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The Coal Trade.

THE leading coal carrying companies make the following reports of their tonnage for the week ending December 3, and for the year to same date, compared with their respective amounts carried to the same date last year: Week. 1881. 1880. 75,921 75,921 85,168 9.722 9,722 60,864 60,864 68,602

Reading Railroad.
Schuylkill Canal
Lehigh Valley.

Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western.
Shamokin
Central R. R. of New Jersey..
United R. R. of New Jersey..
Pennsylvania Coal.....
Delaware and Hudson Canal..
Huntingdon and Broad Top
Mountain.

Penn. and New York..
Clearfield, Pa

tons; decrease compared with 1880, 114,164 side nearest the drives. Tickets are obtainable tons. Pennsylvania Railroad-week, 5,078 tons; at a half-circular shaped office in the centre of year, 256,531 tons; increase compared with 1880, the wall, and the travelers may then ascend to 52,667 tons. The coal was brought from the the second story by means of two elevators in mines as follows: Cumberland and Pennsyl- the west end of the room. The space fronting vania Railroad-week, 46,397 tons; year, 1,773,- on Broad street is divided into two magnificent 761 tons. George's Creek and Cumberland Rail- rooms, that on the north being a ladies' waitroad-week, 4,757 tons; year, 64,017 tons. ing room and that on the south a dining room Baltimore and Ohio Railroad-week, 4,757 tons; Dressing rooms for both sexes, bath rooms & year, 64,017 tons. West Virginia Central and barber shop and other offices fill up the corner 102,466 3,980,652 3,284,143 Pittsburg Railway-week, 1,272 tons; year, 3,531 block of space bounded by the dining room. 23,859 995,535 860,478 35,142 35,142 40,878 tons. The Reading Railroad shipment for last The means of exit are admirable, as thirty men 44,554 1,462,429 1,076,313 week, ending December 10, was 175,000 tons, can walk abreast down the two short and straigh: of which 35,900 tons were sent to and 42,500 flights of stairs. The kitchen, pantries and tons shipped from Port Richmond, and 19,300 storerooms are on the third floor, which, like tons sent to and 21,200 tons shipped from the fourth, does not extend over the main waitElizabethport.-Phil. Ledger, Dec. 12. ing room. The rooms on the fourth story are occupied entirely by officers of the railroa

32,103 1,319,565 1,054,378

81,169 3,347,302 2,835,271

394,225

9,267 482,083
16,425 16,425 15,448
55,135 2,226,413 1,598,495

The coal tonnage of the Lehigh Canal and Lehigh and Susquehanna Division of the Cen

tral Railroad of New Jersey, above given, is Pennsylvania Railroad Company's New

Reading Railroad..
Schuylkill Canal.

8,072,440 7,179,298 893,042

Station.

company. The ventilation is all that cond `

desired, the most approved steam-heating ap paratus is used, and the entire building ilighted by electricity. The entire structure covers a space 122 feet 10 inches on Filbert street and 193 feet 5 inches on Merrick street

The height from ground to eaves is 75 feet, an i

Commerce of New York.

THE foreign imports at New York for the month of November were :

Ent. for cons....
Do. for warehousing
Free goods..

Specie and bullion..

Withdrawn

from

warehouse.........

1879. 1880. 188] $14,219,064 $12,684,476 $16,688 5,782,839 5,965,112 6,122.4 12,550,632 11,968,093 11,636 18,941,262 9,248,677 1,350,2

5,311,972 8,368,898 6,222,66%

The foreign imports at New York for eleven months from January 1 were:

Ent. for cons.

Do. warehouse....

1881

1879. 1880. $147,720,887 $210,528,514 $20 63,986,877 106,178,308 78.54740! 89,352,672 116,396,458 115,0 77,444,790 59,007,649 54,266,

