The Portland daily press., 1870-09-01
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KeceiptsI by Railroads and Stea mb0ats.

keceiptsl by Railroads and steamboats,.
STEAMER MONTREAL FROM BOSTON. $50 bbls
-four bdls baskets, 70 bxs pea :hes coils cordags,
bbls melons, 20 cases and 20 bales domestics bags
seed, 100 empty tomato boxes, q pkgs furniture so
bys cheese 20 cases shoes, so bbs pork 40 do apples
80 rolls felt, express wagon, trails dates, slabs
marble. IS casks nails. 40 empty rum Kegs. 100 pcs
stove castings casks lead, 10 bids Wheels rs rkins
butter l6 sewing machines 10 pgs tin, ties lard %
bxs tin, 10 hhds sugar. horse an wagon, bbls
OIL carriage 40 bxs spices, zoo pkgs to Princes Ex
press, 100 do TO order. For Canada and up country
pianos 20 bales wool, IS bdls leather stoves, 2
bates oalum, sewing machines, 26 bdls gas pipe
$500 1T lumber, 100 pigs to order.
STEAMER FRANooNIA FROM NEW YORK; bales
WOOL do rags. 25 bags Coffee Al do seed 10 cases dry
goods II bales do do 100 bxs raisins 10 do cheese B
DO states, 20 do tobacco. do clocks 20 do SOAP 27
plates STEEL II bds do, 80 chests tea II bxs glass
bids vinegar 10 do birthstone, 80 do glass ware. 80
tubs butter, hhds tobacco 14s crates fruit bbIs
do, pianos, 80 water melons, So bdls paper,
wheels, $50 pkgs sundres.
PORTLAND q KENNEBEC RAILRoAD-1 car wood
155 bds paper bales WOOL 80 bids SASH 10 do blinds
55 cases oil CLOTH IL bags wool. 1.capboard machine
1S prs springs, 36 empty carboys m shingles,
es CLOTH car hoops, II pigs merchandise, 26 Of
freight for Boston.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY 1893 cans milk, 1900
pkgs shovel handles, starch. % do lumber, do
corn, do slaves, do bark do sundries, 800 bbls
Hour. For shipment east, 200 bbls flour.
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD-1 cider mill 1860
cases boots, bbls beans, 1 Dbl dye wood, 20 boxes
eggs, III do sundries.
New York STOCK and Money Market.
NEW YORK, Aug. 31-Morning-Wau Street is
more active to-day. There was mach larger num-
Der Of brokers at the board. Gold opened at 11Gs,
and has since advanced to 1851.
change 1893 q 110s.
Governments are heavy but very strong.
Stocks are more active, but thu business doing is
light.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3t-Af1ernoon. - Gold made
sudden ascent from 11Gs to 1l7s about o'clock this
afternoon, though whether from reports of French
victory, rumors of Gold pool is not de0itely
cerained The price soon declined to H. and closed
Governments were firmer and advanced per cent.
on moderate purchases by Germans.
sThere more offers TO sell Geld to the Govern
ment to-day than for long time. The aggregate
was si,O00.6OO, and the prices OF a million purchased
was between lie 3-1OO and 116 95-1O0.
:. Money continues easy at q 5 per cent. Foreign
Exchange quiet.
The following are the closing Quotations:
United States coupon 6s 1881 ............ ...114a
United States 5-20 coupons 1862.
United States 52Os 1864 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. iii
United States 5-20s 1866 old. ...............112
United States 5-2O's. January and July .1101
United States 5-2O's 1867 .101
United States 5-2O's 1868. .......... .......1104
United States 1910 coupons. .109ss
Southern State securities dull and inactive.
Stocks improved at the close when the highest
prices OF the day were made.
The following are the quotations OF Railway Stocks:
81 se Y. Central and Hudson River consolidated
N. y Central 81 Hudson River consolidated scrip S95
Harlem
Reading. 961
Chicago & Rock Island.
Cleveland & Pttsburg. -. ...................10 5
Illinois Central. $50. 1876
Chicago q North Western. Observation-Disclosures. SO
Chicago 81 North Western preferred. ........... 81
Western Union Telegraph Go. ................ 33s
Pittsburg y Fort Wayne NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 81
Michigan Central. .119
Lake Shore g. Michigan Southern. ........... 92t
Erie. Observation-Disclosures. 228
Erie prefer ed. as
Central Pacific. .................. .......... Ssl
UnioI Pacific 81