New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-01
opJN BOARD OF BRoKERs-3j P. NJ.
THURSDAY. Aug. 3l-P. ~

THURSDAY Aug. 3l-P.M
There is littlo change in the price Of gold. The
closing rate is liil.
Government stocks are steady with moderate
sales. State securities firm. For Tennessee Is,
there is G demand at 7lG75, and sO9S for Georgia
Is. In Bank shares little doing Coal stocks are
firm. Cumberland is still active and quoted 49,
49, Railway shares arc higher except Ere.
There is a special demand for Michigan Southern,
Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and Prairie du Chen.
The latter has sold at 80. Toledo, Wabash and
Westcrn since the consolidation is lower, and is
quoted at SAL and 30 for tho Preferred. Quick
silver Mining Co., fell per cent, but closed
fnner. AT the Second Board and in the street the
market was very strong and in demand Mt an
advance in prices. Ohio and Mississippi Ccrtif-
Gates advanced TO 2jl under large purchases said to
be made by parties interested in the Atlantic and
Great Western Railway. The closing quotations
were: New-York Central, 93i Erie, SCI; Hudson
River, lO92; Reading, lOG Michigan southern,
6Jl; Illinois Central, l2ji Cleveland and Pitts
burgh 725; Rock Island lO9; North Western,
2sl; The Preferred, G3l; Fort Wayne, 9'li Fort
Wayne, 49I; Ohio and Mississippi Certificates, 2j.
Atlantic Mail, liS; Cumberland, 49,; Canton, 80
Quicksilver, 5ll.
| The book trade is reported as unusually active,
and the stock in as short supply as that Of dry
goods. house which prints Websier's Spelling
Book was "short" 900, 900 copies two months ago.
Besides its own establishment it has run six other
presses, and now stands 10000 copies "short' of
It's orders The Southern trade is stated TO be active
beyond precedent.
The Commercial ddUertiscr says:
at s rumo.ed on the'street that the hypothecated
checks issued by young kcohnm Ire not 10 be found
IL is not attempted 10 account for their Disappearance
otherwise than by the supposon that they have been
bought up by some unknown parties
cit is supposed tina certain friends have rallied for
the puTpOsc Of removing the evidences of forgery Ru
also has it that parties associated with the issuing
OF tue checks are out Of the city We give thus simply
as rumOr."
Money is plenty on call Mt per cent to stock
houses In commercial bills there is moro doing
at f. al per cent best, and sac for second grade
We hear Of loans on Sterling Exchange at - per
cent.
Wall.st. continues very dull and in marked con-
rast with the activity which attends business in all
other departments. The city is full Of out-oi-town
buyers with abundance of money, and credits re-
gaTled as good almost as cash in hand. Southern
traders come provided with receipts for cotton,
rice, tobacco, etc, at various ports, which in
surance companies are ready TO guarantee to de-
liver to an extent which makes them readily avail
able There is good deal doing in the wayo set
Ting old Southern claims, and merchants report
unexpected promptness by Southern houses in this
respect. Tho demand for goods from Chicago,
Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Louisville il larger than
usual, and every mode Of transportation from this
city is oycrtaxed. The wharyes remain crowded with
goods, and strings of teams waiting to leave their
loads cmb6rrass locomoton about the city. From
the leading Western cities there is tho same story
Of active demand for commodities and largo sales.
Cases aro cited Of Cincinnati jobbcrs selling $780, 600
per day.
The Reading Railroad Company's coal tunnage
this week viii reach $4,000 tnns, and on the LIST
the toll will be advanced 20 cents per
tun. Coal has been put up in this city to - jO0
sio per tun, and at that price the leading compa-
mes are not IN hatte TO SELL and make 10 contracts
for iarTe dewey.