The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-02

tnlcd STATES siNcs were stcady this morning, with
limited me my The lives o. 1871 improved -
per cent. Among The railway SHARES the most
acsiyc were Illinois Cen II, which advanced per
cent talena, which advanced -; Toledo, which
advanced u, and Rock Island, which advanced
-. New York central was firm nj ycstcr
days price. Reading rose -, guaranteed 70,
and Michigan Central %, with very small bust
pess in all of them. In Central and one or two Of
the Western shares the bulls are evidently plan
ming repetition of the corner which was 20 sue
cesslul few weeks since. 10 succeed again, it
is requisite that they should cntrap the bears into
ovcrseiiing the market--which they have not done
yet-and that they should prevent the public from
parting with their stock. AZ the close of the first
board the market was steady, and remained so,
Nwtbont activity, between the boards. At the
cond board there was q general though slight i'm
proyement, and the market closcdtirm, the follow
ing being the last quotations.: United States 6s,
registered, 1881, s6ss a s61s; United States 6s,
coupon, 1881, S6s4 81; United States SIS, 1874,
1919 a so; Indiana SIS, rs a n; Virginia 6's, 80
501a; Tennessee 6's, 43H a 4311a; North Carolina
6s, 81 6l%; Missouri So, 43H a 43s4; Pacific
Mail, nss a7lH; New York Central, 76}+ a 761H;
Erie, 23zs q "a Hudson River, "a a 3414; Harlem,
1914 IL; Harlem preferred, 1874 &c; Reading,
364 36%a; Michigan Central, 4214 a 43; Michigan
Southern and Northern Indiana, 1891 a IA; Mich
gan Southern and Northern Indiana guaranteed,
2ss4 2914; Panama, los l0s Illinois Central,
6314 q "a; Galena and Chicago, 621s 62sss; Cleve-
land and Toledo, 27% a rs; Chicago and Rock
Island, 40 40Hs; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
So a 70; Delaware, Lackawana and Western, 68 q
20; Milwaukee and Mississippi, IA 10; Illinois Cen
trail bonds, U.s. S994 80; Delaware and Hudson Ca
nal, S5Z a SO; Pennsylvania Coal, n a so.
II appears, from a statement in this mornings
HERALD that during the whole month of July, while
privateers have been preying upon our commerce
in every direction, the Navy Department purchas
the following vessels in this pOrt:-Three steam.
ships, three propeAers, two tugs and three banks
eleven vessels in all. In contrast with this we
may mention that gentleman of this city who was
in the shipyard of the Napiers, the great British
shipbuilders, when the Chinese war broke out,
saw an order arrive from the British Admiralty d.
recting the Napers to build one hundred g,,aboats,
and deliver them on given day. 1t would have
been just as easy for the Navy Department to have
bought five hundred vessels ~ eleven. Shipping
IS low at present: most of our ships are coming
home in ballast, and our whole coasting feet of
schooncrs is laidup. But circumlocution in the De-
partment, and the lobby outside, 30 hamper the
business that we hear daily of successful cruises
by Southern privateers, and trouble is imminent with
foreign Powers in consequence Of the ineficieney
of our blockade. There is some talk of meeting
of shipping merchants TO memoriaGse the Depart
ment on the subject.
The Africa arrived this morning We had her
news by telegraph from st. Johns, Newfoundland.
The last Bank Of England statement shows the
following variations as compared with the previous