The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-22

SATURDAY, Sept. 2l-6PM
The money market continues very dull: the
amount Of paper in the market is small, and rates
are barely maintained ~r- 1890
Foreign exchange closes steady, with general
unwilingness on the part of bankers to SELL in con
sequence ofthe difficulty Of obtaining suitable mer-
camille bills. q az
Stocks are firm, with small business doing. An
descriptions are very scarce, and very moderate
Increase in the inquiry would lead to general adj
vance. The new government skies were firm at
the frst board, and the fve's of 1874 were Il bet
Ter. state stocks were steady without change Of
price. The railway shares were gene
rally steady Erie and Central were both
q better; Burlington advanced II and Rock
Island H.. The other descriptions were
without change. After the board the market We
firm, and at the second board without change: 4
closed steady, the following being the last quota
Constituted States 6's, registered, 1881, 90k
a 90L; United States 6s, coupon, 1881, 81:
United States SIS, 1874, 500 sO1I; Virginia &c.
5lI q 50; Tennessee 6's, As q 4314; North Carolina
6's, 81; Missouri 6s, 43H 4S14; Pacific Mail, So
S3H New York Central 1877. 1917; Erie, 26k
2GH do. preferred, 46 AS; Hudson River, 33Z
3sa4; Harlem, lO4 a1O11 do. preferred, rs 253S;
Reading, IS 1914; Michigan Central, Az 42<;a
Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, 1877
IA; do. guaranteed, 3OH q sl11ls; Panama, 1897
10; Illinois Central, 65Z 66; Galena and Chicago,
69H 691s; Cleveland and Toledo, 2SA 29y<;
Chicago and Rock Island, 434 A. Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy, 62H GO; Delaware Lacka-
wana and Western, 81 a 6S; Milwaukee and Prairie
du Chen, l71l 49, Illinois Central bonds, rs, 81
a 90; Delaware and Hudson Canal, SO SAX; Penn
sylvania Coal rs a II.
The business Of the sub-Treasury to-day was =
folows:-
Total receipts. $1s5,ss1 -
-ror customs. ....."...........:....... 900 0o
Payments Dos, 476 IL
Balance. .15 ,54l ;S07 %
Mr.. Solomon Sturges, of Chicago, has taken
$4,000 Of the national loan. Mr.. Walter L. New
berry, President of the Galena and Chicago Rail
road, $4,000. Mr.. VIM. 3. Astor, of this city, Il
reported to have taken $4,000. "a es4
The Boston Post of yesterday reports
The banks gained $26 COO yesterday. AS then
marked the tide is the The Treasury payments
in the next week will be extraordinarily heavy and most
Of them will go into the banks Of the three cities. The
Boston banks have paid about fifty cent of the
whole ten millions subscribed and have only diminished
their specie about two millions. The government has
already returned to them fifteen per Of their entire
subscriptions say 81 500 0CO and another million VIII
probably come back within week. 3f Mt}
| The Chicago Tribune of Thursday reports:-
Tho money market to-day has been steady the only
ticeablo feature beng active demand for exchange
Rates were therefore rmer; and while several of the
banks supplied customers at u premium outsiders wer1
| generally charged u. The street par d, about y
| being the ruling price The amount now making
enormous and the favorable from Europe day
will stimulate shipments of produce eastward. Every
means Of transport to the seaboard taxed to its utmost
| capacity.
The following shows the business Of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroad Company for the
month of August, 1861, compared with same
month last year,