The New York herald., 1874-08-06
Total.
MONEY CONTINUES TO RULE EASY

at to per cent for call loans and 6X to 7 per
cent for prime mercantile paper. Gold paper, s to
6per cent. Time loans OF money on approved col.
lateral are quoted as f0llows:-Sixty days, per
cent; up to December l, per cent aud up to the
close Of the year, per cent At these rates loans
are freely offered. 1t Is conceded that very little
dry goods paper Is now outstanding, even the ex-
tensions having been wiped out during che ex-
treme ease OF the past few months. Hence the
expectation OF continued ease during the fall
months, as well as an active dry goods movement
Stocks are confessedly low throughout the coun-
try, crops are good, with an acknowledged excel
lent market abroad and credits reduced to mini
mum; hence, with an easy money market, 1t seems
but natural to expect a lively fall business The
internal revenue receipts to-day were s2s70cO
National bank notes received for redemption,
$314 200.
opened at 1o9>S, which was the lowest price OF the
day. and advanced to lO9h, the highest quotation,
ana at which figure it closed. The carrying rates
were to per cent; borrowing fat. The customs
receipts were $3ll, 500. The Assistant Treasurer
paid out to-day S503O00 on interest account and
$4,000 in redemption of dve-twenty bonds. The
specie shipment to-day was s7oO,Ooo Of which
$65o, 900 is gold coin. The engagements for to-
morrow are stated at 800, 600 gold.
FOREIGN ADvICEs
represent American securities dull and quiet
closing steady. The discount rate OF the Bank OF
France has been reduced from to 8 per cent
Private advices received to-day respecting the
rate Of money In the open market IN London differ
from press dispatches and there Is some eXpecta-
ton of manipulation on the part of the op-
ponents of the new syndicate to affect
the money rate Fortunately the action Of the
Bank OF England at its meeting tomorrow will de-
termine how far this supposed influence or other
money. Press dispatches place the money rate at
2H per cent on the Stock Exchange, with prime
discounts nearer the minimum rate Of the Bank Of
England per cent. Private advces quote money
in the open market at 3A per cent. Closing
quotations were folows:-Consos, money,
92A 922s; DO, account. 92T 92H; 1ve-twenty
bonds, '65, old. 109b; do do. '67, 109s ten-iorty
bonds, 1867 1861; new ives, 1O41s; Erie 3O14.
At five p NJ. Paris rentes were quoted at 63f.
421Sc and fve-twenty bonds OF '62 in Frankfort at
9sA.
GOVERNMENT BONDS
were steady and firm to-day, with a fractiona
advance, closing as loows:-Unted States
currency sixes 117A q 1I7X; 40. skies, 1881,
registered, 117A a I171t; do. do, do coupons,
1857 11sh; do nvetwenties 1862 regis
tered, Ill q 112; dc. do, do, coupons, Ill a
liz; do. do 1864, registered 1l4h 1147i 90. do,
DO, coupons, 1853 1l52s; do. do., 1865,
registered. 114T lis do do, do, coupons, 116H
q III; do. do 1855, new, registered, 115H q 115h;
do. do, do, coupons, 116H it6k; do. do, 1867.
registered. 115H 115I; do. do, do, coupons,
117h l1T%; do. do, 1868 registered, 116 a 118H;
do. do, do, coupons, 1I7H 118; 40. ten-forttes,
registered, 1927 ITO; do. do, coupons, 1139s
113aS; do. hves, 1881, registered 11lal 112; do.
do, do, coupons, 1l1% l11N.
STATE BONDS
Nth
actions we're wholly confined to Southern securi-
ties. Missouri long bonds sold at 92K, Tennessee
old and new, ex coupon, and new series at So a
56H, and North Carolina sixes issued to North
Carolina Railroad, April and October, at 40. In
RAILWAY MORTGAGES
the transactions were generally In small amounts
the sales aggregating $68 000 or this sum $29 900
was in Central Pacifics, at 9OH eOk; western
Pacifics brought 81; New York Central sevens, OF
1870 sold at 100; New Jersey Central first, new,
at 104, ana Toledo and Wabash, first, at 21h--all
ex interest Michigan Central sevens sold at 90,
Milwaukee aud st. Paul eghts, first, La Crosse divi-
sion, at 80; Central Pacific bonds closed at 90k to
9Osl, and Union Pacifcs "a to san for irsts, s2,s
to s2h for land grants, and 50 to s3k tor incomes
Western Pacific gold bonds closed at Slh q 49,
BANK SHARES
sold at SO for German American, IO2 for Fourth
National and 1O6 tor Republic, the last named ex-
dividend.
RAILWAY EARNINGS
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway
Fourth week, July, 1874 14................ $237 400
Fourth week, July, 1873 3................. 2s2 700
Decrease. ............................ $40 800
All OF July, lSli.. TAO 200
All Of July, 1573..... ............-.......... S34,
Decreasc..... $s5,l4
ERIE MANAGEMENT.
The following gentlemen compose the standing
committees OF the Erie Railway Company, the
same having been appointed last evening"
Finance Committee-Henry @. SteDbins, Mar.
shat O. Roberts, Louis Ii. Meyer, John A. q.
Grav