

S-IC
95 3-16

lOl'/a

Liverpool Ootton U'lrkit.

Wheat
"

Wed.
1,5

105 !<
I06)i

IMJi

0. B. 10-408
59 of 1681

Tnes.

1,858

Sl.ver bars

Liverpool

Total for the week
Previously reported

Back has decreased £341,000 during the week.
04 15-16 B5 3-16
93 ii-16
95

3,2,54

Foreign gold

mum

Mod.

.•

Mar. 23— Str. Celtic

of England, at their meeting on Thursday, advanced the miniThe bullion in the
rate of discount from 2 to 3 per cent.
Sat.

$375
4,S60
4,325
6,186
1.930
1,100
6.9C0
3,000

.

Foreign gold
Bremen
18— Str. Weser ..
Amer. eilvtr
21— Str. Ciiy of Waehington.Havana
Foreign gold
Havana
22— Sir. Niagira
Port-au-Prince. ..Amer. sliver
23— Str. Andes
Amer. gold

Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.

—

Coueole tor money.. 95 1-16

silver ...

nnr. gold

1875.
$4,101,679
49,730,842

187.1.

1877.

$4,410,423
51,211,353

$3,9.52,117
56,7C0.',02

J5 918,985

$53,835,081

$53,621,776

$40,652,109

$83,1.36,770

IS': 8

-.5,187,785

1878.
$6ii8,217

535,496

$162,721

Inc. $48,208
23,983

Dec

,

Inc, $77,191

cent of expenses to receipts for tbe first seven months
5 per cent, and for the last five months, C6'2 per cent.
The directors have considered it judicious to continue the permanent improvement of the road by replacing iron with steel
rails, having laid fifty-two and one-balf miles during the year.
They have also been able, out ol tbe earuiuga of the year, to pay,
when due, all iutt-rest and fixed charges tbey have renewed iron
with steel rails, built 11.') new cars, new iron bridges, paid expenses
ot reorganization, and had a surplus. A large portion of the track

The per

was 81

;

is

now

laid with steel.

Out of a total of $17,010,000 in mortgage iionds, $14,728,450
have funded their coupons up to this date, Undtr the foreclosure
sale all the leases, guarantees and contracts of the old company
have been cancelled, and the only lease that has been recewed is
the Hannibal & Naples Railroad, at a rental ot $35,000 per annum,
against the former rental of $03,000.

Missouri Pacific Railway Company will pay, on and
mortgage
1, the coupons due on that date on the first
bonds of the Carondelet Branch Railroad (Missouri) that have
been presented and stamped in conformity with the plan approved
by the Committee of Bondholders.

—The

after April

—Messrs. John J. Cisco & ?on will pay the coupons due April 1,
1878, on tbe consolidated bjiids of the Houston & Texas Central
Railway Company, ou and after that date.

.

March

«

C&a?ftic.

Baiiltccs'

Natloual Bjnks org.inizjd (luring the past week.

DIVlDBNDil.
Tb« rollowle;: dWldonds h«va

rocanilv l>oon

annoancoO

:

When

Per

Books Clooed.

Cent. Patablk.

Naji« or CoJiPAKT.

(Daj-s iDClDsire.)

Hallroad*.
Atlanta

*

CliicaiTO

IM

CliarUulc Alr-Lliie (iiiiar.*
Irlard .t I'iclilc iqiiar.)...

Uock

•I

May

1.

3X

April

in.

AprlU

to April :0

Banks.

aallatln National

Ttae yioaej

V

W

.

. .

.

THE CHRONICLE.

30, 1878.]

«i()c
No

«

..

Mch. an to Apr

7

FRIDAY, M.IKCII 20, 1878-5 P. fll.
Market and Financial Situation. —The grow-

307

State and Hallroad Bonds.— In State bonds there was some
recovery in Ijouisianas from the extreme dnprension noticed last
week, and they have sold readily here at 78 and a fraction, until
t->-day, when the closing price was 77^. while telegraxs from
New Orleans this afternoon quote only 70^ there. The case mads
up to try the validity of the new Issue of bonds is before their
Virginias are tolerably firm and a few bonds are coming
courts.
from London. Private letters from bankers at Xaiiiville, Tenn.,
say that their State bonds are better thought of in New York
pro.'pects
than at home, and they do not speak hopefully of ih
of a settlement favorable to bondholder'.
many
huve
strong
and
ac
ive,
and
bonds
been
of the
Hallroad
popular bonds show higher prices than last week, this remark
applying to a number of bonds seldom or never (|Uoted at the
StocK Board. The Pennsylvania guaranteed bonds are naturally
stronger.

The following were

BolJ

auction by ^^eB8rs. h. H. Muller

ai

&

European war
rumors, and the firinnesa ia exchange have been the prominent
features o( our fiuaneial markets this week.
Tlie adopliou by the I'emisylvunia Kailroad stockholders of
the go-callod Trust sclieme was also a matter of no small importance. It is significant both as rtgards the corporation itself and
BB a precedent likely to be followed by other companies, and is

Son:

emphatically a new departure in railroad financiering in this
country. The proposed measure, if faithfully carried out, will

Closing prices of leading State and Railroad Bonds for three
jreeks past, and the range since January. 1, 1878, have been as
follows:

prices at the Sto^k ExclianK'', flia

in^T stri'n;th In

greatly strengtlien the credit of the company, both at home and
abroad; and, coming at a lime when American credit is not at

the highest point,

it

will h.ive a

good

effect as

a formal declara-

tion on the part of the Pennsylva'jia Railroad of

an intention

up to its burdensome contracts of guaranty.
Our money market remains quite easy at 4 to

to

and 4i

to 5^

per cent for

per cent on choice grades of commercial

paper.

The Bank of England statement
in snecie for the week of £341,000,

on Thursday showed a decrease
and a reserve of 33 5-lOagalnst
3(J the previous week.
The discount rate was advanced to 3 per
cent.
The Bank of France gained 15,800,000 francs in specie.
The last statement of the New York City Clearing-House
banks, issued March 28, showed an increase of $307 ,75 J in the
excess above their 25 per cent legal reserve, the wbole of such
excess being $10,308,575, against |l0,100,825 the previous week.
The following table shows the changes from the previou»
week and a comparison with the two preceding years
:

-1878.

March

1877.

a

March

1876.

Differences.
March 24. March '.'5.
5«ao»anddi». 824J,67li'.9lM ja41..W8.700 DcC.JI,4r>,-.00 S359,t90,20(: S26l.a5tVo
'*'* '^*^ ("lO
on «ar f.nn Inc.
r«A
, ,t
ann
a.^ a,.. ../.«
... -.,.'
*t,.'>45,900
Specie ...
39,687.500
141,600
23,391,200
21, 504,0(0
Cucolation ...
19,1110.700
19.900.300 Dec.
4,400
15.733,100
10,199,700
Net depoeiti!.. 2I,'),iit5.I0O !!11,98S,6C0 Dec. 3,146,600 221,820.000 514.181,6 (J
Legal tenders.
30,'i'.!b.'.!C0
39,605.700 Dec
720,500
44,454,000
43,778,900
lii.

Onlted Slate* Bonds.

—Government

have been

secnrities

quite active, on the same sort of demand heretofore noticed
from moderate investors in all parts of the country. There have
been cons derablo imports of bonds from Europe] which, if not
actually thrown on the market, are in transitu, as the leading
importers of bonds have been considerable purchasers of exc'jange, and this indicates a bond movement in progress.
Id
addition to the amount of government bonds taken personally by
parties who have previously been depositors in savings banks, it
is to be observed that the necessity of keeping marketable
assetn
on hand Is an inducement to the banks themselves to change clT
some of tlieir real estate mortgages for governme its.
Closing prices at the Board have beea'as foIlowB
:

Mar.
Int. period.

»' 1881

w,

reg.. Jan.
coup. .. Ian.

1881

69, 6-209, lS<>5,n. 1.. .reg.. Jan.

6«,-5-J0«,1805,n.l..coup..Jan.
r«g..Jan.

«•, 5-aOs. 1867

»,&-aB«,18«7
!'•

^?S^ .¥•!?
S'?:??J''**^

coup.

•

* July. 106;<
& July. 10t;«
& July. 'lOlK
4 July. IMJi

106X
lOlJi
•104JSf

funded. 1881
reg..Quar.— Feb.
5»,rnndcd, 1881... conp..Quar.— Feb.

reg..Quar.-M»r.

i*«J

106Ji
106J4

]04«
104W

*im^

107

..fan. ,6

reg..Mar.4|epl.

Mar.

Mar.

Mar

28.

29.

107

107
'lOBJi
106Ji 107
104H 104)<

26.

106!^

AJnly.»!07

59,

H*'

Mar.

2.5.

July. 107
107
-reg.. Jan. & July. *108« 'tOSX
coup..Jan. JtJuly. 108« 'lOSJi

SJS

S-

Mar.

3:).

107«

107
104J£
104 »4

IM>4 lOlli
107X io:ii ^\m
107!i 107" 107

'IWH

109
109

*m

'lOg

•1C9X '109 'lOg
IfS'i
105« m<i

105i<

•lOJX

104,><

'lOlJi

104','

10(4

lOlltf

104),'

lOtil

104H
lOIK

102j£

102X

104>i
1C2J<

103«

1027i

1(5

105J4

lav,'
lOtJi

104W
lOSJi

coup.. Ouor. -Mar. 102;j 102V 1P2K 103
lP2Ji 102T<
Qnar.— Jan. lOOJi •ICOV lOOfc I00»i 100J4 lOO^
-•Oiiar.— Jan • 101 )f 101
ioij<
101 H • 101
6., Curren65Mb!..V99rcK,'.JkuT* jVlr'ilSH •iTsM
A\k% lieQ Mis'* 'vA^
• This Is the price bid ; no sou waa made at the
Board.
The range in prices since Jan. 1, 1878. and r.he amount of eacb
class of bonds out«!andinir March
4 H". 1891
4«, registered.

1907
49, coupon, 1907

.1

.

•^

1831
fc. B-90S, 1865,
••i 5-90«,18«7
*», 5-Ms, 1888

Lowest.
coup. IP5X Feb.
new. .coup. 103« Jan.
coup 1(15 Feb.
coup. inOV Jan.

1<M09
coup
S«.
ti, funded, 1381.... coup
<H». 1891....
.coup
<M»07
coup.
6*, Corropcy.
reg.
.

1,

1878^

RIg&eat.

lOrkJan. SS
IW.S Mch. 87
107)4 Mch. SI

2il0eu Jan. i25
t03;i Mch.
113834 .Ian 26
W\i Feb. 2S:106>i Jan. 24

)loi!i .Mch.
1I00;< Mch.
h.

IH

Mc

ll04XJan.
Ull08« Jan.
'.Dl

liOy Jan.

,

— Amount March
Coupon.
1.-

Registered.
(194.126,000
80.849,050
100,819,100
15,775,000

11

k
16

H2.5'3.»80
S34.388.30n
121,012.450
61,511,300

88.610.3:C
66.053. ino
JI0,2»7,950
S1.6S0.30r
52 003
284,052,050

15.

\imi

59. 10-IU9

105»i
I04Ji

Be of 1881

N6W4V4 percent*

Mch.
ii.

.

lOtX

I

I

io7»<
U\!,H

00

105
'

IMJt

10?

I

S06)tf

100

Mch.

Mch.

15.

!2.

States.

•87X

r,H

77}<

15
•883K

16

Highest.

1

Mch. 29 86

•105X \M>i Jan.

•67

•70
•37

2d seriea. ..
District of Columbia, 3-65S 1924

Lowest.

29.

7S5t
•105)4 •106
*15« •15>4

do

39

Feb. 11
Feb. B
S
Feb. 1

60

Jan.

7 106

KKFeb.

Mch. 29

33X Jan.

4

•67

•.'!5
i

»

•T5X

75

75

Mch.

26.

64X

68

64 V

Mch.

68K Feb. 5
15 106Ji Mch. 28
2 119M Mch. 16
141 97X Mch. 27
5 r6J< Mch. 28
Mch. 20
5 108

Railroads.
Central of N. J. 1st consol.
Central Pacific Ist. 69, gold ...
Chic. Burl. JfcQulncy consol. 79
Chic. & Northweet'n, cp., gold
Chic. M. * St. P. cons. s. fd, 79
Chic. R. I.
Pac. 69, 11)17
Erie Ist, 7s, extended
Lake Sh. & Mich.So.lst cons.cp
Michigan Central, consol. 7e.
Morris & Essex, 1st mort
iJ. T. Cen. & Hud. Ist, coup...
Ohh}
Miss., cons. sink, fund
Pltlsb. Ft. Wayne * Chic. Ist
St. Louis & Iron Mt.. 1st mort.

•64Ji

.

106H !06)i 1(3S Jan.
•llOX 'llOX 109 Jan.

1C6X
110

95K

noK
96X

96^

107 X

107X

•WJi

4

Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan. 7 113
Mch 25
•112« •113
:••
Jan. lO'llO.V Mch. -28
W>i
•108
10 j
•icsk lO-iXJan. 61108 Mch. 15
•117« •118 •113
I15)iJan. 51l8HMch.33
•119
•119
118
Jan. 7130
Mch. 19
&
•98k 95Ji Feb. 30 lOOM .Tan. 30
•97ii •98
•118
•118
Feb. 8'1;9
Mch. 12
•11SJ<|118
•105
104H •103>i 103J< Feb. S'lOOJi Jan. 24
Unloa Paclllc lat, 68, gold
107
106K 107 |l03KJan. 7il07X Mch. »
do
sinking fund....
95
Mch. 6| W)i Feb. 18
95«
95>i
96 y

&

97X

91J<
91)i
106
110
109

.

nn

• Thie

19

the price Did

:

no

tale

was made

Board

at the

Railroad and mscallaneoua Storks. — The

stock

market

has shown more strength and animation, and several events
which have recently occurred appear to warrant a tone of
increased confidence.
D spatches from Chicago on the 27th
stated that the railroad managers and ag-nta of the trunk lines
had adjusted the r differences and completed their apportionment
of freight, making grain as a special clas.«, and fixing the rate oa
the basis of 25 ce.ts from Chicago to New York, and retaining
the rate of 30 cents for fourthclnss freight.
The nominal rate
for grain has hitherto been 30 cent--.
The allotment made by
Commissioner Fink is as follows Michigan Central, 32 Lake
Shore, 27; Pitslnirgh Fort Wayne & Chicago (Pennsylvania Railroad), 24
Baltimore & Ohio, 10 and Pif.sburgh Cincinnati & St.
Louis (Pennsylvania) 7 per cent.
In Philadelphia, the adoption of the Trust scheme, b- which
the Pennsylvania Itailroad will invest $1,200,000 per year in the
purchase of its guaranteed stocks and bonds before paying dividends, was a move of great importaoce and had the effect of
imint diately strengthening its guaranteed stocks selling on this
market, particularly Cleveland & Pittsburgh. The passage of a
bill in the MarylanU Legislature f^ r a settlement with ihe Baltimore & Ohio Kailroad was also a measur« of some importance for
that company and lis dependencies. These intluences, and the
warlike aspect of affairs in Europe, were calculated to have a
ceneral bearing upon the values of stocks, snd so far to assist in
giving the market an improved tone. Coal also sold higher at
the late auction sil
Kock Island announces its regular quarterly dividend, payable May 1.
The daily highest and lowest nrices have been as follows:
;

:

;

;

.

Bainrday.

March
Central or N.J
Ctalc. liurl.&q
U. Mil.

4

St. P.

pref

tlo

Chic.

* North.

do
pref.
0. H. I.* I'ac.
Del.*H. Canal
Del. L.
Krle

d West

Man. &8t. Joi
do
pref.
Ill.Cential...

Lake Shore

...

OMoAMItl...

UigbeM.

Mch. ^Range since Jan.l,lS78.->

•80^4

Jll»90Urt 69 'ea or '90
.North Carolina 6?, old

do

85«

&

10<K

Loaisiana consols

PacincMall...

Panama

V

ItOX

>m

Ti\ 73H
41 X <IV

mi nS
lOi
101
M«
51
tan MX
10« lOH
lox wii
•2Jj<
rijj

""
«H
'

64

-AH
8

Wabath.ttock
OnlooPactac. x.u
West. Un. Tel.
7fh
'101
49

}8^P
7iK

1

12t,'
is

103V I06K

8«

sS
..

17

18

'\a

130

49

M\

10t>|

]!« 'iii
««V 70X
78H ;9X

51

5V
lOH
75U
6S,S

109V

»«

«»><
•iai< 9014
•?5
8.
•17
1»

lUI

i\\

.March

SIX
5JW

wi

(
'

43

•

7IH

M
11

!i

:iH

H

101)!

71

V

"5lS
45

a" ug

van

103X

loS

101

44
7I)X

44M

SIX

FrldaT.

M^rcha*.
i:
1-K

51
94

X

ioh

71
108;
it:

M'
'.o;

•-

l^

WV
bS

1«H liu
6«V (9I<
7SX It
'.01)4

<8,V 4>H
•3614

87

•n

....

tars

—H

101

II

S4

94W

isj

71»«

UV MK

"'

7»l.

V»
8X

Id*
"

10(U 106

ISX

MIt

n 17V
<9H <*5
7»
7»H
X

10114

'«tH

SOX

87

17
li

lu

;4SX 49 s

17

waa made

•V

•

I7H 13H
69X

MK

'toiy
•{«

4»X

•87

87V

lOiHIOlM
*'\ «9X

SI

82

DO

'«.

16

•OS ri%

102K

«JS ssji
74H 758

'lui

•MX

pref
II the price bid and asked

iwK

2l.
14
101

m va%
mm

\-.s 1»
lau
130

101

19

TUl

50X 51X

6.^Ji

quicksilver....
*

wm 101 X

March
14

40X *\H
x6aH 70M
43
44W
lOK
69H TOV
Tl..
48)4

M'V

109

lOlX

m,
vni 40K

n'2H

74>,'

m

Tuesday. Wednea'y. Thursday,
18J<

lUl
uiij

75X
*" '
«4)<

»

do

14
101

76

Dntted States. •49V
Wells. FarKO..
S()«
18

Monda'
>r.

March a. March W.

M« HV
7SW ;5x
Wi 6i)4

KjK 13S
'iwj
1<

Adams Exp...
American Ex

-^S.

14

14

100
S95<

S.V.Cen.AH.H \K\

./an. 1, 18'.3.—

61,'i

Merchants' Nat. Bank
4 Nat. City Bank
4 Amcr. Kxch, Nat. Hank

14,306,700

.'an. 2 108", Mch. 11
104H Feb. 25 109V Jan. 2ti
103J4 Mch. I 106Ji Jan. 15
KigX Feb. 251 106^ Jan. 21

105>i

AOH
131

in

Michigan Cent
Morris AKssex

«4,«2.S,512

Mch. /-Range elnce
29.
Lowest.
107X
105X

ir6«

Bk..

SnARE).
Phcnix Nat. Bank

IS

100 Citizens' Ciislight Co., B'klyn 80
20 Ilillman Plro Ins
100
aoijlandarrt Fire Ins.
128
33 Citizens' Fire Ins
173
lOAmliy Flrclns
59)<
75 Mcch.
Traders' Nat. B'k... 96^
30 Nut. Mech. Banking Asso.. .. 5SX

lit

&

.

U. 8. «». 5-509. 1867

U.S.

I

I

01

of Cummerce
Home In9
Resolute FIro Ins

78.lW,650

Closing prices of securities in London nave
Deen as follows:

Mch.

Co

Oasllglit

Bank

Drovers' Nat.
75 Butch.
24 Mechanics' Nat. Bank

1,1878, were as (ollows:

r-Range aince Jan.

Harlem

Penuessee (is, old
Virginia 6e, consol

live

call loans,

9nABES.
40
75
8

at the Board.

'ir.ii

sa"

•....

:»

H

...

.

,

1

Total sales of the

week

Shore. Union.

west.
23..
85.

27

N. Y.

Panl.

Cent.

6,-260

32,64,5

27,780

.

!8,60(]

24,S31
17,7.0

2),1S0

.3«,»0.1

7.100
4,660
1,903
4,006

33,630
23.210

5,861

13,025
23,400
27,507
30,500

4,110

ia,5()J

.

28..

.

lli,f.00

29.

.

16,400

Total

were as {oIIowh

St.

.

.

.

in leadiner Btockn

Lake West'n

North-

"

405
386

6,70.5

13.350
6,750
10.250
4,110
2.110
18,650

500

21,901
10,965
14,300
36,660
61,780

563
710
ibS

Mail.

E.
4,810

35,89-1

100

Pac.

&

& W.

The following

:

Del. L. Morris

1.810
1,100
8,000
9,70i)

109,780 167,966 2r.6:i7 118.4.37
2,729 171,501 25,950 54,220
151,031 494,665 337,874 151.012 894 253 524.000 300,000 200,000

Whole stock

The total nuinhsr of shares of stock outstanding is given in
the last line, for tb.e purpose of comparison.
Total sales this week, and the range in prices since Jan. 1,
1877, were as follows:
Sales
of w'k.

Shares

New Jersey

Central of

6,60
1.210

Chicago Burl. & Quincy
Chicago Mil. <fc St. Paul

do

do

&

Chicago

11,S,4.37

pref..

4'),i»:i

North westera
do
pref.

do

&

Chicago Eock Island

108,7,-

,

171,501

Brie

&

St.

67,100
10,457
20,375

Pacific.

Delaware & Hudson Canal
Delaware Lack. & Western
Hannibal
do

Joseph
do
pref....

riinois Central

Lake Shore
Michigan Central
Morris & E«sex
N. Y. Central & Hudson Elver.
Ohio & Mississippi

16,380
3,410
1,700
2,015
167,966
20,566
25,950

Pacific Mail

Panama
Wabash

stock

1,842|

27,6W

Adams Express

—

19

American Express
United States Express
Wells, Fargo & Co

750
50
113

Quicksilver

10

pref

—

I

mi

mu

im

67-;.

Feb.
Feb.
Jan.

79 JC

Mch.Ui

9
108»i Jan.
9Ji Mch. 28
23% Jan. 16
5 131
Feb. 25

Mch,

112
Jan.
l-'iJiMch, 14 18)iMch.-.!8
64X Jan. 4 73 Mch. 20
75!4 Feb. 13i 805^ Mch. 19
93
Jan. 8il0i'^ Feb
47I4 Jan.
50
Jan. _
46
Jan.
61 Ji Feb. 25
82!^ Jan.
Srv Ian. 2
15 !< Jan.
195,- Feb. 23
195^ Feb.
SIH Jan. 21

iC

92'^

86M

109hi

51

an, 11%
12
SO

130

81S

91

1(6

43K 60«
59 X
90
24
45

36
81
13
19'<

The latest railroad earnines, and the totals from Jan. 1 to latest
dates, are given below.
The statement includes the gross earnings of all railroads from which returns can be obtained.
The
columns under the heading " Jan. 1 to latest date" furnish
the

gross earnings from Jan.
in the second column.

and including, tha period mentioned

1, to,

Latest earnings reported

,

1.S78.

Atch. Tod. & S. Fe . Mon th of Feb.
$185,600
Atlantic & Gt. West. .Month of Jan.
i99,052
Atlantic Mi-s. & O.. .Month of .Jan...
142,537
Bur.C.Eap.& North. 2dweok of Mch.
-26,292
Cairo <6 St. Louis
2d week of Mch.
4,-<75
Central Pacific
Month of Feb... 974,000
Chicago & Alton
8 weeks of Mch.
2ti7.997
Chic. Buri, & Quincy.. Month of Jan... I,r45,467
Chic. Mil. & St. Paul... 3d week of Mch.
137,000
Chicago & Northwest. Month of Feb
l,0b'J,013
Clev. Mt. V. & D.,&c..2d week of Mch.
6,843
Dakota South, rn
Month of Feb...
15.C09
Denv. & Rio Grande.. .2d week of Mch.
l!,372
.

.

.

.

.

Det Lansing &North.Month of Jan...
Dubuque & S. City., ,3d week of Mch.
Gal. II. & S Antonio. .Month of .Ian...
Grand Trunk
W'kend. Mch.l6
Great Western
W'kend.Mch. 15
Hannibal & St. Jo... 1st w.-ck of Feb.
Houst'n & Tex. Cent Month of Feb.
.

Illinois Cent(Ill.line.)

Month

of Feb...
do Iowa Lines .Month of Feb.
do Sprin^f. div.Mouthof Feb. ..
Indlanap. Bl.
W.... 'id week of Mch.
Int
Gt. Northern. 2cl week of Mch.
.

.

&

&

,

Kansas
1/Ouisv.

Pacific
Sdweekof Mch.
Nashville... Month of Jan...

&

Michigan Central... Ist week of Feb.
Minneapo'is & St. L..lst week of Mch

15,871
f3,717
162,436
73,812
26,925

,

.

,

.

St. L.K. C.&North'n.Sd weckof Mch,
St. L.
S. Francisco .3d week of Mch.
8t.L.&S.E'n(StL.div.) Ist week of

&

Mch
Mch
weekof Mch

"

(Ken.div.)..l8tweekof

" (Teun.div.),.lst
8t, Panl & S. City
Month of Feb...
8I0UX City&Si.Paul, .Month of Feb...
Soulhern Minnesota. Month of Feb..
Tol.Peoria

Union

A Warsaw. 3.1

weekof Mch.
Month of Jan..
3d week of Mch.

Pacific

*abash

8'

9,257
1,045,467
1,618,000
2,139,904
69,675
30,66 J
143,504
66,9 13
227,18 i
1,

171,9^7
49,.538

2,115,786
9.34,415

816. 83)
1,084,J20
1,566,783
61.402
ir,'(64

103,496
4o,6!i2
1'

3,489

94.0.53

8.3,717

'55,943
994,402
157,148

1.7;.%437
714.215
119,721

18,1,600

358,868

809,1 1)4

726', -267

1-J4,.371

110,-257

25.',79i

193,513

11.213

tO 684
23,379

23,370
28,410

S9:4

30,750
1 64

264 558

•^93,278

366.4)1

67,605
490.000
126,019

68,.302

663,829

5-23.819

445,768
114,440

490,0(10

445,768

669,897
79,488
674,677
398,147
460,782
333,677
90,601

67-',493

8,611

673,980

&

2,09!I.0(I0

364,413

Phila.
Reading
'donth of Jan...
St. Jos.
Western .Month of Jan
Bt.L. A.&T.H.(brch8;.-'d week of Mch.
St. L. I. Mt.
South. 3d week of Mch.

&

537
374,481
33,' 07
I4-;

1877.'

|C71,214
206.549
109,986

20) 883

279,^66
181,118
188,790
155,771
33,3!9
6,82i
4,597

.

to latest date

,3;i9,052

257,760
870,635
97,619
779,057
6,190
9,467
11,002

iO,9;J3

1

18:8.
$.3f0,5O0

14 2,-.2
3,846
945.171

45,6il-J

Missouri Pacific
Mouth of Feb...
Mo.Kansasite Texas. .Mouth of Feb ..
Mobile & Ohio
Mouih of Feb...
Nashv.Chatt. & StL..Monih of Feb...
New Jersey Midland. .Month of Feb...
Pad. * Elizabetht'n. ..2d week of Mch.
Pad. & Memphis
2d week of Mch.
Phila. & Erie
Month of Feb.

&

1877.

8136,350
261.549
109,986

56,963
94,053
174,785
83,702
26,000

Jan.

,

If0,.5(i7

45,80-2

9,850
78,600

2(i6',.^39

235,309
174.893
14?,49i
42,631
6,254
3,944
198,102
730,805

44,505
401,003
6:,3,980
45,1-02

28,-280
Hl,.563

P4..i'.10

531,242
47-2,.341

406,175
2:i8.9H0
9.',835
3(1,944
4.30,9,52

780,t06
2B,-v80
10S,8-i4

1,004.500
723,338

1,006,156
67f.l88

22,751
14,013
8,110

24, ,=,18

247,1,07

27r,^!33

13,505

103,634

3,7,53

Bl 7.59

2,615
29,409
17,551
31,043

106,479
58.967
28,792
81,808
54,135

27' 847
837,310
82.327

23,n,>3
815,3.54
6IJ.125

41,841

S3 170

6,1184

12'., 775
296.362
837.340
928.770

60,!)h6

37.465
60,006
81.076
67.565
2-20,-200

Saturday,

March

Monday,

-'

23.
i5.

Tuesday,

"

2ii.,

Wednesday, "
Thursday,
Friday,

"
"

Correntweck
Prsvions week
4an. 1 to dale

101% 101% loiJalioi%

Gold

'

$15,64l).00i

Balances.
Gold.
Currency,

J1.51'_l,1.53

$1,084,304

9.347,iXHl
12.091,0(10

1,305.000
1,423,700

Il,636,00(

1,-208,1I86
l,.56l..50O

1,57.1,014

101

101%

11'1>,

16.4-3,000

1,0611,382

1,076,437

101%

101

101«!l01%

101

101

28.
2}.

101

i-,

l(ll'.i

1(11

101%

101%|101

102»i 100»( 102'4ll01%

1,172,923

.

Bxctiunse. —Foreign eschanjie showed a good business up to
Thursday, when the higher rates and the engagement of some
coin for shipment had the effect of checking business. The bond
importers were not inclined to pay over 4.89 for bankers' bills.
Actual business to-day was about ^ point lower than the asking rates of leading drawers, which were 4.88i and 4.90| respec-

New

In domestic bill-i rates on
York to-day were as follows:
Savannah, buyi' g at 1-16 premium, selling at i premium; Cbarleston, easy, par(ai-16 premium, 3-16@l premium; St. Louis, 75

premium; New Orloms, commercial ^ discount, bank par; Chicago, 00 premium, and Boston par.
Quotations for foreign exchange are as follows:
60 days.

Prime bankers' sterling

bills

on London.,

3 days.

4.871i@4.88V4

Documentary commercial

4.8IW@4.85H

Paris (francs)

4,89%@4.90<r
4.89J<@4.69%
4.87H@4.B8>4
4.87 @4.88

5.16>i@5.13%
5.16i(@6.18%

5.14%@6.11%
5.14%@5.11%

8.16!i(a5.133i

5.14?,-@5.11%

Good bankers' and prime commercial
Good commercial
Antwerp
Swiss

4.86%@4,87J4

(francs)

(fra'ics)

Amsterdam

©4

4.85

(guilders)

86

40%(a i"H

Hamburg

(reichmarks)
Frankfort (reichmarks)
Bremen (reichmarks)
Berlin (reichmarks)

95!i(a

9.5%

95%® 93%

,

9.5%®

9.5%

96%® 95H

40%@

40

96
96
96
96

96X
9i%
96%
96%

&
©
@
@

K

City BauKs._The following statement shows the
condition of the Associated Banks of New York City for the week
ending at the commencement of business on March 23, 1878:
-AVERAGE AMOUNT OFLoans and

Banks

New York
Ma hattan

3,000,000

Co...

2,050,0'.

MerchantsV

3,000,000
2,000,090
1,300,000
3,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
600,000

Mechanics'

Union
America
Phcenix
City

.

Tradesmen's
Fulion
Ctiemical

300.000
Merchants' Exch. 1,000,000
Gallatin National I,5'i0,0fl0
Butchers'& Drov.
500,000
Mechanics'
Tr.
600,000
Greenwich
2:0.OJ0
Leather Manuftrs.
600,000
Seventh Ward
300,000
State of N.York.
800,000
American Exch'e. 5,000,000
Comnnrce
5,000,000

&

Bruadway

1.0()0,0(»

Mercantile

1,100,000
423,700
1,600,000
450,000

Pacific

Republic

Chatham
People's

412.600
700,000

.

North America
Hanover

.

.

1,000,001)

Irving

500,000
3,000,000
600,000
1,000,000
1,000,000

Metropolitan
Citizens'

Nassau
Market
St.

Nicholas

],0(X),000
1.000,(100

Shoe and Leather.
Corn Exchange.,

1,000,000

Continental

1, -250,000

300,000

Marine
400.000
Importers'&Trad. 1,600,000
Park
2,000,000
Mech. Bkg. Ass'n. 600,000
Grocers'
North River

30;i,a)o

240,000
350,000
100,010

Ea^t River
Manuf'rs' & Mer.
Fourth National.. S,.5CO.0OO
Central National,. 2,000,000

Second National..
Ninth National...

.3(K),000

750,000
500,000
1,000,000
300.000
250,000
300.0
750,009

First National

Third Nutiimal..
N. Y.Nai.Exch..
Bowery National

New York County
German American
Total

Specie. Tenders.

$

S

1,186,680

Net

Legal

Discounts.

Capital

$

S

Circulation.

Deposits.
£

$

8,2:0,000 4,735,500
804,600 10,071,600
6,893,500 1,470,300
643,600
5,176,100
"
7,987,400 5,050,800 1,099,100
7,609.500
6,330,001)
707,600
531,000
4,750,700
4,148,600
846,100
43?,;00
3,5-26,000
7,914,:100 2,093,400 1,037,700
6,9';7,300
2,735,000
650,000
UH,IKO 2,540,000
5,438,600 2,066,500 1,216,000
4,632,600
350,-200
3,103,100
185,300
1,825,800
1,543,000
301,000
4 53, BOO
1,325,(00
10,087.S)00 1,319,700 1,68.5,700 10,4.52,800
430,400
4,'8,100
3,567,100
2,98-1,300
8,.533,:M0
676,100
213.000
2.269,600
1,393,000
95,000
213,000
1,1.57,000
1,401,000
207,000
8,000
833.000
653,600
176.500
766,900
2,3il,S00
637,700
310,3,10
2,262.800
848,100
155,600
78.600
788,300
1,613,500
517.700
354.900
1,71-2,300
11,631,000 2,847,000
829,000
9,398,000
12,9)3.6(10 2,009,700
679,800
6,116,0(10
4.499,800
61-2,600
213,700
2.891,600
3,476,000
371,.300
364, ;w
3,072,10',)
5-2,400
2,088,600
469,800
1.9(3,100
3,ii8,;oo
233,400
336,800
1,723,8(X)
2,984.700
3:4,300
313,400
2,75-2,100
1, -233,100
1-1,"00
7,400
1,062,000
1,3.33,700
71,000
3:2,00 1,281,0(0
5,009 9o0
642,500
.500,700
4,61),.' 00
1,977,500
263,700
313,100
2,060,400
12,472,000 1,571.000 1,0H5,000
9,;81.O0O
l,6r.4,IJ00
68,500
370,100
1,673,100
1,390,000
106,900
257,800
1,737,400
2,777,600
273,400
252,:)00
1,932,800
1,975,000
96,700
124,400
754,500
3,614,500
326,900
4o7,500
2,798,700
3,064,400
267,500
251,000
1,842,800
3,144,400
211,700
327,400
2,(120,400
1,221,300
29,800
195,000
1,078,700
1,903,000
375,C0O
206,000
1.833,500
15,653.9(,0 1,733,100 3,ll:i,900 17,551,600
132?7,800 2,617,400 1^831,300 15i:8S,400
660.400
26,800
86,"iio
464,600
557,900
2,100
117,000
456,000
818,300
16,200
13;,400
685,900
713,700
71,700
70,100
511,900
4.54,100
53,900
66,700
454,000
13,839,700 1,101,500 1,717,100 11,336,700
6,9;27,()00
453,000 1,024,000
6,579,' 00
1,921,009
503,000
1,911,000
3,-209,iiOO
230,600
636,900
2,939,500
71;l,S00
8,346,000 1,107,900
8,620,6(10
6,174,.5O0 1,410,400
599,100
0,548,600
80,5, -200
1.018.600
281,300
63,S(X)
1 '2,000
1,131,100
310,000
780,000
1,1->6,800
307,700
1,170.900
2,451,900
316,466
186,600
2,83-,300

89,000
7,500
116,300
166,500
135,000
1,100
254,000

789,400

624,600
117.400
278,000
148,000
8,700
257,200
36,600
46,000
226,000
2,0o7,000
896,400
I80.O0O
45b',666

401,600
5,400

447,600
68,000
2,250,01)0
•202.400

3,900
311, !0C

497.2C0
445,300
4,700
778,800
278, 066

1,114,700
640,000

307,200

98,900
1,050,366
1,49-2,000

269,000
600,000
450,000
789,800
269,100
825,000
180,000

65,725,300 241,566,700 39,687,500 29,605,700 211,933,600 19,906,3)0

The deviations from returns

of previous week are as follows
Net Deposits
Dec, $.3,140,000
:

luc.

14,021.00(1

27

ioi%;ioi)i
U'lSillOlH

dollars.

Trade dollars

Specie
Legal Tenders

101% 101%jl0I%

101

—
—
— 97^® — 98
98
— 90
® — 93
— 94 (^ — 95
4 75 @ 4 85
— 65 @
—
— 97%® — 70
98

Xe &%s

English silver
Prussian silv. thalers

riec. $1,415,300

1,319,669
1,440,108
1,224,217

•.01>,'

Mexican

a

Loan-"

,

Clearings.

:

Large silver,
Five francs

876,213

Gold

-Quotations.Op'n Low. HighlClos.
lOlX 101,Vi 101%|l01%

&
@
@

!

81.5,354

IMatKet.-GoId has boen firmer, and the shipments
of nearly ifS.OOO.OOO this week (of which $1,,500,000
to-morrow)
necessarily strengthens the premium.
On gold loans to-day the
carrying rates were 3i to 5 per cent.
The range of gold and clearings and balances were as followso
'I'lie

gold for various coins
Dimes & half dimes.
973^(3

in

la $4 89
3 90
4 78
4 10
15 80
(^ 15 70

fexican
[exican Doubloons 15 50
60
Pine silver bars
12014^
121
Fine gold bars
par@iiprem.

Oriental

90,322
75,148

87,8-22

are quotations

Sovereigns
overeigns
$4 84
Napoleons
apoleons
3 86
X X P,eichmark8
P,eichmark8.... 4 72
X Guilders
3 90
Danish
mish Doubloons. 15 60

New Vork

73

56

fVou XXVI.

tively.

Whole

Jan. 1, 1818, to dale.
year 1877.
Lowest.
Highest.
Low. Hiu'h
13% Jan. 2| 18X Jan. 14 6
37X
99X Feb. 28i;055i Feb. 18 94 118Ji
38
Jan. 2 43y, Mch. 29 II
f)8X Jan.
7,J=K Jan.
9 40% 73>i
4iy, Mch. 28 15
S3X Feb.
43 5i
Feb.
71% Mch 27 37% 69>4
98% Jan.
108J4 McU.2S 82i,i 105X
45
Jan.
661^ Mch. 29 26H 74)4
46Ji Mch,
56Ji Mch 29 30^ 77
Mch. 31
15
7Ji Jan.
4y.
10
Feb.
12>[ Jan.
8
7
15?4
21% Feb.
27
Jan. 21 17
33%
72;j Feb.
77
Feb. 4 404 79
e63i Mch, 20 45
59?i Jan.
73 J4
5Si/j Jan.
6.55£ Mch.3<
35 Ji 741i

.

2,729, 103 J£
16,725,
7
54,220, 1(,%

19,5 «

Union Pacific
Western Union Teleojraph

do

:....

THE CHRONICLE.

308

Harch

.

,

Dec.

Boston Uaukn.— The

|

141,600
720,000

Circulation

Dtc,

4,400

|

following are the totals of the Boston

banks for a series of weeks past:
Loans.
1879.
4..

Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.

Specie. L. Tenders. Deposits. Circulation, Agg. Clear.

S
1-24,410,100

1

124,(84,100

6,024,400
5.433,700

18.
25.

134,0,50,900

5,8,)l),70O

124,537,100

6,'394,4O0

1

$

»

t

8,996,600
4,039,400
4,113,400
4,174,0o0

49,4'll,-200

2,5,227,700

49,035,900
49,212,400
48,572,600

25,174,300
25,372,000
25,211,700

Pbiladelpbla Banfcs— The

40,546,165
42,727,310
43,612,375
44,-231,065

totals of the Philadelphia

banks

are as follows
1878.

Mar. 4..
Mar. 11.
Mar. 18.
War. 25,

Loans,
S

Specie. L. Tenders, Deposits, Circulation. Agg. Clear.

$

9

(

S

t

58,679,840
58,694,000

2,074,9 8
2,172,782

l-2,:il4,362

11,003,7.34

58,42(1,63;)

8,36S,6'25

68,3:6,711

?,311.6'2lJ

1-2,148,650
1-2,262,085

45,S03,lK0
41,997,118
4 1,770, '.'51
44,646,917

33,406,006
33,104,101
S9,733,674
884,916

12,635,766

11,0' 8,0-28

11,009,415

11016 926

F

JJ

Habch

.
.

THE CHRONICLE.

30, 1878.J

GENERAL QUOTATIONS
Qnotntlonn

roi>rusout tlio pur ooiit

Now York

111

309

STOCKS AND BONDS.

OB^

wlmtovor tlio piir may l)o; otlior ciuotatlous are frui|iinntly ina>ls per »liarc.
" M.," for mortKaKo; " g.," for gol4 " K'rt," for (ftinrnntood " end.," for eudor»ed

viiliie.

roUiiwiiiKalibrevlrttloiHary often ii»eil, viz.:
JorconaolUlrtti-d; "I'oiiv.," for convcrtllilo; "s. f.," for HinkinKfiiiiil "1. (?.," for land graut.
QuutatiouH In Now York arc to Tliiirsdiiy from otlior oltlcs, to lato mail dotos.

