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sylvania is one of the best managed reads in the West, and has a future before it of great pro nise. From the statement of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, for the year 1854, we learn that the premiums received during the year, including those -'996'98 eq: 19 # po 10% 046 01. The premiums marked off for the year were 10 junome 194 eas 10. 209 800'*$ ances, expenses, &c., were $3,594,636 27, The profits of the company, for which certificates were our Super there J189 . pus exter the Supp granted 0% vhhich Jo area 1854 'I Cred were deemed in cash, leaving $1,002,116 80 regisinequal us But of ;unome Company eq: so Basete "4" '18 invoited are 966'268' 10 in bonds and mortgages and real estate, and $44,491 23 in cash The remainder consists of premium notes, bills receivable, &c. The Board of Trustees -190 eq: uo And 01 DATE 'mmous & 0000 4 9 jo THE eq: 18 190.1₫ jo service 1801 419 eq: A train left Chicago on the 31stult., and penetrated the SUM " raof 88 ques Jaj # obliged to return. Telegraphic dispatches inform Colonel Mason that, south of Bloomington, the track is all clear, and the trains are running regularly to Cairo. From Freeport to alena the road is open. The road between Lasalle and Bloomington is blockdn pe The Chicago and Rock Island Road, it was supposed, would be cleared of snow and in operation on the 1st or 2d inst. The Michigan Southern and Michigan Central were operating without detention. The Toledo and Illinois, and Lake Erie, Wabash and St. Louis Railroad Companies, have just concluded a negotiation for ene million of their Second Mortgage Bonds. The list of takers is very strong. The Road from Toledo to Huntington (120 miles) is to be pushed ferward at once, and opened for travel $ in June next. The Companies, not liking to depend for the completing the Road to La Fayette (Indiana) upon the sale of Second Mortgage Bonds, have reserved $922,000 of the First Mortgage to negotiate under a more favorable state of the market. The expenditure thus far has been $4,700,000; and for the total completion of the line (242 miles) the Companies jo 000'000'1$ pus jo 000 $922 the UMO Second Mortgage Bonds, which will, it is believed, furnish ample means. During all the severity of the times the Treasurer has negotiated $2,400,000 of Bones-none under 90 P cent. and accrued interest. We believe a bonus of 10 P cent. in stock was allowed on half a million of Bonds sold during the extreme pressure of August last. This line completed, extending from Teledo (Ohio) through the most fertile of all vallies-the Wabash connecting with the Great Western and Hannibal, and St. Joseph's, and other 86 prominent lines running west-must be considered 94 one of the most important lines of the country, and 691 has among its share and bondholders some of our 611 strongest men. We congratulate our western friends 89 on the prospect of an early completion of this highly 904 important route. 214 The Geneva (N. Y.) Gazette of Friday announces the failure of N. B. Kidder, private banker, with lia611 669 bilities to the amount of $200,000. He was sole or 815 part owner of the Bainbridge Bank and Bank of Hor$68 nellsville. This is one of the interior failures to which 202 782 we alluded a few days since. The drafts of the Bain120 bridge Bank upon its correspondent in this City are 197 discredited, but the circulating notes are amply se028 cured, and will, we understand, still be redeemed by 691 919 the State Bank at Albany. The Hornellaville Bank 142 $61 will not, we hear, suspend. The notes of this institution are also amply secured, and are redeemed at the 880 Metropolitan Bank in this City. The Bainbridge 385 Bank had on the 30th of September a circulation of 702 900 $89, secured by $92,118 New-York State stocks at 00 par value. The Hornellaville Bank had $50,064 cirLZ culation, secured by $31,033 State and $20,000 United '12 States stocks at par value. The Bank of Monroe at S Cuba is also connected with the failures alluded to. Its circulating notes are partly secured by bonds and mortgages, which renders them less safe than those of 979 sur the banks above named, but they are yet taken at the Metropolitan Bank. **** Mr. Draper holds his usual semi-weekly sale of 118 Stocks and Bonds to morrow, (Tuesday) at 121 894 o'clock. H6 429 During the first twenty weeks of the late Canal 880 season the shipments of Flour from Buffalo were 291 199 185,266 bbls. by Canal, 157,336 by Central Railroad, 801 08 AND 'A 'N pus sq 46,08 pus $33 898 that not one-half the aggregate was shipped by the 921 Canal. 018 614 The ease in the money market noticed last week 021 continues, and considerable sums have been loaned to199 161 day to leading houses on call at 5@6 + cent. Out82 siders, however, still pay 7 P cent. freely, and time loans are still negotiated with considerable difficulty. 921 The discount brokers have a good inquiry for paper at 988 8@9 P cent., and for strictly prime the supply does 925 825 not meet the wants of capitalists. The effect of low water in the Southern rivers is 899 512 shown by the exports of produce at New-Orleans, 215 818 which, for the three months ending 31st December, 030 1854, are $19,547,755, against $27,622,269 during the as 801 same period of 1853, showing a decrease of 88,074,514. 191 Produce is now arriving much more freely, and busi226 ness is active, although restricted by the difficulty of 996 negotiating Exchange. The N. O. Current of the 260 SAFE 9714 945 MONEY AND EXCHANGE.-We have still to con668 199 tinue to report the market amply supplied with all de$69 scriptions of exchanges, and the rates have again 01 paq mopies easy 0M though 'Sum diven SMS notice 80 irregular a market in regard to rates, more 119 particularly in relation to domestic bills at short 347 and sight, as will be perceived on referring to our 299 quotations. The banks are asking par for sight, 209 while bankers drafts and choice names have been 299 sold, out doors, as low as 1 P cent. discount. Sterling is offered in abundance, at all rates, while Francs 666 are almost neglected, except at concessions in price SLL that the better order of drawers are unwilling to sub967 T01 mit to. We quote for Sterling 51 @6 P cent. for certify & 12 pus 19@9 pus [Suipe] jo smg THE drafts '00 premium for names from good to choice, with an OC[up casional fraction more for a special remittance. 031 France, 5.25@5 321 P dollar. ork and Boston and '142'S "Junoostp central & to pas 'slep 09 at and I P cent. discount. Five and ten dayson