for two days ending December 2. The tonnage above given for the Reading Railroad, Schuyl- THE new station of the Pennsylvania Railroad kill Canal, Lehigh Valley Railroad and Penn- Company at Filbert and Merrick Streets, Philsylvania and New York Canal and Railroad is │adelphia, which is claimed to be the most confor three days ending December 3. The fol- venient and the finest in the world, was opened lowing statement shows the coal tonnage of the for general traffic on the 5th inst., and all trains various companies whose fiscal years ended are now run over the elevated road into the to the roof top 93 feet. The style of architec November 30, compared with the previous year: heart of the city. As described by the Philadel-ture is Italian Gothic, and is from designs t This Year. Last Year. Increase. phia Record it is "imposing in appearance, with- Joseph M. Wilson, Chief of the Department Bridges and Depots, and Chief Engineer W 600,447 524,989 75,458 out being heavy, and the eastern front is a H. Brown." Lehigh Valley Railroad.. 5,791,376 4,606,415 1,184,981 mass of tasteful ornamentation. The lower Central New Jersey..... 4,052,692 3,494,216 558,476 Penn. & New York Road.. 1,527,607 1,140,981 386,626 The total tonnage of anthracite coal from all the regions for the week ending Dec. 3, as reported by the several carrying companies, amounted to 658,536 tons, against 581,987 tons in the corresponding week last year, an increase of 76,549 tons. The total amount of anthracite mined for the year is 26,974,014 tons, against 22,632,502 tons for the same period last year, an increase of 4,341,513 tons. The quantity of bituminous coal sent to market for the week amounted to 114,759 tons, against 92,125 tons in the corresponding week of last year, an increase of 22,634 tons. The total amount of bituminous mined for the year is 4,609,583 tons against 4,007,798 tons for the corresponding period last year, an increase of 601,785 tons. The total tonnage of all kinds of coal for the week is 773,295 tons, against 674,112 tons in corresponding week last year, an increase of 99,183 tons, and the total tonnage for the coal year is 31,583,597 tons, against 26,640,300 tons to same date last year, an increase of 4,943,297 tons. The quantity of coal and coke carried over the Pennsylvania Railroad for the week ending November 26 was 176,454 tons, of which 131,917 tons were coal and 44,537 tons coke. The total tonnage for the year thus far has been 8,213,062 tons, of which 6,059,666 tons were coal and 2,153,396 tons coke. These figures embrace all the coal and coke carried over the road east and west. The shipments of bituminous coal from the mines of the Cumberland coal region during the week ended December 3 were 59,054 tons, and for the year to that date 2,041,244 tons, an increase of 76,157 tons as compared with the corresponding period of last year. The coal was carried to tidewater as follows: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad-week, 36,328 tons; year, 1,295,990 tons; increase compared with 1880, 134,584 tons; Chesapeake and

Free goods.
Specie and bullion.

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story of the building is built of massive blocks
of rough-dressed Fox Island granite, with an
open arcade upon the Broad street front, sup-
ported by columns of polished granite. The
second floor, which is in reality the main one,
is on a level with the tracks of the elevated ex-
tension. Here the walls above the granite base
are of smooth pressed brick and terra cotta.
At the northeast corner is a square clock tower, Total ent. at port.... $51,493,797 $39,866,356 $35,794,677
surmounted by a pyramidal roof, which rises
to a height of 176 feet. The southern corner is
terminated by a gable and pinnacles, while the
cornice line of the Broad street facade is broken
by two smaller gables, which surmount the al-
ternate bays or divisions of the wall, and which
are marked on the main story by lofty windows
of a pointed pattern, with columns and tracer-
ies of terra cotta, elaborately molded. These
large windows light the waiting room and res-
taurant upon the front. The facade is further
ornamented by a wide oriel window at each
end and by a great variety of terra cotta orna-
ment in high relief, including five medallion.
heads above the large windows, representing
the five races of man. The Filbert street front
corresponds in color and in general character,
but is not so ornamental. Four stone-paved
carriage ways, separated by fluted iron pillars,
with footwalks on either side, pierce the mid-
dle of the lower story of the Broad street front,
and extending under the building open on Fif-
teenth street under the covered bridge. The
space set apart for carriage ways is flanked on
the Filbert street side by the main entrance to
the depot and on the Market street side by
the main exit.

62,739,630 85,833,430 90,913,900 The duties received at New York for th eleven months ending with November were:

1879.

1880.

1981

Six months. $48,176,921 66 $71,038,523 16 $68,641,639
July
9,329,895 17 13,360,394 37 12,079.5795
August..... 10,562,138 82
14,492,361 87 15.34.4
October.... 10,932,554 48
12,856,636 10 14.14.97
September. 11,790,902 26
10,574.333 53 13, 11,4
9,711,
November. 8,460,050 08
9,079,082 36

Total.....$99,272,462 47 $131,401,331 39 $132,752,595 *4 The exports from New York to foreign ports in the month of November were:

Dom. produce..
For. free goods..
Do. dutiable.

Specie and bullion...
Total exports..

Do. exclusive of spe-
cie.....

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The exports from New York to foreign ports for eleven months from January 1 were?

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The mon- For. free goods.
Do, dutiable..
Specie and bullion.

Dom. produce.....$316,344,985 $373,335,431 $92404

1879.