Tim

;

;

;

"oon».,"

;

;

8abiicrlb«rs MTllI confer

ISSl
ISMl

&
&

rcg..J
coup. .J
rog.

C'aUod Bouds

10718
J 107
J loa^a 107%

1893

J

Tcnucs.see— 6s, old, '7.5-1900.. J
lis. .VJOs, isct, now
rcg. J & J 10408 104%
6s, now bonds, 1875-1900... J
Cw. .'i'JOs, IHO,'., now... conp.. J & J lOmi 10-1»8
6s, new series, 1014. ....... .J
es, ."i-L'i)s. \^r,7
reg..J & J lOTij 107>a Texas- Os, 1802
6», O-'iOs, l-^(i7
conp. .J & 3 107% 107 '4
7s, gold, 1910
G». 5-'.;os, IsG-i
leg. .J A J 109
J
78, gold, 1904
6», .VJO.s, 1S08
coup. .J & J 109
10s, pension, 1894
J
5s, 10-108
rog..M& S 105>4 l(r)»2 Vermont— (is, 1878
J
5», 10-lOa
coup..iIit 81103 >4 1051.J Virginia— 08, old, 1886-'95....J
Bd, fiinilod, 18S1
rcg.. Q-FIiOISb 1041a
Os, new bonds, 1880-1895.. .J
B», funded, 1881
conp.. Q— FI10»»8 104 ifl
J
Os, eonsol., 1905
103
4>«8, 1801
rcg. ~
6s,
do
ex-coup., 1905. -.J
103
ilflS, 1891
coup. §=:
Os, cousol., 2d series
J
100»8
4a, 1807
rcg.
(J8, deferred bouds

40
40
30

J

Mich.—7s, long
78, water, long
Dl»t. Columbia—
Cousol. 3-638, 1924, conp.
72

38%

J
J

37

36

J

3658
103
111
J UII3 113
.1 103>3 104 12
U IOOI4 100%
J 27
J 30

M&8 101
M&S IIOI2

lOlSi
11812
J 118

&

STATE SECURITIES
1*S0

8s,

&

Various

IHHH

& Eufala

8s Monticollo

8s, Ala. & Clint
88 of 1892
28 of 1906. fuudod "A"
58 of lOOti, tiuided, KR. "

6
20

J

43
71

&

J

B"

&
A&O
A &0
A&O
1900. A &. O

J
..J
Ft. 8. Issue, 1900.
Mouiplila,fc UR., 1899..
L. K. P. H.AN.O.,l»00..A&O
Mi.sK. O. <(; R. Riv., 1900. .
K.

<i

Ark. Central RR.,

6s, 1

44
73
44
25

4
4

4

&J
F& A
J & J
J

99
108
106
107

Q—

AiO
1879.

.J
..J

War loan, 1880

.fc

104

m

long

—Is
870-'90

i

.F

&A

7519

7514

75

(Leg.)6R, g.,

1902..»

C'ertifs.of st'k ('28) 58, at pleas.

3

('13)68.
do S
Ches.
O. st'k ("47) 68, at picas.
Georgetown— Gon'l st'k, Ss, '81...
6s, various
Bo.-irdP.W.,ctf8.lnip. 8a,'77-8...
Certitlcates, sewer, 8s, '74-77

do

Fall River, Ma.ss.— 68,

,..J&J
....J&J

92 14 95
96
98
104 106
Waterworks
97
99
Augusta, Mo.—6s, 1887, niun.F&AI 103ifl 105
Augusta, Ua— 7s
Various 92
97
Austin, 'Texas — 10s
100 102
Baltimore— 6s, City Hall, 1884(3- Jfi 105 107
6.S, Pitts. & Con'v. RR.,1886. J&Jt| 107
IO914
6s, cousol., 1890
Q—JI 110% 111
68, Bait. & O. loan, 1890
CJ—JI 110% 111
6s, Park, 1890
Q-M 110 111
6s, bounty, 1893
110 112
do exempt, 1893... M&s! 113 114
6«,
Os, funding, 1891
J&Jt| 113
115
6.S, 1900..:
J&Jt 113 114
6s, West. Md. RR., 1902.... J&JI 113
114
.58, conso'., 1885
Q— J*! 98 105
6s, Valley RR., 1886
A & Ol 107 110
10.",% IO6I4
58, new 1916

M&S

Bangor. Me.— 6s, RR.,1890-'94.Var.ll 103
6s, water, 1903
J&J ti 105
6s, E.& X.A. Railroad, 1894..J&JII 103
6.S. B. & Piscataquis KR..'99.A&0
103
1|
Bath, Me.— 6s, railroad aid
Varl IO2I2
100
5s, 1807, municipal
Belfast, Me.— 6s, railroail aid, '98.. *1 100
Boston, Mass. —6s,cur,long,1903Vart 115
79
103
6s, currency, short, 1880
Var.t 103
Var.f 110
113
58, gold, 1905
sterling, 5s, gold, 1893
107
A&0:| 106
5s, gold, 1899
lOSiai
do
J&J-J 104
do
A&O 106
113
53. gold, 1902
108'..i Brookim, X.Y.— 7s, '77-S0....J & J 101
7.S, 1881-95
110
J & j! 105
105
7», Park. 191.5-24
J & Ji 117
101 19
7s, Walter, 11)03
J & J 117
;

1

Fund, loan

7s, funded, lS80-'95
7s, eonsol., 1885-98

J&J
J&J

Wliavf 78, 1880
Alleghonj' Co., 5s
Atlanta, Ga.— 7s
Do. 8b

. .

reg

68, guar., 1891.... J&J
7s, 1891
J&J
Market stock bda, 7s, 92
J&J
Water stock bds, 78, 1901
J&J
do
1903.......
WashingKm- lO-jear Os, '78. .Var.
Fund, loan (Cong.) Os, g.,'92... <

EUzabeth,N.J.— 7s,lmp.,'76-86.Vart

110
103

J 101

&

J 101
Kansa.s— 78, '76 to "99
...J&Jl 100
Kentucky— 6s
100
Louisiana- Old bonds,fundable.Var. 55
8s. non-fundable
Var. 55
New eonsol. 7», 1914
J <fc J 78%
Maine— lioniity. 6s. 18S0
F&A 102ifl
War debts assumed, 6s,'89.A<.fe Oil lliij
War loan, (is. l-^s:)
MA8 106
Maryland— (Js. defence, 1893..JiV:Jt 107
68, e.vempt. Its'
J^fcJt 1101.2
6s, Hospital, 1882-87
J&Jt 106
68, 1890
Q— 107
5s, 1880-'90.
99
^ _

Y.— 68,

do
Perm. Imp.
Perm. Imp.

Ill
111

East Saginaw, Mich.- 8s

.

4

JA J

Georgia- (5s
7s, new bonds
78, endorsed
7s, gold bontls
88,'7t>, 'SO
Illinois— 6s, coiiiion,

15
4

5
7
g.l02 104
ft 10 113
108

L<>ve« of l-<72

California— «.•<, 1874
Councetlcut—5s
68
Delaware- Os
Florida—Cousol. gold 6s

36

Various
Various

Allcglieny, Pa.

43

Cla.s8"C"
I..

58 14

J

CITY SECCRITIES.
Albany, N.
78

43
43
20

J & J

Arkansas— OS, funded, 1899
7s,
7»,
78,
76,
78,
78.

J

Var.f 110
Var.t 110

&

68
57

J

101%

4«, X907
coup
48, siuull
coup
68, Currency, 189d-'99..rog..J

Alftbainn— OS. fnndiiblo

&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&

A«k.

Bid.
I

Detroit,

2
05

Var.
& J

&
&
&

Citv Secubities.
Dayton. O.— 8s

A&O

6s,Laiid C. 1889
7s of 1888
6s, non-f uiidahle bonds
68, consols,

coup

d«

Ask.

Bid.

— (Continued.) &
68, Land C, '89
J

South (Carolina

UNITED STATES BONDS.
en,
Ok,

State Seccritiss.

Ask.

Bid.

United States Bonds.

atavor by kIvIuk notice of-any error discovered In these Quotatlona.

I0314

106
10314
10314
103

101
102
11513
1031a

112
108
106
108
106
112
119
119
119
109
109
112
107
104

I

95
88
88
110

82
80
A&O 80
1904.. .F& Al 109
Var.

5s. 1S94, gold
F&AI
Fitchbuig. .Mass.— 6s. '91,W.L.. J&Jt
Fredeiiekslmrg, Va.— 7s
M&N
Galveston, Tex.— lOs, '80-'95 ..Var.
Galvest'n Couuty.lOs, 1901.J & J

I01l2'l02l3

110
105

109
101
102

102%

Georgetown, D.C.— See Dist. of Col.
Hanisliurg, Pa. 6s, coupon. Var.. 103
Hartford, (jt.— City 6s, various
104
Capitol, untax, 6s
115
Hartford Town bonds. 6s. untax.
107
Haverhill, Mass.— 6s, '85-89.. A&Ot 107
Houston, Tex.— lOs
6s, funded
20
Indianapolis, Ind.—7-308,'93-99. J&J 105
Jersey City—Os, water, long, 1895.. 101
108 1»
7s,
do
1899-1902
78, sewerage, 1878-'79
J & J 100
7s, asscssment,'78-79.J& J-M& N 100
7s, iuiprovement, 1891-'»4
Var. 107
7s, Bergen, hmt'
J & J 105
Hudson Couuty, 6s
A&O 102
do
7S.M&S and J&l) 107

—

.

107

116%
109
107 14

.

23

107%
102

J&J

109%

101
101
108
106
103
108
Bayonne City, 7s, long
J&J 101 105
I/awrence, Mass.— 6s, 1894. ..A& O 109% IIOI4
Long Island City, N. Y
99
96
Louisville. Ky.— 7s, longdates. Var.t 103% 107
7s, short dates
Var. 102% 105
6s, long
Var. t 97% 98%
100
6s, short
Var. t 99
Lowell, Ma.ss.—6s, 1894
M&Nt 110 llOH
98
Lynchburg, Va.—Os
J & J 97
8s
J & J 105
Lynn, Mass.- Os. 1887
F&AI 106% 107%
Water loan, 1894-96
J&J 109% IIOI4
58,1882
M&Nt 100% 101
I

t

80
102
110
45
43
45
45
64
100
105
106
20
20
36

70

Macon, Ga.— 7s
Manchester, N. 11.— 5s, 1882-'85...
6s, 1894
Memphis, Tenn.— Os, old, C...J
6s, new, A &B
J
6s, gold, fund.. 1900

I

t

&
&

101
109

I
I

35
35
33
35
6s, eud.,M. &C. RR
114
6s, con.sols
J&J 61
108
Milwaukee, Wis.- 5s, 1891....J & D 95
109
do
do
',8, 1896-1901
1888
do
105
Var. 104
A<S:0: loa
0.S, 1877-'86
108
MIcliigan— 6s, 1878-79
Biiflalo, N, Y.— 7s, 1876-'80.
Var. 100
7s, water, 1902
J & J 105
J & J,101i4
6s,lSS3
Mobile, Ala.— 88
J & J
J A J 103
7s, 1880-'95
Var. 103
111
7s, IS'.IO
J & J
M&N 110
78, water, long
Var. 110
5s
113
Minnesota— 7s. RR. repudiated
M&N 30
20
68, Park, 1926.
M& S 101 104
35
68, funded
Mi.s.souri- 6s, 1878
J&J
J & J 101% lOlSs! Cambridge. .Ma.ss.- 5s. 1889..-A&Oti IOII9 1021a Montgomery, Ala. — Ss
Fnniling bonds, 1894-95
80
90
Nashville, Tenn.— 6s, old
68, 1894-96, water loan
J&JI Ulifl 112
J & J 108ia 109 13
90
LoiiK bds, '82 to '90
80
100
J & J 103 105 14 Camden Co., N, J. — 6s. coup
6s, new
* 103
105
A.sylum or University. 1892. J & J 105
Var. 102
Camden City, N. J.— Os, coup
Newark— 6s, long
111
110
Ifannibal & St. Jo., 1886.... J & JL...
Var. 107
114 115
78, reg. and coup
104 »a
78, long
Var. 112 !116
do
do 1887....J&J;
7s, water, long
60
1041a Charleston, 8.C.— 6s, st'k,'76-98..Q-J
N.Hnnip.shirc—6s, 1892-1905.. .T*J 11213 113
New Bedford, Mass.- (is, 1893.... t 111% II214
78, tire loan bonds, 1890
J & J
7!)
War loiui, 6s. 1884
t
7s, non-tax bonds
N. Brunswick. N. J.— 7s
MiS:8 106
107
96
New Jersey— «s. 1897-1902.... J&J-I
t 109% 110
Chelsea. Ma.ss.— 6s, 97,waterl.F&At 1091.2 109% Ncwbnryport, Mass.—6s, 1890
103 103
6s, exempt, 1S77-1896
Town,
Air
Line...
Ct.—
Os,
Chicago,
III.—
6s,
longdates.
N.
Haven,
J&J 96 1(K)
JiJ
103 103
NewY'ork- 6s,Can»l loan, 1878. J&J
.
Town, 6s, war loan
J&Jt 103 10313
7s, sewerage, 1892-'95
103 105
1890-'95
Hall
68, gold, reg., 1887
do
68,
Town
J&JI 102 104
78, water,
J & J|
112 115
68, gold, coup., 1887
J&Jti 100
Citv, 7s. sewerage
7s, river impr., 1890-'95
J & J 1'20
105
103
6s,goM, 1883
IO4I3
City
Hall
J&JI 103
do"
6s,
J & J
7s, 1890-'9o
6s.KoM. \>>n
do 78, Q'nnipick Bridge
Cook Co. 7s, 1880
M&N 100 102
J & j|
36
37
Os, K»l,l, 1>1»2
boiuLs.
—
Premium
Orii'ans,
La.
do
78,1892
105
.A.&0!
107% New
42
Var. 39
6«. golil, 1K1I3
Consolidated Os, 1S92
100
Lake View Water Loan 78
100
J & J 1231a
'75
36
38
N. Carolina—68, old, '68-'98..J & Ji 15
'94..Var.
Railroad
issues,
6s,
&
i>7ii. 100
Lincoln Park 7s
16
6s, old
Wharf impr.. 7-308, 18S0....J &D
South Park 7s, 1876-'79....J & J 97ifl 100
A&O 15 ye
6b, NC. RR
Now Y'ork Oily—
West Park 78. 1890
95 100
J & J 67
6s,
.Q— Fl 100 103
do
Cincinnati,
68, water stock, 1876-80.
67
6s, long
V»r.*t 97
100
Gs,
103
do
6.S,
1 877-79.... Q— Ft 100
coup. otr.
..-.Var.*! 08
do
6.S, short...
48
6s,
do
(5— Fl 100 102
coup. off.
1890
890
7-308
110
do
Var.'t 108
58,
48
106
6s, Funding act of 1866
103
Q—F
883-90.....
188;
Var.'ti 105
do
106
68,
78
J & J
9
103 106
68,
do
*, •81-1911..(J—
'(
1868
Southern RR. 7-:»0s, 1902...J&J(! 99 13 100 Hi
68, aqueduct stock,
.\&0 8I9
.
,
115
118
new
.M&N
68,
bonds
7-30s, new
98 13
do
7s, pijics and mains. 1900.
3
t
108 100
86I3
6".
dp
6s, reservoir bonds. 1907-'11-Q—
do
63, g, 1906. .M&N Vso'
8
103
6s, special t,ix, class 1
5s, Cent. Pari: bonds, '77-98. .« -F 101
Hamilton Co., O., Os
214
100 103
'77-93.. (J—
63,
do
do
class 2
6s,
7s, short
do
t 100
2
118
119
6s.
do
long 7s & 7-30». t 105
class 3
78, dock bonds, 1901
do
110
2
107 103
Ohlo-6R,1881
1905
do
Various. 103
Os,
Cleveland, O.— 68. long
103
J & jiios
103
101%
.^SO'ISSO
6s, floating debt 8tock,1878..Q—
30-year 58
99 100
J & J|108
Pennsylvania— 5s, gold, '77-8.. F&a! 101 104
7s, market stock, 1h<j4-97..M&N 116 1117
Various. 99
101
(Js, short
1103
104
1*89.
M
N
58, enr., reg., 1 S77-'82
&
Os, Improvem't stock.
Various I 109
110
F& A*|
7s. long
Ss, new rog., 1 8;)2-1002 . P& A 1 1 Oij Viiu
1S79-90.M&N 101 114
do
7s,
Various 102
7s, short
IO413
_

Massachn.sctts- 58, 1879, gold.J A J 101
Ss, gold, 1883
J&J!l04i4
.
68, gold, long
Var. t 113
5s, g., sterling, 1891
J&J ;I106
do
do
1894
M&X;|107
I

104%

& JI:117
& J 106
& J 106
M & N 109
J
J
J

7s, Hrirl-c. lillo
6s, Water. 19112-5
6s, Park, 1900-1924
Kings Co. 7s, 1 882-'89

:

M&N

. . .

J
J

M&N

I

11

i

.

. .

I

•-

I

I

M&N

1

A&O
J&J
A&O

O—

. .

I

J&J
A&O
A&O
A&O
A&O

,

.

6s. l(_)-l.->, reg., 1877-'8'J
6«, 1.1-25, reg., 1882-'92
Eb<Mlo Island— 68. 1882

0s,1891
SoutU Carolina—68
68- -...6s, fiuidlngact,

'

1366

.

.

I

M&N
M&N

I

.

F & A 101'4 105
F & Alll2i!i 113
M&8I lOO 107

J

F&VllO
& J 30

J

30
30

A&O
&

J

Price nominal ; no late trunsaoUoiu,

118

Special 7s, l876-'8

1

Columbia. S.C— OS, bonds
Columbus, <ia.—7s, Various
Covington. Ky.— 7.30s
88
Dallas,

Texas— 88, 1904

103,1833-90
I

Yearly

I

102

101
"

Var.
f

t

o'o

too

"76"

102

103 105
82 13 85
95 100

Purchaser also pays ao .'rued iutereat.

M&N
.M&N

{
Os, gold, cons, bonds, 1901
63, street impr. stock. 1 888
'79-.82.M&N
do
do
78,
Os, gold, new couroI., 1896
78. Westchester Co., 1881
.

Newton —6s. 1905
58,1905
I

(n London.

112

110

I02%ll05
104
107
106

1107
1

109
107

J*J 111% 11219
J&J 102% 103

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F

.

J

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THE CHRONICLE.

310

I

.

Vol. XXVI.

GENERAL QUOTATI©NS OF STOCKS AND BONDS— Continued.
For Kxplanatlous See Notes

Var.

8s, coup., lSi)0-93
88, water, 1901
Norwich, Ct.— 5s. 1907

Orange, N.

M&N

A<fcO

t

tl04
1103

7h

,T.

Osweso, N. Y.- 7s
Paterson, N. ,T.— 7s, long.
Petersburg, Va.— Gs

..

. .

.

...T&J

103
103

..J&J
8s, special

tax

.JA-J *

Pa.— 38, rcg

Philadelphia,

^^

6s, old, res
6s, new, rcg

ids'

idi'

113

J&J 112

Pa.— ts, coui1..1913.. JA-.I
J*fc.T
58, reg. au<l coup., 1913
78, water, rog.&cp.,'93-'9S...A&0
Vai
7fl, street inrp., reg. 'S3-S6
Portland, Me. 6s, JIimicipal...Var
Pittsburg.

—

53

1

S3

il02iaU03
1OGI2 107 Hi
,

M&

—

A&O

&D

St. Paul, Minn.— 6s, '8S-'90. ..I
78, 1874-90
Var
8s, 1889-96
Co. .Var
S. Francisco— 78, g.,City
Var.
Savannah, Ga.— 7s, old
Var.
78, new
Somerville, Mass.— 58, 1895.
68, 1885

M&N

&

Bid.

Railroad Bonds.

Ask.

»107

107%

110612 1071^

102
117
103
111
199
g.30

g
till
fl03
35

SO
1103
1100
1106
1106

W2h
105
113
100
33
i'12'

I

C—

IOII2

.

,

78.

M&N
Q—

conv

Consol. M., 7s, 1809

Am. Dock & Imp.

L.&W.Coal, con8.,7s,g'd.l900Q-M
Cent. Ohio— Ist M., Gs, 1890.. AI&S

103

Cent. Pac. (Cal.)— 1st M., Gs, g..J&J
J&J
State Aid. 7s. g.. 1884
S. Joaquin. 1st M..6S, g.1900. A&O

42
42

108
50

Daiib'v & Norwalk— 7s, '80-93. .J&J
66%
I)anv."llaz.& W.— Ist. 7s, '88...\&0
43% 45
D.an. Ur. Bl. & P.— 1st. 7s. g...A&0
39% Davton & Mich.- 1st M., 7s, '81. J&J
38

66

J&J

Co., 78

871a 90
100 104

g.l07

67

2d mortgage,
3d mortgage,

XS^O

7s, lsis3
7s, 18S1
Con.sol. mort., 78, 190C

M&X

Chic. & Alton— 1st M., 7s, '93.. J&J
Sterling mort., 6s, g., 1903. J&J

20

81-2

63

do
93
;97

99

107

107%

A&O

Atch'n & Neb.— 1st .M.. s..<, •9(;. .M&.'i
Ateh.Top.&.S.F.— lst,7s.g.,'99.J&J

Cliic.

81

83

Chic.

35

38
101
10

Chic.
Chic.

45

Cliic.

1931.2

7s,

'83. J&J

J&J
J&J

1896

J&1>
Bonds. 58, 1895
A.&0
5s, 1902
Chic. & Can. So.- 1st. 7s. 1903..\&O

A&O

.A&O

A&O

1883

Cons(d. mort.. 78, 1903

96%

Araer'n Cent.— Ist M., 8s, '78. .J&J 1100
Ark. Cent.— 1st M., 8s, g., '91.. J&J
AtcU'n& Pikes P.— lst,Gs,g.'93M&N
35

7s,

& Q.— Ist, S.F.,88,

Chic. B.

ib'sj

Allegh.Val.— Gen. M.. 73-103.. J&J
E.ast. exten. M.. 7s, 1910...
Income, 78, end., 1894

Income,

"94

Clin.&Dub.— 1st,

&

East.

do

111.,

Ss,

'96.J&D

1st mort. 6s

income M., 78
8.s, '96-J&D
Iowa— Ist M., 8s,1901.J&J

Dub.& Min.— 1st,

&
ra& Neb.— l.stM.,78,'88.J&J

Chic.&L. Huron— 1st 73. '99. -M&N
Chic.& Mich.L.Sh.- 1st, 88,'89..M&S

Var.
grant. 7s. g., 1903
A&O 9314 92% 1st mort.. 8s, lS90-'92
Consol. niort., 78, g., 1903... A&O 1571s 57^ Chic. M1I.& St. P.— P.D., Ist 8S.F&A
Land income, 8s
J&J 1104 105
P. D., 2d M., 7 3-lOs. 1898. -F&A
Atl'ta & Rich'd A. L.— 1st. SS..J&J
40
60
St. P. & Chic, 7.8. g.. 1903. . . .J&J
Atl.& Gt.West.— lst,7s. g. 1902.J&J t23
25
Mil. & St. P.. 'id M.. 7s, 1884.A&0
J&J
2d mort., 78,.g., 1903
M&S 1:9
11
La. C. 1st M., 78,1905
J&J
3d mort.. 7s, g.. 1903
L &M.. IstM., 7s, 1897
5%l
14%
Leased L. rental, 7s, g.. 1903.J&J t3S
40
I'a. & Dak., Ist M.. 7s, 1899. J&J
do
do 7s. g.,1903.J&J tie
19
Hast. & Dak., 1st M.,7s, 1902.J&J
West. ext. ccrtifs, Ss, 1876.. J&J t26
30
Chic. & Mil., Ist M.. 7s, 1903.J&J
do
do
7s, gn.ar. Erie !26
30
Ist mort.. consol., 7s, 1903.. .I&J
Atl. & GiUf—Cons. M., 7s, '97. .J&J
82
79
Chic. &N.W.— S.F.,l.st, 78,'85.F&A
Consol. M., 7s, end. Sav
40
Interest mort, 7s, 1883
Ist mortgage, 7s. end
<S—
J&J
80
Consol. mort., 7.s, 1915
F&A
S. Ga. & Fla., 1st M. 7s. 1889.M&N
94
96
Exten. mort., 7s, 1385
At.Miss.&Oliio.- Cons..g.l901.A&0 t22
F&A
7s,
1883
mort..
27
1st
Com. bondholders certs
+22
27
Consol., gold, 73, cp., 1902.. J&D
Atl.& St. Law.— St'g 2d, 6s .g.A&O ;i06
do
reg
108
do
Bald Eagle Val.— 1st M., 6s,'8l.J&J
Iowa Mid.. 1st M., 83, 1900. .\&0
Balthnore & Ohio— Gs, 1880... .I&J ndi% 103%
Gal. & Cliic. ext., 1st, 7s,'83.F&A
6s, 1883
A&O no6 108
Peninsula, 1st, conv..78,'98.M&S
Sterling, Gs, 1895
M&8 ;i04 106
Chic. & Mil., 1st M., 7s. '98.. J&J
Sterling mort., Gs, g.. 1902. .M&S ;i04
lOG
Madison ext., 78, g., 1911. ..A&O
do
Gs, g., 1910.
107
Menominee ext., 7s, g., 1911. J&D
tl05
Bait. & Pot'e— Ist, Gs, g.. 191 1 .J&J :85
87
La C. 'lr.& P.. 1st M., 103.'78. A&O
1st, tunnel. 6s. g.,g'd, 1911. A&O
86
Northw. Un.,lst, 78, g.. 1915.M&S
:84
Bellev.&S. 111.— l8t.8.F.83,'9G.A&0
90
97
Chic. & Pad.— Ist -M., 7s, 1903. J&J
BelvidercDel.— lBt,68,c.,1902.J&D 101 104% Chic. Pek.& H.W.— 1st, 8,s,1901.F&A
2d mort.., (is, 1885
M&S 99 101 Chic. R. t. & Pac
3d mort., Gs, 1887
F&A 93
F&A
94
8. F.. income, 6s, 1893
Boston & Albany— 7s, 1892-5. F&A 1115 115%
....I&J
Gs, 1917, coup
6s, 1895
J&J 1106% 107
J&J
Gs. 1917. reg
Bost. Clint.& F.— 1st M., Gs,'81. J&J *I85
90
Chic.& 8. W.— i8t,7s, g. g'd,'90. M&N"
IstM., 7s. 1889-90
'90.
.-Vtch.
Br.
..T&D
J&J •185
7s,
90
g.,
1st M.,
N. Bedford RR., 7». 1894.... J&J *t9J 100
Cin. & Indiana— 1st M..78,'92.J&D
Bost. Conc.& Mou. -S.F., 6s,'89.J&,I •1 ..
2d mort., 78, 1883-87
,T&J
Consol. mort., 7s, 1893
A&O 1101
Cin. &Sp.—l8t,7s,,guar., 1901. A&O

Land

M&N

.

M&N

M&N

"

Price Qomiual

;

no

late traQsaetions.

1

ids"
20
23!it

102
99
93
80

M&S
mort., 7s, 1887
106 14 106%
A&O
3d mort., 78, 1888
West.l8tM.,Gs, 1905. J&J
Davt.
&
"89" 8914; I'st mort., 78, 1905
J&J
8H
Delaware— Mort., Gs.g'd, "95. J&J
2'd

101%

35
7I2

|

.

50
Cal. & Oregon, 1st, 6s, g., '88.J&J
93
Cal.& Or. C.P.bonds, G3,'g..'92 J&J {91
106
Land grant M., 6s, g., 1890. A&O ;88, 90
'99.
J&J
104
107
1st,
103%
West. Pacif.,
68, g.,
6593,1884
A&O: 1106%
112
Charl'te Col. & A.— 1st, 78, 90. J&J
Springfield, Mass.—6s, 1905. ..\&0 till
J&J
Consol.. 7s, 1895
A&O 1117 118
78, 1903
95
Cheraw & Darl.— 1st M.,83.'88.A&0 105
Stockton, Cal.— 88
g.90
2d mort., 7s
83
Toledo, O.— 7-30S, ER., 1900.M & N 100
107
24
Clie8a.& Ohio— Ist, 6s, g.. '99. M&N
Var. 104
8s, 1877-89
25
109
1st, Gs, g., 1899, ex coup
Var. 106
88, water, 1893 & '94
J&J
Washington, D.C.—Scc Dist. of Col.
2d mort,. 7fl, g.. 1903
96
Wilmington, N.C.— 68, gold, eon. on
Va. Cent., 1st M., Gs, 1880.. .J&J
85
do
3d M.,Gs, 1834... J&J
75
8s, gold, cou. on
Ulisj
4thM., 8s. 1876 ..J&J
do
90
Worcester. Mass.— Gs, 1893. ..A&O, till
funding, 8s, 1877. J&J
do
85
Yonkers, N. Y.—Water, 1903
J&J 198
Cheshire— 6s, 1896
J&.I 199% 100
Gs, 1880
RAIL,ROAO BONDS.
Chester Val.— 1st M., 7s. 1873.M&N

.

Ask,

I414 14% Cln.Laf.&Ch.— lst,78,g..l901.M&S^
75
Cin. Ham.&D.— 1st M.,'7s,'80.M&n1 10:
13%
103%
i'16%
2d mort.. 7s, 1885
I&J
96
Boston & Lowell-New 7s, '93. A&O 1110
Consol. nnu-t., 7s. 1905
A&Ol' 100% 101
A&O
do Gs, 1879
J&J noo% 101 14
Cin. H. & I,. 1st M., 78, 1903.J&J
30
40
New Gs, 1896
IIII4 Cin. Rich. & Chic— Ist, 7a, '95-.I&J
82
85
Boston & Maiue— 7s. 1893-94. J&J
103%
40
Cin. Rich. & F. W.— 1st, 7s, g...J&D
55
Bost. & N. Y. Air L.— 1st 78
115% Cin. Sand-ky & CI.— 6s, 1900. .F&A 155
Bost. & Providence— 7s, 1S93-J&J
7s, 1887 extended
M&S t
Bruus'k & All>.—lsf.end..68, g.A&O
-40
"go"
Consol. mort., 7s, 1890
J&D t
Buflf. Prad.& P.— Gen. M.7s.'96.J&J
110
BuflT.N.Y.&Erie— 1st, 7s, 1916.J&I) 108% 108 14 Clev. Col. C. & I.— 1st, 7s, '99. .M&N 109
Consol. mort., 7s, 1914
J&D J89
91
Bnff.N.Y.& Phil.— 1st, Gs,g.,'96.J&J
"69 "6914
Belief. & lud. M., 7s, 1899... J&J 100
Bur. C. E.& N.— l8t.5s,new,'06.J&r
Clev.& M. Val.— 1st, 78. g., '93. F&A
Bur. & Mo. R.— L'd -M., 7s, 93. A&O 110% 111
J&J illO 112
8. F. 2d mort., 7b, 187G
M&S
C;)onv. 8s, various series
Bur.&5Io.(Neb.)— 1st M.,8^, 94.J&J HIOI4 110% Clev. & Pitts.—4th M., 68, 1893. J&J 105% 105S8
Cimsol. S. F., 7s, 1900
J&J 1106 107
M&N
lllia
8.S, conv.. 1883
10
14
Clev. Mt. V. & Del.— Ist, 76. g. .J&J V ....
Bnr.&Soutliw.- 1st M., 83,'95.M&N
20
Colorado Cent.—lst, 8s, g., '90. J&D *1100
Cairo & St.L.— 1st >!.. 7s, 1901. A&O
36" Col. Cliic & I.
33%
1st, 7s, 190S.A&O
Cairo & Vine— 1st, 7s. g.,1909.A&0 ;36
93
95
F&A 6
2d mort.. 78, 1890
11
Oalifor. Pac— l.st M., 7s. g.,'89. J&J
'93-'95.
'89.J&J
45
P.-ic.,
77
80
Clitc
&
Gt.
East..
Ist,
78,
2d M.. 6s, g., end C.
561a
J&J
60
80
C0I.& Ind. C, 1st M.. 78, 1904. J&J
83
Exteu., 78^
do
2d M., 7s, 1904. M&N »:y7 •62
Camden & Atl.— 1st. 78, g., '93.. J&J 109 115
A&O 99 14
Un.& Logiinsp.,lst,7s,1905..V&0 *60
63
3d mort., 7s, 1879
T. Logau'sp. & B., 7s, 1884.. F&A
6G
70
Cam.& Bur. Co.— 1st M., 6s,'97.F&A 101 104
Cin. & Clue A. L., 1886-'90
68%
Canada So.— 1st M., 7s, g.,1906.J&J
102'"
reg
Ind. Cent., 3d M., 'lOs, 1882. J&J 100
do
67
67% Col.&Hock.V.—IstM., 7s,'97.A&0 100 103
Deb. certiticatea
F&A 1103% 1041.) IstM., 7s, 1880
JikJ
93
100
Cape Cod— 7s, 1881
34
40
J&Ji 90
3d M.. 7s, 1892
(Carolina Cent.— 1st, 6s,g.,1933.J&J
Col. & Toledo— l8t mort. bonds
85
86
Carthage & Burl.— 1st, Ss, '79.M&N 1100 101
Col. Springr.&
1st, 7s,1901.M&S
40
Catawi.ssa— 1st M., 7s, 1882. .F&A
F&.^ 103
104
Col. & Xenia- 1st M.. 78,1890.M&S
106
New mort., 7s, 1900
65
Conn. &riissump.— M.,7s,'93..4&0 1103
102 J4
Cavnga Lake— 1st, 7s, g., 1901.J&D •40
84% 86
Mas.-<a\vippi, g., 6s. gold, '89 J&J I* t
Cehar F.&Min.— 1st, 7s, 1907. J&J
Cedar R. & Mo.— Ist, 7s, '91- . F&A 110314 102 a, Conii.Riv.—S.F. 1st M.,68,'78..M&S 1100% idi "a
M&N 1103 103% Conn. Val.— 1st M.. 7s, 1901. ...T&Jl 50 53
Ist mort., 7s, 1916
103
23
Conn. West.- Ist M., 78, 1900. J&J
24
Cent, of Ga.— lst.cons..7s,'93.J&J 103
31
33
Connecting (Phila.)— 1st, Gs ..M&S
104
Cent, of Iowa— 1st M., 73, g. .
Cumberl.Val.— l8tM..8s,1904.A&O
Cent, of N.J.— l8t M., 78, 1890.F&.\ 111'4 112

C—

103

101
107
107
U06 107
U06 107
107
1106
1105% 106 lo
107
llOG

.A&O tlOl
J&J 1105

Ala. Cent.— 1st M., Ss,g., 1901. J&J
Ala.&Chatt.— lst,8s,g;,g'd,'99.J&J
78, receiver's certs, (var. Nos.) .
Ala. &'renn. Riv.— 1st, 7s
Alb'y & .Snsq.— 1st M.. 7s, '88. .J&J

Bid.

,

1

Var tl03i2 104
H.— (!s, 1893, RR.. tl04 106
110 1111-2
Poughliccpsie. N. Y.— 7s, water

Railroad aid
Portsmouth, N.

Providence, R.I.— 3s, g., 1900-3. J&.I
J & J
68, gold, 1900
S
6s, 1885
J&J
Bichmond, Va.— Gs
J & J
8s
Rochester, N.Y.— Gs, '76-1902. Var.
J & J
78, water. 1903
Rockland, Me.— Gs, '89-99. RR.F,S:.\
Sacramento, C.al.—Cit y bonds, Gs .
Sacramento Co. bonds, Gs
A&O
Salcin, Mass.— Gs, long
.I&J
5s, 1904, W. L
Var.
8t. Joseph, Mo. 7s
J Jc J
Bridge 10s, 1891
St. Louis, Mo.— Gs cur.,Ig. bds.Var.
V.ar,
66, short
Water Gs, gold, 1887-90... J it D
1892.
do (now),
do
Bridge approa<'li, Gs
Var.
Renewal, gold, Gs
Sewer, 6s, gold, 1891 '93. ...V.ar.
St. L. Co.— Park, 6s, g.,190j.A <k O
Currency, 7s. 1887-88.... Var.

Page of (Quotations.

mi
m5

105
97"
105
107

Var "95'

First

Bost. H.art.& E.— 1st, 7s, 1900. J&J
J&J
Ist mort., 7s, guar

94
90
105 "^ 109
II312 114

Norfolk.Va.— 6s,ies.stk,'78-85.J&J

Head of

Railroad Bonds.

Ask.

Bid.

City SECURtTiES.

at

!

1

105

96%

Del.& Bownd B'k— 1st, 7s,1905F&A

W.— 2d M.,78,'81.M&S
J&D
Convertible 78, 1892
Denver Pac— 1st M.,78, g.,'99.M&N

106
101

Den.& Rio(}.— lst,7s, g.,1900,M&N
DCS M. & Ft. D.— 1st, Gs. 19(11. &.I

50

Del.

Lack.&

46%

1

C—

l8t,S8.19(i3.M.\.X
Detroit & Bay
1st M., 8s, end. M. C, 1902. M&N
Det. KelRiv.& 111.— M., 8s, '91. .J&J
Dot. L. & North.— lst,7s, 1907. A&O
Detr. & Milw.— Ist M., 78, '75.
2d mort., 8s, 1875
Det.& Poutiac, 1st M., 7a, '78.J&J
3d M., 8s, 188G.F&A
do
Dixon Peo.&H.— IstM., 83,'89..I&J
l8t,7s,'83.J&J
Dulm(iue& Sioux
J&J
1st mort. 2d Dlv

25
183
t35
;35

M&N
M&N

,30

1101% 102%

C—

102
105
114%
Dunk. A.V.& P.— l8t,78,g..l900J&D 100
106
10
:10l
Dutchess & Col.— 1st, 7s, 1908. J&J
107=8' 108 14 East Penn.— 1st M.,78, 1SS8...M&S 102
114% E.Tcnn.Va.& (}a.— 1st. 7s.l 90;I.J&J 98
85
1108% 108=8
E. Tenn. & Ga., l.st, Gs.'Sil-sG.J&J
83
110% 110%
E.Tenn.& Va.,ciid.,Ga, 188G.M&N
Var.
too
91
Eastern. Mass.— 78, old
91%
New M..fiuid., 3%s, g.,1906.M&s! f62i4
15
21% Slerlinir debs., 63, g., 190G..M&8
30
31
Kliinni& Wmsiiort— l8t,7s,'80.J&.) 103
A&O 65
3s. pei-petual
51
58
10
15
Erie Railwa.v—
M&N 112%
31
30
Ist mort., 7s, 1897
M&S 103%
62
67% 2d mort., 78, 1879
M&S
1102
103
3d mort., 7s, 1 383
A&O
4th mort., 78, 1880
J&D 105%
V75'
5th mort., 7s, 1883
M&S !99
6
Sterling, Ga, gold, 1875
J&J :93
117% 118%
1st cons., 7a. gold, 1930
J&D
102 103 "8
2d cons., 7s. gold, 1894
Debentures, 7s, g., 1903 ....(J104% 103
103
Eocon. trustees' certs., 78
131
106
Long Dock mort., 7s, 1893.. J&I) 110
9914 Erie & Pittsb.— 1st M., 78, '83. J&J
99
98
J&J
96
Cons, mort., 7s, 1898
80
A&O
97
96
Equipinent, 78, 1890
'89.
J&J
Ga,
106
N.Am.—
1st,
&
Eiirop'n
,

1

"oGii

96's

109
103 14
lOS^^S

109 14

i'07%

96% "99
95
98

Land gr., Ga, g
Bangor & Piae. 6 &

78, '99.

1194
",i93%

FUnt &

H(dlv-, 1st, 108, '83.

Holly W.

T[87%

91
"88
06'

&

107% 108
107% 108

94%

1193%

n

73% 78

The purchaser also pays accrued interest.

t

62%
105

70
104
10614

107
107
101

94
53
111
101
85
78

M&S
A&O

M&N

Si.— 1st, 8s, 1901.J&J
7, '89.

mort.. 73
Cent, L. I., 1st. 78, 1903
Cent, exten., 78, 1903

M&N
M&N
M&S
M&N

Ft. W. Jack. &S.— 1st, 88, '89.. J&J
1st, 78, g.,'89.A&0
Ft. W. Mnii.&
Fraui'gham& Lowell— 1st, 78, 1891
(notes), 8s, 1883
do

101
50
*,30
'•"50"

103

65
85
30

60

47

C—

Gal.Har.&S.A.— lst,G8,g.l910.F&A
Gal.Hous.&lI.— 1st, 7s, g.,1903.J&J

Gem-gia- 78, 1876-90

10(!

104
20
105
100
88
90

BavC.& E.Sag.- 1st, 10s„S3.J&J 100
3(1

110
95

. .

Evausv. & Crawf.— 1st, 78, '87. J&J
Evansv.T.H.&Chi.— 1st, 78, g.M&S
Flint& Pere M.— lst,I.g.88,'88.M&N
M&N
Coiis.S. F., 8.S, 1902

106% 107% Flushing & N. S.— 1st,
107
108

45
45

70

Gilman CI.& Sp.— lst,7s,g.l90OM&b
Gr.Rap. & Iml.— 1st, l.g., g'd, 7s, g.
1 at M..78, l.g., gold,not guar. A&O
Ex laud grant, Ist 7s, '99
Greenv. & Col.— Ist M., 78, "guar."
Bonds, guar
V In Amsterdam.

15

70
30

77% 80
80

J&J 107

Gs

lu Loudon.

