The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-31
FINANCE AND COMMERCE..
oFPlOE OF rHE EVENING TRJEsRArH
Monday, December 81, 1866.


The stock Market was very dull this morning
put prices were without any material change.
In Government bonds there was very little
uo'ng, l04Os sold at 999, slight decline. 1861
was eld for old 5-20s; ll0 for 6s of 1881; and
iO45 ior June and August 7'30s. State and City
loans were unchanged; Pennsylvania IS sold at
95i new Gity 6s at 99s, and old do. at 05l.
Railroad shares were inactive. Camden and
Amboy sold l30, no change; and PhlladelDhia
and Erie at 3Ol@3l, an advance of 4; $50 was
bid for Pennsylvania Railroad; 81 for Norris.
town; 523 for Readingj 295 for Catawissa pre-
ferled; 5s for Philadelphia and Baltimore; and
AZ tor Northern Central.
In City Passenger Railway shares there was
nothing doing. 80 was bid for Second and
Chesnut and Walnut; 73 for West Philadelphia;
144 Tor Hestonville; 80 for Green and Coates:
ZS8 TOR Girard College; 10 for Ridge Avenue
and 399 for Union.
but we hear OF no sales. l39 was bid for First
National; l5l for Philadelphia; 1861 for Farmers
and Mechanics; 81 tor Commercial; and l5O for
kensington.
Canal shares were unchanged. Schuylkill
Navigation sold at 259, and preferred do. at 95B.
% was bid for Lehigh Navigation; l3 for Sus
quehanna Canal; and So for Delaware Division.
Quotations of Gold-l05 A. NJ, 1874: IL A. M
1889; II NJ, 1873; ] P. NJ, 1881.
The money MAJ ket continues active. Capital
Is in good demand from speculative borro Wers
and also for purposes of legitimate business.
Call loans are readily placed on stock eollste-
rails at per cent and upon Government secu-
rites in large sums at per cent First-class
commercial paper at short date is taken at 7CSlS
per cent. per annum discount.
The New York Tribune this morning says:-
The supply of money to brokers at per
cent on call has been ample, and the offerings
about the street are quite numerous Nothing
less than is talked Of and borrowers are ready
to pay it, In commercial paper the rates are
unchanged. Best names pass at per cent ard
names usually called fair can be had at paving
rates."
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES TO-DAY
Reported by DE Haven Bro, No. 40 S. Third street
FIRST BOARD.
$4,000 l0.40s. .op.c 995. 800 sh SchN stkc&pc ahl
Sl3OO City 6s lots. 99B 500 sh dc. .pf cS nc All
500 40 mn c&p 99J 29 sh Cam & A.. l30
500 do nc&D 99j 200 sh Big Mt 80 1
$500 $500 Len Len g. G s4' T.. lots Of 81 II 'h 81 N0h o0al u
-Messrs. William Painter & Co., bankers, No.
SO South Third street, report the following rates
OF exchange to-day at II O'Clock 10. s. 6s, 1881,
coupon, ll02@1l0&; U. 8. 5-20s, coupon, 1862 IO6
@l064; do, 1864, 105t@l05s; do. 1866, lObt@
1865; do, new, 1865, l07S @1O7S; U. S. lO-4Os,
coupon, 994@99s; U. s. 7'30s, 1st series, IO5
@1059; do, I'd series, l049@1O45; I'D series, lO43
@104a; Compounds, December, 1864, 13A0Dl3a.
-Messrs. De Haven & Brother, No. 40 South
Third street, report the following rates of ex.
change to-day at p. M.:-American go,d, I33I
@133S; Silver ss and Is, 127; Compound Interest
Notes, June, 1864, 165; do. July, 1864, l5s; do,
August, 1864, l5b; DO. October, 1864 14b; do,
December, 1864, 49,; do, May, 1865, Iii; do,
August, ls85, lOb; do, September, 1856, 81; do,
October, 1865, 81. ' ~ WV