Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-16

1 FRIDAY, June l0th, +. NJ.
Gold was active. and the market for it very much
excited to-day. The attention Of the stock opera
tors seems to be almost exclusively devoted to this
article. stocks generally being quite neglected AT
the morning Board Gold reached 14954. being an ad-
vance of 2I per cent on the closing price Of yestcr
day. but before the close it had fallen to l494@li9
and at the afternoon Board it still further declined
| selling from l4Ss4 down to 1897 and closed at 1885,
| bid 1874 asked The sales at both Boards sum ur
| about $4,000.
Governments were fairly active at the FIRST Board
| hut nothing done in them at the second. The
| whole list was firm. Five-T~enties and Seven
Thirties each brought 1927, Sl00G9 of tho former
end $4,000 the latter selling, all at this figure and
we notice sale Of So 900 skies oe 1881 at no. Ten
Forties closed without sales at 95 bid 9315 asked
| Wo notice sale to-day of s. 900 North Carolina
6's at 843. which is very decided improvement but
this was the only transaction in State bonds. Bal
| timore city SIS and Railroad bonds were neglected
nothing being done in either. They were, however
generally steady at previous quotations.
Railroad shares wore firm, Baltimore and Chic
closing at Sl0S}. bid. $40 asked and Northern Gem
tTai ut S3 bid. $iSz asked Bank stocks were quiet
the only sale heng of50shares Franklin at S12sE
In the miscellaneous list there was nothing whatever
DONE Santa Clara closed at $@4 bid S11 asked,
Maryland Anthracite Coal at IS bid Sc asked. Bare
Hill Mining at 70 cts bid, so cts asked and Baltimore
Oil Company. sales of which were reported few
days since at ST. offered to-day at s., with only
81 bid for it.
The foreign exports from the port Of Baltimore this
week amount in value to S26s,S3 Including in the
exports were 1921 bbls -four 545 bbIs corn meal 23
bblS pork. 6S4 bbs rosin. b65 hhds tobacco 1854
bushels corn, and 68l0 gallons petroleum.
The New York stock market opened weak this
morning, with the exception of the New York Cen
I've md E-,a hot b,F, ~; 4 IL
closing quotations last eyeniuE The former was
steady throughout the day and closed at 9Ss while
Erie after afer advancing TO 61B before tho two
o'clock board, rCceded towards the close to 60l4.
Reading declined to 1885, at P. NJ. and Michigan
Southern was exceedingly dull Mt 1913 throughout
tho day. Pittsburg lucuated between 50 and S2iI
ct the several boards and closes at tho latter figure.
There was a movement in Rock Island during the
morning and it advanced to 81 at The eleven o'clock
CALL having sold previously at 921I but it fell of al
the following board and closes dull at 937s. The
Northwestern stocks were neglected. the common"
ruling at 305 and the preferred" at 592 Ohio and
Mississippi Certificates were steady at 277s@29, with
but few transactions.
Canton took sharp upward turn this afternoon,
and advanced to 60 soon after the o'clock board
at which figure it continued at the close. Cumber-
land declined to 4iA at the o'clock call. but
covered its early quotation later in the day. and
closes steady at IS.
The stock market lacks animation; with the facili-
ties for carrying stocks selling is not necessity
the part of present holders and the public generally
are disinclined to make purchases a stagnant
market preferring to take the chance lower prices
or even slight advance with more activity in stocks
and with better prospect ofspeedy realizations.
State bonds were weak at Z per cent. decline with
the exception of North Cardinals which advanced to
SiK. Governments were fraction lower Five
Twenties declined 1s Ten-Forties were quoted at
96A, and Seven-Thirties at 102lI. There have been
considerable sales to-day on European account
Gold has again been intensely excited. 1t opened
at 1857, advance of per cent. since last evening
and quickly ran up to 14934 a. noon, from which
point it reacted, and closed at 1477s914S. Various
theories put forth to account for the advance,
but the most feasible reason appears to be the an
ticpated demand for shipment to the continent of
Europe to which may also be added the manipula-
ton Of the operators in the goldroom The short"
line in Gold has been for some time past unprece-
dentedy large, and great portion of it still re-
mains unprovided for while the rapiity of its rise
induces many of the bears to average their present
contracts and thus increase their requirements for
delivery 1t has been extremely difficult to borrow
gold to- day. and as much as Il per cent. has been
paid for night.
Owing to the dulness in Exchange it is not easy to
estimate the shipment tomorrow, but ii will proba-
bly, be less than 21a millions.
Money is very plentiful but there is little demand
from brokers' and offers of money on call have been
refused in some cases at Q cent, while at the
time borrowers stock cOdteras have generally to
pay 2 cent.