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ceipts. In February last The Insurance Times of this city exposed the condition of the Company, which induced Mr. Barnes, the Superintendent of the Insurance Department, to make a personal examination of its affairs. This resulted in disclosing a deficiency of over $80,000, or an impairment of over 40 per cent of its capital. The stock having been unproductive for the last five years, and the Company having been almost entirely dependent on the brokers for patronage, the stockholders refused to invest any more money, and concluded to retire from the field. The Commercial Bank of Bristol, R.I., is temporarily closed to-day for an investigation of its affairs. The cashier confesses that he has allowed certain parties to overdraw to a considerable extent, but they deny the charges of making overdrafts, and say that if any defal'cation exists it is attributable to other causes. The bank 8 a State institution, with a capital of only $50,000. The regular weekly statement of the Bank of England is made public to-day. The amount of bullion in the vault has increased £92,000 sterling. There has been a heavy flow of specie to the Bank of France this week. The amount on hand is 4,600,000 francs greater than last week. The report that the Tenth National Bank had passed into the control of members of the Erie direction caused a sensation in financial circles. The capital of the Bank is $1,000,000. and the amount purchased by the new direction is about $700,000 on which a payment of $100,000 has been made. The Bank was started as a satellite of the Shoe and Leather Bank which at the outset owned one-half the capital stock, but afterward sold out to cap. italists having intimate connection with the direction. It is stated that the city deposits will be removed from the Broadway Bank to the Tenth National. The bank is a member of the Clearing House, but its stock has never been distributed and the transfer of the sole control was made by two or three holders. The attention of savings depositors is directed to the card of the new West Side Savings Bank, on Eighth-ave. near Thirty-fourth-st. The President is Mr. George Moore, and the Cashier Mr. J. W. B. Dobler, late of the Sixth National Bank. The earnings of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Road compare as follows with last year 1869. 1868. $92.301 $140,254 Third week in July 406,212 300,646 July rto July 24 2,784,906 3,382,209 Jan. 1 to July 24 $597,302 Increase since Jan. 1 The earnings of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad Company for the third week in July were: 1869 $24,179 $24,451 1868. The Pittsburgh Commercial of Wednesday says: A meeting of railroad officials was held in this city today. to discuss the prospects of the Fort Wayne, Muncie and Cineinnati, and Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroads. The connection, right of way, location, and other importhant points were the objects of the nieeting, but the result of their deliberations cannot now be made public, but it is known to be favorable to the two roads, and will tend to their speedy reconstruction. The Pottsville Journal says: The deficiency in coal shipments as compared with last year is only 266,927 tuns. The suspension last year lasted until the 22d of August, before the trade was fully under way again. In the ensuing four weeks, if nothing occurs in the trade, we will increase the supply of anthracite at least 700,000 tuns over the supply of last year for the same period, which would give a surplus of about 450,000 tuns of anthracite to August 24. After August 24 to the 30th of November, when all the regions were in full blast, the quantity sent for the fourteen weeks was an average of 380,000 tuns a week, giving a supply of 5,300,000 tuns in round numbers. We shipped this week 359,000 tuns, which is only 21,000 tuns per week behind last year's shipments. This 21,000 tuns. and more too, we believe, we can make up even if the two companies in the Scranton region should remain idle. All the transporting companies are increasing their rolling stock as rapidly as possible, and the bituminous regious are also largely increasing their supply. Under these circumstances we believe the market can be fully supplied with coal this year without any further advance in prices except what is put on in freights. The Kansas City Journal of the 23d says: The Louisiana and Missouri Railroad, now being built. starts from the town of Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri, on the Mississippi River, asits Eastern terminus, intersects the North Missouri Road at Mexico, Audrian County; passing through Boone County, crosses the Missouri River at Glasgow, Howard County, and thence continues westwardly through Saline, Lafayette, and Jackson Counties to Kansas City, its Western terminus. The main line to Mexico, and the branch to Jefferson City, 100 miles in all, are under contract. and the work is in progress, to be completed in May, 1870; while surveys are making of the balance of the line to Kansas City, with a view to putting the whole under contract by the 1st of August. The distance to be traversed by the line of rail between this place and Louisiana will be about 200 miles. The authorized capital of the Company is $10,000,000. The stock of the Company has been subscribed for by the counties along the line (including individual and municipal subscriptions) to the amount of about $2,750,000 ($11,000 a mile), as follows: Pike, $300,000; Audrian, $275,000 ($75,000 to the Jefferson City Branch); Boone, $50,000; Howard, $400,000; Saline, $500,000; Lafayette, $500,000; Jackson, $250,000; Calloway, $500,000; Jefferson City, $250,000 A meeting of the stockholders of the Pittsburgh, Mount Vernon, Columbus, and London Railroad was held at Orrville, Ohio, on Tuesday. The Company was organized, and R. C. Hurd of Mount Vernon was elected President. The stock required along the line of the road 18 nearly all subscribed, and the Company feels confident of success. The completion of this link from Millersburg to London will open up a new route from Pittsburgh and Cleveland to Columbus and Cincinnati, through the great coaband mineral fields of Wayne, Holmes, and Knox counties.