160

94

109

97

be"
82%

85ifl

43

55

37

90
42

M

JA

J

.

March

THE (;hronicle.

80, 1878.1

311

GENERAL QUOTATIONS OF STOCKS AND BONDS—Contixued.
For Bxplanattons See Notes at Head of First Pace

II«<'k'«'kAN'.Y. E.— iBt, 7h."1)0.M&N
Huiiiiilial A- Niil>.-l«t.7». 'SH.M&N
A.S
Umi. ,V St. .10.- C'Dliv. 8», 1S85
.

LjukI 1,'miilH..
Qiiincv A- I'lil.. Idt.Sn.

M
AiO

lliil A lN.itcl»-st.-r-l»tM,7»,.AA()

loi

A

Mt.J.AL.— l8t,<).<...IA.I 103
F.— 1 «t M.,7m,'7(!.JAJ I1U8
lIoiHitMiilc— l8t M.,7«, 1HS3.F&A

110

Il;in-.1>. !.

Ilail

aTi'X.C— X»t,7B. )i.,'!)l.JAJ

8.5

X8!>1..J&J

78

A X. W., 1st, 78, K.,1!)03.J&,I

77
08

Wi'-I. Dlv.. lat,
,1

Cons,

iiiort., H«,

7.'(, IT.,

A&O

1!»13

A lir.Toii-lst, 7s, '!)0..A&O
molt., 7», g., lS!)ri
K&

Hunt.
2il

Cons.
llliniiis

!)«, g.,

liMW.. AA(1

8torltni,',KOii. M.,Ik(,b.,
il.i

.'.s,

li)0.-)

Gland Tr.— 1st

Ilid'iiolls nriii.&

18UJ.AA()
JAIJ

M., 8s. 'im.AitO

W.— l8t,7s,g.A&0

2d

limit., ss, l8iM)
JJcJ
Ext.iis'ii 1st M., 78. g., l!tl2..IA.I
Ind'piilis tiii.A L. -l«t, 78, •!)7.F&A
3d iiimt..7s, 1890
J&I)

Ind'ajiolis .t Cin., l8t,7s,'8x..\&0
Ind'p.ills.v St.I,.— lst,78,191U.Vaf.
2il liaill.. 7m. IIIIK)

A&O

Ind'apolisA Viii.— lst,7»,190S.F&A
2d in.irt.. (is, g.. >fimr.. 1!>(K).MAN
Inteinl A: (it. No.— Int. lat, 78. A>V:0
ir<>iist.c'i:(it..\o.,l8t, 78, K. ..JAJ

Conv.

Ionia

Ss.

F&A

1802

A

IjuisiiiK— 1st 8s,'89. ..J&J
I'a Falls A Sioux C.—l8t,78.'99AA:0
Itliaca A Athens.— 1st lu.. 78,jt.Ji'kJ

Jack. L. A Saw.- l8t, 8a. '8.5. ...J&J
Norl li Kxtcn., 88, 1890
MAN
C011-..1.

2d

M&S

mart.. 88, 1891

iiioit..

70

103
93

HO

199

ioi'

Couaol. 7a

A&O
A&O

;icl M. 7k. 1S!».">
(Vntrid— (ia, 1H!»0

Stei linv, S. v..

TU.

MAN

87
80

1878

32

-Mani'tte Ho.

Mar.

108

110
98

110%

*94
03
OS's

bo"
93'

til7

*20
•04
*30
*20

MAN

too

Ex coup

do

1

Cons, mort., 7s.
IMiss.A Tcnn.— 1 st
Cons, mort., 8s,
1

02
091;

M.Oilai

100

8s, 1 870

g., 1012
il..

"A"

.

43
00
02
78

MAN

<!

106
77

B"
h.ARcdR.— lst,78,x'OO.JAJ
•'

":'42'

5Io.Kaiis.AT.— l.st,7.s,,i;.,1004-GFAA

JanuM. A Frankl— Ist,

78,'97..TAJ
2d mort., income
2d iiKii-t., 7s, 1894
..J&I)
l8t, 08, (?.. 1899. (U. P. S. Br.) JAJ
Jefferson— Hawl'v Br. 7s, '87..,IAJ
79
78, assented
Ist niort.,7s. 1889
80
Inccmic, 08
JA.I
Jeff. Mad.A hid.— 1st, 78,1900. A AO 1 1031a 107
Han. A C. Mo., 1st 7s, i,'.,'0O.MAN
2d iiioit..7s, 1910
Mo. F. Scott A G.— 1 St. 10s, '99. JAJ
JA.I
821a 80
1031-2
Itid'ix iisA Mail., l3t.7a."81.MAX 100
2d mort.. 10s, 1890
Joli,.| A- Chii'.- 1st M..8S, •82..JA.1
110 111
Jlob. A Mont.— 1st, end. 8s, e.MAN
Jimctioi. HK.(Plill.)— lst,08,'82JA.J •100
Mob.AOIiio— Ist.ster.Sa.K. '83.MAN,
I

,

2d

inoit.,

(is,

A&O 102

1900

Kalaiiiazoo.Vl.AOr. R.— lat,8a.J&J

Kal.A s.-lKMileraft- l8t,8a, '87.J&J
Kal.A Wli. Fijfcon— lat,7s, 90..JAJ
Kaiis.C.St. Jo.

C.

K.C.Toiioka&W.— Ist M.,78,g.,.JAJ
Kansas Pacitic—
(fold. 1895.. ..FAA
Ist iiiort., «8, g.. 189(!
,TAI>
L. gi:. Ist niort., 7s, g.,1899-JIAN
(is,

Land 1st mort., 78, g., 1880. JA-J
Laud 2d mort, 7s, e., 1880. MAS
.

MAN

Leav. Brancli, "8. i89(>

lueoiiio l)ds,No. 11,7s, 1016.MAS
do
No. 10, 7s, 191(i.MA8

I9G
17712

221s
't06%

99
78
23
50
97

95
73
50
«3
17
32

40

171a

181s

971s

77
521-1

GO

Id^i 18
53
50
Funded intere-st. 8s, 1884...AAO 05
Kenkiil; A St. I'.— l.st. 8.s,'79..AAO HOG'S [Oils
Laf. ni.A- Miss.— Ist. 7s, j;.,'91.FAA
00
Ijif.Miine.ABl.— lst,7s,R.1901FAA
00
Lake Shore A Jlieli. So.—
M.So.A N.I., S.F..l8t,78,'8.5.MAN IIII4: nils

KeokukADosM.- lst,7s,1901..\AO

A Tol., Ist M.,78, '8.^ JAJ
do
2d M., 7s. 188(i.AAO
CI. P. A A.sh., 2d M.. 7s, '80..JA.1
do
3d .M.,7s. 1892.AAO
Buff. A E., new bds, M.,7s,'98. AAO
Bull'. A State L., 78, 1882. ...JAJ
Det. .Moil. A Tol., Ist. 7.s, 190(i.
Ijike Shore. Dlv. honda
AAO
Cleve.

.

llOHIllOi-j

103
IIII4

110
IO2I2

110
110

. . .

Lex'toii.^st.L.— lst,(is,ic..l90()J,t.J
Lltth. Miaiiii— lstM..(is,lss:i..MAN
L. Rock A Ft.8.-lst.l.£,'r..7s'9.-).JAJ
Little Si-liuylklll— lst,73, '77.
Lonif Island- 1st M., 78. 1890.MAS

AAO

Ijouisvllle loan, Gs, '86-'87..AAO
I/Oi). Br. ext., 7a, '80-'8.'5
l>il>. l;r. Uudsv. I'n,
Gs, '93..
Mem. A 0..atl., M.,78. )t..l901

:io2

Ciarksv.. st'K, M., (!», k.FAA toi
A .S.W.— 8s. 1890.. MA.« n
ciid.,78,'79.JAJ
90

;

no

A G. L.— 1st 78,
(old

mort

11

MANt
MAN,

40
43
45
30

Marcbi
(new)

. . .
|

Ists)

30
4

Car. B.,

st

1

mort., 63, g.

late tr.»u8actious,

15

00

'93..

02
72
45
22
60
38
95
i'li"

AAO

.

Peikiomen— 1st

M.. Gs, 1897..AA(;
C. M.. giiar.,P.A.R..6!r..l913.JAD
Petersburj;— 1st M., 83, '70-'98.JAJ
2d mort., 8.3, 1902
.TAJ
Phil. A Erie— l8t M., Os, ISSl.AAO
2d mort., 78, 1888
JAJ
2d mort., guar., 6s, g., 1920.JAJ
Phila. A Reading- 6s, 1880.
JAJ
1st mort., 7s, 1803

85
771-j

13
55

. . .

AAO

47
47
35
10
45

JAJ

Debenture, 1803

Mort., 7s, coup., 1911
JAD
Gold mort., 6.s, 1911
JAD
New convertible, 7s, 1893... JAJ
G.s.f., $ A £, Os, g., 1903.JAJ(ex)
Coal A I., guar. M., 7a, '92.. MAS

112

5

*75

80
103
Ojifl

:84

103
113

40
100
40

112

30
90
105
107
1091a
02I3

03
106
114
101

40
25
82
88

104
96 13
86
104
114
50
100 la

;53

50
55

42

44

•104

108

70

80

00

92
08

tOG

118
114
IO2I3
:102
104

50
13

20
10

51
18
50

30

95

106
16
25
fS7ia 88
HO91SL lioia
i'i4

114

1161a

711s

1888
AAO 05
Rich. Fred. A Potoimic— Gs, 1875...
80
Moit,7s, 1881-00
JAJ 9613
Rlch'dAPctcr.sb'g— 8a.'80-'SO.AAO 104
New mort.. 7s, 1015
MAX 95
5
RkfdR.I, ASt.L.— 1st 7s C.1018FAA

Piedmont

93
35

Br., 8s,

RomeWafn AO.— S.F.,7s,1891 JAD
.

110% 'N.Y.Bo3t.A.M'llt.-lsI.7s.i.-..-siir-AA
2d mort., 7s. 1892
20
JAJ
110% N.Y. A Can.-£M..tis.f.-.. i;)i)l..MAX ':S9" 91
Coiisol. mort., 78, 1904
AAO
'N.Y.Ceii.Air.-M.,7s, cp., 1903. JAJ 119% 1201-2 Kntlaud— 1st M., 8a, 1902... .MAX
Mort., 7s. re?., 1903
Eiiuipmcut, 8s, 1880
JAJ JlOis
MAS
20
Subscription; Gs, 1883
EiMiiiniieiit, 7s, 1880
MAN 105
MAX
Sandnskv .M, AX.— 1st, 7s,1902.JAJ

1003. ..JAj' :ii4i2 1151.1
N. Y. Cpiemiuiii, 08,1883. MAN 1055s 100 ".J
do
Gs, 1887
IAD 10014
do
real est., Gs. 1883. .MAN 105
nils
Itiid. R., 2d M.. 7a.. 1885.... JAD 112
113
113% N. Y. Elevated.— Ist Mortitaxc
"
98
X.Y.AUarlem— 7s,eoui).,1900.MAN i"2i
7s, res.. 1900
12113
MAN
N.Y.AOs.Mid.— 1st M.,:8,g,'91.JAJ
G
(is. g..

'Savaiiii.iluVClias.— l8tM.,78.'89JAJ
Chas.A Sav.. guar., '(is, 1877. MAS
ISeaii'dAlioairke- lstM..7s,'81FAA
|3haiii.Val,A P.— lst,7s,g.,1901JAJ
Shel 10 vg'ii A l•'^lu-L.-] at.7s.'84 J AD
IShoreL.. Conn.— 1st M..7s.'-*0.MAS
!

f

!SiouxC.ASt.P.—lstM. .88.1901 MAX
ISioux C. A Pac. Ist M., Gs. •98.JAJ

1 805
MAX
I
So.AX.Ala.— lst,8s,g.,end.'90..JAJ
34
MAN
Stcrliuc mort.. Os, g
do
(other)
So. Carolina— 1st M.,7s.'S2-'88.JAJ
N Y.Prov.AB'n— <ieii. 7s, 1 399. JAJ
Ist, stcrl. mort., .5s.g.,'82-'88.JAJ
NorfkAPetcrsb.— lstM.,8s,'77.JAJ 100 1021s
Bonds. 7a. 1902, 2d mort. . AAO
1st mort., 7s. 1877
AA-Oj
Bonds. 7s, noil, mort
JAJ 03
2d inert., 8s. 1893
JAJ 83
Southern of L. I.— M., 7a, '79..MASI
North Carolina— M.. 83. 1878. MAN 100 110
MAS
South Side. 1st, 7. 1887
North Missouri— 1st mort
JAJ lom 1041s
do
S. F., 2d, 7s,1000.MAN

Receiver's certifs. (labor)

40 14
t,80
f.J8

155

93
20
20
05
"*V5"

101

80>4

60
58

96
101
5
105

95
;9l

do

93
82

. .

North Peiiii.— 1st M., Os, 1383. JAJ
•2d mort., 78, 1890
MAX
(Jen. luoit., 78.1903
JAJ
Northeastern— 1st M., 8s, '90.. MAS;

104
93
.'o's'

1

30

. .

•3

100
43

90
701s

,

Mont. AEiif.— lat, cnd.Ss,g..'8G MAS
25
Phil.Wil.ABult.— Ga, •84-1900..\AO
MonticclloAPt.J.— ]st,78,K.'00Q— Jj*
Pitt,3.C.ASt.L.— lstM.,7s,1900.FAA
MorrisAi:s.sex— lst,78, 1914. MAN I'l'sis
2d mort.. 7s, 1 1 3
AAO
2d mort, 7a, 1891
FAA 104 10410 Pittsb.ACou'Usv.— latM.7s,'98.JAJ
CoiistriicMon, 7s, 1S89
Sterling cons. M.. Gs,g., gnar.JAJ
FAA
Bonds, 1900
Pitts.Ft.W.AC.-l.stM.,7s,1012.JAJ
JAJ
(Sencral mort.. 7s
2d mort., 7s, 1912
AAO 9714
JAJ
Consul, mort., 7s, 1915
3d mort., 7s, 1912
JAD 83i£ 87
AAO
Na.sh.Chat.ASt.L.- 1 st.78,1913 JAJ
97
OS
Eciuipmeiit, 8s. 1884.
MAS
Nashv.A Dccafr.— 1 st,7s,10oa.JAJ
Pitts. Tituav.A B.— New 7s.'9GFAA
96 Is
Nashua A Low.— Gs, «., 1893. FAA H03IS 104
Port Hur.AL.M.— l8t.7a,g.,'09 MAN
Neb. R'.v.— lat end. B.AM.R. in Neb,
02
Portl'ndAOgb'g-lstGa,g..l900JAJ
Newark A N. Y.— lat, 7s, 1887.JAJ
Vt. div.. 1st M.. 0S.S..1891..MAX
New'kS'8ctA.S.— lst,73,g.,'89.MAN
Portl.ARoeh.- 1st M..7s,1887. AAO
84
N.HavciiADerbv, 1st M.,7s,'98.Var 90
Port Ro.yal— 1st 7s,f.'.,eiid.'80.MAN
04
X. H. A N'th'ton- 1st M.,78,'99. JAJ 104
100
do
do not endor,sed..
Conv. Gs, 1882
AAO 84 87 Pueblo A Ark. V.— 1st. 7.s, g.. 1003.
N. J. Midl'd— 1st M., 73, g.,'93.FAA
25
QuineyAWars'w— lstM.,8s,'90.JAJ
22
2d mort., 7s, 1881
Readiii:r A Columbia 7s
FAA
2
N. J. Southern— 1st JI.,7.«.'80.MAX
15
Ren.AS'toga- l.st 7s.l921 cou.MAX
^N'lmrifhAN.Y.— 1st .M.7s.l s-ii.JA-.I
lat 78, 1021, reg
(0
N. Lon.ANorth.— Isl M.,0s,'8 j.MAS 100
Rich'dADan.- C.M.,(!s,'75-90.MAN

SterliiiKUiort.,

110>3

IO3I3 lOG

05
Income, 7s
MAS
02 Is Panaiiia—Sterl'g M., 7s, g. '97.AAO; 1110
Paris A Danville-lst M., 78 .1003.
ParisA Dee-fr— lstM..78,,g.,'92.JAJ ';'2(')'
90
PafsoiiAXew'k— lstM..7s,'78.JAJ 75
2
PckiiiL.ADec— lstM.,7a,1000.FAA
Pennsylvania— l8t M., Os, '80. .JAJ IOII3
General mort, Os, coup., 1910 Q—,1 100
55
do
83
Os, reg., 1910.AA0 108 i-j
00
102
Coiis. mort., Gs, res?.; 1905.. (3—
02
94
do
68. coup., 1905.. JAD
Navy Yard, 6s. rcg., 1881 .JAJ *00
81
Penn.AN.Y.— lst.7s,'90A100G.JAD 113
100
108
Peoria A Hannibal— lat. 8s, 1878
Peoria Pekiii A J.— 1st, 7s, '04.JA,I »20
80
15
Peoria AE'k I.— lsf,7.s,s.,1900.FA.<

*30

103

Paducah

Pi ice uomluul

Interest 8s, 1883
2d mort., 88, rar

80
70

55
89
102 <4
102

Mo.— l8tM.,0a,g.,'88.FAA 101»8 102
JAJ 911a 92

2dmort.,78, 1891

2d mort.. 78,

08
130

Macon A Auk.— 2d,
'

1883..

40

jN.O.Mob.ATex.— 1 st.M.,Ss.l '.)1.->JAJ

AAO

JAD

ti'l()'

lOOis N.O.Mob.AClintt.— lst,83.1915.JAJ

00
Newlowii A Fl.. 7s, 1003 ...MAN
80
N. Y.A Roekawuv, 7s, 1901. AAO
80
Smithfli APt. Jeff.,7a, lOOl.MAS
Loills'a A Mo.ll.— 1st. 7s, HIOOFAjC
03
00
Lou'v.C.A lA-x.— lst.73,'U7 JAJ(cx) 1104 103
2d mort., 7a. 1007
AAO
Louisville A NashvilleCon. 1st mort.. 7a
AAO 103 "a
2d mort., 7a. «., 1883
MAN 88

M.A

certif., ster., Gs,

M(mtclalr

Osw.ARome-lstM.,7s. 1915.MAN
A Syracuse— 1st, 7s, '80.MAN
A Fox R.-M., 8s, '90.JA.1

Ott. Osw.
Pacific of

81

43

2d mort., 7s, 1.802
JAD
N.O. Jack.AGt.X.— 1 st.M.,8s'80. JAJ 108
2d mort., 88. 1890, ccrtifs ..AAO 100
Cons. 7s, g.. 1912
JAJ 27
2d mort. debt
AAO 00

IO7I2J

L.H.A JI. S., coiis.,cii.. lat. 7s. JAJ
do eons., rt>g.,l8t,7s,1900.Q— llOis
do eons., ci).,2d,7a, 1903.
981m
do (ons.,rcs,'..2d, 78,1903. JAI)
98
L.8lii«.AMis8.— lst.7s.K.,1900..IAJ -15
Lawreiiee— Ist mort., 7a,189.).FA.\
90
Leav. Ijiw. A G.— Ist, 10s, '99. JAJ
20
South. Kaiis., 1st M., 8s, 1892
Lohifli A Lack.- Ist .M.,7s, '97.FAA
liehl'.'li Val.— 1st M., OS, 1898. JAI)
HI
2d iiioit., 78, 1910
MAS II3I4
Gen. M., s. f., O.s. g., 1023.
JAO 97
Delano Ld C". lids, cnd.,7a,'02JAJ
lowisli. A Hpniee Cr.-lat, "S.MAN

L.

I

Ex.

2d mort.. 78

& 8. Fe.— 1st, 10s.90.MAN

Istnioi-t.,

OG
83
90

&C. B.-

lat M.,('. B. A-St. Jos.,7s.'80.,IA,I
K.C.st..)os.AC.B., M. 7s,19()7.JAJ
do inc. bds, r!r.,6a,1907.AAO

Kana.

90
82
04

I

;33

rr'i'o

AAO

'osii

GO

OraiiKcAAlex'a— l8tM.,08,'73.MAN
2d mort., Os, 1873
JAJ
3d mort., 8a, 1873
'.MAN
4th mort., 8s, 1880
MAS
Or. Alex.A M., Ist M., 78. '82.JAJ
IOre,i<oii A Cal. 1st M. 78, 1890. AAO

lOis
50..

!

03
22 >s
108
102
103

081s Osw.

t94
57I8

*»G5

,

1805

.50

108 I4I

MAS

2d mort.

7s,

1. g., 7.3, g. JAJ
Om.ihaAS.W.- lstM.,88,180G.JAD

II2I2 114

KiilamazooA.S.II.,lst,S3,'i)0.,MAN
G7I2 Mich. L. Shore Ist M., 8s, 'S9..IAJ
58
iMll. A Nortli.— 1st, 8r, 1001... JAD
32 iMinu. ASt. Louis, 1st mort
iMisa. Ccn.— Ist M.,7s,'74-84-MAN
98'
2d mort., 8s, 1886
FAA

do

Gs,189.<

OmalmAN.W.— Ist.

87
89

30

94
75
32

»IS'.5'

FAA 1101%
JAD tlOlis
MAS 1110

Old Colony— 08,1807

40

Charl'u— lst.78,'80.MAN
7s, 1883
JAJ

Conaol., 7a, 1 902
1st M. Air Line, 8s, 1890.... JAJ.
do
l8t
88, j,Miar....MAN
Eiiuipnieut bonds, 8a, '83.. ..\AO
Gd. Riv. v., 1st 8s, sriinr.,'80,JAJ

98'

190
tG8'3

A

-Mom. A L. Rock— 1st, Ss, '90. MAN
Mich. Ccn.- -1st M., 8s, 1832. .AAO

88

105

JAU

Atk.

Bid.

OKd'nsl.'KAL.Ch.- E(i.88,1870.JAJ llOl
8. F., 8s. 1890
MAS H02
07 14
OliioAMlsa.— Con.s. 8. F. 78, '98. JAJ
Cims, mort., 7s, '08
JAJ 971a
2il mort., 7s, 1911
AAO 54
Oil Creek-l8t M., 78, 1882. ..AAO
85

321s
14 14

I314

80

2d mort.,

93
73
40
80

30
73

98

-Mem]).

8
01

•55

A O.— lat,Sa,'92.FAA

O., M., 8s, 1802
O., 1st. 83, '01. ..JAJ
M.1.SS. Central— 1st, 7s, 1893

;90

100
01
100
100
05
86
86

.IAD

Monahtcm A

lOOifi

15
2
5

A

i»0

3H3

Railroad Bonds.

Northern. N.J.— l«t M.,7»,'78.JAJ
02
N'th. Pacific- l8t,7-3», i<., lOOO.JAJ
20
Norw'hAWorc'r— latSi;,G8.'97.JA.I 106

90

84
83

Sterling, 1st M., 7s, g., 1891. FAA
2d mort., 78, 1890..
3d mort., 8s, isoo
JAJ
Scioto A Hoek.Viil., Ist, 7S..MAN
Bait. .Short L, Ist, 7s, 1900. .JAJ
Cin. A Bait., lat, 7a, 1900.... JAJ
.Marietta P. A Clev.— Ist, 7», g., '03

.lAJ

(i», l-i-iK

Iloiist.

Wa.

108% MariettiiACln.— Ist M.,7a,'91FAA

IMiiv.A

I

106

7s, 1808... JAJ 1104
Extiiii. bonds, Os, g.. 1900... AAO
189
cons. 7s. 1912
AAO 180
Amlro8eo«.A Ken.,Os, 1801. FAA t99
LiMids A Farin'Kfn, Cm, 1001. JAJ
t93
Porti'd A Ken., 1st. Gs, '83. .AAO )90
do
Cons. M., O.s, '05. AAO too
Jfansf. A Fr'hiim.— 1st, 78,'80..JAJ
83

IHOa.F&A

fain., 1st, lO.t,'!!^.,!^.!

f,

Ask.

Bid.

Maine Cent.— Mort.

15
70

84% 84%
198

K.n~

Railroad Bonds.

Ask.

Bid.

Railroad Bonds.

ot Qnotatlona.

109
113
103
104
24lniorl.. 8s. 1890
MAS' 80
Northern (•en.—2.1 M., 09, 1883.JAJ 102 Is
3d mort.. Os.lOOO
AAO 101
Coil, mort., Gs, g.. couj>., lOOO.JAJ
92
Gs. g., reit.. lOlW
AAO 90
Mort. bonds., 3s. 1026
JAJ 40
Con. mort, atK. Os, g., 1004.. .JAJ :8i
Northern Cciit'l Mh^h.- l3t, 78

The purclioser

also pays aocrued iutereat.

110
115
1031a

103
102

South Side, Va.— 1 at, 8s,'84-'00.JA

I

2d mort.,
3d mort..

I

!

Os, 1 884-'00
Gs. 1880-'0O

JAJ
JAJ

So.Ceii.(N.Y.)— l8t78,'90,Ktiar.FAA
So. JIlnnea'ta-l8tM.,88,'78-8S.JAJ
lat inort. 7s
[So.Pac..Cal.-l8tM..(>a,g.,1905.JAJ

I

93I3 !Southwestern(Ga.)— Couv.,78,18SG
Var.
Muscogee R.R., 7a
95
Stcubenv.AInd.— l8tM.,08,'84.Var.
50
St.Jo.AD.CE.D.— lst,8s,g.,'09FAA
83
W. D., Ist mort., 89, 1900. ..FAA

80
30

3.5

98
72
02
35
71
98

100
74
05

100

101

86

93

.50

75
95

'

•

In London.

H In Amaterdam.

2I9
31a

.

MJ

.

THE CHRONICLE.

312

[Vol. XXVI.

GENERAL QUOTATIONS OF STOCKS AND BONDS— CoNrriNUED.
For Explaaatioiis Sec Notes
Eailroad Bonds.

Bid.

8t.T,.Alt.&T.H.— Ist M., 78, 'Ol.Var.
2d mort., pief., 78. 1894 .... F&A

M&N

2d income, 7s, 1894
Equipment, 10s, 1880

Cairo Ark. & T.,l8t,78.g.,'97.J.tn
Cairo & Fill., lst,l.g.,7s.g.,'91.J&J
St.L.K.C.&N.l8t(N.M<).)7e.'93.J&J
2d M. (real estate), 7s,1904. .M&8
8t. L.& S.E.— Con. M.,7s. g.,'94M&N
1st, cons., 7s, g.,

F&A

1902

55

64
45
65

Boston

68

"25"

35

3
*40

2dM.,

class

B

5ifl

2d, 78, guar.,'98
Paul & Pac— l8t sec, 7s.

St.

2d

M&N
J&D
M&N
J&D
M&N

. .

sec. ,78

Cons., 78
Bonds of 1869, 7s

Vincent & B.. 78
J&J
do Receivers' certfs., 10s. J&J
78. 1903
J&J
Sunburj'&Erie— 1st 51., 7s,'77. A&O
St.

Summit Br.— Ist,

.

Susp.B.&Erie,rmic.— 1st M.,7s
Syr.Blng.&N.Y.— lstM.,7s,'77.A&0
Terre H.& Ind.— 1 sr M.. 7s,'79. A&O

& Pac— 1st M., Cs, g....M&S
Consol. mort., 6s, g
J&D
Tol.Can. S.&D't.— 1 st,7R,g.l90GJ&J
T0I.P.& W.— l8tM..K.D..7s.'94.J&D
Ist mort., W. D., 78. 1896. ..F&A
D., 7s, 1886.. ..A&O
2d mort.,
Burl. Div., Ist, 78. 1901
J&D
do
Con.s. M., 78, 1910. .M&N
Tol. Wab. & W.— 1st M., 7s,'90.F&A
2d mort., 78, 1878

Texas

W

Equipment,

50

221a

do class C
South Pacific— 1st M
77
St.L.Vand.&T.H.-lstM.,78,'97.J&J 101

M&N
M&N

1883

70

24
78 \
105
75

Ask.

122
"3

12258 North Pennsylvania
Northern Central

Burlington C. Rapids & Northern..
100
Burlington & Mo., in Neb
50
Camden & Atlantic
50
Pref
do

^4312
...

50
50
50
100
100
100
100
50
50
100
100
100
100
100

Catawissa
Old, pref
do
New, pref
do
Cedar Rapids & Mo
Pref., 7
do
Central of Georgia
Central of New Jersey
Central Ohio
Pref
do

Aug

25
118
84

l8t. St. L. div., 7s, 1889
Gt. West., lU., 1st, 7s, '88..

.

Q-F
F&A
F&A

53

2%

3

831-2

54
90

Concord
Concord

89
98
75

I

i

"

*Prlc» aoEiiual; uu lute trausaotioas.

I

TUa ^ iroUaser

alau pays accrued interest.

}

100

do

120
97

62^
10

Special, 7.100

do

I

Portland Sac6& Portsm., i'sed 6 100
Piu-tsm'th Gt. Falls

Providincc

& Conway. 100

& Worcester

100
100
100
100
100
100
100

ltciissilacl-& Saratoga
Richiiionil & Danville
1

76

117

40
133

Richmond Fred. & P
do
do

do
do

guar. 6
guar. 7

100

100
100
100
St. Louis Alton & Terro Haute. 100
do
Pref. 100
do
100
Belleville & .80. 111., pref
St. Louis Iron M'n & Southern. 100
St. Louis Kansas C. & Norlli. ..100
pref., lO.lQO
do
do
50
Sandusky Manstlcld & N
50
Schuylkill Valley, leasocl, 5
100
Seaboard & Roanoke
guar
100
do
Rutland
do
do

Pref., 7

Scrip

6-'4

.Sharaokin Val. & P., leased, 6... .50 .,„_
Shore Line (Conn.), leased, 8. 100 120
. .

100

South Carolina

85

100
Sontliwcstcni.Ga., guar., 7
Syracuse. Bingh'ton & N. Y....100

Summit Branch, Pa
Terre H.ante & Indianapolis
Toledo Peoria & Warsaw

50
100
100
do
1st pref. 100
do
do
2d pref.. 100
do
100
Trov& Boston
United N. .lerscy RR. & C. Co.. 100
100
Union Pacitic
100
Vermont & Canada, leased
100
Vermont & Mass., leased, 5
Waliash Par. Ccun. receipts
(N. J.), leased, 7
..50
Westchester & Phila., pref
50
West Jersey
West. Maryland
Wilmingfn & Woldon,leas'd, 7.100
100
Worcester & Nashua

90

5

118

Warren

12
3
5

75%

CAlVAIi

.

§•

BONDS.
73

& Del.—1st, Gs, 1886. J&J
Chesapeake & Ohio— 68, 1870 Q.—
Chesap.

100

Delaware Division— 6s, 1878.. J&J
Del. & Hudson— 7s, 1891 ..."...J&J
J&J
78,1884
A&O
Coupon 7s. 1894
9I2
A&O
Registered 7s, 1894

65%
38''e

Ja.s.

23
133

8

65%
47
4
3

75 la

46
20
lifl

"10614

M&N

103
102 14

Convertible 6s, reg., 1882...

do
6s, g., reg., 1894.M&S
6s, gold. coup.
reg., 1897. .J&D
Consol. mort., 78, 1911

&

Louisv. & Portl.— 3d mort., 6s
4th mort.. 6s

J&D

MorrLs— Boat loan, reg., 1885. A&O
New mortgage
Pennsylvania- 68, coup., 1910.J&J
Schuvikill Nav.— 1st, 6s,1897.Q—
J&J
2d'mort.. 6s, 1907
J&J
Mortgage (is. coup., 1895

58=8

58

90
60

52

5216

M&N
M&N
M&N

6s, nnprovcnicnt, cp., 1880.
6s, boat and car. 1913
7s, boat and car, 1915
Susquehann.a 6s, coup., 1918. J&J

—

7s, coup.,

Union— 1st

J&J

1902
mort., 6s, 1883..

CANAIi STOCKS.

9912

135

& Kan.— Ist M., 6S..M&N

— J&D

89

40

Riv.

2d mort., 6s

Lehigh Nav.— 6s. reg., 1884. ..Q— J 102
Q— F lO'J
Railroad 6s, reg., 1897
J&D
Debenture 6s, reg., 1877

44

. .

_

.50

Philadelphia

.

RAILROAD

28%

50
50

Richmond & Petersburg
Rome Watertown & Ogdensb .100

Columbus & Hocking Valley
Columbus & Xcnia, gu.ar., 8

,

100
100

50
& Erie
50
Pref., 8
50
Philadelphia & Reiuling
Pref., 7
50
do
85
Phila, & Trenton, leased, 10... 100
Phila. Gerni'n & Nor.. I'sed, 12.. 50
50
Phila. Wilmington & Bait
Pittsburgh Cincinnati & St. L....50
ido'j Pittsb. & Conncllsville, leased....50 §
"5"' Pittsburg Titusville& Buffalo... 50
Pittsb. Ft. W. & Chic, guar., 7.100

35
02

&

...50

Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania company
Pref
do
Petersburg

1514

27^8

75

& Syracuse, guar., 9..

Panama

57

Clev. Col. Cin. & Indi,anapolis..lOO
Clcv. &MahoinMirVal.. leased... 50
.'50
Clev. & Pitt.-hurgli. guar., 7
Col. Chic. & Indiana Central.. .100

50

& Bos. ..100

Pacitic of Missouri

36
32
77

72
Chicago & Alton
98
Pref., 7
714
do
117
1193
Chicago Burlington & Qiiincy..lOO 101
2
Illinois.
East
Chicago &
*t80
90
100 11712 118
Chicago Iowa & Nebraska
56'
42"
4318
100
St.
Paul.
6212 Chicago Milwaukee &
7318
73
Pref., 7.100
do
Western
100
lb'6
Chicago & North
44'e 45 iR
73
731s
Pref., 7.100
do
100 103 14 1031-2
Chicago & Rock Island
1^
100
13
41
Cin. Hamilton & D.ajton
911.2
50
523u
Cln. Sandusky & Cleveland
9II2
Pref., 6.50
do
:I30

Oswego

8

141-2

Ask.

. .

SI

34

Providence

Bid.

50
50
100
Northern New Hampshire
100
Northern Pacitic, new pref
Norwich&Worccster,lea.sed,10.100 127%
Ogdensburgh & Lake Champ. 100 36%
do
Pref., 8. .lOOxlOSig
100
8%
Ohio & Mississippi
12
100
Pref
do
98
100
Old Colony

23
30

-50
96
50
74
Portsmouth, guar.,7 100 114
i'ls'
100
Connecticut & Pa.ssump.sio
do
do ex coup.F&.\
100
99
99 h Comiceticut River
do
2d, 7s, '93... M&N
80
50
Cumberland V.alley
83
Q'ncy &T0I., 1st, 7s, 1890.. M&N
80
50
do
Pref
111. &S. la., l8t, 7s. '82
F&A
50
Danbur.v & Norwalk
do
do ex coup. F&A
Dayton & Michigan, guar., 313. .50
United Co'sN. J.—Con s..(is,'94. A&O '104 108
do
Pref., guar., 8.50
88
Sterling mort., 68, 1 894
M&8 ;i08 110 Delaware
50
do
6s, 1901
M&S J108 110 Delaware & Bound Brook
100
Cam. & Amb., 6s, 1883
F&.\ 100
50
102
Dclaw.are Lack. & Western
do
6s, 1889
J&D '100 104 DubU(|iic & Siimx Cit.v
100
do
mort.. 68, '89. .M&N 109
50
I'last
rcnns.vlvania,
leased
UnionPac— l8tM.,68,g.'96-'99.J&J 106% 109»i
106^8 Kust Tennessee Virginia & Ga.lOO
Land Grant, 78, 1889
A&O 106 106i4i Eastern (Mass.)
100
Sink. r.,8s, g., 1894
M&S 95 ig 95 14 Ea.steruiu N. H
100
Oni. Bridge, sterl. 8s, g., •96.A&0 ;108
50
110
Elmira & Willlamsport, 5
Union & Titiisv.— 1st, 78. 1890, J&J
Pref., 7.. 50
do
Utah Cen.— IstM., 6s, g., 1890. J&J 65
100
Erie Railway
Vtlca & Bl'k R.— 1st M., 7s, '78.J&J *95
100
Pref., 7
do
Mort., 73, 1891
J&J 80
50
Erie & Pittsburg, guar., 7
Utioa Ith.& El.— lst,7s,g.,1902.J&J
100
Fi tchburg
Venn't & Can.— New M., 88
20
Railroad
&
Bank'g
Co.
100
30
Georgia
MississQuoi, 7s, 1891
J&J 20
30
Grand River Vallej', guar., 5.. 100
Verm't&Mas.s.— 1st M.,6s, '83. J&J 1103% 104
100
Hannibal &St. Joseph
Conv. 78, 1879
J&J illO 112
Pref., 7.. 100
do
do 78,1883
J&J 1112 113 Harrisburg P. Mt. J.& L., guar., 7. 30
Vermont Cen.— 1st M., 78, '86.M&N 12% 13
Houaatonic
100
2d mort., 78, 1891
J&D
1
do
Pref., 8
100
3
Stanstead S. & C, 7s, 1887. .J&J
30
Houston & Texas Central
100
35
Vick.&Mer.— l8tM.,cnd.,7s,'90.J&J
40
50
Huntingdon & Broad Top
2d mort, end., 78, 1890
J&J 30
do
do
Pref... 50
Tirginia&Tenn.— M., Os, 1884. .J&J
86I2 871-2 niiniiis Central
100
4th mort., 88, 1900
J&J 931-2 95
IndiMiKip's Cin. & Lafavctte
50
Warren (N.J.)— 2d M., 7s, 1900. ..
Jiirv. Mad. & Ind'p's, I'sed. 7..100
Warren&Fr'kln— lstM.,78,'96.F&A '75
.Toilet & Chicago, guar., 7
100
We8tch'r& Phil.- Con8.,78,'91. A&O II3I2 115
Kalamazoo A. & Gr.R., guar., 6.100
West'n Ala.— Ist M., Ss, '88... A&O 102 105
Kansas City St. Jos. & Conn. B.lOO
2d mort., 8s, guar., '90
A&O 102 105 Kansas Pacitlo
100
81a
West. Md.— End., 1st,, 68,90... J&J 108
112
Keokuk & Dcs Moines, pref
100
1st mort., 68, 1890
J&J 98 100
Lake Shore & Jlich. So
65 14
100
End., 2d mort., 6s, 1890
J&J 108 112
Lawrence (Pa.), leased, 10
50
2d mort., prof., Os, 1895
J&J 55
60
Leavenworth Law. & Galv
100
2d, end. Wash. Co., 6s, 1890. J&J 103
105
Lehigh Valley
50 §38%
3d, end., 68, 1900
J&J 108 112
Little Roek& Fort Smith
100
Wcst'nPenn.— l.st M., Gs, '93.. A&O 85
90
Little Miami, leased, 8
50
87
Pitts. Br., Ist M., 6s, '96
J&J •80
85
Little Schuylkill, leased, 7
50 §42
West. Union RR.— l8tM.,78,'96F&A
78
80
Long
Island
50
W. Jersey— Debent. 68, 1883.. M&S '80
85
l,ouisvllle & N.i.shvillc
100 39
Ist mort., 68, 1896
J&J 102 12 104
L.vkens Valley, leased, 10
100
Consol. mort., 78, 1890
A&O
103
Macon & Augusta
W. Wisconsin— l8tM.,7s,g..'87..J&J 100
48
55
Maine Central
...100 *15
Wichlta&S.\V.-lst.78,K.,guar..l902 165
70
Manchester & Lawrence.
...100 130
W11.& Weldou-S. F.. 7I, g., '96. J&J
90
98
Marietta
&
Cln., 1st pref
..50
Wll.Col.&Aug.— l8tM.,78,1900.J&D
25
30
do
2d pref
50
Wmona&St.Pet.- latM.,78,'87.J&J 92
93
Bait. Short Line, guar.. 8...
2d mort., 78, 1907
M&N
82
Cincinnati & Bait., guar., 8
Ex., 1. g., mort., 78, g., 1916.. J&D
90
Memphis & Cluirleston
25
6
Wisconsm Cent.— 1st, 7e, 1901 J&J 1189
33
Micliigan Central
100
055(1
Woro'r & Nashua— 78, '93-'95. Var. 1106 109
Mine
Hill & .8. Haven, leased
50
§46
Nash. & Roch., guar., 6s, '94.A &0 188^4
88% Missouri Kansas & Texas
100
jMobile &Ohio
100
1
STOCKS. Par.
Morris & Essex, guar., 7
.50
73
Albany & Susqueli., Guar., 7 100 75%
78
Nashville,
Chat.
&
St.
Louis
25
Alleglu-ny Valley
.50
'Nashua & I>owell
100 98%
Atchison Topeka & S. Fc
100
1538 151a .N'angii lick
100 130
Atlanta & West Pt
"lOO
Xcwi- istlc & B. Val., leased, 10. .50
Atlantic & Gulf
!"!lOO
.N'csi|iichoiiiiig Valley, leased, 10.50
§45
do
Guar., 7
1.
100
New llavciu\; N'orthainpton
100
14
Atl. & St. Law., leased, 6, £
100
New Jersey Sniithcrn RR
100
1
Augusta & Savannah, leased. 100 tilOS 105
N. London Nortliern. leased, 8. .100
Baltimore & Ohio
84I2 N. Y. Ccntral& Hudson Riv
100
83
100 ibo'
do
Prcf.,6
;!l00
90
90
New York Elevated...
80
<lo
2d, pref
75
87
New York & Harlem
30 147
Washington Branch
100 133
:oo
do
pref. .
140
Parker8bm-g Branch
100
1
N. Y. N. Haven & Hartford ....100 138

78,

Cons, mort., 7s, 1907

Railroad Stocks.

