The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-10
FINANCE AND COMMERCE .
OFFICE OF THE EVENING TELEGRAPH,
Wednesday, October 10, 1866,

The. Stock Market, as we have noticed for
several days past continues very dull, but
prices are without any material change. Gov
ernment bonds are firmly held; old 5-20s sold
at 1l3, and 1905 at 1861. 1l25 was bid for 6s of
1881; 99s for l0-40s, and 1l0 tor new 5-20s. City
loans are unchanged. The new issue sold
at 99B.
In Railroad shares there is very little doing
Reading sold at 5St@5S4, no change; Pennsyl-
vania Railroad at 565, no change; and Northern
Central at 46!' no change; 1929 was bid for
Camden and Amboy; 594 for Norristown 56i
Tor Minehill; 30i for North Pennsylvania; GAS
for Lehgh Valley; 80 for Elmira common, AZ
for preferred do; 3la for Catawissa preferred;
and 322 for Philadelphia and Erie.
Sity Passenger Railroad shares are without
change. Germantown sold at 80. ss5 was bid
for second and Third; 81 tor Tenth and
Eleventh; q for Thirteenth and Fifteenth; 90 for
Chestnut and Walnut; 80 for Green and Coates;
28 for Girard Colleges and IL for Hestonville.
Bank shares are firmly held at full prices, but
we hear of no sales. l0l was bid for Seventh
National: 230 for North America; 148 for Phlla-
delpha; 1884 for Farmers and Mechanics; 100
for Northern Liberties; 32} for Mechanics; l03
for Southwark; 100 for Kensington; 6S for City;
As for Consolidation; and 70 for Corn Exchange.
Canal shares are inactive. Susquehanna
Canal sold at Ia; 283 was bid for Schuylkill
Navigation common; and 37t for preferred do.
In the Money Market there is no material
change to notice. Cali loans are offered at 405
per cent. first class mercantile paper is scarce,
and ranges at from 5@6 per cent. per annum.
Quotations of Gold-104 A. M, 149t; IL A. NJ,
-l49; IL NJ, 1909; T. NJ, 1903.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES TO-DAY
Reported by De Haven Bro, No. 40 S. Third street
FIRST BOARD.
$1,000 Phi 6s nun. -. 99E $1,000 Sun & Erie 7s 95t
$500 oo"........ 995l 100 sn Reading X. C $50
$400 do. new. 99b leo sh Susa Gan...... IA
$1,000 Susd Cnl BIDS. 81 127 sh ia X. lots. 569
$4,000 40. lots. b5 81 100 sh do...... b5 56k
$4,000 u 7-30s June1063 III sh do.......b3 56f
$500 US 5-2Os62coup1l3 So sh Centr. Its 461
$4,000 Ia II lst IN 6s 1014 100 sh do ..lots. 464
5000 do. I'd m g. 96t 100 sh Ger Pas r b60 30
$1,000 &. & Am Is. 70 81
-Messrs. De Haven & Brother, No. 40 South
Third street, report the following rates of eX-
change to-day at P. NJ. .:--American gold, 1903
(0l5l; Silver Is and Is. l42; Compound Interest
Notes, June, 1864, 16s; do, July, 1864, l6t; do,
August, 1864, l5S: do, October, 1864, l4s; do,
December, 1864, 1Ss; do, May, 1865, 1ls; do,
August, 1865, lOt; do, September, 1866, %; do,
October, 1865, 81.
--Messrs. William Painter & Co., bankers, No.
SO South Third street. report the following rates
of exchange to-day at - oclock:-U. s. IS, 1881,
coupon 1l24@ll22; US. 52Os, coupon, 1862, ,ll2B@
ll36; 1864, llO@ll04; do, 1865, l10t@ll02; U. s..
lO-4Os, coupon, 994@S94; U. s. 1905, list series,
1O6a@lO62; do, I'd SERIES lO6@lO64; do, Sd
series, 106@l064; Compound Interest Notes,
December, 1864, lI34@ll.