1.807.454 4,216,563 14,184,240

4,892,500

"In its interior arrangements the station is
a model of luxurious convenience.
ster entrance doors open into an apartment
which can comfortably contain 500 people.
This is the ticket room, and passengers who Total exports..... $336,563,2428594510,

Ohio Canal-week, 17,482 tons; year, 485,653 arrive in carriages may

ess from the

Do. exclusive of
specie.....

322,369,002 $80,808,538 $41,90

Railway Progress in Greece.

THE new condition of things in Greece is ving rise to much activity in the direction improving communication. Not only is the tting of the Isthmus of Corinth in hand, but lways are projected and will no doubt soon begun between Athens and Larissa, and be

een Arta and Vola, in Northern Greece, while the Peloponnesus one line is to run along coast of the gulf from Corinth to Patras; other starting from Corinth will run south to cena and Argos, and then turning westward

every loom, spindle, and axle in Great Britain. down into apparently bottomless deeps, and Electrical railways and electrical tramways, are occasionally whisked round such bends Prof. Thompson said, were now existing facts, that we can look out of the window and every and "many months will not elapse-or it will now and then see the locomotive as if about to be an eternal disgrace to the first city in the come back to us, the experience may be reworld-before the fetid and poisonous atmos-garded as exciting rather than pleasant. Nevphere of the Metropolitan Railway is replaced ertheless, the Tasmanians are able to boast their by a pleasant and salubrious air, rich in exemption hitherto from serious accident, and, fragrant ozone; and the like revolution will not therefore, they rather pride themselves than long be delayed in many quarters where reform otherwise in possessing a railway which seems is far less imperative. In all these changes the to go round corners, and which, eccentric as it accumulator will have its part to play." In re- is, can so confound the wisdom of the scientiply to a question, Prof. Thompson expressed fic. The run across the island in seven hours rough Arcadia, passing Andritzena, Tripolis the opinion that the cost of the electric lights brings us to Hobart, the capital (for some d Megalopolis, will again turn southward in the room was less than the cost of gas would æsthetic reason the inhabitants have abandonrough the old Messina and end at Kalamata be for a mansion which had to provide its owned the old name of Hobart town), and here we the Gulf of Koron. This line, besides open-apparatus for the making of gas." gup the peninsula for purposes of commerce, ll traverse country of the highest interest to velers, both from its associations in the past d its great natural beauty. A short line is to nnect the little port of Katakolo on the coast Elis with the thriving town of Pyrgos, which not more than ten miles from Olympia. If ese enterprises are well carried out an imense stride will have been taken by the Greek ngdom on the road to civilization. The hisry of the four mile railway which connects thens with the Piræus is encouraging to the rojectors of the new lines. Constructed origially at an outside cost of £800,000.-Pall Mall Fazette.

Storing Electricity.

Illinois Central Railroad.

DURING the month of November, 1881, the traffic on the lines operated by this company was (estimated):

In Illinois..

In Iowa (leased lines).

Total....

$585,326 00
162,409 00
$748,235 00

The traffic for the same month in 1880, on the same mileage, was (actual):

In Illinois..

In Iowa (leased lines).

Total.....

$606,905 40
176,214 36

$783,119 76
During November, 1881, the land sales were
1,212.30 acres for $6,521.38, and the cash col-
lected on land contracts was $9,414. 14.

L. A. CATLIN, Secretary.
Cincinnati Iron Market.
OFFICE OF E. L. HARPER & CO.

find-non obstante the alleged general slowness -that the Hobartians are little behind the rest of the world in the comfort of their hotels, and not at all behind them in their charges.

In the United States Supreme Court at Washington on the 12th inst., a decision was rendered in the patent case of Frances L. Egbert, executrix, against Philip Lippman and August Seligman, error to the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, in which the Court holds that the original inventor of the improvement by allowing it to be generally used for two years before he made application for a patent, abandoned it to the public and cannot now complain of infringement. The decree of the Circuit Court dismissing the complaint is, therefore, affirmed.

FROM an advance summary of the quarterly report of the Kansas Board of Agriculture we learn that the total value of the twenty-two Cincinnati, Dec. 13, 1881. field crops raised in 1881 is $91,910,439 27, or THE market continues about the same as last more than 30 per cent. greater than in any preweek, and, if anything, has hardened a little. vious year in the history of the State. The to Prices are strong and Furnaces as a rule are that contribute the largest share of this imdeclining to sell for anything but early deliv-mense total are wheat and corn; the former ery. Taking all things into consideration the making $21,705,270 80, and the latter $44,859,outlook is very promising. The demand for 963 29. In production, average yields were not Car Wheel Iron has been very brisk during the so large as in 1880, but the increased price of farm products made the harvest of this year past week. There has also been a large number of inquiries for Soft Foundry and Neutral much more valuable. The report says: "While Forge Irons, the latter being very scarce and it is true that the long-continued dry weather and the armies of chinch bugs did immense none offering damage to the crops of the State during 1881, yet there need be no immediate apprehension that the farmers are in want, when it is ascertained that the value of $122,450,406 95 is divided among them this year."

