The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-08
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
OFFICE OF THE EVENING TELEaRAPH,l

Friday. March 8, 1867. !
The Stock Market was more active this morn
ing, and prices were tirmer. In Government
bonds there was no material change to notice.
July i65 5-20s sold at 1863; 1869 was bid for '62
$685. l09 for 6s of 1887 978 for lO-4Os; and 1858
for August 1905 City loans were in fair de-
mand; the new issue sold at 1919 slight
advance: and old do. at 81, an advance of 4.
Railroad shares continue the most active on
the list. Reading sold at 5lt@5l4, an advance
of !; Catswissa preferred at 30@304, an advance
of /; Pennsylvania Railroad at 564, no change;
Lehigh Valley at 6l4 an advance OF til and
Northern Central at 46, an advance OF 1. l3Ot
was bid for Camden and Amboy; 81 for Nor
ristown; 564 for Minehill; 85 for North Penn
sylvania; 80 for Elmira common; 4O Tor pre-
ferred do; 81 for Philadelphia and Baltimorei
aud 28t for Philadelphia and Erie.
In City Passenger Railway shares there was
more doing. Chestnut and Walnut sold at AZ;
Germantown at 2S; and Thirteenth and Elfteenth
at 2O5. 65 was bid for Tenth and Eleventh;
72 for West Philadelphia; lSS for HestonVille;
and 40 for Union.
Bank shares were firmly held at full prices,
but we hear OF no sales. 100 was bid tor SIX, sixth
National; 23O tor North Amerca; 1853 for Phila-
delphia; 1876 for Farmers and Mechanics; 100
for Southwark: So for Penn Township; 90 Tor
Girard; 95 for Western; S2t for Manufacturers';
100 for Tradesmen's; 68 for Cltyi 44S ior Oon-
solidatOn; and 81 TOR Commonwealtn, ..-
Canal shares were irmer. Lehigh NaVlgaVon
sold at 635, no changes 2lb was bid for Sohuyl-
kill Navigation common; SQ+ ior PIeIenPlSsu nrso; uo.;
lAB for SuSQuenanna OdudiJ OO4 iOA OSAo W"AS
division: and s5b for Wyoming Valley Canal.
Quotations of Gold-l0s A. NJ, lS49; III A. M,
l3I: i2M,, 1884,; p. NJ, 1874, decline OF on
the closing price o last evening"
The New York Herald this morning says:-
,Urba forairn exchange market was firm under de
n,and for bills stimulated by the decline IN gold.
R er nils on England at sixty days were quoted
1os AZ IOss6iOsf at three days, l09S@lO9JS
w ercHai bills ieS0D francs az sixty days, 5l7IS
az three days 5l82a ag5 l5 Dllls on Berlin 75s
%9o,. "a Rrsmen 7s3733ii on Frankfort 4Oi1d14
%msterdam, 4OA@4li on Hamburg St69SS7s; on Ant
werpi S s9emsnd for United States bonds in Europe
l. "A t;i1sted By most of the foreign bankers one
t offhe adjournment of Congress without doing
enyIprss are now being bought for expectation on
thsory which Is favored by the extreme abun-
dce of money and the low rates Of interest current
United States Marshal Cassius Fairchlld,
for tbe District of Wisconsin, sold at public
nnction. in Milwaukee, on Saturday, at IL
a,cIocK NJ, the railroad formerly known as the
eastern Division of the La Crosse and Mil
a,,kie Railroad, for the sum of 800, ,92024. II
W,as hid of by the Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail-
Nav w Company. The sale was made subject
~ the following liens and incumbrances
amounting to $2,893, ,l05'22 and interest
IN VITA mortgage 10 Francis A. Pal
mer for $96O,OOO, with interest thereon
at 8 per cent. per aDnum since May !,
1866; two mortgages to the city of Milwaukee
for ssh, ,OOO with interest thereon from the nrst