The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-01
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
OFFfCE OF THE EVENING TELBeRAPH, !
Thursday, November 1, 1855.

The Stock Market opened rather dull this
MOI ming, but prices were frmer. Government
bonds continue in fair demand. Old 5-2Os sold
1904 for lO-4Os; lO6I@IO6i for June and August
1905; and 107 for new 5-20s City loans were
also IN fair demand; the new issue sold at I0IA
no change, and old do at 98, an advance OF 1.
Railroad shares were the most active OF the
list. About 1000 shares of Reading sold at $50
664, an advance of on the closing price last
evening; and Pennsylvania Railroad at 57l, no
change; 1888 was bid for Camden and Amboy;
So for Little schyulkin; 81 for Norristown; IS
for Minehill; 39a for North Pennsylvania; 26a
for Elmira commons; AZ for preferred do; 26i
lor Catawissa preferred; 32i for Philadelphia and
Erie; and 49} for Northern Central.
In City Passenger Railroad shares there was
nothing doing. 89b was bid for Second and
Third; 60 for Tenth and Eleventh; 20A for Thir-
teenth and Fifteenth; 534 for Chestnut and Wal
and South.
Bank shares continue in good request at full
prices, but we hear of no sales. ITO was bid
Tor Sixth National; 1O4I for Seventh National;
l62 for Philadelphia; 1876 for Farmers and Ne
ehanics; SO for Commercial; 100 for Northern
Liberties; 338 for Mechanics; 100 for South
waik; S3A for lnufacturers and Mechanics;
50 for GrST sE for %estern e @ f loo for Trsdes
mems; SO for City; IS for Commonwealth; and
20 for Corn Exchange
In Canal shares there was very little move
ment. Schuylkill Navigation preferred sold at
36t@364, slight advance; and Delaware Divi-
SION at 574, no change. 274 was bid for Schuyl-
Kill Navigation common; SO for Lehigh Naviga-
ton; 10 for susquehauna Canal; and 65 for
wyoming Valley Canal.
Oil shares were in better demand. 500 shares
Shade at "a.
registered 500 United States bonds are payable
to-day, in gold, at the Office of the Assistant
Treasurer, at the Custom House.
Quotations of Gold-103 A. M, l463; IL A. NJ,
lat; IL NJ, 147l; P. NJ, l474.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES TO-DAY
Reported BY De Haven Bro, No. 40 S. Third street
BEFORE BOARDS
100 sh Reading Railroad .bSO Bsk
FIRST BOARD.
$SSUS $ fs iSS SS 81 - kee% o,s sSss ss
$500 City is new. .10li 80 sh do.......57.s4 81
sSS s SS 90. sSs SS :s :s Rs Maple sS
-Messrs. William Painter Il Co., bankers, No.
36 South Third street, report the following rates
of exchange to-day at IL oclock:-U. s. 6s, 1881,
9NHgGn fSg aS ss u S79 SS SSsuPgSSb gb ss SS
10e4os COUPON 100 @looa; q: s. faOs, lstseries,
aO6a9l9y1t; va DO, 90, "a series, lo6}@106; do, Sd
series, lO54(Ql06; Compound Interest Notes,
December, 1864, 13}@l4
The New York Tribune this morning says:-
Money on call is quoted per cent. among
brokers. Balances are left with leading houses,
and rolnd amounts are borrowed at per cent
and in some cases at per cent. In commercial
paper no change. There is good deal OF
paper offered at bank at per cent, which is a
decline. BiHs at 60 days on London are Quoted
at lOS8@l09 for commercials; l09s0l09s for
bankers do, at short sight, l1041llO5; Paris
at go days, 5.l7305'l33 do. at short sight. 6.l21
OSLO; Antwerp, 5l79@5I9}; Swiss 6.I73@
5'134; Hamburg, 36a@36b; Amsterdam, 4O&@1
48; Frankfort, 4l3@414; Bremen, 79@79S;
Prussian thalers, 72@73.
'Freights are very dull. The engagements to
Liverpool per steamer are 10000 bushels Barley
at 4d., and 500 bales Of Cotton at S.16d. .04d,r
The New York Herald this morning says:-
Although business on the Stock Exchange is
so active, the demand for money is not equal to
the supply, and the chief anxiety of lenders ls
to keep their funds fully employed. Loans to
nrse-class houses are made freely at 4 per cent,
ana Win Government collaterals in some in.
stances at SC033 while the exceptions at are
ieWer tnan last week. There is no perceptible
Drain OF currency from this centre while there
is a moderate influx from the country, and If
there was more employment for capital q large
amount would find its way here from Boston
and elsewhere"
The Cincinnati Commercial OF Monday re-
marks-"The discount market is still in n com
Portable working condition, the banks being
able to accommodate all the acceptable paper
offered. The applications for loans were not 40
liberal as yesterday. Rates of interest are steadE
at 8(Q9 per cent. for tirst-class signatures and
IO@l2 per cent. for good commercial paper
Some call loans were made at 6QD7 per cent.
EXCHANGE was not so heavy, there being bet.
ter demand and less Offering. The receipts.
however, are still in excess of the sales at most
of the banks. The buying rate is par. The
nominal selling figure is 1-l0c. premium but
checks for mixed issues were drawn at 50@75c.
per $1,000"