We quote as follows:

A LECTURE was recently delivered before the Society of Arts by Prof. Sylvanus Thompson, f Bristol, England, upon the above subject. The room," says the Pall Mall Gazette, which was crowded, was lighted during the cture by two groups of suspended Edison amps connected with 40 Faure cells brought to The building ready charged. Prof. Thompson, fter explaining the scientific principles upon which the storage of electric energy was based nd the various accumulators which had been nvented, gave some anticipations of the possible use of the discovery. First, in regard to ighting, secondary batteries would serve for portable supplies of electricity, for accumuated supplies, and for equalizers of electric Currents. The value of accumulation was evident in the case of a theatre, which might by accident be plunged in darkness if dependent on external source. A possible application DURING the ten months ending Nov. 1, 1881, was the firing of torpedoes and blasts in mines. the Allen Paper Car Wheel Company turned out Another was the perfection of the telephone in of their Hudson works 7,729 wheels. They are still adding to their machinery, and hope to inncreasing the power of the transmitter by Employing a multiple microphone. A hundred crease the output at Hudson to 10,000 wheels the coming year. They are also pushing formicrophones united would produce loud and listinct speech. By far the most important of ward their improvements at the Chicago works all the possibilities opened out by the storage as rapidly as machinery can be procured. When battery was the utilization of wind and water Of all the railways I have ever trusted my fully completed, these works are expected to power. Differing from Sir W. Thompson in life to--and I have crossed from New York to have double the capacity of those at Hudson. his address to the British Association, he San Francisco-I take the line which connects The extensive paper mill, lately erected by this believed there were cases where no great ex- Launceston and Hobart, the northern and south-company at Morris, Ill., is very nearly ready

such an area

pense would be incurred in utilizing tidal areas as basins. The Avon at Bristol required but a few yards of embankment to be turned into A tenth part of the tidal energy in the gorge of the Avon would light Bristol. A tenth part of the tidal energy in the channel of the Severn would light every city and turn

FOUNDRY.

Hanging Rock Charcoal...
Strong Neutral Coke..
American Scotch...
Neutral Coke..
Cold Short

GREY FORGE.

No.

Mos ..1 29 00@30 00 4 ...1 26 00@27 00 4 ..1 25 00@26 50 4

CAR WHEEL AND MALLEABLE.

Hanging Rock Cold Blast..

Warm Blast..
Lake Superior 1 and 2.

Lake Superior 3 to 6...
Southern Car What

..23 50@24 50 4 .22 50@23 50 4 .36 00@38 00 4 .30 00@32 00 4 ..32 00@33 00 4 ...34 00@36 00 4 ..36 00@40 00 4

Railroads in Tasmania.

ern sides of the island, as the most boldly de-
fiant of engineers' misgivings touching the
sharpness of curves. When, half-expectant of
being hurled by centrifugal force down some
of the Tasmanian gullies, we, with more or less
rapid, snake-like motion, wind our way round
the steep sides of heavily wooded hills, and look

This com

for operation, and is expected to be running
by the first of January. It will have a capacity
of from 4,000 to 5,000 tons a year.
pany is now working on orders for the Mexican
companies, the Atlantic and Pacific, the Cen-
tral of New Jersey, the Delaware, Lackawanna

and Western, the Delaware and Hudson Canal

Company, the Lehigh Valley, and the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe.

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Det.,G'd Haven & Mil. Equip bds112
Do.Con.M.5p.c., till'83aft'r6p.c110
llinois Central $100 shares.....135
Lehigh Valley Cons. mortgage..115
Louisville & Nashville mort 68.106
Do. Sink. Fund bds (S.&N.Ala)105
Do. capital stock $100 shares. 97
N. Y. Cent. & Hud. R. mt. bds..137
Do. $100 shares..
Do mort. bonds (stg.). .......123
N.Y.,Lake Erie & West., $100 shs 46%
Do. 6 p. c. pref. $100 shares.. 95
Do. 1st Con. Mort. bds (Erie).130
Do. do. Funded Coupon bds.127
Do. 2d Consol Mort. bonds...104
Do. do. Funded Coupon bds..101
Do. Gold Income bonds...... 95
N.Y.,Pa.& Ohio 1st mort. bonds. 53
Do. Prior Lien bds (sterling)..105
Pennsylvania, $50 shares.... 64
Do. Con. Sink Fund Mort....119
Philadelphia & Reading $50 shs 33
General Consol Mortgage.....118
Do. Improvement Mortgage..103
Do.Gen.Mtg.'74,ex-def'd coup. 99
Do. Scrip for the 6 def. coup. 94
Pittsb., Ft. W. & Chi. Eq. bds....105
St. L. Bridge 1st mort. gold b'd.126
Do. 1st pref. stock..

