Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-11
WEDNESDAY. Jan. 10. P. N

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AT the Stock Board to-day business was dull, and
the market generally was tame and spiritless. Gold
sold at about the same greS at the close yester
daythe transactions being at 23l3S@: The trans
actions were small, the sales az both EAards summln%
M only about So COO At New York geld ranged
during the day from l3s to 1884, closing at the latte.
figure which is an advance of the closing r'ee
of yesterday.
Governments of all issues were frmer than on yes
terday and e-Twcnties were = better, first ISSUE
closing at lOi bid and third issue selling at 1O2
Seven-Thirtics pretty active some SIS, 900 nC
second and third series being sold at 9S @9Sa4 III"
market for them closing strong at the latter figure
Certificates closed at 9Sl bid an advance Of 4 on the
closing bid for them yesterday.
There was nothing done i'll State or City 6s Mary
land 1905 closed at 100 bid; Mssouri's at rs bid
Tennessees at So bid ard Baltimore City 6s left off
At 96 bid for 1905; 90 bid for 1855, and 1902 bid for
1905 Railroad shares and bonds were also very
quiet, nothing being done in.cither. Shares closed
AT $40 bid $llOl4 asked for Baltimore and Ohio ~.
bid for Northern Central: Si5'2 bid for Central Chs"
and 81 bid. s22 asked for City Passenger.
In the miscellaneous list there some ii'i!r
movement, GALES being made of POO shares Baltimore
Marine insurance Company at f5& seller 20, ana -
shares Bal, more Cuba Smelling Company al 81.
Ofthe Mining stocks sales Of 500 shares Santa
Clara at SlOa1Cls 800 shares Bare Hill at 81 n. 2'
shares Baltimore Chrol at 20 ct, and 900 shares
Pennsylvania Oil at 80 cts, Duyer 3D.
The demand for money confines limited and the
loan market may be quoted easy. I4ere IS nut niue
paper Offering and frst-class can be readily placed
4 cent. For second class the ralo is, h"herer.
lO@12 2 cent. Money is Offering very freely On GAS
Mt 6@T cent the offerings being in fact largely ii
excess of the demand.
At New York. to-day the changes in the prices for
Stocks much less extreme than on yesterday and
the day previous and prices generally better.
Canton advanced ~ Cumberland p Hudson :;
Reading 81 Quicksilver =: Northwestern -; North
western preferred 4 hui Erie declined x Mich
gan Souther x; Illinois Central l ; Rock Island ,
and Fort Wayne y. New York Central pittsburg
and Ohio certificates closed ut yesterdays figures
The New York Tribune says:
Government stocks are generally lower under the
proposition to issue 10 years six per cents for the
purpose of funding the currency obligations of the
Government as step toward specie payments II j.
given out from Washington that this eminentiy wise
and judicOus movement is to be opposed on the
ground that it gives the Secretary too much power.
1t gives no power any honest and solvent man will
hesitate to exercised vigorously. 1t does not give
power to borrow in the usual Sc, but does give
him facilities for changing The due bills the Govern
ment forced the people to take in its necessity, fer it
gold-bearng obligations. secured by the property o.
the whole nation and the faith of G0vernm, N.
sress would do the labor of the country and the sol
vent trading interest signal service, twill pass thu
grown rich upon the necessities of the Government to
reap the reward of their schemes
TAs BSi2n ga Gr 9S Es 9anS b @qqpry
ponding week in 1865. The exports including specie,
were 1868 26 against S4i5l for the corresponding
rhe cash balance in the hands of the Assistant
Treasurer in Boston at the close Of business January
g. was So 0O9iS-a decrease of 81 S5as compare
with the close of the preceding week.
The receipts from internal revenue since June 30,
1865. amount to over SlS5,OO0,OOO.
Tha tnf thn I'm q oh
operations successful and encouraging. The gold
deposits amounted to $54l $50 siiyer $50; total de
posts S5iS609 The number Of gold bars stamped
was 469 value S5i53 1868 This branch is engaged in
melting refining aSSaying and stamping god bullion,
returning the same to the depositors in the form OF
impaired bars, bearing the government stamp -,
weight and fneneSS.
The supply of cotton remaining in the State Of
Georgia at the close of the war has been variGusly
hundred thousand bales. There was no data upon
which to form such estimates, and the figures which
were given had no other foundation than mere
guess. The receipts at Savannah, however. from tho
interior of the States reality. and give them
for the last half of the year 1866:
July S,667 November ......... 2S6a5
August :............ 1870 December 1910
October iS,98s O3g7
The following will show the comparative receipts
of -four and grain into Buffalo by Lake and Grand
Trunk railway. for four yeart:
Flour bbis ~ 2s Sc or ., 2SS S9 2S5$ sS9S
Corn n. BUSH i i2ss6s7 2o6SS52 lol7s6S i98io9S
Oats bush. 2.9249S2 7,S22,lS7 1i6S2137 S.+94,79I
Peas Pea; H bush s5 i5ssS ? ,sE S 5s&
Toll grin, bu S6423al 49s45.O65 40ti lai ~ AS 223
Flour to wh't.N23Ollo 1l.S9O,A5 10,142650 S9ll965
Grand total - s7245f 6l7355l0 5li77 47 54l5, lSS
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