Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-01-07


FINAScIAL--The N. Y. Evening Post saws
Gold opened dull at 2a7, and rose to rs \,
closing at 227x.
The loan market is less active than yester.
day, and the tendency is towards greater ease
There Is, however, a good demand, and ner
re- is the lowest rate. Commercial papar ia
duII ~ 7a92 per cent.
The stc, market is extremely dull and the
business is sr all Governments are active Mt
the lowest prices t.. Yesterday.
The New York Conn ercial says:
The money market cont,. es stringent, with
q depressing effect upon transa~ ors STOCKS.
anu me market Is in that vacillatipg co"oitlon
;na. lenders II an easy prey to any down yvard
impulse. There is very little coniiden ca amona
Tha if,n IN any early Improvement in prices
strongly to favor a comparatively early n,,s o
OF the war, that there is disposition to t.Es -,
can and prepare Ter any news tending - LII
from the interior. and there me IN freely
Sond 10 place surplus funds into s sod
twenties mis- morning the price OF Five.
i; Ce-' as 4 lower; en-forties advanced
-sifcates sold at Sc a97.
-.ecent large remittances of money to the
west have helped the temporary stringency,
accustomed by the holding back of funds for
the payment OF dividends, only a portion of
which has, as yet, returned into circulation.
~Chas. A. Gessner, charged with forging
the names OF Messrs. Lawrason &c Smith, bro.
kers OF baltimore, for S2,515 was released on
bail on Thursday.
ga mound has been opened In the sanitary
garden, Chattanooga, containing the skeletons
OF half dozen bodies, supposed to be those of
an Indian chief and family.
SGoY. Hicks OF Md, has ssld his farm,
called "Appleby," to Mr.. Benjamin f. New
conner, OF Baltimore for S16 900 cash.
Jack Mcdonald and William Bond were
arrested In Boston on Tuesday last for high
way robbery.
- Henry Simon. whose father and grand
father died Of self-Murder, hung himself In
Philadelphia.
UA very trying business-the Opdyke-
Weed case in New York, and gre at trial 1t Is
10 read 1t.
~New York city offers $1,000 bounty to SOL
diers.
Nsan Francisco is enjoyiuga temperance
revival.
~Children's squalls have wrecked many
O mans pleasure boat.
~The will Of Col. Colt, OF Hartford, has
been contested BY his brother.
"The earnings Of the Cleveland and Pitts
burg railroad for the past year was S2,5l2000.
u6Ths powder on the Louisiana cost a
quarter of million OF dollars.
~The number Of unknown persons who
were found dead in New YORK last year Is 23'
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kYENING, at o,slccI. 70 A''-
= sAix n NORRIS SMITH, Secretary.
,sI. Q. Q. F.-aRANo LoDaI The S 9sa !;
uS terly Communication will be- held on MON
DAY khISG. 9th instant q W. o,si9 %
rRIRsf PRIsBYT1RIAN -oHgRoH-Re
uS DR.. T. II; Cox. OK New York, Will preach q
the ~ ct. Presbyterisn Church 70 MORROW IN
the following three sabbaths, at II Q. m. and ~
c~sUNDAY SERVICES AT THE CAPITOL
UR The Hal Of the House of Repressntstive
viii be open for worship TO MORRO ", {Sanday
January 9Th, ct ii o clock 9. a. The services wi
be ccnou eted By the Chaplain, Rev. William 3
Claiming. II.
n~THE MKT RHaULAR MONTHLY MEEi
se6sols VIII be held on TUESDAY next, the lot
1 ,s; s at O'Clock B r MoRsELL Secretary
~Mls0NIO.-A SPECIAL eoavoeatiop Of q
tie D. O :, viii Be held in the city Of baltimore o
MONDAY, the 9Th of January at 1ez O'Clock O. n
~ oder OF the n d H.
an VI. NORRIS sAITH. Grand Sec.