The New York herald., 1862-01-24
FINANCIAL AND CONNER cIAL.

THURSDAY, Jan. 23-S P. M.
The principal feature of the day in Wall street
has been the excitement IN geld and foreign ex
change. The former rose to 1887 at the first
board, with sales of nearly $3.50 0O0 and was sold
At as high as 1887, buyer sixty days, shortly after
the adjournment. It fell of fraction at the
afternoon session, however, and closed weak at
about l03%. The demand is purely speculative.
The foreign exchanges sympathze with the up
ward movement in gold, and ali the leading draw
ers were asking ia ll4I for sterling to-day. We
hear of few transactions at the former rate. As it
was not known until late in the day that there
would be steamer direct from here on Saturday,
very little was done. The 73O Treasury notes are
heavy, under large supplies from Washington, and
sales were made with difficulty to-day at 2I 8
per cent discount for the endorsed notes.
The provisions of the Treasury Note bill, as pub.
hshed at length in the HERALD this morning, were
favoraby received by the stock operators and the
stock market was buoyant in consequence. Co.
vernments did not participate in the advance, be-
ing affected by the prospect of further large issues.
The coupon 6's of 1881 fell to s9H, but they
soon recovered and closed firm at S9A. New York
Central rose to s3Z, Erie to 35, do. preferred to
SO, Panama to 11311, Illinois Central to 62H, Ga
lena to 6ss, Toledo to 3SH, and Rock Island to
54T Pacific Mail, with small sales, rose to 99%,
and closed in demand at 99H. State stocks were
generally about one-quarter per cent higher. In
railroad bonds we notice an advance in Erie
fourths to 70, in Tere Haute and Alton seconds to
45, in Milwaukee and Prairie du Chen irsts to
s71a and in Wabash firsts to 1914.
The European advices by the City of New York
created good feeling at the afternoon session, and
the market closed firm at the following quotations.:
United States 6's, registered, 1881, SO s914 do.
e's, coupon, 1881, s9A S9; do. SIS, coupon, 1874,
1914 so; Indiana 5's, rs q 76; Virginia 6's, so a
601a Tennessee 6's, A q 45; North Carolina 6's,
s2A So; Missouri 6's, 42sS 4211Is; Pacific Mail,
s9Z 99sS; New York Central, S3A a s3ZS; Erie,
35Xa 3511aa; do. preferred, SO 5s15; Hudson Ri
YER, 80 391l; Harlem, l2zs q l3; do. preferred,
81 sl1a Reading, 80 3911Is; Michigan Central,
"a 541I; Michigan Southern and Northern Indi-
ana, 20sS 202I; do. guaranteed, Al Al; Panama,
lis ia; Illinois Central, 62A a 6211; Galena
and Chicago, $50 6s24; Cleveland and Toledo,
3sH 3sH; Chicago and Rock Island, 551S a
65Z; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, 62 a 63;
Milwaukee and Prairie du Chen, 81 a 2l%.
BY the arrival of the steamer City of New York
of Cape Race, we have Liverpool advices via
Queenstown to the 9th inst.--four days later The
steamer Jura, which took out the announce emeut of
the surrender of Mason and Slidell arrived out on
the 9Th inst The news was received with the
greatest satisfaction and consols Immediately rose
to 93H for money-a further improvement of l a
~ per cent. The Liverpool cotton market was
excited at considerable advance.
The following was the business of the day at the
Office of the Assistant Treasurer at this port
Total receipts. 1888 80