New-York tribune., 1866-12-31
opEs BOARD OF BRoxEEs-lr.x.
SA1nRnAY. Dec. 2a-P. ".


Gold has been firm all day and closes at 1884 after
selling at 1S2salSis. The market Is now large'y
oyersoM and is strong from this cause for tho
moment The export of specie to-day was *o1oyV"
and for the week. $l,075,0OO.
Collaborating Government stocks are all up from
s.as per cent, and upon qaite small purchases. The
1905 also higher and in good demand for temper
ary investments. North Carolina Gs rose per cent
In railway mortgages small business at former
rates The miscellaneous list is more active Cumber-
land Coal has got up 90 advance Of "a per cent
since yesterday. 1t is dangerous to buy or TO sell
unless the stock is in hand Canton Company rose .
per cent Western Union, X, and Adams Express, 2
per cent Pacific Mail especially active and sold
at l67, an advance of per cent The general share
market was feverish and showed no remarkable
fluctuations in any direction Erie was held firmly.
but there was an abundance of stock 10 be had.
North Western Preferred duh, but some firmness
was shown in the common shares. Fort Wayne was
steady. and lO7 bid freely. The market is almost
entirely "a brokers market" outsiders having litts
interest except as holders at higher prices and wait
ing 10 get out without loss At the close the follow
ing prices were paid New York Central, 10. 9ll9l;
Erie. 65,aGs; Hudson River -; Reading, 1850
1861; Michigan Southern, s25a S2s Illinois Central.
llS!; Cleveland and Pittsburgh, s9sds9!; Cleveland
and Toledo l2iI Rhode Island, l03i North Western,
4EQ45; do. Preferred. 70a79t Fort Wayne, 1oi9S
1OiI ex div: Ohio and Mississippi Company, &,6ys;
Pacific Mail 1861; Atlantic Mail III; Canton, 40
49,; Cumberland Coal. 90d95; Quicksilver, Has:
Mariposa Mining Company, l2@l3,
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 ready to pay it, In COM
mercial paper the rates are unchanged. Best names
pass ut per cent and usually called fair can
be had Mt paying rates.
Collections from the interior are sluggish, and
merchants in numerous instances are Obliged 10 laKs
care of both sides of their bill-book From the "ess
and South commercial adyices alike unsatisfac-
troy aud il is apparent that the year 1868 viii yield
larger harvest of bad debts than has been made in
long time Great hopes are entertained of relief
from Congress but it is hard to see how that body
ran help people whose difficulties proceed from over
trading upon paper money, which. having performed
It's task must now be retired Help will be given TO
the public at large by reducing taxation to the point
where nothing but interest on the national debt and
the ordinary expenses of Government would be r,%l--
ized This would cheaper the prices of commodities,
stimulate production, and give fresh employment to
labor: but il would not relieve people from the ne
cessity of paying existing debts with commodities
selling ut half their cost. Relief cannot come by III
creasing the amount of irredeemable paper ana IL -
safe to assume hat Congress will commit no Sueh
foly but allow the policy of contraction adopted az
the last session TO continue in full force All that Is
wanted in the way of new legislation Is authority ."
the Treasury TO pay such commission as VII change
speedily the 1905 into 520s or an absolute long Doho
M less rate than per cent if il he done. What
il needed is a conversion of 7.30s and Of compeunds
40 rapid as to make il absolutely certain that no cur
rency will be called for by the holders at mataIitv-
The country has been damaged enough already oy
using the National debt as circulating money IN"
apv price will be cheap which viii convert debt cali
ing for currency at maturity INTO iuhded dee'' 20
paid when the country recovers soineNha' uo"' '"o
losses suffered in suppressing rebeihoI-
telegram from Washington says
Mr Hooper viii bring up his hn PROVIDING teat Ess zoe
National Bank currency shall not oe increases Mi
$4,000 600 Immediately after tho hohda!s anu wa"
probably De pssseo- -
II MFR. Hooper will press this bill successfully
throu gh. he win render the country lasting oehel,
In Ftcights the engagements TO Liverpool are Doe
bales OF Cotton at ID; 1900 boxes Cheese az as
and pcr steamer 1900 bales of Cotton at fay-""@
To London lso tuns Of OIL Cake at S2s. Cd. To GeHoA
coo bbls of Petroleum at is. To Marseilles 20 pkss
of Lard OF 3D., and % hhds of Tobacco at 81. o.
Bills at so DAYS on London are quoted at lS@ioet
for commercial lO9G l099 for bankers do at s'ioi'
sight. 1l0a1iOi Paris at co days 517iao.iS' uo'
,hort sight, al3.d51l3 Antwerp, 5l73d5.iosi swiss
5.l7ia5.l6s; Hamburg, 36sQ36i; Amsterdam 4ii"
az: Frankfort 41lG4ll; Bremen. 's3He.; fruSNa"
thalers, 71.9799. IN
Messrs. Fisk a. Hatch give notice that they VIII
psy the coupons due Jan. l. on the inst mortgage
bonds of ths Central Pacific Railroad Company, !"
their office, No Nassau-st tree Of Governments aA-