New York

Host. Clint.
Bost. Con.

Central Paciflc
Charlotte Col. &
Cheshire, pref

TI63
TT

& Albany

Bid.

3..
Fitclib.&NewBed.lOC
100
& Montreal
"80
IO4J4
Pref., 6... 100
do
7812
500 77
Boston & Lowell
100 IO6I2
Boston & Maine
ii'o'
100
109
66
Boston & Providence
100
Buff. N. Y. & Erie, leased.,

Evansv. H. &N.,l8t,78, 1897. J&J
St.L. Jaoks'v.&
l8t, 7s, '94.A&0 107
48
St. L. & San F.— 2d M., class A

C—

of First Page of iluotatlons.

100
100

Berkshire, leased, 7

67

M&S

Head

Railboad Stocks.

Ask.

108
86

St.L.&IrouM't— l8t M., 78. '92.)'&A
M&N
2d mort., 78, g., 1897
Cons, mort., 7s, «., 1914
A&O
Ark. Br. 1. gr., M., 7s, g., '97.J&D

at

Chesapeake & Delaware
Delaware & Hudson
Delaware Division, leased, 8
River & Kanawha
r.ehijrh Navigation
Morris, gu.ar., 4
pref., guar. 10
do
Pennsylvania
Schuylkill Navigation
pref
do
do
Jaiiics

85
149 12
150
15812 Susquehanna

In London.

IT

la Amsterdam.

§

.M&N
Par.

50
100
50
100
50
100
100
50
50
50
50

§6

Quotation per share.

,

——

.

.

March

.

THE CHRONICLE.

30, 1878. J

313

GENERAL QUOTATIONS OF STOCKS AND BONDS—Contixubd.
For Bzplanatlona See Notes at Head of First Pace of <|notatlon*.
Bid.

MlfU'KLLANKOL'8.

Ml»CBI.t.A!JEOC».

Ask.

MANCFACT'ING

HII.M"M,AM?OCS
HONDS.
Canton

(Iliilt.)—

£«».!:..

87
87
101

tia.K'.MA-N

00

l«t M.. T.-". 1SSS.J*J
lKt.c«inv..<iH,'!l7.JifeJ
CniiilH-'iiM OutI
I.
Int M.. (iH. •T'.I.JA.I
Jil M..(iK. 1,H7!).F&A
ni. A: St. I.. HililKD—
Idl, Ts. IT.. I'.MKt.AAO

95
70

100

ns
95

100
98

196
;4S

98
SO
20

(It)

Jil.iiiil.

—

2<1M.. ?<.>:.. UU>1. 1 *J
3il, 7«. s., l-i>i(;.M&8
Tini'lRn..Ut.i;.!»»,g.

80

;i5

Bost.

N. Eiic. M.Si'iuilty,78

Cur—

MAN

4tll do
8»,'!»'JF&A
8tl»r.7H.jt..lss->A&0
Dfbonfi',7».'7.S A&O
Bt.Cbarli'8 Bri(l)rc»-108

U. 8.Ms:.6s,g. ii.J&D
69, K; $

97

100
Franklin (Me.).... 100
tl05% 105 ii Great Falls (N. H.)100
jHaniilton(XIa.ss.) 1000
99 !Hartf. Cai-pet (Ct.)lOO
95
92 >s 95
HHK.Me)
KM)
91
93
Uolyoko VV. Power.lOO
Jackson (N. H.)..1000
100 100% Kear.sarge
1(K)
80
90
Uicoiiia(.Me)
400
Lancaster .M.(N.1I)4(>0

Lawrence

Westeni Union Tel.
7g, conp., lilOO.MiN 108
78 r<»K.. liKIO. SUtN
Sterl'g 68, 1900.M<&S ;ioi'
.

103

.msCi.I.ANEOCS
STOCKS.

Nashua

(N. 11.). ...500

2

Clinton Co. (Kalt.).lOO

13%

Cary

Cln.&Cov. B'dKC
EQUltal>lt'

A

"

Salmon

Ji™f-

I'alls(N'.II.);j(K)

Sandw.<;iass(.M;iss.),SO
.Stark Mills(X.n.)1000
TreniontAS.(Ma.''s)10(i

i'sc.

13

70
Tr.l.N'.YUOO 100

8t.r,.

1%

2ht .ialisl>nr\ (.Mass,)..](X)

Inii)i'in"t(Bo8t.)5

Cent. .N'..l.l,'ilInip.lOO
nr.

1'4

102

KrnK-c'.lOO

101
i;i;(i

.

. .

American Coal
793e Big

230
710
(>9

127
1045
1330

179i2 ISO

lOOj
100'
100'

United .State.i
Wells Fargo

GAS STOCKS.

iGi^
13ia

Baltimore Gas

100

Ea.'^t

Boston

25

8out!i Hi.ston
100
Brookliui'. Muss... 100
Canilnid^'o, Mass.. 100
Cliel.sfuO. L
100

4912 Consol.Coal of Md.lOO
49
Cuniberl'd CoalAI.lOO
49 \ 51
Cr'k C'l (Md.)
87
87% George's
I»cust Mt. Coal
50
Marlp'sa L.&M.CallOO
do
i>ref 100
Maryland Coal
100
New Creek Coal
10
100 120
N.Y. & Middle Coal.25j
101
102
Pennsylvania Coal. 50
13% 1338 Pilot Knob I. (St.L)lOol
807 "s 810
Quicksilver Min'g.lOO
34
35
do
pref
118 119
St. Nicholas Coal... 10
H2ts 113 San Juan Sil. Min.lOO

Dorchester, Mass. 100
.

.

138
98

99%

Lawrence, Mii,s8...100 131
Lynn, Mass., Uas 100 89%
Maid. A- .Melrose. 100
80
Newton iV Wat'n ..100 113
Salem. Mass., Gas. 100
97Ja
Brooltlyn, L. 1
2a 155
Citizens'. Bro<iklyn.20
81
Melroipolitan. Ji'klyn.
63
Nassau. Brooklyn ..25
75
People-s. Brooklyn. 10
25
WilfianiKl)'g, B-klyn 50 102
. .

.

.

Cliarlesin,S.C.,Ga«.25

13814 8.

102
100
133

l{ai)li'l

do

-20

'

25

Co,al

AUoiiez
Central

Manliattan, N. Y... 50 200
Metroiiolitan, N.Y'.IOO 129
Mntualof N. Y... 100 60
New York, N.Y.... 100 115
N. Orleans G. h. ..100 100
N. I.llierties, PUilft..25
§15
Washington, Phlln
547
Portlaiul. Me., G.I/. 50
75
St. Ix)nis G. L
.50 140
Laclede. St. Ix>ul8.100
90
Carondelet
50
'93'
Sun Francisco G L..

&

Dana
Dawsou

160
118

40

"

m

'i

31
17
29

85
06

35"

60

1

25
50
25

1'27

126

94

200
65
90
00
165
150

Silver..;... 20

Diuican Silver

20
25
25

50.

1%
61a
20c,
25c.

202 12 'Mesnard
13212 Minnesota
Satiomil
70
Osceola
118

2~>

50c
lOe

~'>

.)0<-.

100 12 Pctherick
4713 Pcwaitic

'25

I.'.

1(1,-.

'2.5

10 >2

I

Phenijc
I

1.50
1

!

Qnlncy
Ridge
Rockland
Star

"94" Superior
i

Price nomlntl; no late trausaotious.

25
50
25
25
25
25
25

true paroh;iser also

5

lOP
95
170
170

60
40

.

225

Home National ...100
Merchants' Nat.- .1001 210
Nat. B'k of Illinols.lOO' 108
Northwestern Nat. lOOl
lUnbm National
100
.Un.StockY'dsNat.lOO 150

1-10

8%

7I2

1

i

140

99
03
110

80

CIncInuati.

I

123

143
126
98
Merchants' National.. 108
Nat. Hank Ciunmerce.
90
8<'coud National
117
Third National
148
First National

llVj 'Fourth National

iGcrman Banking Co..

148
130
101
110
95
1'20

152

Cleveland.
I

Citizens' S,

8

[First

. .

!

. . .

i

A

102
100 107
84
Market
100
93
Massachusetts
250 108
.Maverick
100 145
.Mechanics' (So. B.)100 130
I>eathor...lOO

Howard

lie

96
196"
95
230

110
120
160
125
1-25

92
125

I

Hide

17

129
127
95

50
118
105
10

AL 100 105
Commercial Nat ..100 115
Nat
lOOi 150
Marine
32
30 30
IOI4 Merchants' Nat... 100 120
Mechanics'
lOifi
10
iNation.al City
120
lOO'
Merchants'
100 105 107
00
OidoNat
100,
152
National E.'cch'ge. 100 102 12 104
120
Second
Nat
100
People's
20
25
25
Second National ..100 130 140
Hartford.
Third National.... 100
90
95
Union
75
58
59 l-*;tnaNat
100 115
5
IWestern
29
50 62
20
301a American Nat
15
Charter Oak Nat 100 125
25
86
100
Boston.
iCity Nat
37
iConnecticut River.. 50
'Atlantic
100 126 128
Far. A Mech. Nat. 100 108
Atlas
100 107 108 IFirat Niit
72
100 90
95 12 Hartford Nat
Blackatono
100 95
100 1.52
|Bluo Hill
100
Mercantile Nat.... 100 113
Boston Nat
100 1021a 103
National Exchange. 50
63
Boylston
100 109 110
Phoenix Nat
100 140
Broatlway
100 75
80
114
100
State
Bunker Hill
100 167 168
Central
87
88
100
liOnlsTlIle.
City
100 1041a 106
117
3
Columbian
Bank of Kentucky
100 128' 130
65
180
Commerce
87
100
871s Bank of Ijouisville
32
Citizens' National
83
CoraraonwealtU
95
100 94
II3 Continental
100
City Nat
100 84
85
Commercial of Ky
10c. Eagle
100 104 106
"83'
70. Eleventh W^ard
Falls City Tobacco
100
2
Eliot
Farmers' of Ky
88
100 1041a 106
90
Exchange
7
Farmers' & Drovers'..
100 142 143
100
30c. Everett
First Nat
100 102 103
35c.! Paneuil Hall
100 12812 130
German Ins. Cc'e
First National
Oennan
100 172 173
(ioc. First Ward
German National
100
83
1(10.-.
Fourth National.. 100
IKentncky Nat
81
mil'. Freeninns'
Louisville Ins. & B. Co
100 07
08
Globe
100 94
05 IMasonic
Hamilton
100 1081a 109 'Merchants' National..
I

lis

86
07

101i« 102

I

10
15

200

108 1«
1021a 103i«
110 IIOI4
II4I3 115

Commercial Nat. .100
Corn Exch. Nat.. .100 130
Fifth N.Ttioual
100 140
First National
100 175
Hide and Leather
98

STOCKS.

Howard

10

108 14

123
140

Chlcaso.

5

27
33
25
I4I2
Citizens'
14
10
iCom. & Fanners'.. 100 102
106
Farmers' B'k of Md.30
25
30
Farmers' & Merch..40
36
33
33I2 34
Famiers'APlanter8'23
First Nat.of Bait. .100 xl20
128
7I2
1*2 12
Franklin
6
German American
103 106

25

...

Loan ATr. Co.lOo
Union Bank of 8. C5o

Chesai>eako

34

*20

.

871a International Silver20
92 >3 Ma<lison
25

95

.100

Baltimore.
Bank of Baltimore 100 120
Bank of Conmierce.25
8

30

02
140
127
127

125
126
108
124
139
100
108

S. C.

65

Seaton consol
2-05
.Segregated Belch'rlOO

BANK

107««

61
135

People's of S.C.(new)'2o

Southovn StarGASlOO
Union Consol
Yellow Jacket
100

Hecla. .25 17913

Copper Falls

no's Franklin
Humboldt

49
76

8%
34% 35%

1

84

107

Charleston.

:Sien-ii .N'cvadaSilv.lOO
8
Ogia Silver City
100
1210 ISilverHiU
100

STOCKS.

80
40
111

49

87>9

Ely.

104
128
112

1

155
172

80

Raymond &

HI

B'k of Chas.(NB.\) 100
First Nat. Chas.. .100
People's National. 100

St. Joseph Lead
10
iSavageGoldA Silv.lOO

15

BOSTON niNING

721b

45
155

Y

Nassau
Brooklyn Trust

8I4

[Plum.is

20

. .

165
85

•25

,

131

Westmoreland Coal. .50 *68
Wilkeab. Coal A I 100

CaUimet

Mol)ile tias & Coke
Central of N. y... 50
Harlem. N.
.50

14

1

Manufacturers'.
Mechanics'

17'.2
I'-J
2."ie.

.Manufacturers'.. .100

paj's accrue lint,

;lu London.

4

103
108

86
04
109

Northern of

Ky

iPeople's

Second Nut
Security
jThird National

I45I4 Westeni
West'n Fiuano'l Cp'n.
132
'

Quotation por

»hi»re.

t

127

;

Spring Mount. Coal.50

24

ii'e'

Sil.,Mob. 100
pref. 100

Sbamokin
1

90
90
114
98

Chicago O.A Coke. 100 150
Cineinniiti «. & Coko
171
Hartfonl. Ct.. G. L..25
Jersey C.A HolK)k'n20
Peojile's. Jersey C. .
tonlsville G. L...

45
203
22
825

200

Long Island

2-25

Northern Belle. ...100
Ontario
jOphir Silver
100
;Orlg.Comst'k GAS 100
Overman G. A S...100

(iC

86
80
180

10

Mexican G. A Silv.lOO
Moose
N.Y. A Colorado...

100
1903

f40

.

do
certs...
Peo].l|.-sG.L.orBftlt.23
Bo.ston (:asllglit...500

.Merriniac Silver

570
80

500

•15

I'i3l4

79
170
103

85

Commercial

45

100
10

85
123

i'76'

Fnlton
City National

50

Ask.

90

Brooklyn
First National

3
1^70

Memphis

1,'(40

Mountain Coal. 10
Coal. 50 -30

iBntler Coal
_,
Caiueroi* Coal
10
Clinton Coal A Iron. 10

250

100
100

Bid.

Brooklyn.
.Atlantic

1

Juba Consol

I

I

Buck Monnt'n

100 lOlH

Anierioan

2.t

914

470

llukill
lMi^>erial

,

COAL & MISCEL,
miNING STOCKS.

EXPRESS STCKS
Adani8

A Norcross. .100
Ifenry Tunnel Co..

1310 Justice
575 iKcntuck
Kings Moimtain
235
720 'Kossuth
L.acr08se
70
128 [Leopard
1055 Lucerne

Merp'ntilLTr.(XY)100
iWashingt'n(Ma8s.)100
83
N.K. Mr^r..Si'ciir.(Hu8t.) iod" 10612 jWeed Sew. .M'e (Ct.)25
5
[WUllm'tic Llnen(Ct)25
68
1838 18=8 lYork Co. (Me.)
750 1200
Prod. ton8.1/<Ut Petr
73I3
Pullni'u Palace CarlOO

40

1;.-]

C.jO

O. Dominion S.S.C'o.lOO
Paeitic Mail S.S. Co.lOO

Lonis Tran.sfor Co. "26"
Un. MininK(Ti'nn.).10
Union Trnst
100
U. 8. Trust Co
100 315
U. 8. .Mort.Co.(NY)100
We8t. Union Tel
100 79»8

iKcdemptlon

,

400

I

St.

3 00

I

Il;ile

820
130
Thorndike(.Mass.)1000 700
Union .Mrg.(Md.)
13

"so"'

2-.50

OldBoaton
19% iPeople's

I

li)tio

(Ma.ss.)lOO

Pacific
I'enn. Salt Mfg.Co..50
PepperelI(.Me;).....500

.'4

•15

1

90
(Mass.)... 1000 1900

25
Atlnn.A: Pnc.TeL.lOO
Boston Ijind
10
Boston \V:iter Power.
Brookliui' Lnml
5

North
North America

Bullion
100 4 00
1 ,500
2'50" Republic
1000 iCalcdonla Silver ..100
100 "2814 291a Revere
725 iCallfornia
Rockland
iCasbier
110
5.')
Second Nat
C'liollar Potosl
100
ll.'S
Seonrlty
Cleveland Gold
10
705
Shawmut
7^ Consol. North Slope.
2OI3 211s Shoe ic I.«atlier
MConsol. Virginia... 100
.54
State
CouUdence Silver. 100
111
Suffolk
Crown Point
100
445
Third Nat
Eureka Consol
100
85
Traders'
Excliec|uer G. AS. 100 2-75
58
Tremont
(iold Placer
2^25
07
Union
(iould A Curry S..100
Oi;i)
7
Washington
<;rant
U-JI
100
Webster
i:ianvillo Gold Co..

I

3(i5

3

20
3-37

i

c>m

liWO

•18

New England

;

150
1010

(.Mass.)l(KI<)

Monument
Mt. Venion

I

57
96
955
220

100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
60
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
,100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100

Metroiwlltan

805
120
30
33 12 Bobtail

551

N. E. Glass (Masa.)HO

Dist. Tel

Merchandise
Merchants'

AmcricanConsol...
American Flag
Belcher Silver ...100
Bertha A Edith
Beet A BelcUcr
100

81

700

Lowell (Mass)
690
Lowell Bleaehery.200
Lowell .Maeh.8hop.5()0
Lyman M. (.Mas.s.). UK)
Manchester (N.U.) 100
Mass. Cotton
1000
Mevriniack(Mass) KMH)
Middlesex (Mass.).UKI

Nanmkeag
Amcr.

BOARD

Y.

2312 AlphaConaolG&S.lOO

KJOO

Chieopee(.Mass.) ..100 113
Coclieeo (X.H.)....500 700
CollinsCo. (Conn.)..10
7
52
Continental (Me.). 100
Dougl's Axe (Mass) 100 109»i!
Dwight (Mass.). ..500 440
Everett (Mass.).. .100
80

Cons. M., 7».'f().J&J
Piillni'ii Piiliu-n
2(1 M.. Ss. 'Ml..
3<l soi-ii's, 8»,'M7K&A

Duck

(.Mass.)700
Camliria Irou(Pa.)..50

MHriini»a(ii>l(l l,..N:M.M*'r<*.Tr.rt*jil est. ni.,7»

423'4

Anioskeag (N.U.) 100011575
80
Ainlroseog'n (Me.). 100
Appleton (Mas.s.).1000 800
Atlantic (Mass.). ..100 119
Barllett (.Mass.)... 100
25
Bales (.Me)
33
100
BoottC.it. (Mass.llOOO 1450
Bost<mCo.(Mass.)1000 950

&

Bamk Stocks.

Ask.

J'ar.

Ani.B.n.B.M.(Pn.ll2«s

88
88
102
102

Mi>r(.(l-'.v-..l!>OlJifiJ
I'n. KK..Ii.t, >>nil..(;«.
Coni44>l. CitHl

tr.

Bid.

niNING STOCKS,

STOCKS.

\

..3X1

I'.lOl.

MlgCELLANKODS.

Ask.

Bid.

120
85
97

118

64
127
89
30
110
93
154
115
65
151
117
120
68
88
101
10
85

90
92
102
100
101

100
108
160

87
96
115
15

88
122
86
98
88

J

:

;

THE CHRONICLE.

314

Snuestmentfi

Chemung

Railroad

[Vol.

. .

Canandaigua Riiiroad
Total

Net

STATE, CITY AND CORPORATION FINANCES.
Is published on the last Saturday
to all reirular Bubncribers ol the
No single copies of the Supplement are sold at the
a sufficient number is printed to supply regular

Chronicle.

and furnished

as only
Bubscribers. One

office,

number of the Supplement, however, is bound
up with The Financial Review (Annual), and can be purchased
in

tliat

shape.

ANNUAL

REPOaTS.

Northern Central Railway.
i^For the

From

year ending December

the annual report

we have

llie

31, 1877.)

following

Tbe revenue and operating expenses of the
leased and controlled roads, were as follows:
From
From
From
Prom
From

Earnings.
passengers

$6'-8,irr

freight

3,lSi,61J

I

express
mails
miscellaneous

6:i,-i74ti.

191

104, 04S

Total

....$4,070,3;;

1

i

i

i

1

main

with

line,

its

$=l)2,(;97

7l9 405

For mainte.iauce of way
For mail teoance of cars.
For general expenses

814,l(i4
...

i'5'},4il

74,il5

Total

$-3,746,934

$1324,482

In comparison with the year 1876 there was a decrease in gross
earnings of $299,537, equal to 6 65-100 per cent.
The ordinary oi)eratiug expenses for the year 1ST6 were
$3,036,48J
Extraordinary expenditures for betterments

terments, amounting to

Showing a decrease

in

J!i5,4:j3,

205,839
$i,-243.3-i5

Birailir

ixp

.-liditurei

for bet-

were

j,745 924

expenses of

$496,403

Or 15 31100 per cent le.-s than 1876.
The increase in the net earnings was §190,863.

in

1877, 1,479,092; in

1876, 1,903.645; decrease, 4-33 953.
1877, 25,726,768
1876, 43,401,08(5
decrease, 17,674,318. or 40-7 per cent. The tons of freight moved
were: In 1877,6,160,171; in 1876, 5,579,024.
Tons moved one
mile: In 1877, 277,752,734; in 1876, 253.552,485; increase
24,200,249.
The coal tonnage of the Northern Central Railway in 1876 was
832,172 tons, and in 1877, 899,151 tons.
There was a decrease in
the trade going on to the Pennsylvania Railroad at Marysville
and Daupiiin of 90,010 tons, 'i'htre was a decrease of 19,189
tons to points on the Cumberland Valley Railroad. The total
tonnage to Baltimore was 314,590 tons, an increase of 53,205
tons in 1877.
:

;

Your board, actiniir under the auth-)rity conferred upon them,
have disposed of $1,635,000 con.^olidated general unrttrage gold
bonds.
he amount realized from these sales was $1,433,404,
which was applied as follows
I

'lS4*814
ft'i't'}

applied as follows:

Total interest on entire mortgage in iebtedne» of the com-

pauy

$819.5111

t, discount, gold premiums, taxes, &c
and interest on mongages
]
Eental Shamokin VallBj & hottfville Kailroad
......'.
Interest and gold premium on bonds Sbamokin Valley &

Intere
R-"iits

Pottsyiile Railroad

Interest on cquip:nent .-^hamokin Val. & P. Eailroad. .'.."..
Henial Fliniru & Wiiliamsport Uailroad
Interest on cquipnientEiinira & Wiiliamsport Kiilroid..'..'.'.'
Dividends Chemung Railroad
."""
Interest on equipment Chemung Iliilroad
Rental Elmira .iifl-'-rson *fc I'aiiaufUiigua Railroad
.'.
Interest on equipment Jilmita Jiff. <& v auaudaigu.i Railroad.
,

payment of $500,rO0 York

&

Cumberland bonds, due Janu$ 00,900

bills pi.yable

933 401

Total

$1,433^404

It will be observed that the amouat of bills payable has been
reduced from $1,345,332 on Dectrmber 31, 1876, to $370,557 on
D ceiuber 31, 1877, being a reduction of $908,764. The profit and
loss account is now debited with a balance of $368,413.
This has
resulted Irom charging directly to this account the discount on all
the company's bonds sold, and all the interest paid (prior to 1877)
on the bonds of the Sbamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad
Company; your board, after a very careful consideration of the
subject, having deemed it wi-e to adopt tbia course.
Tbev have
also directed that sundry o'd claims paid, together with the de-

preciation of certain securities held bj the company to represent
the same at their luaiket value, be charged to profit and loss.
The profit and loss account is, tbtrefoie, slated as follows
$l,fi35,000

consolidated general mortgage bonds,

so'.d

during tbe year

$201,595

To suspense

account, being balance of discount on consoliuatet
general morigage bonds, solo p.-ior to 1877
To depr. elation in market value of certain bonds ani stocks held by
the company ...
To interest and gold iiremium paid on the bonds of the Sbamokin
Valley & Pottsville R-iiiroad Company, prior lo IS77, and cbai-i^ed to
that company
'.'...'.
To sundry old jadgment claims paid during the year

83,719
S-2,373

.

539.010
58,399

lll,4i<3
4t^,'4^2

$639,103

52,167

145

CREDITOR

By balance nccember 3l8t 1876
By insurance fund
By rebate of inter-state lonnige tax from State of Pennsyl-

(»25

il];91
165*01)

vania

33,'l64
2-2'8O0

1,000

for 187?

61,705-

Debit balance.

2o',00)

—

$176,516

31,437

By nellncome

I4,'6i*2

270,659

$368,4 13

2'j',b91
'

profit

the

ary!, 1377
To reduction of

To discount oa
$!,32l,4r-,-2

$I,6T5,0l7

Balance of net income for 1-77 carried to credit of
•ccount

25.3,562,485

passenger movement was as follows: Passengers car-

:

Totil ne; receipts

,

.277,75-2,734

DEBTOR.

•In addition to the net earninsjs as above stated of
There were receive 1 from dividends and interest
And coutrlbntloB for Elmira >.b^-maiig & Cauaudaigua divisions..

Which hasl)e-n

total

Passengers carried one mile

To

Formoiivepower

Leaving as net earnings

Making total expenses for ISTS
The expenses for l&7r. which luclud.}

13,285.681
27,836,235

:

Operating Expenses.
For conducting traasportat'u

I

ried

IS.Os'g,^?
29,030,178

Increase, 84,203,219, or 9 54-100 per cent.

The

TUe Investors' Supplement
of each moDtb,

XXTL

and

GENERAL INVESTMENT NE *V3.

S!,513,.342

Io«s

j,j]-03

Atlanta & Cliarlotte Air Line.— The quarterly report shows
It will be ob.servedthat in the above statement of the fixed
net profits for the quarter ending March 31, estimating for Marcli,
annual charges lor interest, rentals, etc., the item of $145,6-35,
of about $713,475 add surplus Jan. 1, $88,499— total, $800,674.
being interest and gold premium upon the $2,000,000 seven per
The boird has declared a dividend of 1^ per cent for the quarter
cent gold bonis of the Shamoltin Valley & Poitsville Railroad
ending March 31.
Company, appears for the first time. The interest upon these
bonds, heretofore paid by your company, has been charged as an
Central of New Jersey.— A statement by the Receiver of this
advance against the operations of tbe coal property owned bv Company, Mr. Francis S. Lathrop, will be found in the advertising
the Sbamokin Valley & Pottsville Railroad Company, it having columns of the CllltONlCLE to-day, and it is worthy of the careful
been expected that the net earnings of the mines would provide attention of all tlis stock and bond holders of this company.
for the advances.
As a foreclosure suit is petiding, tbere is need for prompt action
It has, however, been drcided by your Board
to charge, hereafter, the intere-<t on these bonds to the annual of some sort, and as the present pltn has been devised after the
income account, crediting to that account the net earnings de- most thorough deliberations of committees representing all the
rived from the operation» of tlie coal property. Accordingly, the separate interests, there seems to ba nothing better than to accept
Certainly, the stockholders appear to have little
entire amount of accrued interest to December 31, 1876. has been it promptly.
charged to profit and loss, and the interest for 1877 has been hope of securing anything for themselves except in the carrying
charged to the income account for the year, as already stated.
out of this plan, as they must facs the stubborn fact that all
Notwithstanding the fact tliat this large additional charge has classes of debt take precedence of their stock.
been made to the income account, and that no credit has been
The official re|)ort filed at Trenton, N. J., has the following
taken for the ntt earnings of the coal property, which have not for the calen-lar year, 1877
as yet been paid over to jour treasurer, amounting to $31, 599— Capital stock, December 3!, 1877
$20,600,000
21,700,000
notwiihslanding, also, the expenditure above stated of $135,433 Fundiddebt, DescmherSl, 1877
indebtedness, December 31, 1877
Other
6. 33'., 115
for betterments to your property, it will be observed that the'uet
Railroad, main stem, Mewark Branch and Perth Amboy
earnings of the company have exceeded the charges of all kinds
Branch
$13,76?,a4S
Jersey City station
1,315,805
against the same by the sum of $61,705.
873,2;t7
Port ijolinston coal station
The passenger movement was as follows
Elizabethport station
450.146
PASSEKQEBS CABtilED ONE MILE.
Station bouses, shops. &c
i21,e50— 17, 3-J,?41
....

;

—

:

,

:

1876.

Northern Central Railway
Green Spring Branch

16,551,990
*116'4.*iS

8hamukin Railroad

\\

Blmira Railroad

.*.'..*

ChemuEg

Railroad
Cauandaigua Railro :d

......'.
'..

.„ToUl
Net decrease,

The

^24*949
4 12»'491
l'8,'6'*64
2!4-3'6!'6

85,7*6,768
17,674,318,

freight

or 40 72-100 per cent.

movament was

as as follows

27,222,495
105.084
853,921
7,912,457
3,0;0,?-J5

'.

9,851,370

Receipts.

Passengers
Merchandise
Coal
Mail, express, rents,

$1,409,S50
1,008,758
1,172,347

4c

l-i9,239

4,-236.421

Totol receipts

$3,7-«).195

48,401,(86

ExpensfS.

Running expenses
Fuel consumed

:

TONS OHE MILS.
Nirthern Central Railway
.Green Spring B anch
Sbamokin Riilroad
Blmira Railroad
,

Equipment of road

1877
172,734.748
107,159
18,135,520
39,703ii41

1876.
157,?8-,.?6';

117 659
13,].55,8iO
S0,t>75,465

Repalis of road, docks, etc
Repairs of equipment
Ferry expenses
Miscel'aueous expenses

Net earnings

$941,623
15'3,975
438. fBd
26^,7'"i2

137.623
233,453

—

2.171,037

$1,519,157

MAUCn

THE CHRONICLE.

80. 1878.J

Chicngo Clinton Dnbnqne & Minnesota.— The Clinton &
Dubuque iinil UabuquH Si MlnneKoU railroad comphnies, formerly
knowu as the ('liic««« Clinton & DubuqUB and ChicaRo Dubuque

& Minnesota railroadu, have been consoliJated under the naiae of
Chicago Clinton Dubuque & Mionegola Railroad Company. Thia
consolidation embraces all the line of road be'.ween Clinton and
La CrfFCcnt Jtnction heretofore owned and operated by the two
companies, and includes the Turkey Hiver br.ioch.
Chicago & Eastern lllinoli<.— The receiver of th« National
Trust Company invites offers lor 300 of the firtt mortgs^e bonds
of this company, each of the par value of $1,000, principal due
J'ho
1907, interest sir per cent, payable June and December.
Chicago & Eastern Illinois linilrrad Company is the fuccessor of
the Chicajjo Danvi le & Vincennes Railroad Co. The bonds now
offered cover the entire property of the company.
Chicago & Lake Huron. In the United States Circalt Court
at Detroit, a final decree of foreclosure and sale was entered, by
the terms of which the amount overdue for coupons and interest
on the mortgages foreclosed ($1,394,310) is to be paid within ten
days or the road is to be sold. The Port Huron & Lake Michigan
road shall be sold under the original mortgage upon that section,
which covers only tlie line from Port Huron to Flint that the
Peninsular road shall in like manner be sold under the tirst bonds
issued by ilie original company, which cover the road from Ljnsing to the ludiana Slate line these roads to be sold separately
asd the procee:!s devoted to the payment of the bonds of the individual corporations nienlioned, and the surplus, if any, shall
await the order of the Court. It fljo decreed that the order
heretofore granted authorizing ei-R?ceiver Bancroft to issue his
certificates of indebtedness was vacated, providing that the
validity of certificates already issued shall not be affected.
Frie Railway.— Judge Daniels granted the order asked for by
Albert DeBetz, Morilz Lewin Borchard and Jules Levita, and in
granting their petition he stayed the sale of the Erie Railway
under the forec usure tor thirty days in any case, and, unless the
Farmers' Loan & Trust Company and the Erie Railway Company
make certain stipulations within fifteen days, until the end of the
reference ordered.
The netitinners claim to be holders of bonds
under the second consolidated mortgage, which is being foreThey complain that the receiver has been allowed to
closed.
prefer various claims and debts subsequent to that mortgage, so
that these will be pal I before the bondholders under the present

—

;

;

decree of

Judge Daniels

sale.

refers

the matters involved

WilliEm Al!en Butler. The Erie Railway Company's books
and those of the receiver are to be open to the petitioners, and
the referee is to have power to order the books to be produced
to

before him.

The stiptilation which will limit ihe ftay to thirty days is to he that "all
such amouuts or mms a* may appear by the referee's report to be contained
in or established by said jiidgrnent as liens upon or charges pmiinft said
mort^ged proper y, whUh should not have been allowed as such iiens or
charges, f hall be deducted from said judgment, and that the said jtidgmeni
shall be co'reced a-* to i*uch araonnts of iiidubtedats', and that all such sums
as may appear by :he rifurte's report and coi.flrmation thcieofto have been
charged against said pritpcrty, or in any form allowed to the said receiver,
which 'egally and j:ist>y should not liave been so ch.trged and allowed, shall
be deducted from the sums allowed as charged agaitst said mortgaged property or in favor of he receiver, ana that the peiitioneri», on surrendering
their btjnd* and coupons within ihirty days, shall have all the advantages of
the subscribers to the reconstruction scheme.'*
I

—

Judge Lawrence, in Supreme Court Chambers, heard the
motion made on behalf of James McHenry, as an alleged creditor
of the Erie Rai way Company, to be allowed to intervene as party
defendant in the two Erie foreclosure fuiis, one by the Farmers'
Loan and Trust Company and the other by J. C. Bancroft Davis,
each as trustee of t e bondholders, and also the peop e'e suit for
the dissolufion of the Erie Company and sequestration of its
property.

liOnisiana State
Orleans Times .says

Bonds to N. 0. Pacific Railroad.— The New
The New Orleans Pacific Railway Company
in the Filth District Court for a mandamus

;

filed an application
against the Governor, Auditor and Secretary of State to compel
the issuance and signing of the first ^250,000 of the f 3,500,000
State bonds authorized by the late act. Tho proceedings are of a
friendly character, to have a decision of the highest court in
the State upon the act in question as soon as possible. The Governor staled when he approved the bill that he would not sign the
bonds till the law had been held to be constitutional.

315

The
eral

receipts from taxes and amount* supplied from ,the f;oafund for the last five years were as follows:
Receipts
Amount
from taxes
from general
ToUl

and

Tear.
1874
1874
18IS
i8;«
1877

$»,430,1V3

!U).48!,T;7

$S,03...»flO
a,M<o,n(<o
4,0011.0(0

iM.trs,ns»
S?,498,15J

4,000,000
2,300,000

Si Sl&.OJIt
aO,99(*,7SS

$H4,5K,8StS

81«,531,JC0

tl«l,ll»,0t8

Al,o93,3l8

Total

amoant.

fund.

arrears.

$2S,Si)«,9')4

34,181,177

The unpaid

taxes Uf on real estate for the years prior to 1877,
and for both real and personal estate fur 1877, are as follows
:

Priortol87S

$662,716

18-3
1874
I87J

8M,3.51
!.003.0i4

I

I

1h;6...,
1617

t),lIl,SlT
6.01f,lt7

I

1.8!5,lt>3|

Total

$13,161,910

The unpaid

personal taxes for the years 1873 to 1870, inclusive,
Sffgre^ate ^3,5'.i4,800, which is considered uncolleciibleand <> total
Iocs to the Treasury.
In addition to this deficieniBy, ii is estimated that there will eventually be a loss from the nun- col lection
of personal taxes for 1877 of at leat t $250,000.
DEFICIKhCIES IN TA.XES.
Prior to 1871 the practice of tlie Board of Supervisors was to
include in the tax levy such a sum as wis estimated by them aa
sufficient to supply the deficiency in the actual product of the
taxes from discounts, errors, remissions and losn of perrional
taxes under the provision of clupter 393. section 0, laws of 1861.
This provision of law was repealed iu 1871, and was re-enacted
by chapter 750 in 1873.
For the year 1877 the following sums were added in the tax
levy by the Board of Aldermen, which, it ia believed, will be sufficient to cover deficiencies in the ac'-ual product of the tax
Amount added foi deficiencies in actual product of taxes, 1677, $69j,59'J.
Discounts, errors and remissions a lowed, |;94,147.
:

Uncollected personal taxes (estimated), S'i50,M0.
Estimated surplus, $35-:,4".0.

—

Penn.^ylraiiia Railroad. One of the great events of the
week, aud indeed one of the most important that hae occurred in
railroad circles for a long time past, was the adoption of the
Trust scheme by the Pennsylvania RR. stockholders. The great
(•ignificanceot this measure is in tlie fact that it is a practical declaiat'ou that the c mpany proposes to stand up squarely to its
obliirations (ihofe nckuowledg»d by it) and meet its guarantees
before it psys dividends. If the guaranteed securities do not
materially advance in price the company will gain immensely by
their purchase.
If they do advance in price, the whole credit of
the company will be so improved that it will gain enormouslv by
the ability to .sell bonds at a low rate of interr-st and pav off or
buy up obligations carrying a higher rate. The committee's
report upon the company's affairs, and the trust sclieme in particular, contained the following:
The general account of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
shows its floating debt December 31, 1877, to have been $1,500,000,
and that of the Pennsylvania Company $3 933,099. To meet the
ttoatine debt of the Pennsylvania Cimpany, there are $3,300,000
of Pennsylvania Company's bonds, aecured by $4,000,000 of 7 per
cent special guaranteed stock of the Pittsburg Fort Wayne &
Chicago Railway Company. As the bonds are fold the proceeds
are applied to the leduction of the floating debt on account of
which they were issued.

TRUST FOND.
In the report of the board of directors, oc page 48, the fixed
liabilities on the guaranteed endorsements of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company are stated at $178,016 393. The committee
fear that the statement in the report is liable to miaapprehensioD,
and therefore make the following explanation, aa aiding in the
better understanding of the character of these liabilities.
The capitalized amount of t'lie liabilities of t!ie Pvnnsylvania Railroad Company, on account of endorsements of bonds aa guarantor, or for lentiils as
board at
Deducting the amount represeuiing Ihe capitil'ze't principal
lessee, is staled In ihe report of the

$1T8.' lf,J93
>

f

upon which the company guarantees certain illviand upon which, therefore, its utmost liability is con-

Ihe stocks

rtends.
fined to tie

olvidends themselves

68,699.087

weohtaln
aa the amount of the bonds upon nbich the company

Is

a

tl09,.<)!e.6<6
guarantor, dii ectly

or inairectly.

these b mds the Pennsylvania RR. Company is a direct
guarantor of principal and interest as follows
Under the lease of the Ui.ited Raircads of New Jersey to the

Upon

:

Mis.&ouri

Kansas

City,

River Fori Soott & (Jnlf.— A circular dated at
Mo March IS, 1878, is issued by George H. Nettle
,

ton. Receiver, under an order of the Circuit Court of the United
States for the DisTict of Kansas, made March 16, 1878. He states
is authorized to make sales of the company's lands and
execute contracts or deeds therefor.

that he

New York

amonntof
On other lines

& Potomac, on vhch the Northern Central and Fhiladelphia
Erie companies nro co-guaraniors
the lines west ot Pittsburs' ifcEiie to the amonnt of.

Ceiilral &, Hudson.— Utica, N. Y, March 37.— In
the case against Jolin M. Bailey, ex-United States Collector at
Albany, the jury to-day rendered a verdict of $499,43"- for the
railroad.
The court granted a stay of proceedings for sixty day.",
to enable the defendant to prepare a bill of exceptions.

And on

New York City DcUt.—Comptroller Kelly, in response to a
request by the Assembly on the 6th and 12th inst., has submitted
Statemen's which contain the following
Funded
Year
Debt—
^Temporary Debt^
Total
Am'ut of
Net
ended Stocks and Assessm't Keveiittt:
Bonded
Sinking
Bonded
Dec 31.
Bonds.'
Bond'.
Bonds.
Debt.
Fund.
Debt.
^
$
S
2
C
S

And through

:

9(l,49-i.2l9

i!1.9».,.3TJ

10,ij»,979

1S1,8«»,'71

M7

aO.MI.OOO

a6.F2-«,7!'8

-.ll.Sai.aOO

2,711300
4,142,W7

Ul.803,158

ll'f.lftn.no:)

144,S-«,IV;l

27.748,07

I19,t«l,:il3

2i.371,4r0

6,101.814

148,107.557

28,-i9^,8l7

119,811. :<.:0

1J1,44^I,1.^1

-.(1,319,500

(i,051,4-«

14!',8Jl,0i7

31,iaO,al3

117,70J,:42

Ifl^
'»'<
1875

118.241,

If"

ISTT....

34,841,100

107.K<.4;i
11J.97».*9
IIS ..3,7-,M

• Payable fr.m taxes and sinking fund.
NoTB.— The debt of th-» towns annexed from Westcbceter conntv, amonntIng Dec. 31, 1S77, to 81,162,935 4J, ia not included in this BUttmeut.

$2J,<96,';00

ea-t of Pittsburg Jb £ri'>, embracing the Philadel-

&

Erie, West Pennsylvania, Chaitieis, Connecting and
unction road-, and the Suf que hiinna Coal Company, on which
it Is the sole guarantor, aud the Alleghany Valley aud Baltimore

Shlii

<b

33,450,266
3.160,1X0

In all
161,096,966
the boi:ds of tho Pennsylvania Canal Company (tnterett only
guaranteed)
3,000,000
On tho lines west if Pittsburg & Erie the indirect gnarantces <•?
30.91-?,689
the company, through 1. sees directly made to i^ are.