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126 128 102 104 102 104 Union Pa. Land Grant 1st. mtg.115 119 115 119

Financial and Commercial Review.

THURSDAY EVENING, Dec. 15, 1881. During the forenoon the ruling rate for call loans on stocks was 6 per cent, and on United States bonds 4@4 per cent; time loans were 6 per cent and prime mercantile paper 6@7 per cent. In the afternoon the quotation for call loans at the Stock Exchange was 6 per cent, but at the close fell to 4 per cent. The posted rates of the leading drawers of sterling were 4.81@4.85; the actual rates were 4.80@4.80 and 4.84@48.44, with cable transfers 4.84@4.85, and prime commercial bills 4.78 @4.783. The actual rates for Continental bills are as follows: francs, 5.20@5.21 and 5.25 @25.26; marks, 94@941 and 947@95; and guilders, 39@40.

The Treasury Department accepted on Wednesday all the bonds offered under the 106th

call, aggregating $5,489,500. The total redemp- the profits on hand at the mints, July 1, 1878, tion under the 105th call to that date amounted $424,725.47, and $4,560.30 profits on trade dolto $15,521,200.

A decision which is of interest to all National Banks, and one which deals with another phase of the usury and interest besides that noted in our issue of the 3d inst., was rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington on the 12th inst. in the case of the National Bank of Gloversville, N. Y., against James H. Johnson. This was a suit brought by Johnson to recover from the bank, under sections 5,197 and 5,198 of the Revised Statutes, the penalties described for the exaction of usurious interest upon a large amount of commercial paper, of which Johnson was not the maker, but which he transferred to the bank, and the bank discounted for him in the regular course of business. This court is unanimously of opinion that the prohibition of the National Banking Act extends not only to paper of which the customer of the bank is the maker, but also to the paper of other persons offered by the customer for account. The judgment of the court below is affirmed with costs.

lars and surplus bullion credited to the same account, make a total of $10,181,496.31. Of this amount $8,774,374.81 has been deposited in the Treasury, $221,124.78 paid for expenses of distribution and $84,351.29 paid for wastages and losses by sale of sweeps, leaving in the mints July 1, 1881, $1,101,645.43 which was verified by actual count on the 30th of June last by representatives from the Treasury Department.

A consolidated first mortgage for $5,000,000 on the property and franchises of the Long Island Railroad Company, including its leased lines and branches-Hempstead, Locust Valley, Northport, Port Jefferson, Sag Harbor, Valley Stream and Far Rockaway, Brooklyn Rapid Transit, Smithtown, Flushing and North Shore, and Montauk railroads, was filed in the Queens County Clerk's office, at Jamaica, N. Y., on the 10th inst. This. mortgage, which takes the place of all prior mortgages, is executed to the Central Trust Company of New York as Trustee. The principal is payable in gold in 1931, while the rate of interest is 5 per cent, payable quarterly. The mortgage will cover all franchises that may hereafter come into possession of the Long Island Railroad Company.

The Supreme Court of Missouri has decided the application of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company for a writ to compel the Secretary of State to give the company a receipt releasing them from all indebtedness to the State, inasmuch as they have paid $3,000,000 | Philadelphia and Long Branch Railroad Com

into the State Treasury. The State holds that
this money was received on account. The rail-
road company claims it covers their entire in-
debtedness to the State, and they ought to re-
ceive a receipt in full for it.

A contract has been agreed to between the

pany, which is controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and the Central Railroad of New Jersey for an interchangeable use of tracks between Sea Girt and Long Branch. The adoption of this agreement obviates the necessity of building a new line between the points named, as was recently contemplated.

