The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-21
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
OTTioE OF TIM EvENEa TuLReRaPH,
Monday, November 81.

Monday, November 81. =
The Stock Market continues rather dull bat
teady, this morning.
Government bonds are firmly held, with sales
of new 52Os at lO3l@lOi; lO.4Os at 96I; and new
1905 at 993 6s of 1881 are quo.ed at ilO@l11;
and old 5-20s at lO3l@l0i, coupons off; new City
6s are selling at l02.
In Railroad shares there Is more doing, and
prices are rather better with sales of Reading at
6SA buyer 80 days, and 6S3 regular way. The
demand has been very active, both in New York
and this market, the stock In the former city
being in demand at 6s4 cash. Peuusylvania
Railroad at So; Northern Central at 5jOa57:
Camden and Amboy at 1852, an advance of A;
Norristown at 60; and Minehill at so 45 WAS bid
for Little schuylkili 80 for North Pennsylvania
81 for Elmira preferred; l6i for c itavissa COM
mon, 3Sd for preferred; 65 for PHILADELPHIA and
Baltimore; and SO5 for Philadelphia and Erie.
City Passenger Railway shares are without anv
material change, with sales Of Second and Third
at 20; 3il was bid for Spruce and Pine. 25 for
Thirteenth and Fifteenth; 65 for West Philalel-
phia Is for Arch Street; and 25 for Green ana
Coates So was asked for Fifth and Sixth 4s for
Chesnut and Walnut; and % for Grard College.
Coal Oil shares are rather dull, but prices are
steady. OIL Creek sold at Sl9S5, an advance Of
Mineral oil at2 41OO; Dalzell at %, an adj
vance Of /; McClintock at 5s@6; McElheny at
g. Hyde Farm at 6 and Noble and Delamatee
at SE
Bank shares continue very firm, with sales OF
Girard at 49I@5O, which is a slight advance; l73
was bid for North America; 1894 for Philadel-
phia; 70 for Commercial; 800 for Mechanics;
sc for Kensington; lO2 for Western; 304 for
Manufacturers' and Mechanics; So for City; 40
for Consolidation; AZ for Common wealth; aud
60 for Germantown.
There is very little doing in Canal shares.
Susquehanna sold at Ia, an advance Of l; SO was
bid for schuylkin Navigation common, 391 for
preferred; 75a for Lehigh Navigation; lao for
Morris Canal preferred; and 36l for Delaware
Division.
The Gold Market is active this morning, but
prices have declined per cent since Saturday
evenings opening at 2l9i; advanced and sold at
22la at IL o'clock; 2224 at Id; fell of and SOLD
at 2l99 at II; 2ls at l2A, P. NJ. Market steady.
There is no change to notice in the Money
Market, and the demand is limited. Loans on
call are freely offered at per cent per annums
prime paper is scarce aud quoted at 7Gp9 per ceat.
"A despatch from Washington says:-Tha
story has been repeated over and over again that
Mr.. Fessenden has been selling gold TO bring
down the premium. There Is not one word Of
trIth in the story, though ii has acquired a cer-
tain respectability by its age. When Mr.. Fessen-
den attempts to keep down the premium on coin,
It will be by the adoption of pubic measures.
They will not be hidden from the financial world.
He is deliberating upon measures calculated to
strengthen the Government securities, aud to
increase the value of the legal-tender currency,
but thus far, since the war began, the Govern
ment has not put one dollar OF coin upon the
market The recent panic among the gold specu-
lators produces very good feeling in the rrea-
sury Department, but it is accouu uted for princi-
pally by the military situation. To those persons
who are aware OF what Is going on at this moment
in the prosecution OF the war, 1t is not surprising
that gold trembes. Instead of the campaign
being ended, there has not been time for six
months when the Rebel Confederacy was In so
much danger of defeat at different points In its
extended line as at this moment.
PHILADELPHIA sTocKExcAANGE SALES, NOV. 81.
Reported By ClarksOn CO.. Brokers, No. LII s. Thrdst