The New York herald., 1869-05-21

ehornous tIansdcLlons yesterday. Inc report Is as
follows-
Gold cleared sI67 $50 600
Goiu Dalances 2, 1872, 71S
Currency balances. nces...................... 3,3Os,o67
The sale OF government gold took place the Sub
Treasury in accordance with the advertisement
The awards were made as follows:-s100, 900 at
143 o. $3.50 900 at 1885 s25OOoo 1881 600 at
1881 $50 900 at 1880 $780, 900 at 143 49, $4,000 at
1877.
The money market was made more active in the
forenoon to enable the shorts to get possession OF
some OF the leading stocks. The general rate was
seven per cent for early loans, but the demand was
fully satisfied before the close OF banking hours, and
large balances went over either at concession In
the rate Of interest or unemployed.
Foreign exchange advanced to 109X HOY re-
spectively for prime bankers sixty day and sight
sterling bills. The yielding in gold caused more
buying, while the uneasness to the general class
OF bills gives the prime bankers the advantage
OF making SITTER rates. The range OF quotations
was as Misunderstanding, sixty days commercial.
l0sh los1s; good TO prime bankers, 1O94 l09X;
short sight, 1loH 1106; Paris, sixty days. 5.22h
5.l6; short sight 5.15 5.121l; Antwerp 5.22K
6l5; Switzerland 5.22a SIS; Hamburg, 35I a
80; Amsterdam 40 4OH; Frankfort, 40Js 4oY;
Bremen rs 7sI; Prussian thalers. 7OyS a 71k.
Governments touched the highest for the 62's ever
realized The market at the opening was with.
out decided feature the decline OF = in
London arresting the speculative feeling and
inducing some ''short" sales. The "short,, in
terest Is now very small, having been closed
out by the recent large advance as the cessation
OF the sharp borrowing demand seems to evince
At noon the London price came higher, and eos ad-
vanced to 1888. In the afternoon, under a pres.
sure to realize, the market reacted from the best
prices, the following being the closing street quota
tions;-United States skies, 1881, registered, l22Is
l23; do, coupon, l23 a 123i4; do, nve-twen-
ties, registered, III l17L; do do, coupon Is62
1881 123K; do. do, coupon, 1854, III 1l7k; do.
do, coupon 1885, 1ls< l19k; do do, coupon 1866,
new, 100 12oK; do. do, coupon, 1857 100 a
12oX; do. do, coupon, 1858, i2o 12OX; do, ten
forties registered, 1osH 1oe; do. do, coupon
10sx a ITO; currency bonds, 1O7K 1O7at
In Southern securities Tennessee and North
Carolina bonds were pressed for sale and lower
The Alabamas we're quiet. Levee skies OF Louis
lana were heavy. The following were the clos
ing prices OF the leading bonds:-Tennessees, ex
coupon. osj4 6s,s; do, new, o51 a e51S; vir.
ginias, ex coupon, SIX q 5s; do, new, 81 s21;;
Georgia skies, 81 O SO; do. sevens, 95K 90; North
Carolinas ex coupon, 6sss 90; do, new, SAX
54zs; Missouri stxes ss% q SO; Louisiana skies,
73K 73X; do, levee do, 90 a eeh; do. levee
eights, so . soN; Alabama eghts 1o3; do. nves,
Ga6s.
luz iOHOWiHR Wtrc Jne Dius IOr tne city Odnk
stocks:-Manhattan, $50; Merchants, 127; Mechan-
ics'. 1877; America las; Phenix, 112; Butchers and
Drovers'. 1917; Merchants Exchange, 117 State
OF New York. ITO; Ocean. LOG; American Exchange,
liz; Chatham, 1885, Bank OF the Republic, 1i6; Bank
OF North America, ITO: Metropolitan, 142; Peoples
i42h; Nassau, 1903; Corn Exchange, 12e; Continen.
tai, lol; st. Nicholas, 115: Commonwealth, III: I'm.
porters and Traders, 1856; PARK, 1e4 Manufacturers
ana Merchants, 100; Central National, 1l5 Fourth
Nauonal LOG; Ninth National, 49,
Tue stock market was buoyant and active in sym.
paihy with an advance in New York Central TO
1874 winch was the quotation ensuing upon the
signing OF the Scrip bill by the Governor who has
nj length ended the agony Of the street The intor
NATION was In the possession Of private partes earlv
q the day. who manipulated the market in order 70
buy the stock as cheapy as possible. Money was
made somewhat more active, but tina falling
TO accomplish their purpose, bets were ofYered
and the money staked that the bin had
been vetoed. The confidence with which this
assertion was made broke the price from 1897 10
1857, from which 1t then went up TO the figure first
mentioned. Hudson River and Harlem, on the
strength Of the nnal approval of The CONSOLIDATION