The President has approved the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, and has

The Assistant Treasurer at New York will, in conformity with instructions from Washington dated December 8, 1881, redeem on Wednesday of each week, commencing with the 14th inst., until further notice, United States bonds (con-accepted an additional 25 mile section of the tinued 6s, 1881) embraced in the 106th call, to Northern Pacific Railroad in the Territory of the amount of $5,000,000, paying interest from Idaho, which was pronounced satisfactory by July 1, 1881, to the maturity of the call-Jan- the Government Commissioners. Within a uary 29, 1882. In the event of an offering on month the Northern Pacific Railroad Company any of the days mentioned, of an amount in has had 325 miles of new road accepted by the excess of $5,000,000, a pro rata distribution will United States Government-100 miles in Dabe made; otherwise the redemption will be con-kota and Montana, and 225 miles in Washingtinued from day to day until the requisite ton and Idaho Territories. By this acceptance amount is obtained. The bonds will be paid the company acquires 5,760,000 acres of agrifor subject to the examination of the Depart-cultural and timber lands in Washington and ment, and all sellers will be required to deposit | Idaho and 2,560,000 acres of farming and graz1 per cent cash, the amount of the January, ing lands in Western Dakota and Eastern Mon1882, interest. tana-in all 8,320,000 acres.

A formal transfer was made on the 6th inst.

In January, 1882, interest falls due on the outstanding six per cent bonds, amounting in of the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia the aggregate to about $2,780,000; on the out- Railroad, together with its narrow-gauge constanding four per cent bonds, amounting to nections in the oil country, and the Buffalo about $7,387,000; and on the currency sixes Coal Company, to the Buffalo, Pittsburg and outstanding amounting to about $1,938,000. To Western Railroad Company, who purchased the pay the interest on these loans requires the fill-property last April through a syndicate of New ing out of about 75,000 checks. The Treasurer York bankers, of which Archer N. Merton was expects to have these checks ready for mailing at the head. by the 24th or 25th inst.

The assets of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, The Director of the Mint has caused an ex-in addition to its railway and equipment, are: amination to be made of the accounts of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain stock, $22,000,United States Coinage Mints from the 1st of 000, Texas and Pacific stock, $3,000,000; MisJuly, 1878, to June 30, 1881, to ascertain the souri, Kansas and Texas stock, $1,640,000; exact amount and cost of the silver purchased Omaha extension, cash cost, $3,000,000; Pacific by the Government and the profits on the coin-stock, $160,000--total, $29,800,000. age of silver during the three fiscal years named. The New York and Manhattan Beach RailThe profits have been $9,752,210.54 which, with road Company have executed a lease of their

The stockholders of the Richmond, York River and Chesapeake Railroad Co., at their annual meeting on the 13th inst., ratified and confirmed the lease made to the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company in July last for the term of 999 years, the latter company to assume the bonded indebtedness and guarantee to the stockholders 6 per cent annually on the the capital stock.

The thirtieth report embracing the sixteenth audit of the accounts of the receivers of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and Coal and Iron companies for the month of September, which was filed by the master on the 13th inst., shows that the balance on hand in the treasury of the railroad company on September 1 was $364,795.05. The receipts during the month were $3,320,251.60 and the payments, including a balance of $557,623.92, were $3,685,046.65. The balance on hand in the treasury of the Coal and Iron Company on September 1 was $10,292.11. The receipts during the month were $1,528,147.54. The payments, including the balance, were $1,538,439.65. This balance was $52,867.40.

