The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-08
Stocks Firmer at the Close The
Bear Interest Covering.
GOLD ADVANCED FROM liz rs TO lis a.
Money Supplied at 3 and Per Cent--Govern-
ment Bonds Steady and Active
road and Investment Securi-
ties in Fair Request.
WALL STREET,

FRIDAY. April 10 T. NJ
That respectable community, the Society OF
friends, when in concavc assembled. wait for the
spirit 70 move them. II no demonstration occurs tho
meeting adjourns under the sanguine and philosophc
feeling that II nothing has been said harm has been
DONE The market to-day has been something akin to
thia Both bulls and bears have been as silent as
church MICE their expressions TO the course OF the
market have been ieeoy expressed, and the cor
clusion Of the day has shown that harm has been
done
For the better part OF business hours things were as
monotonous the matutina hash at boarding house
breakfast but toward the eud greater inclination 10
trade exhibited ITSELF which resulted In y better scale
Of prices and firm market at the end II must never
thcless be affirmed that transactions to-day were sim
ply the results of purely brokers' market IN which
important operators had no hand and OF which the
gueras OF the board assumed complete control II was
what in brokers parlance, is called Paterson mar
kct thing OF shreds and patches which, like tho story
OF Hamct's IDIOT, signifies nothing" Pacific Mail was
Is coy as maiden in her teens, confident at Is and
shy ut l6 but ultimately setting down TO an average
and respectable steadiness at TN. There were no
stories ahoat beyond those OF the past few days to
affect the stock either for better worse, and
such variations occurred simply due TO manip
ulatons among brokers'.
Tho Same is true OF Lake Shore and Western Union,
which affected in price by pure artihce without
reference to values present TO come In regard 10
tho latter stock there growing feeling that the war
between the contending telegraph factions Is shortly
TO result in permanent peace, II not in community
Of interests and board prophets who see into mill
stones further than the generality Of people, affirm
that Gould his following have shorts, and
even got long OF the stock
Lake Shore has been exceptionally strong, and,
while FREQ from any marked activity, has held It's own
in price, aud crcpt up to somewhat better figures
at the end.
The few fluctuations which the Official list records in
other stocks sufficiently show how dull the day has
BEEN Even the "Loi palloi' Of the market have
drowsed through the hours, while the great PanJan
drums have been utterly wanting The monetary
activity money which manifested itself for the last
few days seems to have grown inert the stock
market itself, for loans made freely to-day at
from three per cent and toward tho closing Of
bank hours even at the rate ono per per
What tomorrow is to bring ;srth nobodyseems to
know, but somo sort Of parturton is looked forward
TO- II the result, like the referred to in Mld
shipman Easy" should be ever such little one.
THE SALES
The transactions at .he Stock Exchange to-day
aggregated 49, $40 shares, which we're distributed
iollows:-New York Central and Hudson, 22o; Erie
5000; Lake Shore, 81. 925; Cleveland and Pttsburg
200; Northwestern, 1900; do. preferred, 400; Rock
Island, LAO; Pacific Mail. a4,aao; ST. Paul, $500;
do preferred, 1900; ohios, 900; Western Union,
SC, 500; Wabash, $50; Union Pacific, 500; Michigan
Central, 200 Missouri Pacific, 1900
OPENING, HIGHEST LOWEST PRICES.
The following table shows the opening, highest and
an Aov.