The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-05
THE STOCK MARKET.

The stock market opened weak, and up TO wednes.
day was lower, with dropping tendency and a
bearisn feeling that undoubtedly tempted q good
many sales for the decline. The calmer situation
OF Affairs in London later In the week and special
activity one or two features, such as Northwest
and Pacific Mail, turned the market in an upward
direction and closed 1t with fair Improvement and
decidedly strong tOne The amount OF business
was however, small, and hardly above the average
OF ordinary times. Doubtless the cliQues are walt
ing for an abatement OF the present w,ntrish
weather, which Is hardly consistent with rhe idea
OF "spring'' speculation, and are fore.
casting the money market In the case
Of Pacific Mail we are likely to have a
repetition of the activity and excitement OF
the winter and spring OF 1867, when d committee
from the Legislature sat upon the AFFAIRS OF the
company, investigated them. and after protracted
deliberation, submitted report exone rating the
company from charges Of INSTRUMENTATION, DC.
Meantime the stock vbrated and nuctuated widely,
and made and lost fortunes for hundreds OF specu
lators.
SOUTHERN SECURITIES.
The Southern list was irregular, but toward the
end Of the week became steady, with rally In the
bonds which had been weak, and some improve
ment In those that had been firm. The Missouris
were lower on the revival Of the agitation against
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front presented by the friends Of the Governors
veto The following were the closing prices
Saturday for the general Southern list,
inclusive Of leading Southern railway end
municipal bonds:-Tennessee, ex coupon 65X a
&c; do. new, 66Z 60; Virginia, ex coupon Sc q CO.;
do. registered stock, old, A so; do. sixes CONSOLE
dated bonds, $50 55h; do. skies. deferred SCRIP
IL II; Georgia skies, 70 rs; do. sevens, IS S.;
North Carolina. ex coupon, 80 "a; 40. funding
1866. % "a; do. do, 1885, 81 a 49, do new, 10 Is;
do, special TAX, Is ~ Missouri Sizes
e5 o5h; do. Hannibal and 81. Joseph
% q %; Louisiana skies, 81 q 90; do new
SO q S.: do. levec skies, 60 q IS; do. do eights
10 so; do do. Fights, 1875, so o IS; do Peniten-
tiary sevens, 65 10: do. railroad eights 10 So;
Alabama fves, 60 q 65; do. eights 90 a %; do.
Fights, Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad, IS o 90;
South Carolina skies, 50 a 80; do. new, jan
uary and July, 80 a 30h; do. do, April and Octo-
Der, 2sk 20; Arkansas skies, funded 81 a 90:
Mobile and Ohio Railroad sterling 90 O 90; do. In.
terest eights, SIS a 81; do second mortgage, erhts
~ q 10; Mississippi Central Railroad, first mort.
gage, sevens, 80 So; do, second mortgage eiQhts
"A o 70; New Orleans ana Jackson, first mortgage
SO Q IS; 90. do. second mortgage, Is a 80;
Memphis ana Charleston Railroad, first MORTGAGE
"a SC; do, second mortgage, rs sv; Greenville
and Columbia Railroad, guaranteed py South
Carolina, IS q 60; Macon and Brunswick Railroad
guaranteed by Georgia, 80 IS; Wilmington, Char
lotte and Rutherford Railroad eights, so a So:
selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad sevens so 90;
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad Fights, IS a s5;
Memphis city SKIES, 80 90; Savannah city seyens
50 So: New orleans consos, old. 20 75 do. issue
railroad SKIES, 10 a 10; do sevens, "a o 6s.
. GOVERNMENT BONDS.
The government list was dull but unsettled
with the fluctuations in gold, closing steady. The
changes were not important On Saturday very
little was doing, aud prices left OF as fol-
lows:-Unned States currency skies. 114A .
lie: do. sxea 1854. registered. ll4X ll4X; do