road for 99 years to the Long Island Railroad New York.-Atlantic and Pacific 1st, 101; 1st, 109; Texas and Pacific, 53; do. inc. L. Company, receiving therefor 35 per cent of the American Dock and Imp. 7s, 138; Atchison, G., 75; do. Rio Grande 1st, 90; Toledo, Delgross receipts the lessor company retaining Colorado and Pacific 1st, 99; Boston and New phos and Buriington inc., 30; Toledo, Peoria 65 per cent for operating expenses. It also York Air Line, 26; do. pref., 65; Boston, and Western 1st, 116; Utah Southern Gen'l guarantees that the 35 per cent shall be equal | Hartford and Erie 1st, 74; do. 1st guar., 77; mort. 7s, 110; Winona and St. Peter 2d, 120; every year to the fixed charges of the former Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis 1st, 108; Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific, Gen'l mort. 6s, company. The reason given for the union of Chesapeake and Ohio 1st pref., 394; do. 2d 923; do. Chicago div., 911; Arkansas 6s, Fund, the two companies is the fact that they can be pref., 293; do. 1st, Series B, 84; do. cur. int., 38; do. 7s, L. R. P. B. and N. O., 29; do. M., run much cheaper under one management than 55; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, O. & R. R., 28 ; Louisiana consol. 7s, 69; Misunder two, especially as they have, to some ex-383; do. pref., 102; do. consol., 993; Central souri 6s, Asylum, 114); do. 6s, 1888, 112; North tent, the same routes. By this connection the Iowa, 36; do. deben. certif., 73; do. 1st, 114; Carolina 6s, S. T, 3d class, 9; do. 4s, consol., Long Island Railroad Company obtains a ter- Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans, 83; Cleve- 83; South Carolina 6s, non-fundable, 12}; Tenminus at Green Point, an object it has long land and Toledo S. F., 130; Columbus, Chicago nessee 6s, old, 75 ; do. new, 75; American Disbeen endeavoring to accomplish. and Indiana Central Income, 75; do. Trust |trict Telegraph, 41; Sutro Tunnel, 1; Colorado Co. certif. ass., 120; Chicago, Milwaukee and Coal and Iron, 49}; do. 6s, 90; Cam. Coal, St. Paul, Mineral div. 1st, 951; do. Chicago and | 36; Maryland Coal, 213; New Central Coal, 24 ; Pacific div., 987; do. S. M. div., 106; do. La. Central Mining, 1; Caibou, 24; Homestake, C. and Dav. div., 95; Cairo and Fulton 1st, 1103; 15; Robinson, 31; Standard, 21; Silver Cliff, 23. Denver and Rio Grande, 80; do. 1st, 1143; do. Boston.-Atlantic and Pacific Income 6s, 34; 1st consol., 108§; East Tennessee, Virginia and Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Georgia, 15; do. pref., 24; do. inc., 54; pref., 130; Boston Land, 8; Boston Water Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe 1st, 109; Hous- Power, 7; Burlington and Missouri River in ton and Texas Central Gen'l mort., 99; Indiana, Nebraska 6s, non-exempt, 103; Connecticut and Bloomington and Western, 51; do. 1st, 91; Passumpsic Rivers pref., 931; Connotton Valdo. 2d, 804; International and Gt. Northern 1st, ley, 201; do. 7s, 94; do. 7s, Straitsville div., 76; 107; do. 6s, 92; Indianapolis, Decatur and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 4s, new, 87; Springfield 2d inc., 74; Kansas Pacific 6s, do. old, 89}; do. 5s, 1901, 102}; Chicago and Denver div. ass., 109; do. 1st consol., 104; do. West Michigan, 85; Central of Iowa, 36; Cincin6s, J. & D., 1896, 110; Keokuk and Des Moines, nati, Sandusky and Cleveland 7s, 105; Detroit, 193; do. pref., 52; Louisville and Nashville gen'l Lansing and Northern pref., 114; Flint and mort. 6s, 1013; do. St. Louis div. 2d, 57; Le- Pere Marquette, 23; do. pref., 951; Iowa high and Wilkesbarre inc., 921; do. consol. ass., Falls and Sioux City, 82; Kansas City, St. 107; Lake Erie and Western, 433; do. 1st, Joseph and Council Bluffs 7s, 119; Kansas City, 108; do. Inc., 60; do. Sandusky div., 55; Long Fort Scott and Gulf, 86); do. pref., 126; do. 7s, Island, 54; Louisiana and Missouri River 1st, 1103 Little Rock and Fort Smith, 65; do. 7s, 114; Louisville, New Albany and Chicago, 77; 733; Maine Central 6s, 95; Mexican Central 75, do. 1st, 104, Lafayette, Bloomington and Mun- 88; do. Block, new, 94; do. old, 114; Massacie 1st, 103); Metropolitan, 2d, 90; Milwaukee, chusetts Central 6s, 95; Marquette, Houghton Lake Shore and Western, 50; do. inc., 70; Mem- and Ontonagon, 67; New Mexico and Southern The closing quotations on Thursday were: phis and Charleston, 70; Minneapolis and St. Pacific 7s, 118; New York and New Engalnd American District