New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-19
SATURDAY, Sept. l7-P. ~

Gold continues to drop in the face of quite a
large shipment to Europe the steamer Of to-day taking
half million chiefly sent in the absence Of merchants
sterling biI. and even Bankers bills There is still a
large bull interest In gold. and the price is sustained
by all tho regular and irregular devices Of which the
street is cipable Merchants struggling 10 sell
goods bought with high cost gold and see it decline
with an alarm which shared by parties under advances
npon produce on It's way TO foreign markets upon the
basis OF high rates of exchange. SO many supposed
fortunes depended upon selling existing stocks of goods
AZ high rates and upon the completion Of existing COM
mercial obligations upon the basis OF high premium
upon gold that the daily decline seryieeabe to the
Government al claims living upon fixed incomes. and
20 laboiels is looked upon with terror by the trading
class in debt FOR these goods who in cheap gold
their certain ruin. The opening price If gold
YVES 80 the lowest rate 22O.. closing az 2alt.
United States Gs Of ssl Registered los l0s do Cor-
pons lOs; e. s. Treasury Moses. 3-l0 10, Qll0.;
Tennessee State g. 90; Missouri State Is. Gi; Cumber
land Coal Gj 500 Coupons, 1909 ll0l do. Reg. 1929
1904. 1910 Coupons .. 697l; Year Certificates, 9i
aeis; California U.s. 10; Delaware end Hudson 1909
1873; Canton Co.. 32i 30 Quicksilver Mining Co.. 81 a
ga; Pacific Mail Steamship Co., 25l 926i; New York
Central Railroad. 1864 1867; Eric Railway ilaloE
do Preferred lO7GlOS. Hudson River Railroad. llJ
nc. Pennsylvania Coal lsgal9i; Central Coal COZ
Am. Coal, $780, MaFposa s2l Atlantic Mall. lsG. n
s7; Chicago and Rock Island Railroad 1865 dlO6i Chit
cago. Burlington and Quincy, l2eal23 Milwaukee and
Prairie du Chen. 590C0; Pittsburg and Fort WAYNE,
i0.29lO7l; Tcrre Hnuie and Alton 5i.05G; do, Pre-
errcd 7O 70; Toledo and Wabash. 67 Ohio and Miss
issipp Certificates 4esQ43 The feature Of the day has
been the activity In Cumberland Coal. which under
large sales rose 10 Gs and was freely bought at 61ia
GA al the close OF business Mariposa in de-
mand M 49, under report that the clique in Cumbsr
land was buying Tie rest Of the market without
special change.
Freghts are still very dull, and rates are
heavy. The engagements TO Liverpool are 5000 bbk.
Petroleum vt 80. and 100 bbs Heavy Goods at H. and
per 81 amer 900 bushels Wheat at 4d and 800 boxes
Cheese NJ i0i To London 100 bbls. Heavy Goods a,
% and % hhds. Tobacco at 3O. An Italian Bark to
Cork for orders. with =. 600 bushels Wheat nj s..
There is an improved demand fox 100 Cur
rency Notes, the subscriptions on Friday reaching
s2o. 100. Tho total sales ga. 49, SO. against
So So $50 the 3Oth of August. Thus lar the pay
mens OF interest upon the $50 bonds about soar
millions at NcwYork alone. As $1,000 OF interest
ID paid at tia port. the disbursements do not indicate
any great rash for gold. Tho premium the Goth OF
August when the payments commenced was go against
a2 TO day. some foreign bankers Offering 5os at
sellers option upon the idea that large amount viii
be sent home for resale make the profit on exchange
balance gold at go and go This may be done but
ncwed orders would be natural result of the p,
ducon in sold and tho improved political and military
situation. With gold par. United states Is are tie
most profitable and safe national security in the world
and where one foreign holder sells out upon decline In
the balance of the income OF the bonds in proportion 20
their cost three will buy upon the increased security OF
the principal The offers to sell were promptly accepted
and more could have been placed at the rates offered
The dry goods trade is not in satisfactory
condition under the decline in gold and there is dis