The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-24

10000 .......... 1868 $4,000 ........... l2G.56
2OUO0 .......... l2656 $4,000 ........... 1850
$4,000 .......... 1864 $4,000 ........... 1868
2l5000 .......... 12652M $4,000 ........... l2d56
2bOU0 ........ l2656 1900 .....-.. l26.oo
2oUoo ...,...... l2o.53 o,ooo ...,......-. i2o.o3
$4,000 .......... 1864
Tue money market was shade more active and
new engagements were generally at seven per cent
where stocks were the coaLerals offered by borrow
ers The banks report cOntinu ance OF the Western
demand for the pork packing business, and ship
ping quite freely, which their abundant resources
enable them to do with perfect facility. great
many loans suffered lie at six per cent,
while the government dealers were fully supplied at
this figure, and In many Instances at five per cent.
The note brokers reported more active demand
considerable currency for all the grades prime
paper az rates ranging from nine TO fifteen per cent.
In foreign exchange there was less demand for bills,
while the bankers showed more disposition to draw
the result OF which was yielding OF an eighth per
cent in the rates for sterling The range OF quota
tons az Misunderstanding sixty days, CONNER.
cia, 1854 q 1OSa<; good TO prime bankers 1881
100; short sight, 1925 1926; Paris, sixty days,
6.2l4 5.le1; short sight, 6.ldl4 a 6.l45s; Aat-
werp 522h q 5.17]s; switzerland, 5.22b 5.17h
Hamburg, $50 80: Amsterdam, 40h 40a Frank
FORT 4oA 40s4; Bremen, 7s}a 10; Prussian thaers
S0n a714.
The government market was dun and inclined to
bearness despite the rise in gold. Transactions
were on a limited scale and otherwise without fea
ture. The following were the closing street prices
this evening:-united States currency skies, 1913.
los; do. skies 1881, registered lis 11sA; do cou
pom, lbs o 11s4; 40. Gve-twentles, registered
May and November, 1l3 49,; do. 1867, coupon,
do, 1855 1151; do. 1854, coupon, do, 1131s
113A; do 1865, coupon, do, llS5s ia; do, reg
stored, January and July, 1855 1154: do. 1865,
coupon do, 1863 l15sl do 1867. coupon. dO 1l5A
l155s; do. 1868 coupon, do, 1853 lI5s4; do. ten
forties registered, 1919 l0S; do. coupon, 1919
. Jos.
III Southern securities the North Carollnas Of all
kinds were weak ana declined. The special tax
bonds seemed the strongest probably owing to pur
chases TO cover short sales made when the bonds
ranged above 40. The Missouri skies were also
lower The following were the closing street prices
for the Southern pst:-Tennessee, ex coupon, 80 a
69is; d. new, 52a So do. i've per cent. so a 81;
Virginia, ex coupon, SO a h0ls; d0 new, SO q 53Is;
do. registered Stock Al As; do. registered, 1885, 90
So; do registered, 1867, 40 5O Georgia skies, 81
81; do. sevens, % 921s; do. sevens. inter-
est payable IN Georgia, So 81: North
Carolina ex coupon IS a 40; do, new
25 q 35A; do., special tax, 39ss 3oh; Missouri
Exes 9osl OIL; do, Hannibal and st. Joseph, 80 O
o.; Louisiana sixes Go q 81; do. levee sxes 591
90; do. do Fights, rs a rs; Alabama eights 93H
D4h; do. lives, COZ 62; do. skies, sterling, SIS 81;
South Carolina skies, 6S 20; do. new $50 GO; do
REGISTERED stock, "a a sc; Memphis SKIES, Al q As;
Atlanta Fights, IS 81; Savannah sevens, SO a 81;
New Orleans consos, "a IS; do issued to railroads.
6S 10; Mobile ana Ohio sterling, 60 81; do. eghts
60 81; Mississippi Central Railroad first mortgage
II ~; do. second do 90 G2; Memphis aud Charles
ton first mortgage, 81 50; do. second do, 73a 49,
do stock, 40 a AZ; Greenville and Columbia guaran
teed, 81 "a.
no rock w no i'm hn m INT f,,I
In It's movements. The feature was Northwest,
which is at present the football OF couple OF power
fu operators who are reported 70 be ut oggerheads
about It, These reports OF quarrels between cllques
are 30 often set aoat 10 tempt the championship of
the street that the present operation might be re-
carried with suspicion were /. not for the feeling
which Is displayed on either side. Thus the uiia-
vorabe report OF the weekly earnings OF the road
produced only temporary relapse in the course OF
the stock despite falling or Of over thirty
thousand dollars. The other side went In
and carried the price up one and hall
per cent higher, Wiz, to 74sl There was little
animation in the other railways, general attention
being directed to the contest In Northwest. The
Erie directors have declared dv,aend Of per
cent on the preferred stock, such dividend to be
represented by interest bearing scrip certifces nav
ing I've years to run. whoa Will be ready for de-
Lively at the treasurers Office, No. 800 Eighth
averue on and after December 10 next. to the regis
tered holders OF stock at the closing OF the books
The transfer books OF the preferred stock will close
on Wednesday, December ], aud reopen Deem
Der 10 next. Pacific Mail was feverish aud
In the forenoon underwent o further decline
TO 81 bnt recovered at the close to 52h. The
following were the closing prices OF stocks at the
last session OF the Stock Exchange:--Canton 52ls
b3h; Cumberland, 2sh 27h; Western Union, 357s
q 80; Quicksilver 1917 H. Marposa, a So; do.
preferred, 10 q 16h; Pacific Mail, 5l4 a 51t6 Boston
Water Power, lax bid; Adams Express, 57k q SIX;
WelsFargo Express, 10 1919; American Express
94K; United States Express 524 52ss; New YORK
Genital, 1921; New YORK Central, consolidated
stock ok 92 do, scrip s2n a SO; Hudson
River 1872; Harlem, 1873 bid; Erie, 2Sh 2s4; do.
preferred, As 81; Reading, 9s 9Sh; Lake Shore,
sou sen; Illinois Central, 13o1s; Cleveland and
Pittsturg, $751; Chicago and Northwestern, 72h
72,s; do. preferred, s7S SIX; Cleveland Colum.
bus and Cincinnati, TAX a II; Rock Island 1885
1o3X Milwaukee and st. Paul. 6sh 6es4; do. pre-
ferred SAX q S4A; Toledo and Wabash, 6sh
5ek; do preferred So; Fort Wayne, S6is
500; Alton aud Torre Haus, 80; Ohio
ana Mississippi, 20 a 2e4; Delaware and Lacka-
wanna 1851 1o9h; New Jersey Central, %
as2hi Chicago and Alton, 149 l51; do. preferred,
lAsh l5l; Hannibal and ST. Joseph, lo7 q los; do.
preferred 1914 100; Columbus Chicago and Indi-
ana Central 24ts bid. The highest and lowest prices
OF the day were as folIows:-
vpc ., Highest. LoUest.
lew YORK central .............. 1873 1872
New YORK cen ana Y,ua cs:o.. lS2h ls2
N. Y. gCrIn