On

leases

made

to

yonr Western

lines

14,S77,C00

Making up the total as above of
$109,316,696
It lilust be borne in mind that the bonds which the Pennsylrania R ill road Cotnpany has guaranteed have for their security
railway property entirely distinct from the main Un<» of your compiny, so that in case of foreclosure, o» by the purchase of these
bonds, your company would practically become the owners of the
roads upon which these securities are a lien, and upon which, in
many cisep, large sums of money outside of the mor gtige debt
have been expended.
In the case of tbe United Railroads of New Jersey, the PennBTlvania Railroad Company agreej to pay their bonded debt as it
became due, the lessor being bound to f arnish new bonds to a cor-

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316

reBpondinpr amount with which to pay off the maturing loans*, eo
that lhe»onIy practical liability connected with the principal of
maturing bonds would be in case the new bonds did not bring par;
in which case the Pennsylvania Railroad Company would have to
make up the deficiency. As these bonds now sell at from 107 to
109, it will be readily seen that no deficit is lilsely to occur Irom
that source; on the contrary, as the lease stipulates that tlie excesi
in the proceeds of the new bond shall inure to the lessee they are
much more likely to become a source of profit.
The fame state of facts exists with the bonds of the Fort Wayne
Cleveland & Pittsburg and other roads west ol P.ltsburg, constituting the larger portion of your liabilities in conntction with the
Western lines. The lessor companies agreed in the same way to
supply new bonds to take the place of maturing obligations, and
many of their securities are selling in the market at Irom 105 to
120, and it is very hard to obtain them even at these prices, so that
it will be readily seen there can be no difficulty in securing their
renewal, if found expedient.
At the election held on the 26ih the ticket n< minated by the
stockholders' committee was as follows Thomas A. Scott, Josiah
Bacon, Wistar Morris, John M. Kennedy, Samuel M. Fe'ton,
Alexander Biddle, N. Parker Shortridge, Henry D. Welsh. This
ticket, termed " the regular," was successful.
The highest one
on the ticket had voted for him 479,276 shares, and the lowest
420,649 shares. Thomas Potter, who submitttd the minority
report on the funding scheme, received votes representing G6,053
shares, and A. J. Derbyshire, who was a director last year and
whose name was taken off the ticket by the stockholders' cnmmitlee, was complimented with votes representing 46,314 shares.
The funding plan was approved, the vote standing thus; For
the adoption of the retolution on the creation of trust, recommended in the majority report of the committee, 375,299 shares
for the adoption of the resolution on the creation of the trust as
recommended in the minority report of the committee, 105,885
shares. The largest number of shares ever voted at any previous
election of the company was 281,000.
Last year only 125,000
:

;

were voted.

—The

folio w'ng slat

;ment

made by

the Penn<ylvania Railioad
Company of thi^ increase or decrease of earnings and expenses in
Fdbu r/, 1878, as compared with 1877:
All lines east of Piitfbnrg and Erie show a decrease in gross earnis

iBitol.-.,
A decrease in expenses of

j;\790
43,63J

An

increase in net eainiDg-< of
The two months of 1878, as compared witli the
shew an increase in gross earnings of
A decrease in expenses of

$40 St7

same period of

An increase in net earnings of
All lines west of Pittsbiir? and Erie, for the two months of 1878,
a profit, after meeting a'l liabilities, of
In the same period of IS"? there was a deficiency of

'"

18^7,
,
...

9,940
ISt^SSl
$191,5-24

show
<

5

6118

]0o,40:»

Philadelphia & Reading.— The receipts in the month of
February are reported as $844,470 against $1,216,000 in the same
month last year. The tonnage transported was 173,462 coal and
237,282 merchandise in 1878, against 321,655 coal and 229,607
merchandise in 1877. The number of passengers carried was
899,057 in 1878, against 430,858 in 1877. The quantity of coal
mined was 93,727 tons in 1878, against 187,119 in 1877. The
decrease in tlie receipts is due to a voluntary suspension of the
production of coal to a great extent, in order to increase their
allotment hereafter. The business for the first three months of
the year shows an increase of $234,649 over the same period of
last year.

Rome Watertown & Ogdensbnrg.— The

coupons due April

1 on $4,250,000 consolidated bonds will not be paid. Officers of
the company state that all prior loans will be protected.
St. Paul
Pacific.— In the suits of Rice, Thompson and
others, trustees, against this company, the Supreme Court ol

&

Minnesota has granted a motion made on behalf of the trustees
to proceed with the consideratiou of certain appeals taken in the
foreclosure suits. Consideration of these appeals and of the
suits themselves was suspended in 1875, at the request of all
parties in tl^e case, pending the execution of a certain agreemeut
with the bondholders. This agreement having failed, the Couri
now decides that there is nothing to prevent the further progress
of the suits,

Syracuse Binghaintoii & New York.— In London, March 16,
Messrs. Morton, Rose & Co. invited subscriptions for the 7 per
cent first consolidated (currency) mortgage, to the amount of
$1,750,000, in ,f 1,000 bonds, at the price ot £200 per bond, principHl
and interest being guaranteed by the Delaware Lackawanna &
Western Railroad Company.
The issue is made to replace
$1,400,000 bonds paid off and to provide additional equipment
and it forms a first mortgage on eighty-ono miles of line from
Syracuse to Binghamton.
There is, however, a lien of $270,100.
The first coupon is due on October 1, and the principal is re'pnyable in 1906. The s ime bonds were put on the New York Stock
Board 'ist this week.
Toledo Peoria & Warsaw.— In the United Siates Circuit
Court at Chicago, Marcli 23, an order was made directing Receiver
Hopkins to deposit with the Farmers' Loan & Trust (Company, of
Hew York, $3,275 to pay certain coupons on the first-mortgage
Eastern Division bonds which became due before June 1,*1874,
and $3,500 to pay coupons on Western Division bonds whicli
became due before Aug. 1, 1874, such coupons to be paid at their
face value, without any interes'.
It was further ordered that the
Receiver deposit with the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company a sum
Bufficiei.t to pay a dividend of $31 92 on each first-mortgage Eastern Division bond for $l,OO0,jand one of $21 08 on each firstmortgage Western Division bond for |1,000, such payment to be
stamped or endorsed upon the bonds and coupons, or upon the
certificates representing bonds deposited, where such certificates
have been issued.
;

[Vol. XXVI.

Southern Pacific Railroad.- The following three reports of
Committee of the House ot Representatives give an emphatic
condemnation of subsidies. The Thirty-Second Parallel Road,
the

they say, can be constructed without pledging the public credit.
These reports give the recommendations of Messrs. Blair, Luttrell,
Morrison and others, and are decidedly in ofposiiion to the Texas

&

Pacific Railroad

:

A

minority of the Committee on Pacific Railro,idr<, to whom
were referred House bills H. R. 1919, II. R. 1904, H, R. 2031, H. R.
2118, and H. R. 2573, submit their views through Mr. B air

We are unable to concur in the views of the mi-j iritv of the
committee, but desire the adoption by Ccngress of such lnea^ures
as will secure the early construction of a traL's-contiueuial lailroad
use and development of the Soutliern and S luthwestern States and Territories. We believe tUat ihia important

for the special

can be accomplished without eubsidy from ibe Govrinment,
and submit the following views and the ac-;oinpauying bill for the
consideration of the House:
NECESSITY rOU THE CONSTRUCTION OP A BOUTHEBN BOAD.
Although the present necessity for the construction of either a
Northern or Southern Pacific Railroad is less imperative than was
the emergency which compelled the Government in time of war
to secure at once te'ritorial integrity and material prosperity by
oliject

large appropriations for the construction of a middle line of interoceanic communication, yet the original idea of three main transcontinental railroad routes for the accommodation of the whole
country, so far separated as to be practically independent of each
other, should be steadily kept in view by Congress until it is
realized.

Numerous
main

lines,

cross-lines and feeders will ultimately unite these
and other roads on intervening parallels will girdle

the continent

;

but this generation will do well

if it

shall complete

these great prophetic lines, opening to settlement the Western
Territories and furnishing the baj is of a vast prospective development of wealth and population.
No tingle lino can transport the commerce now waiting for accommodation, and the three togoiher will, in less than a quarter
of a century, be insufficient to perform tho laud-carrying trade of
the country between the oceans.
This great development, ooly partially anticipated by the projectors of these roads. Congress is now called upon to piomote by
appropriate legislation.
THE riiESENT CONDITION OP THE SCDTHERN LINE.
The Texas & Pacific Railway Company, a corporation of the
Slate of Texas, in the year 1871 was authorized by Congress to
construct its road aud telegraph Irom Marshall, in Eastern Texas,
along and near the thirty-second parallel of North latitude, through
that State and the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, to
San Diego, a small city on the Pacific coast, on the bay of the
same name, supposed to be well adapted to commercial purposes,
and having a population of 4,000 to 5,000 people. The distance
from Marshall to San Diego is estimated at 1,574 miles by the
authorities of the Texas & Pacific Company, while those of the
Southern Pacific Company believe it to be about 100 miles greater.
The seventeenth section of the charter of the Texas & Pacific
Railroad Company, by Congress approved March 3,
Jl, enacted
18
That the -said Texas Pacific Railroad Compan.y shall commence the construction of its road simultauconslyai San Di go. iu the State of Culifornia, and from
a point at or near Marshall, Texas, as hereinbefore described, and so prosecute
the same as to have at least -^0 consecutive miles of railroad from eac'i of said
points "complete and in running order" in two years after the passage of this
act; and so coniinue to construct each, year thereafter a sufficient number of
:

miles to secure the completion of ihe %« hoie line from the aforesaid point on the
oas ern boundary of the Slate of Texas to the Bay of San Diegi., in the Siatoof
Cdlift/rnia, asaforesHid. withiii 1 ) years after the passage of this act; and upon
failure to so complete it, Congress may adopt snch measures as it may deem
necessary and proper to secure its speedy completion.

Another act was procured by the corporation ; approved May 3,
1872, which, in the fifth section, provided cs follows:
That the said Texas &, Pacific Railway Company sha!I c mmence the constructifin of its road at or near MarehiU, Texas, and proceed with its cimstruction under tiic original act and this snpplcment orinpursnanco of the authority
derived from '.any consolidation as tiforesaid. westerly from a point near
Marshall, and toward San Diego, in the State of Caliloinia, on the lin authorized by the original act, aud so prosecute the same as to have at least 100
consecutive miles of railroad from said point complete and in running ortier
within two yeirs after the passage of this act; and to continue to mnstnW, each
yeir thereafter, a sujficie'it nujnber of miles, not less than one hundivd, to stcure
the completion of the whole line, from tbe aforesaid point on the Eastern
bonndftry of the State of Texas to the Bay of S-m Diego, in the state of California, as afores:tid, within 10 y^jars after the passage of this act; Provided,
however, that the taid company shall commence the coustructi-m of saiii road
from; San Diego eastward within one year from the passage of this act. and
construct not less thiin ten miles before the expiration of Ihc second year^
and after the second year not less thau twenty-five miles per annum in continuous line thereiifter, between fan Diego and the Colorado River, until the
junction is f.itmod with the line from ilie E:i8t at the latter point, or east thereof, and vpon failure so to complete it (ongrefs may adopt suck measures as it may
deem necessaty 'ind proper to secure Its speedy completion ; and it slia 1 also be
lawful for said company to commence a id prosecut-^ the con-iruction of its
line from any other pr>int or points on its line ; l)ut nothing in this net cont'iined
skull be so construed us to aut)torize the gtant of' any additional lands or subsidy.
I'fa'iy nature or kind whatsoever, in the part qfthe Government of the United
Stales.
l'';iiliiig

tained

to

meet these

the Texas & Pacific Company has obpurchase, niul now Ims in ope.ruti(ni,.ii:j miles

itrovisioii.'^,

b.v <-onstfti('tion jiiul

of rtnul. whieli enclose a j)afallelogrjiiii in Nortlicastorii Texas, having a
base of 18U luiies, extending from iNfivrslmll to Fort Worth, now the western teriuiuiiH of tlu; rond, which onl.v is a part of the trunk lino.
The reniaindt^r of tln^ 4-13 iniU^s is mo located as to secure the raoi-c
valitalile laml.s grtuited b.v the State of Texas, prob.-vbly beciiuse the peeuniiuy enib:ttr:ts>nieiits of the company were such that ils eretlll was
based chielly upon the grunted lauds. There Is thus remainiug ot th

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THE CHRONICLE

30, 1S78.]

tniiik line liciwwii I'ort Winlli nnil Snii

Diego a illntancc of 1,491

iiillcH

ui>i>ii wliii'h niithlii),' liiiH Ix'rii (|i>uo.

vi;ii-«allowi'<l li.v tlii> plmvtoi- wltliin wlilili to coiniilcto tills
prvnt work ntilv four i-einaliii ami a roiirtidrriiblo portion of one of tlicHe
ninst iliipM' lirfoiT till' iiniolnienl of tlio ilrslivil li'^ixlatlon is poNHllilc.

Of

till'

lo

SIx-liiitlisof tlii'tlnu'lnivobi'onconmiineillntlKMiinstnnlloiiot loss than
of tin.' trunk line, iiinl Hint at the cnstciiy terminus, in elose
tlic frreat inliliUe syHteni of roaiU and the central helt of

oil! -<i;:litli

connritioii with
!^l:it( s,

rather than with the Southern sysloui of roads and the Southern

Slates.

eorporatlon lia« fallen thus far short of the performance of its undertaking, ailhoutfh it ivi'i'ived from the State of Texas the miinilleent
Slant ol the alternate seetions of laud for 40 miles In width alont' eaeh
side of its lino, or SO miles iu all, tliri>u»,'h the State of Texas, and the
8aiiie from the United States through the Territories and iu California,
roiitingeiit upon its eompliauoe with the conditions of the grant.
'I'lie

The

ereilit

TIIK DKSlliKI) srnsiDv.
of the Texas i<j Paeillc Comiian.v

was

seriously Impaired

liefoivllie jianle of 1873, and under its inlluenee has st 111 fiuther declined.
It admits its jieiMiniary inaltility. and assi^^is that as a reason for its
failure to coiuph' with the eonditions imposed upon it by law.
In IST.'i it apii'lied to t'ouKiiss for a subsidy of over $60,000,000, iu
addition to its laud ijrantof y2,.)_'8,0O0 acres iu Texas and 18,000,000
in the territories. Im'Iuj; a money .subsidy of twice the probable cost of
biiildtUK and eiiuippiuj; its road.
The upiilieation failed. It now elmnges tlie form, rather than flic substance of its re)(Ucsl, and asks for a guaranty of interest «n .$2,5,000 a
mile for thi' easier and $40,000 for the lieavicr portions of the roacl,
amounting in idl to $ 38,500,000, at 5 per cent animaUy, for ,50 years.
TIic bonds of the (Joveniment bearing
percent interest liave recently bei'u sold at par In refunding the national debt. If the public

4^

and

unimpaired, the time is not remote when the
Government will be able to effect loans at the rates of 3 and 3i-2 per cent,
as now i)aiil by Kngland. The ditl'erenec between the interest on these
5 iK'r cent Texas Jc raeifie bonds for tlfty .vears and the ordinilry rales
which the (ioverumeut will have to |)a,v on the same amonut for the
same time, if invested, as it might be, hy the Government for the payment
of its own detit, would amount to much more than the cost of the road,
so that the Government would be far better off to build the road and
Rive it to the Texas & Paeitlc Company outright than to guarantee the
interest on its .5 per cent 50-.vear bonds, according to its request.
Assume that the aver.age interest of fioverunicnt loans for the next .50
years will lie 4 per cent, and we have an annual loss to the Government
Ml the excess paid to these bouilholilers of 1 jier cent on .$38, .500,000, or
$3'<.5,0O0. which, invested in a sinking fund, would auKaiut to .$140,000,OOO at the maturity of the bonds, or three and one-half times the amount
of the priuiipal. liesides all this, there is no doubt that the whole road
can be built and e<|iiippeil for less than .$20,000, probablv for not more
th.an $1.5,000. per mile. Assuming it to cost .$-J0.O00pcr mile, and the
airgregate will be (estimating the distance at iiearlv lod inilesmore than
the T.xas i- I*acitl<' authorities represent ill .$'J',1. 1-J0.00(l. IcHvili:.'- an excos ,if $i».osO.O(X) to be taken from the priiKip.al for tlie lienefit of those
who iiiauiinilate the iMinds at the start, and who do not proiiose to risk a
faith is kept

its crcilit

own in the enlcriirise.
True, tlie.^* sa.v that no more bonds sliall be issued than are necess,arv
to eoniplete and ei|iiiii the road but no one can doubt that a necessity
will be found for the full .iniount named in the bill.
We liave s.iid nothing about the returns by way of Govcninient service
in its various f(u-ni.s, because that source of lienefit is just as available
from a road Iniilt with private as with imblic capital; and. besides, complications in matters of aecouut always arise between the Govenimeiit
and sueh corporations that surpass the understanding of those who represent the nation.
The total amount of iuteiest guaranteed hy the Goveniment would,
if paid into a sinking fund, amount to more than $700,000,000 in ,50
years, and we are I'alled uiion to guarantee the payment of this sum, in
addition to the iirocecds of the laiid gi-aut. iu order to enable the Texas &
flollar of their

;

317

should lake sucli measures as should enable It to connect with the South
cm States of the Union.
The Sout Hern l'aclfl(^ Railroad Company, therefore, will siilTer Kreat
loss unless It receives Immediate relief liy such legiHlatlon as will iiecure
the early eonipleti(ui of the road along the thirty-second ]iarttllel. Tmo,
It might prolwng its existence by high taritfs iitvled uimui the scanty
commerce of that sparse po|>iilation, which, if now burdensome to the people,
must icmain .so until Eastern commiinieatlons, and const^qneut Increasing trallle, shall result In a reduction (^insistent with the continued
existence of the corporation Itself, and with some riaurn upon tlic enormous Slims invested. An increase of ralli-oad facilities and connections
is the only means of relle\ lug the people of those Territories from the
high rates of transportation incident to their isolated coudithin and the
developinent of the vast mineral wealtli of those gieatTerritorics, larger
and richer in natural resources than many powerful kingdoms of tho
world.
POSITION OF TITB SOl'TIIEIlN PACmC HOAD.
The Southeni Pacific Railroad, liy force of the absolute necessity of Its
securing Kastorn couuections as soon as possible, in order to preserve ita
capital, is the only party which has both the power and the disposition
to build this road,

Kaily ill llie sessions of this Congi-ess a hill was introduced by Mr.
Money, of iMississippi, proposing in substance to declare the franchise
and land grant of the Texas & Pacitic Company West of the Rio Grande
River (the boundary between Texas and New Mexico) to be forfeited,
and that the Southern Paeifle Company bo subrogated to the grants
originally made to the Texas Pacific Company west of said river. By

the terms of this bill the Southeni Paeifle was to comi>letc the road to
El Paso, on the Rio (irande, liOO miles easterly from Its present teriuinns,
is at Fort Yuma, iu six years; and if, at tho end of that time, no
other railroad should have been constructed westerly to connect the
Southern States with its line at EI Paso, tlicn, with the consimt of the
St.atc of Texas, the Southern Paeifle Company might jiush easterly imtU
the connection indispensable to tliis company could be made with tho
Mississippi Valley.
On the contrary, if the Texas & Pacific Compan.y, or any other road
building westerly, should aiTive sooner at the Rio Grande than the
Soutlicrn Pacific Company building easterly, sucli road could build westerly througli the Territories till tho approaching lines of the two corporations should meet. This proposal was calculated to excite competition
similar to that which drove tho existing trans-continental line to coml>letion before lialf the time allowed by Congress for tliat purpose had
expired. In this bill were numerous and well-gii.arded provisions to
secure compliance with the tenns and conditionswhich might be impose i
by Congress, including Government regulation of taiiffs and proper con
nections and nmning arrangements with other roads, prorating wit i
the Eastern lines, and other commendable features unusual but necessary iu the cliai-ters of railroads.
The passage ol this bill was advocated hy the Soutliern Pacific Company before the coniniittee. asking of the GOTcrnment no other aid Imt
the land grant rhrmiirli tiie Territories.
Tile Somlieni I'acitle Company iiiterpo.sed no oppo.sition to the guarantee asked )iy tiie Texas
I'acitle east of the Rio Grande; hut con'temjilatiiig the eoiitiiigciiev of the denial of guarantee of lionds to the Texas
A Pacitic Ciiiupany, and the con.seiiuent total collapse of its undertaking,
strongly insisted that justice required that they should not he held in
check awaiting the result of eimtinued applications by the Texas &
Pacific Company for the money or credit of the nation with whieli to
perform what the Southern I'aciflc was ready to do immediately for the

which

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land grant alone.
To this bill the Texas & Pacific Company objected. The only argument
entitled to weight, in our oiiiiiiou, was tliat the Southern Pacific, cbnneeting with the ocean at San Francisco, and liaving immediate business
relations with the Central Pacific Railroad, might enter into combinations with that corporation against the public interest, and that the
adNiuitages of competition and of an ocean connection at San Diego

would then be lost.
COMPKTITION AND COMBIXATIOy.
Company to complete its road.
We believe that any competition between rival parallel lines of railmineeessary lo recite further the details of the bill or to rei>eat
the arguments bearing upon the general question of subsidies. This road for the same business, whieli results in a loss to tho companies, is
matter is discussed In the report of the minority of the suh-committee bv sure to end in one of two ways, either in a combination by which the
public will lose far more than it has ever gained fi-om competition, or,
Mr. Luttrcll
We are oi>iiosed to all pecuniary subsidies and guarantees by the Gov- on the other hand, in the ruinous cutting of rates persisted in until the
eniment, iu whatever form, for the benefit o£ railroads, atthis time, how- weaker eoi-poration is rmiied, the public is left to the rajiacity of the
ever desirable their construction. In time of peace, private capital survivor. There is no real protection to the public but in the enforceseeking protitalile investment wUl generally promote commercial ment of the law of the laud. Competition which takes from corporations
dcvelopincnt quite as fast as is consistent with safety and penuanent just compensation is quite as ruinous as combinations wliich give them
prosperity. If the men in cliargc of a meritorious cuteri>riso command too lunch.
the coulidence of capitalists, or even the too-casily won trust of the
No one can believe that the Texas & Pacific Company would, after
middle classes, there is uo need of calling upon the nation for subsidies constrneting its line to the Pacific Ocean, long compete with any rival to
or guarantees.
its own lo.ss, or even so as to produce any reduction of lates below the
As the Texas & Pacific Company is controlled by men of gi-eat experi- maximum to which the public would submit; or that it would fail to
ence in atl'airs, who liave for iiiany years been prominent in the develop- repniritslos.sesoriiicrea.se its gains whenever an opportunity might
ment of some iiortions of our railroad system, we are forced to the con- oft'er. We repeat that nothing but the law, and the enforcement of the
clusion that this enterprise under their management is not one which law by tho goTcrument, can jirotect the public against tho love of gain
Paeifle
It is

commaiids the I'onlidence of astute business men who have to invest in
aesirable seeurilies. It is tills want of capital and public confidence
wliieh renders it impossible for the Texas *£ Pacific Company to build
tile road along the thirty-second parallel.
Were it a corporation with
capital and credit, or were the project one commanding the confidence
of liusiuess men under this management, the road might be built by the
Texas .V Paeitie Comiiany. But. in our belief, unless the Government
Jtssujues the burden of the unrtei-taking, while its management is left to
the Texas A: I'aeiHc Company, there would be no possibility of the con«triietion of the road, even if tlie company should profess its piu-pose to
accomplish

it.

THE ROUTIIEHX rAriTir liAlLROAD.

The Southcni Pacitic Uailroad Company is a corixiration of the State
of California. lis original charter renuiri'd the vearly construction of
certain di-flnite iiortions of its road, wiiidi condition, with others therein
iniposeil, have been substantially coniiilied with. The 23d section ol
the
Act of Congress of 1871. above cited, is as follows:
"That, for the purpo.se of connecting the Texas Paeifle Railroad with
Mie city of .«aii Fram^lsco, tlie Southiun Pacitic Kailroad Company of
Califorum is hereby authorized (subject to the laws of California) to constmet a line of railroail from a point at or near Teliacliapa Pa-ss, by way
or I>oH Angeles, to the Texas Paeitie EailroaU, at or near the Colorado
Kl\cr,
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'' with the
s*""e I'gois,
rights, grams
grants aim
and"-^-^trivueges,
privileges, ana
and subject . to tne
the
"Y" "" -Siiuie
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same
amc liinitatieliniitatlons,
restrictions and conditions
as
wero granted, to
said
Soutli
outhcrn Paeilic itailroad Company of California l>y tho Act of July
tw
^^^eii, eighteen hundred ami sixtv-six."
'riV
This coipoiat ion has constructed its road to Fort Yuma, on the easteiiv
uaiiK of the Colorado Itiver. in the southwesterly comer of the TerritorV
?! -"'"'"a. whieli it claims to be the authorized iioiiit of connection with
the lex.'is & Paeilic roail. a distance of about 720 miles. Its track has
been laid thiougli and over extraordinarv natural ob.slacles at the
expense of about $G0,000.0oo. and the 350 miles of its Soutlieni iiortion
passes through a desert, and for Hi I miles nearest the Colorado witlioiit
an oa.sis. This road, built to preserve the charter, is of little value
except for its antlciiiated conneetions with the Southeni States, from
Which, owing to the failure of the Texas & Paeifle Company to comply
wiiu tile requisitions of law, it is now more than i.-'OO miles" di.stant.
'" "" '"""l ^vould do a limited liusiuess with Arizona should
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"""''•• B'lt tlie population of t ha t Territorv is oiilv about
'1"
!>K rw^"
JO,oi«j,
and off these not a large iiroportlon would do business with it,
oeeause of the inconvenioiit iioiiit of contact, and of tile imiiorfect comuiunication r«i the Colorado River.
The road is already (A<ic. with its mllUons of money invested over a
sandy vviiste, ui>on the gooii faiih of the Government that the Texa«
±'aeillc Koad should be constructed so as to meet it at the Colorado River,
or, in the event of the failure of that corporation
so to do that Congress
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is inherent in hnniaii nature.
This truth is recognized by the bill of tho Texas

wliich

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Company

by the ni.'iiorit.v of the coiniiiittce, and stringent provisions are
tiierein made to bold that corporation within the bounds of justice and
law; ver.v unusual safeguards lieing jirovided for, in consideration of the
fact that tlie (Jo^eriiiiicnt itself is really required b.v the bill to furnish
the means necessar.v to build the road and give to the projectors an
additional bonus of $10,(K)0.000. Restrietioii.s and eonditions iiL a charreiiorted

ter can be enforced
as wt'il as another.

by the machinery

of the

law against one corporation

RELATIONS OF THK SOUTHEHN CENTRAL AND TEXAS PACITIC ROADS TO
EACH OTIIEU AN1> TO THE SOUTHEHN STATES.
As.suining that the Southern Pacific is controlled by the Central Pacific
(which

is

denied), there

is

the strongest reason to suiipose that this cir-

cumstance would operate rather to tiic benefit than to the iiyurv of the
South and Southwest. The whole length of llie Central I'aciflc Is aljout
800 miles. The Southern I'acitie from San Francisco to the Colorado is
more than 700 miles. Add to this the proposed extension of GOO miles,
and the total is over 1,300 miles, and wo believe it probalilo that the
Southern Pacific will extend its line easterly acro.ss Tcxa.s, unless the
desired sulisidy should enable tho Texas Pacific Company to form tho
connection at El Paso.
Therefore, if San Francisco would be the point to which all business
would converge tlie focus of inland and oceanic coiuniuiiication ou tho

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shores— tile Southern Pacific brandi

ofters to

this

imagined

Central and Southern combination the earnings of at least 1 .300 miles of
road against 800 on the Central Pacific. Which branch, then, will this
supposed combination most naturally employ!
Impelled by its own
interests, its own investments and connections, what section of the
country will it .seek to develop I Is it not api>arent that whatever may
have been its previous pui-po.ses, liy virtue of the projioscd extension of
its line it is at once converted into es8entiall,v a Southern road f
It is no
reply to tlds to say that owning the westerly ends of tho Middle and
Southeni routes it will blockade both until its exactions are complied
with, for file bill we neommeud expressly reserves and confers upon
Congress far greater iMiwers of control over the Southern Pacific tlinn
are contained in tlie bill reported liy the m.-vjority. and so long as the
jicople are so disi)o.sed tliej- can protect themselves liy tho same melhoila
which must lie resorted to in orilerto secure performance of their obligations by the Texas & Pacific Company, and with no gi-eater jMiwersif
resistance on the part of the one than tile other, except that tlio restrictions in tlie organic law of the Southern Paeifle ai>^ the moro striuKOUt
and explicit. Again, for what business will this siippo.sed eoiui>etition
arise 1 Tho Southern road should be built to beiicflt the Southern States.
Do these Stales expect that the Central & Union Pacific can or ever will
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indeed compete for bnsmess m tlie restore to the Texas <fc Pacific Company all its old privileges long before
Imt tUo Pennsylvania Central that company will get to tlie Kio tf. »nde, or take auy oih^r mca:ure8 necessary to secure its completion forth.\;th. There would be no room for the
Railroad and its 0,000 miles of trunk and western connections iloee not nareasonabie and obeti-nctive construciion which the Texa? & Pacific Com Gulf
and Southwestern States, any
the
Atlantic,
South
run throuch the
sets up under its own charter to delay the building of the road until the
pany
ma Chicago
more than does the Union Pacitic and its easterly extensions
mannor of the required money can be cxtorttd from the public reasury.
to New York. Is not this monster (speaking after the
no
road built westerly through Texas has reached El Paso in six years,
If
them,
maiority) the more dan4,'erou8 rather hecause, while the nearer to
power, .are they not the then, the State of Texas consenting, the Southern Pacific may build easterly
it IS yet not of them; and if they enlarge its
connect
with the Texss Pacific or some other compauy; aud. on the other
and
surer to become its victims and to pour forever their tribute into tlie lap hand, if the Southern Pacific fails to reach the Eio Grande in six years, the
has
of the Middle Atlantic Stiites 1 Will not the Southern business, if it
Comp ny, or ^.ny other company, may build through the TerriTexas
Pacific
a fair chance, sro ovev the Southern route, no matter who builds it or who tories to connect with the Southern Pacific, and have for the part of its road
runs it 1 Can that business ever be forced northerly to Omaha I Coming so con-tructed the rights lureia given to that corporation.
from the Occident, how can tr.ansportation eUmb the Sierras via that city
Sections 5, and 8 are too long to state in this repoit, but we respectfully
to be distributed in Georgia. Florida and South Carolina when there is ask clo^e attention to the cautiuus and onerous nature of thtir conditions and
communication alond the thu-ty-second parallel ! How. then, can there safeguards f<ir the protection of the public and of the private citizen. All the
ever be any comiwtition by tlie Union and Central Pacific for the busi- provisions of this nature found in the bill of Mr. Money, which were advocated
ness of these Southern States ?
^
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.u^
, „,
by the Southern Pacific Railroad before the committee, are here preserved;
There misht be competition which would mure to the benefit of Phila- a^^o every provision of this nature for Governmentid supervision and control
delphia and Xew Y'ork, but just as soon as the Middle and Southern of fares and freights, to secure an open highway so far as practicable, and a
portions of the country are reached, the Pennsylvania Centriil, owiiiug competing line along the thirty-second parallel, the first use of the road to the
and rimuinir this whole Southern route, will control all the coiumerce of Government for postal and military tuirposes, connections, pro-rating, preventhe South alouK the thirty-second parallel, from the Atlantic to tlie tion of combinations, itc. &c which are proposed in the bill of tlie Texas
Pacific. Is not the fact apparent that one owner controlling a through Pjcific Company, in consid ration of ^-ibniy and tant gra'>t, are, in the very
line the easterly half of which runs through the Middle aud border language emph'ved in that hill, incorporated into th'S, with other provisions
States, and tlie westerly halt of which curving southerly holds the com- deemed essential to the put)lic good, and this without any grant to the Communications of the South Atlantic and Gulf States of the Low-cr Missis- pany but the naked right of way above slated.
sippi Valley, of Texas, aud the far Southwest, is infinitely more dangerSection 7 sav.s all rights, if any, of the Texas Pacific in Califv-rnia derived
ous to the countrj-, and to the South especially, which must use Southern from that State.
routes in any event, than two owners, one in California and one in PhilaSectiiiU 9 gives right of way through military reservations, and requires the
delphia, who are sutlieiently hostile to hold each other in check under company to furnish suitable stations and accommodations fur use of the
the superintendence of the law? But the bill of the majority simply Government.
locates .another Omaha on the Lower Mississippi, aud demands that tlie
Section 11 reserves expressly full powers to compel compliance with the
Texas & Pacitic Company shall thus be to the South all they charge that provisions of the bill in the most eft ctual manner ptiesible. The^e restrictions
the Union and Central Pacitic combiued are to the country.
and reservations are more comprehensire and explicit than are contained In
We talk of the OH(Ws to the Pacific; but we must remenilier that the any otlier ra Iroad charter to our know ledge.
main channels of business are controlled by then' ownership and location
The Whole tection is a»Jfollows:
on the Atlantic as well as the Pacific, and the time is not far distant
Sec. 11. Nctwlthstandiug the rights at:d franchises herein granted to the
when the suriiassing development of our Western and Southwestern Sonihern Pacific Rai road, Congress reserves the power to authorize the conpossessions will require and secure not one, but many tracks, which may struction of other independent and competing lines of railroad and telegraph,
be laid along lines already surveyed, or may debouch through new along or near the thirty-second parallel of North latitude or any part theieof,
passes, which the surveyor is sure to find aud the engineer to subdue, from the westerly boundary of the State of Texas to San Diego, or other port
upon our Western shores.
on the P, cific coast in California, whenever ihe public good shall require, and
This certainty of the future is provided for by the final section of our espec'ally whenever it shall be deemed necessary by Congress iu order to
secure or preserve to the country ihe benefit of a trans-continental and comhill.
As bearing upon the .alleged desire of the Southern and Centaal Pacific peting line between the Mississippi Valley aud the Pacfic Ocean along theKairoads to monopolize the commercial outlets of the Pacific coast, it said parallel.
And Congress hereby expressly re-erves the same powers to regulate and
should be stated that it was showm before the committee that in 1873,
when both those corporations were under substantially the s.ame control control rates uf transportation and telegraph charges, connections, and running
as now, the Southern Pacific sold its entire franchise and property to arrangements, and ail powers uf every descripiinu over the existence, operaColonel Thomas A. Scott, of Philadelphia, in the interest of this same tion and management of said Southern Pacitic Railtoad, between the points
Texas & Pacific Company, including the whole route to San Francisco, above mentontd, as were by law reserved over the Texas Pf.cific Railrtad
and his failure to keep the control alone prevented the consoUdation of Company by the United States, or which may be necessary for the pulilic good;,
that corporation with the line to San I'l'anclsco. After this it seems and Coui;res6, having just regard to vested rights, shall a ter, amend aud
strange that the Southern Pacific should expend so many millions in repeal .he charter thereof, and this act, as the public good ehall require.
building its road through a desert merely to prevent the construction of
SOtTTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY BUILD THE ROAD H"
the Texas A Pacific I^ines. One would imagine that the expenditure of a CAN AND WILL THE
PERMITTED ?
tithe of that money would have purchased the Texas tt Pacific franchise,
The Southern Padfic Railroad desires the land grant through the Territories,
and exploded the whole project of a Southern road ahmg the thirtj-secoiid

The Middle and
latitude of

Soiitlicrn line mis'at

New York and Pliiladelpliia,

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but being notified tluit we are unwilllijg to su(iport a less ^tringent bill, has
arallel for years.
declared its purpose to proceed to build the road as soon as it shall bicome a
It is also worthy of notice that in the last Congress the Texas & Pacific
Conipanj' entered into an arrangement with the Southern Pacific by law. We are not willing to recommend the appropriation of either land or
which the former was to build and own easterly, and the latter to biiil'd money to secure the construction of this road by the Southern Pacific Comaud own westerly, meeting at the Rio Grande. Is there, then, either sense pany, bicau^eits credit is unassailable, its bonds now sellingat nearly par; and
or sinceiit y in this praise of competition and dennneiatioii of combination especially do we think it uncalled for when au actual neceesity, amounting to
compulsion, exists that it should bnild the road aud form those Eistern conall for the public good ?
The truth is that a subsidy is of more consciinence than the railroadto nectnns which are essential to its continual life; unle s Congress decides to
ney to secure what can be ju;t as well had, with as much
wliile
those
who
will
have
those who ask for it,
to
to pay for both, the give both land anu
or m.re certan'y of rroraoiing the public good, witliout pnbhc exper;se.
railroad is the principal thing.
nnlilic, it tasbcen ihaiged that the Southern Pacific
views
were
made
Since
our
GRANTS
THK FOliFEITUIiE OF LAND
IN THE TF.IiRITOKIES.
Upon the question of the pow-er of Congress to declare the rights of the would never bnild the road under a charter »> restr.ct ve and stringent; that it
this
legislation as an obstacle to others at the west,
would
oiilv
use
could
and
derived
from
the
United
Texas & Pacific Company
States West of the
Rio Grande to be forfeited ^^y rcastni of its default and breach of the just as the Texas & Pacific Ccmiiany is usei at the east end of the pre posed
achievements of this c^rprration in the conhistory
aud
when
the
rou'e.
But
conditions ujion which tlay were granted and revested in the nation itis
contended by that coriKuaticni that, without its consent, no such action struction of UO miles of far more dlfticult and expensive joat in Ca'ifornia,
ot
securing;
a soutlieasterly connection with ths Golf
purpose
t/ie
e.rpr(ss
for
of
the road can be taken until tlie
or measures to secure the completion
now
expiration of the full ten years allowed fertile construction of tlic entire and Atlantic States, Its present credit, and its corps 1 1 trained builders
of materiels awaiting this ejislation,
accumulations
its
idling
their
time,
away
road. We cannot discuss the legal <inestioii it there is one, in this report,
bkely
tO'
other
road
is
but it appears to us that a simple perusal of the law above cited in view and the ne«s-!/y that it must build or die before any
House and
of the facts stated, which are not denied, must he a suificient reply to reach it,— when all these ci>cumstanccB ore fully c uisidered by the
interests
declaration
of
tho>e
whose
that
the
by the conn ry, we are confident
this iiosition. It cannot be that Congress ha.s given any corporation the
into a railn ad sui sidy
right to barricade this great enterprise for 10 years at will. Least of all are in the direction of convertii g the pub ic Trea-ury
in guod faith and will never build
can it be that such wrong is perpetrated in a charter, which, by its own fund that the Southern Pacific is not acting
the
rofid is inspired only by the fear that if afforded the opportuniiy that corterms, may in any event, be altered, amended and reiiealed whenever the
poration certainly will build it t once, and thus for ever end ihese raids upon
public good requires.
the pretense of
That'charter was given, to secure the completion of the road, not to the Treasury in the interest of private associations under
prevent it, and any construction of its language which defeats its pur- promoting the public good.
CONCLUSION.
pose Is legally false.
We submit that it will work great wrong to the Southern Pacific Railroad
I'ROVISIOXS OF THE JirNORITY EILI..
oration, to the great Sonih and Southwest, ard to the whole country, to
Influenced by these considerations, and others which cannot now be cori
reject this hill and to enact the bill recommended by the majority of the comstated with desirable brevity, we beg leave to report the accompanying
mittee in the interest of the Texas & Pacific Company, or to reject this bill
hill, as a subsitute for the bill reiiorted by the majority, and recommend
noder any circumstances. This measure does not antagonize, nor did the
ts passage.
Southein Pacific Railroad antagonize before us, any railroad project, branch or
It is proper to say that the bill is substantially the same as that introconnectian east o! the Rio Grande. It simply asks to buHd eOO miles of railduced by Mr. Blair, on the 25th day of Februar.\', being House bill Xo. road half way from the Colorado to Fort Worth, the present westerly terminna
3,520, with an amendment extending the time of the Texas it Pacific of the Texas & Pacific Companj-, and SO additional m les iu California, to coniCompany two years, making six years within which to build its road to plete the San Difgo connection, without any public aid and snliji^ct to all
El Paso, provided it is not sooner met in the State of Texas by the Soittli- reasonable restrictions in the public interest. True, it desires the laud grant,
eni Pacific, building easterly. See the second section of the bill.
but we do not recommend it, because we believe that this corporation will
Its provisions may be epitomized as follows
bnild the road without.
After reciting the failure of the Texas <fc Pacific Company to perforin
^h<lu:d the reoresentatives cf that portion of the cour try chiefly to bo benatheeonditionsof its organic act, and amendments thereto, and allegiu!.' fltted, not by the subsidy, but by the road, defeat this measure, it is difticult
in section 1 that the occasion has»ariseu in which Congress may "anil
for us to see how they can reaso:iably expect he rest f the couitry to consent
should assert the power expressly reserved, as above stated, to adopt to burden tlie taxpayer and embarrass our pol cy with the most dangerous
such measures as it mijrht deem necessary and proper to secure the precedent, wh'ch would exhaust the Treasury with hundreds tf tubsidies
speedy completion of said railroad, in section 2 the hill jirovides that the throughout the iinlimited future of the nation.
Southern Pacific Railroad may extend its line of railroad and telegraph
It would seem impossible for any man to justify himself to his constituency
from the present tenninus to the easterly bank of the Rio Grande, there and to his country at large in a course whicli depletes the Treasury when all
to coimect -with the ccuistructed road of the Texas Pacific or any other that is desired is attainable without expense to the people.
road in the State of Texas which shall have arrived at th.at point, and
Profoundly desirous as we are for tlie tpeedy completion of thl.-i great enterthat upon the iiasFagc of the Act all the rights fonnciiy confernd upon prise, and believing that we recommend the only practicable or justifiable:
the Texas Pacific Couipaay westerly of the Rio Grande, shall be deemed lesislation ni.on the subject, we respectfully recommend Ihe pas«aL'e of this
to have lapsed and terniiiiated as to said Comjiain-, and to be revested in bill
.1. K. LUTTRKLL,
the United Stated for the purjioses of this Act. The bill does not underG. M. LANDERS.
take to interfere with the rights, if any, acquired by the Texas & Pacific
HENRY W. BL.^IR.
from
the
of
California.
report.
"ompany
State
We concur substantially in the concluaions of this
W. W. RICE.
Section 3 confers the right of way througli the territories in eonimon
ABRAM •;. HEWITT.
form, 200 feet wide on elf lier side, with an aggregate amount of land,
not exceeding (uie section in five, for depots and other necessary uses of
the road, and that the United States sliall extinguish any Indian titles,
as usual in such jmiuts. Probably, however, there an; none which would
VIEWS OP MESSRS. LUTTRELL AND BLAIR.
be Interfered with.
The undersigned, of the sub-commiltee to whom were referred House blll»
Stciioii 4 jirovuies that the Southern Pscific Pailroad chall comnifnce its
rond within oreyear after the passage of the act, and within onf ye-r there- Nos. 1,919, S,nS, 1,964, 8,031 and 3,573, report that we have had the same under
afUT shall conip eie 100 miles, at d not less than 50 nii'cs yearly, nnd sh.ll consideration, and, while differing with the majority, we are as sensible to the
complete the who i to the Itio Grande, rind fhaU aUo or'ci'd its !tn', to San
parallel I'aciflc
Diego (wiihin Ik' miles f which city it i.» now in operatit n, and is being advantages to follow the speedy completion of the thirty-second
pushed hlorg tome 15 miles niniual'y), within six years after the pas;;nse of Railroad, iu the way of encouragement to trade, manufactures and miningthis act. being an avcai-e of ll.** nidts per year.
throughout the country; in the development of the population and indnstries
Upon failure to comp etefftcA V""', ''S in the section provided. Conaress
mhy .mmediutily takti any meafciires u fba'l (hem necesfa'yfor the comple- of the Southwest Territory; in the military protection of our frontier, and ia
Ucn of the road; thuscLablng Congress, if It ehould become desirable, to the economies to the administration of the Government, as the majority of i!8

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memlxT^ cnn

be,

and

km on dodront

to the mcniift to be employed.
Two propoilllonn are before a«

to iiromote that object.

looUoe

We differ uuly ai

Oneof them,

to that end.

the T.

