The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-03
FINANCE AND COMMERCE..
OFYICK OF THE EVENING TELEaRAPU,o
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Thursday. Dtc. 8 1858.
There is a moderate demand for money, but
,he rates are without any material change. Call
loans are quoted at 6@7 per cent. Flrst-class
mercantile paper ranges from 7@9 per cent. per
anLum. The amount offering is small, as the
banks are discounting freely for all parties
having claims on them.
The stock market, as we have noticed for
several days psss, continues very dull, but
prices were steady.
Government securities were 6rmly held. 114a
was bid for IS of 1881; 1864 for 10-40s; llO2
for '62 520s: tl07s Tor '64 52Us 1876 for 65 $685.
1lO4 Tor 67 5.2Os; and 1lUa Tor '6s 5.205. City
loans were unchanged; the new issue sold at
100, interest oh.
Railroad shares were inactive. Pennsylvania
Railroad sold at 543 544, no change; Reading at
494, no change; Little Schuylklll; 46, no change;
Camden and AWbov at l28, no change: 67 was
bid for Norristown; 81 Tor Minehlll: "a for North
PenDsy lyanIa; 653 for Lehlgh Valley; 81 for
ElmiLa comnlon; 40 Tor Elmira pre'errei; 3O5
for Catawissa preferred: 25t Tor Philadelphia
and Erie; and 48 for Northern Central.
City Passenger Railroad SHARES we're dull. 1Ga
was d for Thirteenth and Fifteenth; l04 tor
Hestonville; SO for Green and Coates, and 2Sa for
GlraTd College.
Bank shares were in demand for investment
at full prices. Girard sold at SO, no change.
In Canal shares there was nothing dong. 10
was bid Tor Schuylkill Navigation common; 20
tor preferred do; 2Sa Tor LehlRh Nayisatiou;
80 for Morris Canal; 72 for Morris Canal pre-
terred; and IL for susquehanpa Canal.
by reference to our advertising columns it
will be seen that the second il etalment on the
new stock of the Pennsy lvana Railroad Com
pany, subscribed for under resolution OF the
Board OF Directors, passed in May, 1868, is
now due.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE sALEs TO-DAY
Reported by De Haven Bro, No. 40 8. Third street
FIRST BOARD.
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This mornings gold quotations, reported
by Harr 4 Ladner, No. 80 South Third Street.
1000 A. NJ. 1856 HOO a. M. 1876
1910 I" l345 5ll'07 1851
1915 " 1856 ll'32 1854
1850 l35tll'50 1861
-MessIs. William Painter q Co., bankers,
No. SO South Third Street, report the folio wing
rates of exchange to-day at IL o'clock
United States IS, 1881. ll4s@ll45; .. 8. 62os,
lO7sGlO73i do. July, 1866, l1Oi@ll0t; do: July,
1857, llO4@ll04; 1868, l0t0ll0I; le-40s, l05l9
1855. Compound Interest Notes, past due, uS'26.
Gold, lS6QlS54
--hessrs. De Haven &Brother, No. 40 South
Third street, report the following rates of ex.
change to-day at P. M.;-U. 8. 6s OF 1881, ll4s
@ll4s; do. 1862, ll0s1ll0s; do. 1854, 10746e
1074; do, 1865, l0f4Gl07a; do, 1865, new, llOi@
ll0$i do. 1867, new, ll0s @ll0s; do, 1868, llOa
pound Interest Notes, l94; Gold, 1a5@lS5l.
-Messrs. Jay Cooke & Co. quote Govern
ment securines, ETC., as follOWs:-U. s. Is OF
1881, ll4S@lI5; old 5-20s, do, llOl@lI1; new
b2Os 1864, 107i 1l07s; do, 1865 l07s eDlO7t; 520s
July, 1865, ll0sDll0s; do, 1897, ll0S@l10I; do.,
1868, llOs0 llOs; lO-4Os, lO5s@lO6b. Gold. la5.