The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-25
FINANCE AND COMMERCE..
OFFICE OF THE LvENINe TELEeRAPH,O
Tues, ay, August rs, 1868, J

Tues, ay, August rs, 1868
The Money Market continues quiet. Call
loans rule at 4a6 per cent. Frs.-class >mmer g
clal paper ranges from Gas per cent. per aunum.
The stock market was very dull this morning,
but prices were without anv material change.
Government securities were 4GDa per cent. lower.
1913 was bid for l040s; ll3b tor IS of 1881; ll2s
for 1862 5-20s; 1854 for 1864 20s; ITO for 1866
20s; 107t for July 1865 52Os; 1863 Tor 1867 5-2Os
and 1864 for 1868 520s. City loans were un-
changed, the new issue sold at l03.
Rauroad shares were inactive. Reading sold
at 45 3-l6, no change; Lehlgh Valley at 54t@0
546 Pennsy lvana Railroad at SO aud Mluehill at
556, no change: l29 was bid TOR Camden and AM
boy, 448 for Little Schuykil 6S Tor Norristown,
SO for North Pennsylvania. Al for Elmira pre-
felred, 8 for CataWissa common, 80 for Cata wissa
preferred, and rs for PhiIadephia aud Erie.
City Passenger Railroad shares were dull. 50
was bid for Second and Third; Il Tor Tenth and
Eleventh; 149 for Thirteenth ami Fifteenth; and
81 for Green and Coates.
Bank shares were firmly held at full prices
Philadelphia sold at 162, aud North America at
24l}. 12S was bid for Farmers and Mechanics;
60 for Commercials; 81 for Mechanics; 100 for
Southwark; 595 for Penn Township; 81 for
Grard; 445 for Consolidation; 62k for Common
wealth: 67 for Corn Exchange; and III for
Central National
In Canal shares there was nothing doing. 10
was bid for SchuYlkill Navigation preferred: 2I
for Lehieh Navigation; 20 for Morris Canal
preferred; and 13 for Susquehanua Canal.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EIOHANGE sALEs TO-DAY
Reported by De Haven & Bro, No. 40 g. Third street
FIRST BOARD
$500 52Os '67-cp...-..lO7 li9 sh Penna R-..ls- SO
s$$ s$$$ "a s!Y s
100 sh Read Rsle45 S-i6 200 sh Big Mt;;...bio- 6X
100 do -.....s5.45 3l6 200 sh Ocean Oil......... I
800 do..ls b30,45 l6 4 sh Bk N A..........24tL
lC0 do....".sl0- 4516l 6sh Phila Bk.."....-l62
-Messrs. De Haven & Brother, NO. 40 south
Third street, report the following rates of ex-
change to-day at P. M.:-U. S. IS of 1881, ll2a
@Slla; do; 1852, l129%,l2i; do 1864, loS@
1881; do, 1866 1893 @110j; do. 1865, new 1864 "a
1O63; do, 1867, new. 1861 @lO6s; do, 1868, 1861
@107; do, 5s, l0.4Os, 1O75@l08s; Due Com
pound Interest Notes 1l94; do. September,
1865, 1ls9; do. October. 1865, lis. Gold, l45i
0l45S. Silver. 1364@l3sg.
-Messrs. William Painter d Co., bankers,
No. sc S. Third street, report the following
rates of exchange TO-DAY at IL o'clock:G
United States 6s., 1881, 1lSs0n3l; .. s. 6.2Os.
1852, 25@ll25; do. 1864, 1854 9l0ss; do, 1865,
109k@1l0b; do. july, 1866, l06S@l06b; do. July,
1867, 106s@106i 1865, lO6404IU7; 5s, 1O-4Os, 1O7k
@10sb. Compound Interest Notes, past due,
11940; September, 1866, 1ls4@ l1s2; October,
1866, 1l6@l184. Gold, 1454 0l454.
-Messrs. Jay Cooke d Co. quote Govern
ment securities, etc, as folio ows:-U. 8. 6s. OF
1881, l13@ll3l; old 5-20s, 112B@l13; new 5.2Os
1864, lG84@olO8l; do, 1865 1lO01llOl 5-2Os July,
1865, lO701lO7S; do, 1867 lO6l@1O7; do, 1868
lO62@lO7; lO-4os, lO74a 1881. Gold, l452. ''