Telegraph, 381@394; Adams Louis, 27; do. pref., 70; do. 1st, 1153; Marietta 6s, 1073; Northern Pacific 6s, 101; Ogdensburg Express, 143@145; American Express, 94@95: and Cincinnati 1st pref., 171; Missouri, Kansas and Lake Champlain 6s, 99; do. Inc., 47); Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, 139@1394; and Texas, 40; do. consol., 107); do. 2d, 77; Pleasant Hill and Desoto 7s, 112; Rutland, 5}; Canada Southern, 60@60}; Chicago and North-do. 6s, 864; Missouri Pacific, 1063; do. 1st do. pref., 26 Summit Branch, 15; Toledo, western, 124@1243; do. pref., 140@140; Chi- consol., 104; do. 3d, 110; Manhattan Beach, 284; Delphos and Burlington, 8; Wisconsin Central, cago and Alton, 133@134 ; Central of New Jer-do. 7s, 91; Mobile and Ohio, 363; do. 1st 23; Atlantic Mining Co., 16; Allouez, 3§; Blue sey, 95@95; Central Pacific, 943@94); Chi- deben., 97; do. 4th deben., 60; Michigan Cen-Hill, 13; Central, 29; Catalpa, 2); Copper HarMilwaukee and St. Paul, 1061@1061; do. tral 5s, 98; New York City and Northern Gen'l bor, 3; Douglas, 1§; Franklin, 14; Harshaw, 3; pref., -@121; Cleveland, Columbus, Cincin- mort., 85; Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, Huron, 4; National, 34; Napa consol Quicksilnati and Indianapolis, 911@92; Columbus, Chi- 88; do. £s, 1173; New York, Ontario and West-ver, 7; Osceola, 32; Phoenix, 2}; Pewabic, cago and Indiana Central, 21@21; Delaware ern, 303; Norfolk and Western pref., 58; do. 16; Ridge, 4; Sullivan, 3§; Silver Islet, 23. and Hudson Canal, 108@108; Delaware, Lack- Gen'l mort., 1037; New Orleans Pacific 1st, 95; Baltimore.-Atlanta and Charlotte, 80; do. awanna and Western, 1273@1273; Hannibal Nevada Central 1st, 100; Nashville and Deca-1st, 108; do. inc., 921; Atlantic Coal, 1.20; Baland St. Joseph, 98@981; do. pref., 1141@1153; tur 1st, 117; Northern Pacific 1st, 103}; Ohio timore and Ohio 2d pref., 120; Baltimore City Illinois Central, 133@133; Lake Erie and Central, 25g; do. 1st, 993; do. inc., 47; Ore- 6s, 1886, 1063; do. 6s, 1890, 115; do. 6s, 1884, Western, 43@44; Lake Shore and Michigan gon Railway and Nav., 1624; do. 1st, 110; Ohio 105; do. 5s, 1916, 121; Columbia and GreenSouthern, 1203@1203; Metropolitan Elevated, Southern, 24; do. inc., 46; do. 1st, 91; Peoria, ville pref., 881; do. 1st 1041@106; Canton 6s, 92@93; Manhattan Elevated, 563@57; Mich- Decatur and Evansville, 385; do. 1st, 107; do. gold, 1071@; George's Creek Coal, 100; Maigan Central, 924@92; New York Elevated, inc., 80; Rochester and Pittsburg inc., 44; rietta and Cincinnati 1st Sterling, 125; Mary1071@1081; New York, Lake Erie and Western, Richmond and Danville, 143; do. 6s, 104; Rich-land Defense 6s, 106; Northern Central 5s, 443@443; do. pref., 921@923; New York Cen-mond and Allegany, 39; do. 1st, 104; Rome, tral and Hudson River, 135@136; Northern Watertown and Ogdensburg, 29; do. 1st conPacific, 393@393; Ohio and Mississippi, 374@sol., 94; Renssalaer and Saratoga, 144; St. 37%; Panama, 196@204; Pacific Mail, 44@44; Louis, Kansas City and Northern, R. E. 7s, Texas and Pacific, 523@523; Union Pacific, 1895, 110; St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute 1191@1194; United States Express, 76@78; div. bonds, 58; St. Paul, Minneapolis and ManWestern Union Telegraph, 864@863; Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific, 40@403; do. pref., 813 @81; Wells-Fargo Express, 134@137.

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The following quotations of sales of Railway and other securities, for the week, are in addition to those given elsewhere in our columns:

itoba, 112}; do. 1st, 112; do. 1st Dakota Ext.,
106; St. Paul and Duluth pref., 74; Southern
Pacific of California 1st, 104; South Pacific 1st,
105]; Syracuse, Binghamton and New York
1st, 122; St. Louis and Iron Mountain 58, 86;
do. 1st pref. inc., 981; St. Paul and Sioux City

991; Norfolk Water 8s, 131; Richmond and Dan-
ville, 140; do. gold bonds 103; South Side (Va.)
2d, 105; Virginia Midland, 65; do. 1st pref.,
100; do. 2d pref., 100; do. 2d mort., 110;
do. 5th mort., 973; Virginia and Tennessee 6s,
1033; Virginia Peelers, 411; do. peeler coupons,
27. The latest quotations are : Atlanta and
Charlotte, 793@81; do. 1st, 1073@108; Balti-
more and Ohio, 195@200; do. 6s, 1885,
1074; Baltimore and Catonsville, 12@15; Bal-
tiruore City 6s, 1884, -@105; do. 6s, 1890, 114§;
@ -; do. 5s, 1900, 117@-; do. 5s, 1916, 121

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