Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-12

SATURDAY, March 10th. P. VI.
There was but session of the Stock Board day
and business was dull. Gold was q to q cent lower
than on yesterday, small amount selling at l30
regular way while some $4,000 brought from 1000
1907 seller TO- Later in the day some few lots
changed hands the street at 13075p131 seller TO-
Governments we're steady and firm, but the bust
ness in them was limited. The transactions were
confined to Five Twcntics. few lots of which were
sold at 1881 for both first and second issue Seven
yhrtic> closed at the figures as on yesterday,
and for Skies of 1881 1914 bid and 1879 asked
North Carolina 6S showed a further Improvement
lot of S. 900 selling at IS. advance since yester-
day Of q Per cent. Tennessee's were offered ut 90
without bids, and Missouris closed at 49, bid r.
asked For Baltimore City stock there was a fair
inquiry, but the only sale of small lot Of
1S70s at 1909 1865 closed at 81 bid and 1905 at
9912 bid 10J asked.
Nothing dono in Railroad shares, and for
bonds the demand was small. The sales embraces
$1,000 Northwestern Virginia first mortgage at 96I
$500 Marietta and Cincinnati q cents at 81, and
$500 Baltimore and Ohio 6's of 1885 at 9715 For
Northern Central bonds of 1870 90 was bid and COZ
asked.
For Bank Stocks there was some inquiry. Union
brought S73, an advance of y q cent, $44 was bid
for Farmers and Merchants, 927 for Bank of Com
merce, and S3l for Marine with none offering il each
case.
In the Mining Stocks, nothing was done except in
Bare Hill and Baltimore Chrome 5000 shares of the
former being sold at sos cts. advance of cts and
500 shares of the latter at SO cts.
The New York stock market opened with some de.
gree of irregularty this morning. the operations on
the street before boards being chiefly confined to
Erie Michigan Southern, Pittsburg and Reading all
of which were Is lower than at the close last evening.
the other stocks remained weak and inactive. Attic
eleven o'clock Stock Exchange call the market was
still irregular; New York Central sold at 9034-a de-
oil pir tbap
steady at So Reading declined, with large sales to
971I; Rock Island advanced to 1874 and the COM
mon and preferred stocks of the Chicago and North
western Railroad remained at opening quotations
with little doing. Later in the day the market was
dull but prices were generally well sustained, and
towards the close the whole list lirmer New ork
Central being quoted at 9l5s, Reading g7s Michigan
Southern 73zs, Rock Island l0714 Fort Wayne Sg34.
Pittsburg, however, remained at 7515 to IT, The
transactions in this stock during the day amount il
the aggregate to 10000 shares, without advanc
ing its price, The report of this company for 1865 has
been published, which shows an expenditure of S.
6l449O, with receipts amounting to 81 400 leaving
deficiency for the year of $SQ0000 which has been
made good by sale of 81 100000 OF new stock of the
company at so. With this increase in their liabilities
the present prospects of the road do not appear very
encouraging and SIG would naturally seem an un-
warrantahle price for its stock under these circum
stances.
When New York Central reached 9GAf this morning,
4 decided movement noticed in the stock and it
was in demand until the close much so that at the
end of the day the sales footed up about 400 shares
some changing hands after five O'Clock at g. So far
as Erie is concern ed the clique interest appears for
inc moment TO nave subsidized and the stock is easily
borrowed without charge, still this may only be d
fnan@uVfe to get another short line therefore quick
turns are the only safe operations for outsiders.
state Bonds were dull and heavy. Small transac-
rtpIY IN :roi, 90
Cardinals at 1874, both of which exhibit a marked
decline Tennessees varied in price from 9014 to 81 Il
and sales noticed seller 80 at 90 Mssouri's were
extremely weak; opening II they steadily declined
at the lst board to 1874. with sales to the amount Of
S12o,OOO At a past two they still further declined
rs.
Governments we're dull with sales of 5-2O's of cash
issue at about l03; 73Us. first series. arc quoted ut
YES, and the second and third series at so to y.
Gold s0li .2Tn to 1874 in the morning. but recoy-
cred afterwards getting quite strong late in the day.
There appeared to be many orders received to
shorts, which caused the rapid rally to 1879 to Is at
the close still several large houses think the advance
is not likely to continue
Money still easy, and among brokers there is an
ample supply to borrow.at per cent. on call. The
banks mostly get per cent. making per cent the
exception on Government securities
The total imports at New York for the week COM
pare as follows
Week end. Mars. March !. Feb %. Feb Is
Dry goods..S3 $685. 61 S2547 $3.50 S46l92i4 IA
GenI mdse... 45356H 3.559,766 1851, 500 3340'Sg
Total...SS. 4S3905 S6.O7756 S7,2lO943 IS 133. 2a5
The New York imports of foreign dry goods com
pare as follows with former returns:
For the Week, 1864. 1865. 1856
Entered at the 1850 1309777 $3s9S 26l
Thrown on market.."..3.3 1924 lis 1565.461 3l4l 74l
Since an. LIST. 1864. 1865. 1866.
Entered at the port.S2 ,3lS S4 l03 S36 1868 go
At New York foreign Exchange is dull and inao-
fy Ssv fteEng d is quoted At llO tor bankers 5
107@l0SA for 60 day commercial bills. The Hermann
took out 1856 III specie on Saturday.
We are informed that the United States Treasurer
now holds thirty-fve millions of dollars RGovern-
ment securities for the seventy three millions of dol
lars held by the different banks throughout the
United States. designated as repositories of public
moneys. Of the entire number of public repositories
but four have more money deposit than the amount
of their securities.