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land Kraut from the United Slates, imoiinlliiB to
& I'ncinc, seeks to retain
IH.Hii.iKK) acres, toolita!ii Iwo ytars' additional time, and a fpoclal anl extraordliiiirj i:rautof the c v<llt of the uatlon lu the form of an eudorsamcnt upon
Its

fif,::'

i.(

W of

the couipjuy'a bond;, pledging it to Ibe

payment of

i p«r cent

319

•tock.ralicr because horses are nocesaary In war. The United Stale* baa
power to regulate foreign commerce an I commerce between lbs Slates, but It

it m<y Indorse the notea of a •blpbnllder or merchant
by way of stlmuiallng and encouraging busino-s
be undersigned Is un ible
to perceive any diallnction In principle between there cases and the demand
of the projertors of lb 8 railroad for a loan of Ike Government credit, lo the
extent of maty millions, with which to prosecute a private specula ion.
Presidinl .Jackson, in his veto message of the Mayavllle Kond Bill, dlecns-eU the power in question and denied the right of Conirrcss to ihe

doe* not follow that

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premises v.ilhout a previous amendment lo the Conslllution Lianiing tbe
power, which. In his opinion, was clearly reserved by Ihe Inflrnmaht as It
stord and now stands In respect lo this power. President Polk held the
aamj views, ond devotid a large part of his lest annual nics-ace to ihls grave
easttriitd
ques ion, then jll^l beglnnlnz to assume dangeions proportions The weight
or fiirtluT ostislaDCO than the contl{;ttou$ grant of lauda now at the disposal of
uf authority In favor of ih; views of Prejidens .Ijckson and Polk Is overfori.-v.-s.
whelming. Among the statesmen of the earlier days of the Republic there
Whii li of the^e two propositions, as guardians of the public Interests, can we was little or no difl'crence of opinion. I content mvself wlih the naked atatement f the hittorical truth, and I will not burden these pages with the bright
adopts Which of these two candidates, as practical business men, ought we array
of mimes, from .Iiffeison down, which might bo brought to its support.
to intrust with tills undertaking? We should select the proposition most favThe railway co.npany which asks for this enormous appropriation of credit
orable lo the good of the people. It would seem that by the charter the grant presents no claim upon Iho public which entitles It lo exemption from tbe
general lule.^l'ho cnlerprise Is es.'entia ly a private one, and Ihe company has
of laud nloDg this thirty-second parallel line In the Territories was made double
already 'ecclved from Ine United Stales and tt.e State of Texas a safflcient
that of the pioneer line by the torty-llrst parallel, as if In lien of future aid in
basis of credit lo have built the road, had its asset" been prudently mana^'ed.
The undersigned is not unmindful of Ihe fact that at a later period a dlfmoney or credit. This purpose again appears in the amendment of 1^;^,
which further lightened the burdens and enlarged the privileges of the Texas fereni rule of construction prevailed from that which prevailed lu the earlier
days of the Rep.,biic, ocd which Is now here Insisted upon.
& PaciUc CompjBy, and which were granted npon the express condition
DA>OEU op SUBSIDIES.
Undeleg .ted power is nccessirily unregulated and nnrestralned. Power
•'That nothing In this act shall be so constrned as to authorize the grant of
usurped never was and novir wlil be honestly administered.
addttion.il lands or sul>sldv, of any nature or kind whatsoever, on the Gc»vernWhen we passed the limits of constitutional power we invited venality,
mcut of the lulled States."
Both the act and Its -tuiendments required as a condltiou precedent that the orrnption a\d all the perils of cDriomte greed wi'h which the country
work should be t>ro-ecute^l simullanously from the eastt-rn and wes'.e u uniter the later tOBStructiin has beionie unhappily familiar. First, as if by
termii'i.
By Ih act of 1-7:2 there were required to be comu'eted not less than stealth ana indirection, gifts and grants tf 11. e public property were made
through the tales; then directly to private corporations; aud finally, under
601 miles of the main Hie in Texas and r.ot less than 110 miles in California by
May 2. I6TS, whereas, in fact, less thin 8J0 miles of the ma n line have been the uecessities. real or supposed, of civil war, subsidies assumca the objecconipU ti'd westerly from the .Mar.-h dl terminus in Texas, and not one mile, or tioiiab e form proposed In the pendinj? hill.
I ne under.-lgnod would remind the Ilouse
even a l>ol from ban Die^o easterly. There has been a marked failure on the
that this later rule of construction o.ly obtained a footing al a period when American statesmanship had
part of Ihecmpany to comply witli f e term^ on which the lands and frangrown
restive unuer constitutional restraints, which are still believed to be
chises were grant d. Tnis contingency of failure wa«. Ijy the caution of Conessential and indispt usable 10 the protection and well-being of the people;
gre«« l'rre<eenand provided for In botli acts by a proviso that—
and when rules of construction obtained a footing which finally wrecked na
p >ii ftdlure to so complete It Conirress may adopt such measures as it
iu civil war, we should retrace our steps and return to '.he doctrines and the
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':r,Tn necessary and pro[)er to secure its ^peedy completion."
practices of tlie faihet 8. In iliis the people have preceded us, and ihisHouse
'i tie i.Kt of such failure is obvious by its appearance here for further aid and
lias, i.y solemn resolution, condemned ihe furthir grant or renewal of subsiindi
nee, and it thereby confesses inability lo proceed with the construction
dies iu any form. 1 he lands already granted exceed 200.030.0)0 of acres, a
and to niakegord its delinqumcies.
He the sam act of charter the Southern Pacillc was authorized to construct guaniiy in aria and acres equal to me teven great Stales or Ohio, Kentucky,
'i'ei.nessee,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa, equal to Ihe original thirS'lni'' ;:
miles of io:i(l in Californa to connec" this thirty-second parallel road
teen stales, it' we exclude West Virgluii. Ihe money subsidies already
vMtii niic previously authorized, extending to San Francisco, at the rate of 5
mi.e> ptr annum. Ir ap;uars l>y the record that it ha^ completed that portion granted, guar.aniced. loaued or siveu, which in Pacific Railroad legislation
within Itie seven years allotted, notwithstanding llie "real physical obstruct- have h Iherto proved to be equivalent terms, used us a sinking lund, would
ions ond the hardness of the times, and has over TOtj miles of road In operation liquidate more than $1180,' 00.000 of the publx debt.
1 he properly oul of which Ibis 1,400 miles of railway, to be owned by priwith branch roads, and termini at 8(aiK)its in Southern Calirornia. in rail c«mmmileailon with San Francisco, while its e.isteru terminus is on the eastern vate liidivld-ials, is to b constructed Is wholly the creature of the Government. The shareholders contribute no part of it under the provisions of this
bank of the Hio Coior.id in Arizona.
bill,
ir this road is a matter of suflicient national concern to be built by tbe
In this attitude of affairs It represents that it would he a great hard.ship to be
Government, It is submiiled that the Government, and not the railroad comcompelled to wait indednitely npon a disabled company for a c mnecling roa I
pany, should own it. The present value of the $3S,75O,O0O of firty-year bonds,
fr.im tiie K-jst, and asks of us iho privilege of continuing Its road eastward
wer» the principal a'so guaranteed by the Government, wouidf not exceed
throi:_'h ihe Territories to the Itio CJrande. audas much further as may be nec$.3.(100,000.
In their proposed form, were the interest-guaranty of the Govessary to meet the Texas roads, within six years. Such is the desire for an
ernineui detached, the bonds would be absolutely worthless.
outlet to the E»st, which shdl admit it to participation in through ovennnd
1 he j41 ml ea of constructed road is not Included in the proposed mortgage
tratllc. that it offers th.it if its reqnest be granted to construct aline to San
Dic'" Il.ubor lit addition lo its present oceau termini, and to pio-rate on lo mdimnify the GjyerBment for its gnaran.y. The land grant of the Siaie
of Texas, which constituted Ihe most valuable of the securities heretofore
throi::;ii lin-incss with all Kaslernconneclioas to San Francisco or other points,
and
allow Congress to impose the rales and fares on the line between its offered by the Texas Jt Pacillc Railr.)ad (.'oinpany to the Government, as
eastern and western termini at Pacific ports, although asking no aid of the mden.uiiy for its guaranty, has lapsed ai.d is not included in the proposed
United Stiles which it is not its advantage for Congre-s lo grant. This is mortgage for iudeinnlly under ihi< bill. The lauds heretofore granted to the
ralier more that it is within the power of ;he other compa.iy lo offer. No good company by C njrcss, situate in the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona
and the Stale of C'aiifornia, are believed to afford the Government no snbanil nv.'.ffnc ory reason is found why this proposition should not be promptly
8;aulial indemnity for its guaranty; the area or tillable or available agriculand c'l orfniiy accepted.
Were we administering our o\>'n private busincss.couid we fofa m-ment hesi- tural lands is inconsiderable the whole proceeds are liahle lo be coi.sumed
In llieir survey and sale. If railroad history repeals itself, the bondholders
tate between these offers^ one of which, besides being an undeserved favor.
w.ll forecioseany claim cf ihe Goveriimeui ivhen the bonds are paj'ab e. The
Involves gr.ve responsibiluies, dangerous precedent an great risks, while the
other avoids all commitments, all donbtfiil policy, and insures al its proffered only real Udemuity, therefore, wl icli the Government obtains for lis guaranty i- fouiid in its right t ) letain ihe price anu co..^t of carrying its mails,
benellts within the same time, without the risk of a dollar of the people's
money or creilil? We conceive ive are not here as the aim mers of ihe bounty uoops and supplies over, not the Texas & Pacific Rallroiii], but over thai
of the (Jovernment lo Its citizens or corporations, but as guardians f the pub- pan of it to be built upon its ('he Government's) own credit. The local or
lic iveifiire and trustees of Us propertyjand credit of the nation, sworn to obey
way carrying on the road to be construclea wen of Fort Worth lo bo i aid for
the C'on.-^tituiion and protect tha best Interests of the pei pie. and in this view by the Government must long be mccusiderable, while through carrying wi.l
we cannot co icnr in the report of th„' majority, which proposes logra t a sub- be dtvieed betwen'j this and other roads a-..d raiich^".
sidy or Kuaran'. V of $:J8,T51MJ<I0 of the people's money or credit to a corporal on.
The history of Paciac Railroad legislation, and ihe practices under it, does
We are opposed to grautlig Government aid'in money.'honds. lands or public net justify me expectation of net earnings which will icure lo the benefit of
credit to any corporation, but ©f the two propo-iti >ns* before us we prefer ihe
the Governmeiit in compensatiou for its guarjinty or othf-rwise. That the
<•"« that will save to the Government and the taxpayina pr-ople nenrlv t:4.X0D0,road might be so couetrucied and so operated ns in a considerable degree to
"<»
save the Government harm in its <.u raulee is possible; 'b.t it will not be
J. K. LUTTUilLL.
I concur snbstanthlly in thl- report.
so c^nstruct-d or operated, our exp •lenee abundantly roves. We have foster, d by lavish gtanis from the put.l'c Tr.asury a number of corporations,
IlEXRY W. BL.\IR,
w. ich, in return for our ill-considered bounty, have oppressed the people and
g-own so strong as to defy the G jverument, t r so rich as lo corrupt its offiANTI-SUBSIDY VIEWS OP MR. MORRISON.
cers. Tbe proof is abundant that digress it^clf has failed to withstand the
Tl^s Texas
c iruptinx iiifluenc-'S of the g eat corporations It has created. There is
Pacillc Ral'road Company se k to obtain the guaranty of the
ni
hing iu the h story of tlie Texas and i-aciflc Railroad Comniny which juaTTnited Stale* f r the payir.ent of the interest on f'iS 73 ',0C0 of 5D year 5 per
t:fi s ihe conclu.-lon [bat its methocs. tnd practices will be different fiom the
cent bord-, to be issued by said railroad company, and used by it in bnllding m..lbods and piactices of its predecessors.
and extending its railro d from F^rt Vorth, in Texas, lo the Pac'flc Ocean at
RECORD OF TIIE DCUOCIlAriC PARTY.
The nndereigned is not unmia fui of the commercial importance and
S»n Diego, in Caiifoinia. The road to be constructed is 1.400 miles in length
special advantages cf the proposid road as a trans-continental ^r^illway, and
;
the botda lobe issued amoaut to t2r,678 per mile; aud the interest guaran- conenrs in Ihe belief expres:ed hy the miijorlty of ihe committee Ihat, " tint
teed lo be paid by the Unlled States, used as a sinking fund and invested in for our unft»riunate civil disturbances, there can ne little doubt that the first
Government b inds boarii g the same rale of interest, would pay $100,000,000 trans-con iiienlat line."of railway cntistrueted would have been on or near the
Ihirty-.-ecnd paialle
But it is submitt- d hat this belief affiids no suffiOf the public debt.
cient justification for the guaranty and subsidy asked. For were it conceded,
not,
this
that
en'erpr
sj is essen I illy of the S ml hern character with
Has Congress the power to anthorlzn the covet- d guaranty ? If it has, then as It 18
power has bet n conferred upon Congress to make gifts of the public moneys which it is atleniiiled lo be stainp-i . no reason can be bul r upo.i that fact
not
be
urged
equal fore.; ae a reasiin why the Government
may
with
wliich
atdpuM.c property lo private corpora ions and individuals, lias any such should equalize between Ihe lately-contending sections all Ihe losses resnltpow<r been granted by the Constitution, or is it necessary to Ihe execution ing from "onr uiifortuni,te civil disturbauies."
rhe statement of the maj ,riiy Ihat the Government of the Unlt-^d Slate«. In
of any power that is granted?
view of the quantity of lands giv^ii to it by Southern States, has been unjust
This railr.iad, when built, will b? the private property of the fhareho'ders
to Ihe S uih In Ihe bestowal of bounties, is.bei'eved lo find ils refn alien in
It will be a military and a post road in the same sense, and
the ch 'racier ol the men who before the war represented that sectio'^. They
to the same extent,
and none other, that all other railroads of the country over which the Govern- were loo sensitive as lo the 'igbts of their section to be satisfied with less
than what was r ghtful y theirs. The nndere'gned Is not advised as lo bow
ment n ay transport its malls, troops, or supplies for reasonable compensa- the Texas and P.iciilc Kaliroad Company acquired the franchise and light of
tion, are military and
post roads. It is submitted that Ihe power has not wav bv wh'ch it Is aulboriz-jd to construct its railroad from Fort Worth to
keen conferred npon C.ngrcss to make the United States a partner In such an El iPosa In the S ale of I'tias, whether by graiit frem Ihe Stale of Texas or
by purchase from cr conso.ldailon with the Memphis El Paso &, Pacific
enterprise by subicriplion to Its capital ftock
or, more, to authorize the conRauroad Company, under the fonr.h section of tbe act of March 3, 18SI,
atrucllon of the road out of the resources of the people to be made a gift to
entitled, " An a;i t > Incorp >rate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company and to
aid in the coustrncllon of its road and for other pnrpcses."
the railroad company.
lu the c»ee ol Davis vs. Gr..y, lli Wallace, p. S'lS, United Slates Supreme
Court decided that the Memphis El Paso St, Pacific was a surviving rorporaPOWKB OF COSOnESS DOITBTPtn..
ilon with all lis property In possession, and all Its facutties nnlnipalrod.
The attempt to deiivc such power— the power to build and give away a rail This franchise and right of way tbe company proposes to mortgage to indemroad— from the power to eitabtUh military and pist roads I", In the opinion of nify the Government for its (naranty. It becomes a material fact, therethe nnderslgned, an attemj^t to pervert the obvious purpjse of a power in- fore, to know If it was ever acquired In either of tbe modes enegested, or
and whether It has been forfeited or lost with the Texas load
tended for the public good to private ends. The United Slates Is bound to otherwise,
grunt. The undersign, d expres sea no opinion upon this question, wbich waa
provide for the gmeril defense, but It does not follow that It may cor. not considered by the committee, but aabnita that dne regard tor the interests of the G overnraeot c'einands tha' before any guaranlj la made baaed In
struct or operate a railroad for the exi losive benefit of a private corporation
mortgage of Ihe said franchise and rteht of way, the Hou'e ahonld
becau'c it may nUiraately and in some possible contingency want to use It part on a
be informed at.d advised as to the titl« to what Is propesel to be mnrtraced
for a miliary purpose, any more than it may go into partnerihip w.tha
'WlLUAM R. MORRISON.
RespicUuily submitted,
gold

liiiorest for

The

50 years.

a^ksonly onr sanction to continue Its rond
across the Territories within the sii!»e time, bat without any other

other, the Sonlliera PaclUc,

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Commercial ®tmes.

Friday,

The Movkmknt of thb Crop,

COMMERCIAL EPITOME.
General trade
character of the European advicea has stimulated export business
in breadetuffs, and caused some recovery in values of flour and
wheat. The provision market baa also felt a slip-'it impulse,
while cotton has been correspondingly depressed. Kir.y iu the
week the weather was quite wintry, but at the close it i< springIt was feared that the frost and snow of Sunday and
like again.
Monday had done much injury to the fruit crops iu the Middle
To-day, the Produce
States, but nothing serious is reported.
for

most

articles of breadstufiFs

P.

March

M.,

29, 1878.

as indicated by our telegrams

from the South to-night, is given below. For the week ending
this evening (March 29), the total receipts have reached 65,470
bales, against 75,723 bales last week, 83,264 bales the previous
week, and 9 1,947 bales three weeks since, making the total re-

Bridat Night. March 29, 18T8.
presents few new features. The more warlike

Exchange was buoyant

XXVL

Vol.

ceipts since the Ist of
D,

Stjptember, 1877, 3,895,4")8 bales, against

same period

ul,049 bales for the

since Sept.
for this

1,

week

of 1876-7,

The

1877, of 16i,419 bales.

and

(as per telegraph)

week

Receipts this

at

ISIS.

weeks

for the corresponding

of five previous years are as follows

and pro-

showing an increase

details of the receipts

:

1817.

1876.

187

1874.

lSi3.

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visions.

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Pork has been without much change mess selling on the spot
held
at |10 10@10 25, and for June delivery at $10 30@10 35
more firmly at the close. Lard has been active, and latterly
advanced, prime Western steam closing to-day at $7 5'3i, spot
and April, |7 60 for May, and |7 67^ (or June. Bacon closes firmer
Western long clear, on the spot, 5 5-16e. Cutmeats
but quiet
are also doing rather better. Beef ia in better export demand
and firm. Beef hams have a steady sale at full prices. Butter
has been drooping for medium qualities. Cheese has declined to
12@13c. for good to prime factories. Tallow has been dull aud
Stearine held at 7Jc. for
closes somewliat unsettled at 7|@7ic.

New

Orleans

Mobile
Cbarlestoa

;

*c
&c

Port Royal,

Savannah.
GalreetOD

;

[ndlanola, Ac
Penness'^e, &c

a comparative summary
to March 23, inclusive

1

Total this week
Increase,

Decreaee.
331, 00

i)9,DlJ,4J9

The exports

378
3.219

3,843

4,13i

1,770

S,9a7

4,2371

15

33

13,511

3,794

2ii

5,771

5,300

4,363

14)

318

3tl9

6,481

4,441

7,219

61

81

US

64

1,538

2,207

;,095

543

7,366

7,333

7,650

7,349

331

324

19,913

38,531

59,922

4?,637

.3,643

436'

30,397

i

775

3,893,458'3,73I,P49 3,757,«6 3,194,9J7|3,4!1,161 3,059,435

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week ending

for the

this evening reach a total of

which 71,032 were

of

bales,

made up

evening are now 631,970 bales.

this

week

loxes.

19,121
37,06J
31,561
14,630
27,733

9,690
4,728
6,534
8,784
7,461

Bags.
43.!420

the

are

of last season:

Kxportod to

March

New

this

Same
week

week.

1877.

Total

Week.ending
Qreat

ContiFrance
Britain.
nent.

-29.

Orleans*...

Stock.
1878.

18-.7

33,018

3,037

33,03;

16,923

3711,739

348. 69S

MoMle

4,83>i

2,154

6,989

9.354

38,C93

52,584

Charleston

3.;

69

8,475

13.844

3,983

30,709

33,560

Savannah, &c. ..
Qalvestont

4,3D7

3,300

9,0J4

1,616.

45,;62

28,a7«

9,693

4,170

13.862

7,008

41,007

13,123

236

13,354

3,31-,'

153,061

New York
Norfolk.

Other ports

1,577

3,8;o

3,820

60

9,393

71.003

1,377

31,413

93,991

Total since Sept. l!t,653,15i

4-27,1.88

.373,767

2,656,413

9.54!

t

Total this week.

3,566

47.692
!;

0,204

19,809

11,063

44,000

38,000

45,633 G31,<r0 719,46S
',3,4.33,549

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JVew Orteant.—OnT telegram lo-uiglil from New Orleans snows that (oeslaes
above exporlBJ the amount of cotton on uliiphoard and ensftKetl for shipment at
that port is asfollows: For Liverpool, 59,750 imle^: for Havre. 14.rjU0 bales; lor
the Continent. 17,750 bales; for coastwise ports, 2,01:0 bales; wliicli, 11 tleductetl from
the stock, would leave 176,750 bale--", representing the quantity at the landing and in
presses unsold orawairlng orders.
t <^a^j«.sio?i.~Our Galveston telegt-ain shows (besides above exportsl on sninboard al th;a port, not cleared: For Liverpool, 10,;03 hale-*; lor other forelRn,
'2.680 bales; for coastwise ports. -2,'2i9 bales; which. If deducted from the etoc*
would leave remalnInK '25.105 bales.
t The exports this week under the head of "other po-ts" inelud,*. from Baltimore, 493 bales 'o Liverpool and 50 ba'es to Continent; from Boston, 6,417 bal';8
to Liverpool f om rhilade'phia, 'i,&:'Z bales to Liverpool.
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Below

stocks and exports for the week, and also for the corresponding

Molasses is quite firm: boiling grades are in limited
and 50 test Cuba is strongly quoted at 35@30c.; New Orleans sells steadily at 22(a48c., the latter figures tor choice. Kefined sugars have been in demand and firm, standard crushed
being quoted at 10@104c. Raw grades have been rather qaiet,
but nevertheless very firm fair to good refining Cuba quoted at
7i@7Jc.
Melado.

198,711

191
1.7IS

210,4-23

],90:i

31.109
174,560

1,112

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Ocean freight room has been, at times, in active request, both
Rates in some instances have
berth and chartering tonnage.
shown irregularity. Late engagements and charter.-* included
Liverpool,
steam,
by
Grain to
SJd.per 60 lbs.; flour, 23. 91.; proviflour, by sail, 2-i. 1^.; cotton,
sions, 228. 6d.@258.@303. per ton
7-32@15-64d grain to London, by steam, 7id.; hops, ^d.; grain,
by tail, Oid.; flour, Is. 10id.@33.@23. IJd.; grain to Bristol, by
sail, 7id.; do. to Antwerp, by steam, 8id.; do., by sail, 7@7fd.;
grain to Cork for orders, 5s. 5d.@53. 6d. per quarter; do. to
Havre, 4s. 9d.; do. to Cette, 53. 6d do. to Naples, 5->. Aid.; do. to
Marseilles for orders, 5s. 9d.; do. to Lisbon, M^c, gold, per bush
crude petroleum to Bremen, 33. 3d, per bll.; refined do., same voy-

It will be seen that, compared
with t^e corresponding week of last season, there is an increase
In the exports this week of 48,338 bales, while the stocks to-night
are 87,49s bales leas than they were at ibis time a year agf.
The following is our usual table showing *ae movement of cotton
•tall the ports from Sept. 1 to Mar. 23. the latest mail dates:

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BBCIirTS
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SSPT.

Other
Great :„
Prance
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age, 33; do. to Baltic, 3s. 9J.; do., in cases, to Salonica, 27c , gold ;
do. to Java, 82i@35c. naphtha to Exmouth, 4s.; roain to Stettin,
To-day, re.tes were higher and firm, with a fair business.
3s. 9d.
Grain to Liverpool, by steam, 6lirt;7d.; cotton, by sail, 7-33d ; peas
to London, by sail, 71td.; flour. 3s.@38. 1^1.(323. 3d.; grain to Antwerp, by fail, 7|@7i(l.; do. to Bremen, by sail, 7id.; do. to Hall,
by steam, 7i^a.; do. to Cork for order.-*, 53. 9d. per quarter ; do. to
Havre, 5s. 4id.; do. to New Castle, 5s. 3d.; refined petroleum to
Bremen, 3fl.; do. from Philadelphia to the Continent, Ss. 3d@3s. 6d.
There has been some movement in rosins for export, but without improvement to prices, couimon to good strained still being
quoted at $1 60@1 65. Spirits turpentine has sold only in a jobbing way, at the laie figures of 30J@31c. Petroleum has continued weak and declining, owing to similar advices from the
Creek and the almost entire absence of a satisfactory export
demand crude, in bulk, 7c.; refined, io bbls, at life, for prompt
American pig iron has continued quiet, but all holders
delivery.
retain late views with firmness ; No. 1 has sold to tlie extent of
500 tons at $19. In steel rails little has been done of late beyond
the sale of 4,000 tons, in lots, for delivery in the Eistern and
Western States, at $43 50@44. Ingot copper was still quiet, but
unchanged at 17o. Cloverseed in demand at 7j-.g7|c. per lb.

1

From the foregoing statement

:

;

2,893

269
3.779

to Great Britain, 1,577 to
France, and 31,413 to rest of the Continent, while the stocks as

370,804,505

figures.
receipt,

;

10,307

693
8,Si2

65,47oi

Total since Sept.

56.450,574
68.JiO,6il

There have been fair transactions effected in Rio grades of
coffee, and a generally firm tone prevails, though prices are
unmistakably low. Fair to prime cargoes quoted at 15|@17c.
gold. Siock here on the 27th inst., in first hands, 74,508 bags. In
mild grades, a moderately fair business has been reported.
Kice ha.s been fairly active in a jobbing way at late steady

March 1, 1878
Stock March 27, I87S
Stock March 2S, 1877

5,439

3,933

;

Sales fince

3,035!

843

10.

ISTS

4.559

&c

;

1.

1,3S7

1,835

;

Steok March 1, !878
EeceiplB since March

3,490

S,761

6,87o

The market for Kentucky tobacco has been less active for the
past week, and yet a fair business has been done, the sales
amounting to 709 hhds.,of which 100 were for borne consumption
and 600 for export. Prices are unchanged lugs quoted at 3@
Seed leaf has been very quiet, the sales
4ic., and leaf at 5i@12e.
being only 554 cases, asfollows: 279 cases, 1876 crop, New England, 7i@25c.,- 75 cases, 1876 crop, Pennsylvania, 6i@loe. 100
cases, 1870 crop, New York State, Big Flats, private terms, and 100
cases sundries, 5@l0c. Spanish toljacco has also been without
important movement sales 4.50 bales Havana at 80c., 87ic, and
$1

3,893

10,5.39

of aggregate exports

8l3,-;7J,-276

493,809, ?30

3,153!

North Carolina
Norfolk

93,991
Total, lbs

19,747

5,46i,

j

:

1876-77.
87,413,500

S7,03;,40O
300,«i3,etO
lii6,M3,080

Pork. Ihs
Bacon, &c., lbs
Lard, lbs

17,945

2,036;

35
-66

City Point,
is

25,451

5,246

Florida

prime.

The following
from November

14,290'

2-2,016.

1877.

N. Orleans.
Mobile

1876.

Britain

TO —

Coast-

wise
Total.

Sloc~

Ports.

forei'n

575,54'), 2. 9.976 2.38,389 1083,914

173.002

371,177

34,213

129,784

207,734

45,7-24

91,891

269,113

113,014

31,443

141,87?

34,794 n-),7d0

396,411

2,00,771

50,123

487,090

146,453

35,.974

10,:331

182,333

161,536

116,331

•28-3,216

4,732

31,63!

368,519

l,'3o5,18l 1,032,313

:«0,771

344,991

84,69?

30,874

Charlesl'n*

4i-2,eoi

450,393

110,40-i

66,816

Savannah

E4!,947

4

> 1, 4-3 J

Salveston*.

409,811

New York-

93,315

..

1

5-3,614
1.51,797

ia,7,u

30,081

N. Carolina

130,313

120,070

33,153

1,730

19,S90

54,823

73,236

3.179

Norfolk*..
Other ports

441,l:S

511,305

128,594]

1,075

3.92'i

13-3,39?

388.411

22,037

131,131

116,665

13,333

114,847

Tot. this yr.

3, 3.'7,938

1581,150 435,611 352,:J55 3!i6 2,432 1256,185

667,594

1,539 2387,886 1166,379

751,876

Florida

Tot. last yr.

I-?,731

131.509

3,700,6',2!l71H.7-23l:i67,574

.JO

39,50)

Included Port Koyal, ftc: under ihe nean oJ
ffa/5«sWnIslncludBdlndlauoia,&c.; under the head of Xcrfolt is Include:! 'Vy
Point &c.
These mail returns do not correspond precisely with the total of

•Under the head of CAariiMMn

Is

the telegraphic figures, because in preparing them it is alwnys
necessary to incorporate everv correction made at thw ports.
The market for cotton on the spot has been quiet during the
past week. Quotations were yesterday reduced l-16c. and again
today they were further reduced 1 16c, to lOic. :or middling up.
,

1

:

..

March

:

THE CHRONICLR

80. 1878.]

flit
Tlii< want of .spirit and depresaion is the
natiirnl conNniiifnc- of tlie iucre«!<iiigl}--tlirniitfning nntare of tlie
reports wiili irgard tn Great Britain and Kusnia, and the contin-

landu, nnd cl.iscd

ued large rewi t» at tliti Soutliern ports. For future delivery
thore was, townnls thcclofe, an im ortant decline. On Saturday,
Tueaday and Wedneaday, a strong effort was mide to support
raluea
but ycHierrfay ufternoon and this morning prices gave
way sharply. On Monday there were some indications of
demorali/.iition, l)ut ihey were overcome for the moment only to
become conHpiciious lat r on, whe the hope that peace would be
maintained between Oroat Dritain and Russia seemed to be genThe despondency was increased by the fact that
erally given up.
the rrctfii'ts ai the ports and at the interior towns of the South
have continued to be greatly in excess of corresponding d itej of
last season.
Some use was made of the " cold snap" on Sunday
;

i

and Monday to check the 'iecline, but it was generally felt that
it could have no serious eff^^ct upo:i the next crop.
The market
closed this afternoon, however, rather steadier, at a decline of
to 18 p intfi from yesierday for this crop and 1 to 7 points for
the next crop, and 16 to 31 points for ihe week. In tlie final
dealings, Mnrch and April, which have been nearly together,
pa ted ompany.
The total sales for forward delivery for the week are 273,400
bales, including
freeon board. For immediate delivery the total
ales foot up this week 4,020 bales, including 1,019 for export,
1,634 for consumption, 1,973 for speculation, and
in transit.
Of the above, 1,308 bales were to arrive. The following tables
show the official quotations and sales for each day of the past
week<

—

—

DPLANDS.

ALABAMA.

I

.

Oood

Strict

Low

B 13-16

'4

Oril'ry.

.Middling

Low UMlU'K

Btrlct

9 1-18

lb.

10l-l«
lOS-lC

MX

Middling

Good

.Mlddllnis

Strict

Uood Mlddl'K

8 1-16
8 13-16

8 1-16
8 13-16

>«

9!-;

8 1-16
8 13-16

Low

9

...

8 3-16
8 15-16

8

9H

9X

9«
»H

3-'.6

B 15-16

TueM Wed. Taea Wed.

a

12 9-16

9-16

7 15-16

8

a 11-16

fX

9X
9H

8 lJ-16

8 3-16
8 15-lC

9X

9H

8 3-16

9»

8

l^
9X

»H

11

a

H

U M6

,-I6 11X
15-16 12

--'6

IIX

11 11-16 11 :i-!6 11
12 3-16
12 3-16 12

U-16

11-16 11 11-16
8-16 |!2 3-16
12 11-111,12 11-16

8 1-16 "iS
S 18-16 8K
9 5-16
9X

9 5-16
9 13-16
I0i<
10 3-15
10 9-16
•-0H
10 15-16 lOK

5-H

IIM-

11

11 .-16
11 15-16

V.%
I2X

nx

9 13-16

9«

» 18-16

lOK
10,S
10 15-16
11

8-16
10 9-16
10

lOK

5-16

9-H IIX
Via
I2«

11

Frl.
MarJ!9.
8 I-IB

11^16

12 1-16
12 9-'B

I:: 7-11

!2K

8 15-16

9K

nx

IIX

8X
8M

7 15-16
8 11-16
9.^

27.

3-U

8 S-16
8 15-16

10 5-16
!0 5-16 10 5-16 10 5-16
10 11-16 10 11-16 10 11-11 :0 U-16
11
11
11
11

12 11-16 12

9 3-16
9 11-16 9«
10 1-16
lOii
IliH
.0 7-16
10 13-16 lOV

10 7-16

Mar

-Mar.J?. Mar.26. .Mar 27. Mar.26.

.26.

12 I -11)
12 9-16

Sat.

8 1-16
S l-'.6
a 13-16; 8 11-16
9 5-16
9 5-16
9 15-16| 9 '5-U

Low

Middling
Middling

I

MARKBT AND
Ex-

Closed.

1

port.
Qnlei, unch. quo..

.

w^.ftk.

Tuesday

.

unch. qu>

Dull, easier

.

Quiet, lower

91

....

50J
120

Woik, Uwor

Friday

100

200

Wednesday We-»k, unch. quo.
rtanraday

8 1-16
8 13-16

S

9 5-16

9 6-18

9K
9K

9 15-6 9 15-16

Toul

1.019

1

Con-

Spec- Tran-

sonip. ulat'n
111
451
19S

i

I

3J3
1.631

1,978

2.10
1

'

15-lK
11-16
3-16
13-16

Total.

Bales.

erle>.

592
653
889

30.000
29,100
44,100
45,900

i,sou

1.353

4:i,600

1,1110

893

80,200

1,300

4.626

"ra^Too

6.100

8011

hales.

eti.

bales.

cts.

H»

lO-ai
10-6;
10-65

SIS)

IW
W

11-611

100

1"-«1

800

lo-^a
Ij-jl

lOJ
"
400
'il«

.

.

1,200 .
509..
?!»::
100..

,

.,

21V...
400...
:00..,
510..
KKl...
4,«.U0,.

W-83

8,100..
1-80'.
7.900

10-36

I'XW

lC-.<7

3.00J

I9-8S

•2.100

1;>'!I9

600
200

lir9C
10-92
10- »3

1095

MW

TOO..

I1.-S6

1.50

900
800

)l.-7»

vw)

ic-7;

40J

K-K

1,100

i:-79
10-su
10-32
10-33
10-84

810

10- S«

toUl March.

For Anrll.
IXs.n. l-t..l0 65

ta^m

total

AprU-

For May.

I

300

iMO..
5.600..
3,700..
8,100..

4.500
8,300
600
910
400

810
2.100
4,100...
8,:00

900
800

600
i.VXl
2.100

10-72
lu-i3
10-7i

200

3.I1.IJ

It-H

8,200

7Cf

10-67
10-68

11-13
11-14
11-15

I,9«

U-H

2110

11-19

800

1-19
1-22

100

2.6»

.11-15

100

8)0

,

2,200
1,900
4,000

1090

S,0(lO

10-91
iO-ii,
10-SS
10-94
10-95
10-9!
10-97
lCi-99

10-99
11-00

1101
11-02
11-03

For Jane.
10-81
:0-82

;o-n

NOT-

For December.

1-72
H-7.1
10-7i
10-78

2U)
TOO
800
100

Aur-

800

lO-S*

l,tOO
«oo
403

IC-S,
lo-il

U-«J

1

2,100 total

l(,-77

Dec.

lo-;8
t!,-7«

4liO

lC-80
lc-8i

2,lll0

.lO-M

IW

10-78
10 79

100

1080

7,400 total

6J0

Jn ly-

lu-in
lO-tH
11-65
10-71

1,930

10-I»

....lO-M

..

.

2.50U total

100

8 pd. to exch. 2'.io May for June.
-4Jpd. to excti. lOiOct. for Aug.
-01 pd. to exch. 2M April for Mijrch.

The following
livery,

Oct.

-06

1

-14

•

i

show the closing

will

the wjek:
March to May.
June for AJgust.

pd. to exch. 1'
pd. to «xcb. lOJ

prices bid for futare de-

and the tone of the market, at three o'clock P. M. on the

named

several dates

XTDDLlKS 17FI.aXt>S— AVISIOAK OLASSIFIOATIOIt.
Sat.
Wed.
Thurs.
rn.
Mon.
Tues.
Market-- Eaiier.

March

Lower. Variable. Irrexular. Lower.

'arittble.

10-»3
lu-93
10-9J

lo->7
10-86
10 92

10-87
10-86
10-92

l'.-08

11-0!
11-09
11 11
10-94

11-iJl
11-1)9

August

10-91
10-92
11-00
11-09
11-17
11-33

Sept mber.....

:r01

11-01

It-:4
lC-72

10-8)
10-69
10-70
10-93

10-73
11-63
10-61
iO-fO

;ii-6«

Quiet.
lUix

steady.

lOlX
4-S5

4-8j

June
Joiy

mb

r

..
.

.

I'l-

...

Closed—

3

10-M
6t ady.

Hold..

anse

..

11-16
11-21

..

X

101
4-85,',

10-76
10-76
10-84
10 93

11-14

10-8i
lo-JS
10-90
10-9J
11-0?
11-11

lu-H

10- :s

10-71
I0'6I

10-75
10-64
10-87
10-9)

11-07
10-81
10-68
ni-i8
10-59
lo-Su

steady.
K'l«

Steady.

Steady,

4-S3><

4-t5;<

li-sO

10,

no;

H

Vrl.

Lower.
10 62
10-63
10-76
lC-86
10-9 i
11-01
10-3'.

10-6!
10- i7
10-58
1(1-63

mix

Steady.
lOIS

4 8J

4-35

Thk Visiblk Supply of Cottou,

as made up by cable and
telegraph, is as follows.
The continental stocks are tbe figures
of last Saturday, but the totals for Great Britain and 'he afloat
for the Continent are this week's returns, and consequently

broughtdown to Th'irnday evening; hence, to make the totals the
complete figures for to night (Mar. 29), we add tlie item of export*
from the United States, including In it the exports of Friday
only

J878.

