The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-27

tations were as folows:-United States currency
skies, 114z l14K; do sixes 1881. registered,
1865 116x; do. do. do, coupon, l22ss l22es; DO
hve-twenties. registered, May and November. l16 a
1863; do. do, 1882 coupon. do, 1lok 116a4; do
do, 1854, do. do, 117k 117A; do do. 1865, do do
1lss 1ls,i do. do, 1857 registered, January and
July, 1853 115X; do. do. 1886. coupon, do 12oh
1909: do. do. 1851. do. do. III 1ah; DO. do.
1885, do. do. 12O5< 120K; do. ten-forties. regis
tered. 113K 1lsK; do. do, coupon, ll4A ll4s;
do, aves OF 1881, coupon, 1l4,s 1l4h.
wf SOUTHERN SECURITIES.
1t is evidently safe for every man who feels an
Inclination to indulge In the sensational luxury of
purchasing South Carolina bonds to refrain from
so doing just now. That State under its present,
under its recently past administration, Is rotten
to the core. The case OF Morton, Bliss Il Co., who
are pressing mandamus before the Supreme
Court with the view OF enforcing an additional
levy upon the people Tor the payment OF taxes past
due, well as those which are pending and forth
coming may or may not succeed There Is so little
honesty in the administration of the public debt
Of that State that if there were millions in the
treasury they would. doubtless, be promptly alb
orbed by
THE PUBLIC LEECHEs,
who are drawing blood at every pore. During the
past year 1t Is said that upwards Of six hundred
thousand dollars were paid to q single ring for
s'printng''-a word which covers degree oil theft
that finds parallel no where outside OF New York.
There are score OF similar leakages-nnancial
teats that yield to the draught alike OF the white
and negro oficials whose temporary possession OF
power affords vulgar exhibition OF dishonest
wealth to the public eye. These politicians have
no idea of paying debt and II dollars were piled In
the treasury pyramids high by the honest people
of the State for the payment OF their obligations,
fhn nafur 1Iu Atcnn
of the officials of the State, high and low, that
under one pretext or another they would pocket
the uttermost iarthing and pray for more. The
personal history of some OF these men who hold
offices IN South Carolina and other Southern States
is worse than that OF the convicts at Sing Sing
Money put under such control deserves to be lost
The public here have conception Of the depth or
inquity in which these operators on Northern
money revel; nor do they know how Supreme
Judges speculate and Governors borrow, while
subordinate officials plunder right and left and
then rush into courts to preserve the sacred name
OF 'spublic credit" There are chapters yet TO be
written on this subject. In connection with the
above comments concerning South Carolina, the
sale is noticed OF new skies, August and
October. at 25 Virginia skies, CONSOLE
dated, sold at IS, and some Virginia
skies deferred at 1917. The following are the regu-
lar quotations Tennessee ex coupon, 10 79si;
do. new, 70 S9h; Virginia. ex coupon, A As;
DO. skies, consolidated bonds, SAX 55; do. do,
deferred scrip, 10 IL; Georgia sixes 70 IS; do
sevens 80 a ss North Carolina, ex coupon, 25 a IS;
do., funding, 1866, 16 10; DO, 1868, 10 II; do,
new, 10 II; no., special tax, II IA; Loulsi-
ana skies, 45 So South Carolina SKIES, new, jan
uary and july 15A IS; do. do, April and 0cto.
Der. % %; Arkansas skies, funded, IS 40.
THE STOCK MARKET.
The market to-day was unusually dull prices
being materially unchanged and business limited.
Western Union was sold within the extremes OF IS
and S4,S. New York Central at 101Z 1917. Erie
opened at 622, sold ana nuctuated between that
price and 90, at which IL closed Harlem was steady
at 121s. Lake Shore varied only about q per cent
Union Pacific was sold between the extremes Of
242l 249s. Northwestern opened at 7osz and re-
NAMED steady. st. Paul sold at 5os< 5o7s sos;
Ohio and Mississippi, at 3sA So; Atlantic and
Pacific, at %; Delaware, Lackawanna andWestern,
at 97S 97sl 971s; Pacific Mail, at 3sh, receding to
37ss with recovery to 37A. New Jersey Central
closed steady at 1857, a gain OF Z per cent The
market was too tame for comment.
HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES.
The following table shows the highest and lowest