The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-26
THE PRINCIPAL FLUCTUATIONS

Up. M............. Il7H $3.50 p M....iios. IiSE
In the gold loan market the rates were nat for
| borrowing and l, Ia, 3 8. 4, and per cent for
| carrying. The operations of the Gold Exchange
Bank were as folows-Gross cearings, s1o5 4e2 900:
gold balances, si,so7,s6 currency balances,
| $1.5s2.s3o
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
ia steady at the rates Of yesterday with the excep
ton OF sterling short sight, which has fallen or
| from the demand in which 1t was advanced
shortly after the commencement of the war;
| The shipment OF specie to-day was 100000
| We understanding, sixty days, commercial
1os,s 1Oe7I; good to prime bankers, 1oesS
1o9%; short sight, 1903 a 1903; Paris, sixty
days, 5.13A 5.l21a; short sight, 5.O7is 5.O6d.;
Antwerp, 5l5 a 6.121s; Switzerland 5.laX 5l21s;
| Hamburg, S64 1884, Amsterdam. 4l54 a AN: Frank
fort, AK AK; Bremen, 49,. 500; Prussian tina
| lers, TN q 722<.
The money market continues TO work with the
same ease already noted, the general duness on the
Stock Exchange rendering the demand for currency
OF very limited character The prevailing rate on
call was five per cent although exceptions occurred
| where the collateral offered was governments ut
four per cent, and at SIX per cent on stocks.
II GOVERNMENTS LOWER.
The government market was unfavorably affected
early in the day by the London advices exhibiting
very considerable decline In the prices OF sixty
twos in that market and later by the large offerings
at the SubTreasury, amounting In the aggregate to
S654i00 which counteracted subsequent improve.
ment in London. The offerings which were
distributed were, however all close on to the market
price. The government purchased $4,000, 900 at
prices ranging from 1Os.7s to 1O9.14 Later reports
from the other side showing recovery, the market
here was iirmer In the afternoon mt the decline,
and closed steady at the following figures which
n in no frnm no Iovo poipt of
this day:-United States currency slxes llI% a
liz; do, 1881, registered, 1137s 1l4L; do. do,
coupon, ia q lax; DO. nvc-twentes, registered,
May and November. 1lO'< Ill; do. do, 1852, cou-
pom, do, 111S< liz; DO. do 1854, do. do, 10Y a
111H; do do, 1885, do. do, Ill 111T; do. no..
registered, January and July, I0sx ITO; do
do, 1885, coupon, do. 1921 ITO; do. do 1857, do.
Co., 1o9% ITO; do. DO, 1883, do. do, 11O1s llo.;
do. ten-forties, registered, 1863 LOG; DO do,
p0n 1857 100.
SOUTHERN SECURITIES
The dulness so long prevailing I'm this department
OF speculation was uninterrupted to-day, market
for State bonds continuing Inactive and steady.
Prices at the close werc:-Tennessee, coupon 81
e11s; DO, new, 59A 59h; Virginia, coupon, o5
&C; do, new. "a 90; do, registered stock DID, SIX
81; Georgia sixes SO IS; do. sevens, 911s 92 |
do sevens, old, 30 q 3d. North Carolina ex coupon,
61,s 50; do funding. $780, 81 IS; do. do, 1895,
"a 80; uo new, 81 32 DO, special tax,
23X "a; Missouri skies, 90 COZ; do, Hanni-
bal and st. Joseph, so a 90; louisiana sixes
70 1917; do, new, e5 a 81; do evee skies, rs IA;
do do. eghts, SO a 49, do. Penitentlary
sevens, II 80; do railroad Fights, SO a IS;
Alabama 1ves, 20 o 49, do Fights, 90 q 100; |
do. railroad Fights, SO 95; South Carolina |
SKIES. SO So; do, new January and July. u 10;
do DO, April and October, rs II; do. registered
STOCK old, rs 80; Arkansas sevens 70 IS; Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, sterling, 10 q 80; do interest
Fights. 70 a IA Mississippi Central Railroad first
mortgage sevens. 70 10; do. second do.
Fights, e5 q 20; New Orleans and Jack.
son first, SO o So; do second, 70 rs; Mem.
phis and Charleston Railroad first, IS SO; do.
second, 70 "A; do stock. SO 81; Greenvtlle and
Columbia Railroad guaranteed by South Carolina,
Go O CT; Macon and Brunswick, guaranteed by
Georgia, IA o 10; Memphis City skies, SO q 81; |
Savannah City sevens SO So: New Orleans consols
old, 70 a "a; do. issue railroad SKIES 50 q 20; do
new sevens, " a rs.
STOCKS BARELY STEADY.
The stock market continues comparatively mac
tive owing to the prolonged absence OF the larger
operators, who II the present weather continues,
not likely to make their appearance the street
yet awhile To-day was but repetition Of yester-
day, prices barely maintaining themselves within |
fluctuations, with limited transactions. The
principal dealings in New York Central, scrip,
Lake Shore wabash, Ohio, st. Paul and Northwest |
The market at the second call was weak, but |
later stifYened and advanced u Il per |
cent, going or again, however, towards the
close The following were the prices on the second
call:-Uanton Company, eoA 6a1s; Consolidation
Coal 2ssS 20H; Cumberland Iron, 80 as,s; west
ern Union, s4'. Si5s; Quicksilver, AZ bid; MARI
posa, 6 a 51s; do. preferred o; Boston water
Power, Is; Adams Express, s4% e45s; wels-Fargo
Express, IL bid; do. scrip, 224; American Ex-
press, 40 o 4o,s; United States Express, 4Oal bid
Pacific MAIL S72s Ss1S; Atlantic Mail, 80; New
York Central consolidated, 945 9i'S; do. SCRIP
Ssya q s924; Erie 221a 222l; Harlem, 1915 bid;
Reading, 051. 957l; Michigan Central, 1ls bid:
Lake Shore ol3s a e11s; Illinois Central, 1855 a
1857; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 1044 o 1o5;
Chicago and Northwestern, 81 q sly; do. pre-
ferred, s6h q sbA; Cleveland, Columbus, Cincin-