:

StocK at Liverpool
Stock at London
Total Great BrlUlB stock
Stock at Havre
Stoct at Mareeillea
Stock at Barcelona
Stock at Hamburg
StocKat Bremen
Stock at Amsterdam
Stock at Rotterdam
Stock at Ant-)ferp
Stack at other continental ports.

1877.

18:6.

1875.

735.000

I.07J.000

753,000

908,000

12,75U

33.750

68,5.0

106,750

743,750

1,IC6,:50
1,106,750

809,500

1,014,750

StiS.OOO

194,250

196,750

134,000

6.00O

3.500

4,750

7,5CO

30,000

66,000

9fi,000

76,000

7,000

11.500

19,003

9,750

30,000

53,500

47.760

33,-250

35,500

73,500

49,730

49,250

10,330

10,000

1«,5C0

11,000

6,500

6,750

14,7.50

6.060

7,750

14,50D

31,-250

12,000

398.000

441,500

466,500

377.-50

,

,

7,700

«.'00

10-8J
11-97
1C-33
..1(1-99

1-KI
..11-01
..11-12
..11-03

6,110
1,300.
1,700
1,700

400
S3,<00 total

1,543,-250

1,876,000

l,353,r00

lijl.OOO

180,000

172,000

311,000

American cotton afloat for Europe

639,000

345,000

731,000

433,000

B(?ypt, Brazil, *c.,afloatforE'rope

53,r00

36.000

55,000

74,000

631,970

719,463

6I9,4-J0

606,912

77,-!53

&S,74-J

92.258

89.865

17,00J

U',000

18,000

5,000

2.('66.673
3,8:2 277
2,927,460
Tot»l»ielble supply. ..baie8.-i,7-25,»r3
or the above, tbe totals of American ani ottier descriptions at« la tell? •

LWerjool

556,000

737,000

421,000

614.000

Coi!duental stocks

351,000

356,000

290,000

171,000

American afloat to Europe
United States stock
United States Interior 'jtockB
United States exports to-day

639,000

345,000

734,000

433,C00

631,970

719,163

61MS0

806,91-1

77,253

88,712

9-2, -ISS

89,865

17,000

10,000

18,000

5,000

bales. 8,873,223

2,?56,2!0

2,174,673

1,849,7:7

180,000

336,000

3i2,000

£64,000

12,:50

8.3,730

58,500

106,750

47.800

E5,500

1:6,500

166,750

;81,000

180,000

n-',000

311,000
74,OOJ

st'.ek

...

-.

Ac-

53,000

36,000

55,000

45:>,750

671,-250

T9-3.000

1,022,500

...2,272.2-23

8,258,210

8,174,678

1,819,777

1091
10-9-.

6,100
5,900

600
600
SOO
500
400

1,146,750

India afloat for Europe
Bgypt, Brazil, 4c., afloat

10-85

8300
1.700
2,900

Total Earopean stock*
India cotton afliat for Bnrope....

I0-I-6

10-83

»*K1
500
100
100

20U
700

Sept.

100

lo-w

ini
•10

ll-U

200
400
sou
100
600

Kor September.

I'-s:
10-52
10-31

ct«.

4.8J0
8,-eo

11-01

Il-JS
11-24
11-26

iil,M> tolal

Total American
Out Indian, Brazil.
Liverpool stock
London stock
Continental stocks

bales.

10-87
10-83
10-89

SS.IN total May.

10-66

1.S00

.

2.-200..
.

lOOa.n lsi..1»67

1.30J

8.

...10-76
...11-7:
...10-33
'0-8I
10-85

10-88
10-17
10-38
10-89
10-90
10-92
10-93
10-91
lC-95
10-96

SOO
7,4ilO

lC'i:9
10- ;f

10- S5

1.200
1,S00

NO-.

C

I

4i'0..

600

100
800

IU-97

.4m«uan—

and prizes

For March,

11-10

DellT-

For forward delivery, the sales (including
Iree on board)
have reached during the week 373,400 bales (all middling or on
the basis of middling), and the following ia a statement of the
sales

2.40O...
5,4JU
2,400

Stock In United States ports
Stock in U. S. Interior ports
United Statea exports to-day

roTDBKa.

211

i9J

1

sit.

"so
2f4
599
6^0
45J

1

7
8
9
9

BALES.

SULKS or SPOT A>-D TRANSIT.

Spot Market

Monday

8 1-16
8 13-16

10-iS

I.IOO
100

10*88

Frl.

Mar.23., M.r.23. Mar.26. Mar.27. Mar.23. Mnr.29.

.

\mt

(00

For October.

Total continental ports.

mon. Tnes Wed. Th.

MO

tO-M

4,40U total

r-ii

-.

Dec

i

\Ve<I.

urn
10-96

no*
11-10

bales.
goo

:o-»l

100

11-8

100
1.(00
1,003
2,soo

For NoTsmber.
ew.

«•«

100
•or
900

The following exchanges have been made during

9X
9«

U

900
400

.11-3
1114
.11-18
.11-19
.11-20

October
November-

11-16
t-16 11 11-16111 11-16 11 11-16
12 l-;6 12 3-16 12 3-16 12 8-16 12 3 1«
12 9-. 6 1^2 ll-Hlli 11-11 12 11-16 1) 11-16
11

li>-«
10-98
I0-9J
11-00
11-02

06

1117

fOi
100
400
too

8 S-16
8 15-16

STAIPTKn.

Saturday

10'

itxct

10V
"H.

Oood Ordinary
Good Ordinary

lOti

IIX

11

Btrlct

210

11

10 13-16

I2H

l.SO

UK

Mlddllnr

Fair....

8 3-16
8 15-16

Frl. Tta. Frl. Tta. Frl. Tta.
Mar .39. Mar.2j. Mar .29. Mar.2S. Mar.29. Mar.28,

GocdMlddrg im

i;900..

II

W6

12

MarJS. Mar.O.

c(«

1.100
2.100
2.100

11-06
.11-07
.11-08
.11-09
.11-1"
.1,-12

IIH

9 11-16

MIddllDg Fair...

.11

itk'

•40J
8 SOO

11

Good Middling..
Strict

.11-14

IIH

9-16
t'2 1-16
12 9-16
11

12 9-16

3-ia

600

11

IIH

10 1-16

Low Mlddrg

UU

I0«

10 1i

;ox

Strict

1*

Transl. orders.

tt.

.Middling

1.900

»)i
10 5-16 10 5-lC 10 5-16 10 5-16
10 11-16 10 11-16 10 11-16 10 11-16

MarJW. Mar.27. Ma

Strict Goi.d Ord'ry.

.11-01
.11-02

10 9-16

Ordinary
|» b.
8 1-16
8 1-16
8 1-16
8 1-16
Strict Ordlniry. ..
8 18-16 8 I4-U S 13-16 8 13-16
Good Ordinary
ik
914
9)i
Strict Good Ord'ry. 9X
i\
»x
»X
Low Middling
10 3-16 10 3-16 10 3-16 10 3-16
Strict Low Xflddrg 10 9-16 10 »-Ui 10»-16 10 9-16
Middling
10»
10»
10«
lOK
Good Middling
IIX
11^
UK
"H
Strict Good Mlddl'g 11 9-16 11 9-16 11 9-16 11 !t-I«
Middling Kalr...
12 1-16 12 1-16
12 1-16
12 1-16

Good Ordinary.

700

lOS-16

:'i

Ordinary
V
Btrlct Ordinary

.11-16

10^6

-!6
U 1-16
U «-16 12 WH
Tnes ured. Toea

Tta.

IJWO

bales.

10-9-.

10»-16

uw

Mar.28.

.10-91

9-:6

ui«

»-16

I.IUO
1.710

S-n

11 5-16

i2

SOO

'.0

11)<

Fair

.M;ir.25,

.10 92
10-f«

la

11 11-16

Middling Fair

Mar.23

Mar.'j5.

.M-91

J.inu

27,100 total

bum.

For Aaguii
eis.

100

iMay

Sat. IHon. Sat. .Von,

321

For Jalj
bal«a.

April

ORLEANS.

M.

Ron.

Sat. Rlon.i Sat.
.Mar.£). Mar.:iD. Mar 33.
Ordinary
..V
Strict Ordtnsry
(iooU Ordinary

.

.

.1I-1'4

..11-05
..11-1'6

..11-07
..11-lS
..11-09
11-10
ll-ll

11-12
11-13

Jaae.

Total Bast India,

*c

Total American

2,873,277
TolalvlBlbiesupply...
8d6><d.
6Xd.
PricoMld, Uplands. Liverpool... 6>,'d.
These figures Indicate a decrease in the cotton in sight to-night
of 201,487 bales as compared with the same date of 1877, •
deereate of 340,703 bales as compared with the correspondinfr
date of 1876, and a deereate of 140,804 bales as compared

.bales. 8,7-25,973

with 1875.

2,027,460

2,966,678

—

At THE Intbbior Ports the movement that is the reseipta
and shipments for the week, and stock to-night, amd for the
corresponding week of
Btatement.

1877—ia

set oat in detail in the following

9

.

THE CHRONICLE.

322
Week

ending Mar.

8 % is: 8

Receipts. Shipments.
AazTista,

Ga
Ga

Macon, Ga. est
Montgomery, Ala

Tenn

Nashville,

1,(.C0

1,829

8,792
a,53S
•7,279

248
211
162
5,214
192

3S6
699
8:3
387
2,776
64)

53,lf5
5,0S5
S6,74i

2,.3!!4

719
13,944

f93

],4S1

2,S41
41,401
2,762

11.541

S2,746

77,253

4,133

7,600

630

343
4:9

S,33R

41

2,331
3.819
3,739
l.iSO
1,945

Sf6

74
156
1,298
1,9«0

1,819

..

0,1 4

3,C89

218
250
37
542

60O

1,552

3'1

1.1IS6

488
P,3!3
4,730
17,744

29,285

Bnfanla, Ala

Ga

Ga
Rome, Ga

Atlanta,

N.C
8t.Loni8,Mo

Cincinnati,

'

Total,

new

Total,

aU

ports

l(iH

545
6 9f3

Colnmbu^, 'Miss...

Charlotte,

l3,nrQ
7,502

]i..6:o

471
1.592

8hreyeport,La
Vicksburg, Miss.

1S-.7

750

..

Total, old ports

Mar. 30,

?,4oS
l.OiM

911

Dallas, Tela?
Jefferson, Tei

Week ending

Receipts. Shipments. Stock.

603
400
..

Memphis, Tenn

Stock.

1,^95

Colnnibas,

Grlffln,

459
157

1.('70

1.7J0
4J

412
:o7

4,-ii7

3,519
2,-J64

S50
2 6.50

8,700
3,415
!-99

1,S61

636

10

40

4,:»1
1,(53

250
95

.S50

2,4eo

46

44-!

890
650

7.7C4
4,2^5

31,72.5

3,4:0
1,595

58,76-2

7,H1

121
1,381
1,223

189
71

2I,!i91

54.512

6,3S7

9,7;a

62,457

44,710

131,795

10,530

17,372

251,189

369

11,351

Actual count to-day (F/iday.)

that the old interior stocks bare
10 603 bales, and are to-night ll,48J
period last year. The receip:? at tbe
towns have been 7 408 bales more than the same week last

The above totals
ietreased during the
bales ifss than at the
came

show
week
same

year.

Receipts prom the Pl.vntatioxs.
in a previous issmf'ir an

bring tUe figures

— Refer,! ng to our remarks

explanati

dowa one week

in

of this table,

later, closing to

night

we now

:

Receipts at the Ports. Stock at Inter'r Ports 'Rec'pts from Plant' ne

Week
ending—

1876.

lt77.

1S78.

1876.

1877.

1878.

1876.

1877.

it7a

210,662 182,240 241,494

136,816 155,532 161,6h7

9... i;8,5S2 110,006 137,138 210.858 179,266 249,703

118,77J IS7.03i 133,352

"

16... 110,576 120,720 120,091 !202,.'4: 174,971 431,103

102,165 116.431 112,485

"

23..

March
"
"

2... 131,379 13?,374 159,lt6

88.068 107,67ii

198.563 173,478 226,635, 105,792

86,56v 101,252

2...

86,215

68,615

91,319

li-5,596 173.178 210,935'

63.248

68,3:5

73.t99

9...

7.',4:7

78,330

50,74-2

90 947

-.94.165 169,291 195,465

77,249

46,855

..

65,441

44,537

e2,;6i

177,351 165,717 169,636;

48,.S2:

40,993

5'',433

^3...

62,933

32,366

75,723

163,281 158,011 146,653'

48,862

24 6';o

52,710

30,

59,912

30,397

e5,470 145,001 15:,193 131,7E6

41,633

23,555

50,612

16

•'

109,676

Total...

.

76?,9.-iO|6i;9.!.'42|t22,61

833,091|713,825J93a,8:37:

Imndredths of an inchi three days, but the rest
fair and cool.
The thermometer has averaged C3, the highest point having bf en 83 and the lowest 47.
Nashville, T'tnnessee.
It has rained her.' on two days, the rainfall reaching one inch and sixteen hundredths.
The thermometer
has averaged 58, the highest being 70 and the lowest 46.
Memphis, Tennessee. Rain Las fallen on three days, with a
rainfall of ninity hundredtls of an inch, ani the rtstof the week
has been cloudy. Fainiers are ploughing and planting corn
Average thermometer 62, highest 80 and lowest 47.
vigor. u?ly.
We have had a seveie rain one day of the
Mobile, Alabama.
week, but the remaining six days have been pleasant. The
thermometer has averaged 07, the highest having been 83 and
the lowei^t 50. The rainfall has been one and eigbly-three hun
fall (thirty five

week has been

of the

—

—

—

dredtha inches.

Montgomery Alabama.

—

It has rained steadily one day, the
one and twelve hundredths inches, but the rest
of the wefk has been pleasant.
The rain lias been beneficial.
Planting is making splendid progress. Average thermometer
lowest
highest
83
and
45.
65,
Selma, Alabama. It has rained here on one day this week, ah
unusually severe storm.
Madison, Florida. We have had rain on one day, with a rainfall of two and twelve hundredths inches.
The thermometer
has rarged from 00 to 70, averaging 63. Planting is about completed in this neighborhood.
Macon, Georgia. Telegram not received.
Atlanta, Oiorgia.
We have had one shower during the week,
with a rainfall of twemy-two hundredths of an inch. The thermometer has averaged 06 the highest being 75 and the lowest 46.
Columbus, Georgia. It has rained .severely one day this week,
the rainfall reaching one inch and ten hundredths.
The thermometer has averaged 70.
Savannah, Georgia. Kain has fallen on one day, but the balance of :he week has been pleasant.
Average thermometer 05,
highest 84 and lowest 8.
The rainfall has been twenty-eight
hundredths of au inch.
Augusta, Georgia. The weather during the week, excepting a
light rain on one day, has been clear atid pleanant, the thermometer averaging 07, and ranging from 45 to 85. The rainfall
is two hundredths of an in h.
Charleston, South Carolina.
We have had showers on oi;e
day of the week, the rainfall aggregating one inch and forty-five
hundredths. The iheiraometer has ranged from 51 to 83, averag tgCS.
The following statement we have also received by telegraph,
showing the height o! the rivers at the points named at 8 o'clock
Mar. 28. We give last ^-ear's figures (Mar. 29, 1877) for com,

rainfall reaching

—
—

—
—

—

•

—

—

parison:

^Mar,

The

interior stocks January 25 were, for 1876, 213,165 bales; for 18:7,
195,082 bales; for 1878, 242,013 bales.

This statement shows us that although the receipts at the ports
the past week were 05,470 bales, the actuil from plantations
were only 50,613 bales, the balance being drawn from stocks at
the iLterior ports. Last year the receipts from the plantatons
for the same week were 2o,555, and for 187G they were 41,033
bales.

—

Weather Reports by TELEOUAPn. The pist week has
been almost evrrywhere very favorable for (arming purposes.
Planting has made excellent progress. The seajon has thus far
been an early one, and vegetation is well advanced. On this
account much fear of frost is felt.
Galveston, Texas. The weather ha.s been warm and dry all the
week. Planting in this neighborhooi is about completed, and in
lower Texas early planti'igs are nearly ready to chop to a stand.
Corn ia growing raoidly. The season 's very early. Average
thermometer 09, highest 78 and lowest GO.
Indianola, Texas.
It has been warm and dry all the week, the
thermometer ranging from ^B to 87, and averaging 72. Planting
is about completed in this vicinity, with a promising start for all

—

—

crops.

XXVI.

[Vol.

—

RECEIPTS PROM PLANTATIONS.

Feb.

...

—

Conicana, Texas. We have had raia on one day, a rainfall of
eighty-e ght hundredths of an inch, which did good. Plantinj;
is making good progress.
The thermometer has averaged 67, the
higliest being 87 and lie lowest 50.
Dallas, Texas.
It rained h re on one day during the week, a
welcome shower.
Some seclions westward are needing rain.
Planting is making good progress. The spring opens very early.
Average thermometer, 66 highest 87, and lowest 49. The rainfall has been thirty-live hui.dredtha of an inch.
Brenhim, Texas. We have had a shower on one day, the
rainfall reaching twenty hundredths of an inch.
Planting is
progressi K and all crops are doing well. The thermometer has
averaged 74, the extreme r. n»e having been 67 to 83.
jfew Orleans, Louisiana. It has rained on one day this week,
the rainfall r^ aching thirty-live hundredths of an inch. The
thermometer has averaged 07.
The weather during the week has
Shreveport, Louisiana.
been very favorable.
The season is well advanced, and vegetation looks promising and is gr wing fast. Som; cotton has bee
planted, and planting will be general next week.
Fruit will be
plentiful if no frost occurs.
Average thermometer 71, highest
87 and lowest 55. We have had a rainfall of eighty-eight huudretlis of an inch.
Vicksburg, Mississippi. Tlie thermometer has ranged from 53
to 85 during the week, averaging 08.
It has rained on one day
the rainfall reaching sevtnty-one hundredths of an inch.
Oolujnbus, Mississippi.
\Ve have had a rainfall during this
week of three inches and eighty-nine hundredths.
Little Hock, Arkansas.
It has been cloudy, with a ligUt rain-

—

28.

Feet.

New Orleacs.. Below high-water mark

"78.^
Inch.

3

^Mar.

29, 77.--^

Feet.

Xncn.

—

9

—

Above low-wator mark
2J
23
9
Nashville
Above low-water mark
6
13
7
Shreveport. ...Above low-water mark
20
15
10
1
3-2
41
Vicksburg.... Above low-water marli
8
New Orleans reported below hign-water mark of 18V1 until
Sept. 9, 1874, when the zero of gauge was changed to high-watei
Memphis

of April 15 and 16, 1874, which is 6-lOths of a foot
1871. or 16 f«et above low-water mark at that point.

mark

above

—

CoMP-\RATivE Port Receipts and Daily CuopMoveme.vt.
comparison of the port movement by weeks is not accurate,
as the weeks in different years do not end on the same day of the
We have consequently added to our other standing
month.
tables a daily and monthly statement, that the reader may constantly have before him the data for seeing the exact relative
movement for the years named. First we give the receipts at
each port each day of the week ending to-night.

A

PORT RECEIPTS FROM SATURDAY. MARCII

New
Days of
week.

23. '78,

TO FRIDAT. UARCII

ves-

Nor-

Wilming-

All

ton.

folk.

ton.

others

Gal-

Orleans

Mo-

Char- Savanleston nah.

29, '73.

Total.

j

bile.

f5;

I,2i9

496

1,662

CT7

1,212

250

3.42;

9,600

Monday

1,772

1,716

570

2,504

1.188

£01

111

2,219

13,081

Tuesday

8,054

374

576

1,316

671

1,:94

60

3,34

15,793

Wednesday.

5,873

94

3 4

1,083

337

3,411

218

2,510

11,323

739

1,3T.

404

l,a03

953

1,010

99

1,60-.

7,317

2,321

53-

.33!

754

140

1,146

165

2,164

7,558

8,222

4,136

6,876

15,-«0

65,470

Satnrdiiy

;

—

—

—

Thursday....

Friday
Total

23,016

The movement each month
follows

—
—

since September

1

has been as

:

Tear beginning September

1.

Monlhly
BecHpU.
1874.

1876.

1875.

93,491

236,869

169,077

115,255

184,744

October....

578,533

675,260

610,316

3.55.323

444,003

November

8-12,493

901,392

740,116

576,103

530,153

December..
January
February

900,119

787,769

821,177

811,668

524,575

689,010

500,tfB0

637,C67

702,163

569,430

4:2,051

419,686

479,801

432,633

462,553

Total, Feb. 23.. 3,561,300
Percentase of total port
receipts Feb. 2.S

3,651,6;5

3,457,534

3,043,205

a,7i5,s;7

79-99

74-38

1877.

;

—

5,216

September

—
.

87-95

82-60

1873.

1872.

MAHcn

THE CHROMCLE.

CO. 1878. J

itatemeot bUows that up to March 1 tbe receipts at the
porta this year were 0,643 bales more than ia 1870 and 103,740
bales more than at the aarao time in 187.5. By ajdiog to the
above totals to March 1 tbb dally receipts since that time,
shall b« able to reach

an exact comparison of the movement

for the different rears.
1877-78.

1376-77.

1S7.V76.

1874-75.

1813-71

1872-73.

Tot. Iiwt of Feb. 8,581,800
17,751
Becelpt* Mar. 1
9,883
Receipts Mar. i
8.
M»r.
ReceipiD
S
33,965
Receipts M»r. 4
Receipts Mar. S
17,175
9,746
Receipts Mar. 6

S,SS!,6S5

3,157,5V«

1,934,051

3,01.3,503

2,71%83;

Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts

Receip

B

Receipts
Receipts

Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mir,
Mnr.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.

Mar
Receipts Mar

Itecclpte

8.

6,S3S

7,842

8,''03

9,78a

12,5-8

10,'>47

M,8I9

4,567

IJ,8i:

14,779

13,8(3

11,993

lO.tU

10.928

18,913

17,480

8,531

8.

10,617

10,479

12,246

6,678

19,131

8,210

U.637

M.eai

8.

9,343
8.

7

8,3:3

8,722

15,922

8.

11,793

16.263

8

12.301

6,561

15,671

13,651

8.

12,209

9

8,723

16,223

6,38i

12,118

19804

S.

8,473

10,331

9,M7
12,35

10,817

13.759

15,914

li5,860

Britain, tlnent.
7.0K)
1318 ... 17,010
21)011)
1877.... 31.100
:3!6 ... 21,00)
4,0J0

.-Shipmsatt alnce Jto.
Great
C>n.

Total.

BrIUIn.

2I,.1<I0

115.001
151,000
128,0jO

51,000
35,00)

—

Receipt*.—
oIdc*
Tbia
week. Jan. 1.
40.000
401,UM

1.-.

.

Total.

tinent.
I5I.0O3
117,000

li.g.O))

ilH.>^M
217,04)

8),0!)U

fi-2,0!'0

'iSl.OOO

51,500

317.500

From

the foregoing it would appear that, compared with lut
year, there has been a decrease of ;27,000 bales in tiie week's shlpoaents from Bombay to Europe, and that the total raovemeot
sioce January 1 shows an increaie in shipments of 1,000 bale*,
coup&red witn tha corresponding period of 1877.

B.\aaixa, &c.— B'gging has not movol to
aud we do not bear of any large transactions. The
demand is only for small jobbing parcels, which are being held
at OjS^ic. for light w.;i;;ht, and lO^c. for standard quality, though
a shade less would beacc<*|.ted. Butts have been in some demand,
but no round parcels have been taken, the general inquiry being for
small lots. Tbe arrivals for tbe month foot up about 35,000 bales
ind the deliveries about 23,000 bales. The stoc'k now on hand
here and in Boston 21,000 bales. The sales for the month nave
been 3, .500 bales on spot at 2|'a3c. currency, and 5,000 bales to
arrive at 2i<a3|c. gold.
The market closes quiet but steady, with
3|c. the asking figure.

OUN.NY

jB.vos,

ttij extent,

10

S.

11

19,179

12

11,187

8,391

S.

9,283

12.002

7.269

13

14.S34

8,017

17,597

7,915

11,112

13,198

14

i.?,99a

6,753

11,236

S.

10,571

19.718

15

14,614

7,692

11,015

14.531

8.

i;,6;7

16

11,210

6.341

6,57J

8,923

18,789

S,

17

8.

4.JJ7

9,128

7,439

9.721

211.336

IS

18.579

10.121

7,939

10,008

9,4)3

16,411

7,239

S.

8,265

n,m

Toul

19

8,220

to

SO

10,897

6.378

12,»J9

5,57J

9,222

21

11,024

7,534

7.913

8,:51

S.

S.

S.

1

Bxportaot Cotton(balea)rroiii Nenr Voric lnceS«Dt.I, 18TT

WnS

7955

8,073

4,982

13.036

11,312

9,800

8,913

10,312

8,221

18,'-11

.8.

5.836

9,375

7,436

8,164

13,568

10,«;9

7,t96

11,876

8,83S

Havre
Other French ports

8.

15,798

7,418

S.

8,884

8,

2(

:>,8e7

11,323

6.115

l',SO<

6,351

9 713

5.910

7.317

4,683

6,317

8.

10.131

7,556

1,581

8.731

11,1:6

S.

Total Mar. «... 3,893,453

3,723,739

3,735.831

3,n3,C4!

total p« rl receipts

8914

92 28

9,501

6,C60

SO.

Mar.

date.

27.

year.

Other British Porta

32

SCO

15,55)

7,783

12,667

13,128

543,527
1,817

243,745
7,894

Total to Gt. Britain

12,C67

1.3.1i8

245.311

61,139

4,C07
115

5,165

871

1*ota]

:oo

m

Prencb

Bremen and Hanover

400

Hamburg

431

Total to N. Europe.

831

oaln.Oporto&aibraltar&c
Ulothere

2!i93

too

4.722

5,166

179

931

2;6

14.863
4,151
10.132

9,618
2,226
1,586

67!)

931

126

£9,143

13,460

2;395

'900

3.0:7,04.')

SiU

9D-7J

Mar.

13.

period
prcv'aa

S.

18,6 ;i

.3,35!,ie0

Mar.

6.

15,513

82

S.

M«r.

l,?Ol

Same

SKSIHS

9,270

8,804

Receipts Mar. 2)
Receipts Mar. 24
Receipts Mar. 25
Receipts .Mar. 26
Receipts Mar. 27
Receipts Mar. 23
Receipts Mar. 29

Per ct. of

323

r-Shlpm't* thU week-,
Great
Con-

ThU

we

«

:

.

f-2

63

This statement shows that the receipts since Sept. 1 up to
now 107,719 bales more than they were to the same

to-night are

day of the month in 1877, and 1.57,57S bales more than they
were to the same day of the month in 1870. We add to the last
table the percentagHS of total port receipts which had been
received M.irch 3D in each of the years named.
I.VDi.i Cotton Supply for 1878.— In remarking !ast Jani;ary
with regard to the total Iiiciia exports in 1878, we gave some
facts and raised some questions as to the supply to be expected
from the ports other than Bombay. This week we have received

Total Spain,

See

...

2,39i"

Grand Total

l:>,150

....

8.367

l3.:oi

13.354

2,;93

SCO

281.913

•170.264

—

Shipping News. The exports of cotton from the United
States the past week, as per latest mail returns, have reached
So far as the Southern ports are concerned, these
113,070 bales.
are tUe same exports reported by telegraph, and published in
The Chronicle, last Friday. With regard to New York, we
Include the manifests of all vessels cleared up to Wednesday
night of this week.
.p^,,,

^^^

Liverpool, per steamers Copernicus, 1 571
England.
from Mes.srs. Walace & Co., ot .Bombay, their report underrate New York— To
I.IIO .. Ni'vada, I.fSO ...Chiua,
1-2.2.. ..Britannic.
1.471... per
ships RiT'il Alci.'indra,3,2U. .. Levi G. BiKgeas, S9d
of February 2.5, in which they furnish very useful data for
Bengal,

estimating the to
Lo'.d to their

a!

production of these other ports.

opinion that the

Bombay shipments

They

likely to exc.ed the shipments at that poit in ;877

From

siderable amount.

them

to expect

by any conadvics lead
year; from Coconada,

the Madras side, their

about 100,000 bales this

from 30,OOD to 3-5,000 bales; from Tinntv llyXTuticorin), 70,000
bale?; from Calcutta and Raugo n, probably a small fallirg off
from last year. Using these estimites, and our figures for previous years as given in our "Cotton from Seed to Loom," we
have prepared the following statement as to the total probable
outturn:
EXPORTS FROJI INDIA TO EDBOPK.

PORTS.
Bombay

1871.

1875.

18T6.

Actual.

Actual.

Ac'.ua'.

1,448,111

1,266,069

'.58

Kurrachcc.

985,f01

810,tt9

8 0,000

593

17 477

S,632

14,191

tJ.OvJO

13,f58

3J,S92

6,410

None.

Koac.

117,8.7

117.618

13,69;

1-25,995

3.904

100.000

2', 950

£5,2 6

39,300

i9,070

15,1 1

35,(XX)

63,724

9.',763

43,0 3

61.385

18,lf)7

7 ',000

.

115,803

10,780

51.435

18,464

56,357

40

..

19,1588

10,473

20,?78

5,191

22,035

S0,o;o

1,>3I,225

1,531,833

1.6-0,542

1,3^.851

969,437

.

.

..

I,

00''

'30,000

These figures would show an export to Europe for all of India
during 1878 of 100,000 bales in cxc es ot last year. We have
however, taken in each case the higher estimate, .so that this
statement

may be

..

:

To B-emeu,

New Orleans— To Li viapool,
2.113

To Hivre, per ships Thoaias Lord 4 377
Harmonldes, 5.7''3
To Bremen, per thipJuha Rutherford, 3,774 ...pei bark Thomas
Ke IkT, 3,935
To RiVe!, per ship L. B. Gi:chre8t.5,2n0... per bark Prcgreis, 1,690.
To CrjnstadI, per ship Presldeiit, 1,102
To Genoa per harks Domcni o. 2;3.. St. .\n' a, 1,037

—

Mobile To Cork cr Falmouth, per bark Lois. s,81i
Chakleston — To Havre, per barns H.irriot P. Hussey,

considered as representing the extreme pro-

dnction according to these advices.

i..'310

8,739
1,035

.

WiLMiNOTON— To Liverpool, per schr. E. S. Powell, 2,0,i7
BALTiMor.E— To Liverpool, per steamer West I',.dlau, 2i.O
Varla Cathcrinn.

.iOO

1.243

11.1*3
3,iiSt

2,SS0
8,000
2,C87

per bark
600

..

To B

etnen, per stt-amer Ohio, 1,!25
per sh'u Elphinstone. 51...
BosTO.N— To iverp.iol, per I'teamers Iberian, 2,7 1... Victoria, 1,411...
Philadelphia— To Liverpool, per at earner Sarmaiian. 'JOJ
I

Total.

1.175
4.191

900
113,i7S

The particulars of these shipmeota, arranged in oar asaal foru!.
are aa follows
Port
Liverpool.

New

Bre-

Cork.

Havre

Y..rk .13,128

N. Orleairs. 19,1^3

Mobile
Charleston.

Savannah. .13.123
5,f.0O
Texas
Wil'rog'tu. 2,087
Baltimore..
600
4.122
900

:

7,759
6,890
4.408

Up'and and

121SeaI-l nd... MIndet. l.fOlUp'.and and 32 Sea Island
Kcva', Ru'itia, per steamer Redewater. 4.C35 Upland
a port in Sjialu, per briss Mercedes, 273 Uplansl.
Alfredo, 9f4
Upfind
Satannah-To Liverpool, per ships C. B. H.izeltlne, 2.921 Uo'and ...
Lsdy Dufferln, 3,072 Upland and 88 Sea I-land
Kenirlck Fish,
4.10; Upland.
.per hark Tik»mi. •3,^93 Upland and 55 Sea Island.
To Brem»n, per bark Merco'. 2,0i2 Upland.
To Rcval, liussla, per baik Jupiter, 2, -3) Upland
Tesa."— To Liverpool, per barn Herhcrr, 5 OOI

To
To

Bombay SaiPMSNTS.— According to onroable despatch received Boston ...
to-day .there have been 17,000 bales shipped from Bombay to Great Ph ladel^'a
Britain the past week and 7,000 bales to the Continent
while
the receipts at Bombay durint; this week have been 40,000 bales.
The i'lovement since the Ist of January is as follows. These ar*
the fifraiea of W. Nicol & Co., of Bombay, and we brought
down to Tbarsday, March 23:

6,313
10,610

2,840
2,'''82

.

1873

9,3iXI

Tuticorin

Rangoon.

811

1877

Actual. E:t mai'd

19,157

.

Carwar ....
Madras ...
Coconada.
Calcutta

1673.

Actual.

per bark Albina. 00
13,138
per ptcainer Weser, 226
223
per Bti'araerr" Yrurac-Bnt, ,5,030 ..Momphi'. 4,871 ...per t-liips Caledonia, 1,32.3
Glad Tidings. I."(i4... 19,'93
To Cork, per sliip Pa'alBoyton, 1,201... par bark Adp.ia Cerleton,
2..^t5

still

in 1878 are not

mer..

Reval.

in
CronsUdt. Sialn. Genoa.

2-26

6,S!3
S.810

10,610

7,719

6,89D

4.03^

3,739
9.022

2.3 >0

1,310

4,402
1.21i

ToUI.
13.354
56.177
2,3t0
«,o:c
17,50S
5,030
»,0'i7

i.i:s

1.778
4. Ill

900

1.212
1.3:0 113.071
ToUI... 53153
4.102
9.153 11.319 11,212 13.2U
Included In the above totals are, from New Orleans, 1,382 bales to Rotterdam
and 1,161 to Vcva Cruz.

Below we give all news received to date of disaatera to Tesselft
carrying cotton (rom United States portt, etc.:

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THE CHRONICLE.

324

str. (Br), Beggs, New Orloitis for Liverpool, drawinz SO feet of
water forward and 2i feet aft grounded oa the bar at Port Eads Mnrch
a4th; ehe floated and sailed Marcli astli.
GiLBi-AND, str. (Br.), Ratter, from New Orleans for Antwerp, wliich put into
St. Michaels in distress, repaired and Eailed; arrived at destination

AaiA Sofia,

March Iti.
James W. Gaff,

Wise, sunk seven miles above Cannclton, on the Kentucky side, previo'.s to March 2j. Water six feet over her main deck.
tow to releft
last night with the barge Silver Dollur
Champion
The
A diver also left for the G-iff, and will arrive at
ceive the Gafl's cargo.
in
completed
and
Gafi'
was
bntit
at
Cincinnati
to-night.
The
wreck
the
June, 1S76. built with a full length cibiu, and ranked lirat-clays. She
incovered
doubtless
by
the
los'^
on
which
is
of
freight,
a
big
t'ip
had
surance. The dispatch received announcing the sinking of the GafT
was elated at Owensboro, some sixty miles below Cannelion, and Ca^,tain Wise sought the carliust opportuuity of reaching a tslegruph station by taking pas:»age on the flr-Jt passing packet. Her cotton, for
Cincinnati, was consigned as follows: Cincinnati Transfer Company,
str..

m

&

Co., ii bales ; Robert
bales ; order, 13i balej; Putnam, Hooker
Co., 20 bales.
Liverpool, March 6, from New Orleans, was in collision

"..1^4

Meore &
Rita,

str. (Span.), at

March (i. near Queen's Dock, with the ship Contest, from Savannah, and
had bowsprit carried away, etc.
Wisconsin, etr. (Br.). Foray, h, from Jfow York via Quoenstown for Liverpool,
arrived off Holyhcal March 23, apparently disabled.
Commerce, ship (Br.), Nlckcraori, at Havre, March 8, from Now Orleans, collided at the former port on March 6, in the Eure Dock, with the bark
Florence Treat. Damage, if any, to the Commerce not stated.
Contest, iiiip (Br.J, James, at Liverpool March 5, from Savannah, collided
near Queen's Dock on March with steamer Rita (Span.), from New OrIi

Damage

lean"*.

to Contest, if any, not stated.

Magnificent, ship (Br.), for Liverpool, caught fire at Savannah March it,
which was extinguished with slight damage She would proceed to sia
I
without delay. The M. had on board about 4,009 bales, and was com-

Venus Point. The origin of the fir« is not definitely
known, but it is supposed was either caused by a spark from the galley
Fortunately, early discovery and
was the act of an incendiary.
prompt action prevented any serious loss. There was insurance on the
cotton, but none on the vessel.
E. Gardner, ship (Br.), from Galveston for Liverpool, before reported
abandoned, bad on board 5,00:j bales of cotton, not 1,603 as misprinted.
She hart been rebuilt in 18'u, and was insured in Yarmouth, N. S., for
pleting her cargo at
or

N.

&

$34,000.

Lara, bark (Br.), Fulton, from Savannah for Amsterdam, remained at St.
Thomas. March 10, repairing.
Maggie Miller bark (Br ), Cook, at Liverpool March 5, from Galve-ton, in
docking at former port collided with the pier-head, and sustained
slight damage.
The captain of the steamer Slrassburg, from Bremen, which arrived at this
port on the 23d instant, reports that on March 15, while in latitude 47
deg. 44min. and longitude '29 deg. 36 mio., he fell in with a ship on Are.
The ship, which was seven miles distant when first seen was abanThe ship, appardoned. The following is from the steamship's log
ently an American three-master (if full-rigged ship or bark Wt3 could not
ascertain, because the mizzen-raast was gone), was painted black, had a
hurricane <ieoic and deck-houses abaft fore and raain-maa% a m isculine
figure-head in running position, yellow mast^ and spars and whitcpalnted blocks. She was burning foreward and aft, was free of fire between fore and mainmast, and had all square sails, except miiu-sail and
foretopgallant sail, set. The cargo was very likely a compressed one
(perhaps cotton), ecause the fire did not flare at all, but always kept
:

i

close over the deck.

TjIvhkpool, Mircb 33—5.00 P.M.— By Cablb from LivbhPOOL.— Estimated Balea of the day were 7,000 bales, of whicb
Of to-day's sales
1,000 bales were for export and speculation.
The weekly movement is given as
5,900 bales wwre American.
follows

:

Jlarch
Sales of the

week

bales.

Forwarded
Sales American
of which exporters took
of which speculators took

nf which American

Satnr.

SifCl.

Mid. Upl'ds
Mid.Orl'ns

3.3,00(1

S.OvKi

8,0CO
2.0J0
101,000
548,000
96,000
61,000
3,000

501.000
73,000
56,000
5,000
33i,000
890,000

afloat

Tlie following table will

50,WO

63-3,000

Actualexoort

Ij.

48,000
lO.OOO

4,000

Total stock
of which American
Total import of the week
of which American

Amount

March

8.

63,000
13,000

March

(^6

..@6

.M^

••a6?4

.®'>H

ll.OOC
34,000
3,00C
2,000
736,000
55ij,OO0
61,00(i

86.000
82,000
8,000
297,000
817,000

S0'.,000

241,000

..(a")
..(©(>

43,00C'

5(i2.000

show the dally closing prices of cotton for
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thura.

©fiH

Mar. 89.

22.

46,000
11,000
35,000
3,000
2,000
730,000

5-16
3-10

3S,00(i
6,00l>
34-J,000

256,000

the

week

:

Fri.

5-16

.M^'i

..(^6 3-16

..%6}i

..(3,5

Futures.

These

sales are

oa the basis of Uplands,

Low Middling

ciauee, unless other-

wise stated.

Satubdat.
Mar. delivery, 5 15-16d.

,Mar.-Apr. delivery, 5 29-3M.
Apr.-Maj' delivery, 5 15-16d.
May-June delivery, 6d.
June-July delivery, 6 1-331.
Jaly-Aug. delivery, 6 1-liid.

Miir.-.\pr. delivery, 5 15 16d.
ielivery, 5 31-32d.
t^eiivery,
Uphnds,
ord. Clause, sail, ti l-liid®l-3i.

Monday.
Mar.-Apr. delivery. 5 15-15d.
Mar. delivery. 5 15-16d.

July-Aug. delivery, 6 l-15d.
Mar. -April shipment, sail. 6 l-32d.
June-July delivery, 6 l-3Jd.

Nov.-Dcc. delivery, 6}^d.

Sept.-Oct. delivery, 6 5-32d.

I

luly-Au?. delivery, 6 l-SJd.
Mar. delivery, 5 29-32d.
Mar.-Apr. stiipm't, sail, 6d.

Wbdnesdat.
Mar. delivery, 5%d.
Mar.-Apr. delivery, 5%d.

June-July delivery,

Apr.-May delivery,
May-June delivery,

Apr.-May shioment, sail,
Apr.-May delivery, iy,i..

Ang.-Sept.

5 S!)-8Jd.
5 15-16d.
delivery, 6 l-16d.

Feb. shipment,

6d.

sail, 5 lG-16d.

bd.

5 I5-16d.
June-July delivery. 5 31-3M.
July-Aug. delivery, 6d.
Nov.-Dec, delivery, 6 l-16d.
Fob. shipment, sail, 5 I5-16d.

Mar. delivery, B%d.

Apr.-May

delivery,

5%d.

Ang.-Sept. delivery, 6 l-32d.

Mar.-Apr. delivery, BJ^d.

Fbibay.
Mar. delivery, 5 13-163.
Apr.-May delivery, 5 I'MBd.

