New-York daily tribune., 1866-02-14
OPEN BOARD OF BRoxERs-3i Pm.
TUESDAY. Feb. 1872. n.
Gold closes at 1887, after selling at l39.
'hic.&N. W. LIST. Reading

Gold closes at 13S.., after selling at l39.
Government stocks are steady, but the business
vas small not only at the Stock Exchange but
among the leading dealers. The New-York State
Bounty Loan has advanced to par and is strong at
the quotations. In Railway mortgages, State bonds
and the miscellaneous shares there As moderate
trade at about yesterdays prices. The railway
share market is without change in its general char
scter Special stocks, under the msnipulations OF
eliaues, are strong for moment, and seem
upon the point of advancing, but break down
as soon as the supporting orders are filled. No
shap decline in prices is shown, and the market in
she absence Of outside support slowly but steadily
wastes away. After the Board prices were lower.
At the last public call prices were stead on the
general list, and higher Oh North Preferred,
which sold at 55i $50, and Ohio Certificates, which
sold at 26} The last prices weTe New York Central,
e90S9l; Enc, 7s.; Hudson River, lOl @lOl!; Read
ang, IOOS0l0Oi; Michigan Southern, 69b aG9i
Cleveland and Pittsburgh, SCI 9sl; Rock Island,
\ l03I alO3i Northwestern, 2Sd2sl; DO. Preferred,
Si a55i Fort Wayne, 923 3o92I; Ohio and Missis-
s.Spi Certificates, 26l a262 Quicksilver, 4l4S42.
Money On call is 6a7 per cent, with occasional
loan,, at per cent on Government securities. IL
comm ercial bills the rates arc unchanged. Prime
names p ass at 7a7i good at Sag, and ordinary at
I0Sl5 PEI cent.
There is no disposition to make long engage
nents until Congress acts upon the loan bill. Re.
port. are indu.,riously circulated that nothing will
be done for long time, and that when funding
bill is adopted it will be made harmless and stimu-
A 4 1.l... +. g.
This theory finds few adherents in Wsl-st., and
still less among traders generally. The solvent part
of the business community is of opinion that the
duty of the Government aud the best interests Of
the community alike demand a steady reduction Of
the currency and persistent effort to place the cur
rencv debt into long bonds. The alarm shown by
speculators OF any movement oS the Government
toward resumption should not b. lost upon Con-
eress, which should promptly give the Secretary
the power necessary TO consolidate the national
debt, and to withdraw from circulation the paper
money issued under the necessities OF the Rebellion.
The Bankers Express will soon be in sctive
operation, and has secured as its general New Xork
depot, the old Offices Of the Hudson River RartSd
at Chambersst The stock is held very closely By ia
!. original takers, who expect IL to sell ct high
premium at no distant day. The American Express
stock sells four times as high as the shares of roads
On which its business is DONE and that of the
pscsrn will no doubt be moro valuable than any
hDwsy stock making 9 contract with 1t. The
vsffous expressed and forwarding agencies are
psrssites, which sap the business of railway cor
porstions, and devour the substance of people who
fancy the roads are run primarily for tho stock.
holdsu. The profits of express companies arc made
70 great degree from the movement Of productive
tnas Of freight at extra rstes in cars hired Of the
bssds ppoa the basis Of ordinary trafhc. p - -
! Exchange continues 6rm 81 the following quota.
,tionss ,Banhsn' Sterling, 60 dsys, lo7l, Banksfs
'saai'aA . asy', nsp caahGaiL 1sa aio7,