May-June

delivery, 5Ji@27-32d.
29-32d.
15-I6d.
&ug.-Sept. delivery, 5 31-330.

June-July delivery. 5
July-Aug. delivery, 6

Steam.

Sail.

d.

,

.

Havre.-

Steam.

d.

X

omp.

X
^

7-:;27&!i

Sail.

7-3 ;@'i comp,

.

Steata.

:

^-HambHrg-^

,

Steam.

Sail.

c.

Ji cp.

Monday.. T-32a« 7-iJ@M' comp.
Tuesday. 7-38©^' 7-3!@lfcomp
Wed'dav. 7-32^'< 7-3i®!< c )mp
Thur'dy.. 7-32(9) 'i
Friday... 7-32(a!i

,

c.

Saturday. 7-3-3a;i '(-323>X comp.

as lollows

— — Bremen. —

cp.
cp.

-mv,

-mi
-Wi

;cp.
cp.
cp.

Sail.
c.

c.

11-16
11-16
11-16
11-16
11-16
Il-Io

X

cp.
cp.
cp.
cp.

5£
i£

^

X
X

cp
cp.

comp.
comp.
comp.
comp.
comp.
comp.

—
—

—
—
—
—

BRSADSTUFFS.
Friday,

The

P. M.,

March

29,

IS'8.

market has been active during most of the past
week, and prices of low grades and common shipping extras
have slightly improved. The medium and batter grades were
depressed by free offerings, especially of brands from winter
wheat, but those became steadier. Large lines of common extras
were taken for Great Briiaia at f-l 85(g5 00, but yesterday |4 95
was an inside figure for anything desirable. Rye flour and corn
meal are rather firmer. To-day, flour was dearer, and lines of
extra State sold at |5 and upward.
The wheat market has been active and prices show an irregular
improvemsnt. The better grades of wiuter wheat (amber and
white) have improved most, being taken quite freely for the
Continent. In the course of Wednesday and Thursday there
were sales on the spot and for early arrival of aboat 600,000
bushels, including No. 2 spring at $1 25@l 27 the higher figure
for Milwauaee, f 1 31(al 33 for No. 1 fpring, |1 33(31 84 for
No. 3 red and amber winter, $1 30@l 39 for No. 1 do., and $1 41
@1 45 for prime to choice white. Receipts at the Western marflour

—

somewhat reduceJ.
The Spring wheat is yet to be sown,

kets are

or, at best, that work ha^
been hardly finished. To-day, the market was excir.ed and buoyant
Choice white brousht $1 46'itl 47; No. 2 Milwaukee, $1 29@1 30;
No. 1 Spring, $1 35; No. 3 do., ,f 1 32(gl 22i and for future delivery.
No. 2 red winter for April, $1 30f, and Mo. 2 Spring for April,

$1 27(al 28.
Indian corn has been irregular. Prime dry samples, whether
Western or Southern, have been well (uppnrted by a relatively

small supply, though not much wanted. The receipts of Western have been mainly of the lower grades, and yesterday steamer
mixed sold at S2c. and No. 3 at 47A(g48c., the forming showing
,

The Speculation in futures
was very slow throughout the week, and yesterday the prices for
the next three mouths scarcely varied f.-om spot figures. Receipts
To-day, the market
at all points continue liberal for the season.
was better; No, 3 mixed,48@49c., steaiyer do. 53J(g54c and No. 3,
55J(g50e. with sales of futures, including steamer mixed at 5S@
53fc. for April and No. 2 at 5ji'«)j'Jc. for May and June.
Rye has continued active for export to the conlini nt at 73c. for
No. 3 Western, and 77c. for No. 1 State and Canada in bond; and
a decline of l|c. and the latter 3c.

,

,

yesterday No. 1 State sold at 78c. for the last half of April.
To-day, there were large s^alt-s at a further advance No. 2 Western for spot and to arrive, 73c.; No. 1 State, 79c.
Barley has been in demand.
Export satisples are scarce. Western feeding sold at 47|(a48c. Domestic malting stock has a slow
sale, and this fact makes the market appear irregular.
To-day,
six-rowed State sold at 70c.
Oats materially declined under a pressure to close out or reduce
stocks in store. The reduction at the close of Wednesday's business was l@3c. per bush. To-day, the market recovered part of
the late decline. No. 3 graded closing at 35ic. for white, and 34ic.
for mixed.
The following are closing quotations:
Flour.
Ubaim.
So.i
1^ bbl. i3 COa 4 OOl Wheat— No.3 8pring,bu8u $1 20<J 1 53
No. 2 spring
Superfine State & Westi aB^i i 30
"
No. 1 spring
ern
4 403 4 90]
1 33(i 1
~
Winter
Sxtra State, &c
Red
Win
5 003 5 15
1 30^ 1 ''O
Western Spring Wheat
Amber do
1 33ii 1 41
extras
4 95^5 80
White
1 3S.a 1 47
5 35a 6 50 Corn West'n mixed
do XX and XXX
473 56
dowinterX and XX.. 5 10® 6 50
Yellow Western, old...
do Minnesota patents.. 6 OO.a 8 00
Southern, yellow, new.
Sia 55
City shipping extras..
5 103 B 03 Rye.
73a 79
City trade and family
Oats— Mixed
33® 35
brands
6 103 6 50
White
343 -39
Southern bakers' and fago® 90
Barley— Canada West...
milyhrands.
5 603 6 75
State, 2-rowed
683 65
Southern shipp'g extras.
6 203 5 50
State, 4-rowed
68® 15
3 403 4 00 Barley Malt— State
653 85
Rye flour, superfine
Oornmeal— Western, &c. 2 40,-* 2 75
Canadian
1 00® ! 10
Corn meal— Br'wlnc^ &c. 3 053 3 15 Peas— Canada.bond&frcc
83a I 00
The movement in breadstu Ss at this market has been as follows
— —BBOItPTS AT NBW YOSK.
ixpoBTs rnoK nkw york.—^
1877.
—1878.
Same
It
1878.
time
Since
Since
For the
Since For the
For the
18-7.
Jan. 1.
Jan. 1.
week.
week.
Jan. I.
week.
;

good

;

:

—

|

:

Thursday.
May-Jane delivery,

— —

I

Tdesbat.
I

week have been

freights the past
Liverpool.—

"

Apr.-May delivery, 5 1B-I6d.
May-June delivery. 6d.

Apr.-May dflivery, 5 15-lSd.
May-June delivery, 5 3l-33d.
June-July delivery, 6d.

.

i

Apr.-May

June-July

OoMon

.

.

[Vol. XXVI.

Mar.-.Vpr. shipment, sail, ^%i.
'Apr.-May delivery, 5 23-32d.

June-,TuIy delivery, 5%d.
July-Aug. delivery, 5 29-32d.
Aug. -Sept. delivery, 5 15-16d,
Nov.-Dec. delivery, 6d.

—

,

80,071
1,003,170
Plonr, bbis.
4.434
43,686
C. meal, " .
Wheat, bus. 744.316 10,559,6)2
" . 695..J0S 4,671,775
Corn,
" . 80.0.16
451,801
Rye,
69,738 1.642.499
Barley. " .
Oats...." . 208,760 1,439,047

601,792
61.887

«6,915
3,672.885
117,357
779.891
1,453,115

48,-503

62.1,282

4,131
710,481
440,556
58,912
111,276
1,475

49,078
9,9I2,S30
4,012.032
618,402
1,019,016
53,996

foUowiniif tables show the Grain in sight
of Breadstttfis to the latest mail dates

The
ment

,

,

,

.

.

20,B:7
1,924
82,356
528,538
8,419
26,772

797

887,691
51,586
1,586,358
4,809,794
877,891
151,158
34,593

and the move-

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.

March

IKCIIIPTK AT

MARCH

THE CHRONICLE.

30, 1878. J

825

LAKR AMD BIVBH PORT* rOR TH« WKBK KNDINA until a later period than usual. Ttie Snancial ondltlon of the
from drc. 31 to marcu 33. AND FROU
dry goods trade is considered sound, and an a rii'e both wholesale
AUO. 1 TO MARCII 23.
and retail buyer* are meeting their payments with common lalile
Kyc.
Barley,

28, 1878,

(IM

Ibi.)

IVsr.iit
Uii'V''1aQd
Si. I,.)iil«

(60

Ibfi.)

(iiO

73,iati

4,611

l.tS,!*!

1,.^50

11,160
118,711

btiph.
buab.
(48 IbB.) (9K lbs.)

buRb.
««?.076

18,.'Mn

SOOO

w.ono

36,87S

166,ia9
6,051

3 2S0

B9..WS
i:3 491

8<,4I6
41,67U

Toledo

OlU.

(Si Ibn.)

bnah.

bb:a.

AtCblURu...
Mllwkakee

Corn,
bnah.

(56 Ihp.)

Wheit,

rionr,

5,M7

li.BW

89,8-4
8,814
1!2

4,430

400

4.9

Argentine Republic, 435 packages; Great Britain. 100 Brazil,
185; Japan. 154; Mexico, 131; Antwerp. 77; United Sates of
Hayti, 81
Colombia, 43 ; Cuba, 33
British North American

69.585
91.917

84.716
80.188

Colonies, 35;

74,4-)0

n..M6

14,1110

116,",75

ia 1,115

37,760

1,5^8.711

18U,I>?3

695,914
514.774

61.460
81,313

».t.\9C3

601,140

757, '87
774,693

419,413
849,623
S06,670
219,576

67,761

11.760

Tot. Oec.31 to Mar.W.,1,.W,07S 11.9«,101 1-J,87 1.665
910.41.9 8,6ri,869 13.317.843
Bamatlme 1877
1,016,714 8.030,632 13i5l6,751
Same time 1876
91-3,3 13
8,8a;,776 10,164,431
Same time 1»T:

4,199,98s
«,947.470
8,:90.631
3,514,08*

1,903.021
1,355,»76
1,790,775
1,117,778

690,803
471,9:1

P«irl»

Duluth

Domestic Cotton Qoods.—The exp-irts of domestics from
week ended Marc'i 28 reached 1,384 packages,
the more important quantities of which were shipo^d as follows:
this port for the

S0,9Sa

11,138
'
8,600

S}«,56»

19,816
1,6S0

promptitude.

14,981

;

;

91.793

Total..

PrevlouBwocli
Ciirre«i''ng week, '77,
'76..

TotAae.

I

1,S.33,53«

;oMar. «3 4.101,469 55.46 S.700 47.961.281 16.611.539

2'i5,«41

490.381

8,:i81,881 J,6fi7.6in

Same lime l,-r:7. .. .8,661, 161 33,0«<.85l 61.087,744 18.9'I3.2(.0 7,411,0J5 2,3*1,195
.S,4a?,til7 47,873,3!8 S4045.4.30 18.44.), 408 6.477,311 1.515.491
Same time 1876
.3,433.116 44.S70.7M 29.393,011 15,440,839 5,06(.97i 1,0J7,002
Same thne 1876
3SIP.UeNTS OF FLOUR AND GRAIN FROM WESTERN LAKB AND
RTVBR PORTS FROM DEC. 31 TO MARCH 23.
Floor,
bbls.

Wh-at,

Tot.Dec. 31 to .Mar 24 1,810.571
ai8.3i7
Same time H"7
1,134.066
Same time 1876

5,991.668
1.653.094

365S5I6

Same time

3,109.171

947,37J

1876

Corn

bush.

Ry,

Oats,
bneb.

Barley,
bnsta.

basb.

2,.5.V2,088

1,083,866

1,71-3,169

819 967
741.912
545.6i9

415,805
817,214
131,637
!71.33l

baeb.
9.103,160
6,611,775
9,186,274
4,554,309

a,100,i:0
a.033,366

RAIL SniPMKNTS OF FLOOR AND GRAIN PROM WESTERN LAKE

AND RITER PORTS.
Wheat.

bbls.

bush.

Corn.
bash.

Wecltcndio" Mir.

13. 1«73..

ai.Ml

497,7.50

l,Oi!,553

Week

21, 1877. 41,393
2«, 1316.. 80.039

101,361

.331.610

2i3.91-.

635620

S6),76i

4)5,101

Flour.

cnill.,'

Mar.

Weefcendiiii;

M«.

Weekendlni;

.Mar. 17. 1<75.. Si,i65

Barley.

Oats.

bn>h.

bash.

41,107

51,248
45,717
1J,217
13,315

bush.
303 217
101,910
m.ijiil
278,041

Ryo

55,6!ll

39.034
27.016

BBCBIPTS OF FLOOR AND (iRAIN AT 8BABOARD PORTS KOK TUB
WEEK ENDED MAR. 2^, 1878, AND PROM DEC. 81 TO M.\R. 23.
Flour.

At—
New York

bbl«.
8-1,571

B'.Mton

26,4»6
8,500
11,876

Portland
Xratreal

PhlUdelphta

NewOrleans

16.4
19,8jS
17,003

Total

182,6.37

Baltimore

Prevloaswcck
Oor. week'77
Doc. SI to March 23.

177.401
107.634

Wne*',
bu(h.

Corn,
bash.

Barley,
hush.

Oats,

bush.

765.173
85,500
146,000
794
70,500
101,100
3,1S5

59-2.-306

1.111,357
1,054.435
28.811

2,311.192
1,919,12;
1,161,731

61,050
8.500
10,500

231,361
4>,386
5.500

177,"50
1,600

520;966
725,400

l,:0,)

i,-;03

.71400

11,650

10,000
17,2*4

32i,-23«

Kye,
husb.
r.a,3u

1,000

939.418 15,041,317 2l,n3,3>7

Wheat,
bash.

I,6f5.796
In store at New York
In store at Albany
3.30O
In store at Buffalo
461,940
tn store at Chicago and afloat. 1,.5P8.I()7
In store at Milwaukee
517,719
In store at Dalnth
84,832
Instoreat Toledo
268,000
1-12,101
In store at Detroit
48i,u00
in store at Oswcg(,*
tti store ati3t. Louis
113,831

Instoreat Boston
In store at Toronto
In store at Montreal
In store at Philadelphia*
In store at Peoria
Instoreat Indiaaapolls
In store at Kansas City.
.

Instoreat

Rail shipments, week
E-it. afloat in Now York

Total

Feb.

23. 18:8
F.!). 16, 1378
!

-

..

.M .v.:a

25ii666
614

1I4,.'26

9,035
481,892

e-:

29.506
:5,ooa
23.214
109,141

97,900

n',434

l",;42

61,909
368.178
497,7.'j0

1,031.5.52

150,000

xs'.iii
315,000

41,107
200.0CO

51,848

30.1,000

611.163
611.635
t81,864
619.096

460. -225

177,678

7,8;13

a,5i9..35')

2.583,:33

6,610,552

2,678,f.-J4

a.892..391

..

8.643.362
8.035.431

5.433,1.31
6..33I,8I9

2,665,311
2.815.721
8,913.793
2.931.715
2,297.716
2,825,399

S,S41,983
2,i72,5;8
.SllS.lll
3,736.914
4.134,476
2,700,185

5.527,841
4.335,817
6.099.408
»,68i-,450 10,49>,O35

9.601.292

slaoe

liiil

1,606

t.7-18.46-3

.. 9,-286.489

8',5X)

43,493
3,434

705

.3,00)

8.-211.0I3

..

lli5,815

4,666

l-28,(X)i)

7.563.449
8,051,079

,..

Rye,
bush.
124 361
109,500
16,793

10.503

UO.OOO

..

..

1878
it, 1877....

il.

218,900

54,5.50

381.924
36,747

..

..

Mar. 16,1873
Mar. 9. 1S78
Mar. 2,1878

38.700
143.703
910.614
6,U66

451,-li5

122.638
572,000
46.537
67,197
100,789
1,073.110

9I,.311

Biiltlinore

Barley,
bush.

0.lta,

bush.
1.0S2.495
105,600

4.884
875.000
32.751
18,307
174,414
46.377

30.446
505.152
896,892
160.000
6,192
.

Corn,
bash.
431.0-22

were subjact-^d to a slight reduction. Bleached shirtings conunsettled, and some additional makes were reduced in
conformity with the late auction prices. Denims, ducks, tickings
and corse', jeans were in steady demand for moderate lots and
ruled firm in price; but cheviots and cottonades were less active.
Print cloths were depressed in sympathy with the unsettled state
of the print marke', but prices were nominally unchanged at
about 3 5.16c., 30 days, for extra 64x64s, and 3(33 l-16c., 30 days,
Prints were in irre,4ular domani at first hands, but
for 58x60s.
largo sales of Garner's, Harmony and Dunnell's fancies were
made by means of very low prices. Garner's prints were offered
by a leading jobbing-house at 4ic., less 5 per cent 60 days the
lowest point ever reached for a standard print. Ginghams continued in very good demand, and cotton dress goods were in fair

tinued

—

request.

—

Domestic Woolen Goods. The demand for men's-wear
woolens lagged far behind the expectations of holders. Lightweight cassimeres and worsted coatings were placed in small lots
with clothiers and jobbers, but in most caaes price iaducemeats
were found necessary in order to effect sales. Heavy cassimeres
received some attention from intending buyers, an a few orders
were placed for cotton-warp goods; but transactions were light in
the aggregate. Special makes of cotton-warp beavers and lowgrade chinchillas were taken in small parcels^by the clothing
trade, but all-wool overcoatings were in little d>^maad. For black
cloths and doeskins there was only a limited inquiry, but prices
continued steady. Low and medium grade Kentucky jeans met
with a hand-to-mouth demand, and printed satinets were sold to
i

2,310

1,491,211 l.:;78.049 16.519.5li6
Bametlme 1877
8»m« time 1876
2.009.437 4. '60,319 I6,t0t.714
time
1875
1.735,809 3.8h9,95j 13,180.580
Same
The Visible Supply of Urain, comprising the Slocks in
granary At the principal points of accumulation at lake au(i
seaboard ports, and in transit by rail, Match 23, 1878, was as

follows

amount at rather low prices. Cloakings were lightly
Worsted dress fabrics were fairly active in jobbers
hands, and there was more frequency in the demand for re-'
Worsted and Shetland shawls were
assortments by jobbers.
distributed in small parcels to a moderate aggregate by agents
and jobbers.
Foreign Dry Qood3. Business was light with importers, and
there was a continued pressure on their part to reduce their
stocks on hand by means of the auction rooms.
Silks were In
fair request at the low ruling prices, and novelties in millinery
goods and ribbons continued fairly active. Dress goodi were
only in moderate demand, and large lines of cashmeres were presa moderate
dealt in.

—

ented at auction with indifferent results. Linen goods ruled quiet
in first hands, and white goodji, embroideries and laces were inactive.
Men's wear woolens remained quiet, but staple makes were
steadily hel I. Canton mattings were largely distribu'.ed at auction, and these goods were fairly active in jobber's hands.

Impurtittloiia or Orr CSooda.
of dry goods at this port for the week endii g
Mar. 28, 1878, and for the corresponding weeks of 1877 and
1876, have been as follows
1.TXBCD roB OOHBDKPTIOlf FOB THB WBBK BBDIHS XKR. 23. 1S1B.

The Importations

6(j8,611
il!i.212
786.-196

766,516

:

silk
flax

tllBcellaneons dry goods.

THE BUY aOODS TRADE.

Total..30, lb78.

ITlTHDBAIiril

demand was mostly

Miscellaneous dry goods

hand ta-mouth

character.

The jobbing

South-Weat indicate that tha spring trade is progressing more
favorably than wag anticipated a short time ogo. The print market continued in a very unsatisfactory condition and stocks of
Dunnells, 0.irner3 and Harmony fancy prints— amounting to
several thousands cf cases— were closed out by agents at lower
prices than ever before

known

in

the history of the trade.

Woolen jtaods for men's wear remained very quiet, and theclothing
trade seem iacliued to defer their purchases of autumn woolens

do
do

689
357
371

18T7

.

Pkgs.
664
1,005

.

?alne.
t25].5S0
388.616

1878

.

Pkes
530
1158

658

53?,o01

688

U6.188

81.9

2-14,357

8'ir

170,196

1,69)

131.075

3j6

aioii H,495.399

Slaanfacturesor wool....
00
cotton..

of a

.

(312.SC6
?32,18l
474.32i

4,910 $1,477,659

silk
flax

ToUl
Addent'dforconsnmpt'n

8,327 $1,25-2,613

587
888
139
4;6

1131.603
19,-243
137,420

451
937

118,803

4I4

2,144

83,105

6,87.1

slm

$610,179

8,932

1,495,899

111

8,181
4.910

tlEO.863
7«.8pS
89.178
94.119
61.017
11502.599

1,477,659

419
883
118

691

m
175
367

J31).«ll
145.013
188.005
96,800

SIlscellaneouB dry goods. 1,106

67,1«

ellk
flax

3.30

SOO
18<i

£59
309

$!20.9|8
63.83|
185,117
67,588
85.465

TmS

»7I0,6O6.

"l.384

|46},ia3

Wd^nt-dfor-coniumpvij;^

MS'-l^a

_4>

1 .477.669

Total

rotriIentei«d at the port. 6.530 13,205,005

8,814

$1,910,818

83,137
111.413
189,474
ti0,615

7,-82
8,3i7

|559,6U

Tm

Manufactures Of wool.... 565
cotton.,
do

}igS,I7S

».3m

11,115
$2,:05,578 lllMr $1,980,258
Total thrownnponm'k't.
BBTIBBD »OB WiBBHOnSMS OtJBWa SA.HB FBBIOS.

do
do

-i

Valae.
(212,441
«96,4!0
408.175
1B8,782
131,712

VBOM W^BIHOOSX ^HO THHUWM IHTO TBB lUBKBT ODBOitt THB
SAMB PIBIOD,

f Business has been irregular tlie past week with the package
houses, and while some large traosactions iu prints and brown
and bleached cottons wore stimulated by lower prices, the general
trade of this city -was moderately active, and accounts from
nearly all the principal distributing points In the West and

1876

.

Fkgs. Valae.
Sfanafactatesof wool.... 7c6
do
cotton. .1,279

do
do

* Estimated.

Fridat. p. M.. Starch

;

Hamburg, 25, etc. Brown sheetings and drills
were in steady demand and fairly active, aside from a few makes
of fine brown sheetings, such as Pepperell, Nashua R, etc., which

1,251,618

$:,812,2J7

538

$511.59;

195
149

l«,m

408

86.6tt

J51
1,541

8^

B4,48«

BB.OW
$612,588

V^fili

4.S68 $1,7(^15

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Tl.

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Bottom
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Mutual Insurance

Co.

published iu conformity with the provieiona of its

Called in aid paid up Capital....
Reservefurallotheriiabilltles, Includins: re-insurance
Net Fire Surplus and Reserve

$1,363,636 3C
J,S17,<>28

Premiains unearned 3l8t Dec, 1S7S

f:95,916 72

Set Premlnma received during the year
CDdlnx 3l8t Decembtr, lg;7.

755,078 89

New

YoiiK, January S3, 1878.

The Tmsteee, in confonnity to the Charter
Company, submit the following Statement

of the

of

Its

on the 31st December, 1877
Premiums received on 'Marine Risks
from 1st January, 1877, to Slst December, 1677
$4,710,665 83
Premiums on Policies not marked off
affairs

Total Premiama

(953,905 61

Sained premiuma of thayear

$8:0,3(8 55

Loaaeeand expesaea

62n,539 81

B«-lna ranee and return prenium?

182, '.73 08

Ist

ASSETS,
S.'aT

December,

Total
1877.

2,040,362 61

amount of Marine Premiums.

478.343 75

Pr,

Stocks of Curporationa

10«,038 58

Real Estate.

849,455 63

Receivable

and Uncollected Premiums

45?,507 74

Unsettled Accounts

miums marked

By order of

$1,561,951 54

the Board,

CHARLES IRVING,

Secretary.

TKirSTEES:
George Mosle.
Henry De B. Roulh,
Henry R. Kuhnhardt,
Lawrence Wells,
Alexander namilton,
Carl L. Recknagcl,

Edward
E.

aiy, 1877, to 3l6t

same period
$3,565,890
Returns of Premiums and

William Pohlmaan,

C. L. F. Rose,

Williams. Wilson,
Gustav Schwab,
L. M. Calvocorcssi.

Morgan,

Bank
amount of Asseta

on and

00
01

after

be redeemed and paid to the holders thereof,
or their legal representatives, on and after Tues
day, the 6th of February next, from which date all
be
produced at the time of payment and cance'ed
Upon certiflcaies which were issued for gold premiums, the p.ayment of interest and redemption

Secretary.

certificates to

be in gold.

A

Dlvldeucl of Fortjr per Cent, is de
tlic net earned premiums of the Company

dared on

for the year ending Slst

Assistant Secretary.

December, 1817, foi which
be issued on and after Tuesday, the

certificates will

May

7th of

By

State-rooms and tickets secured at 3*3 Broadway and
at all offices of \Ve*.tcott Express Company In
York City and Brooklyn. Alto tickets for sale at all
hotel ticket-offices.

New

PROVIDENCE

next.

LINE.

ONLY FOR

Providence, AVorcester, IVasIiua and
all Polntis North.
steamers leave.

IH. Dally from Pier

5 P,

29 North Itlver (toot of
AVarrcn street.)
Freight taken via either line at lowest rates.
D. S. B.\m;OCK, President.

ON L W
Direct Line to
The

['Vance.

(Jecrral Traiis-AtlaiilU- (fnupany's
.Haii

Sti>aiiislii(i>',

15ETWEEX

ME^y

YORK AND HAVRE.

Calling at Plymouth for the landhiir of Passengers.
Tne splendid vessels on this favorite route, for the
Contlnsct—«AOlns provided with olcitrlc hells— will
sail from Pier No. 50 Nortn lilver. foot of Morton St..
as follows
Wed., April 3, 6 A.M.
CANAD.A. Frfnguel
Weu., Ap II 17. 7 P. M.
PE EIHE. I'anie
VILLEDEP .Ills, Durand ... Wed.. May 1, 4:90 P. M.
PKICE OP PA.^SAGt'; IN GOLD (Includlnir wine;:
To Ha\Te— Plrst cabin. #100; second cabin. 1*5; third
cabin,
; steerage, $:^t)— Including wlue, bedding and

^

order of the Board,

utensils.

H. CHAPiTIAN,

J.

FP.EIGUT

_L. w. FIL KI NS, Genera l Fasaeuger Agent.

certificates of the issue of 1871

will

will

STEAMBOAT EXPRESS TUAIN WILL
LKAVE STONINGTON AT 4:30 A. M.

63

Tuesday, the 5th of February next.

The

Years.

Hereafter the

$11,366,351 66

thereof, or their legal representatives,

POINTS EAST.
7 Consecutive

in

33,

00

the outstanding
certiflcaies of profits will be paid to the holders

The ontstanding

Line

STONINGTON and RHOBE ISLAND.
from Pier
North lUver, foot of
5 p. M. Dally
.lay street.

2o5,381 02

interest thereon will cease.

EUGENE DUTILH, President.
ALFRED OGDEN, Vice-President.
CH.\RLES IRVING,

BLADOEN,

THE ELEGANT STEAMEK8

Assets, viz.

per cent. lotereston

Sljc

John Welsh, Jr.,
Theodore Fachirl,

F. Couslnery,

in

Total

Henry E. Sprasue,
Theodore J. Ralli,

John D. Dix,

P.

FOR
BOiSiTOK,
AND ALL
Not a Trip Missed

United States and State of New York
Stock, City, Bank and other stocks. $10,565,958
Loans, secured by Stocks and otherwise
1,163,2CC
Real Estate and claims due the Company, estimated at
617,436
Premium Notes and Bills Receivable. 1,764,.S93

.\achincl088,

Walter Watson,

Arthur B. Graves,
Alex. M. Lawrence,

SAM.

Stonington

27

Expenses... (947,923 88

Cash

F. Davison.

Coustaniiu Menclas,
W. F. Gary, Jr.,
Ramsay Crooks,
II. L. Charles Rcnaald,
Frederick G. Foster,
Charles Munsio^er,
Ernesto G. Fabbri,

Carl Victor,

WHITE.

THE OLD RELIABLE

from 1st JannDecember, 1877.... $4,9C2,3S1 08

Losses paid du:ing the

R. Lyman,

II.

Hugh

E.

Manaokiis-

19,876 46

Total amount of Asaets

ANTON METZ,

CBAS.

$6,751,028 44

off

The Company has the following

11.

FlreAssetsheldinthe U.S... $1,767,276 53
The above does not Include the Life and Annuity
Fund?, which, hy act of Parliament, are In a distinct
and separate department, for whk-h the sarplus and
reserve of the fire Insurance Department, named
above, are not liable.

have been issued uiMn Life
Risks, nor upon Fire disconnected
with Marine Risks.

$951,729 43

United SUtes Stock

George

Invested and Cash FireAsset«.$8, 500,185 10
Subscribed Ciipllal, for which the
Stockholders are personally liable, not yet c .MeU in
....
$9,545,054 64
Reserve for 'otal Liahilliies, includlnfr reinsurance. In the U.S.
$780,518 04
Net surplus in the United States.
JS6,75S 49

No Pol icics

Caah in Banka

SiibfcripUon Notes, Bills

January, 1S77

04

4,818,620 70

Charter

Secretary.

To Plymouth, London or any railway station In
England— First cabin, $».t to lOO, accor:Ung to accom-

second cabin. %f^; thirtl cabin, |35, steer
age, $27, Including everythlug as above.
Return tickets at very reduced rates, avallabi

modation

;hrough England and Prance. Meamers marited tbu
• do not carry stecrHi:e passencers.
For passage and frelglit apply to

TRUSTEES:
J.

"ES EVER.Y

APPHOVED DESCRIPTIOH

LIFE^
ENDOWMENT POLICIES
C*Tf/IMS AS

MY OTHER CO.

FAVORABLE ASTHOSE OF

^ASHASSETS

MR $80,000,000.
R Ope.
cIlDcd Planes, Transmlaaion
luf Poorer, &c.
Also liai-

Charcoal and CU for
phlps' Klj-'giiiK, Suspension

v;in".zed

|Tlf!;;ra, OcrrlctGur^KcnTr
"'\-y -. (Ic.
Urye

A

iny
';

1^

stocK

on hand
(icfsin'tl

from

order.

MASON

43 BroaUtia'}',

A:

CO.,

New

II.

Russell,

David Lane,
Daniel S, Miller,
Joslah O. Low,
Royal Phelps,

Hand,

William U. Webb,
Francis Skiddy,

Adolph

Lerao)'ne,

Charles H. Marshall,

Charles P. Burdett,

ANDES

Alexander V. Blake,
Robert B. Mmtum,
George W. Lane,

Jsmes G. DcForest,

John

William Brjxe,
Peter V. King,
Horace K. Thurbcr.

Wiiliam

H

Thomae

B. Coddington,

Fogg,

Kork.

J. D.

JONES,

Edmund W.

BI-MONTHLY 6EKV;CK TO JAMAICA, IIAYTI
L'OLO.MKIAai.d ASIMNWALL. »nd to PANAMAand
SOUTH PACIKK; POUTS (rta Asninwail.)
FiiBt-class, falI-powfjj«d, Iron screw steAiners>
Pier »Jn. 11. \ortl. I:iv.>r.

ETNA

PacIIic Porta

(.-iH

Prcsidonl.

Vice-President.
2d Vice-President.

from

Asfiuwui.;,

March 30 ALPS
For Kingston (Jam.) and

April 13

I

Haytl.

ATLAS
AprllJO
Superior drsi-clnsi- piMjseUKer a.-cuinmod^ticn.
PIM, FOKWOOD A CI'.. Agents,
April 4

I

xo. 58 Wall

ireet.

Corlics,

H. JIOORE,
A. A. RAVEN, 3d Vice-President.
II.

Atlas Mail Line.

Charles D. Leverich,

CHARLES DENNIS,
W.

55 Broadway.

For Haytl. Colombia. Isthmus of Panama and South

Robert L. Stuart,
Frederick Chauncey,
Horace Gray,
Elliott,

DEBEBIAN,

Aisent,

Lewie Curtis,
James Low,
Gordon W. Bumham,
William Sturgls,
William E. Dodge,
Thomas F. Youngs,
John D. Hewlett,

lenirth

I'LATSTKKL AND

Uio.N HOPES for Mining
purposes manufactured to

JOHN

Charles

C. A.

STEEL AND Ca.\KCOAL
IHON of superior quality
suitable for WINING AND
IIOISTIXO PDKPOSES. .n-

•ly

Moore,

\V. II. II.

"

LOIJIS

Charles Dennla,

D. Jones,

;

JOSEPH GILLOTT'S

STEEL PENS.

SoU ly alt dtaUn thnugkamt tht

World,

.

THE CHRONICLE.

V]

<

Wm.

Cotton

o-ton.

COTTON

AUG ST A, CEOKGIA.

O

(

n

II

l'

174

Entire attention given to purchase of COTTON on
for SPINNERS and EXPOKIEIJS.

COBHESPOXMNCE

SOLICITED.
Eeferences :-Natlonal Bank of Augasta, Georgia;

Commission .Merchants, New
TorS; William B.D»na& Co., Proprietors Cohmbb.
ci»L AND Fi.viXCiAL Cheonicle, and other New
Voik Houses.
Hentz &

& Co

J

COTTON BROKERS,
No. 140 i»earl Street, near Wall, N. >

New

Measra.

Co..

6c

purcbase or sale of

for

contracti.

Lllieva! rtilvanre-i

fu'.ur

made on cc

Knoop, Hanemann &

No.

DE JERSEY

CO.

&.

H

COTTON FACTOKS,
MERCHANTS,

O Box

*'

Ifork.

BBeclal personal attention to the purchase and sale
Of '' CONTRACTS FOR FUTURE DELIVERY " OF

COTTON.

Robt. L. MaitlandSc Co.,

n

CO R
KOK E:\P0KT

Cotton Futures.

'

19-i

FRONT

117

JPcarl Street,

COTTON FACTORS

OF

&

Co.,"
¥ORK.

66 BROAD ST., JiElXf
BANKERS & COTTON COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Investment Securities bought and sold. Orders ext
cuted at the Cotton Exchangcsin New York and Liver
p^ol.

All

hn

Cov-'ifs

own can

possibly

HiislnesB ^•!in«^cf*'d STnrr!TT,Y

BO that no Interest of onr
connlctwltb that of our patrons.
8I0I7,

H. Tileston

Co.,

COTTON BUYERS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS
60 Stone Street, New York.
O -fiprs In Futures executed at N. Y. Cotton Exchange

Geo. Copeland,
COTTON BROKER,
136

J.

PEAKL STREET, NE%V YORK.

C. Johnson

&

Co.,

COTTON BUYERS FOR MANUFACTUBBRS
infiOlFHIS, IV^N,.

l<

RKI)

vr'

I

.-{"t.

•

<-\v

n:

A

h,
«
kk

v

i

>

<

•

i

NEW YORK,

OFFICE, No.

pa

1

1

v

BROADWAY.

1?,5

&

R. Smith

SHOWING THE

Condition oftlie Companion the first
day of Jaunary, 1878.
CASH CAPITAL
$3,000,000 00
Reserve for Re-lumrance
1,836,432 31

Co.,

Reserve for Uni)aid Lotees aua
Dividends

COTTON

COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
NEW

125 PEARL STREET,

44 Broad

Street,

SUMMARY OF
Cash

Boston.

O. Richards,

E.

& Krohn,
.

Fnturc orders promptly executed.

COTTON FACTORS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS
No. 134 Pearl Street, New York,
JiACAULAY.

Macau] ay & Co
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
,

22

on

United States stocks (markot value)
Bank Stocks (market value)

and City Bonds (inark(M. value)
Loans on Stocks, payable on demand

State

s-ecurltles, |42T,098)...

Balance in hands of Agents
Real estate
Premiums due and uncoHected on Policies

2,0ie,S08
3,016,875
251,190
124,628

00
00
08
00

314,215
6.S2:2
185,204
12,500

47
39
13
00

7,871 20

Issued at this othcc

|6,109,52d

Total

WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK.

Future Contracts for Cotton hcught and sold on
C ommission in New Y'ork and Liverpool.

L. F. Berje,

Insurance Company
of hartford.

INCORPORATED
Total Asset?, January
Capital

Re-iusurancefund.

Unpaid lossts

&

IN 1819.

1, 1877
j;.3,nOO.(X)0

87,115,t)21 43

00

1,741,273 42

...

other
429,114

_

ea—

^,
5,170.838 24

NET oDR°LUS, Jan. 1877. $1,945,236 IS
BRANCH OFFICE:
Xo. 173 Broiidwaj-, Xcw York.
JAS. A. AI.EX 'VPER, Agent.
1,

Liverpool

London

&

& Globe

Insurance Company,

COTTON EUYEE AND COMMISSION MERCHANT

NEW

R E A N S, A.!
Sawyer, Wallace & Co.,
O

li

Ij

45 William St,
J,

E.

PUESFORD,

COTTON FACTORS & COMMISSION MERCHANT

4T Broafl

Street,

1

CHAS. J. MARTIN, President.
J. H. WASHHURN, Secretary.

claims...

Hopkins, Dwight&Co.,
A. J.

lien

iETNA

KOURSE & BROOKS),

jial;aUjAX

$161,727 56
first

real estate (worth ^l.Sg^.'iOO)

(market value of

GENERAIi COTTON MERCHANTS
97 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK.

1..

$li,109,526 T5
ASSETS.

Banks

Interest due on Ist of January, 1^78

RICHARDS)

Shipping and Conunls«lon Merchant
No. 39 BROAD STREET. NEW YORK.

W alter

in

Bonds and Mortgages, being

Liberal advances made on consignments. Prompt
Scrsonal attention paid to the execution of orders for
ie T'urchasc or sale of contracts for future delivery.

256,391 42
I,016,7u3 02

NetSurplus

TOTAL ASSETS

YORK,

AND

J.

&

Sons,

Foi-ty-Nintli Senii-Aiinual Statement,

GENEHAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS
14a Pearl Street, New York.

(Succe ssors to

Neiv York.

R. M. Waters

S TRP^KT.

Boston ,

l'..«t

;i)K Ti

Insurance C

COTTON BROKER*,
53 BEAVER STR EET, NEW YORK
Co.,
Waldron & TainterT

COTTON BROKERS,

D A G
.tM> f><»M

bangs OF RlBlUNR M

BUI

No. 43 Broad Street, Nenr Tork.

Deiiwis

40 Wal^'r street,

manufacturkh.- >)y
INILA, SISAL, Jl'i'l!: &: '

COTTON FACTORS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS

&

Treasurer,

Superintendent.
Manche-t-r, N. H.

BLOSS & INCHES,

(Successor to A. L.

Advances made on ConslgHinents.

Peris.ins

.

MEANS,

M'. U.

Exchange on the CITY BANK, LONDON, aoo
10TTl>tGUEH & CO.. PARIS.

Street,

New

.

ARE^TAS BI.OOD,

01

AOEKTS,

3,909.

liocomottves and Amoskeag Steam
Fire Euiflnes,
MANCHESTER, N H

Henry Lawrence 6c

Peet,

Nevr York.

Farley,

COMMISSION

P.

MANUFACTURERS OF

WALI. STREET*

S8

,

Works,

Locom(.)tivf

Future Contracts for Cotton bought and sold on Commission, In
New Y'org and Liverpool.

Mancbester and LlTerpool,

132 Pearl

MANCHFSTER

Co.,

made on Consignments

.,-»»eg

B.

flO^RKr Lh

AND

of cotton.

UtD

S3 BXOHANGK PLACE, NEW TORE.

riiVAIVCIAL,

the purchase or sale of contracts for future delivery
»!!

AND

'

made on Consignments.

Special attention paid to the execution of eriersfor

GENERAL COMMISSION MERCH.ANTS,
No. 123 Pearl Street, New Yor''

CO

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

J.

i'O.,

JJOOBT & JEMISON),

(Successors to

paid to purchases or sales of
or<ler>

Blsnuneut"

5c

SEC CHIT V.
Liberal advances

Advances made on Consignments. Spccla attention

he exe^mllon of

MADE ON ACCEPTAB1.E

I.OAN:«

I.'vprnnnI

&

\»'all Street,

YORK.

GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS

BANKERS, COTTON FACTORS

BLIJJ)IN(J.

NEW YORK.

W.

*inf)

76

NEW

r«>..

&

&

Nos. 74

.\

BANKERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS

COTTON EXCHANGE

kT.

Mpw York

jemison

E. S.

GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTt-

for the

T N.
II A
New York.

Kli;iii

Robb &

AND

dthvery of cotton.

UC

FINLAV *

FINLAV,

sold on t;otnmt»Mlnn In

Cotton Factors

Special attention paid to

,

CALCUTTA AND BOMBAY.
FUTURE CONTRACTS FORCOTT'iN bouetjt

.

Murphy

VVart-,

Tfork.

S?:

Also execute orders for Me-cLandlse Throuei

hdwan H.Skinker&Co
97 Pearl Street,

.U

LIVERPOOL, LONDON AMI OLASQ'IW.

Establlalicd (In Tontine Building) 1S4 1.

COMMISSION AND COTTON MERCHANTS.

N

<>

I

Pearl St

17

Tlesara. J.V.JIF.S

Co.,

amts F.Wenmari

S N

&

StiUman,

6c

SEAMEN'S BANK BCILDINO.

Advances made on Con8lgni"*'its lo

ORDER
Hemj

^AOodward

Co.,

&c

GENERAL

ROKER,

1

MlEcellaneous

Henry F^entz

Akxander,

tlix

I

rvoL. XXVI.

New York.

Eksidest Manager.